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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I work in a manufacturing company that was owned by the founder for 50 years until about 4 years ago when he retired. He disagreed with a lot of the ideas behind lean manufacturing so we had like 5 years worth of inventory sitting in our warehouse.

When the new management came in, there was a lot of squawking about inefficiency, how wasteful it was to keep so much raw material on the shelf, and how we absolutely needed to sell it off or get rid of it.

Then a funny little thing happened in 2020.

Suddenly, we were the only company in our industry still churning out product. Other companies were calling us, desperate to buy our products or even just our raw material. We saw MASSIVE growth the next two years and came out of the pandemic better than ever. And it was mostly thanks to the old owners view that "Just In Time" manufacturing was BS.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (3 children)

There needs to be a lot more studies on obesity and why it's gone up so much. I don't buy the "more sedentary lifestyle" argument. Our mobility hasn't changed THAT much in the last 50 years, at least not enough to explain the absolutely skyrocketing cases of obesity.

There's a big link between poverty and obesity. People in poverty tend to be more active due to more physically demanding jobs, so it feels like the cause has to be from cheap food. While a lot of people might immediately look to high fructose corn syrup, I'm not sure it's that simple. Obesity rates are rising even in places that don't use HFCS in everything. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some additive or preservative that started to get heavily used in the last few decades that's had horrible, unintended consequences.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Damn, wasnt that one of the last phones to have an IR Blaster?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

There's half an argument to be made about waterproofing, but it kinda falls flat when the waterproofing we get isn't that good.

"This phone is IP68 rated!"

Oh cool, so I can go swimming with it and take it into the shower?

"Haha, no."

Great, so glad we gave up a ton of features for this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

He’s one of the worst slime balls in congress

No, you're mistaken. I can assure you, Lindsey Graham has no balls.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Thermal Camera.

They're just so cool. Super useful for checking the effectiveness of stuff like insulation or heat sinks, and can be used to find hot spots you didn't know existed.

I just have trouble justifying dropping $300 on something I would only get maybe an hour max of usefulness from before it sits in a box for years.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

2 months later and there's still not a satisfying answer. I would have hoped 1 or 2 apps would have risen to the top by now, but it's still just a scattershot of people suggesting like 8-10 different ones. There's no consensus.

I don't want to download an app and get all set up only for development on it to suddenly halt. Then I'd either have to switch again, or be stuck with one that's forever missing features.

Too many new apps popped up in too short of time. Some of them are bound to fail or be abandoned. Some of them are likely to have been hacked together by amateurs and contain gaping security or functionality flaws.

Does anyone have a suggestion with more substance than "I like this app because it's the one I downloaded"?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (6 children)

“Psychology worthless because brain is a computer”

See this? This right here? This is you attacking the choice of metaphor rather than the content.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Nothing good is going to come after an opener like that.

Yea, and nothing good will come from a shitty meme attacking a choice of metaphor rather than it's content. Which is what you did to start. What a great picture you posted, is that supposed to represent the strawman you built rather than form any actual argument other than "no you're wrong"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The only real money in psychology is from marketing and advertising.

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