A hitman 😃
Yeah it’s always a sting scam 😔
Do you think they’d blame you for ordering a hit on Putin?
If he ever pops up outside of Russia I think the assassins are going to have to form a queue.
Based on experience with stores in my area currently? Groceries. Incorrect and forgotten items, incorrect prices, wilted produce, nearly thawed frozen foods, swapping significantly more expensive alternatives despite my checking the “do not substitute” option.
I’ve never seen the appeal. Paying more for shittier stuff and waiting longer.
Get to know your local green grocer and Butcher and pay the least for the best stuff.
Some people don’t have a choice, or find it convenient for reasons that aren’t relevant to you.
You personally not needing something, doesn’t mean no one else does.
Honestly, imagine being that self cantered…It has been a god send for me. My wife is completely disabled and I’m her caregiver. Having someone else do my groceries and we still get good fresh food has been amazing. It is so much better than six or seven years ago.
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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
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.I mean it’s no different than any other form of advertisement. Just do your own research.
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!)
My boomer uncle falls for all that crap. He means well, so I’m not trying to take a dig at him or others like him, they just don’t know better.
But holy fuck did these scumbags find the right avenue to pawn off Chinese junk.
He knows I fly my drones every now and then and he once recommended one of the ones he saw on a YouTube video to me. I know the one he’s talking about.
The commercial makes it out to be like “this is the same drone the US navy uses for their exercises, costing over $2.5 billion in R&D. But now can be yours for only $19.99!”
In reality, it’s a $5 toy from AliBaba…
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.
Depends on what you want it for, honestly.
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.
My beef with the commercials that were tricking my uncle was that they make it out to be that it’s more than a toy, when it’s just a toy. If they advertised it more accurately, I wouldn’t have seen a problem with it. I bought one of those as my first drone but knew it was cheap and just a toy and then gradually bought more as time progressed.
As far as something more complex, it’s a bit more tricky to explain unless you spend some time doing some research and it can get a bit lengthy for me to explain here. I’d recommend checking out reviews and watching some YouTube videos on recommendations to get a familiarity with what may be most suitable here for something more complex than a toy.
But the gist of it is that if you want something a little more high quality, reliable, better camera, better range, etc., then you have a few options. But to summarize: for the typical drones with fancy features and easy to use for beginners, you’ll typically want to go with a name brand like DJI but these can be somewhat pricey, as little as $150 used and sky is the limit brand new, depending on what you want. For most consumers, average pricing will be around $400, more or less for one of these.
Then there is another category which is more classified as quadcopters than drones but still the same basic concept of 4 motors that allow the device to hover and move around and also use a camera. Most of these are very specialized, similar to RC cars and you’ll find these at hobby shops. Most people use these for racing or doing stunts. Used will run you as little as $100 and sky is the limit here depending on what you want, but average for most people is $400. 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. These don’t usually have the fancy features like flying back home on a single button press or when the battery gets low or tracking capabilities. The cameras are also usually static, in one place and don’t have gimbals which allow the camera to look one side or the other. The batteries also usually only last for under 10 minutes, which doesn’t seem like a lot but usually is enough for a single round and you’ll typically carry multiple batteries to switch out as needed when out and about. But the higher horsepower and camera quality is what is usually eating the battery time.
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?)
Hey sorry about my late reply.
The one you linked from Amazon seems like a decent one for a child around her age. Not too complicated but you bring up a good point about the smartphone aspect of it that I had forgotten.
You likely would want to avoid any of these that require a smartphone to use especially since they’re coming from China and not something you may be fond of having on your phone. Additionally, and this could go one of two ways, it will require the use of a smartphone to use the drone for her which has a pro and con depending on how you look at it.
Pro that she can’t just up and take the drone out flying on her own whenever she pleases which you may want that control. Con that it will require her to use your phone any time she wants to go along with it.
Additionally, I don’t like this because over time, those apps can be lost to time whether it be it’s no longer available for download or lost to which app you need because you no longer have the manual to know which app was required. But you do have that same thing happening to a physical controller, so it’s up to preference on that.
As to the durability…I actually have to say that for the cheaper toy drones like the way you linked, they often can take quite a beating that my more expensive, more hobby adult drones cannot handle. Most of these cheaper toys are made of plastic but unibody design and most often will have guards around the propellers which can help protect them if bumping into walls or other obstacles like trees. My first cheap toy drone was like this and handled a lot of abuse from my first few flights of learning how to fly.
The more expensive ones can be prone to more breakage, but the trade off is that this is because those pieces were designed to be removed and replaced, so repairability is a thing. Just know that on the one you shared, it doesn’t seem to have prop guards which could be a problem here and you may want to see if you can find one that does have propeller guards so when she inevitably hits a tree or a wall (it will happen), the chances of the propellers being destroyed is much less than with this design where the propellers are exposed.
Which brings me to another point of safety…the more expensive drone propellers can take a finger or at least do some serious damage requiring an ER visit if you were to stick your finger in while the propellers are turning. The toy drones have less of a chance of this but the risk of injury is still there. Having the propeller guards can help to avoid this for children so they’re less likely to be injured in this or similar ways.
The cheaper toys are not designed in the same way. If the propeller gets damaged, then there’s not much hope in getting a replacement, sorry to say.
You could think of it as comparing a life size car on the road to a Power Wheels car made for children. The kids car can withstand hitting a tree at its highest speed whereas an adult car cannot. But if heavily damaged, you can replace and repair much of the adult car but can’t with the child’s Power Wheels car.
As to your last question…Im unsure about open source boards that could handle that, but it’s possible. I do believe that Hollywood movie studios utilize quadcopters that have the capability like you’re describing, where you can control the drone and the camera separately, but not aware of any consumer or open source drones that can do that.
But this hobby is very unique and new things happen every day, so never say never.
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.
Bombs. The post office HATE that.
Any clothing other than T-Shirts. The sizing is almost always wrong from what the store says it is. I don’t even order a lot of shirts online because 90% of the time, I check the sizing and their 3XL size is the size of every normal place’s small.
I liked Hyena Agenda and Nomad Complex… But they both shut down earlier this year :(
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.
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Fun fact: lots of those sd cards are actually fake. Have you tried actually putting 128gb of data on it?
It’s pretty easy for them to put a scummy firmware on it that reports having a significantly larger size than they actually have.
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Anything that’s easy to fake like that I wouldn’t risk personally. All they have to do is put the wrong sticker on it. It’s not hard to make a forgery.
Then you’re stuck trying to deal with the Chinese company to get your money back. I’d much rather just go to a box store and pick one up, at least I know what I’m getting, and I know that if it turns out not to be the real product I’ll have no issue returning it.
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Anything that I can buy myself in a store. I am so. frigging. tired. of tripping over personal shoppers with monster carts. How hard can it be to let the overnight shift fill those orders?
I fucking hate that so much. You can’t walk through Walmart without 10 employees dragging around and blocking the aisles with those giant carts shopping for people who are too fucking lazy to shop for themselves, half of them under the guise of muh COVID. Fucking over it.
Lol, you’re getting salty at the people ordering pickup because you’re being inconvenienced by the way the store handles it?
Yeah, blame the people, not the corporation. Good little consumer.
I am mad at the corporation, what the hell do you think caused this to happen? Fucking employees HAVE to shop for lazy people. Both these lazy people and the companies are shit.
Those carts are just as big as regular shopping carts. Just a bit taller. It isn’t that big of a deal lul. Also for every big shopper cart there isn’t 5 or more regular carts filling up the store and blocking lanes. Really it’s convenient. What peeves me is the resrockers blocking so much area with their pallets but I know they also restock overnight so it’s unavoidable if you wanna get product that just sold out.
Where I’m at those carts are huge. Takes way way more space than necessary and it’s something I don’t like.
The store shoppers are usually gathering orders for multiple people. If they weren’t there, 3 other “average size Americans” would be in your way.
You know who doesn’t get inconvenienced? Me as I sit in my car listening to the radio while someone loads my groceries for an extra 5 fucking dollars. My entire bi-monthly shopping trip takes 15-20 minutes vs. an hour or more inside the store (and also having to deal with the people inside). Money well spent.
shopping for people who are too fucking lazy to shop for themselves
Fuck off ableist, sincerely, one of millions who are unable to physically go to the shop and rely on delivery to survive.
Then you’re not too lazy to shop for yourself. How could you possibly construe that that way. I’m very clearly not talking about you. But make it about yourself You’re all butt hurt because I have an opinion.
Then stop shopping there.
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 considered identifying dimensions/measurements that work for your body type? That way, you can have high confidence that the fit you’re ordering aligns with what works.
The brands Naked and Famous or Unbranded have fits that accommodate athletic thighs.
I’ve been wanting to do this, but didn’t think about new was of tailoring. I was imagining having to go to an old school tailoring and drop massive money on custom pants, or continue wearing pants that are too big. Thanks for the recommendations
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.
SD cards. They’re frequently fake.
When I had covid, I did do Instacart so I could get groceries delivered but I never wanted to get produce through it because no one can pick fruits and vegetables quite like you can.
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?
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.
