Marcbmann

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[–] Marcbmann -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not what centrism means. It's not an immediate compromise between the two. It's acknowledging that not every single stance held by a political party is the correct one.

I can support background checks and other limitations on firearm purchases, and also not want open borders. We should be doing something about the excess of gun violence, and we should be doing something about the thousands of immigrants jumping our border.

[–] Marcbmann 38 points 1 year ago (22 children)

I had a car with push button start and a CVT. After putting the first 50 miles on the car, the brake light switch died. Nissan, in their ultimate wisdom, used the brake light switch to tell the computer if you are pressing the brake when starting the car. Well, no brake light switch, no starting the engine. Had to get it towed back to the dealership to get fixed.

I now have a real key and a manual transmission.

[–] Marcbmann 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Marcbmann 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, can just be a different form of therapy. Worked with one in conjunction with a therapist through a service provided by my medical insurance.

The therapist was completely useless. The life coach had me questioning the way I thought about things, and got me to seriously reevaluate the ways I caused myself stress. All she did was ask questions, but they got me to see things differently. Helped a lot.

[–] Marcbmann 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Jersey Shore accent is fake. Don't believe the MTV lies.

Hung out with one of these MTV reality TV stars. She got drunk and the accent was gone. She sounded like a normal person. It's entirely forced.

[–] Marcbmann 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you can make a dynamo, you can make a motor. Now, you aren't about to create Tesla. But there's plenty of things back in the day that could benefit from being motorized.

[–] Marcbmann 1 points 1 year ago

In my experience, Amazon takes a lower cut than retail chains. In fact, Amazon is less expensive than DTC when you factor in advertising costs. In all likelihood, it is not causing anyone to drive up their prices off Amazon.

I work with many many brands. I have seen several turn off their DTC channels because customer acquisition costs are simply too high.

The competitive price match policy is a nuisance when retailers liquidate inventory for pennies in the dollar.

[–] Marcbmann 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hm, that article is putting LA at about 75k homeless.

NYC also has more than twice the total population of LA. So homed to homeless ratio is a lot worse in LA

[–] Marcbmann 3 points 1 year ago

NYC also has a roughly equivalent homeless population to LA, but LA has less than half the population than NYC.

Being a NYC native, I can agree that if the situation definitely is not visible. But considering the population differences, I'd say it's not as bad in NYC.

[–] Marcbmann 10 points 1 year ago

That API you are describing is not active anymore. Hasn't been in a long time.

Keepa has to scrape Amazon data themselves.

[–] Marcbmann 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The subscribe and save price reflects the listing price at the time your order is fulfilled.

As a seller, the number of subscriptions evaporates if I increase the price on an item.

What you are describing is not a tactic any business is intentionally employing. It's more likely born of incompetence.

[–] Marcbmann 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is not evidence of a monopoly.

This tactic would only impact Amazon owned listings, which account for a minority of the listings on Amazon.

Amazon does not change prices for listings controlled by third party sellers.

What's funny to me is that Amazon has a competitive price match policy, where they will hide offers for listings that are priced above other retailers. So the FTC's argument is that Amazon is trying to drive prices up while also driving prices down.

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