Ignoring gas cans. Companies can't shown a continuously growing profit to their shareholders if the consumer is not buying a new fridge, stove, washer every 5 years.thenmore plastic and circuitry and less mechanical parts something has the more likely it is to break. Many items are no longer built with parts that can be replaced only the whole item can be replaced for example sewing machines. We have an old steel heavy singer machine. Something broke, took it to a repair shop and bought a $20 part and it's working fine.
Have another machine 2 years oldC something broke and the repair shop said it's a plastic part and no replacement exists as it's connected to other plastic pieces and the whole machine needs to be replaced.

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Anonymous wrote:I'll concede the point re: gasoline cans, but otherwise that article was completely asinine.

Honestly, if you can't figure out how to use the new gas cans, you should not be allowed near a lawnmower, or any sharp blade. They are not that complicated.

No, they’re absurdly OVERcomplicated. Nozzles. Vent tubes. O-rings. Springs. Valves. And even when used properly, they still spill gas all over the place. Until they get broken, which happens about the fourth or fifth time you use them. Then you end up taking the spout off altogether and using a big funnel instead. Then you buy a retrofit kit off Amazon, and convert the gas can back to the vented style from the 80’s that never spilled any gas when you poured it.

The nozzles were designed that way because of a govt mandate to capture vapors during pouring gas. But spilling gas, which they invariably always do, releases far more vapor than the nozzle would’ve recovered if it were working properly. Which they almost always fail to do.

^^^. Damn autocorrect. Not gulf, gulf, gulf. Glug, glug, glug!

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Anonymous wrote:I'll concede the point re: gasoline cans, but otherwise that article was completely asinine.

Honestly, if you can't figure out how to use the new gas cans, you should not be allowed near a lawnmower, or any sharp blade. They are not that complicated.

It’s not that they’re complicated; it’s that they’re designed not to vent! That’s why everyone drills a hole in the back of the handle. As is, they pour like turning a milk jug upside down - gulf, gulf, gulf, whoosh! Gas everywhere. C’mon, go ask your gardener to show you.

This is a really good piece explaining why appliances don’t last now. I think he misses a few points, though: 1) American demand for ever cheaper products which creates a race to he bottom (see all the crap in Amazon); 2) changes in the steel market leading to the use of lower quality steel and plastic components instead of steel; and 3) globalization combined the rise of the extraordinarily cheap labor market in other areas of the world, which makes it really cheap to just make more and more...which wasn’t feasible when stuff was made by unionized American workers paid a fair wage.

https://recraigslist.com/2015/10/they-used-to-last-50-years/

My new dishwasher is awesome! My dishes get so clean. I think most people don’t read manuals when they buy things, and don’t realize that they need to use them differently. I have never had any issues with my frontload dealing washer either.

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Anonymous wrote:Cars these days are safer, faster, more comfortable, more fuel-efficient, and more reliable.

OP is a clown who should provide more intelligent analysis than just linking to an article on a "Trump rules Libtards drool" blog with a faux-reputable name like "Issues and Insights".

My 1984 Honda Crx was rated at 52 MPG, non hybrid, just a regular old car. I drove it to 285000 miles with noting more than gas and oil changes.

We have come a long way in 35 years......

What did it get?

I have a 2005 hybrid. When they phased in the 10% ethanol, my fuel economy dropped 10%. What does ethanol actually do?

Transfer money to big agriculture?

Anonymous wrote:I'll concede the point re: gasoline cans, but otherwise that article was completely asinine.

Honestly, if you can't figure out how to use the new gas cans, you should not be allowed near a lawnmower, or any sharp blade. They are not that complicated.

I'll concede the point re: gasoline cans, but otherwise that article was completely asinine.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cars these days are safer, faster, more comfortable, more fuel-efficient, and more reliable.

OP is a clown who should provide more intelligent analysis than just linking to an article on a "Trump rules Libtards drool" blog with a faux-reputable name like "Issues and Insights".

Didn’t read the article and have no political angle, but household appliances now have about 1/2 the useful life of their predecessors. I have replaced several 20+ year old appliances whose replacements barely make it 10.

That's not because of bureaucrats. The opposite. It's because of capitalists.

And we all know how superior Soviet-era appliances and cars were, lolz!!!

Nice try.

Dissimilar causes of similar outcomes.

Gas cans are almost impossible to use now, I discovered recently.

Actually our electric bill surprisingly went down substantially this year after we bought a new refrigerator to replace the very old failing one that came with the house. We're just saying today that we were glad we got it before they succeed in repealing all regulations, after we looked at our much improved bill!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cars these days are safer, faster, more comfortable, more fuel-efficient, and more reliable.

OP is a clown who should provide more intelligent analysis than just linking to an article on a "Trump rules Libtards drool" blog with a faux-reputable name like "Issues and Insights".

Didn’t read the article and have no political angle, but household appliances now have about 1/2 the useful life of their predecessors. I have replaced several 20+ year old appliances whose replacements barely make it 10.

That's not because of bureaucrats. The opposite. It's because of capitalists.

And we all know how superior Soviet-era appliances and cars were, lolz!!!

Nice try.

Anonymous wrote:I can't speak to the other issues mentioned, but the gas can issue is a perfect illustration of government regulation run amok. Clearly none of you have ever had to fill the tank on your lawn mower or snow thrower. Anyone using today's cans is much more likely to spill fuel all over the place or resort to modifying the can in a number of ways to defeat the so-called improvements.

This is DCUM. Do you think most of them even know what a gas can is? The closest they get to gas cans are the ones in the bed of the pick up trucks driven by the illegal immigrants they hire for $5 an hour to do their landscaping work for them.

(And no tipping, of course)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cars these days are safer, faster, more comfortable, more fuel-efficient, and more reliable.

OP is a clown who should provide more intelligent analysis than just linking to an article on a "Trump rules Libtards drool" blog with a faux-reputable name like "Issues and Insights".

Didn’t read the article and have no political angle, but household appliances now have about 1/2 the useful life of their predecessors. I have replaced several 20+ year old appliances whose replacements barely make it 10.

That's not because of bureaucrats. The opposite. It's because of capitalists.

Aren’t they all in bed together? At a minimum the former enables the latter.