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Hot take: a lot of people complaining about how manufacturing has gone down the shitter and nothing lasts anymore have simply changed their buying habits in line with newly available products. The stuff nanna used to buy that lasted 50 years is still available. You can still buy a hand spun jumper, a hand woven blanket, a handmade pair of shoes and a hand forged knife. They cost a week's wage. Exactly like back in nanna's day. This is Alfred. Alfred enjoys hypoallergenic kibbles and hypoallergenic soft food but only separate dishes. #caturday I love that everyone on this website said 'can we just not?' on April fools day, then we just didn't. No notes. Ideal social media experience.
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 @coolandnormal I said no "no" and, I'm sure, so did many others. Too stupid of a matter to be fighting like you all do. @coolandnormal I’m just like - pretty tired at this point. Enough misinformation on rest of the days. This guy has completely moved into my back yard. All his stuff is here. He has had his mail redirected. I have no idea where he came from. |
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@coolandnormal The higher-price, higher quality options are disappearing. I went to the only distributor of residential-scale commercial washers and dryers in the city — and found out they don’t have any.
My next best option is to go to a major retailer and buy a well-known brands’s “commercial” line of washers & dryers - because they come with the best warranty.
Quite a lot of responses in the genre "but what about [exclusively factory made product that has only ever been produced by corporations], it was good 10 years ago and is bad now??"
Those are an interesting exception, aren't they?
Products that cannot be created outside the factory setting really do have a quality peak (1950s Singer 201 sewing machine, 1960s Sunbeam Mixmaster, 1990s Mastertouch piano rolls).
No matter how much human manufacturing skill and technology improves from this moment, I won't have access to the old Mastertouch factory and I cannot make you a roll of My Old Man Said Follow The Van. Not because everyone these days only wants to make cheap piano rolls, not because I wouldn't be fantastic at making high quality piano rolls, but because that factory was demolished when it no longer had a market for its products.
Quite a lot of responses in the genre "but what about [exclusively factory made product that has only ever been produced by corporations], it was good 10 years ago and is bad now??"
Those are an interesting exception, aren't they?
Products that cannot be created outside the factory setting really do have a quality peak (1950s Singer 201 sewing machine, 1960s Sunbeam Mixmaster, 1990s Mastertouch piano rolls).
@coolandnormal people ask me why I buy T shirts from an Australian maker at up to ten times the price they pay.
I have a drawer of great T shirts thus accumulated some of which are twenty years old and all still look like new…
Also helps me to stay trim as I steam through middle age because I want to continue wearing them!