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  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldForbidden Tech
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    9 days ago

    I have a 50’ (15.25 m) extension electrical cord on a wind-up reel. It has a separate 10’ (3m) cord from the reel hub, to plug into the wall outlet.

    All I want is a way to plug it into the wall and be able to unreel it as I work, without that 10’ section getting all twisted. Kind of like a phone cord detangler (pic below), or the brake cable detangler/gyro on BMX stunt bikes.

    I was trying to think of a way to make one but apparently it’s a “dangerous fire hazard” or whatever.






  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldOof
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    18 days ago

    Perpetuating the myth that student loan forgiveness means “your taxes are paying off student loans,” when it really means “government is telling banks to fuck off with their excessive interest rates on student loans.”

    Tax money isn’t going to the banks* or the students. The students have usually paid off the loans, and are now struggling with the interest debt. The gov’t telling the bank to give up on that debt isn’t hurting anyone, but the bank doesn’t get as much profit as they could have - and since the banks own the senators & media outlets, we get the myth that student loan forgiveness means “taxes paying off student loans.”

    *note - I think some deals do include the gov’t giving the banks some money to “cover their (imaginary) losses.”