Post #2163915

2026-05-06 14:44 UTC

@number6 Judging by that image that is *not* a high price point item. There's an entire ARM computer in most disposable vapes that have displays and people go through multiple of those a month. However bad you think the plan is, it's worse. Used to work for the semiconductor industry and live in the US so I'm just surprised I didn't see this sooner.

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@somebody@tech.lgbt 2026-05-06 14:47

@number6 When it comes down to the normal things we do every day also, it should be stressed that the supply lines are the superstructural cause of the excess, and individual shame hasn't been shown to make any serious dent in the problem. What really changes those things is when hard subsidies change the game, as it is in countries that have taken away subsidies for fossil fuels and put that money toward solar farm production and so on, and the same can of course be done in any other industry where we want to change what's actually made and therefore what is actually used every day.

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@number6@fosstodon.org 2026-05-06 17:54

@somebody The one they sell on Amazon runs $60 for 10. So $6 a pop. To me, that is not cheap. But in a world in which people spend $8/month to have a checkmark next to their name on Xitter, maybe others see it differently. In any event, the planet isn't being destroyed because a few people use disposable batteries.

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