I’ve used delivery on a few items when it was free, and felt a little guilty about it. Once, I added some coffee to my online order that was only available to ship, just to get it over the $35 free delivery, because it’s something I buy every week, anyway. They fucking delivered just the coffee, free or not, such a waste. But, I won’t pay a premium for it. I’m not rich.
More crappy subscriptionware. No, thanks.
Also, the last time I went to a cashier, because it was the one time I saw a long line at the self-check lane, I stood in the short line, I was third, while the cashier chatted up the customers, left the line to help another cashier with something and was generally very slow. I suspect they’re not required to be efficient anymore, and perhaps even encouraged not to be. I watched as the guy I would have been behind in the self-check line left the store while I was still second in line at the cashier.
It’s only free until they hook you.
I’m waiting for them to close the stores to customers entirely and go to pick up or delivery only.
I know that would kill impulse buying, but I think they might make it up by not needing to police the isles, and no theft.
Service Merchandise did tag pulls and pick up at the register for everything back in the 70s and 80s. That might come back.
I like self check because there’s never a line when I go. With cashiers, the policy was to only open a new register if the lines got over three deep. So, there was always at least three people in line, no matter what time of day, on average.
I’ve never waited in line since I started using the self check lanes.
Money can buy security.
People are naturally happy when they’re secure, so it seems like money buys happiness. Really, it’s just allowing you to climb out of the hole of despair we were all born into.
I’ve been 2.5 episodes into a “new” show before realizing I’d watched it before.
Seriously, tho…
Most people are decent and so don’t consider the potential problems with renting out a room.
There’s a lot more to being a landlord than just throwing an ad up and taking anyone who wants to rent. Background checks only tell you some of what they did in the past, not what they will do. There are no guarantees.
I have two rooms in my decent house I’d be willing to rent out for $400/mo. But, there’s the risk of taking on renters and then being legally liable for all the issues they bring with them. You never know what they’re going to do, and you can get stuck with them for months while you try to evict them. It can be a real fucking nightmare, to the point that I could lose my house in the most extreme situations.
So, no, thank you. I won’t be renting out rooms for an affordable amount, no matter how much I’d like to try to help.
Better to pay the small fine, than ask permission.
Fuck the techbros, fuck AI, fuck data centers, fuck billionaires.
I haven’t logged into my Amazon account in ten years, and this won’t make me do it.
Learn the difference between need and want. Stop buying crap you don’t need. And, never knowingly buy anything off Amazon.
Fuck Amazon, and Jeff Bezos. All excuses people make to willingly buy off that fucking site are bullshit.