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Microsoft again... the poor IT helpdesk at work is getting inundated after Win 10 decided to randomly make Xbox widgets and stuff pop up all over the screen.
Behodar:
Microsoft again... the poor IT helpdesk at work is getting inundated after Win 10 decided to randomly make Xbox widgets and stuff pop up all over the screen.
"XBox Game Bar" appeared on the "most used" list on the start menu on this PC, yet AFAIK has never been used, not even once.
Did it invite itself in with the last big update - along with the horrible annoying self-installing "news" widget on the taskbar?
Rikkitic:
4WD commercials that feature big macho men blasting through the bush and crushing nature under their wheels.
Even worse are the ones where there's a pseudo enviro-consciousness attached to the bush-bashing.
Handsome Dan Has Spoken.
Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...
Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale
*Gladly accepting donations...
Handsomedan:
Rikkitic:
4WD commercials that feature big macho men blasting through the bush and crushing nature under their wheels.
Even worse are the ones where there's a pseudo enviro-consciousness attached to the bush-bashing.
Stop your whining. There's a slight possibility of snow in Chch today. Last time we had a good dump requiring 4WD was in 1992. If you wanted to go ticki-touring to rubber-neck and laugh at lesser people stuck in 2WD drive cars, you need a 4WD, possibly as often as several times per century.
Companies that go all green-washing to look good and overcharge for products that, at the same quantity, underperform when compared to cheaper and more available products.
Things like dishwashing tablets and dish soap products that make you use a lot more to get the same results.
Or a company selling glass spray bottles - great idea if their spray mechanism wasn't so low quality that it actually doesn't even work.
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freitasm:
Companies that go all green-washing to look good and overcharge for products that, at the same quantity, underperform when compared to cheaper and more available products.
Things like dishwashing tablets and dish soap products that make you use a lot more to get the same results.
Or a company selling glass spray bottles - great idea if their spray mechanism wasn't so low quality that it actually doesn't even work.
Ethanol based/blended fuel.
I forgot to include that all the whining about "Utes" really annoys me.
While many "utes" might not be used for the "utility" features, most of the modern ones are quite lightweight, efficient, and have C02 emissions insignificantly worse and often better than "ordinary cars".
Worse is that while "utes" seem to be the target of much hate, most of the people who could afford a new Tesla are instead driving luxury or "sporty" ICE behemoths, it's okay of even admirable for rich folks to drive Porsches, Audi Q7s, Rangerovers, dine on grain-fed wagyu beef, and fly around the planet with gay abandon, but if you work in trades and drive a ute, you are the true enemy of the planet.
Why is everything sold in separate containers, be they glass or plastic or something else? Why does every glass drink container have to be recycled, crushed, reprocessed into a new identical container with all the energy and waste that goes along with that? Why can't wine and beer bottles just be refilled instead of being remanufactured? Why is there still no deposit on containers in this country?
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Rikkitic:
Why is everything sold in separate containers, be they glass or plastic or something else? Why does every glass drink container have to be recycled, crushed, reprocessed into a new identical container with all the energy and waste that goes along with that? Why can't wine and beer bottles just be refilled instead of being remanufactured? Why is there still no deposit on containers in this country?
Cos lobbying and money. And my freedoms.
It's basically undoable, just ignore the fact that we used to do it in this country, that doesn't matter.
Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21
Keep calm, and carry on posting.
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elpenguino:
Cos lobbying and money. And my freedoms.
It's basically undoable, just ignore the fact that we used to do it in this country, that doesn't matter.
Yep. I was trading in plastic, representing major global producers and selling to local industry when the glass milk bottle was being terminated.
The argument went that if you allowed for breakage, non-returns, rejection of returned bottles, water and energy use for sterilising for re-use, energy use for transporting the extra weight, energy use to produce the glass bottle in the first place divided by the number of times it would be able to be practically re-used, then recyclable plastic bottles were the more environmentally friendly option.
What they didn't talk about was that "recycling" wasn't going to be turning plastic milk bottles back into plastic milk bottles, the polymers degrade on heat from recycling, at best you could add a bit of recycled plastic to make a "premium" product. If the rest of the "recyclable" plastic was recycled, then it ended up being used in low value applications like flower pots, in they end they just end up in landfill (or worse) which is the ultimate fate of every plastic item that's being produced - "recyclable" or not. IIRC the figure that's frequently quoted is that only 5% of the plastic that's been produced since we invented the stuff has been recycled. My guess is that's true.
Probably more relevant these days when the environmental damage from "microplastics" is becoming more of a concern.
Fred99:
I forgot to include that all the whining about "Utes" really annoys me.
While many "utes" might not be used for the "utility" features, most of the modern ones are quite lightweight, efficient, and have C02 emissions insignificantly worse and often better than "ordinary cars".
Worse is that while "utes" seem to be the target of much hate, most of the people who could afford a new Tesla are instead driving luxury or "sporty" ICE behemoths, it's okay of even admirable for rich folks to drive Porsches, Audi Q7s, Rangerovers, dine on grain-fed wagyu beef, and fly around the planet with gay abandon, but if you work in trades and drive a ute, you are the true enemy of the planet.
but they are still a pain in the arse when they park next to you in a carpark
Common sense is not as common as you think.
afe66:
Reminds me of colleague who had a mint land rover, immaculate.
Fast forwards to winter and there was a couple of inches of snow on ground and so at work I asked him if he drove it into work this morning...."no I don't want to get it dirty"
So he walked to work and turned up and hour late.....
We had to cover you because you didn't want to get your car dirty....
Yep - which takes it back to those stupid 4WD adverts.
The few that actually get used for recreational 4WD can be spotted from half a mile away, covered in mud - or if clean then numerous dents and scrapes.
Shiny clean unmarked 4WDs with body lift, mud tyres, snorkel, LED floodlights, all have two dipsticks as a standard feature.
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