Not exactly cheapest but I have been an absolute fan of Gallium charging bricks. They can do much higher wattage in a smaller size and with a long USB C cable and 4 ports actually replaces a laptop charger, phone charger, and more.

And specifically Anker makes a 65w charger that also doubles as a battery bank for about $80 that means I can charge everything from just that one and then take it with me and use it as a battery and plug I to the wall to recharge itself and my devices again.

You can also just use a cocktail shaker or a jar with a lid and shake them. Peels come off so easily and you just mostly sift through them to get the cloves.

ok no.

When the last braincells manage to fire before fizzling back into the night

+1 to bread maker!
$25 from marketplace and now in 3 hours I can always have fresh baked bread, throw in some rosemary and garlic and scallion in an olive oil loaf and you have a nice dish to bring to a dinner.
Use the dough setting and now I have easy bagels and pretzels. Or even challah bread.

I even got a 50lb bag of flour for $14 so each loaf of bread costs about 40¢ in ingredients.

And yet most of the comments in here are talking about doctors appointments and going out for dinner. I am confusing it but it seems I’m not alone in that.

We are not in the right crowd to organize a strike, which would be better with actual business owners involved, but I understand we should get what we can.

Why is it so bad to take an honest look at what we are trying to accomplish and our methodology? I thought Lemmy liked science and actual data. I’m peer reviewing this so we can adjust the methodology and try to focus better.
I want to succeed I am just not gonna pretend we get there without effort.

I will say… Using total dollars spent without adjusting for inflation means that every year/quarter will look like the best year as long as something catastrophic hasn’t happened.

Top 10% of people own 90% of stocks 85% of all businesses, and half the real estate.

Yeah, it just became another form of currency to them to make number go up attached to their soul of course.

Don’t fake it. Be honest.

I dunno, that has been what I have been doing and nothing kills the light in their eyes like honesty.

I think you are ascribing a lot more importance to 10% than economists and capitalists do.

Nearly 60% of of day to day spending is by the top percentage of the wealthiest. I am trying to be a realist here. The bottom 60% of Americans make up about 20% of the spending, 10% participation would be about a 4% change in profit which recent Tariffs have been higher and more impactful.
It is not a good idea to keep purposefully missing while the enemy isn’t wasting their shots. Cause they are landing most of theirs.

Symfonium can work from a google drive and you can spin up a new account and just throw 15gb in for free.

Otherwise I would just go with the YouTube route. Export the playlist and load it onto YouTube. Then pick a Ytdlp frontend and download it

The problem with a “shot across the bow” is that to the enemy it can just look like you are missing and wasting ammo.

Don’t ask for a Superman. They don’t exist.
We do things as a community and a collective, its the only way it works.

Yes, and the people that think its a good idea to order something with same day delivery from amazon in a snow storm are probably the same ones that will ignore the call for a strike.
We have to ignore the outliers we can’t get, but we nees to understand that The System at large will ignore our outliers as well. A one day strike that has less impact than a storm physically blocking streets will be seen as an outlier.
Not a dig, but just a fact.

The winter storm that pushed people inside for 2 days has more impact than a single day purchase blackout.

If a country can shrug of massive storms and fires… I just don’t know what message this is actually supposed to send.
We seem to want instant gratification to work in the real world, we want a lack of suffering and to make it as quick and easy as possible.

If you have an addiction you don’t lose it in a day. In Shawshank redemption, Andy Dufresne doesnt get to leave out the front door, he has to crawl through a river of shit to come out clean the other side.
We have a river of shit to wade through, I think we need to come to terms with that.

People really seem to think that children are just born with the knowledge inside of them and they will just figure it out cause we as adults know it.

This has been getting worse and worse for decades now.
All just pushing the next generation to figure it out on their own later and expecting more still from them. We are teaching people to be a machine more than a human.

I mean… Does the mom know they are a terminally online shitposter? If they are a 4channer there is a non zero chance they are waiving all those flags unironically.

They just don’t make relatable children’s shows like they used to.

vast majority of votes

Pfffttt… 51.8% and as if it wasnt a bunch of old assholes who saw a bus and didnt think it would impact their holiday to complain about not being able to retire to Spain immediately after.

We don’t all have to talk like we know everything all the time.

Sounds like the league of nations just collapsed

I think they thought this was rust.

I had a nonstick coated pan that looked like this… It was definitely time to throw it away and I keep having to wait for my prince in seasoned aluminum pan comes my way