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  • Get him some of that crystal stick deodorant, it actually works until your armpit bacteria adjust to it. Usually you'll get a year or so use out of it before selection grows exclusively resistant bacteria.

    I had a housemate who was into Facebook health influencers at one point, absolutely nothing would reach him when we told him "you stink, you need to keep yourself clean." We had to punt him, the BO was just one of the problems we had with him.

  • Better to figure this out late than never I guess. Wasn't this obvious 10+y ago though? Facebook has always been a predatory propaganda firehose.

  • Jeb!

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  • Any way Jeb! eats Bolognese is the correct way

  • Oh yeah, that's the cheap part when compared to medical care

    Edit: imagine monthly premiums ranging from $700-1200 with an out of pocket (monthly) max spend of $16k+. Oh, and dental and vision are separate policies.

  • I guess our local loonies just kept the panic party going for an extra decade or two

  • "The rapture started and I was sent back here, God really wants us to stop using fossil fuels"

  • You don't remember the religious nutjobs playing records backwards at 3/4 or 2x speed hunting for audio that they could claim was "I love Satan" subliminal messaging? Right up through the mid 90s we had all sorts of psychotic make believe like that.

  • The satanic panic rolled right through the mid 90s where I lived

  • "I've investigated and my companies are the most efficient!"

    🙄

  • I prefer buying refurb laptops on eBay personally. eBay's buyer protections are top tier, you can return the machine easily if it's not exactly what was represented in the listing or if there's any undisclosed damage or loss of function. Essentially you're getting what the listing showed you or it's like 5 clicks for a seller paid return label to send it back for a full refund (including any shipping costs both ways.)

    Amazon is hit and miss in my experience, they care about their cut of that particular transaction and moving product out of the warehouse ASAP and not so much about whether you're coming back to make more transactions in the future. Their customer service is atrocious too, you have to fight for a refund a lot of the time.

    Edit, more detail in case you really want fleaBay to work for you:

    If you're going to shop eBay regularly go look up their buyer protection policies (so you know what they can and will do for you) and also take a look at the item condition and listing policies that apply to sellers.

    Sellers often list items under the wrong condition category (like selling broken things in "Used" condition with an "AS-IS" disclaimer) and try to weasel in "as-is no refunds" or similar wording into the listing description. Well, they can say whatever they want, but unless the item meets the condition specified in eBay's listing policy you're still entitled to an easy refund at no cost if that item arrives at your door in less than fully functional condition (and with all cosmetic damage clearly described in the listing before the sale.)

    Once you understand how eBay handles policy disputes (they always adhere to policy, and almost always find in favor of the buyer when they don't) you can hold scummy sellers over a barrel and demand a partial refund when items arrive damaged, or just ship the whole mess back to them at their expense and wash your hands of it.

    TL;DR: eBay is a great place to buy, not so much to sell

  • Damn, that's quite the change from the "d&d is satanic1111" of the 90s

  • Judgy

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  • That's just resting cat face. If you open the door he'll come in and be chill.

  • They lobby for public health and investment spending that will guarantee their own income rather than actually curing health conditions.

    Why invest in curing a health condition when you can sell symptom management for a person's entire lifetime instead?

  • That's one way to get up close and personal with a cobra chicken

  • I miss windows eating my work when it chooses to install updates and reboot automatically while I'm asleep

    Edit: even after I've set registry flags and policies to "never automatically reboot" - it's always fun losing 4 days of work because windows randomly says "fuck you"