> looking for a new capacitor
> ask the mouser website if their caps are SMD or wet
> it doesn't understand
> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is SMD and what is wet
> it laughs and says "it's a good capacitor sir"
> buy a capacitor 
> its wet

it's kinda fucked up that there's no good way to get one (1) of a passive electronic component anymore. like I can't show up to my local electronics store and get one 150uF cap, which is what I need, instead I need to get it from a website which will dispatch a delivery to me for one (1) capacitor which is incredibly wasteful

the cool thing about capitalism, the thing that absolutely rocks, is that there isn't a single place in the entire country, if not the world, where it's possible to warehouse things that someone might need, but not very often

i used to work at a place that did literally this. we were the only store where you could buy An Capacitor. most of our customers did not do that, they were there for replacement AC adapters and panel switches that had broken and other very normal, reactive-type needs, but half our store was components and the people who benefited from them were incredibly grateful

in order to stay open we had to make over a thousand dollars a day in sales, and that was for a tiny shop in the ass end of a suburb of a nothing town.

it is not possible to own a little building that sits closed until someone needs something. it simply costs too fucking much, unless you're located in a place that makes it not worth the trip (what's the difference between UPS driving 40 miles to deliver a single capacitor versus doing it yourself?)

landlords would rather have worthless, decrepit buildings sit empty for ten years than let someone use them for only what they actually need instead of inventing a "business." every function of every structure in the entire world has to be "make profit" and i want everyone who likes this shot.

i want everyone who likes this shot. the people who think this is good, that having to make everything a business is somehow an incentive or whatever the fuck. i want them all fucking dead, immediately, no ceremony, just shot into space and forgotten forever. an error in the human condition.

i have less beef with people who can't see a way around it in the reasonably foreseeable future. i get it, shit sucks, the world sucks, reality sucks, but liking it is stockholm syndrome at best and "buddying up to gul dukat to get favors" at worst, and mostly it's the latter. if you think profit is necessary i pity you just as much as the rest of us, but if you think it's great i hope you die slowly and in great pain. john s. hall take em out