Outrage is the new normal and fabricated.

You can probably find a second hand kettle for 5$ bucks. But if you don’t use it often, it might take too much space for its use.

But you already have the microwave, so unless your electricity is expensive, it doesn’t really make a difference.

Most of the time, even high end computers don’t cut it because the optimization is dog shit.

Dependant is not the same thing as addicted.

Do you feel an uncontrollable urge to look at your phone, even when you do something else or when it isn’t appropriate? That would be addiction.

The prices are ludicrous and the salaries are a lot less than our US counter part.

It’s funny because during the Covid, at the start of the latest housing bubble, we saw so many people saying “it’s easy, just move to a place where it’s affordable just like I did”. People have done that, and now even in bumfuck nowhere it’s expensive and people are now complaining that their bumfuck nowhere has become too expensive for them.

Shit’s fucked yo.

This is why I prefaced my comment with the old man bit. There is a lot of exaggeration in my comment.

My experiences has been that meat substitutes marketed as such are usually chuck full of spices, ultra-processed and just taste bad on their own. 95% of the recipes I make with meat, I often replace with a vegan alternative protein.

I do think that vegan brands try to appeal to a lot of meat eater and lean hard on the green/healthy marketing, but it has been played out and abused by marketing and doesn’t mean much anymore. Just market the products on their own merits.

There is so much good vegan food out there, but it’s often branded as the X alternative. IMO, it hurts the product because it pidgeon hole it in that comparison.

But your points are entirely valid, and my point are really just an uneducated opinion without backing data. I just know that I avoid vegan products marketed as meat alternative to X because they taste terrible 99% of the time.

Someone will come along and say “You fuck dudes?”. To which I respond : Yes. I fuck my dude.

My old man yelling at cloud rant :

1. i hate vegan products that try to position themselves as the vegan replacement to a non vegan product. They have their own qualities, and it hurts the product that it is compared to the meat alternative. If someone wants to eat chicken, no amount of marketing and spices will make it taste like chicken and will always be inferior to their meat counterparts for the meat eater.

2. Vegan recipes on internet are 95% terrible. They try to put 100 flavors in one meal. Take whatever recipe your normally eat with meat and simply replace the protein for a vegan protein of your choice (pvt, tofu, bean curds, etc). Grill your tofu to your heart content, make that bean curd extra delicious by dunking it in soy sauce and eat with vegetables and rice or make a simple rice and bean with a side of fresh avocado.

3. There are so many good vegan products with fucking terrible marketing. Meat eaters will not change their habits because you green wash your marketing. Go balls to the wall with that shit.

Don’t kink shame Jesus. He was human like all of us

He doesn’t give a fuck. He will avoid prison and that is all that matters to him.

Absolutely, but it sucks that its always the go to instead of providing real support.

But I am an old man shouting at clouds on that issue.

I always start with that, but add my questions right away (“Is this still available? If so, bla bla bla”)

Because there is a decent chunk of people forgetting to mark the listing as sold.

I can understand that the tech has to go through a script because they need to, but what I fucking hate is that there is never really a solution to a real problem, only “nuke it”. Fuck you, find a solution

You bet it is! It will throw more money at a custom CRM than any other company.

I mean, it doesn’t detract the sentiment of the people. Do it. People want to see the ethic reports on everyone in a position of power.

Every company wants a custom CRM or a customized one instead of choosing a CRM that fits the most important features that the company need and adapt the other processes to fit with the stock CRM as much as possible.

Fighting a CRM is a money pit and in the end, it becomes the worst of both worlds (expensive and shitty to use with the company processes)

Good work is rewarded with more work.

Yeah but that time is long gone. Finance is throwing number in air of growth and profitability that must be met no matter what, and IT have to battle between what is effective, what the company tell them to do and what the users want, and in many case, the IT has a misplaced elitist attitude, like every user should know the infrastructure by heart and fix their problem themselves.

If a company uses other Microsoft products, chance are that Teams is bundled with whatever license they have. So for IT, it’s one less service to manage.

When there will be no more Palestine, there will be no more war. You got your peace right there