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- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 2 weeks ago:
I suppose this makes sense, since 3rd party delivery opened up delivery options that couldn’t/wouldn’t provide delivery on their own—because before you could get anything delivered, it didn’t seem like a realistic or necessary service line. Now that we’ve seen how quickly 3rd party goes to shit and how important delivery actually is, the dream would be for some restaurant chain to evolve its own delivery service and use their size to gain traction, somehow slowing down the 3rd parties enough to allow smaller restaurants to slide in with their own private or cooperative delivery. And a dream it shall remain…
- Comment on How do I drink more water? 4 weeks ago:
This is a great start. You can even fill a glass before bed so it’s waiting on your nightstand when you open your eyes, like sizzling bacon on a bedroom Foreman grill.
(This should be fine as long as you’re not immunocompromised, in which case you may need to stick to temperature-controlled water.)
- Comment on Future 4 weeks ago:
You’re right, but also, why did someone use AI to make this image look worse??
The original is included in this article: tomshardware.com/…/your-washing-machine-could-be-…
- Comment on You okay babe? 4 weeks ago:
Looking closer at the plant and random background object (door? cabinet? bulletin board?) it seems you’re probably right, well spotted :(
- Comment on You okay babe? 4 weeks ago:
That’s the line they feed us, for sure. But if you ever actually added up federal income tax, state income tax, state and local sales tax, Social Security tax, property tax and assorted taxes for any instance in which you might come into additional money (capital gains, interest, prize winnings, inheritance, etc. etc. etc.) most Americans would probably be shocked to learn what real percentage of our income we actually pay to the government.
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 4 weeks ago:
I wonder what that kind of quick response from Uber ends up costing restaurants and drivers in the long run. There are fraudulent claims to consider, but even when real mistakes are made, Uber has no way of knowing whether the order was complete when it was picked up. Probably makes it hard for restaurants to troubleshoot if there’s been a real error, because they don’t know that driver, so they can assume the driver is at fault and move on. I wonder jf Uber takes the refund out of its own slice or punishes both the restaurant and the driver?
(This is in no way about you and your refund, I’m just interested in how the policy ultimately affects quality in restaurant delivery.)
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t that because of customers choosing to rely on third party apps instead of taking advantage of local delivery? This seems like it requires a conscious resistance on our part. If everyone keeps doordashing everything, local restaurants have no choice but to get on board, fire their drivers, and let us pay more for app delivery via underpaid gig workers.
- Comment on I don't need any job 4 weeks ago:
1947 was a long time ago, so I think they consider themselves Pakistani.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 5 weeks ago:
And the “conservatives” are liberal as hell. The only thing they “conserve” is value for the ultra rich and some cherry-picked Biblical social order. Restrictions on capitalism? Let freedom ring.
- Comment on Anyone know where I can buy or get books by the pound to start a new library for our local jail. To help them read and prep them for a GED? 2 months ago:
Where I live, the libraries have regular sales, but then also the whole library system together will have semiannual book sales at the civic center. Everything is cheap to begin with but then on the last day, you can fill a box for $10 or $20—and the box can be as big as you like, as long as you can get it out of the building. They really need to get rid of the books. You should check with your library and see how they get rid of their culled books.
- Comment on Haha yes society is great 2 months ago:
Yup but they aren’t profitable so we can’t have them
- Comment on Bean virus 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’ve heard people have to resort to some crazy stuff once porn stops working for them
- Comment on Bean virus 2 months ago:
Looks like Brer Rabbit really hates beans you guys
- Comment on Paid for by...boobs? 2 months ago:
Right? The question mark in the post caption implies a mystery. Which is itself a mystery.
However, in reading the comments for clues to the caption, I misinterpreted your feet comment as an attempt to justify how this driver could possibly have profited from only fans. “I can’t possibly operate on this patient he’s my son” vibes. But now I don’t think that’s what you meant, you were maybe just drily reminding everyone that there are also feet.
- Comment on end times are here 2 months ago:
Looks like 15 hours ago :(
- Comment on Did We? 2 months ago:
That watermark needs font help…looks too much like Captain Kink
- Comment on Paid for by...boobs? 2 months ago:
OHHH, is that why this is mysterious? Because people are assuming truck = dude? Which it certainly could be…but seems less likely
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 months ago:
Upon closer reading, I think the key was imagining what you’d do with a future partner. No one imagines how much nothing they’re really gonna do nowhere
- Comment on What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company? 2 months ago:
With media and the public discourse in the state they’re in today, this would surely be impossible to enforce. Every viewpoint can be argued to have infinite counter viewpoints and people treat it like a sport. Maybe the people of 1949 were naive enough to reckon there were two sides to every argument, but implementing this today would be akin to outlawing any kind of controversial statement or discussion in the media. Perhaps the end of politics as we kn…
Ok I’m starting to come around
- Comment on Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory? 2 months ago:
To be fair, the context in which they invoked the case assumed we’d all remember those details already.
- Comment on Do smoke detectors have little speakers inside them? If yes, would it be possible to hack them to play a little jingle? 2 months ago:
Beeps don’t usually come from a speaker, no. You might find this old ELI5 about electronic sound interesting.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
And music by Ben Folds
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 2 months ago:
I wonder where this idea originates. As an American, I genuinely don’t know of any restaurant that serves any of this (although I suppose you could special order “plain” things most anywhere in the world). I can’t begin to guess what people eat in the privacy of their own kitchens, but no one I know serves themselves these foods, either. I will say I’ve heard the same lore of “deep fried butter” existing at Midwestern fairs somewhere, but again, I’ve never encountered such a thing irl.
- Comment on Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house? 2 months ago:
There’s a lot of wisdom here. OP may appreciate it even more after they’ve dug themselves out, because this mindset will allow them to keep from letting it get so bad again…if they can teach it to their mom.
- Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer? 2 months ago:
It sounds like a way of raising the price while incentivizing cash payment (because maybe just maybe they aren’t claiming all their cash sales)
- Comment on A succulent meal 2 months ago:
Thank you for this info. I wouldn’t have thought to look into such a thing. It reads to me like it was created by marketers, though, not politicians. It says “the Cheese Bureau, a marketing body affiliated with the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency” created it in the '50s.
- Comment on A succulent meal 2 months ago:
I agree, but since some chickens are small and some people are big, I figured I’d err on the side on the minimum. It sure as shit ain’t one guy, we agree on that!
- Comment on A succulent meal 2 months ago:
A good meal for two, but a good meal nonetheless
- Comment on A succulent meal 2 months ago:
Is that a pickle or some pickle?
- Comment on How are locks and keys mass produced? 3 months ago:
When you buy keyed doorknobs and deadbolts, there’s sometimes (always?—not sure, but def sometimes) a sticker on each package with a code. This lets you look through the available inventory to find and buy additional locks with the same code so that if you need multiple locks for the same house, they can all use the same key.
So no, as others have said, mass produced locks aren’t unique, but sometimes that’s a benefit.