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Cake day: June 25th, 2023
  • DessertStorms@kbin.socialtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•This used book that I bought for 12£ on the internet was apparently previously bought from Oxfam for 1.99£
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    1 month ago

    So you’re annoyed that someone (who took the time to go to a charity shop, list the book online, and ship it to you) charged you the RRP for the book, that you didn’t have to buy from them?

    I hope you have the same kind of energy for when mega-corporations charge anything from tens to thousands of pounds for products that often cost single pounds or even pennies to manufacture (due to underpaying for labour and materials that were in turn manufactured by underpaid labour as well), and the snowballing impact they have on the rest of the economy (by pricing out smaller companies, monopolising industries, avoiding tax, and so on).

    The person you bought this from likely works for themsleves, trolling charity shops all day for bargains, and almost certainly pays tax on their income. I’m as anti-capitalist as they get, but even I can’t take issue with this. If they had charged you more than the RRP, sure, that’d pushing it, but if you didn’t want to pay full price, you should have spent your own time looking for the bargain. ¯\(ツ)/¯

  • DessertStorms@kbin.socialto3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Does anyone print planter heads?
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    2 months ago

    Here from /all, don’t own a 3D printer, but if I did, yes I absolutely would lol

    Maybe change it up with some more modern/abstract/famous faces though, the Greek statue look would get old fast… But planters are so expensive for what they are, being able to print my own would really feed my failed plant addiction (I’m no good at actually keeping them alive but I can’t stop buying more) 😂

  • DessertStorms@kbin.socialtomemes@lemmy.world•Either ya understand why most women pick the 🐻 or you are the 🐻.
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    2 months ago

    I also understand why men are insulted.

    It is literally the rage they express when rejected that is WHY we would be more scared to run in to one in the woods than we would a bear.

    The fact that they’re getting “insulted” at all, derailing the entire conversation and making it about them and how they are really the victims, is more proof that they don’t give a shit about the actual experiences of violence and abuse that we are subjected to by them, only about their own egos.

    Literally all they have to do is fucking listen, they are not the ones being harmed in any way shape or form (the reputation of men is already in the shit and it won’t improve unless they work to improve it amongst themselves, but if anything, their reactions are only making it worse), and them being able to frame and prioritise themselves as the ones being being harmed (by ignoring or minimising the legitimate fears and traumatic experiences of millions of women) is just another of many demonstrations of just how privileged they are.

    You’re wrong.

  • DessertStorms@kbin.socialtomemes@lemmy.world•me and my cat. always
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    2 months ago

    Sometimes.
    If we’re playing or she’s clearly agitated, I wouldn’t, because I know she’ll get defensive and I’ll get hurt. But if we’re cuddly or she’s sleepy, then yeah, I’ve been known to creep up to/pick up the cat and blow a raspberry in that belly floof. Most I get then is a light paw tap on my head telling me to stahp lol

  • DessertStorms@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•and they’re all outta fish
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    2 months ago

    Lmfao, anyone still putting their hopes of abolishing capitalism in electoral politics (or the governments that result, and their actions), at the very least, hasn’t been paying any attention, and has very little to no understanding of how the systems at play work and interact.

    Playing by their rules within their game (this includes not only electoral politics, but also shit like using housing as a commodity, however supposedly noble the intent) is never going to set anyone free from it.