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[Trotsky]

Around here a surprisingly low percentage of food vendors are still happy with the delivery services a few months in.

Any comments in the article about that?

I live in a smaller city (200k) that just got GrubHub and, after about six months, it's still absolutely awful. I never had a problem with it when I lived in a bigger city, but now there's about a 20% chance my food is on-time, a 20% chance it is delivered but extremely late, a 10% chance that it just never gets picked up from the restaurant and the restaurant calls me personally to let me know, and a 50% chance it gets cancelled without explanation.

 

[HereticBD]

Hmm, not something that I ever noticed or thought of. Probably one of those things that, if you don't flag it the first time you watch it, you never do.

Well, TBH, I didn't really notice it until a healthy dose of re-watches, and I don't think many others did either, until they really started dissecting it. So I guess they managed to pull the wool over most people's eyes initially with that cut. However, it's one of those "once you see it, you can't unsee it" moments. It sticks out every time I watch it now.

As for the grapple hook, yeah, it doesn't make any sense, but like you said it's just a Batman thing. I can let that shit slide.

 

[JDragon]

read an interesting article in The Economist about food delivery.
Grubhub, in the States, as well as Just Eat and Takeaway in Europe account for the largest
share of this market and are valued at $18.6bn.
wow.

BUT, they continually face competition from startups funded by seemingly bottomless wells of money by indy venture capitalists.
gotta love free trade, right?

Here in Germany, deliveroo just gave up despite backing from Amazon (and half a billion in funding just months ago).

Also, grocery delivery services do not yield profits. Supermarkt chains have them sometimes, but just because they started them (would not do so again).

 

[Jack V Savage]

Why? If some candidates are better than others, shouldn't we expect bias (skew) if coverage is, as you claim, close to perfectly fair?

I don't think that coverage is close to perfectly fair. I think there's a neutrality bias. That's unfair to superior candidates.

 

[Quipling]

IKEA vs Wayfair for a computer desk.

Which company would last 18 months? And go....

No real difference imo.

Tbh just look on craigslist or whatever. You can get something super cheap that will last 18 months or sometimes something nice for the same price as Ikea.

 

[Trotsky]

IKEA vs Wayfair for a computer desk.

Which company would last 18 months? And go....

Unless you know you're in your forever home and are buying something really expensive and nice, buying new desks is for schmucks. You can get quality desks for $50-100 on Craigslist or LetGo from someone that doesn't want to have to schlep it to a new home.

 

[Seano]

Who moved my posts to this shit thread? Just delete them next time.

 

[JDragon]

IKEA vs Wayfair for a computer desk.

Which company would last 18 months? And go....

Ikea. It's totally sufficient and cheap enough.

Of course you can go the Craigslist way, but I personally hate getting certain stuff from strangers (no problem with people I know).

 

[Gregolian]

No real difference imo.

Tbh just look on craigslist or whatever. You can get something super cheap that will last 18 months or sometimes something nice for the same price as Ikea.

Unless you know you're in your forever home and are buying something really expensive and nice, buying new desks is for schmucks. You can get quality desks for $50-100 on Craigslist or LetGo from someone that doesn't want to have to schlep it to a new home.

Ikea. It's totally sufficient and cheap enough.

Of course you can go the Craigslist way, but I personally hate getting certain stuff from strangers (no problem with people I know).

I'd totally be down with Craigslist if this was back home where I lived in WA. But there's something that freaks me out about buying second hand here in Utah as most of the desks on like the Facebook marketplace and Craigslist are for sale in West Valley City, Magna, or Kearns.... which are high crime, high gang activity area and I'm half worried what I'm buying is either stolen.... OR is a scam to fucking rob me.

 

[Trotsky]

Hey, @Seano is back. What's up man? Want to have a competition with @EGarrett to see who can have the least fun in this thread?

I'd totally be down with Craigslist if this was back home where I lived in WA. But there's something that freaks me out about buying second hand here in Utah as most of the desks on like the Facebook marketplace and Craigslist are for sale in West Valley City, Magna, or Kearns.... which are high crime, high gang activity area and I'm half worried what I'm buying is either stolen.... OR is a scam to fucking rob me.

Meh, I wouldn't worry about that, but that's just me. It's not like you're a large man with bouncing experience and a genetic predisposition toward Kung Fu living in a state where nerdy young white guys in short-sleeved shirts and ties go door to door making awkward small talk about magic underwear.

 

[HockeyBjj]

I'd totally be down with Craigslist if this was back home where I lived in WA. But there's something that freaks me out about buying second hand here in Utah as most of the desks on like the Facebook marketplace and Craigslist are for sale in West Valley City, Magna, or Kearns.... which are high crime, high gang activity area and I'm half worried what I'm buying is either stolen.... OR is a scam to fucking rob me.

Craigslist scams do exist, but they're not hard to spot for someone with a little thinking skills. The bait someone out to rob them is only for high cash items I would imagine. It's not like you're a small woman going somewhere alone.

Facebook marketplace is actually nice. If they have a profile pic that shows their face they're probably A ok to buy from.

 

[Gregolian]

Meh, I wouldn't worry about that, but that's just me. It's not like you're a large man with bouncing experience and a genetic predisposition toward Kung Fu living in a state where nerdy young white guys in short-sleeved shirts and ties go door to door making awkward small talk about magic underwear.

There's Norteno and Surenos out here with Polynesian Crip/Blood sets bruh.

 

[Trotsky]

Another day, another right-wing terrorist #ArmyofChrist

The FBI arrested an 18-year-old from Ohio for making online threats — including against the federal government and Planned Parenthood — and found a large cache of weapons, authorities said.

When agents raided the Boardman, Ohio, house where Justin Olsen was living they recovered 15 rifles, 10 semi-automatic pistols and roughly 10,000 rounds of ammunition, according to a criminal complaint written by FBI Special Agent Themistocles Tsarnas and seen by NBC News.

Olsen, who wrote under the name "ArmyOfChrist," was charged Monday with one count of threatening to assault a federal law enforcement officer.

"ArmyOfChrist discussed supporting mass shootings, and assault and/or targeting of Planned Parenthood," according to Tsarnas.

Assistant Mahoning County Prosecutor Michael McBride decided authorities had to act swiftly on the threats in the wake of the recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, NBC affiliate WFMJ reports.

The case against Olsen began earlier this year when FBI agents in Anchorage, Alaska, working in a chat room called "iFunny," found a user named ArmyOfChrist making threatening comments.

That user wrote online that he supported the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the shootings of ATF agents at the siege of the Branch Davidians compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993.

Justin Olsen.Mahoning County Jail
"Hell even the Oklahoma City bombing shows that armed resistance is a viable method of political change. There is no legal solution," ArmyofChrist wrote on Aug. 6, according to the complaint. "In conclusion, shoot every federal agent on sight."

Agents raided his place of residence, described in the complaint as his father's home, on Aug. 7 and found a large number of guns and bullets throughout the house and in a gun vault in Olsen's room.



Olsen allegedly told agents that his writings were "only a joke."

Olsen also characterized his comments as "a hyperbolic conclusion based on the results of the Waco siege ... where the ATF slaughtered families," according to the complaint.

A message seeking comment was left with Olsen's attorney.

Agents seized 15 rifles, 10 semi-automatic pistols and roughly 10,000 rounds of ammunition during the arrest.

Olsen is still in custody and scheduled to make an appearance in U.S. District Court in Youngstown on Friday.

 

[Sara]

How many people have actually committed suicide before they could POSSIBLY testify against the Clintons?

 

[Gregolian]

Agents seized 15 rifles, 10 semi-automatic pistols and roughly 10,000 rounds of ammunition during the arrest.

Who got him the stuff?

I have a 40k a year job now and STILL have to plan out/save for a couple months to just buy one rifle or pistol and this puta at 18 has 15 rifles and 10 pistols?

What the shit?!

 

[Sara]

Who got him the stuff?

I have a 40k a year job now and STILL have to plan out/save for a couple months to just buy one rifle or pistol and this puta at 18 has 15 rifles and 10 pistols?

What the shit?!

Greg he's likely been saving his birthday and holiday gift money.

 

[Gregolian]

Greg he's likely been saving his birthday and holiday gift money.

A SINGLE GLOCK 19 IS LIKE $500 STILL. And that's for a Generation 3 one and they're on the 5th Generation now.

The Glock 34 I've been eyeing to get to send to Taran Tactical is still $534. The Generation 3 was first introduced in 1998 for crying out loud. IT'S OVER 20 YEARS OLD AND IS STILL $500!!!!

Plus he was 18, federal law says you have to be 21 to get a pistol so there's THAT question too.

 

[Trotsky]

Who got him the stuff?

I have a 40k a year job now and STILL have to plan out/save for a couple months to just buy one rifle or pistol and this puta at 18 has 15 rifles and 10 pistols?

What the shit?!

Bootstraps, Gregory.

I'm tired of millennials thinking life should just hand them a mass shooting weapons cache. If you want to achieve the American dream of becoming a mass shooter, you need to put your work in like all the mass shooters before you.

 

[Sara]

A SINGLE GLOCK 19 IS LIKE $500 STILL. And that's for a Generation 3 one and they're on the 5th Generation now.

The Glock 34 I've been eyeing to get to send to Taran Tactical is still $534. The Generation 3 was first introduced in 1998 for crying out loud. IT'S OVER 20 YEARS OLD AND IS STILL $500!!!!

Plus he was 18, federal law says you have to be 21 to get a pistol so there's THAT question too.

Ok so just based off what my grandparents gave me at 18 for my birthday I could have bought 2 glocks. Thats not including Christmas money or Easter or valentines etc gift money.

 

[Trotsky]

Ok so just based off what my grandparents gave me at 18 for my birthday I could have bought 2 glocks. Thats not including Christmas money or Easter or valentines etc gift money.

Good grief. I don't think most people get that much money as a kid.