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Otteration posted:As much as I love Tolkien, I'm gonna have to say that was then, and this is now. I agree with you 100%. Most days I’m able to compartmentalize, and I’m definitely aware I’m gonna need to get better at controlling my information intake. Was a rough work week that just brought a lot of these issues to heart.
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1glitch0 posted:My Sleep Pillow has an F with the Better Business Bureau. lol I'm kinda shocked that can happen with a business that I'm guessing only deals in pillows. How do you gently caress that one up.
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Mar 12, 2019 04:43
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the BBB isnt a gov. org.
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Mar 12, 2019 04:45
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bobjr posted:I'm kinda shocked that can happen with a business that I'm guessing only deals in pillows. How do you gently caress that one up. You sell two different kinds of pillows, one in stores where customers can see, and one online where they can buy one get one. And then you act reeeeeeeeal vague about the difference between the two.
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Mar 12, 2019 04:45
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bobjr posted:I'm kinda shocked that can happen with a business that I'm guessing only deals in pillows. How do you gently caress that one up. My mom bought a couple of those pillows and if you can imagine a sack with the texture of walmart toilet paper full of dry cheese curds, that's a MyPillow.
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Mar 12, 2019 04:46
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Psychepath posted:My mom bought a couple of those pillows and if you can imagine a sack with the texture of walmart toilet paper full of dry cheese curds, that's a MyPillow. That seems not that great.
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Mar 12, 2019 04:47
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https://twitter.com/JoshNBCNews/status/1105315967721189378 oh gently caress this isn't a good sign
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Mar 12, 2019 05:05
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Spaced God posted:https://twitter.com/JoshNBCNews/status/1105315967721189378 gently caress it. Moist Daddy wants a war, he gets a war.
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Mar 12, 2019 05:08
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1glitch0 posted:My Sleep Pillow has an F with the Better Business Bureau. lol I read some weird article that was actually an ad for My Sleep Pillow and it was basically just the guy bragging that he used to be addicted to crack before he was selling the pillow. The article felt like an ad enough that the whole thing felt off trying to read it. It just seemed so ridiculous.
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Mar 12, 2019 05:14
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Didn't the Venezuelans demand they get out?
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Mar 12, 2019 05:15
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Mystic Mongol posted:You sell two different kinds of pillows, one in stores where customers can see, and one online where they can buy one get one. And then you act reeeeeeeeal vague about the difference between the two. I am SHOCKED that a very Christian business would do such things
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Mar 12, 2019 05:16
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https://twitter.com/MyPillowUSA/status/167315587884785665?s=19 I wonder if still has it.
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Mar 12, 2019 05:18
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1glitch0 posted:My Sleep Pillow has an F with the Better Business Bureau. lol The BBB is a pre-Internet Yelp-style shakedown racket.
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Mar 12, 2019 05:21
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Yeah, you increase your rating by giving them money.
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Mar 12, 2019 05:24
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pseudorandom name posted:The BBB is a pre-Internet Yelp-style shakedown racket. It’s really easy to not get a bad grade if you just answer complaints. Doesn’t matter whether you resolve the problem or not, just got to respond. I have several clients who’d you expect to be solid Fs that have A ratings cause they pay someone minimum wage just to post vague responses
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Mar 12, 2019 05:24
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pseudorandom name posted:The BBB is a pre-Internet Yelp-style shakedown racket. Back in, oh, 2004 or so the BBB got a junk faxer's CEO to write me a letter of apology; he even signed it himself. They even stopped with the 20 pages a day.
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Mar 12, 2019 05:24
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EwokEntourage posted:It’s really easy to not get a bad grade if you just answer complaints. Doesn’t matter whether you resolve the problem or not, just got to respond. The counterpoint is that it's really easy to tank a business's score by filing false or meritless complaints that the business has no real way to respond to. Blizzard had a F rating for a while - they may still - because pissy WOW players complaint-bombed them because they didn't like <thing about WOW>, from "I hate the new Night Elf model" to "Blizzard used to give away free play time for downtime and they don't anymore".
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Mar 12, 2019 05:28
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Charlz Guybon posted:Didn't the Venezuelans demand they get out? yep (well, the Maduro government did), but the wording in the letter is... not great
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Mar 12, 2019 05:33
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Besesoth posted:The counterpoint is that it's really easy to tank a business's score by filing false or meritless complaints that the business has no real way to respond to. Blizzard had a F rating for a while - they may still - because pissy WOW players complaint-bombed them because they didn't like <thing about WOW>, from "I hate the new Night Elf model" to "Blizzard used to give away free play time for downtime and they don't anymore". To be fair, Blizzard is a poo poo company.
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Mar 12, 2019 05:34
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GreyjoyBastard posted:yep (well, the Maduro government did), but the wording in the letter is... not great Doesn't the embassy not have any electricity anymore along with the rest of the city? There's like no way to stay there in humane conditions even if they wanted to continue defying him.
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Mar 12, 2019 05:36
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Besesoth posted:The counterpoint is that it's really easy to tank a business's score by filing false or meritless complaints that the business has no real way to respond to. Blizzard had a F rating for a while - they may still - because pissy WOW players complaint-bombed them because they didn't like <thing about WOW>, from "I hate the new Night Elf model" to "Blizzard used to give away free play time for downtime and they don't anymore". They probably just didn’t respond / have enough people in place to respond. BBB will tell you that they don’t care what the response is (barring you just saying gently caress you to people to something similar). You don’t have to had a valid response to a complaint
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Mar 12, 2019 05:44
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Rad Russian posted:Doesn't the embassy not have any electricity anymore along with the rest of the city? There's like no way to stay there in humane conditions even if they wanted to continue defying him. That could be a factor. It's less scary than the other factors!
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Mar 12, 2019 05:48
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Rad Russian posted:Doesn't the embassy not have any electricity anymore along with the rest of the city? There's like no way to stay there in humane conditions even if they wanted to continue defying him. its "the presence of diplomatic staff has become a constraint on U.S. policy" line that is the one you should be terrified of.
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Mar 12, 2019 05:57
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1glitch0 posted:Pelosi has no power over conviction in the senate. Who cares? Pelosi had time to shame Omar over a tweet saying American politicians are greedy, she has time to impeach Trump. Unless.. and follow me here, she just doesn't want to. Yeah, we should totally impeach when it’s meaningless without the senate to convict. But hey, it would mean we did something and could high five each other on the moral high ground as Trump cruises to reelection on the backs of a goldfish-attention-spanned-electorate that would only remember “If Trump didn’t get thrown out then he didn’t do anything wrong!” Of loving course Pelosi doesn’t want to right now. It’s loving useless without the senate. This isn’t complicated. Impeachment doesn’t do poo poo without the senate.
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Mar 12, 2019 06:53
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tehinternet posted:Yeah, we should totally impeach when it’s meaningless without the senate to convict. It's not meaningless at all. Impeachment is a fantastic way to tarnish a politician's legacy — especially a President's. Ten years from now people won't remember what Trump did, but they would remember the fact that he got impeached. That alone is huge. Aside from that, it would send a strong message that committing crimes is not OK. Therefore it also carries the weight of strong principle.
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Mar 12, 2019 06:59
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enraged_camel posted:It's not meaningless at all. Impeachment is a fantastic way to tarnish a politician's legacy — especially a President's. Ten years from now people won't remember what Trump did, but they would remember the fact that he got impeached. That alone is huge. Won't the lesson actually be there are no consequences because the GOP won't vote to convict?
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Mar 12, 2019 07:15
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tehinternet posted:Yeah, we should totally impeach when it’s meaningless without the senate to convict. But hey, it would mean we did something and could high five each other on the moral high ground as Trump cruises to reelection on the backs of a goldfish-attention-spanned-electorate that would only remember “If Trump didn’t get thrown out then he didn’t do anything wrong!” Making Republican Senators accountable for Trump's continued reign of insanity is definitively better than letting them squirm their way back into office in 2020 on the back of statements of disapproval. See also: Flake, Jeff pseudanonymous posted:Won't the lesson actually be there are no consequences because the GOP won't vote to convict? Hmm yes, refusing to bring consequences will make a strong lesson
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Mar 12, 2019 07:23
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Meanwhile in Nebraska Yet Republicans will remain silent when it comes to calling these fuckers out on it. Funny that, it's almost like they don't really care unless it's something they can screw opposing parties with
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Mar 12, 2019 07:26
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enraged_camel posted:It's not meaningless at all. Impeachment is a fantastic way to tarnish a politician's legacy — especially a President's. Ten years from now people won't remember what Trump did, but they would remember the fact that he got impeached. That alone is huge.
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Unoriginal Name posted:Making Republican Senators accountable for Trump's continued reign of insanity is definitively better than letting them squirm their way back into office in 2020 on the back of statements of disapproval. See also: Flake, Jeff I don't know if it's the right thing to do, but having him impeached in the House and exonerated in the Senate isn't much of a consequence to me. I think Pelosi is doing her political arithmetic and deciding that going through an impeachment won't pay off, politically. It seems like a lot of posters in the thread feel differently, and think there would be serious consequences for him if they went through with an impeachment. I think we all want him to face consequences for his treason, and rape, and other crimes, but the realpolitik question comes down to, will impeachment in the house help him or hurt him? And I think there's a strong case to be made that it will actually help him. The last impeachment attempt was ridiculously partisan and totally inappropriate, and endless investigation into nothing and finally trumped up charges because the president lied about whether he had extra-marital sex. That's how low information voters probably view impeachment now. Honestly, I still think Pelosi should employ it as a partisan weapon. Impeach him during the 2020 election, and have the hearings throughout the election, and not finish debating the charges until the Senate can't start the trial until after the election.
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Mar 12, 2019 07:36
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bobjr posted:I'm kinda shocked that can happen with a business that I'm guessing only deals in pillows. How do you gently caress that one up. Because the pillows aren't anything special and the only difference is what they look like before you lay down on them. My great aunt had a few and they felt the exact same as any other pillow, they just looked different sitting on the bed
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Mar 12, 2019 07:38
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:I would bet that 95% of Americans don't remember that Clinton got impeached, because to them "impeached" means "convicted and removed from office." They also do not see it as a mark on his legacy. Yeah. I agree with the dude you quoted in principle, but in reality? 40% of the US dumb enough after three loving years to still support the biggest grifter I’ve ever seen, so my belief in their understanding what impeachment is -let alone actually understanding how it works- is basically nil.
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Mar 12, 2019 07:41
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I'm sure Pelosi also realizes that Trump will become completely intransigent once impeachment proceedings begin, and will more than likely attempt to generate some fake crises in order to distract everyone's attention. So she better have everything in order, such as the debt ceiling, the 2020 budget, etc. before even attempting to head down that path.
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Mar 12, 2019 07:52
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https://twitter.com/sarahnferris/st...genumber%3D1408 Pelosi saying something stupid about impeachment is one thing, but if dems literally do nothing to avoid alienating
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Mar 12, 2019 08:15
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tehinternet posted:Yeah. I agree with the dude you quoted in principle, but in reality? Well, only 80% of Americans today were alive during the Clinton era. The ones who were of voting age is an even smaller percentage. But I disagree. Most people probably remember Clinton’s impeachment, even if they don’t remember its details. “Monica Lewinsky” is still a familiar name to most adults. Clinton was kind of a bizarre exception though, because a) he was immensely popular and b) his impeachment was totally frivolous. You can say neither of those things about Trump.
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Mar 12, 2019 08:28
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A big flaming stink posted:https://twitter.com/sarahnferris/st...genumber%3D1408 Not passing a budget would be an astoundingly cowardly and lazy thing for them to do with literally zero political upsides, so I imagine this article is full of poo poo.
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Mar 12, 2019 08:51
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What does it even mean if they don’t pass a budget? We just keep doing the government shutdown every few months thing?
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Mar 12, 2019 08:53
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Boris Galerkin posted:What does it even mean if they don’t pass a budget? We just keep doing the government shutdown every few months thing? It means nothing, there is no way any budget passed in the House is going to pass the Senate and vice versa. It is essentially just a statement showing what kind of budget the majority of the House can agree on, which then is going to be chopped up into a dozen or so continuing resolutions and minor tweaks and weird pairings until we have the Frankenstein's monster government that most people have spent their entire life experiencing.
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Mar 12, 2019 08:56
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enraged_camel posted:Well, only 80% of Americans today were alive during the Clinton era. The ones who were of voting age is an even smaller percentage. if they impeach him they have to acknowledge things that are politically inconvenient and also they won't be able to run against him in 2020.
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