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by jtbayly 3y ago
No. If you buy a book and determine its quality will leave it falling apart sooner than you want, you can return it or copy it or work to preserve it. If it starts falling apart, you can repair it. If a cd gets a scratch you can repair it.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
I forgot about that. But I don't think it's that big a deal, because for other things, they already set the price: "The prices that Medicare FFS pays providers are set administratively through laws and regulations, and provid
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by jtbayly 3y ago
"The prices that Medicare FFS pays providers are set administratively through laws and regulations, and providers can either take them or leave them." https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2022-01/57422-m
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by jtbayly 3y ago
I agree!
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Kind of four words, though… lol
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by jtbayly 3y ago
The largest gov run health care programs tell providers exactly what they will pay. What are you on about?
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by jtbayly 3y ago
I recall reading that enclosures made no difference to injury rates on trampolines. We have an enclosed one, and the kids love it, because it allows them to play games with balls on the trampoline.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
The entire point of the article is that this is wrong.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Traumatic brain injuries, pretty much impossible to completely eliminate the risk of. These can be permanent and life altering. Land on your butt and roll back fast hitting your head on the wall. Done. Rare, but it happens.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Yeah. Makes me assume it is meaningless fear mongering.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
But it was the store that decided to pretend I could self-checkout when I actually can't.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
I disagree. The majority of the problems that I run into with self-checkout are related to not being able to buy items I picked up off the shelf like Mucinex or children's cough syrup or alcohol without getting an employee to check me
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Which might be their plan. But then what’s the point? All you’ve done is recreate the crap experience of Amazon. Why should anybody switch?
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by jtbayly 3y ago
I quit here: “it is conceivable that our entire observable universe is a supermassive black hole within a larger universe.” It’s also possible that you’re just a simulation. What is the point? Just to shock.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
No goods shipped part is unlikely on Amazon, I think.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
I keep trying to conjure stories for how this happened. My favorite is that you were lying passed out in a gutter all night with water rushing over you. And the phone. But you only mentioned the phone. lol. How is your warranty doing? ;
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Agreed. The divide might be real, but when I've done this sort of work I want to be viewed as the furniture by most people so I didn't have to spend effort on awkward conversations. And I never even dealt with rich people like t
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Of course there are other parts to the story. But you have the salient facts. What I'm pretty sure happened is that rental cars were in high demand for quite a while after Covid, and the local office didn't want to lose a car. (On
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by jtbayly 3y ago
That’s precisely what they did. It was a one-way rental paid for on the Hertz website, and the local guy didn’t want to give up the car. So he refused. When I called Hertz about it, they said they had no authority over the local agents. Whe
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by jtbayly 3y ago
The last time we rented a car, they refused to give us any car. We had paid over $400 already. There were no other rental options anywhere. My father had to drive 14 hours round trip to pick up my family. But yeah, I’m sure renting cars is
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Ok, I watched a video somebody else linked. People don't act at all the same after getting crashed into by another plane, barely making it to the ground in a plane filled with smoke and fire, as they do when those things haven't h
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by jtbayly 3y ago
No. The problem was that it refused to send to her number and instead kept sending to her iMessage email address in my contact. Even when I tried to specify to send it to her number instead of her email address.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Bull. My sister switched to a dumb phone, and I couldn’t get my phone to text her anymore. I knew precisely what the problem was, as well as how to fix it, but it simply didn’t work half the time. It would just send a message to her compute
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by jtbayly 3y ago
That was supposed to be “driving down fun ”
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by jtbayly 3y ago
I propose a theory by which insanity increases to the same degree that the nanny state introduces new safety laws, driving down gun and minor insanity. The only outlet is extreme insanity, and only those willing to break the rules will do i
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Let’s swap drugs in here and see how many people are in favor of ignoring government rules to give people what they want in spite of the health problems they cause.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
It seems like every diesel in the world was “defeating” the rules. But we don’t have terrible air quality (except for when fires burn forests that greenies said we needed to protect, and made worse in the end). So I’m not sure what I’m supp
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Agreed. From my perspective, these companies are ignoring the law to give people what they want. How does that destroy their reputation with the public? After all the ways the government rules have made my purchases worse, I'm inclined
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by jtbayly 3y ago
I was really hoping for an article about design playground equipment.
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by jtbayly 3y ago
Ha! Thanks. You learn something new every day.

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