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fvrghl commented on iPhone Pocket   apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/soheilpro
bborud · 4 months ago
Objects have to earn the right to exist. We make so much stuff. Most of it unnecessary. Stuff that will soon be cluttering your home and then end up in a landfill.

This is not a product that deserves to exist. It is not made from quality materials ( Nylon (14%), Polyester (85%), Polyurethane (1%)). It is not innovative. It is questionable whether it solves its primary use case particularly well.

What makes this particularly objectionable is that it is from a design house that usually makes quality garments. And then they stoop to making this crap, slapping their designer label on it and then exploit ghastly people who don't know any better to waste tons of money on it.

This is pissing on Issey Miyake's grave.

fvrghl · 4 months ago
Are you familiar with Miyake's work? He did a lot of innovative design with synthetics, including the entire Pleats Please line.
fvrghl commented on Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas   propublica.org/article/el... · Posted by u/maxeda
ceejayoz · 5 months ago
> “Given the extraordinary number of violations, NDEP has decided to exercise its discretion to reduce the penalty to two $5,000 violations per permit, which it believes offers a reasonable penalty that will still serve to deter future non-compliance conduct,” regulators wrote in the letter.

The fuck?

"You were driving so fast we gave you a discount on the speeding fine."

fvrghl · 5 months ago
This is how parking tickets work in NYC. FedEx, etc negotiate down the total amount they have to pay because they have so many tickets.
fvrghl commented on Indefinite Backpack Travel   jeremymaluf.com/onebag/... · Posted by u/renjieliu
dkarl · 5 months ago
The replacement for synthetic underwear is wool, not cotton. For weeklong wilderness backpacking trips, I used to vacillate between a fresh pair of synthetic boxer briefs every every day, which took a lot of space, and one for every other day, which was gross. Now I wear a single pair of wool boxer briefs all week, and it feels and smells better at the end of the week than synthetic underwear does after two days. Same for sleeping: I used to bring a couple of pairs of synthetic boxers, and now I'm down to one pair of wool underwear. Two pairs for the entire week, one for days and one for nights.

Granted, wilderness backpacking has completely different standards for smells and grossness, but the comparison carries over to the higher standards of the "front country." In hot, sweaty weather, synthetic underwear gets noticeably grosser and smellier than wool over the course of a day.

fvrghl · 5 months ago
Is there anyone making full wool underwear? Everything is a blend, which is good for durability.
fvrghl commented on An opinionated critique of Duolingo   isomorphism.xyz/blog/2025... · Posted by u/agnishom
fvrghl · 5 months ago
What is a non-opinionated critique?
fvrghl commented on 'Block Everything' protests sweep across France, scores arrested   reuters.com/world/europe/... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
annodomini2019 · 6 months ago
Out of curiosity I looked for the house that couple is selling. Believe it's this: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/30206-Telluride-Ln-Evergr... Notice the price history. 83k in '97, which is about 170k now. Being sold for a 10x profit. Sigh.
fvrghl · 6 months ago
If you had invested the 83k in the S&P500, you'd be slightly ahead I think if you include maintenance and property taxes.

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/stocks/s-p-500/1997?amount=...

fvrghl commented on VA Tech scientists are building a better fog harp   arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
fhdkweig · 9 months ago
Georgia Tech is pronounced 'gah tech' and its domain name is gatech.edu. That may be the origin of VT's abbreviation.
fvrghl · 9 months ago
Never heard it pronounced that way in my life. Either "Tech" or "GT".
fvrghl commented on The great displacement is already well underway?   shawnfromportland.substac... · Posted by u/JSLegendDev
rightbyte · 10 months ago

    It’s a little weird living in a small trailer when I’m a homeowner, in fact I own three houses
He owns properties [edit: Missread the place]. I think he is fine.

fvrghl · 10 months ago
Not NY, NY:

"in fact I own three houses: A fixer-upper starter home in a rust belt upstate New York university city, and a patch of beautiful remote rural land with 2 pretty humble and simple cabins on it an hour from the city house"

fvrghl commented on NYC home prices rise 10% in early 2025   qns.com/2025/04/home-pric... · Posted by u/geox
redwood · 10 months ago
Surely it's not so simple when New York City is building more housing supply that essentially any other American city (and has the best public transit system in the nation)
fvrghl · 10 months ago
Source? NYC chronically under builds. It's ranked #35 in new housing construction: https://constructioncoverage.com/research/cities-investing-m...

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