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  • Again, you’re not the customer

    I don't want to create an entire thread arguing because I believe that you value your viewpoints as much as I value mine, but I think this might be the main area where our viewpoints diverge because when I'm buying something, then yes, I am the customer. And when I buy something then my expectation is that I will then own that something and I will do with it as I please.

  • the present economy is actually very good at making exactly what people want to buy

    Don't take this personally, but that's bullshit.

    Look at cars and phones as an example. Manufacturers decide what the customers want and then push it on us. No one asked for a phone that doesn't have a replaceable battery, doesn't have a headphone jack, has microbezels, is covered in glass so if you drop it you have to buy a new one, or you have to buy a case to wrap it in. No one asked for a car that is sending all of your data to the manufacturer, has a huge-ass touch screen that can't be customized in any way, has features that don't work while the car is in motion, lets your insurance company know when you accelerate too quickly, and plays ads when you are at a stoplight.

    I've been looking at getting a new washer and even those are terrible and require connecting the appliance to a wireless network and installing an app on your phone to get full functionality.

    There are VERY few manufacturers of anything out there that actually give a shit about what the consumer really wants, and instead will provide the minimum needed to get the consumer to buy while providing the maximum return for investors.

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  • Oh look, it's all of the states run by conservative governments... and most have been run by conservative governments for MANY years. So they've been running inefficiently all this time?

  • The bill would create criminal penalties for election officials who register any noncitizens, even if they did so by mistake

    Creating a job that no sane person would ever want to take. The people who do take the job will be overworked, since their office will always be understaffed, and they will tend to err on the side of caution and deny registration as the default.

    How about also creating criminal penalties for election officials who refuse to register any citizen, even if they did so by mistake? /s

  • Try being more direct, you can still write out your whole email with the full description, but put in a section somewhere that's easy to see that's labeled as "QUESTIONS" and then enumerate the questions you want answered. I often will have the whole section bold and further highlight important words in red. This makes it easier for people to answer inline on the reply and helps ensure questions weren't missed.

    The truth is, most people don't like the 'email' part of the job and may only check it once or twice a day and I'd most likely just skimming through several messages and not fully devoting much time to each message. By making it easier for them to reply you end up with a better result.

    You can also use this when you expect someone to take action from your email. Let them know precisely what you want them to do, and make it very easy to find 'The Ask'.

    EDIT: Or, you can just downvote any comments that actually offer suggestions and stay of the opinion that everyone else is wrong and only you are correct.

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  • "President Trump has a spine of steel, and he will not break."

    Maybe that's because he isn't the one who will feel pressure from higher prices. He doesn't care who this hurts because it isn't hurting him.

  • Legal experts warn no U.S. law permits outsourcing American incarceration

    More importantly, are there any laws banning outsourcing American incarceration? Because they don't need a law to allow it, they just there to not be a law banning it.