Honestly what isnt a bad approach, buying one used from a hobbyist. You get the full run down of the machine, rarely with a sales pitch and they arent afraid to tell you what theyre selling is NOT what you should be looking for. You also arent, normally, going to be buying a machine with tons and tons of miles on them. Most find craigslist because the machine’s owner upgraded or realized how long its been on a shelf for. Never bought 3d printer but have bought tons of tools like my cnc router, 2 desktop lathes, laser cutter and press brake, all small models I found not really needing them but always looking out for them… I learn more just going to look at them than i do running them loljkjk. Ive ran into this buying used cars too. There is a weird niche of things that cost so much new that most buying them are die hard hobbyists or trying to start a job shop. Either way they know so much about the machine youre buying amd love telling you everything they did with it.

That is far from the universal standard especially for non-s&p500 companies who compete against the prices set by the s&p500 companies. In competative markets/industries the importing party doesnt always have controll over when their order ships and what the tariff rates will be at time of shipment. It takes 3-6 months for large import orders to be dwlivered with landed price adjustments. The list price isnt going to fluctuate with every penny movement. The price is dictated by the market price and share of market a company holds. So a lot of times the tariff shock isnt going to find its way to the list price in any less than 3-6month time span. To reiterate, this is for products in a competative market. Your iphones, pc parts, game consoles are not competstive markets. The pipe fitting valve (PVF) industry is a v9mpetative industry. Hundreds of mfgers, accross hundreds if not thousands of skus

Huh? They are the best quality delivered by any Commercial AI company. Are you confusing compainies who provide AI as their service with what the actual AI bubble is? The AI bubble is built off companies making promises of what they can provide using AI. They are the ones who cannot deliver. Anthropic is the best performing AI service on the market. They wont cause the AI bubble or its eventual burst. They aren’t valued by what their consumers arent able to provide. Anthropics valuation is based off its own intrinsic factors which is affected by the state of the bubble and again not the cause or blame.

Its been so long since ive had or bought a tv, what are the brands that are the least shitty now? I used to always be a samsung everything kinda guy but fuck them now. I wish they never started fucking around with software and stuck to just hardware. Their products from strictly the hardware side are still excellent. My zfold7 is amazing the older gens started rickety but each version i got (so the 3, the 5 and the 7) has been a respectible improvement but the 7 really stepped up the quality. The last samsung tv i got was like 65" curved screen amazing picture but the fucking interface was pure cancer and i will not buy another. My samsung 4k monitors, non-smart normal fridge, and my equally as dumb oven are great and dont have any stupid shit so Ill buy more dumb samsung products lol.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 so you think 4 months of pay, health coverage, and accelerated stock options all while retaining ability to use Epic as a reference and no non-compete to deal with as ruining lives. Sign me up for whatever life you are living because if this is what qualifies as ruining your life then it means you must be pretty fucking high up the totem pole to look down on this.

My uneducated opinion of this is: they couldnt write legislature that could define piracy in a way that makes it illegal for the public to use so why does eveyone think they will have comprehensive legislation defining age verification or liability for enforcing it?

When NY State wrote the original SAFE act regulating gun control, a topic that is almost common knowledge for most americnans, they fuckin excluded high capacity magazines because the politician’s staff who write legislative frameworks thought magazines were “disposable” so they thought banning the sale of them would phase out the magazines that were already bought and owned. THE FUCKING FRAME WORK WAS BUILT AROUND THESE ASSHATS WATCHING 80’S AND 90’S ACTION FILMS AND SEEING PEOPLE THROW DOWN MAGAZINES FOR EVERY FUCKIN RELOAD!!!

Ya know what im pretty sure its the death threats to referees from losing gamblers that keep sports like NBA, FIFA and NCAA so honest for this long. /s

Yeah, they need to come up with a different name for type 2 diabetes so dumbass articles like this for getting reported as affecting “diabetics” when you have to actually find and read the study to find out its all based on a correlation found in mice processing sugars and is only a theory for type 2 diabetics.

Or as they should be more appropriately named fat lazy fucksabetes. They are both named “diabetes” because of the conditions share the same outcome of inability to produce insulin.

But one is cause by being fat and fuckin lazy while the other is an autoimmune decease cuased by genetics that trigger immune system responses to attack the islet cells that produce insulin and is (as of now in the US eventhough islet transplants are the primary treatment plan outside the US) a chronic desease. The fat fucks desease is just from the person eating sooooo many carbs and doing soooooo little excersise that their body uses up all their islet cells of which everyone is born with a set amount. So if they just stopped being fat fucks, ate healthy portions and excersized - THEIR DIESEASE WOULD NEVER FUCKING HAPPEN!!!

Sincerely an american type 1 diabetic who is surrounded everyday by fat lazy fucks thinking they can share their inconvenient hassle of ch3cking their sugars or taking shots b3cause fat fuck cant put down the donut. Im also enrolled in a clinical trial for islet transplants. Something I never thought id ever see since diagnosed at 11 years old when i got a fucking ear infection and my retard immun3 system killed all my islet cells amd have been taking 4-8 shots per day every time i eat because my body hasnt produced insulin since i was 11.

Still better than microsoft support channels thosp ill take it.!

So a friend of a friend of a friend recently started actively stealing from amazon. Only amazon supplied products. Never 3rd party sellers. Some examples being, buying expenxive ram sticks of the same.make model and trim as a cheaper size and speed ram sticks they own, delicately removing the OEM sticker from the expensive ram and putting it on the cheap ram, packaging it all back up and issuing a return to amazon for full balance of the expensive ram.

Or requesting reacents be sent for not recieving deliveries for orders with pictures of the delivery on their amazon account as proof. That one only started once the friend of a friend of a friend realized they tasked their dumbass AI bot to handle returns so they started feeding everynorder ino it.

Or repurchasing duplicates of anything that breaks no matter how long in between initial and duplicate purchases, re-boxing the broken shit and keeping the good shit, and returning the broken shit with the reason for return being anythjng but product damaged so as to not trigger detailed inspection.

They have not gone far out of their way to hide any lf this. At most they regurgitate some response that fits the return’s terms amd conditions paramters for acceptable return as a small white lie.

The after effects of all this have been wonderful for the friend of a friend of a friend. They sleep well at night knowing Amazon themselves are eating the costs for all this. That plus the fact that all their scams have been for price inflated hardware driven by the AI datacenter whores, of whome Amazon is one of the ones leading the charge. They also are at minimum to no risk for being caught on most scams because most shit they can just respond, “oh shit my bad i sent you guys the wrong one. They were side by side and i mustve grabbed the wrong one.” In which case they then return the actual most recent purchase and are back to where they were before the scam they got busted on.

But the GREATEST outcome is the amount of fucking attention Amazon now pays to every single one of their orders now. No matter how big or small. Drivers must collect delivery code for every order so no more damaged boxes. No more stolen packages, albiet not amazon’s fault. They havent had a single case of lost or delayed delivery, everything is on time with the estimated delivery date at purchase. Which is saying skmething when you live in the wintery boondocks. And ontop of all that, anytime they have to reqch out to Amazon they get a fuckin call from a real fuckin person at Amazon cuz they assume everything is an attempt to scam.

Fuckin friend of a friend of a friend is sitting on brand new 128gb 8000 ram, ryzen 9 995x3d, the best mobo on the market, half a full on grow op worth of 800w full spectrum grow lights. All for less than $30 in postage for some of the returns. I filed this information into my file for unethical life protips right next to “Untill something changes and it affects your credit, only an idiot pays back medical debt in the US.”

I mean i read the court dociments. Did you? Did I miss something?

Jesus fucking christ so the fucking idiots really full on dont even try to test any of the shit they facefuck into 1.4 billion innocent pc’s with every update they release.

There is no wqay this lawsuit wins. Maybe if her fucking lawsuit actually addressed that the gambling is targeting underage players but instead it just states gambling in new york is illegal… exc3pt certain exceptions which are the ficking lottery, sportsbook gambling, casinos, fantasy sports, bingo halls, bazaars, and race track gambling. But thats just what i could come up with off the top of my head. If i can play fantasy football using services that dont carry all the regulations sports books do, then I dont see how they can enforce this lawsuit for video games.

Itd be great if it won but im not guna shit in one hand and wish for this lawsuit to pass in the other to see which fills up first.

Someone needs to come up with a better argument other than “threat to your privacy.” People that understand the concept of security/privacy already are in that boat. People that dont, never will.

Weve hit the point of cigarettes. You can report all the studies you want about the risks and damages done by smoking but when 99% of the population knows its bad but still smokes anyways, its time to find thr cyber security version of taxing the evwr living shit out of it to force wveryone who doesnt care into caring.

Maybe our goverments should spend more effort to determine if it’s citizens are even just alive or dead to put a dent in the half a trillion dollars the fed govt pays out to dead citizens they dont know are dead. Then we can maybe talk about how the fuck these idionts are guna conrirm th3 age of their living citizens.

Or hey heres another thought, use this effort to design a better consumer price index which is currently a huge guess of economic status based on the most minimal of factors of the tiniest sample sizes of data.

This is all accurate but overlooks bullwhip effect and that applies to fuckin everything somehow at the same time as everyone nit realizing theyre doing it lol. Every supply shortage results in either people over ordering or oem’s over producing demands. Its like natural law in my andecdotal experience. Half kidding but other half is super cereal.

Ill raise you all! How about the original epsteins, aka like 90% of every priest from the cr3ationnof the position to idk like 5 y3ars ago lol

Am I crazy or does the thumbnail look like it was made by a human imitating AI artwork? There is nothing in the image I can say looks like AI image slop. It just doesnt look natural or realistic to me. This is not a comment on anything related to the story or article itself.

Lol its amazing how Noone in the real world knows that microsoft makes OS’s without all the enshitification shit in them that run decent, dont block features from being disabled, are all around non-infuriating piles of shit like the non-enterprise versions, charge an arm and a leg for it. Then microsoft (or at the same time didnt mean one before the other) releases the functionally identical OS versions but so facefucked full of enshitification shit they constantly break, these versions hold you down with an update pistol in your mouth that tells you inorder to live you will update every fucking shitstorm we tell you to, it rapes yo wife, rapes yo kids, ignores all bugs calling them features, all the while having a bomb strapped to their chest that says you dont accept everything we ruin of yours we blow your whole fucking system sky high. And those versions they call Home and Pro versions.

This, normally, is where I Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssstaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrttttttttttt inhaling deeply, while glaring maniacally down my nose at my audience of toddler aged nieces and nephews all taking cover from th3 eruption they knows coming🤓🤯🤠🫤😨🥹😱

But naaaaaaaa this is the waaay more laid mat me who only twitches their eyelids while grinding my teeth when someone tells me to simmer down🤣

Edit: seeeeeeeee i was guna Edit the typos out of my reply but I decided fuck it, not laid back me, no way ill tell you. So now my toilet seat is covered in pee cuz this was a two handed edit on the zfold’s big qwerty keyboards while playing piss accuracy by ear.