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those bands were super popular in the UK too for the longest time. all for a good cause, of course, but i just don't want to wear (yet another) one to track basic fitness metrics. at the moment the only fitness data i track is the stuff my iphone captures from my pocket. i don't want to wear a watch or bracelet all day for the advanced shit. it's too much. a signet ring, maybe.

Seiko Presage is a great watch. Good time pieces at reasoble prices. Its the first watch it bought myself and helped get me into horology.

Im coming around after years of loathing the look, use, and feeling of smartwatches. I'd like a GPS I can take on longer hikes/backpacking trips and to use for yardage during golf rounds, but im struggling to justify the use cases vs. the price point for most smartwatches.

I bought my gf the Apple Watch S10 for Christmas. She loves it.

Bought a new sight rib for my revolver, in steel instead of aluminium and with a rail for an optical sight.



I'm going to track the delivery and keep you updated.
So far:


Really hoping it doesn't do 200 circuits of the Bermuda triangle before returning to Southern Canada/Northern Mexico - whatever its called now.

because, of course, nothing says Globally Concerned Citizen like having a widget shipped 15,000km around the world.

aren't you a CAD engineer? shouldn't you be 3D printing this stuff using locally sourced resin or some nonsense by now.

it bothers me that your map is in miles, dilbert.

in your defense, it's probably not as if this thing is traveling alone in the back of someone's f150 (for very far, at least). if it were, i'd expect the driver to stop and take its picture at various american landmarks they come across.

i mean, yeah, backpacking isn’t an advert for an eco-friendly lifestyle. if that’s your bargain then may i suggest shutting the fuck up about your eco credentials?

my point is you are anal and pedantic and score points over everyone else's lifestyle choices, no matter how minor they are in the grand scheme of things, and yet deny yourself nothing, really, when it involves your own hobbies and pursuits in this globalised, climate-changing system of supply and demand and next-day distribution. how very curious! episode #751 in dilbert the not-adult's series of 'everyone else is wrong and stupid and i am always right'.

you cozen yourself with the delusion that you're making great sacrifices but don't think twice when you actually want something. if other people have more hobbies and pursuits or a marginally bigger footprint, you like to lord over them. but really what it comes down to is the fact that you don't have much of a life, hence a smaller footprint almost by default than an outgoing person. you're a very convenient climate ascetic. the degrowth miser. not the most principled sort of commitment, is it?

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who is this 'eco-warrior tourist' you speak of, and why do they amble so like a straw man?

you're the one continually trying to make a point and show of your eco credentials. not only that, but in any discussion on the matter, you're the one who continually stresses the consumer side of the equation, putting the emphasis on individuals and their own decisions (or rather hypocrisy), focusing on lifestyle and purchases to an excessive degree. that's been your repeated habit.

‘Consumption produces production,’ as Marx wrote. ‘Consumption furnishes the impulse to produce and also provides the object which acts as the determining purpose of production.’

and yet you partake in the same conveniences and consume just as freely as anyone else when it's actually in your interests. how curious.

Last edited by uziq (2025-02-05 05:14:51)

Dilbert_X wrote:

Bought a new watch. I think its this one


The $150 watches were a bit clunky and not really the style I wanted, the $240 watches are 'ecodrive' ie solar powered and should never need a battery.

This is the normal lifecycle of my watches - assuming they don't just get smashed.

Run ok 2-3 years
Battery replaced, runs six months.
Battery replaced again, craps out quite soon or something else fails - this time I couldn't adjust the time for daylight saving.

After I'd paid for it and the girl had gone off to adjust the strap I noticed another display thing hidden away with cheaper watches which would probably have done the job.
It would have been a bit mean to reverse everything at that point, and I was completely peopled out having picked up a new pair of glasses earlier so I said nothing and took the watch.

Now the waiting game begins

Will it crap out

Will it get smashed

Watch has made it to 10 months, quite badly scratched now - that'll teach it to not be scratch-resistant I guess.