You joke, but this is actually how it works in places. As recently as 2015 we paid some % of all storage media sales (think HDDs, nvmes, flash drives, anything that can hold data really) to our RIAA equivalent to ”compensate for private copying”. Now it’s no longer baked into the prices, but they are paid directly by the government, as in through taxation.

Boy is this a take and a half. So instead of asking a price they think is fair, they should ask more, and arbitrarily reduce that on occasion to manipulate you into buying the product through FOMO, and that’s consumer friendly?

…literally all of those are just things you do if you’re participating in society. And I say this with a literal top 1% salary. I’m sorry, but if that reflects the values of your husband, he kinda sucks.

Now with the moral grandstanding out of the way, to answer your question: once I’ve worn holes holes through a pair of jeans, I cut them up for the fabric which I use to patch/fix other pairs of jeans. I then use those patched clothes for things like yard and renovation work.

It’s because the other cats might actually be a threat, whereas the furless elongated ones are just terribly incompetent.

It makes sense once you consider that these numbers are the manufacturers self reporting. That means they aren’t comparable, so drawing conclusions like ”manufacturer X has better batteries than manufacturer Y” from these numbers is silly.

What makes you say Sony is the least bad? Don’t those things run a Google software stack?

Yeah, if OP thought the movie was heavy on the “good job being a teenager in the 80s!” content, they should steer well clear of the book.