Honestly, i’ve commented on this same topic before. I’m not sticking up for Amazon, but we all seem to have blinders on because businesses have been doing this same shit for a long, long, time. Obviously when the 900-lb gorilla decides to edge you out of your market share, it’s not ideal, but if your business model is…

I don’t think you’re missing anything, I think for a long time Amazon was denying that they were doing it (which seemed highly unlikely).  Now they are finally admitting to it.  

If you want to make it look right, you’re going to need to do multiple coats of compound and sand between them.  30 minutes to sand typical joint compound is probably not enough time.  If you sand it when it’s still wet, you’re going to get chunks and drag them through and make a mess.  

I follow this rule, as long as you’re not being an asshole... If you’re a 16 year old without a costume, and my porch light is turned off, and you’re HAMMERING on my door yelling “Give me the candy!”, you’re gonna have a bad time...

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Can we bring back MYOB? I actually feel like its utility might be on an upward trend.  

I’m really not sure why anyone would be surprised by this...Subscriptions are the model.  Businesses are slowly cranking up the level of cost associated with the “equipment” that you need to enter the game.  Now that we’ve broached the idea of buying a $50k car and then needing to pay some kind of fee in order to…

Do you work in the legal field, and are not a lawyer? I feel like there are some areas where there are very clear and long running cultures like this. I used to work for a software company that provided tools for law firms. Paralegals, and legal secretaries (along with IT, and literally any other support staff that…

If both “The red pill” and “FDS” aren’t a perfect example of the whole “internet as an echo chamber, too many people smelling their own farts” concept, I don’t know what is.

I was rage skimming until I saw this section. This is so critically important. One of the things that I feel is lost is the ability to sustain your desired results. I know so many people who started good ole Atkins saying “I can never live my life without bread” and proceeded to crush the diet, losing all kinds of…

The seller doesn’t give us much to go on, offering only a brief description of the car and the standard “runs and drives excellent” as a description of its current state.

every year I forget to buy candy until the morning of Halloween, and every year I go to the CVS around the corner from our house that invariably has everything 50% off or better and I buy far too much candy...

I feel like the shitty thing is, that we’re talking about the depreciation as it relates to the artificially inflated current prices.  

My dad used to do contract work for the USPS, mainly bringing stuff from a processing facility to local post offices 24x7x365 all day every day. I remember the book of policies and procedures he got when he started. My favorite part was where it instructed them how to use tiedowns for moving live scorpion shipments, be…

Crematory operators ($28,420): 24.8%

I’m not trying to minimize this problem, but I’m curious as to how they do the math here. I’ve got a pretty tiny lot (~.12 acres). My “front” lawn is around 600 sq/ft and I water it and try to keep it looking nice, it was sodded around 5 years ago. Its my snooty grass...

While not “foul” per se, please remember to clean your dryer vents and and piping...  It can be pretty dangerous, along with causing your dryer to work extra hard, and be pretty inefficient 

Also, i’m guessing that buried within the TOS of every single one of those smart devices, you’re allowing them to retain and sell all of the data that they collect with the scale and the app.

Since these fuckers have so much cargo space, they should be able to fit 4 of these somewhere? 

Counterpoint (likely mostly for the less experienced scare-ers).