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LancerSykera

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    Comment #40225167

    Having worked in telephone construction (including on a Centurylink contract), your next step after customer service fails should be your state's public utility commission. PUC com…

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    Comment #35290102

    >Qualified immunity only protects individual cops from civil liability, not from criminal liability. Then why is literal theft protected by qualified immunity? https://www.google.c…

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    Comment #32595073

    I once got in an argument with a Puerto Rican coworker when I told him Spanish people are white. He genuinely could not fathom it, and was very pissed off about it. I guess he thou…

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    Comment #32358025

    Gas pumps. Nevermind the Cheddar News of the pump, that's its own separate nightmare, but I just want gas. I put my card in, you give me gas. Skip the receipt prompt, skip the carw…

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    Comment #31493467

    It was helpful in my truck driving days when going to customers I'd never been to before, and it was absolutely a daily tool in telecom construction/maintenance. Example - random s…

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    Comment #31399133

    I grew up in a house of at least a dozen cats. All had names. Our very first one, Lightning (who was seemingly very intelligent and lived to his late teens), did not know his name …

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    Comment #30223280

    As a fedex driver I always dreaded delivering those. Not because of the possibility of unfortunate outcomes such as yours (never crossed my mind), but because I knew they were unso…

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    Comment #19189886

    The article goes over this.

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    Comment #18784005

    Altria, not Phillip Morris, bought a 35% stake, not full ownership.

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    Comment #18594355

    Combination of spending too much money on myself and taking too many short term loans. Eventually I needed more loans to stay afloat, and then when my settlements were going entire…

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    Comment #18585664

    On individual sales including all fees, 20-25%. I currently owe the IRS roughly 20k or so from 2015, and I just started a new job at $16/hr. Guess how well that's working out for m…

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    Comment #18583282

    I did have a very specific niche in the industrial categories. It was a business that I used to work for a supplier for, so I was familiar with products and manufacturers and distr…

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    Comment #18582271

    Selling existing products would be the smarter way to go at the beginning. Less risk that your unique product doesn't catch on, and just focus on procurement and sale pricing (as w…

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    Comment #18479175

    The parking lot and back driveway of the metal shop next door is on Google as a street, with a name - 50th Street. And nobody knows why. I've deleted it from Waze ages ago, but Goo…

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    Comment #18479156

    Former Amazon seller - A quantity issue like that is most likely from a listing page being changed at some point. Certain sellers somehow earn the ability to change product details…

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    Comment #15655732

    Crunchyroll got started by stealing stolen content. They uploaded high quality sub group releases to a low quality player without attribution. This is why there is now a sub "group…

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    Comment #10365777

    Minnesota recently fixed this so that a criminal conviction is necessary before forfeiture, and when I texted my state representative about it, he said my state senator already has…

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    Comment #8513155

    Another being that it's the only place in the state where you need a license to openly carry a firearm.

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    Comment #7900808

    "It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since" I'm surprised that the author, being a current Pennsylvanian, didn't mention the Jo…

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    Comment #7626506

    > Even some native speakers tend to have no idea when to use 'wa' or 'ga' Glad you said this, so I can stop pounding my head over it. Just today I was thinking "doko wa kami desu k…

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    Comment #7296204

    How about a series of pipes? Will that work?

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    Comment #6925118

    At 10hPa, it's windy as dicks around the arctic circle. The antarctic, however, is relatively calm. Is that a seasonal thing? Will it be the opposite in June?

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    Comment #6873474

    My most frequently visited places are stop lights. Thanks, Google.

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    Comment #6818511

    The teeth of the wheel are holding on to it, and it looks like there are always two teeth inside the top.

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    Comment #6271366

    I sold e-gold for Paypal once. I knew at the time though that a chargeback was quite likely, and sure enough, it happened. Somehow, though, I managed to win that case and keep my m…