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This thread has reached end stage enshittification 
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Wearing shoes made out of anything that can't be repaired is for nerds. Get yourselves some Redwings, Danners, or Weinbrenners and prepare to get them resoled in 5 years.
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Jan 8, 2024 21:22
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Until cobblers get enshittified
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Jan 8, 2024 21:22
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holefoods posted:be careful op, costco’s clientele is mostly upper middle class and you’re not gonna like the way they’re voting Dang well when patriot front includes Costco cards in their uniform I’ll shift my allegiance
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Jan 8, 2024 21:25
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ups store wanted to charge me $3.33 to print a return label. amazon wants to charge me $1 to mail it to me. just gonna print it at work for free instead.
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Jan 8, 2024 21:28
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For an Amazon return? They should just scan the QR code for the return and charge you nothing
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Jan 8, 2024 21:30
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deep dish peat moss posted:Until cobblers get enshittified It's not hard to do yourself if the shoe is welted construction, but after getting 10 years out of my last pair of everyday shoes getting a new sole was 3/4 the cost of getting new shoes so it's gotten shittier anyway.
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Jan 8, 2024 21:30
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Last time I got my frye boots resoled it was $175 and I only paid $325 for them so I’ll just get new boots next time
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Jan 8, 2024 21:32
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Time_pants posted:Okay, I'm gonna need a source for this. Not that it isn't believable, but... really? I worked for a now-defunct broadcasting company that owned a few television stations across the U.S. My station, the largest one in the group, had an unwritten mandate to "play up" weather coverage, especially on days when severe weather was forecast. The mandate made sense when we had tornado warnings in our coverage area, because those are life-or-death situations. We otherwise made it seem like the sky was falling when it was just rain. The reason for this hyped-up coverage? Money and ratings! The upstairs bosses figured the more we hyped up weather, the more viewers we could get, and thus the more money our salespeople could charge for advertising. Nobody on staff publicly complained about it, but privately, even some of the meteorologists on staff questioned the legitimate need for such doom and gloom forecasting.
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Jan 8, 2024 21:37
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no QR code option anymore
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Jan 8, 2024 21:39
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they just went to QR code
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Jan 8, 2024 21:50
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:Last time I got my frye boots resoled it was $175 and I only paid $325 for them so I’ll just get new boots next time i recently learned frye boots have no warranty of any sort. gently caress paying that much for something with no warranty
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Jan 8, 2024 21:56
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Ultramega OK posted:Here's another source: my personal experiences from working in the TV news business. I live in Arizona and the TV news here spent most of the last week warning us about apocalyptic storms on the way, saying you want to make sure to stay indoors this weekend and don't make any plans! And prepare yourself for the torrential rain! It was a tenth of an inch of rain they were predicting.
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Jan 8, 2024 21:59
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weather websites do the same thing. the front page to weather.com always sounds apocalyptic
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Jan 8, 2024 22:01
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sensationalized news now i've heard everything
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Jan 8, 2024 22:01
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yeah i dunno wtf but those wack weather websites always have the most insane forecasts on them. same idea as news entertainment, trying to drive clicks? i guess? i use https://weather.gc.ca/ and it presents the information matter of factly, and generally calls for volumes of precipitation are less (and more accurate) 
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Jan 8, 2024 22:02
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those same websites also have like 70% of the screen real estate devoted to ads or videos (w ads). thank u government for providing me no nonsense weather data
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Jan 8, 2024 22:06
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deep dish peat moss posted:I live in Arizona and the TV news here spent most of the last week warning us about apocalyptic storms on the way, saying you want to make sure to stay indoors this weekend and don't make any plans! And prepare yourself for the torrential rain! Weather channels here were talking about snow and apparently grocery stores were a mob scene on Friday. I can't believe people actually thought it was going to snow, it's 2024. There was a substantial drizzle over the weekend to be fair.
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Jan 8, 2024 22:06
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The Moon Monster posted:Weather channels here were talking about snow and apparently grocery stores were a mob scene on Friday. I can't believe people actually thought it was going to snow, it's 2024. There was a substantial drizzle over the weekend to be fair. My boss Friday also was like "PREPARED FOR ALL THE SNOW COMIN UP?? HAHA!!" and I was confused because whatever weather app I use didn't show poo poo and we didn't get poo poo
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Jan 8, 2024 22:09
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Even the actual National Weather Service says I'm currently sitting in the middle of a blizzard, even though it's clear skies, 37F, and calm.
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Jan 8, 2024 22:10
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Spectrum is sending out texts saying they're prepping for service loss, the news is saying to check on the neighbors and get some blankets ready. Are we going into a nuclear war or what.
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Jan 8, 2024 22:32
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New Balance whole chud thing isn't just because Nazis decided to like the shoes one day. The company made a bunch if noise about Obama being the wirst thing that ever happened to the US and that Trump was good and cool and was gonna fix everything. Wear whatever shoe you want but just understand the connection is a bit more than proud boys randomly deciding to like them for no reason.
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Jan 8, 2024 23:21
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Peter Falk posted:Wearing shoes made out of anything that can't be repaired is for nerds. Get yourselves some Redwings, Danners, or Weinbrenners and prepare to get them resoled in 5 years. Red Wing is 92% white and voted Trump +18 so if you buy their shoes people will think you're a racist.
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Jan 8, 2024 23:26
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Here in the Tri-City area, residents should prepare for a BOMB TORRENT of rain! The ATMOSPHERIC RIVER will deluge us in near record amounts of light mist. A tough time for locals, who just recovered from this last winters SNOWMAGEDDON, in which we were buried under literal INCHES of snow. In the long range forecast, the literal end times of rain will clear up and make way for sun, which will be a UV-POCALYPSE for our region! Put on the sunblock folks, temps my crack the high SINGLE DIGITS!
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Jan 8, 2024 23:32
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God dammit I need new shoes. Someone just tell me which ones are socially acceptable.
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Jan 8, 2024 23:38
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I have two pairs of shoes that are both 6 years old and hanging together with duct tape and hope 
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Jan 8, 2024 23:43
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withak posted:God dammit I need new shoes. Someone just tell me which ones are socially acceptable.
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Jan 8, 2024 23:46
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Tarkus posted:You know else wore shoes? Hitler! That's who! Hitler only ever wore crocs and you know it!
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Jan 8, 2024 23:52
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withak posted:God dammit I need new shoes. Someone just tell me which ones are socially acceptable. I think Ötzi predated politics as we understand it today 
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Jan 8, 2024 23:58
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steinrokkan posted:I think Ötzi predated politics as we understand it today
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Jan 9, 2024 00:12
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Cerekk posted:Red Wing is 92% white and voted Trump +18 so if you buy their shoes people will think you're a racist. Uhhhh I see you haven’t seen their multicultural billboard campaign 
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Jan 9, 2024 00:15
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MrTargetPractice posted:New Balance whole chud thing isn't just because Nazis decided to like the shoes one day. The company made a bunch if noise about Obama being the wirst thing that ever happened to the US and that Trump was good and cool and was gonna fix everything. yeah i think voting with your wallet when a rep for a company makes a public stance like this is reasonable
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Jan 9, 2024 00:18
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Unethical tennis shoe companies? What will they think of next?
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Jan 9, 2024 00:22
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withak posted:God dammit I need new shoes. Someone just tell me which ones are socially acceptable. go barefoot and live in an empty wine barrel
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Jan 9, 2024 00:23
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Woolie Wool posted:go barefoot and live in an empty wine barrel Barefoot is illegal
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Jan 9, 2024 00:59
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No shirt no shoes no service.
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Jan 9, 2024 01:00
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New Balance Inc is a birther? Sounds odd. Let's Google to learn more. https://www.complex.com/sneakers/a/brendan-dunne/new-balance-obama-nike https://www.npr.org/2016/04/22/475311897/shoemaker-new-balance-challenges-obama-on-trans-pacific-partnership New Balance criticized Obama for the Trans Pacific Partnership, which would lower tariffs on their competitor Nike's child labor sneakers. Remember, the ones we all hated in 1999? Rage Against the Machine? Seattle? NAFTA and the WTO? Ring a bell? We all wore hideously painful Converse for a decade until Nike bought Converse and moved production to those same child sweatshops? jesus loving christ Hey did you know that Italian chef caricatures who touch their thumb to just their index fingertip instead of to all their fingertips are all klansmen? That's the WHITE SUPREMACY HAND SIGN.
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Jan 9, 2024 01:18
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look pal I can’t trust you after you just trashed chucks like that
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Jan 9, 2024 01:19
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Mmmm that’s the smell of a thread a few days past its best before date
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dear god no more shoe politics poo poo. no more anything about the politics behind companies, im sure there's a CSPAM thread for this
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