In 1959, Volvo invented the three point seat belt and released the patent to it for free, realising it would save millions of lives.
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@MarkHoltom I remember when Dyson "revolutionised" the washing machine, a design that broke down regularly & then quietly disappeared because they were an overly complex solution to a problem other manufacturers had worked out years ago.
Also Dyson's electric car that he promised to build in the UK, but then decided Singapore was a better option because it had cheaper labour, which he then binned because car building was hard.
@Bez_Lightyear @MarkHoltom it’s almost like he’s just a whiny, entitled fool… almost
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@MarkHoltom Dyson pays sweet FA in tax, but his massive profits are being used to buy up vast swaths of British farmland.
It was once said “buy land, they are not making it any more”.@MarkHoltom @IncHulk oh and he’s revolutioning farming with his superior brain. Colour me skeptical.
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@pattykimura Ask a professional what they'd recommend, and buy that. Pros aren't impressed with marketing, only with actual performance, which they evaluate every single day. They know what actually works and what's actually cost-effective.
@wesdym @pattykimura A professional vacuum cleaner? Who uses home appliances?
The problem with asking tradies/pros is that 90% of the time they use products that are way overkill for home use (a tradie carpenter won’t tell you to get Ryobi brushed, and yet they’re fine for 99% of the homeowners). The other 40% they’re using a brand because that’s what the person taught them was using. They swear it’s the best but have never used anything else.
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@CppGuy @MarkHoltom Good call. I bought a Henry because it's what I always see contract cleaners using. Apparently they're fairly repairable too, not that I've needed to.
Oh, and Dyson supported Brexit too. So he can get in the bin with Tim Martin.
@woe2you @CppGuy @MarkHoltom I'd love to get a Henry, but sadly they only make them in 240V, making them pretty useless in North America. If there's an equivalent out there that works on 120V, I'd love to know! (for future reference anyways, I don't need a new vacuum currently)
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@woe2you @CppGuy @MarkHoltom I'd love to get a Henry, but sadly they only make them in 240V, making them pretty useless in North America. If there's an equivalent out there that works on 120V, I'd love to know! (for future reference anyways, I don't need a new vacuum currently)
@Quinn9282 @CppGuy @MarkHoltom I heard a while back that Miele were also good from a repairs standpoint.
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In 1959, Volvo invented the three point seat belt and released the patent to it for free, realising it would save millions of lives.
In 2020 (Covid), James Dyson asked for a tax cut before he would even try to build a ventilator to save a life, then moved his business abroad to avoid tax. He didn't deliver a single ventilator.
Don’t buy a Dyson.
@MarkHoltom
We wish we had known this before we bought an expensive #Dyson vacuum that broke under routine use. -
In 1959, Volvo invented the three point seat belt and released the patent to it for free, realising it would save millions of lives.
In 2020 (Covid), James Dyson asked for a tax cut before he would even try to build a ventilator to save a life, then moved his business abroad to avoid tax. He didn't deliver a single ventilator.
Don’t buy a Dyson.
@MarkHoltom Thank you, I wasn’t aware of this. Looking in to it also exposed me to his positive opinion of brexit
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In 1959, Volvo invented the three point seat belt and released the patent to it for free, realising it would save millions of lives.
In 2020 (Covid), James Dyson asked for a tax cut before he would even try to build a ventilator to save a life, then moved his business abroad to avoid tax. He didn't deliver a single ventilator.
Don’t buy a Dyson.
I believe you can cite a parallel with the polio vaccine.
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@Quinn9282 @CppGuy @MarkHoltom I heard a while back that Miele were also good from a repairs standpoint.
@woe2you @Quinn9282 @CppGuy @MarkHoltom
Miele was, emphasis on past tense, truly excellent.
Recent years they produce dysfunctional overpriced crap. It was one of the few brands I really admired up until that point. My first Meile lasted 15 years, until it got ran over by a car (long story). The replacement 8 years ago never worked despite taking it in for service help 3 times in the first year but didn't fix the problem, until 6 years later when I was ready to trash it and went to ace hardware in a final act of desperation, where they and showed the design flaw causing all the problems. So now I can use it, so long as I dismantle it and home fix it after every use, sometimes multiple times per use. It is their top of the line model. Corporate ignored every request and warranty plea, even though the problem is the same from the start and I had records showing it was a constant issue. They make junk now, save your $. My meile now has about 10 hours of use racked up for it's 8 year old life, and I've spent about 40-50 hours trying to get it to work.
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In 1959, Volvo invented the three point seat belt and released the patent to it for free, realising it would save millions of lives.
In 2020 (Covid), James Dyson asked for a tax cut before he would even try to build a ventilator to save a life, then moved his business abroad to avoid tax. He didn't deliver a single ventilator.
Don’t buy a Dyson.
@MarkHoltom never have, never will
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@woe2you @Quinn9282 @CppGuy @MarkHoltom
Miele was, emphasis on past tense, truly excellent.
Recent years they produce dysfunctional overpriced crap. It was one of the few brands I really admired up until that point. My first Meile lasted 15 years, until it got ran over by a car (long story). The replacement 8 years ago never worked despite taking it in for service help 3 times in the first year but didn't fix the problem, until 6 years later when I was ready to trash it and went to ace hardware in a final act of desperation, where they and showed the design flaw causing all the problems. So now I can use it, so long as I dismantle it and home fix it after every use, sometimes multiple times per use. It is their top of the line model. Corporate ignored every request and warranty plea, even though the problem is the same from the start and I had records showing it was a constant issue. They make junk now, save your $. My meile now has about 10 hours of use racked up for it's 8 year old life, and I've spent about 40-50 hours trying to get it to work.
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In 1959, Volvo invented the three point seat belt and released the patent to it for free, realising it would save millions of lives.
In 2020 (Covid), James Dyson asked for a tax cut before he would even try to build a ventilator to save a life, then moved his business abroad to avoid tax. He didn't deliver a single ventilator.
Don’t buy a Dyson.
@MarkHoltom Dyson stuff is marketing BS anyway... Not good products.
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In 1959, Volvo invented the three point seat belt and released the patent to it for free, realising it would save millions of lives.
In 2020 (Covid), James Dyson asked for a tax cut before he would even try to build a ventilator to save a life, then moved his business abroad to avoid tax. He didn't deliver a single ventilator.
Don’t buy a Dyson.
@MarkHoltom he's such a dick.
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@woe2you @CppGuy @MarkHoltom The only example of something similar i can think of is when Charles Church bought the RAF's stockpile of spare parts for Spifires in the 1980, and managed to build a plane from them that was registered as a genuine, authentic, very late production aircraft rather than a replica, which tend yo use non-authentic parts.
But then, the Dpitfire had been out of production for 40 years, and even examples in really poor shape cost more than the parts.@stuartb @woe2you @CppGuy @MarkHoltom we tried to repair a Dyson ball vacuum in the US because it was at a flea market for like ten dollars. Fun project, thought I.
NOPE
after watching some YouTube repair guys the problems piled up - they make deliberately proprietary bits that are very hard to take apart without damaging, you need special tools (had to buy a set of weird screwdrivers specially) and it's not intuitively designed in any way.Would never ever get one new. Mainly because the guy sucks but so does a lot of the tech.
Ended up giving it away for someone else to get parts from.
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In 1959, Volvo invented the three point seat belt and released the patent to it for free, realising it would save millions of lives.
In 2020 (Covid), James Dyson asked for a tax cut before he would even try to build a ventilator to save a life, then moved his business abroad to avoid tax. He didn't deliver a single ventilator.
Don’t buy a Dyson.
@MarkHoltom Don't forget he and other Tory donors were given preferential treatment over companies that specialised in making ventilators and PPE, or ones that could swiftly switch to making them. He submitted a design that was potentially hazardous to patients and demanded it be pushed through without thorough testing.
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@MarkHoltom I wouldn't piss in dysons ear if his brain was on fire.
@capnthommo @MarkHoltom but you would in most other circumstances, right
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@capnthommo @MarkHoltom but you would in most other circumstances, right
@jackeric @MarkHoltom just for the hell of it because he really hates it? Yeah. In a heartbeat.
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In 1959, Volvo invented the three point seat belt and released the patent to it for free, realising it would save millions of lives.
In 2020 (Covid), James Dyson asked for a tax cut before he would even try to build a ventilator to save a life, then moved his business abroad to avoid tax. He didn't deliver a single ventilator.
Don’t buy a Dyson.
@MarkHoltom much well-deserved love for Henry vacuum cleaners in the replies but I'm quite pleased with this Hoover - cleans a lot of cat and rabbit hair out of the carpets, hasn't broken, unclips into a dozen different pieces when needed which also makes it easy to unclog. the narrow carpet/stairs attachment is pants though
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In 1959, Volvo invented the three point seat belt and released the patent to it for free, realising it would save millions of lives.
In 2020 (Covid), James Dyson asked for a tax cut before he would even try to build a ventilator to save a life, then moved his business abroad to avoid tax. He didn't deliver a single ventilator.
Don’t buy a Dyson.
@MarkHoltom Miele is much better at sucking!
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