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credburn posted:Your Costco has a self-checkout? That sounds horrible. How does that even work? Doesn't one go to Costco to buy hundreds of things at a time? No you go to Costco to buy a dozen packages of 100 things apiece
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Triikan posted:Also, this isn't the Costco thread, which is a thing that exists for some reason On topic for both threads is that Costco got rid of the diced onions for the $1.50 hot dogs
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Jul 30, 2023 01:49
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Please tell me where to find the grocery store where the cashiers aren't required to pretend they care how my day is going, so that I can shop there.
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Jul 30, 2023 16:42
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59 oz half gallon, also gently caress the poor
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Jul 31, 2023 05:47
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Triikan posted:They're not redefining anything. They just now sell a carton of milk that is 59 ounces. As long as it's labelled as such, perfectly legal. lovely for no good reason, but legal. "Half gallons" of ice cream have been 1.5 qt for a while I've been to bars that have 12 and 14 oz "pints" and they actually call them pints instead of relying on the historical/colloquial understanding of size to mislead without technically lying to you. "It's just a term for a glass of beer" --an actual thing said to me with a straight face
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Jul 31, 2023 19:10
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teen witch posted:If there are any for iOS Safari I’m all ears I don't know anything about iPhone but if you install a pihole at home it will at least block everything while you're connected to wifi
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Aug 10, 2023 16:10
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credburn posted:I hate when I go to select my country and can't loving find it because I was looking in the Us and for my convenience they put USA at the very top instead Nah this is awesome. Why would you look in the Us if it was already up there at the top? British Airways has UK first, USA second, followed by Afghanistan Algeria Andorra etc, which I find amusing. Suck it, continental Europe.
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Aug 11, 2023 22:40
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holefoods posted:A lot of kirkland stuff sucks but costco diehards are so committed they won’t admit it Kirkland is rarely the best stuff you can get but it's usually 80th percentile quality for 40th percentile price
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Aug 12, 2023 05:25
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Hitlertunes gets a bad rap but they technically re-christened the service so that it's named after Dr. Gay Hitler now, and they no longer have the partnership with Stormfront.
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Aug 12, 2023 21:14
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Perfect way to make money as a time traveler though, start subscription services. There was absolutely enough technology in the 1890's to start a subscription service for men's shirts, it's just no one was lovely enough to come up with the idea. Subscription services only work because of electronic banking with automatically recurring charges. Nobody's going to forget to cancel their shirt subscription when they have to consciously go pay for it every month.
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Aug 17, 2023 06:32
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fishing with the fam posted:You can fill an entire thread with all the ways in which air travel loving sucks. Air travel sucks because no one will pay a price premium to fly on airlines that prioritize customer experience. For decades, every time an airline has done something customer-hostile in order to reduce ticket price, the end result has been selling more tickets. When Virgin America or whoever tries to buck the trend and sell a premium experience, they go bankrupt instead.
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Aug 18, 2023 16:14
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Preoptopus posted:I dno Ryanair in Europe is basically like riding on an uncomfortable city bus but tickets are like legit 20 bucks and you can literally take a 3 day weekend vacation anywhere within the eu and spend money on comfy hotels and nice restaurants instead of air travel so it's totally worth it. This is sort of what I'm getting at. Airlines have succeeded in meeting the desires of their customers, which is to have the cheapest ticket possible regardless of how lovely the experience is. This is reflected in the fact that air travel is cheaper and more accessible than it has ever been, if you're flying economy. And they have also succeeded in meeting the desires of people who are willing to pay for the experience to not suck, because first/business/premium economy classes are all generally much more comfortable and come with more amenities than they ever have. There is a very limited customer pool for airlines that try to service a middle-road customer that is willing to pay a little bit more for a little bit better experience. Using the 787 as an example since I'm posting from one right now. When the 787 was first introduced, most airlines configured their economy cabins with 8 seats per row, letting them fit the widest (~18.5") economy seats in the industry. Pretty shortly afterward a few airlines figured out that they could instead put a 17 inch seat in the plane and fit one more seat per row. So they increased the number of seats by 12%, undercut everybody that was still in an 8-across configuration, and ended up with basically all the bookings despite the terrible uncomfortable seats because anybody that's booking economy doesn't give a poo poo how awful the experience is, they just want the cheapest flight possible. Over the next few years, every other airline followed suit because nobody would pay the higher ticket prices on the airlines with the better economy product. So economy has gotten more unpleasant, but it's not for no reason, and it arguably hasn't "gotten worse" since the #1 factor that customers desire is cheaper tickets, and the tickets have gotten cheaper.
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Aug 18, 2023 19:44
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USB-C is awesome for moving the laptop between docks, dock compatibility with multiple laptops, and not having to carry a charger in your laptop bag
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Aug 23, 2023 14:32
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euphronius posted:That’s how o would interpret it Basically every company that has ever had a customer-friendly return policy has had to change it because of jackasses abusing the poo poo out of it. My favorites were people picking up piles of LL Bean stuff at thrift stores and then swapping it in bulk for brand new stuff, and Costco telling people they will no longer accept live Christmas tree returns after Christmas.
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You Are A Elf posted:I just checked and: Fun fact, Kmart absolutely dominates the retail market in Guam. They have this gigantic superstore that is THE place to get anything and is packed all the time.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:tbh I'm not sure I believe the idea that suddenly abuse of the policy spiked and it got taken away bc 'people can't have nice things'. Social media and the increased speed of information sharing have definitely created an environment that makes it easier for a few abusers to rapidly turn into lots and lots of abusers Like when the $1 coin was introduced, the mint would sell you coins at actual value with no shipping fee and no credit card fee. A handful of people turned it into a money printing machine using credit card points, but not that many, and it lasted a couple years before being shut down. If that happened now, it would get posted on /r/churning 5 minutes after it went live and have 100,000 people buying coins on their Amex on the same day.
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Not sure what response would have been any more useful given the missing information regarding what OS or browser are being used.
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evobatman posted:I tried the "new" Outlook. My task list went from 5-8 lines of 12 pt font to taking up my entire vertical screen height. I actually really like the new outlook if and only if you have a portrait-orientation monitor to put it on
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Sep 20, 2023 01:05
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The fact that the prepaid debit card is an Amex is irrelevant to the anecdote; Visa prepaid debit cards are just as janky to try to cash out. This is why scammers are always asking people to pay with iTunes gift cards instead of debit cards with actual money on them. The random stores that don't take Amex at all are rare at this point, largely because all the small businesses that used to refuse to take it use Square now. I have a Visa in my wallet for Costco, but I only use it for something else like once a year.
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For a while I worked adjacent to some people whose corporate card was Diner's Club, which, lmao
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Sep 23, 2023 01:09
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I'm sure there's legitimate examples of Airbnbs with absurd rules but I've stayed in probably 100+ different ones and never been asked to do more than wash the dishes that I use, take the trash out, and start a load in the washing machine. So yeah "chores", but a small price to pay for having a full kitchen and in-unit laundry.
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Sep 24, 2023 17:04
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Podcasts are a scourge. Yeah let me waste a whole hour listening to some dipshit instead of reading for 5 minutes. Their only redeeming characteristic is that you have to deliberately seek them out, unlike when you're trying to read an article and instead there's a loving video.
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Sep 28, 2023 05:10
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Laserface posted:would be nice if Apple (because Google/Android never will) forced devs to include granularity in their notification settings. sick of delivery apps and Uber spamming me because they noticed I havent used the app in the last 24hrs. Just tell me when my food/ride is arriving and nothing else. Android does this. Long-press the notification and then press the gear icon.
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Oct 2, 2023 05:08
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Beartaco posted:Anyone who gives a poo poo about Elon Musk deserves to be trolled by the mods. These forums got shittier because of the weird celebrity worship that surrounds him. It makes sense that goons love Musk since he's basically what you'd get if Lowtax was alive and a billionaire.
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Oct 3, 2023 00:06
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Steam updated itself and now the window can't be moved from the center of my primary monitor, and it's displaying a big banner that it will refuse to run on Windows 7 after January 1.
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Time_pants posted:Every major sport in the entire country, year-round. The only league that blacks out based on stadium attendance is the NFL, and only when the game is on over-the-air TV. The other leagues' blackouts are because they have sold exclusive broadcast rights to some other broadcaster; e.g. you can't watch the Mariners on MLB.tv if you live in Washington, because the Root Sports cable channel carries all the games exclusively in the state.
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This is as good a time as any to remind people that AccuWeather's business model is to take the freely available National Weather Service forecasts, repackage them, and charge for them, and that they have repeatedly lobbied Congress to make it illegal for the National Weather Service to provide free forecasts to the public. Don't use AccuWeather
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Quote-Unquote posted:I once worked for a company where the marketing director refused to believe that around half of the customers in our database had opted out of marketing information. He demanded that I 'accidentally' opt everyone in and if there was any backlash then to blame it on a computer glitch. I refused, because not only is that illegal in the UK but I was the registered data protection officer for the company, meaning I personally would be on the hook. It's absolutely blowing my mind that fully half of the people receiving marketing emails continue to receive them when they have the option to stop.
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teen witch posted:I am buying plane tickets and so help me god, first up against the wall Airlines publish minimum connection times at each airport they have connections in, they assume on-time arrival, worst-case arrival gate and departure gate without an airline change, and an able-bodied adult that can walk briskly but doesn't have to run. They're generally pretty accurate since the airline doesn't want to fly your flight with your seat empty--I've been within 10 minutes of MCT at least 50 times and never missed a connection when I arrived on time. Most big hubs have a 35 or 40 minute MCT. Anyway, if it's the best itinerary for you, you should get it unless you have kids or mobility issues. It doesn't take nearly as long to empty a plane out as it feels like, and the published arrival/departure times are when the boarding door opens/closes, not when the plane lands or takes off. The only airports I can think of that I wouldn't do a 40 minute connection are Dulles and Heathrow. Cerekk fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Oct 18, 2023 |
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I think I'd prefer 2019 to 1999 if I was anything other than a straight male
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LividLiquid posted:I change my wallpaper to a new piece of scenery every month, corresponding to the weather and season. Flickr is has been dead for as long as this forum but has lots of great high res landscape photos (if you wade through the dreck) and lets you specifically search for results that are released under a creative commons license
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Oct 22, 2023 01:54
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maxwellhill posted:Assumes you have Windows. On Ubuntu, even when you pick the trust notification, the phone will never mount at all if it's your first attempt at plugging it in, until you unplug it and start over Nobody running Linux is going to be unable to figure out how to get files off of a phone.
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Wifi Toilet posted:Probably, but they figured out how to make money playing video games which my generation wasn’t able to crack. Gen Z is making money playing video games. The oldest Gen Alphers are preteens.
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Intuit: "Hey we're making TurboTax suck even worse poo poo than before. Deal with it or spend 12 hours filling out paper forms, you stupid gently caress."
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withak posted:Use freetaxusa.com (not a scam) instead. That site only works if your taxes are pretty straightforward unfortunately.
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DicktheCat posted:The default calendar app on android has started making GBS threads the bed and I'm not here for it. I already wasn't happy with it- I take a shot every 5 days instead of once a week, and the app simply doesn't have the option to set a recurring reminder like that. It's a computer, why should it have this limitation, I don't know. Create new event or task -> click where it says "do not repeat" -> custom -> every 5 days
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It's unreasonable to expect YouTube to provide its services at a loss, but there's also nothing on YouTube worth watching an ad for. Hopefully the whole site falls into the Myspace-Digg Memorial Hole of Obscurity.
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Sentient Data posted:Weekly grocery ad called out the butter sale as being valid on 16oz and 13oz sizes, so that's apparently next as they run through stock This is going to be so annoying for baking. "Add two and 6/13ths sticks of softened butter"
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Cars reached their apogee in like 2009 where they had all the modern safety features and ease of use but they didn't have touch screen entertainment systems, just bluetooth and an aux port Cars in 2009 had basically none of the modern safety or ease of use features. Blind spot monitor, cross-traffic warning, pedestrian detection, all no. Lane keeping and auto braking, also no. Lane departure warning and obstacle detection, maybe, barely, on high end luxury cars only, and it was dogshit. No android auto/car play, no voice commands. Suction cup a TomTom to your windshield and plug it into the cigarette lighter to navigate anywhere. Old cars suck poo poo. Get something that drives itself and you will never go back. If you hate cars that don't have physical buttons for important stuff, get a Mazda.
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MrQwerty posted:cars can't drive themselves and this is magical thinking that leads to dangerous complacency hth Sorry about your old lovely car, try not to kill anyone while you operate it without the benefit of sensors that can see beyond the limits of human perception and control systems that can react a million timea faster than a person.
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