Maoo [none/use name] @ Maoo @hexbear.net

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Yeah it really depends on how much you want those ROMs. I've had good luck with 2 Pixels but I 100% believe you that it's probably cheaper to buy another one than to fix one most of the time.

I haven't really found a phone that is popular and recent and friendly enough to ROMs, unfortunately. I also used to get Samsungs but they've made it difficult to install ROMs for many years now. I kind of just try to make a phone last 3-5 years and accept that it's gonna break some time around then.

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There's also Gramsci, Luxemburg, Allende, and Trotsky, all of whom were communists or very close to it.

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Many expensive things don't hold up. They're just a brand name or status symbol.

There's also a trend of capitalist vultures buying up well-known and trusted brands and then squeezing them for all their worth by changing manufacturing to something much cheaper and lower quality and slapping the logo on it. Eventually this stops working because the brand loses caché.

I obsessively research things or intentionally buy cheap anticipating breakage.

I'll list what I do for the things you mention but obviously it's just my experience:

Clothes:

• Thrift high quality clothes. Have to literally feel the fabric and judge the stitching and slowly learn brands that often have decent quality for your style. You can also look for cheap mid-quality clothes and they'll still be way better than the usual H&M or Target stuff. It will depend on where you live.
• Roll the dice on AliExpress. Sometimes the stuff is great and has reinforced stitching (certain sock brands, for example). Sometimes it's paper thin garbage. Read the reviews and look for items with many reviews. Also consider finding one of the groups that uses private links to buy branded dupes. I haven't done that in a long time but it seems to be something you can still do.

Bags:

It really depends on the kind of bag I guess. But here are some ideas:

• Brands with really good warranties will either have good stuff or will give you a new item if their stuff breaks down fast. Patagonia, for example (they also sell to the US military...). Timbuk2 is also decent. You can also judge the quality here by the material, Denier rating, and stitching.
• AliExpress "tactical" backpacks are pretty decent. The ones with lots of reviews. As a bonus they're great for on-the-ground actions because they blend in.
• Fjallraven sometimes has good stuff. Most items that use Cordura (any brand) will hold up pretty well.
• You can also thrift bags. I have found fantastic backpacks, $300 backpacks, for $30 at thrift stores.

Phones:

I've had good luck with phones. I shoot for well-reviewed phones in the $300-$400 range. There's also that guy that beats up phones to review their sturdiness. It can help you decide on which ones to avoid. OnePlus phones are usually a pretty good bet. If you want to run alternative ROMs there's a big incentive to get a Pixel of some kind.

Chargers: I just buy Anker exclusively. No problems like melting yet.

Many categories of manufactured goods are becoming higher quality and cheaper due to Chinese productive capacity. See if there are just-as-good Chinese niche products in a given category. The nice ones will often be more expensive than the cheapest Chinese items but still 1/5-1/3 as expensive as the Western name brans stuff they are competing with. For example, there are many backpacks by lesser known Chinese brands that are reportedly very high quality and are that much cheaper. They're very popular in East Asia and you can often find them on AliExpress if you search carefully.

Absolutely. The security council should be elected via some kind of stringent process, too. The US would strongarm France into doing their bidding otherwise.

How many kids are they keeping in their basement???

MY VINTAGE FEZ

The UN is a silly slapped-together institution. The inability to remove members from the security council is absurd on its face.

It will eventually break down entirely because of this.

There's a very special kind of "leftist" that appeals to their "anti-authoritarian" identity to justify being the biggest, most belligerent asshole possible, usually trying to impose their own will on others in the process.

Sorry you had to deal with one.

Yeah it sounds like the stress is mostly externally imposed by those assholes, or at least that's what your post implies. This is a good time to be supportive so stay the course!

This also includes being more open to any changes she wants to make in response. Even if you think they're dumb. Lots of "yes we can try that and I'll help but don't forget this isn't an issue for me I just want you to be happy".

Even the 2005 number is certainly bullshit. This was the middle of The Iraq War where the US was in the process of killing about a million people in Iraq alone. I'm sure the statistic is a "clever" accounting that refused to call the insurgency or US-killed civilians "state-based" or conveniently did not count those dying from the destruction of infrastructure and lack of necessities.

Liberals constantly lie.

Plus using that word makes it clear we're a bunch of nerds, i.e. accurate.

Not you! The person both-sidesing from the link!

No it's CCC vs CCC.

Chinese China of China vs. Chinese China China. The former is the correct one.

Jokes aside CPC is a dog whistle for cool people and CCP is a sign that someone is a big ol' lib. I don't correct people because the big ol' libs don't need to learn this, they should get radicalized first.

Coward

Why?

This is 97% of people in the US, for sure. American political education is a Red vs. Blue team sport.

It's kind of nice when people that are up their own asses identify themselves by their pretentious, unclear writing style.