People Are Sharing Examples Of “They Don’t Make ‘Em Like They Used To”, Here Are 50 Of The Best

The Republican party has been a giant con since Reagan. Now half the population thinks it is OK to be a con man, rapist, cheat, liar. These are just the qualities of a successful leader.

And crowds would gather to watch. I kind of wish they would still do this for certain people. I only have four in mind that I wouldn't mind bringing popcorn to see.

Unless you were successful then you were in charge.

Except not.. Lincoln and Johnson pardoned pretty. Much the whole south after the Civil war was won.

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you also need to prove intent in a court of law, and while they can prove that for some of the rioters, the US Attorney General has admitted they can't prove that with Trump, which is why they never have charged him with it. Last I checked, we still had a justice system where we waited for a trial and conviction before sentencing people to death

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TDS is real

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Damn good thing that hasn't happened in a hundred years! Unless you're one of those brainwashed propaganda parrots who believe what you're told too. Facts ARE facts! Look 'em up!

Yes, they used to buy their way out of trouble, BUT they still do it today

No you are

You don't "own" anything. If you think you do, buy a house. You will get a bill from the local government to pay money for something you "own". But yet a wealth tax on the rich is the end of the world.

They can theoretically revoke rights to play movies. Blu-ray is especially bad for it. As others have said, a firmware update to your blu-ray player can make (Certain) movies stop working.

I think Apple makes that version, but you have to buy a special power cord for $999.99.

On PC this has been the case for a long time. Only one company has rights for Blu-ray playback software on PC, and they exploit it to the max.

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I always thought that that was coming. it would be so easy to update the firmware on any player that does it, so that it reports usage of the most common discs you've had for eons. After a certain number of plays, the device locks your disc out unless you pay for more plays or it would turn the laser up high enough to scorch the disc to unplayability. And no, you wouldn't just be able to switch players as I believe discs have serial codes built into them.

Back when you could "buy" it, AutoCAD was $3750 a pop. It's been subscription-only for years now. The subscription is currently $2030 per year per user.

Yes and no. My current washing machine was stupidly cheap. Cheaper than my parents paid for theirs 40 years ago. So I would actually not be that upset if it dies after five years. We Aussies also have solid consumer protection laws. Our protection isn't limited to the mandatory 12 month warranty. Effectively the more expensive an item is the higher the expectation of "reasonable lifespan" is. So you buy a cheap item 12 months is all. Buy a moderately expensive item it's probably a couple years. Buy a super expensive, premium item it could be five+ years even if they don't have an explicit five year warranty.

And the new coolant in refrigerators is extremely flammable. So techs can no longer solder a cracked coolant line hole to repair it. Only a few are being trained as to how to repair this coolant system, and it requires an investment in expensive equipment. In essence, when your new refrigerator gets a coolant leak, open the windows of your house to ventilate the coolant and buy a replacement refrigerator.

Does this mean that appliances are cheaper or repairs are more expensive? Honest question. I repaired a drier 3 times over a decade (after it had run a decade repair free) and then replaced it when the part was about half the cost of a new drier.

Exactly.

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Used to be better though, back when exact match search, exclusions and various other options still actually did what they were supposed to do. None of the current search engines allows to to say "Only find me things with this specific word exactly as I've written it"

The fact Google is the best says a lot about their competitors because Google today is trash

It can be reliable is your search includes boolean parameters, or you're searching a specific site (ie reddit dot com: (naughtiest cheeses) but most people don't do that. Where even a few years ago you'd be able to plug "amd chipset drivers" into google and get taken directly to the driver download page, now you'll end up with the top dozen results being ADs or AI responses, a list of wikipedia articles, two pages of people asking "what are AMD drivers" another page of people debating AMD vs Intel/nvidia drivers" and then eventually, maybe you'll get a driver download link, verified by google, that installs malware on your machine. Searching for specific sites or softwares should be easy, and for 20 years it was. Now you get everything tangentially related to the think you're looking for, but not the actual thing you need.

It's worse if you're searching niche stuff. Or recommended stuff. Or something they can shove AI into.

UDM=14 does google searches and then strips all of the AI c@p out of it. Best web search results I've had in years, way more reliable than google is currently.

I feel like it is a plus of modern life; we've lost a lot but gained Google, and it is glorious, even with its imperfections. Guess it could be better but when I Google something I'm never like, what is this garbage? I'm still thrilled to have a lot of knowledge at my fingertips. It's good to be critical tho, and now I shall cast a suspicious eye at the results and see if I don't see what yall are seeing.

Google! What is that? Funny together sounds bro! Like a rooster being rectumly violated!

Not quite. Apparently people don’t know this, there is Pyrex and there is pyrex. The name sounds the same, they are two entirely different products. The capital P Pyrex is the original, still made by Corning. The licensing they sold was for pyrex, lower case p. The cheap knock off. You can still buy Pyrex. It is typically sold next to the knockoff pyrex at places Walmart. There is a reason the price is different.

interesting, Corning now makes the strong glass on most Phone screens - Corning Gorilla glass

I didn't know that. That's too bad.

Other manufacturers still produce borosilicate glass, (swift glassworks for one) but boron is toxic, making manufacturing more complex, and disposal of manufacturing waste more expensive.

I seem to recall a Panther, of a Pinkish hue, having nothing to do about that.

About 50 or so years ago I worked in a sub sandwiches and pizza place and we were on the "route" of a guy who sold the sets. Looking back on it, they were probably stolen, but I was a naive kid and his sales pitch was fun to watch. Our oven was at 600° and he would put a dish in and get it hot, really hot, then throw it into the freezer. No cracks. Then he'd be standing and talking to us and THROW the dish into the floor, again, no breakage. I bought a set for my mother and schlepped that box home on a bicycle. She was still using that same stuff 40+ years later until she moved.