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What’s a conspiracy theory you no longer call a theory?

  • Redacted@lemmy.zip
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    8 天前

    John deer purposefully puts out vehicles with faulty or low life parts so that they break down and need to be repaired, letting them essentially sell each vehicle twice.

    Right to repair laws need to be a thing asap.

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      7 天前

      Its not just John Deere, lots of companies do this. Its called planned obsolescence.

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        7 天前

        Engineer: we can use this $0.05 nut and it should last a decade, or we can use this $0.049 nut and it’ll maybe last 2 years.

        Boss: Use the 0.49 nut and were giving you a promotion!

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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        6 天前

        The amount of rage I have when I take something broken apart just to find that only one of the gears was made of plastic and is some shape or size that’s impossible to find on the open market.