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I bought my parents a $200 upright vacuum cleaner the other year, and I have to use it a lot. It's fine except it's a little loud, a whiny shriek, and sometimes it gets clogged and for some reason unbeknownst to me they made it so tou have to unscrew a bunch of screws on the bottom just to open it to unclog it. I don't see why they didn't just put a couple of latches there or something. IIRC I got them that one because the previous one would always get clogged. And also it was from like the '80s and we never seemed to have bags for it because they became so hard to find. The one I bought them is bagless, which is nice.
Arthur · 4 answers · 1d
Political question: the Italian electrical distributor responsible for my city's electricity, Enel, is doing a job so poor that even the bougie parts of my city are being affected, and local news outlets are churning articles against that company. Do you think the city administration should kick Enel's arse and take over the electrical distribution directly?
Anonymous Coward · 3d
do you believe in heaven and hell?
I'm 100% sure the eternal Christian heaven and hell are just fantasy, but I believe there are various heavens and hells, both physical and nonphysical places, in terms of great and prolonged joy or suffering. In the afterlife, you may end up in one or the other depending on what you think you deserve or what you expect. I believe Earth is a mild level of hell, at least for the human race (and an even worse hell for many animals under our subjugation).
Note that, since I believe everything imaginable exists somewhere, it would follow that heavens and hells as described by Christians must exist somewhere, they would just be a lot lot less common in the multiverse, they probably wouldn't be eternal (nothing lasts forever; the only constant is change), and they probably don't even exist on our timeline. Or, on second thought, some Christians probably create the Christian heaven or hell (more likely the heaven) in the afterlife based on their expectations, so it may be rather popular in our universe, though it still wouldn't actually be eternal, so technically it still wouldn't be the actual Christian heaven (or hell).
I think Arthur's answer provides a good framing for this - nobody "should" have to do any house work, it's just a "necessary" evil in today's time, so there's no objectively right or wrong answer.
That being said, I think it may or may not be the most fair way of doing it depending on whether the house work is roughly the same amount of work as the job or not. I guess chances are it isn't, but it may be more or less. If it's more, then the person with the job "should" do some of the house work. But there are other extenuating factors, like what if the stay-at-home person is disabled? Or what if menial labor makes them more miserable than it does the person with the job? Or what if the house work is somehow harder than the job? Etc.
But anyway, again, what's best is ultimately just whatever the couple agrees to...
Arthur · 5 answers · 6d
Tech question: have you ever seen someone write code with a phone? Me neither, but apparently someone does https://ko-fi.com/travestyvies
I only upgrade when I have a specific reason to, like it breaks, or it no longer supports some app I want to run. I was using a Galaxy S6 for a few years up until 2022, when the battery started going bad and also one of the games I'd play on it was no longer supported by the OS, so I got an S22 Ultra, and I've been using that since. My current desktop PC I got in 2018 or 2019, before that I'm pretty sure I was using a gaming laptop that I had gotten in 2010. My laptop I use now is probably not much younger than my desktop PC. Though it may be about time for a new laptop...my Wi-Fi and Bluetooth recently stopped working, and the laptop's been randomly rebooting for years. Though I ordered a new Wi-Fi & Bluetooth module today to see if that solves the problem, we'll see how that goes, I don't get it until Jan. 8th at the earliest.
Kate Matsuda · 6 answers · 12d
When you forgot how to say something in English and also forgot it in your native language, so you now are byelingual...😵💫
I don't know, I've never used 7-zip except maybe once when I might have had to open a filetype WinRAR doesn't support. I use WinRAR, but it's just out of habit. It's what I've always used. It would probably be better if I used 7-zip just because WinRAR has a pop-up window I have to shut first every time I use it since I haven't paid for it.
Kate Matsuda · 6 answers · 15d
The existence of leaf blowers is a sign of what is all wrong with the human race.
Anonymous Coward · 15d
why do people get mad when you flip them off?
That's basically the intention, to offend them. It's a gesture of insult/disrespect. It's the hand sign for "f*ck you," so they get mad for the same reason they do when you say that.
To go a little deeper, I suspect that the reason people get mad back at you when you get mad at them is because their first reaction would be to feel bad/grief that they apparently did something wrong to make you feel that way, because on a superconscious level we all really love each other. But we feel we shouldn't have to feel that grief, because people often get mad at other people for reasons that aren't their fault, or we just don't want to have to feel the grief, so we get angry instead at the person for making us/trying to make us feel that way.