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Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it (apnews.com)
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[–] 14 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Cuba has developed a rich, mature DIY culture after several generations of trade isolation by the US and the collapse of the USSR. With a very limited inflow of tech goods, they basically don't throw away anything. People cobble together all kinds of machines from pieces of other machines, The maker culture is much more than a hobby, it's the predominent way of thinking.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    As ... immensely ironic and basically ideologically cruel as it is, we should absolutely emulate this attitude, learn from them.

    They get starved and blockaded, we get flooded with hypereffective digital marketing, insane overproduction of single use garbage, horrendously overpriced cars full of more factory defects than a t34 from 1942, that is half illegal to repair on your own ... while almost no one makes anything built to last any more.

    Again, very ironic, but this actually results in a very similar situation for most normal people, at least once all the credit cards stop working.

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