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rydiafan posted:Everyone always dressing like it's Halloween would absolutely rule. I’ve got my sexy nerd costume all ready to go.
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In other really great news. 
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Lol, never heard of a charity getting a severance package.
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GolfHole posted:Everything is getting more expensive and worse. If you have to buy anything, do it asap. Quality is dropping on pretty much every consumer good, and won't recover for years and years. The halcyon days are over. lol
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The cat shelter charity (that gave me one of my two cats) is going to miss that program. I think they got a few hundred dollars from us over the years. I have to look at replacing my Amazon credit card. First they cancel The Expanse, now this?!
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Re: the quality of old electronics Old electronics broke a LOT. That's why electronics repairsman was such a popular and profitable trade. However, old electronics were practically infinitely repairable, and pretty affordable to repair. Tubes were cheap. Repairsmen were very skilled in routine maintenance, and certain factories like Erres and Philips of the Netherlands had their own training for repairsmen, which they held to very high standards so they could do a repair quickly and (for the customer) economically. Repairs could be done so quickly that TV repair was 9 times out of 10 done at home. So while things broke, a device breaking wasn't the end of the device - just a nuisance. The difference with today is that you cannot always do component level repairs anymore because of custom made ICs, or simply because some stuff can't be soldered anymore manually. TV repair often consists of either a power supply repair (sometimes still component level if the repairperson is skilled), but mostly consists of board swapping. That ups the cost of parts to at least 100 euro per repair. While the cost of the individual broken components is mayyyybe 10 euro. Of course, after 10 years the manufacturer's stock of boards is depleted and you're screwed. Oh, you want a circuit diagram so you can do better, faster board level repairs? gently caress you. One really obvious thing i have noticed is that the amateur repairspeople of today are much more skilled than the amateurs of before. Some repairs i've encountered in vintage radios (with indications that the repairs took place in the 60s or 70s) are absolutely atrocious and done in very stupid ways. With the help of the internet, even unexperienced people can avoid making the mistakes those people made.
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LimaBiker posted:Re: the quality of old electronics Chip level swaps on a modern PCB for repair don't make economic sense because the labor cost for someone to spend 20mins finding what's broken and replacing things (which would be very fast troubleshooting) is already more expensive than the whole board costs. An entry level electronics assembly technician (without any specific troubleshooting experience or skills) bills at something like $60/hr
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MuscaDomestica posted:I have a feeling the pandemic was much more of a cause then inflation. Dollar Stores probably took a lot of their business too.
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MarcusSA posted:In other really great news. Well, that lights a fire under my rear end to get one of the non-profits I'm on the board for signed up for our local charity fundraising tool.  It may not have been much money, but every source counts.
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MarcusSA posted:In other really great news. Gee, I wonder if the low uptake was because the app didn't support AmazonSmile, or because you had to go to the specific AmazonSmile website instead of just Amazon. Hmmm.
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HisMajestyBOB posted:Gee, I wonder if the low uptake was because the app didn't support AmazonSmile, or because you had to go to the specific AmazonSmile website instead of just Amazon. Hmmm. Well tbf the app does “support it” but you had to link the charity on your account on the website. Once you did that all of your purchases were through smile.
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Zero One posted:Dollar Stores probably took a lot of their business too. It really is the combo of seasonal Halloween stores that have better selection for the same price (Halloween was the most profitable time of year for a very long time) and the fact that the kind of people that need party supplies in tyool 2023 know how Amazon works.
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The last time I was in a Walmart they had a pretty big party section. The big box stores for the most part will have what people need.
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FlamingLiberal posted:The last time I was in a Walmart they had a pretty big party section. The big box stores for the most part will have what people need.
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HisMajestyBOB posted:Gee, I wonder if the low uptake was because the app didn't support AmazonSmile, or because you had to go to the specific AmazonSmile website instead of just Amazon. Hmmm. I've been using Smile for at least a couple years after our school corporation asked parents to sign up for Smile and I just used the normal Amazon app. If the item qualified, the Smile logo appeared on the item page. It wasn't overly difficult.
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Not worth that attitude
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Professor Shark posted:Not worth that attitude With*
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Zugzwang posted:They don’t have someone say “welcome to the party” when you walk in though.
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You'd have to get a new car every time!
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Sounds silly, but I'm kinda half serious here --- so you get balloons off Amazon. Where do you get them filled with helium? If I ever wanted those mylar number balloons for someone's birthday, I'd just hit up the party store. No idea where I could get a third party to fill them, so I wouldn't buy them. (I don't buy balloons and am the last person on Earth to not have an Amazon account, so this is all hypothetical)
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Some bigger grocery stores will fill them.
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The grocery store I go to will fill up helium balloons for a fee, over by the flowers. Alternatively, you could just get a helium tank off of Amazon.
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Kirk Vikernes posted:school corporation ?
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Khizan posted:The grocery store I go to will fill up helium balloons for a fee, over by the flowers. I wonder what percentage of customers on Amazon had this as their last purchase. 
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Sounds silly, but I'm kinda half serious here --- so you get balloons off Amazon. Where do you get them filled with helium? If I ever wanted those mylar number balloons for someone's birthday, I'd just hit up the party store. No idea where I could get a third party to fill them, so I wouldn't buy them. My local 99 cent store has them.
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Desert Bus posted:I wonder what percentage of customers on Amazon had this as their last purchase. working some rough chuckles tonight
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Dark humor is like breathable air from a helium bottle, very few people get it.
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They added adulterants to those personal use-sized helium tanks some years ago so you couldn't inert gas asphyxia yourself.
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0/5 stars, tried to inhale balloonful to make funny voices, day ruined by irritant-induced coughing fit
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Volcott posted:They added adulterants to those personal use-sized helium tanks some years ago so you couldn't inert gas asphyxia yourself. That makes me feel a lot better about that. Thanks for the info!
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Amazon is happy to sell suicide kits and is currently being sued over it, just not with helium.
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Platystemon posted:Amazon is happy to sell suicide kits and is currently being sued over it, just not with helium. I know but I pretend not to know. There is knowledge in my head that I will never willingly share because poo poo's dangerous. You'd be amazed at what can be accomplished at your local grocery store.
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Read After Burning posted:Can't wait until the line at the DMV looks like It won't look like that it'll be a lot of people in vinyl bags with holes in them with a brand printed on it, and a cancer-causing plastic mask. Which, also will be cool.
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MarcusSA posted:In other really great news. drat this sucks. My non-profit work generates more than thousand a year from this. Is it a huge number, no, but it's several meals we don't have to buy.
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Sundance Jury Walks Out of ‘Magazine Dreams’ Premiere After Festival Fails to Provide Captioning for Juror Marlee Matlin (via Variety)quote:According to multiple sources, the jury has repeatedly expressed concerns to both Sundance and filmmakers that movies playing at this year’s festival should come with open captions. At other international festivals, including Cannes and Venice, movies are captioned in multiple languages on the screen. This year’s application for credentials to Sundance asked attendees if they needed access to captioning. Why would you admit the last part. Why say that. Name the filmmakers, I’m real darn curious. Also go watch Crip Camp it’s really cool.
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Sundance films are made on a miserable budget and most never get seen outside the festival circuit. I kinda empathize with their paranoia on industry perception.
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Why would captions hurt a film's asking price?
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Having to raise the price to cover the cost of the captions being done to a professional standard is my guess. Which would then potentially cost them sales or something? I suppose they just decided to cut down on sales instead of waste money on having a bigger market.
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Or, more importantly, having to take money out of the salary budget Like, professional captioning in multiple languages for a 90 minute movie runs in the tens of thousands of dollars, which doesn’t seem like a lot until you realize that a lot of festival films are made on less than 2 mil. Coasterphreak has a new favorite as of 22:58 on Jan 23, 2023 |
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