Haha I don’t know about that!

It was ingrained into me to never share anything until Facebook normalized it. I always feared some nutcase would come to my house because I made a solid yo momma joke that broke him.

I did a/s/l in a vague way, telling people I was 1-2 years older than I was, which was required to meet hotties also in the AOL chatz.

It feels a lot more organic. Once in a while, I get into a heated argument where we go back and forth.

But it doesn’t feel like I’m arguing with an obvious troll. Just two people with disagreements.

On Reddit, argue with someone and they go, “Yeah will you’re a cuck and you post on lolcats” and then you find out theyre a Indian teen or a bot.

A good negotiation is about making sure both parties feel satisfied by the end of the transaction!

If the other side was already combative, then that’s a negotiation you should walk away from.

Democrat president year: “We must set aside our differences and be united.”

Republican president year: “The evil Democrats who plan to kill us all and take away our guns need to be executed.”

Democrat president year: “oh what a doozy! We may have lost a lot of people in the Enslavement Camps, but now we must come together and be united.”

I notice it’s a very extrovert thing to expect everyone to be “on” just because you’re out in public.

This is more relationship advice. Ask your partner to have a day of sex where you just communicate what you want with words.

The first year of the relationship, I was using tricks I saw in porn. I was doing things to my wife that she didn’t care for, but didn’t say anything because she thought I enjoyed doing it. We later talked and the next session, we just followed what the other person wanted. And now it’s part of our tricks.

Next time your jabbing your sausage into her armpit, ask her if she’s liking what you’re serving.

I took a community college class on business negotiations. I learned about BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement) and it’s been extremely helpful as a tool for negotiations. It’s setting a baseline and reduces any emotional toll.

Tl;Dr: define your BATNA before any negotiation. For example: say you know your salary industry standard is at $80k. You receive an offer for $70k, politely see if they have wiggle room for more, based on industry standard. If they come back with $75k, your plan is clear. In this negotiation, your BATNA is to walk away - no hard feelings.

When I sold my car, I set my BATNA to $9k, and put it for sale at $11k. The guy immediately tried to haggle and offered $10k. I shook his hand immediately and sold it.

It doesn’t have to be a hard number either. Like comparing benefits or perks.

I’m using Sync (I’m lazy with getting new apps and it hasn’t pissed me off yet) and the button is called “Everything”. So I guess it’s the All section!

I call it “power saving” mode. I use public transportation to prepare myself for what drama will occur at work.

One time, someone asked me a question on the bus. Something like: “Where is Main Street?” And my brain didn’t work because I don’t divert power to my thinking brain while riding. I just remember pulling out my phone, clicking the map button, then showing him where it might be?

Guy was upset that I was one of “those guys” but I don’t know what you want from me.

Can you explain this one a bit more?

You’re not kidding. It’s pretty difficult to not buy them.

It’s a $250 smart TV vs a $2000 non-infested TV.

Not here to downvote. But I will say there is some good changes as of the past five years.

From a personal perspective: there’s a lot of GOOD open-source software that has great user experiences. VLC. Bitwarden. OBS. Joplin. Jitsi.

Even WordPress (the new Blocks editor not the ugly classic stuff) in the past decade has a lot of thought and design for end users.

For all the GIMP/Libre office software that just has backwards ass choices for UX, or those random terminal apps that require understanding the command line – they seem to be the ones everyone complains about and imprinted as “the face of open-source”. Which is a shame.

There’s so much good open-source projects that really do focus on the casual non technical end user.

Ah this is how GrubHub, Uber eats, and other food delivery operated during the pandemic! They literally pretended like restaurants were on board, called in the order themselves, sent freelancers and then skimmed off the top.

It was so destructive to many restaurants that they were forced to change. Bad delivery drivers would tank their Google/Yelp reviews. Many created a custom window/spot for food delivery because they wouldn’t know which were real call-ins vs food delivery.

Food delivery won because of cheating.

And Amazon is doing the same.

Article is about Brazil.

Talks about Canada.

Wtf?

We also need a button like “This does not reflect who I am as a person”

Target was the “I am willing to pay a little more to avoid the people of Walmart”.

But I will thank Target for introducing me to Costco and getting a Costco membership. Because Costco has a backbone and is suing Trump for tariffs.

I thought they don’t like politics in football. If they don’t like it, then leave.

Haha! I was going to share this as well!

We used to go to Qdoba, chipotle, Baja fresh and just order pure ingredients! It’s not on the menu, and it was like $2-3. Used to order that, make my own rice, veggies, etc… and feed all my roommates for the same price as a burrito combo.

I would love a strong moderated community of people to answer technical questions.

Like a “no stupid questions” style of community with the opposite of StackOverflow’s style of communication.

Ah I guess I didn’t fully read the prompt.

Well we have kids so now I’m kinda broke all the time.