• Theo
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      They would go bad instantly. I would assume these would be only suitable for banana bread. Reminds me of prechopped veggies that are way overpriced.

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          Please stop with justifying things that are terrible for people and the world. If these items are needed for people with disabilities, you don’t take a natural container, remove it and cover it in plastic. The solution would be to create something that is created once and does the job required indefinitely.

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          Oh that makes more sense. But they should wrap the bananas individually so they don’t brown as quick

          Edit: wait, if someone with a disability can’t peel a banana, how will they open this package?

          • @[email protected]
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            if someone with a disability can’t peel a banana, how will they open this package?

            I think you’re coming to a realization.

        • @NeoNachtwaechter
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          Are there more people with disabilities, or more stupid people?

          • @aln
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            You may not think it’s not popular and a waste,but that’s because the people who need and buy these items are generally doing their shopping when you’re at school/work.

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      At least they aren’t packaged each with the plastic wrap.

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          I do not know if that is better or worse, but that is something definitely.

          • @[email protected]
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            Definitely worse-- Japan has a huge problem with waste, and a ton of that is because of their culture around packaging things.

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              I’ve noticed this and I’d like to learn more about it. I’ve always appreciated the careful thought they put into packages or containers… But does it gotta be plastic?! Agh.

    • ObjectivityIncarnate
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      Lemmy moment.

      He exists because his parents had sex. Having sex is stupid now?

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    Specific models of dumpsters found in national parks. Apparently making sure that the smartest bear can’t get into a dumpster while making sure the dumbest person can is a grey zone.

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      There have been national park visitors who have asked at what time the animals are let out of their cages and put back in them. Then again, that might be an education issue rather than a stupidity problem. Would it be ethical to experiment on these people by suggesting “we’ll tell you if you can get that dumpster open”?

      Caveat: Having never seen those dumpsters, I have the nagging feeling that I could well be outsmarted by the bears.

      • @kshade
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        Caveat: Having never seen those dumpsters, I have the nagging feeling that I could well be outsmarted by the bears.

        There’s another factor though: The bear will keep trying over and over if it smells something in there, for hours if it feels like it. Tourists, meanwhile, might not even try again if they can’t get it open right away.

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          1000%. It’s a miracle when someone uses the trash cans or pack in/out at all.

          Leave no trace isn’t common knowledge, nor respected by lots of people, especially the less experienced or invested. Even the slightest inconvenience can be the difference between the can and the ground.

      • @SgtAStrawberry
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        That first can very well be a mixup between zoos, those parks where you can drive your car through and look at animals and national parks. I can fully see people getting it mixup a bit. So I would put that under education miss.

        And regarding the dumpsters I have been outsmarted by a child proff container so I will show respect to the dumpster.

      • @Agent641
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        I remember a lady reviewed a solar eclipse party on Facebook 1star because they held it midweek instead of on the weekend and she couldn’t go

  • @anubis119
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    Shops with perpetual “sales” and prices ending with 99.

    • @[email protected]
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      JC Penney went through a period where they did away with their perpetual “sale” and normalized their pricing. Their sales tanked as a result. Apparently a lot of people who shop there are idiots.

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        The one time I went while they were just offering low prices was awesome. Just $8/shirt, no coupons or sales to turn a $20 shirt into a ln $8 one. Most people really like seeing a big number then having to pay a smaller one though.

      • @aeronmelon
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        The former SVP of Apple Retail Ron Johnson, specifically. He actually thought the people who shopped at JC Penny were the same as the people who shopped at an Apple Store.

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          thought it was JC Benjamin

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        I hate that “marketing” is just a science of bypassing peoples’ rationality to sell them on short-term emotion, then reinforcing and encouraging stupidity to keep the loop going.

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    Lotteries. If people understood odds they’d never buy a ticket, or at least not in the numbers they do.

    • @DigDoug
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      Lotteries are a tax on hope, not stupidity.

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        I’ve always heard they were a way to recoup tax funding from people below the tax-paying bracket, because they’d be the ones desperate enough to go for it.

        …which is seemingly more and more at the way we love our income inequality…

    • @[email protected]
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      You have a better chance of literally being Brad Pitt than you do if winning the lottery.

  • @NegativeLookBehind
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    Tiktok

    Religion

    Lots of subscription based services, like heated seats in cars

    • @[email protected]
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      Smart people can be and often are racist and sexist too. They are better at justifying it too. Scientific racism is an existing pseudoscience.

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        I hear your point, but they are not that smart if they think skin color determines the value of a human. Same for sex.

      • ZeroOne
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        Smart people don’t do that, otherwise they wouldn’t be smart

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    I’m gonna get downvoted for this but… gaming consoles.

    Gaming consoles made sense back in the day before home computing took off, and for a while they actually had superior hardware than computers when it came specifically to running games. But nowadays gaming consoles are just locked down user-hostile computers with a subscription service attached. The gaming equivalent of inkjet printers. It’s an industry made irrelevant by advancements in technology, propped up by misleading marketing and artificial hype that sadly many people fall for.

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      I have a PS5 because it will play the damned games. There’s nothing in the PC realm for $400 I could buy that could come close to guaranteeing the same thing. Consoles don’t exist because people are stupid, they exist because gaming and GPU companies are cartels just like almost every other sector of the economy.

    • @[email protected]
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      There is value in static hardware so you can perform specific optimizations and target framerate. The subscriptions are 100% bullshit though.

    • @[email protected]
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      New PC graphics cards alone cost as much as entire games consoles. The top end ones cost the same as multiple PS5s. That’s why consoles exist.

    • @[email protected]
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      You are underestimating the importance of standards here. On a PC you will always only get a fraction of the hardware’s power, because there’s way more stuff running at the same time, not just the game, and because the developers can’t know exactly what hardware configuration every single gamer has. On a console you can know exactly how much RAM you will have available, so you can design your content to use that amount of data and then stream it into memory that you reserve at the start. If you do that on a PC you may ask for more RAM than the PC has or you may leave RAM unused. Or you can try to optimize the game for different specs, which costs time and money, so you won’t get the same results with the same budget.

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        Back in the olden days when games were written in assembly and there was barely enough memory for a framebuffer it made sense to tediously optimize games to squeeze every bit of performance out of the limited hardware. Modern consoles are not like that. They have their own operating systems with schedulers, multitasking, and memory allocators, much like a desktop computer. Your claim that “way more stuff is running at the same time” is only true if the PC user deliberately decides to keep other programs running alongside their game (which can be a feature in and of itself – think recording/streaming, discord, etc.) It is true that while developing for PC you have to take account that different people will have different hardware, but that problem is solved by having a graphics settings menu. Some games can even automatically select the best graphics options that will get the most out of your hardware. What you’re describing is a non-problem.

        • @[email protected]
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          ‘Your claim that “way more stuff is running at the same time” is only true if the PC user deliberately decides to keep other programs running alongside their game’ - So did you deliberately decide to run virus scanners, Microsoft telemetry, anti-cheat-software, preloaders for browsers like Chrome so they start up faster, explorer plugins and the usual assortment of bloat- and malware? No offense, but thinking that nothing ran on your computer unless you deliberately start it is naive. Why do you think there are so many “PC-Cleaner”-Tools? Even for Android there are “game modes” and “memory cleaners”. I have never seen anything similar on a gaming console.

          ‘It is true that while developing for PC you have to take account that different people will have different hardware, but that problem is solved by having a graphics settings menu.’ - And what do you think who designs the content that you choose from in that menu? When artists create meshes and textures they have to decide on resolution and polygon count. If your graphics card simply does not have that much memory then the performance is going to drop significantly. So if you want to have the option to lower the graphics settings you need to have assets that require less memory. I mean sure, some engines offer generic settings menus and there are algorithms that lower the memory footprint of assets algorithmically, but if course the result won’t be the same as if the assets were manually designed for that size. And if the assets are designed for a lower footprint a slider won’t be able to magically add details. The same applies for shaders. If the performance of the hardware is not sufficient a generic settings menus will only switch off effects, and unless you create an alternative the result may look pretty rough.

          So that settings menu may be a solution for the players, but for the developers it means that all the options you can choose from need to be developed and tested, and that takes time and money.

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    • @[email protected]
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      You’re not wrong. There definitely used to be a difference back when consoles would get way better support and PC ports were terrible.

      Sound On / Off

      – The entire options menu of a PC port in like 2006.

      But nowadays I struggle to understand the point of getting one of those big chonky tower consoles like whatever the latest Xbox or PlayStation is. (PlayStation even selling entirely new consoles for a simple graphics/RAM upgrade, smh).

      At least the Switch’s portability made sense.

    • @Valmond
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      The old consoles also were just plug the game in and boot up.

      No Hassle.

      Now they sounds like Windows boxes.

      • @[email protected]
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        I LOVED how the original X-Box had an “desktop” in it. Unfortunately that’s gone way too far anymore.

        Nowadays I find these interfaces so overly complicated and fiddly that it makes the UX of an N64 far superior.

        I pretty much went PC-only after the xbox 360 though, when ports finally started getting good. :)

    • @[email protected]
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      I downvoted you just because you’re one of those people who is literally asking for it.

      • @renzev
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        My god, how can I possibly recover from this!? My lemmy reputation has been tainted forever!!!

    • KaRunChiy
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      Egg carton that says “Contains Egss”, like yeah, I sure hope so

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      I hate to be “that guy” but in theee cases, it just makes more sense to have some extraneous labeling rather than have special clauses in the regulation dictating when it’s obvious enough that the label can be omitted.

      Keeping the rules as simple as possible reduces the chances of loopholes and ambiguity, at the expense of sometimes resulting in things like a jar of peanut butter stating “contains peanuts” on the label.

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          It only makes no sense until you stop and consider how to define and implement a better rule, when the only real benefit would be to prevent people snarking about milk having a “contains milk” labeling.

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            Labeling for ingredients and possible cross contamination concerns doesn’t require that milk warns about milk.

            • @[email protected]
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              Do you think that someone sits down and makes a list of all items that need to be labeled as containing X, which is then updated each time a new food or recipe hits the store shelves?

              Or is it more likely that regulators simply state that all foods for human consumption containing more than some percent by weight of X must be labeled as containing X?

              If your goal is to ensure that consumers are alerted to certain ingredients for allergy or other purposes, you care very much about a product not getting labeled properly, and you don’t really care if something obvious gets the label.

              I’m not really sure why this is so hard to grasp…

    • @Mango
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      Did you hear about the butter recall for that?

    • Theo
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      ‘Caution: Hot’ on coffee.

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      C’mon nowadays you can market anything as anything, and you’re never quite sure what’s in there! :p

  • @LaunchesKayaks
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    My high school mandatory epilepsy training for teachers and staff because the art teacher stepped over me while I was seizing on the floor during class. Other students had to carry me to the nurse because I couldn’t walk right after the seizure. Teacher wouldn’t even call the nurse to let her know what was up