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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 01:20:18 JST Bread up, Bro
   The question is with automation and new technology alone, would this be false?
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     Ulysses (professionalbigot69@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 01:22:02 JST Ulysses

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     @sickburnbro it's only cheap because shipping across the Pacific is heavily subsidized
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 01:22:02 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @professionalbigot69 and because in many areas china subsidizes things in order to drive competition out.
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     Lin Feng (brokensword@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 01:31:26 JST Lin Feng

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     @sickburnbro The conflation of "cheap" and "inexpensive" is nearly complete, like "jealous" and "envious" before it.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 01:31:26 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @BrokenSword I suppose I need to listen to the clip to see exactly what he said.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 09:42:45 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Shannon14850 yeah, iirc pyrex changed the forumla they use for their borosilicate glass to make it cheaper to produce, and of couse it makes it suckier.
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     Shannon (shannon14850@13bells.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 09:42:46 JST Shannon

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     Pots and pans are crap too. I have my grandmothers and aunts cast iron. And I have a set of lifetime pots and pans from the 60s (my aunt's). All of my husband's fancy pans have died or gotten gross. I broke out my other grandmothers pyrex flame ware, the glass that looks like a science project. I love it. If we need more, I'll get them on eBay or at a thrift shop.

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     That Would Be Telling (thatwouldbetelling@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 10:18:08 JST That Would Be Telling

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     @sickburnbro @Shannon14850 I looked into this and the story I found was that for cookware Corning generally switched from borosilicate to soda–lime glass, but did a really good job of manufacturing it (and now having bought some more old Pyrex and looked at all of it closely I can see careful design too).

     When the Pyrex brand was sold in 1998 the company that got it for the US of course dropped the careful manufacturing.

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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 10:19:52 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @chud @Shannon14850 yeah, it's all tiring. There are so many stupid and/or malicious things done in the name of "environmentalism" where they are transparently not good for the environment or just plain people ripping you off.
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     chud (chud@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 10:19:53 JST chud

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     The same logic is being used in the name of environmentalism now. My state banned plastic bags and now I use 1 bag for every single grocery item because the recycled mesh things rip when you look at them funny, instead of the old days when I could stuff 50 cans of soup in 1 plastic bag