Most people instead buy pre-hung doors.

Bad example against reparation i.m.o. since when the hinge break they don’t buy a new door(whole), but swap the broken hinge(part) for a new one.
Good example in the case of DIY though, since the hassle may not be worth the time spent.

most components can’t be so easily replaced.

Every module in my computer, mouse, keyboard, screen, or, i.d.k., lamp torch, can be easily replaced with a screwdriver.
Even phones could be made easy to open. If you have a counter-example in mind to « unless when the part is difficult to access, which doesn’t seem to be an engineering necessity in most cases ? » written above, then i’m interested.

Even if you have access to spare parts, it takes a lot of time to repair something even as simple as a radio.

But opening it and swapping the spare part(, well, welding it back then,) took less than 5mns.
What took a long time was opening it without breaking anything since it was fragile, with parts glued together. Radios were more complex than nowadays.
And they didn’t stop at swapping the spare part apparently, but ran a full diagnostic because other parts aged as well and, e.g., a shorted transistor could overheat a transformer.
To me, it seems like asking for an individual to repair his watch himself by getting a spare part, these are the kind of situations that should be done by pros. But then even if it takes many hours we’re not talking about a 20€ product, so it’s usually worth it to repair instead of buying a new one(, which is why people repaired them instead of buying new ones).
Other examples could include houses or cars, which are repaired because buying new ones wouldn’t be worth it.

But the example of the radio still goes in my direction, because back then it was difficult to swap the spare parts and yet people still went through the trouble of repairing it.
How much more would it then be pertinent for objects that are thrown away while a pro could easily swap the spare part in 5mns(, or an individual do it h·er·im·self).
The problem i.m.o. is that there’s no repair·wo·man and no spare parts at a cheap price with close warehouses, so it’s not profitable/widespread.
You’re saying that most objects couldn’t have their parts easily swapped while i’m saying that most could(, at least we agree that some can&can’t)

Unless you can automate the entire repair process, increased automation will make us more likely to throw things away.

I also disagree that more human labor would be required to swap a part than to build the whole product 🤷
I even think that less human labor would be required to swap a part than to build it.
Many humans are involved with the production process, from mining to selling.
And if you were thinking in terms of advanced robots taking human jobs, then they’d eventually be able to do simple reparation as well(, and more&more complex over time).
(Edit : and if we could have said that «this automaton will create 150 circuit boards of this particular model every model, while the previous generation only made 50/h», we can also say that «this automaton will create 150 different kind of circuit board, while the previous generation could only create 50», if that’s part of the counter-argument)

And worse, automation makes it easier just to start from scratch.

Not easier to build the whole than the part

You can always take a broken device, throw it in a crucible with a mountain of other broken devices, and just melt the whole lot down.

Not really :)
But you could strip its parts yes, that’d be the most sensical option if you can’t repair it.

Sure, i’m optimistic(, but it’d make so much more sense than throwing away)

It’s always going to be easier to automate the production of goods than the repair of goods.

We can automate the production of spare parts.
And swapping a part for another is quick and can usually be done by the consumer(, or by a pro if it’s more complex).
Repairing a part is hard, but swapping it is usually easy, unless when the part is difficult to access which doesn’t seem to be an engineering necessity in most cases ?

I looked into buying a DIY kit for making a mouse recently in order to easily repair it(, and eventually improve/customize it i.d.k., at least understand it better), but there’s not much choice so i gave up and bought one at 30€.

you often find it is made of parts you can replace

But good luck to find these parts, they have a serial number but from my experience with a computer screen, the circuit board is really expensive and takes a long time to ship, so they told me to just buy a new screen(, it was only one of its ~4 circuit boards, and a small component of it furthemore, but everything was thrown out).
That’s probably why most objects are just thrown away and people don’t even attempt to repair them(, if it was cheaper that practice would probably be more widespread)

I have repaired my computer mouse recently

You opened it and found a spare part online for a cheap enough price ?
It must be a big(&unusual?) brand if they sell parts for their mouse online.

now they’re like over $200

I’d have to look at the specs to see if the difference with a $40 mouse is worth paying 5 times more 🤷

Wow

It also reminds me that it was apparently cheaper to destroy most of the military equipment when leaving Afghanistan than rapatriating it.

Industry and automation made production way more cost efficient

It should still be cheaper to build a new part(, and change that part,) than a new whole(, and buy that whole).

And i.d.k. if it’s the only reason for the low prices : it’s cheaper for westerners to buy from non-westerners(, including mines or actions), and conversely.
Repairing is done locally(, otherwise the transport would take too long), and ends up being more expensive than buying new products made externally.
Our productivity may be higher[1], even if we’re deindustrialized, but their minimum wage is way less than ours.
[1] : I.m.o., even more obviously when considering that we’re in the finance sector, we may reverse things when saying that a high productivity explains the difference in living standards : it’s the difference in living standards and GDP that inflates the productivity.
Since productivity∝GDP, then countries with a high GDP will have a high productivity.
And a country that increased its GDP(, e.g. through increasing its minimum wage perhaps,) would hence increase its productivity. Just an uninformed thought on my part, i.d.k. honestly.

If i keep the example of the computer mouse, it couldn’t cost 20€ if it was produced locally, if only because it takes much more than 2 cumulated hours to build one, at a minimum wage of 10€/h.
Conversely though, it’d mean that it’d be very expensive for a non-westerner to buy products made in the west, which is the case, but we can still manage to sell them because we have a monopoly on new technologies(, with e.g. Japan or South Korea, but then again their minimum wage is high as well so it’s the same remark), such as planes or softwares.

Who knows, 50 years ?

I don’t think we’ll continue like that, it can’t make sense for too long that buying a new one is cheaper than repairing an old one. I suppose.

I’d be curious to hear their explanation as to why the Tiktok “addictive” system of switching from one video to the other is more addictive than YT shorts who does the same(, or Instagram reels, switching videos on 𝕏 or Facebook, Vine back then, …).
For now, their arguments are : infinite scroll and push notifications(, present on every social media), autoplay, recommandations, …

This includes features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and its highly personalised recommender system.

Tiktok is being accused of using the same system as other social platforms, sure we believe that our arguments are more coherent, or everyone knows that they’re just lazy excuses, and nobody cares.
Yeah, it’s probably that we gave up on democracy, and nobody with power cares about Tiktok.

Also, our french president keeps repeating over and over the lie that using Tiktok leads you to salafist content after 3-4 videos, and no-one stops him.
I know for a fact that it’s false since almost half of my use of Tiktok was for islamist content(, ~50-100h over ~3 years), and i never once met salafist content(, there was Shahid Bolsen that was fiercely anti-imperialist, and he was pro-Sahel countries, that’s the worst i found, but i suppose that the trick is that extremism is relative ; i believe that the Quran should be interpreted in its historical context and show(ed) a path, but most literalists will be frowned upon by ‘most atheists’/‘any islamophobes’).
I do recognize that anti-imperialist[1], communist, and islamist content appears more often on Tiktok than YT Shorts, but i.m.o. it’s because Tiktok doesn’t censor as much as YT Shorts, and not because it promotes such content.
They probably already interfered in Google results, and intend to interfere in l.l.m. results as well, masks off right ?

He also said a few times that the chinese Tiktok is mostly focused on educative content while our Tiktok is focused on entertainment, but just hope that nobody will verify to see that there is everything on both platforms and it depends on the user choices.
It’s just like when they’re claiming that social media use will modify the shape of our brain. Now, they claim that violent games may make people violent(, despite the experiment of the last 30 years, it’s violent people that choose violent games, boomers). That’s quite certainly a throwaway issue put forward in order to make a concession later though.
I spent a lot of time as a teenager on loup.org and it helped in improving my writing&social skills, most americans had so many great experiences with Club Penguin that it still exists today, even if some pedophiles were indeed there, but let’s not throw the baby with the bathwater. Anyway, we just use this pretext as an excuse to regulate our internet.

They can just say what they want unchallenged, i’d like to see once a debate with someone knowledgeable really disagreeing with him.
And when they do have a contradictory debate, then they’ll just end up disagreeing after exchanging arguments for an hour(, sometimes less). Lock them together in a room for 1-2 days until they agree with each other. I’d like to see a debate ending with “can i invite you to discuss it further this evening at a table ?”, they have five years between each election and won’t spend most of their time talking with each other.
Or, if they’re truly so busy, then force them to exchange public letters(, with the help of assistants), so that they can have the time to think more deeply about ‘their own’&‘the opposite’ arguments.
It seems that they’ll instead decide something, advance a few valid arguments(, without any counter-arguments), and we just roll with it. At least, i don’t see a contradictory debate(, deputies aren’t really debating, and i don’t see how they could, so each one is just making a speech, and often have voting instructions by their party), which would be useless since we’re not deciding anyway, so continue like that…

[1] : I never said that it doesn’t mean being anti-France : one could have been against royalism when France was a kingdom, or slavery when it was allowed, would it have been being anti-France ? Now, some people are against imperialism/hegemony. There are (+) and (-) to most things, and that includes France who has, e.g., an interesting past.
By definition, you can’t evolve without diversity, both external as a species and internal as a (commune/)country(/federation).

Not worse than Italy or Spain : https://alternative-fuels-observatory.ec.europa.eu/interactive-map#1_eu_alternative_fuels_fleet

The BEV(, electric,) and PHEV(, Plug-in Hybrid,) are growing fast in Czechia as well : https://alternative-fuels-observatory.ec.europa.eu/transport-mode/road/czech-republic/vehicles-and-fleet
Market share of total registrations :

I haven’t found a comparison with petrol cars, but it’s the same percentage as in Italy for example(, and growing fast) : https://alternative-fuels-observatory.ec.europa.eu/transport-mode/road/italy/vehicles-and-fleet

Yeah, from the article the graph is from :

The figures show that registrations of battery EVs – sometimes referred to as BEVs, or “pure EVs” – reached 217,898, up 51 per cent year-on-year from December 2024, as shown in the chart below.
Meanwhile, sales of standard petrol cars in the bloc fell 19 per cent year-on-year, from 267,834 in December 2024 to 216,492 in December 2025.

From this graph below, it was already the case before for Hybrid+Electric vs. Petrol+Diesel, but the grap of the post was BEV vs. Petrol : https://www.acea.auto/figure/fuel-types-of-new-passenger-cars-in-eu

But of course, if we’re considering the total cars currently in circulation, then it’s less optimistic(, for now) : https://www.acea.auto/publication/report-vehicles-on-european-roads-2026

In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner

Not sure if you want an answer, but :
If we were on lemmygrad or hexbear it’d be the opposite ? That’s one thing that’s great with Lemmy, there’s no sitewide “moderation” like reddit(, until state censorship laws start invading our internet, which shouldn’t take much longer now, as always in the name of safety).
The members of feddit.org should decide the future of feddit.org, and the members of lemmygrad should do the same.
Similarly for Lviv, Transnistria, Crimea, the Donbass, Kiev, Odessa, Transcarpathia, …

(sry if you didn’t need an answer, i like that you’re against wars and this opposition is a good compass. We(sterners) got as much as we could from the eastern side of the Iron Curtain, and didn’t spare our efforts to get Ukraine as well, i can’t help but see the ukrainian bourgeoisie at work there as well as here, they won’t bite the hand that fed them. Russia fell low, but is raising fast and the “neutral” ukrainians that aren’t in/against either side kinda forgot about China, their news could be full of its amazing progress, it’d give hope, there’s a glorious future for Russia ahead and they could be part of it, in the name of the past. It’d be a loss for the little european union though, who lost its colonies and don’t want to expand in ‘islamic territories’/‘the sole other direction available to them’.)

Or the pro-Europe can emigrate there, and what if they love their lands ? Refusing to allow a referendum(, or to recognize the previous ones,) is the side you’re ending up defending then. Ideally, that’d be a more peaceful(&democratic) way of resolving such problems. I can’t blame Ukraine for choosing power over justice, that’s what most countries do(, exception, or not).
Some ukrainians have chosen Russia, others Europe, so be it.

Well, ideally, instead of having to choose between the european union and the russian federation, we’d all be united in diversity, in city-states with very different laws, and without ever having to fear for our safety(, which is always the n°1 reason we(sterners)&others invoke to be agressive).

I don’t want to annoy you or anyone here, but it wouldn’t be polite to leave your comment unanswered, even if i’m wary of the moderators’ dis-information/censorship.

if South Tyrol wanted back to Austria, and Italy ignored that, it wouldn’t be reasonable for Austria to invade Italy

So what would be reasonable to do in order to respect the will of South Tyrol ?

That’s the problem with Russian “politics”. If it’s not going their way, they will force it through.

Russia waited eight years, to the point that a (relatively )common criticism heard in the Donbass in 2022(, confirmed in Patrick Lancaster interviews on the ground,) was to ask why Russia waited that long before helping them.
How many more years should they have waited according to you ?

Ukraine was improving its military during these eight years, and got closer with the e.u. and n.a.t.o., would it really be wise to give them more time to prepare ?

Petro Poroshenko was the worst president that Ukraine ever had(, even worse than Yuschenko), he did everything he could to escalate the situation, except an invasion because Russia was very clear of its reaction : he forbade them to vote, imposed an economic blockade, banned the russian language and russian medias(, as well as old russian books), and i could extend the list if it’s not long enough for you.

Vice did many good videos if you’re interested, even if they were bought back in 2023 by Soros&others.
Worth noting that, in 2022, the inhabitants of the Donbass fought the pro-european ukrainian army from the east, while Russia invaded from Belarus and fought the ukrainians from the west : both were fighting for the Donbass liberation.

If you know what Russia should have done i’m interested.
You probably know that they gave the Donbass and Crimea less than a century ago, and now they took them back according to the will of the local population because Lviv and other pro-european parts of Ukraine decided to work with them against Russia.

Things would have gone differently if Russia’s population wasn’t concentrated on its western side, or if the 2014 western-backed coup had failed. We(sterners) did everything we could to bring Ukraine on our side, partly to improve our power, and partly to contain/weaken the Russian Federation, that still dares to support countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea, Yugoslavia, Irak, Syria, Lybia, …, despite the 1991 disaster(, that made Ukraine join those responsible for that disaster).

The Russian Federation will take the part of Ukraine that wanted to join them for decades(, like Transcarpathia voted for autonomy since 1991 but wasn’t ever heard) ; while the European Union will also take the part of Ukraine that wants to join them.

I don’t see that as unjust, but Odessa and Transnistria remain “problems” to be solved, what do they want : autonomy, Europe, Russia ?

Edit : Oh. You didn’t know that Crimea and the Donbass voted for decades to join the Russian Federation ? That’s what happens when you only read western medias.
Now we’ll make a point of refusing Ukraine’s demilitarization, in order to prepare its revenge, because that’s a lot of lost territory and they won’t accept it, it’ll be a permanent risk, a thorn in Russia’s side, we’ll see.