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Krispy Kareem posted:Yeah, I didn't notice it was 2 months ago. You can literally click on the tweet in this thread to see that it was not.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:You can literally click on the tweet in this thread to see that it was not. Ok. So I got both the month and the year wrong. And she wasn't a government employee then and the FTC probably hadn't started cracking down on ads in social media yet. But Juicero still spent money on a Trump endorsement, so I'm still better than them.
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Ixian posted:It absolutely is and is a total prizewinner when it comes to BWM. Literally doubling down on a bad idea. Wonder how easy it was for the dealership financing guy to type that one up through the tears of laughter.
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Bad With Houseboatsquote:Last weekend I took a trip to Lake Shasta, CA to spend the weekend on the lake in a houseboat. My 15 person boat woke up at 7am on the morning of our boat check-in to start collecting trash and cleaning the boat. We gathered up every piece of visible trash on the boat, wiped down all sinks and counters, and even mopped and hosed down the boat to the best of our ability with the one mop the rental company provided us. Then upon our arrival at the Marina Sunday morning at 10:30am we were told that our boat was in terrible condition and that the trash needed to be collected and the boat mopped even though we already had done that. So my crew sticks around to unload trash, clean up every thing we possibly can see and try to mop the boat more than just moving the wet dirt around. After an additional hour of cleaning at the dock we decided that there was no way we could get the boat any cleaner with the tools provided so I told the majority of the passengers they can start the long 6 hour drive home while I (the lessee) finished the check-out. https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/6c9fl4/houseboat_marina_took_entire_3000_damage_deposit/ OP hasn't posted said pictures but I can only imagine since he admitted that their mop job was "moving the wet dirt around" and that they quit cleaning because their tools were not good enough that the boat was actually left in quite a mess.
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Zero One posted:Bad With Houseboats
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I was hoping there would be a derail so I can post this. http://i.imgur.com/V5Y7hjz.mp4 But I'm posting it anyway ... for future use.
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The Wizard of Lies. I laughed so hard when the onimous movie music played when Bernie's wife had the horrifying experience of not being able to get a designer cut and color.
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It was weirdly sympathetic to the sons and the wife. They turned that around by the end a bit where the one son was like 'who the gently caress am i to complain I lived in luxury even if I wasn't complicit' but then the movie didn't exactly focus on the victims much. This is more of a problem with the medium than anything though, people don't tune in to see what happened to some dude who lost his life savings and blew his brains out.
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Old BWM: internet-connected countertop juicing machines that use DRM'ed ingredient packs. New BWM: internet-connected countertop beer-brewing machines that use DRM'ed ingredient packs.
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Craptacular posted:Old BWM: internet-connected countertop juicing machines that use DRM'ed ingredient packs. At least you can't just squeeze the beer out of these. To match this product you'd have to actually, I dunno, find some place that sold beer in bottles. Or cans even! Imagine, you could just pour ready to drink beer out of those. Who's with me?
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Craptacular posted:Old BWM: internet-connected countertop juicing machines that use DRM'ed ingredient packs. so it's a vaguely cool idea that solves a problem no one ever had. Anyone who's blowing this much money homebrewing beer is going to be picky enough to want to do it decently, not like a keurig
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TheFlyingLlama posted:Anyone who's blowing this much money homebrewing beer is going to be picky enough to want to do it decently, not like a keurig Funny, I remember thinking the exact same thing about coffee and Keurigs. Here's hoping this time we're right.
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Isn't a huge part of the Keurig market stuff like offices where single serves of stuff is useful? I'm assuming most of those places aren't going to want a beer machine.
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TheFlyingLlama posted:so it's a vaguely cool idea that solves a problem no one ever had. 5-10 years ago this was probably true, but there are a lot of people with too much money to blow on brewing stuff
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Ashcans posted:Isn't a huge part of the Keurig market stuff like offices where single serves of stuff is useful? I'm assuming most of those places aren't going to want a beer machine. Yeah, my office has a Keurig and it's nice because on any given day, 0-3 people will want coffee, and they'll all want a different type.
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Keurigs are insanely stupid for home use, but yeah, they are great for offices and the like. There's a keurig in the lounge/kitchen at my school and it would cause a near riot if it went down.
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My grandmother got my mom a Keurig as a gift and honestly it's actually pretty handy as a quick source of hot water for tea and poo poo if nothing else ![]()
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Weatherman posted:Please stop it with the "wacky Japan" stories. Hey i heard you can go to shooting ranges in the US and fire machine guns at a photo target of your choice, how bout that incredibly violent and murderous everyday society over there amirite?" Stop being wacky then, because this is real fuckin' wacky. Also making fun of the US doesn't bother me because I, a US Citizen, agree that the US is a horrible third-world hell country that needs to be destroyed.
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ate all the Oreos posted:Stop being wacky then, because this is real fuckin' wacky. Also making fun of the US doesn't bother me because I, a US Citizen, agree that the US is a horrible third-world hell country that needs to be destroyed. That commercial wasn't wacky, it was heartbreaking. That dude is going to commit suicide.
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Papa John Misty posted:That commercial wasn't wacky, it was heartbreaking. That dude is going to commit suicide. Yeah I know but Weatherman seems to have interpreted that as wacky so I responded the same ![]()
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Eh you know what I'm kinda being too much of an rear end about this, sorry Weatherman I'll shut up ![]()
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TheQuietWilds posted:Keurigs are insanely stupid for home use A coworker got a nespresso machine on the guise of it saving money over their starbucks tab. Turns out the little pods have so little caffeine in them he was drinking way more of them than his starbucks bill. (He tended to get a quad-shot over ice in a trenta cup.)
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H110Hawk posted:A coworker got a nespresso machine on the guise of it saving money over their starbucks tab. Turns out the little pods have so little caffeine in them he was drinking way more of them than his starbucks bill. (He tended to get a quad-shot over ice in a trenta cup.) Maybe he should just take caffeine pills at that point, since a quad shot is already more caffiene than is in a single pill Or just methamphetamine
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A quad espresso contains (a little) less caffeine than a grande drip coffee. Espresso may be high caffeine by volume, but there's so much less of it. Fun fact: Tim Hortons has espresso cups, and you can buy a double espresso for less than a small drip coffee. It tastes... well, there's a reason it's not on the menu.
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Saeku posted:A quad espresso contains (a little) less caffeine than a grande drip coffee. Espresso may be high caffeine by volume, but there's so much less of it. Google says it's 64mg per shot x 4 = 256mg, the caffeine pills I have in my drawer right here are 200mg per pill e: It kinda feels wrong at first to get your caffeine fix from a pill instead of a drink but it's significantly less bad for you (no sugar or calories, unless you're just getting your coffee black all the time) and so much cheaper (like 60 200mg pills for $5) Shame Boy fucked around with this message at 22:39 on May 21, 2017 |
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H110Hawk posted:A coworker got a nespresso machine on the guise of it saving money over their starbucks tab. Turns out the little pods have so little caffeine in them he was drinking way more of them than his starbucks bill. (He tended to get a quad-shot over ice in a trenta cup.) Ice curdles pure espresso right? Sounds like he's a chump.
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ate all the Oreos posted:Eh you know what I'm kinda being too much of an rear end about this, sorry Weatherman I'll shut up Nah we're all good ![]()
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ate all the Oreos posted:Google says it's 64mg per shot x 4 = 256mg, the caffeine pills I have in my drawer right here are 200mg per pill I was on the cusp of doing this when I got free coffee at work. (I do drink it black.) Have you noticed any health benefits beyond that? Might still buy them for the weekend. Edit lol sorry, sorry, don't bird me!!!!
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Once again, /r/personalfinance feels like cheating:"Is this rental price too good to be true? Yes. posted:My girlfriend found a house listed on Craigslist for $800/mo, 3 bedroom 2 bathroom 1,200 square foot house with a fireplace and big backyard. So she sends them an email and the guy replies later, saying that the realtor he was working with had screwed him over (somehow) and now he has taken the keys from them and he is gonna handle all of it himself. He said he was trying to sell the property but his job had him move to another state (California) and at this point he just wants someone to take care of the property for the 3 years that he will be gone. "Dealing with $10k of identity theft is just too much of a bother posted:This happened three year ago, my mother's ex took advantage of the fact she wasn't familiar with English and opened up three credit cards and took over her bank account. My mother never brought it to my attention since she didn't want to bother me from my studies. She just kept ignoring the debt collector calls and disposing the letters. These debts completely ruined her credit score. I do not live with my mother and, only found out last month when I was getting the mail for her. Each card has 4k plus debt that accumulatrd with interest, I assume, from three years ago. "Is $5 million in one bank stock a bad idea? posted:I just recently learned this and could have never guessed. My grandparents always lived in a tiny home probably worth $100k, shared one base-model mini van, clipped every coupon, and pinched every penny. Now a widow, my grandma is still frugal as ever.
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Dr. Chaco posted:Yeah, my office has a Keurig and it's nice because on any given day, 0-3 people will want coffee, and they'll all want a different type. In that kind of situation I would personally recommend spending the keurig money on an aeropress, a scale, a good grinder, and stocks of a couple of different roasts. However! I was once in that exact setup, being exposed to the aeropress for the first time, and it turns out it's actually possible to be confused and afraid of the thing. Meanwhile, a monkey could probably independently discover how to insert pods and push buttons. And not even an ape, like a capuchin or tamarin or something. What I'm saying is, some of us are dumber than monkeys so your office may already have the optimal setup.
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BW(Parents')Money: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/valedictorian-university-maryland-drops-out-school-two-managadze I was going to bold a bunch of passages in the letter he wrote, but just read it. It's long, but holy poo poo this kid has a terminal combination of dumb and smug. (My favorite part is when he asks his parents to not be mad at him for dropping out after they paid all of his tuition because he needs a place to live while he looks for investors for his startup.) Make sure to click his Youtube link to a video of him rapping about entrepreneurship. quote:The 2017 Valedictorian of University of Maryland drops out of school two weeks before graduation
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I'm not going to read all of that, nobody is, it sounds like he went nutters and is off to be found dead in a few years or something.quote:I’m sorry but I have to cut this message a lot shorter than I want to. Jesus Christ
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What the gently caress did I just read
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Acebuckeye13 posted:What the gently caress did I just read The onset of a mental disorder.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:BW(Parents')Money: Mental break. Dude went schizo.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:What the gently caress did I just read What happens when Silicon Valley worship, multiple personality disorders, and cocaine are thrown in a blender together.
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Motronic posted:The onset of a mental disorder. Assuming he's a traditional student, he would unfortunately be in the highest risk age range for the onset of severe mental illness.
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Motronic posted:The onset of a mental disorder. Intensely arrogant yuppie hubris (I.A.Y.H)? He reads like he read a Six Sigma / corporate cultist book, and attempted to slightly modify it. To be fair to him, he just sounds like another naive teenager who has it all "figured out", as sadly, a younger Sic Semper Goon once was, until I actually had to deal with life outside the parental nest.
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There are a lot of funny bits in there, but I thought the best part was that he thinks by being a college dropout, he's destined to be the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. And then he says that during his college experience, he never went to class but just stayed home and read the books instead. Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard because he and (childhood friend & fellow student) Paul Allen had already started blowing people's minds with great software, and wanted to start getting paid for it. (Side note, met Steve Ballmer at Harvard too) Zuckerberg dropped out because he got rich over the summer with his company (made of trusted peers he met at Harvard), so he kept rolling with it. He didn't go to class. And he doesn't have a product he's already getting rich off of. Way to miss the point, kid.
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