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"They don't build them like they used to. Vintage furniture has more quality materials and better construction."
Or... maybe the furniture that is still around and not in a landfill is higher quality. There were a lot of cheap disposable trends in the 70s and 80s and those items are all in landfills now.
I think about the beanbag chairs slowly compressing into strange new minerals in landfills. Will a confused fossil hunter some day wonder at these "organisms" ?
The thrift shop near where I live sells things like couches and huge chest of drawers for $20-$40.
These are often painted some strange color and very beat up. But they are functional.
For it to be "thrifting" it needs to not be a part of the same market pressures that apply to new furniture?
Consider most of the furniture in your home. Did you buy most of it new, or at near full price for older restored items? Did you find it? Thrift it? Get it from friends and family?
Bought New: This includes vintage or restored items sold at prices comparable to new.
Found/Gifted: You did not pay for the furniture.
Made: You made it, possibly by repurposing thrift-ed items or gifts.
Thrift-ed: Items were purchased but at a discount of over 80 percent.
Pick all that apply:
... and sticky... 
It is a very real farm that very much exists.
We don't 'kill' the wollmäuse! How could you suggest such a horrible thing. I am going to "re-home" each and every wollmäus. We have a nice farm, it's in upstate New York, and there is a big barn there filled with beds and stoves and many wonderful places for the little wollmäuse to frolic and play.
edit: apologies for managing to butcher the German language in an English language post somehow.
Is Cricut the company that wouldn't let people print without logging in online?
hmmm maybe I don't really want a "consumer solution" as those seem to always mean giving up a shard of my soul.
So. Plotters.
You know, those printers that hold a pen and follow an SVG?
Ten years ago I tried to convert a DIY laser cutting rig to do plotting and it didn't work out. I then tried one of the ones that draws on the wall with string and never could get it correctly tuned.
After all this time is there a lazy consumer solution? Does anyone use a plotter on the regular and love it?
mmm mmm almost but it doesn't scan.
We should just let them go on thinking it was a ritual.
If you wanted a guy to fancy you? You HAD to burn him a mix. The way that turned out could tell you everything.
That's how I found my husband.
Harry Enten is the CNN journalist who reports the polls. Since, I like polls I've seen him a few times in video clips of his segment. I've always found it really strange. He sort of shouts and waves his arms about each poll and makes some jokes about how "VERY BAD" or "Incredible!" or "no change" the poll is.
He sometimes explains important concepts such as "margin of error" but mostly turns numbers into adjectives.
I try to help the ants keep on the DL and crumbs in the middle of a room is not helping their case.
RE: https://berlin.social/@asltf/115589586720618946
okay, Lucifer…
I can't believe so many of them fell for that one again. Good lort.
You don't want to read a twelve part "investigative journalism" series on how terrible lawns are?
"You Car is Too Big: Part Five, Why Your Huge Car Makes Everyone Hate You."
I want my own newspaper so I can run stories day after day trashing things I don't like.
OK some conservative editor at newsday has commanded the newsroom to try their best to make "we hate public employees, they have decent wages and healthcare" their new theme.
They ran this story right after the misleading one about "educators" (superintendents) that make "$300G"
Now it's LIRR (Long Island Rail Road) ... LIRR did have an overtime corruption problem a decade ago. But this new stuff is totally manufactured.
