The vast majority of pistol rounds are not pointy, and quite a few rifle rounds are not either.

This is simply Business 101. Once you have a customer base you want to trade low-payers for high.

Did this with my computer business years ago. Woke up one day and said, “Why am I sweating these cheapskates that constantly bitch?” Fired them and kept the higher-paying, and less bitchy, clients. I was making more money for less effort and less overhead.

I don’t know what amazes me more, that people keep paying when they know the price will keep going up, or that people bitch and moan. Last I checked, YouTube access isn’t a human right. I’ll keep using it until these is no way around their ads, but I’m not paying them a dime.

I was going to being up Nichia and Cree! (I’m a flashlight junkie, can’t help it.) There’s a world of difference in quality LEDs vs. cheap units.

I have 3x CREE floodlight-style bulbs on my terrarium, never lost one. The CRI (color rendering index) is 90+ (94?) and the colors are natural. If you contrast those with a regular LED, the results are gross.

Almost every bulb in my house is the filament style and it’s always surprising when one dies. The 4 in my porch lights are on 24/7, in all weather of course, and have been for 4 years.

All agreed. Some of my favorite content is very plain. Hickok45 has a couple of channels and zero frills. He just shoots guns and discusses the in and outs. He’s like your cool grandad. LOL, his new channel is just short videos of him sitting down and discussing various topics that are on his mind.

Paul Harrel (RIP) was more formal in his presentations, but much the same as to costs. Paul videos are a masterclass on how to present a subject without bias. He would tell you what he’s going to tell you, tell you, tell you what he told you, and at the end invite you to form your own opinion. You get spoiled watching his single-take shots and start finding other YouTubers, with their constant edits, annoying.

Peter Santenello looks to only spend money on gas and lodging while he cruises America with a selfie stick. Peter is highly recommended! You meet people you would never have met IRL and learn what life is like for them. He’s nearly without bias and asks tough questions at times. Only video I saw where he got a bit emotional was his trip to Kensington in Philly. He’s been to some hellaciously poor places in America but Kensington appalled him.

I ride my phones until they completely crap out or are destroyed. Then I get on eBay and get another for $150 or so.

My wife is Filipino and cooks rice and fish all the time. Come on over!

I have 3 kilts and they’re oddly uncomfortable for me. Maybe I feel vulnerable having my bits swinging in the breeze? I could wear underwear, but that kinda kills the whole idea?

The corporations will simply raise prices to make up their deficit. What’s stopping them?

The United States Congress: Bought and paid for by AIPAC.

How 'bout that? Seems the “secret cabal of Jews runs the world” nuts were actually onto something. Drop the “secret” and replace “Jews” with “Zionists”, and they were spot on. And let’s not act like Zionists aren’t Jews. Fucking phuleeze…

Planing a cooler presentation when I get my Redneck Business channel going. I’m stunned by how ignorant people are on the subject. My $100 Lifetime cooler keeps cold exactly as long as a $500 RTIC or Yeti. And those are only for if you need multiple days of cool. I have a dozen coolers for various needs, and most are Igloos I got from the thrift.

Don’t delete your comment for asking a legit question! Others might be ignorant as well and benefit from the Q&A.

Not an app, a site:

https://www.photopea.com/

Free Photoshop clone. For my needs, it’s over the top perfect.

NW FL here. You have to go out and get used to it, and that has to be a commitment. Easier said than done, I’ve failed year after year.

If you’re out every day you learn tricks to stay cool and what to avoid. For example; We walk down to the neighborhood creek a couple of times a week. That trek is about a mile over sandy, slippery washes. You don’t want to go or leave from 2PM-5PM. Be on the water at those times or don’t do it. Best, go after 3PM. Arrive hot and dying, swim and play until past 5PM, walk home when it’s better.

Learn how to dress, learn how to use cooling cloth, plenty of tricks. It’s like Arrakis, but humid.

tl;dr: It’s all good in or on the water.

Gods. Look at her muscles and tendons and veins. What a study of the human body.

I got beat up on here for stating that Amazon delivery was greener for the exact reasons you said. Plus, some of my Amazon comes via USPS, which is driving by my house every day.

It’s not the use of Excel, which is best-in-class software, it’s all the room for error they introduced.

The OceanGate team tried to perform these updates at least every five minutes, but it was a slow, manual process done while communicating with the gamepad-controlled sub via short text messages.

Dumb, but I don’t see that having anything to do with the implosion, just a wonky way to navigate.

No one is going to read that, let alone answer you. See, this is a Stein hate thread, you’ve already lost the game.

(I know nothing about her.)

OP pointed a big red arrow at Stein’s stated beliefs, there’s your answer. Anything to say except, “Nuh uh!”?

Wow! Never read that quote. Perfectly explains how American politics got to be such a mess. I laugh at all the revolutionary talk around here.

material comforts

Yeah, no, we’re so well-fed we have to find excuses for our rampant obesity. There won’t be a revolution until people are literally fighting for food and our masters will never allow that to come to pass. Look at lemmy, bitching and moaning about video game prices and such. We’re pretty fucking far from lacking material comforts. To add, a lot of people think they’re suffering, but haven’t seen a day of true poverty in their lives. Y’all, you’re suffering in comparison to what could and should be.

cherished beliefs

As fast as we in the West are dropping religion, notice the politicians haven’t done anything about the rampant sex abuse? Taxing the church? Unheard of! Let the masses have their silly beliefs, stick to the middle of the road if you must, get elected again.