I've tried to wean myself off of Prime, because Amazon runs its fulfillment centers like a cross between a gulag, a concentration camp, and the factory in Metropolis.
Stop worrying about it.
Or a real life version of Idiocracy.
And then he tells them: Go.....fuck...yourselves....That dastardly Musk can irritate a few folks but, the majority seem to be happy with his more balanced approach on X, formerly known as Twitter. All depends on whose ox is being gored at the moment I suppose. Musk has more "FU" moneys than anyone in the world so he needn't pay attention to the strident minority.
I got a kick out his observation that advertisers were attempting to "blackmail" him with ... wait for it ... money.
And then he tells them: Go.....fuck...yourselves....
How's that for FU money?
I have not. It's been so hyped over the years, I feel like I'll be extremely disappointed if I ever see it.
Yep, Amazon and it's "partners" can often be more expensive than other merchants, and have been under investigation for price fixing. When I can buy what I need elsewhere I do that.
Give it a watch. Just remember that it's actually a comedy, a rather dark one.
You need to get out more, Jesse.
I guess if I can watch Idiocracy, I've got ZERO excuse not to watch Citizen Kane.
DG is every other mile here in the SE. It's disgusting.
Only those not willing/unable to adjust to fit the current, fast changing retail climate. We've got mom and pops that found a niche and exploit it, be it service, product. or a combination of both. Mostly personalized, knowledgeable service. One needs to be agile and quick in today's environment. But, there are always folks willing to pay a bit more for quality service. I'd suggest that rising local taxes put local stores in jeopardy as well as proprietors being unable or unwilling to change as the environment causes many closures. Well, that and proprietors getting simply tired and wore out dealing with the new environment.
It seems like the only thing that gets cheaper and better are electronics. My first color calibrated monitor cost me about $3600 in 1992 and I needed to remove the cowling and manually adjust the guns using a small screw driver for each gun. My latest color calibrated color monitor has much more flexibility, can be set to specific output aims and specific color spaces, comes with a built in spectral sensitometer that recalibrates automatically, and cost me $1500.Old men have been afraid of the future for thousands of years.
A thousand years from now old men will be afraid of the future.
My parents paid 700 1968 dollars for the largest, nicest RCA color console television the local television store sold then. Cecil Chaney and his son set it up and I was ten years old and read the manual and they showed me how to work the adjustments.
In our inflated dollars today $700 will buy over ten twenty four inch flat screen televisions at $64 each.
And $700 buys one that would just about cover the entire wall.
You’d need a ten year old to hook ‘em up, but some things don’t change.
There's a lot of truth in this. Unfortunately, a lot of that change is lower quality and less service. Look at the furniture industry. As lot of what is sold won't survive a move, much less last for generations. And even as crap, it's still pricey crap.
