Admittedly I did similar. At one point I had a non-working detector and noticed it was long expired when I tried to replace the battery. I realized I had been in my house more than ten years and the detectors had been installed by a previous owner, probably in the early 2000’s. Those did NOT beep when they expired

When I replaced those, the new ones were all configured to beep when expired and they were starting to push the sealed detectors with ten year non-replaceable battery. Sure enough, ten years later they all started beeping that they were expired.

I guess I assumed that it’s been 20 years and most people will have replaced detectors at least once. In my state, there’s a required inspection that all detectors are up to date before a house can be sold

(Which is really annoying because mine are all battery but the current standard is they must interconnect so I’ll need some electrical work if I want to sell my house)

Don’t they all do that now? Tell you when they’ve expired?

You keep it until the next hazardous waste collection day, then put it in your car to bring there. Spend half an hour waiting in a big line of cars, get up to where they take it and get yelled at for wasting their time on such a small amount of hazardous waste

Huh, I wish my town would do those corner protectors. There’s one corner especially, a block from my house, and on a major walking route to our neighborhood elementary school. After it snows, I frequently see tire tracks across the sidewalk from people who cut the corner badly. One of these days, they’re going to run over a kid on the sidewalk on their way to school.

Car wash? I’ve never heard of that and there’s never even an option to tip. You pay list price ahead of time, then when they’re done you drive away.

It’s probably different if you get your car detailed, but that’s already not something I’m willing to pay for

It’s a nice ideal. Insurance can in theory help smooth out whatever life throws at you. But in the modern world, their incentives are to not

This is not as big a deal as the headline shows. No one would pay that much.

The unfortunate reality is American healthcare is geared to generate humongous bills but that’s just the starting point. Normally your insurance company will then negotiate it down. If you don’t have insurance, you can usually get them to write off huge amounts.

One of the underlying problems is not everyone has insurance but everyone will get at least emergency care. Hospitals know there will be a lot of bills that can never be paid, so their initial bill to everyone needs yo account for that loss.

That and the general extractive nature of the us health care system, the massive number of layers and middlemen that all need to show a profit

But clearly the problem here is the non-us insurance company not dealing with it until forced to nine months later

Worst case scenario- go home and never come bs k. That bill is not following you to another country

Vodka

I hear you. Sometimes my teens never notice. The beeping annoys me from the other side of the house but my teens right there can’t hear it

It can, unfortunately.

We might celebrate Steve Jobs as an entrepreneur who started building computers in a garage and grew it into one of the world’s largest companies but that’s not common.

For me the scamminess is pure internet “entrepreneurs”. We’ve all seen those who have no real product or service except self-promotion, and it seems sketchy that part of that is calling themselves an entrepreneur. We’ve all seen mlm’s where victims are sold on being “entrepreneurs”. Basically word inflation: using a more important sounding word to seem more on the level

But you can’t opt out. It scams the vendors but also the people who don’t take part.

A big part of it was the rise of credit card perks like cash back, supported by higher credit card fees. I gotta admit, why should the vendor be paying for our cash back?

That’s great

Let them. How is this not huge free publicity!

I don’t see why condom companies aren’t shipping in truckloads for free. You can’t beat that kind of publicity. L

Anyone try Rancher? Is that still a thing? When I looked into k8s a few years back, Ranchers was highly recommended to simplify managing k8s if you couldn’t automate. Supposedly friendly and free.

Tesla always had “light show” as a fun gimmick. It’s one of the first things you show friends and family.

There’s a few canned versions but apparently you can create your own on usb stick. Supposedly it was an outgrowth of qa, so it includes things like windows and trunk opening and closing, side mirrors folding and unfolding, all timed to music, etc. Even before the active matrix headlights were approved for regular use, one of the canned light shows used them to spell out “Tesla” on whatever is in front of you.

A recent update mentioned new light shows and a way to synchronize. I can certainly imagine a Tesla club having great fun with this

This sort of anecdote is important, because it’s too easy to claim that working for your family is an exception, or that kids should be able to help out with the family business.

It was well before that. French were saddled with the white flag, from results in wwii, whether deserved or not

It’s not 🙁. Height of laziness: I ran out of usb-c cables and had to use that one for something else.

It’s not like I can get them dirt cheap overnight delivery ……