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Re: Is It Canceled Yet?

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Post by eitland »

jbob2000 wrote: post #30
eitland wrote: post #12

If nothing else this should do quite a lot to reduce carbon emissions, and I'm only half joking here. Now if we could change fashion from fast fashion to focus on durability that would be an even bigger change. And it is not completely unrealistic: While I have no hard and fast rule to go by on how exactly this could turn out I do sense a huge opportunity for one or more smaller brands to more or less utterly disrupt…

This doesn't solve anything if the parts you replace are then thrown in the landfill. All you've done is spent a lot of resources and energy to turn around and throw stuff away anyways.

It does matter a lot if the 5% of a product end up in the landfill vs if 100% of it end up at the landfill.

It also matters a lot if one product end up at the landfill after 10 years or if one product end up at the landfill every year, resulting in ten products at the landfill during the same period.

Re: Is It Canceled Yet?

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Post by eitland »

im3w1l wrote: post #29
eitland wrote: post #12

If nothing else this should do quite a lot to reduce carbon emissions, and I'm only half joking here. Now if we could change fashion from fast fashion to focus on durability that would be an even bigger change. And it is not completely unrealistic: While I have no hard and fast rule to go by on how exactly this could turn out I do sense a huge opportunity for one or more smaller brands to more or less utterly disrupt…

This may sound stupid but one reason I like disposable things is because I, fairly or unfairly, associate expensive repairable things with "all work and no play". No you can't do this or you'll scratch it. Can't do that or you'll dent it. Oh, of course you have to oil it every day how else will it last? And don't forget to iron the sleeves.

I can see that.

Luckily for me a bit of wear and tear is considered OK with many of those products. I'd have far bigger problems if I tried to keep my shirts around for 5 years.

Re: Is It Canceled Yet?

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Post by tzs »

Jaruzel wrote: post #18

This would be better as a smaller grid of 'cards', dashboard style, so I don't have scroll forever.

It would be better as a simple two column table in a simple HTML file with at most one small, simple, CSS file and no JavaScript.

I'm not a web guy, so don't know if this is common or not, but I've never seen a "body" tag (or any tag...) with this many attributes before:

Re: Is It Canceled Yet?

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Post by downerending »

praptak wrote: post #9
buboard wrote: post #7

I vote against fist bumps and in favor of leg or butt bumps. (Highly unlikely to scratch your face with your butt )

Also elbow bump, aka "the Ebola handshake".

I think Netanyahu (sp?) just recommended the Indian "namaste" greeting (put your hands together and nod). Excellent idea.

Re: Is It Canceled Yet?

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Post by anonsivalley652 »

supercheetah wrote: post #25
eitland wrote: post #12

If nothing else this should do quite a lot to reduce carbon emissions, and I'm only half joking here. Now if we could change fashion from fast fashion to focus on durability that would be an even bigger change. And it is not completely unrealistic: While I have no hard and fast rule to go by on how exactly this could turn out I do sense a huge opportunity for one or more smaller brands to more or less utterly disrupt…

Patagonia is well known for repairing their stuff, and even helps customers sell their used clothes to others, but they're really expensive.

Awesome.

Columbia says they have a lifetime warranty, but a $300 running rain jacket I bought at their flagship store sometime ago they refused to repair or replace it when all of the inner liner started flaking off and it was no longer usable. I'm never buying anything from them again.

The most durable day-bag / school backpack I have ever owned was a Trager. It was needed because I went through 9 backpacks in high-school since our school didn't have lockers. Supposedly in the 70's pipe-bombs were detonated in them and the lockers created shrapnel. Anyhow, that backpack held 4-6 books like a champ. It had/has a lifetime warranty and they even replaced the zipper on a 10 year old product for free. Sadly, they're out of business now.

Re: Is It Canceled Yet?

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Post by dredmorbius »

im3w1l wrote: post #29
eitland wrote: post #12

If nothing else this should do quite a lot to reduce carbon emissions, and I'm only half joking here. Now if we could change fashion from fast fashion to focus on durability that would be an even bigger change. And it is not completely unrealistic: While I have no hard and fast rule to go by on how exactly this could turn out I do sense a huge opportunity for one or more smaller brands to more or less utterly disrupt…

This may sound stupid but one reason I like disposable things is because I, fairly or unfairly, associate expensive repairable things with "all work and no play". No you can't do this or you'll scratch it. Can't do that or you'll dent it. Oh, of course you have to oil it every day how else will it last? And don't forget to iron the sleeves.

High-quality durable practical goods wear their scars with pride.

It's the difference, though, between buying, say, fine china vs. a set of wooden or metal tableware. Or more typically in my experience, camping or outdoors gear, which gets rough use but remains highly functional.

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