KoboldCoterie

You know, this is actually a hot take and I could get behind iT.

If you have to add an out-of-place question mark to "comply with a rule", chances are you are not complying with the spirit of that rule.

Jesus, it'd be easier to list the parts you don't have to remove.

From what I've seen, the difference is that they either ship it same day, or wait a few days to ship it. It still arrives in the same amount of time from when it ships until I receive it, they just take their time (maybe artificially) in getting it out the door.

I cancelled Prime late last year, and haven't really missed it, either.

Leaving Prime also meant the end of free Amazon Prime Video (you can still rent or buy many movies without it), but I’ve been able to bear it.

While I had Prime, I think there was 1, maybe 2 instances where I wanted to watch something and it was actually included with Prime. Every other time, Amazon Video had the movie, but they wanted an additional fee to watch it, so this was absolutely no loss.

One thing to note: Every time I check out on Amazon, now, they offer me a reduced price 1-week "trial" of Prime, to get the expedited shipping, for like... $5 or so? If you cancel yours, and also see this offer: You can take the offer, submit your order (and get the free 2 day shipping), then once you get the shipping confirmation, go in and cancel the Prime subscription. Since you've had it for only a few hours, Amazon actually refunds the price you paid. In effect, you get the shipping benefits for free. We'll see if they close this loophole, but for now, it works.

See, you could have just said "Oh, silly me! Thanks!", and nobody would have thought less of you, but now, everyone thinks you're a prick.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

It also has a neat kind of crowd-sourced verification attached to it.

If someone asks a question, and someone else gives an incorrect answer, chances are good that someone will see that and correct them. If, on the other hand, everyone goes and looks up the answer, some people might get an incorrect answer and have no one to correct it, further disseminating false information.

Obviously this isn't perfect, and requires that the information is fact-based in the first place, but it's interesting to think about any time you see someone correct someone else on the internet.

I think the majority of Americans don't really see a dilemma there.

Sure, but you can refactor code without completely changing or removing functional and widely used features. Especially looking at Win11 vs. Win10, it just feels malicious at this point. "How can we shoehorn in more advertising, AI and telemetrics?"

Based on the progress from Win7 to Win8 to Win10 to Win11, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" doesn't seem to be a prevailing mantra at Microsoft.

If 500m could take down Meta, I bet we could crowd fund that shit. Someone set up a GoFundMe!

You wash your towels after a single use? Just so we're clear, you're supposed to wash yourself before you use the towel... they shouldn't be that dirty... right?