ramble81
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- Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer? 2 days ago:
Even worse. We have what’s called MSRP (Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price) and the “Suggested” part does a lot of heavy lifting. Two crazy examples
- Car dealers will add a “dealer markup” sometimes in the tens of thousands range above MSRP if a car is in demand
- Nintendo actually threatened to pull their products from Amazon (I think) because they dared to go under the suggested price (more like mandatory)
Basically it’s a free for all where the consumer is saddled with trying to find the best deal, if there is one.
- Submitted 2 days ago to [deleted] | 53 comments
- Comment on Australia investigating Carnival luxury cruise line following allegations workers live in overcrowded conditions with no water, earning as little as $2.50 an hour. 1 week ago:
Fair, but the ship in question was the Carnival Encounter.
- Comment on Australia investigating Carnival luxury cruise line following allegations workers live in overcrowded conditions with no water, earning as little as $2.50 an hour. 1 week ago:
Carnival…. luxury? I have never seen those two words so close together in any sentence. Carnival is one step up from Margaritaville at Sea.
- Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 26 comments
- Comment on Recently got a place with my boyfriend and he thinks this is perfectly fine 1 week ago:
Omg. Thats my SO. I can use like two squares at a time, unless it’s a big shit, but i swear she uses half a roll every time she take a piss.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Speed running. It’s an entirely different type of fun for some people.
- Comment on I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore (video) (enshittification of computer repair) 3 weeks ago:
Actually I pulled out the exact same product I have sitting here on my desk as I was debating selling it and wondering what the price was. I wasn’t trying to do a full market analysis.
- Comment on Cmon now :( 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know which is worse. The joke, or the fact i groaned because I actually understood it.
- Comment on I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore (video) (enshittification of computer repair) 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore (video) (enshittification of computer repair) 3 weeks ago:
DDR4 has gone up almost 100% since October. Since there are still plenty of boards that use DDR4, when DDR5 got pinched, everyone rushed to shore up their exiting DDR4 systems. Also as another poster said there are still new boards being sold with DDR4 support. It’s cascading.
- Comment on Braum Stoker's Dracula remake 4 weeks ago:
Diabeetus….
- Comment on Heave-ho! 4 weeks ago:
Are cup sizes the same in all countries? I know in the US the number is the band size and the cup is supposed to be inches difference between the chest and the breast. But how does that work for metric countries?
- Comment on Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there 5 weeks ago:
Didn’t they literally make a game about bullying, also is there a game (by another studio) about “going postal”.
I even saw a game trying to recreate the JFK headshot, but this is something they frown upon?
- Comment on Signs that your platform (Nextdoor) has turned to trash 5 weeks ago:
I stopped using it when all that happened is people were complaining about one of two things “omg, these fireworks are causing little muffy to freak out!” (Usually on the 4th of July or New Years) and “can you tell me who this stranger is walking down the public sidewalk. He even has…. a backpack!”
- Comment on Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life 5 weeks ago:
That’s still a pretty big win. It means the interoperability and control via external means is preserved. It can be localized as well and prevents it from becoming e-waste as quickly.
I wish more devices would do that EOL. I don’t need to know how it works internally, but as long as I can still use it when it’s cloud based service shuts down is amazing.
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 5 weeks ago:
“Go work in the fields… we deported everyone there already”
- Comment on Who's coming? 5 weeks ago:
I mean if it’s getting that hot, just go at night when it’s cooler out. That’s also the best way to get to the sun and not burn up.
- Comment on Greedy bastards 5 weeks ago:
A Datacenter is what enables Lemmy to exist, so don’t feel bad. I guarantee most instances are hosted on VPS or Cloud providers which run in…. Datacenter’s. Not everyone can afford a fat pipe with a public IP at home.
- Comment on Garlic sauce 1 month ago:
Ah yes, the “I don’t get paid enough to care” special.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 month ago:
Depends on how…. intimate you want to get.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 month ago:
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 month ago:
One thing I’ve always said is the US is so arrogant because it’s extremely isolated geographically and has never had a direct large scale war on its infrastructure or land in the past 150 years.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 month ago:
Logically that makes sense for an elongated timeline, but that also assumes the US doesn’t ramp up their actions, which sadly seems to be the case. So the question is “what then?”
- Submitted 1 month ago to [deleted] | 491 comments
- Comment on Off the Rails 1 month ago:
I’m gonna regret this… so tell me about their testicles? Size of basketballs or something?
- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege ravaged by massive server breach that gave its players billions of paid currency for free 1 month ago:
So screw it and do the roll back and just lose some transactions. You’re gonna have people pissed off at you no matter what.
- Comment on Amazon Workers at DJT6 Facility in Riverside Join Teamsters 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’m really curious about the naming. Most places use nearby airport codes, of which I can’t find any matching codes nearby. Also they usually start numbering from 1 and I can’t find any facilities numbered 1-5. Does anyone have more information on the naming as this looks really weird.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 2 months ago:
Early 40s and 20/20. I’m guessing you’re pretty young.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Patch 1.5.0 Notes! 2 months ago:
Glad I only started playing a couple weeks ago!
