Imagine the social standing were reversed
https://lemmy.world/post/43027519
Imagine the social standing were reversed - Lemmy.World
I mean at the very beginning, 90s, early 2000s, when he finally got into the
crosshairs of the authorities. SWAT storming his mansion an hour after the first
victim shows up at the police station? Brought into custody, decades of jail
following conviction? No. Depositions, inconvenient questions, police
desperately going through his garbage etc. Just imagine it were some low-life in
his trailer, luring underage girls from the Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Bush, Gates
family into his dirty trailer. Would the same happen? Imagine how the local
police would talk about it: A: I don’t believe it - now this dirtbag lured
Cheney’s granddaughter in! B: Well, he got it coming now. That family has great
lawyers. A: Oh yes. The best. They gonna deposition him. B: Gonna deposition
him, absolutely. And if he doesn’t show up - bad look on him. A: That’d look
BAD. He wouldn’t dare. B: By the way, I just heard back from the law firm that
represents the Gates family. A: He dragged his granddaughter into his trailer
last year, didn’t he? B: Yep. You wouldn’t believe it: This dirtbag sent his
shady wannabe-PI methhead neighbour to sneak into the Gates’ garden and shine a
flashlight into fucking Bill Gates granddaughter’s room and filmed her while she
was sleeping! A: Ha, he won’t have much luck with that! I bet they called the
law firm right away? B: They absolutely did, and action followed on the foot! A
senior partner drove over there, picked her up and hid her in a hotel. A:
Fantastic, that wannabe-PI clearly bit off more than he could chew that time! B:
Oh yes.
my smart hot air fryer, every single time
https://lemmy.world/post/37199345
my smart hot air fryer, every single time
https://lemmy.world/post/37198720
my smart hot air fryer, every single time - Lemmy.World
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Son told me that we need his main stick accessible at all times - should have listened
https://lemmy.world/post/36221126
Son told me that we need his main stick accessible at all times - should have listened - Lemmy.World
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/834119aa-9336-4f1a-b409-015f7574949d.png] So
it has been in the hallway for two weeks after my son brought it home. Today, I
decided to put it with his some 30 other sticks, after I tripped about it for
the 10th time. But just about 15 minutes later, I got a call from the
playground: Code blue, plane on roof, plane on roof! So I picked up the stick
and rushed over to the playground. Happened to run into the the mom of the child
whose plane was on the roof, nodded at her saying “don’t worry, I got this” as I
passed her. And I got it. But it turned out: She had no idea what I was talking
about or why I had the giant stick, since the children didn’t even bother her
with the problem; they went right to calling me.
Amazon was practical, but Alternatives are often neither expensive nor time-consuming
https://lemmy.world/post/33707783
Amazon was practical, but Alternatives are often neither expensive nor time-consuming - Lemmy.World
I was a huge fan of Amazon from a usability perspective. Unmatched, I’d say! But
there are obvious reasons against it: Worker exploitation and the political
situation. Got to admit, I’m a “soft-quitter”, still got my account and still
order there as a last resort. My latest purchase: Several different types of
heavy-duty storage racks. Method used for shelf type one (4x): - Amazon for
search & comparison - tried the product on geizhals.de [http://geizhals.de], but
to my surprise, it omitted the manufacturer as an option! - went directly to the
manufacturer, who had a very decent paypal checkout integration Price compared
to Amazon: Exactly the same. Method used for shelf type two (2x): - Wanted to
try the new ChatGPT “Agent” to do a research based on a list of criteria. (I
know, it’s not European!) - Quite happy with the results, which included a table
with metrics such as “price per storage area”. It did not include any Amazon
results and showed mostly manufacturer stores - It had this as the top result:
https://juskys.de/products/2er-set-lagerregal-easy-160-x-80-x-40-cm#%3A~%3Atext=Mit+bis+zu+640+kg%2Cbelastbar
[https://juskys.de/products/2er-set-lagerregal-easy-160-x-80-x-40-cm#%3A%7E%3Atext=Mit+bis+zu+640+kg%2Cbelastbar]
- I decided to go with a bigger version of that - Checkout was just slightly
quirky, but lost no more than 3 minutes compared to Amazon This is what ChatGPT
Agent generated. Is it a viable shopping method in general? We’ll see. In any
case, it’s not European, and there are huge environmental issues with it.
Similar results might be gained from asking online, like in a home community.
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not easy to quit Amazon completely
https://lemmy.world/post/29843694
not easy to quit Amazon completely - Lemmy.World
I’ve been on it since things got bad in the US. And in most cases, I found a
good replacement. Different Pizza delivery, book order, convenient even, most of
the time. For general products I switched to Otto (Germany) mostly, Thalia for
books. And I was able to get the biggest recent order through there (two big
screens, screen mount, cables), as well as some smaller ones. Alternate would
have been another option. Cost is significantly higher, often +10 % - +20% for
the same product and no free shipping. But what I miss most is convenience. The
whole process at Amazon is just working great, especially for stupid people with
bad attention (that might be me). Miss a little detail, and you ordered with
advanced payment, adding double the clicks and inputs to do a wire transfer. Or
not realise you did that and wonder why the product never ships a few days
later. Buy from a marketplace seller who ships through DHL, but can’t use a DHL
pickup location anyway. What I always disliked about Amazon was the exploitation
of employees. How much does that even save per product? I bet that the people
handling my order would be happy with EUR 2 extra split among them, as they
certainly handle many orders per hour, and I’d be happy to pay that. Is there
really no market for high convenience with fair prices? I do have 10 minutes
extra per day to work through a lacking order flow for a good cause, but it
would take lots of resources to catch up to that level of convenience.
A simple explanation for the miracle?
https://lemmy.world/post/23056180
A simple explanation for the miracle? - Lemmy.World
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