Short End of the Sale: How consumerist gluttony continually smothers real craftsmanship

There are very few things you can buy in the current market that will last you the rest of your life. Unlike our grandparents, who still use the cast-iron pans they unwrapped at their wedding 75 years ago, younger generations will never truly experience product longevity. While it’s certain that my grandma’s pans will outlive …
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Gen Zers make fun of millennials for never making big purchases on their phones and reserving them for computers: ‘I ain’t about to mess up a $500+ purchase just cuz it’s convenient’

It’s easy to criticize someone slightly older or younger than you for their technological quirks. I find it funny when millennials claim they learned coding in middle school because they changed their Tumblr themes with HTML. To me, that’s just a wee bit overselling their skills. On the other hand, a millennial could easily criticize …
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‘The squatty potty truly changed my life’: 30+ must-have purchases under $150 that are worth the hype

What would we do without the wisdom of Reddit? I recently stumbled upon this post on r/askreddit where the OP asks fellow Redditors, «What can you buy for less than $150 that will change your life?» Please, say less. This thread is all about budget-friendly items that have the power to seriously upgrade your life.  From …
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The Most Unhinged Garbage That People Tried to Sell on the Internet

To not put too fine a point on it, this world is full of a heck of a lot of manmade crap. Inevitably, most of this ends up in landfills eventually. Before that, though, we all get the privilege of gazing upon the range of horrors that our fellow man has decided to bring into …
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Elon Musk Buys Twitter, Users Explosively React

Hear ye, hear ye! Time to gather round the town square of the internet, because it might not look like it does now for much longer. It’s been confirmed: after weeks of speculation and negotiation, the board of Twitter finally accepted Elon Musk’s $44 billion offer to buy it yesterday. In a move that knocks …
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Entitled Dude Gets Trolled By Amused Car Seller

Unfortunately we live in a world where a lot of people think it’s totally fine to act like self-righteous a-holes. This dude in particular thought he could purchase a car for far cheaper than what the seller was listing. Fortunately for us though, the troll-y seller had a sense of humor about it.  Click here …
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