Yep. I go to Costco now because I’m blind in one eye so the correction is only for the other eye. Costco only charges me 50% of the normal lens cost and the blind eye just gets a balance lens (weight matched to the other without correction).
I’ve walked out with a brand new pair of lenses and frames for $30 after my eye “insurance”.
FYI, Ray Ban is just a brand name owned by the same company that owns most well known glasses brands.
Once you realize how consolidated the eyeglass industry is its a lot harder to find truly independent brands.
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Scott, Palmer, Malone, Hudson, Martinez, Martin, Howard, Kapoor, Bratton, Lapin-Vance, Bernard, Lewis, Hannon, Philbin, Halpert, Beesly, Schrute
It’s kind of fun in an ironic meme way!
Just did this myself. I had a collection of regular watches that I went back to and I’m loving it.
I also just bought a DAP for music and already have an XTEink X4 ereader. Slowly moving to get rid of a mart phone all together.
This is not unique to America. They exist where you are from too, friend.
Forgive me if I doubt it could be appropriately regulated and properly applied in the US.
state seizure of the vehicle
Absolutely not if you’re talking the US. We already have civil forfeiture which is abused far to easily and frequently.
lol your friends want you to come and fake it even if you’re drained? They don’t sound like good friends then.
lol
artificial scarcity
That’s called “lack of demand”
Only a little over 10% of Americans have an e-reader and their popularity is declining.
E-ink screens will continue to be niche technology without the advantages of increased development by competing manufacturers.
Way back in the early 2000s cellphones varied greatly. All the designs and models that were available and all pretty distinctive. Today the market is almost exclusively touch screen smart phones; evolutions of the early designs by Apple, HTC, Samsung etc.
Three years later the first iPad was released and that same year Samsung released the Galaxy Tab.
Widespread adoption and competition drives development.
The market works the other way. You want a lot of adoption at the mobile level which will drive development faster and then those developments can be scaled up.
The iPad exists, in part, because of the iPhones specifically and the development of touch screen mobile technology in general.
It’s not about being fucked. As with all drugs there are those that will abuse it but GLP-1s have been shown to have physical effects that reduce food noise and make people feel fuller faster and for longer.
Have you ever eaten a meal and immediately afterward one of your first thoughts is what’s the next meal going to be? Or maybe you’ve felt satisfied, or even full but then that one food item you happen to have pops into your mind and you can’t get it out until you have some? That’s food noise.
The feeling fuller faster and longer is crucial because some peoples digestive systems respond to food intake very slowly making it easy and common to overeat. Or process food too quickly so they feel hunger sooner than others.
Combine the medication with improved habits and suddenly it’s much easier to lose weight. If your eating habits and intake doesn’t change then the medications aren’t going to cause weight loss magically.
The article I read said the USPS rules they’re trying to implement would be to have the postal service pick up and then verify the ballots against the list of voters. If any don’t match they’d be obligated to throw out the entire bunch.
Blatant election tampering through a federal government controlled service.
I believe Motorola already manufactured ALPRs for one of the other companies and decided to get into the ALPR provider business too.
Yeah, my experience has been the same which is why I wanted to clarify.
Most of those electronics are new though, and we don’t have a way to compare apples to apples. It’d be nice if manufacturers still offered a truly base model like they did decades ago.
is one of the main reasons why new cars today aren’t as reliable as ones from the early 2000’s.
I’m curious about the data that supports this claim? I’ve often heard people lament how cars have “gotten worse” or aren’t “as reliable” as they used to be but I recently read an article from Worse on Purpose that highlights how cars are better manufactured than they used to be.
Or are you using reliability to refer to the accessories and features newer cars have that can fail or require more difficult repair without actually impacting a modern vehicles primary function of transport?
Why are they a rube?
Per the link in your screenshot OSM is following the standard of using the GNIS official name, while also keeping the displayed name as the common name until and if common usage on both sides of the border begins to reflect the official name in GNIS.
Precedent from the Gulf of Mexico/“Gulf of America” discussion as well as accepted OSM convention would suggest that once GNIS is updated (which it appears it is already),
official_name:en-US=*should be added/changed toLake America, butname=*left as is unless and until common usage on the ground on both sides of the border shifts to prefer the “Lake America” name (which seems very unlikely).
Note: emphasis is mine
The regular Costco members can still shop at a business center but the merchandise is not targeted towards them.
The business centers sell things like cases of cups, plates, disposable silverware, legs, shoulders and other large cuts of meat, cases of common restaurant ingredients, salt and pepper shakers in bulk for tables etc.
We go to the business center by us every so often because they carry real American cheese in bulk, not the Kraft garbage the regular Costco has.
For now, but far right ideology shouldn’t be contained, it should be quashed. The US is a great example of what happens when it isn’t.
Also, the rise in far right ideologies across multiple countries should be a global concern. If one country under fascist control can cause significant damage to Australia imagine the effect of 4 or 5 scattered across the world.