They are bad because they don't cost 10-15k. Human bodies are difficult. They weigh quite a bit and often move about. Put multiples of them onto the object then stresses and strains will add up. Want that object to look cool, perform perfectly for multiples of years then you have a challenge!
More agreement! Ikea 20 years was twice the material you get today. Products could be taken apart and put back together multiple times. Not so today. Put together once, modify it if you want it to stay like that and if you really have to move it cross your fingers!
I have some 25 year old ikea that’s lasted well. Some was even solid wood and surprising nice( good quality hinges and laminates) But I haven’t gotten anything recent.
But I will say isn’t the last step in the assembly process the 10% probability that you’ll have to do some disassembly to reverse a piece that’s not quite put together correctly?
Previously an employee scanned and took my payment. Now that 'employee' is me. What is my upside? Generally I try not to work for free whilst making other people richer...
Well if the other employees screw up they get a warning and maybe some direction. If you screw up at your job you'll get accused of shoplifting and maybe get the cops called.
Heh, I always put eggs on the bottom of my bag. Those cartons provide a nice base and are designed to hold a lot of weight. But, I agree, I prefer self-checkout because I can organize the bags as I want them.
Covid over? Not a chance. Still here, still contagious as ever. Media brainwashing may be over, wealth transfer maybe over - Covid no. I have had it 3 times. Every time around 5 days after an international flight with no mask. Mask for me in future and maybe even in the supermarket.Five days in bed I can not afford!
I'm fully expecting to get it many times. It's just unavoidable. Wearing a mask just reduces the chances of getting what is now a light inconvenience.
For what it's worth I've never even been bedridden by covid. Once I sniffled a bit for a day or two, the one weird thing was that it wasn't in my usual hayfever season. The other time I had a bit of a headache and things tasted funny for a day.
But anyway I do a lot of things in my life that are way way riskier (including from a disease point of view) than getting covid so at this point there's just no more need to worry about it. It's just not in the top 30 things that are most likely to kill me anymore.
I don't worry so much about being overweight, about who I kiss, about exposure to pollution, about climbing steep slopes, about crossing the road even. These things are now way way more likely to kill me or make me sick than covid.
It's not over, and it will never be over if we don't admit that it's here and still killing people, witnessed by the excess mortality. We're like an ostrich with a head in the sand!
But there's so many things killing people. And the people it kills now are so weak they will die rather soon from something else if not covid. They'll get a cold, a food poisoning or whatever else comes our way in normal life.
Here in Holland there aren't even any patients in ICU with covid anymore.
With your large earnings you will have no problem paying for membership of a nice spa club of which there are many in Berlin. These places are not overrun with 'low education bracket people' as you put it but sadly however a scourge of a different sort, namely what I would describe as 'clueless ignorant pricks'....
It always was bad. Certain parts of the city you simply could not visit. You would constantly cough, some sort of nitrous compounds I think. The only time you could go out running was around 4am. Packs of wilds dogs ruled the streets during the early hours. Running with an ice axe made it safer...
National Institute of Mountaineering have plenty! Great place to go with an excellent outdoor climbing wall. Don't forget Himalayas and Kashmir are only a short plane hop away (best snowboarding in the world). New Delhi was an experience..
