That’s very funny.

From context clues it seems like they were hosted on Lemmy which is why they are now limiting image hosting.

Pretty sure it should be “valuation”

If I’m low on hot air I’ll just invite [local politician] on the balloon! Oh ho ho ho

Personally I had way too many quality issues at that price range. An earbud would be randomly quieter than the other, the battery of an earbud would die, the Bluetooth would suck, or they would be unusable for phone calls. I bought refurbished $100-something headphones for $70 and haven’t needed to buy any more since.

If you ever tried to burn way too many songs to a CD and got frustrated that it didn’t work… it’s time to stretch your back.

There’s a famous example of the poverty trap that uses boots that fall apart every season vs quality boots that last, and I think there is a quality level that is so bad it’s more expensive in the long run. So I do buy shoes that cost money. But I’m not buying fashion shoes or luxury brand shoes which I think is what you’re saying too.

Making fun of the people who didn’t like the political statement is fine, and there were plenty of high profile people to dunk on for that, but this is literally some rando this person searched up, the original tweet had basically no interactions. This could even be satire for all we know.

Effectively, if not possibly literally, nobody really said this.

This comment did not go where I thought it was going but very interesting. You’re clearly making the right call for your personal finances.

I assumed you were going to say something about like expensive composting equipment or aluminum straws.

That ‘immigration is bad’ would actually be the vastly more common incorrect belief.

I asked for a switch and all I got was a vers.

I just realized recently that I’m back up within 20lbs of where I was in the “oh my God things have to change” weight.

Sue or shut up about it. You think Zuck’s gonna take down his booming new app from this?