I’m not sure if the effort to deceive your loved ones will be worth it. I’m not even sure if it’s worth the effort for casual acquaintances or co-workers.

As someone who hates human interaction, if an offered price isn’t good, I look for a different offer. I’m not gonna tell them why I disagree with their price. I’m not gonna make a counter offer. I’m gonna say “thanks but no thanks” and go somewhere else.

It is not because of that.

The approach is conspicuously over the top because the watchmaker is well past the point of diminished returns and has to resort to theatrics to pad the price of the product.

All sorts of old shit is worth something, if you find someone willing to pay for it. Unfortunately the opportunity cost of seeking out that someone willing to pay for it often exceeds the value of the thing you are seeking to sell.

We should train an AI using tiktok hashtags...

Counterpoint: Why bother? If your computer needs the resources, it will automagically swap memory and it will intelligently schedule processes to maximize work.

Eh, spending $1k on toys isn’t a big deal, assuming you can afford to spend $1k on toys.

I don’t really see why anyone should rejoice... They announce that they are going to have another limited run that scalpers will gobble up before anyone who actually hopes to unbox the unit gets a chance to click the buy button.

I would say yes. It’s not the best choice of words, but the meaning is understandable.

When trying to decide if a food is “Healthy”, I will often employ the “Lucky Charms test”. If a food has more sugar than a bowl of lucky charms, it’s prolly not food I should be eating.

Clover is great if you live in mild weather. It gets hot in the summer where I am and the clover pretty much dies once it gets hot.

Hitting the unsubscribe button on spam emails that come from “legitimate” mass mailing sites is a useful thing to do. Often times, they will survey you after unsubscribing and you can respond with “I never signed up for this” as an option. A sufficient volume of that kind of response can cause a mass mailing service…

If you got a diaper fetish...

The cards have value beyond their monetary value, but their inherent value is far less than their monetary value. The folks who would pay the “value” of the card have no interest in the utility of the card.

At what point does it make sense to replace a perfectly functional, yet antiquated dishwasher?

I just cook them skins on, then run em through the food mill.

All games should be made with a watermarked “REVIEW COPY, NOT FOR RESALE” version that gets distributed to all the review curators.

A good question to ask is how much does an equivalent non-folding tablet cost and how much does an equivalent non-folding phone cost.

Your TIL example isn’t very good. Generally, the statement following a TIL should be capable of being a standalone statement. You should be able to make sense of the statement if you exclude the TIL. In your circumstance, it would be “lots of reddit jargon thanks to lifehacker”, which doesn’t make sense. A better…