A hitman 😃
Yeah it’s always a sting scam 😔
Do you think they’d blame you for ordering a hit on Putin?
Anything that is advertised by youtubers and podcasters. You have to be a special kind of gullible to buy from these new age door to door salesman
I mean it’s no different than any other form of advertisement. Just do your own research.
Maybe it depends on the podcast.
While I think you might be referring to “male enhancement pills” and crap like that, I steer clear of the kind of podcast that would even consider pushing that sort of thing, in fact find that product ecosystem kind of interesting sometimes.
So far from the type of company that advertises in this medium, I’ve bought underwear, a massage machine for muscle spasms, and a monthly gift box service where I’ve gotten some very nice articles of clothing.Magic Spoon is pretty good though. Although you can buy it at Whole Foods now.
I dont fuck with doordash or ubereats, try not to get pizza delivered either if I can help it. Markup is ridiculous along with expected tip.
exactly. pickup that stuff yourself and it’s basically half-price. People who have groceries and food deliveries all the time, I’m just confused by. Like, how much money are you ok with wasting??
bro Im depressed, delivery pizza is basically the only way to keep me fed well atm
I broke my leg and the first 3 months back home I relied on delivery, Doordash cut into my savings a lot. My proximity to a grocery store with free delivery lead me to start buying groceries and planning meals, which is cool
Also taught me some perspective, a $10 pizza with a $5 delivery fee and $5 tip is still a pizza, and we have pizza at home
along with expected tip.
Awful culture, where no company will pay you what you are worth.
I was more talking about how if you don’t tip well enough your food may take a long while before anyone bothers accepting the trip and getting it to you, but that’s also true.
Anything that goes directly in or on my body unless it’s bought direct from the manufacturer. You can never be 100% sure that food, supplements, shampoo, soap, etc. on amazon aren’t fake/counterfeit.
I’ve gotten shrooms online . Worked out great ! But other than that I’ve never ordered anything edible online .
I got liquid foundation on Amazon once and I’m pretty sure it was counterfeit, it was so watery. :(
A majority of the things that sponsor YouTube videos. As great as much of that stuff is, one must not forget the reason many people advertise products online is to serve as a loophole when something about it is too questionable for the stores. I previously mentioned MagicSpoon cereal for example, and as good as it might be in moderation, it’s a well-known FDA nightmare because things with artificial sweeteners are so antsy to get themselves on shelves. Probably my favorite example though is Established Titles, which I’m known to simultaneously make fun of often, point out how over-the-top it is with its scammy reputation, and admire its intentions since it’s technically trying to help in ways that surpass Ecosia (and to the next person who replies to this, that’s Lady Leni to you!)
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As a novice, how can I tell the difference between a decent drone and a crap one? My daughter asked for one for Christmas and, although I’m not getting one for her this year (she’s definitely too young to fly it responsibly) I need to start getting educated on the topic.
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If your daughter is a smaller child, like under 13 years old, a cheap drone from Alibaba isn’t a horrible choice since kids just want to have some fun flying a thing around the house or in the backyard. And if it does crash and break, it’s not too much to get upset by because it was so cheap and your expectations are lower. You can get these for very cheap, as little as $5 from Chinese websites or $20 on Amazon. I wouldn’t recommend spending anything over $60 for one of these types of toy drones, though. Some don’t have cameras, and others that do will have very poor quality and the camera will be static, meaning you can’t move it around to see other directions while flying.
Then there is another category which is more classified as quadcopters… Most people use these for racing or doing stunts.
She’s 5, LOL. Also, she seemed primarily interested in it as a camera platform rather than racing or stunts.
Any opinions on this? I nearly impulse-bought it for about $40 just before Black Friday, but (aside from coming to my senses about a drone for a 5-year-old) I was a bit leery of the “smartphone app” control scheme, especially since I’m pretty militant about avoiding proprietary Android apps in general (and that goes double for ones for controlling weird off-brand hardware). I guess what they describe as “manual adjustable camera” is the “static” camera thing you’re warning me about? I can see how it’d be inconvenient to not be able to look both ahead and at the ground without having to tilt the whole aircraft/fly forward.
You can buy kits or the quadcopter preassembled and then also buy the battery and remote separately, which is nice, kind of like building a computer where you can take your time and spend money on a longer period of time. Buy the board or even 3D print one, then buy the controller board, the motors, the blades, etc. and assemble it for flying.
I have to admit, being a big fan of Free Software and somebody who fancies myself a bit of a DIYer, the idea of building it myself appeals to me. Of course, I’m also cheap and I doubt I’d be able to compete with a preassembled Chinese toy drone on price (unless I disqualify all the app-controlled ones, maybe), so I’m not sure. Any advice re: controller boards and software, and other components? I ran across this article from 2019 just now, but for all I know it might be obsolete/incomplete/written by somebody with weird opinions.
The biggest other concern I have is crashes, since I can only assume a small child pilot will be bad at it. Do drones often, you know, survive, or should I expect to be replacing parts and/or the whole thing relatively often? Should I lean towards DIY and 3D-printing because of the repairability factor?
I think I might be coalescing on something like “a very cheap 1080p or better camera drone (as opposed to FPV racing quad) DIY kit, but controlled with a proper standalone transmitter, or at least a Free Software Android app.” Not sure such a thing exists, but I think it’s what I want. (Do they make open-source flight controller PCBs with extra channel(s) to support controlling a [(maybe) pan - tilt - (maybe) zoom] camera, or would that kick me into the start-from-scratch-with-an-Arduino realm? For that matter, can a movable drone camera even be had as an off-the-shelf part?)
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What’s the deal with MagicSpoon?
So for context, a lot of foods have swerved their way around having true sugar in their ingredients once a substitute was realized. They call these artificial sweeteners, and they’re advertised as a replacement for sugar, but because they’re also not as natural compared to sugar (by far), there has been concern they’re carcinogens (which a lot of things we use are, such as air freshener spray, though this isn’t to say there is anything against them, just they cannot be taken for granted).
Along comes Magic Spoon, a cereal brand where the lack of added sugar is one of the pillars and which also advertises more vivid flavors. To the point that a lot of people will be arguing that you might as well just swear off cereal. I’ve seen a lot of people in stores sell Magic Spoon, but these are typically pre-bought in bulk and put in tiny family-run convenience stores, otherwise the main source is YouTube videos because they know the big sellers are more cautious.
Its Stevia right?
I think Stevia is one of the less controversial natural sweeteners. I say natural because pure stevia extract or whatever the single ingredient variety is grows just like sugarcane and is refined into a table/product-ready in no worse a way than for regular sugar.
I think MagicSpoon is another product marketing itself almost exclusively online in the same way that Cards Against Humanity did and found much success with while slashing their costs to produce and market a novel product without the enormous overhead of having to negotiate deals with chain stores for an already saturated market of shelf space.
Grocery stores are incredibly complex and to appear on the shelf requires demanding contracts that put the pressure on the supplier as opposed to the store itself which ostensibly holds all the cards and can make many one-sided demands of the supplier that may not be practical for a smaller company like MagicSpoon (I’m assuming).
They’re certainly no Kellogs or Post or whatever large cereal brand in terms of market share since its a niche product (Most people are addicted to sugar so their audience is definitionally limited to those who have already quit sugar or those who want to replace their sugary breakfast cereals with something containing no sugar and maybe that has other desirable nutrient profiles consistent with the larger profile of their general diet.
Anything I can pick up in a store, during a less than 30 minute bike ride. I live in a European city, so that means almost everything.
Bombs. The post office HATE that.
Pants bro. I’m a dude and I got some tree trunk thighs and a big ass. I can only wear relaxed fit or classic fit, and even then they’re still skinny fit.
$5 for pictures.
Find the Levi’s 5## model that fits, always buy that.
Ya. Only 514 Altheic fit work in Levis, and even then I have to buy a size too big in the waist so they fit somewhat loose in the thighs.
Have you found a way to parse what kind of denim they’ll be? I’ve got 7 pairs of 511s with at least 4 weights/mixes of denim. It’s better in store but even at the Levi’s outlet they had 3 types of denim 511s in different color sets.
This is the way.
A dinosaur
Fresh groceries is an absolute no. I always go to the market and pick out my own fruit and veggies and fish.
I do order clothes and shoes online, but never before trying them out myself and only if they don’t have the color I want in stock or if it’s appreciably cheaper online.
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I got burned too many times. Often they did substitutes that were anything but. For example, I am diabetic, and ordered diet soda, and often got regular. I ordered kosher hot dogs, got chicken franks. Salted butter when I asked for unsalted, wrong type of rice, and after a few of those, I gave up.
My wife ordered JustEgg (a mung bean egg alternative) because she’s allergic to eggs and they substituted a carton of eggs. Fortunately I was able to eat them.
As someone who orders groceries all the time, yes produce isnt great 2 outta 5 times. I get a refund for anything that isnt picked properly. Also like once every couple months my whole order gets delivered to my neighbor, then i just get a full refund after i go and pick them up.
Thank you.
How do you know how I pick fruit?
One time many years ago I ordered this knock off Panerai watch from a sketchy looking Chinese website. It did arrive a few weeks later, and it’s actually a gorgeous self-winding piece with a window to the gears on the back. Its an awesome looking watch. But I’d never do that again.
Anything frozen. It arrives semi defrosted.
I’ve learned how to order clothes this year. I was going to a wedding and was struggling to find a dress so I ordered 8 from various shops then returned the ones that didn’t work. I’d previously ordered 3 and had to send all 3 back, then I ordered the 8 and found a favourite and a back up.
For obvious reasons this will remain a very infrequent plan.
I don’t order restaurant food or fresh/frozen grocery for delivery, that’s about it really.
I do try to order from manufacturer websites when possible but on the occasions I have asked them, they say they make the same $ with Amazon fulfillment.
Lots of stuff I order online but pick up at store too. Meals, coffee, prescription drugs, wine & liquor.
Amazon often states in their agreement with sellers that the manufacturer can’t sell for less than Amazon.
Amazon also scrapes sites and lowers prices automatically when other places outprice them. It was interesting seeing this happen irl at a place I used to work at
Thank you for this insight. (Not being sarcastic, really thank you!)
I’ll order direct just to keep money from Amazon.
I refuse to buy anything from Amazon, and I will even pay extra to get it directly from the manufacturer’s site. So it’s really disheartening when I end up getting an Amazon package in the mail anyway. I think a lot of places save on space and headcount by using Amazon for fulfillment.
I even have the same issue with eBay. Some sellers are just drop-shippers for Amazon.
