Tiny plastic part that holds the handle to my fridge broke. Need a new 50 cent plastic part.

GE wants $200 to replace all 3 metal handle assemblies. Can’t just get the plastic part, it comes in a bundle with all 3 metal handles. Which would immediately go in the garbage.

If we can’t get them on the “intentionally gouging customers” angle, we can surely get them on the “creating excess waste” angle.

Most of the drugs they ban like cannabis are because of a UN convention that, under US pressure, forced them to, in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Wow there are way fewer “so what it’s the same as your smartphone” and “everyone does it, google, apple, it’s no big deal” comments on Lemmy.