Squirrel

joined 1 year ago
[–] Squirrel 2 points 1 year ago

All of these puns, and nobody has called it a "dickle" yet?

[–] Squirrel 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are you talking that way?

[–] Squirrel 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't he that guy with the "tech tips"?

[–] Squirrel 3 points 1 year ago

Oh, I like that one.

[–] Squirrel 42 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Money may not buy happiness, but it certainly reduces suffering.

[–] Squirrel 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You called it an expensive paper weight. Insulting something that people like will often prompt them to defend it. It's perfectly fine to not like something. It's fine to point out objective flaws in it. However, don't call something bad (which is essentially what you did) just because you don't like it. That starts arguments.

To be clear, I don't want to argue here. I just want to point out an observation that has impacted how and when I state my opinion.

[–] Squirrel 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, but they're review bombing Modern Warfare 3, not CoD3.

[–] Squirrel 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This sounds like a "you" problem.

[–] Squirrel 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's you paying more for the same thing: inflation. Shrinkflation would mean getting less for the same or more money.

[–] Squirrel 71 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Per Wikipedia:

shrinkflation, also known as the grocery shrink ray, deflation, or package downsizing, is the process of items shrinking in size or quantity, or even sometimes reformulating or reducing quality, while their prices remain the same or increase.

I can't see how furniture could ever qualify as shrinkflation, unless we're counting something like the use of crappier materials.

[–] Squirrel 22 points 1 year ago

That's about right, yeah. Please don't mock us. 🥺

[–] Squirrel 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Coping" is all we can do. We're too dispersed and divided to make protests much of an option. We've got militarized and trigger-happy police, so rioting isn't much of an option. A large percentage of the population is living paycheck to paycheck, so strikes aren't much of an option.

We're screwed, but hey, the world is dying, so we won't have to worry about it for long.

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