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kazr posted:i buy all my cock rings online, local mom and pop corner dildo store just can't compete with those price points Online already killed the big box cock ring stores https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=Iqx2uJXozww
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monster on a stick posted:The only places I've seen third-party ATMs that always charge no matter who issued the card (typically set up by someone who sets it up as a business) are inside bars. I have no idea why people use them instead of just using a credit card to pay for their beer, since nearly all debit cards can be processed as credit cards anyway even if you have something against credit cards. For gambling and for games.
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My bank sucks double. If there's an ATM fee, there's a matching fee from my bank that accumulates over the statement period. So 6 quick 2.50 fees from ATMs means an additional 15 bucks at the end of the month! Banks can blow me!
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Bonzo posted:We interrupt Teacher Derail Chat to tell you that American Apparel is closing stores. This is from 2015
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I'm sorry that I didn't bring this up when we were still on movies. I was wondering though, aren't a few of the big studios kind of teetering on collapse? Like, the need for those big movies and if they don't hit these crazy goals have put them in precarious positions. Suicide Squad made like 3/4x its budget but it only broke even for the studio. I know that Hollywood finances don't help as everything is obscured as much as possible.
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Krispy Kareem posted:Amazon does fail sometimes though. Their Groupon clone, cell phones...yeah, that’s it. Two industries that won’t nosedive if Amazon re-enters those markets. To be fair, Groupon's on its way out, isn't it? And with phones, the Fire Phone was so bad. It just had these features as selling points that no one asked for. I'd be interested to see what happens if they bought Sprint or T-Mobile, but also not because we don't need another loving communications merger.
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Jul 18, 2017 15:16
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Fried Watermelon posted:No way. There are an infinite amount of ways to market Lego. Any IP that is a hit among children can have a Lego spin off. Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Marvel, Disney. See, that's where LEGO started to lose my interest. I wanna see the cool crazy stuff they come up with, not Harry Potter set piece #50 or Star Wars vehicle #83
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Sep 10, 2017 18:18
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Inescapable Duck posted:They never stopped making their own stuff too. I've only seen them adversities original stuff here and ther recently. Post-Mission to Mars, it seemed like the only space sets were Star Wars themed. Ah well, doesn't matter anyway. I'm gonna give my niece and nephew my old sets as they get old enough in the next couple years.
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MikeCrotch posted:Mr Robot Lego set And here we have our Red Revolution sets w Trotsky and Stalin figures. Marx and Lenin too!
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Infinitesimal Bronto never figured that out and desperately wanted those sets, but my parents refused because it was too many specialty bricks and they were purists. I did manage to get some ice planet sets though and they were rad. I got the big Ice Planet spaceship years ago on vacation, a couple years after the sets had come through at some kinda a general store, and it's one of my favorite aside from the big Exploriens ship and some of the underwater stuff. I learned to ride a bike so I could buy Fort Legorado w the money my mom bribes me with.
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ReidRansom posted:Yet. Yeah, including Bain Capital who are infamous for it
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Don Gato posted:Everytime I read about AR, I just think of a cyberpunk future where someone exploits a security flaw in the glasses and spams everyone using AR with either ads or porn. Or both. Minority Report did a great job of showing us that future, both pre- and post-operation, and how loving annoying that would be. I think that’s helped to slow down AR adoption st some point, people realize the inevitable conclusion of this technology: ads.
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Iron Crowned posted:Just Their stock has been going up for years. They’ve concentrated on profitable areas like appliances and services, cut costs using third party in stores where possible, and have moved on to cost cutting like shutting down stores (worked at one of the two they just shut down this month back in 2009). Heck, they just outsourced a big part of their online Geek Squad workforce. Say what you will about their inevitable end years from now, but they’re certainly not doing bad.
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Volcott posted:Sometimes people need to know I feel eggplant Japanese goblin. I think around 2012
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Mods, plz change thread title to “Companies that are circling the agitator”
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Mr.Radar posted:Goddamnit, close the K-Mart in Minneapolis so we can have our loving street back! The previous post was the newest unread one for me, so I open the thread, see the list, and was ready to post just this and it’s the first loving reply. I don’t even live in MPLS, but STP, and I loving hate it. And like a quarter of the 38 unread posts I had were other Goons bringing it up. When they raze that building, there will be a large crowd and celebration, no doubt in my mind.
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Nov 5, 2017 00:31
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I’m pretty sure USPS was able to crawl out of that hole that the Republicans dug w the pension thing. It was an “oh poo poo” situation but forced them to innovate, etc, and got people back into using them. I know I’ll never ship via FedEx or UPS unless I have no other choice.
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Nov 11, 2017 15:46
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Rhandhali posted:I used to work at Hahnemann Hospital. It was open since before the civil war, on drat near the same site. Served a huge chunk of Philadelphia, mostly poor, mostly minorities. They should occupy that building.
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Subjunctive posted:Exactly. Can you explain what that means for any of us under 40?
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They literally said that it’s worse in their post.
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M4A as presented by Bernie includes a jobs program for re-training. It’s part of why they describe it as a revolution, because they understand what a monumental shift this would be. People will need to go back to school to change career paths, and we’ll also need more doctors, nurses, and dentists so they’ll have to tackle the higher education issue as well. It’s all deeply enmeshed but it’s not impossible to change!
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Large cost savings would be found in Pharma, as the government would be able to negotiate as a monolith w these fuckers. It’s already been covered. But also, prevention! If people can get a cavity filled, they prevent a root canal. If they can see the doc about an infected toe or a weeks long fever, then we can maybe handle their issues before they become life threatening.
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Friendly reminder that these companies are their own little world of crazy: https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-bloggers-lawsuits-underside-of-the-mattress-wars
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One of the few remaining K-Marts is in the Twin Cities in the middle of a major area of Minneapolis. It has been an impediment to any kind of traffic reflow or what have you because it is smack dab in the middle. I can only imagine how much that has pushed up its valuation. I suspect there will be a celebration when it finally gets the can.
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The obesity epidemic in developed countries is absolutely due to capitalism and its influence of marketing, lovely job(s) not giving you enough resources (time, money) for cooking, and reduction of food education be it preparation or nutrition.
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AceOfFlames posted:Oh no! Now who will pay for all those podcast ads? I thought that was the issue in the first place.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yes that is when the problems started That second sentence could be a thread title.
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Iron Prince posted:Yes, just as long as you don’t forget to tip your landlord. Tip them into a bottomless pit?
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It was the prime time to buy Netflix stock. They were still like.. 6 months out from House of Cards premiering and this announcement just ranked the stock to :tenbux: or so. And within a couple years it was over $100. I was so mad at myself for not scrounging up SOME funds for it, because my take was that the stock would rebound no matter what because they had become so ubiquitous. In 2012, there were dedicated Netflix buttons for some models of Smart TV. It wasn’t gonna go anywhere.
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kdrudy posted:At the Mall of America the Microsoft store was directly across from the Apple store. I don’t recall that. I thought MS took over the Wizards of the Coast space on the 2nd or 3rd floor, and Apple is somewhere on the first. Edit: OK, I think they were on an upper floor originally and appear to have moved to the first floor around the corner from the Apple store. Doesn’t matter anyway, why the gently caress go to MOA anyway!? Boywhiz88 has a new favorite as of 15:47 on Jun 27, 2020 |
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Apple is doing hard work w their in-store COVID measures. I had to go in for a repair and it took me weeks to lock down a time. I wouldn’t go near a mall otherwise in this climate. Especially as their wasn’t a mandatory/enforced mask situation. It’s their Mall of America location. And I was flabbergasted to see an Amazon store in there and people lined up to go in. Like... what the gently caress????? You’re risking your safety for a store of a website??? Ugh. Malls.
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Krispy Wafer posted:How much can it cost to maintain and develop a web browser? Firefox pulls in like 500 million a year, mostly from Google for the privilege of making that their default web browser. If you read the article, they’ve blown a lot of cash on dumbass side projects. Sucks because it really is so much better than its competition.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Somehow, in the middle of a pandemic, my brother has seen his favorite band play NINE times this year by flying to different cities, renting a car, and then taking said automobile to drive-in concerts. What band!?
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Oct 15, 2020 14:34
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Krispy Wafer posted:90's grunge/rock band Local H. I should have known this. Know a guy who’s tied in w them and has been promoting a lot of these shows. I think they’re doing a Nirvana coverband for Halloween soon. My guess was 311. I met some women at my state fair a couple years back. It was The Offspring + 311. Only one of them was from my state, but they were all huge 311 fans who would go to different shows in different states. One of them met her husband on the 311 cruise. One of those things where it’s like ya, some people are really fanatical... but 311!?
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Pick posted:$3k isn't much for a hobby, are there a lot of extra guitar peripherals or something? Dropping $3k on a single item is a big purchase for 99.9% of people, pick.
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They also did moves w discarding stuff like standalone Best Buy Mobile stores. Streamlined a lot of their operations. They went subscription with the Geek Squad sometime around 2011-2012. And then around 2018 they introduced a version that covers stuff like in-home automation, etc. I think that really helps reduce returns and whatnot related to people unable to plug things in right. But yeah, ever since I left the company, I’ve really gotten into using BestBuy.com. V functional, decent chance for good daily deals, and just a notch or two less evil than Amazon.
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The changeover was analog/digital, not necessarily SD/HD. BUT, there are still a lot old TVs out there. I had a client with an honest to god console television that was functional by way of RF adapter/coaxial and had a Roku hooked up to it via RCA to the RF/Coax adapter. It was insane.
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Biplane posted:Rich failchildren don't see the need to get a car or whatever because they have chauffers probably. Poor kids can't afford cars. There I solved it. I think you’re missing the prevalence of ride share in there. A certain level of family can probably afford frequent rideshares over a separate vehicle, insurance, etc.
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FlamingLiberal posted:It’s still around. My wife and I have a subscription. Honestly, Sling's current iteration makes a lot more sense than the platform did when it launched. Sling used to be an Internet-connected box that would hook up to your home TV connection, coaxial or RCA, and then allow you to stream over the Internet. With possibility for changing channels etc. It was such an esoteric thing to explain to folks and this was around 2006 as laptops were just starting to pick up momentum.
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Whooping Crabs posted:drat I'm paying $60 a month for comcast 250 mbps download and they keep trying to increase my bill every year. Not like I have a choice of another provider though. On Comcast, I pay $80 for 300Mbps, but was paying $85 for 150 Mbps before I called in a few months back. Telecoms are a loving plague.
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