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some dude (or dudette) is living rent free in this guy's mind

Guaranteed some politician is worried about his wife seeing he was watching some nasty porn on the family tv

I picked up a few today from smaller online stores before they realized. Will have to keep the servers running somehow

Yeah in fact, unless you're a really confident person I recommend against it. Friend groups, hobbies meetups, join groups, make friends, and meet new people through those avenues

That's true, even my friends I would consider doing well aren't spending multiple thousands of dollars on a phone right now. Economy isn't in a state where sane people feel like giving away that much

People love giving away their hard earned money

Maybe the fifth time she'll be able to buy food. Or the 6th

Personally I can't wait until Nvidia releases a new generation and they start shedding gpus. Helloooo secondary market!

If OP is using terms like "jimmied" with something as serious as a breaker, then I completely agree they need to absolutely stop before they:

• Set their apartment on fire
• Kill themselves
• Both

If the breaker is off it means something is seriously wrong. If you flip a breaker and nothing happens it means something incredibly serious burn down the entire apartment building is wrong. 1 amp of current can be fatal. The smallest breaker you'll see is 15... if you're dealing with a broken breaker you could be dealing with 50-100+ amps. OP, you have no idea what you're doing. Step away, get some flashlights.

If you have no power at all then that would qualify as an emergency situation in my book and you could call off-hours maintenance. If it's one room or one appliance then just deal with it until they get there.

Now that I can't believe. At some point it's better to let the trees keep growing and make a plastic tree. We're not talking about paper for newspaper or something consumable, were talking about an item we want to keep for a lifetime. I can't believe that cutting down, setting up, and throwing out 70 real trees over a lifetime is better than one plastic.

However, some other things to consider, first where do you think the plastics in the artificial tree come from? That's right, PETROLEUM

I mean, yeah of course that's why it was the first thing I called out

My main ask then because it does matter is how many real trees cut down is the equivalent. As said it's done for me, artificial tree is up right now so moving forward it doesn't make sense for me to abandon that. For those who don't have one though, how long would they have to own the artificial tree?

I'll admit I'm skeptical of the statement because it's a common technique that has been used to prevent people from choosing greener alternatives. The great EV debate has been plagued with it, with people bellowing that the cost of mining the minerals means you should just drive ICE cars when in reality if your EV rolls over 15,000 miles you've officially hit the tipping point.

Same thing with new stoves, water heaters, a lot of pro-oil will claim "Well manufacturing alone means that you're actually hurting the environment, you wouldn't want to do that now would you?" and put the blame back on the consumer when in reality most of those purchases become carbon neutral usually after a year or two of standard use. Now for the trees if it's 20 years... maybe. Even then I wonder about the potential of those 10' fir trees growing into full adult trees and what we cut short by cutting them down. (Granted I know most are farmed now, but even then, it'd have be be multiple decades for it to make sense in my book)