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#3326567 31-Dec-2024 13:34

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sir1963:

Had a chesty cough for over a week now (NOT COVID), so figured I would buy some Mucinex to help clear it.

Got the package home and I find someone had already taken 2 of the pills out of the packet...

That’s appalling - assuming it wasn’t someone from your household, after you’d bought them.

Where did you buy them? Did you notice that the box wasn’t still sealed when you went to open it? Did you go back to the retailer? - not just because you got less than you paid for - but because there are safety and security issues here.

Just grabbed off the shelf

No one in the family had any

Took it back and got a replacement, no problems

But yea...if you figure someone was sick...

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#3326569 31-Dec-2024 13:35

Senecio:

sir1963:

Had a chesty cough for over a week now (NOT COVID), so figured I would buy some Musinex to help clear it.

Got the package home and I find someone had already taken 2 of the pills out of the packet...

It's not uncommon to have empty blisters in a pack. Just means the manufacturer doesn't have to carry multiple sets of tooling to produce both 8 tablet blisters and 10 table blisters for example.

Oh no..those pills were popped from the pack.

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#3327202 3-Jan-2025 10:17

Ads on the page about the Las Vegas explosion:

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#3327286 3-Jan-2025 15:37

Whereby I find this fully comfort-addicted TV bed with shelves for crisps and certainly also drink holders as support for legal collective suicide by knife and fork much more threatening to public health. 😁😉

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#3327338 3-Jan-2025 19:09

That bed is sold on Aliexpress. As you'd expect, there's no clear manufacturer name, and of course, a multitude of product names.

I checked the 3D rendering does not match the actual product, in particular the floating foot cushion.

What it actually looks like, in this called called the "Uber bed"

How an Indian influencer gave a absurdly staged "review" of it. (Why does she keep a camera in a bed cabinet?)

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#3327341 3-Jan-2025 19:19

That looks cheap and nasty.

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#3328544 7-Jan-2025 10:04

Wow, this is a privacy concern. Welcome to "1984" by George Orwell, or "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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#3328551 7-Jan-2025 11:09

That we humans are becoming ever more stupid, lazy, fat, unaffordable and dissatisfied.

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#3328553 7-Jan-2025 11:17

Tinkerisk:

That we humans are becoming ever more stupid, lazy, fat, unaffordable and dissatisfied.

The stupid is despite having access to more information than we ever could dream of in decades past. (How did we do our research homework in the 80's without google?)

But I guess the trade off is that the stupid can be broadcast even louder than in the past also.

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#3328559 7-Jan-2025 11:33

geoffwnz:

But I guess the trade off is that the stupid can be broadcast even louder than in the past also.

And they can be voted into office.

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#3328615 7-Jan-2025 12:02

geoffwnz:
Tinkerisk:

That we humans are becoming ever more stupid, lazy, fat, unaffordable and dissatisfied.

The stupid is despite having access to more information than we ever could dream of in decades past. (How did we do our research homework in the 80's without google?)

But I guess the trade off is that the stupid can be broadcast even louder than in the past also.

Public libraries, school libraries and private libraries. I remember we had thousands of books at home. I remember at least three encyclopedias at home, one in Portuguese, one in Spanish and another in English. Read, read, read.

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#3328617 7-Jan-2025 12:06

freitasm:
geoffwnz:

The stupid is despite having access to more information than we ever could dream of in decades past. (How did we do our research homework in the 80's without google?)

But I guess the trade off is that the stupid can be broadcast even louder than in the past also.

Public libraries, school libraries and private libraries. I remember we had thousands of books at home. I remember at least three encyclopedias at home, one in Portuguese, one in Spanish and another in English. Read, read, read.

Yep, it was always a race to the school library for the copies of whichever encyclopedia was flavour of the month.

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#3328625 7-Jan-2025 12:26

I believe a key evolutionary step will be when we gain access to the part of our brain that used to be for storing people’s phone numbers and use it for other purposes 😁

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#3328627 7-Jan-2025 12:44

Rikkitic:

geoffwnz:

But I guess the trade off is that the stupid can be broadcast even louder than in the past also.

And they can be voted into office.

That's always been the case. The only difference is that nowadays they can express their stupidity more easily and more widely.

To quote a saying my late father regularly quoted. "It is better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt."

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#3328635 7-Jan-2025 13:47

I think social media have changed something fundamental. Wherever we are headed, it will never be back to where we were.

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