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We had a dishwasher with auto-dispense where you pour the whole bottle of detergent into a reservoir and it would automatically dispense what was needed. Well one day it was gettin…

True, though tenants in corporate owned single family housing all tell me it's closer towards the worst landlords. The corporations won't harass you, but they essentially don't wan…

I've been sick for almost ten years and had low vitamin D levels. Last two years I've finally found some treatments that work for me, now that I'm healthier my vitamin D level has …

Later, because they're more likely to have some sort of treatment, there's a large number of studies going on now. Here's an article from the WSJ about how using serum from recover…

A sizable portion of the car washes in Los Angeles have an aggressive chip repair salesman who will circle all the chips and aggressively try to sell you on free windshield repair.…

I do this on high value items. I pack the item in the car though for safety and film continuously until drop-off.

They have rental scams here where they will show you the house as well. One is where they pretend to be realtors and get the key from the listing agent.

Hospitals will pay their own money for residencies in specialties that are wildly profitable. Usually, some fancy types of surgeons. Primary care, endocrinology, rheumatology, and …

On the zero bezel phones the software makes a huge difference. I have very small hands where I can barely grip friends' XL phones. If they have some cheap off-brand, discount prepa…

I’m in the same boat as you. My PT has helped a lot. I discovered many of the treatments were in the book The Perrin Technique. The symptoms in the book described me exactly. I gav…

Older people have had more practice operating the TV. Just getting the phone to work is often a mental challenge. A ton of them are constantly inadvertently opening control center …

I know a ton of these older adults. I think the true problem is that they are not socializing enough which is the cause of the mental decline and often paranoia. Some of them have …

Active management is expensive. I've seen it for $1800/yr and the rate of followup was still poor. If you want a doctor to take care of you like family the rate seems to be $7500-3…

Depends on the insurance company's contract with the provider. It is generally optional, though they will tell you otherwise. I would still pay it though. I feel like it is a good …

An electric bike is too heavy and bulky, there's nowhere to store it in the house. Also a pain to store in the office which is upstairs. We can't leave it outside due to the homele…

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the electric scooter rental services. For a while they did make traffic in Santa Monica and surrounding areas better. It went from horrific to le…

There's a huge number of people who use Uber as a payday loan who are completely unaware of finance. They just need cash NOW. The most ridiculous one I saw was a drive with a crack…

Agreed. I do remember reading somewhere that the average current full time working mother spends more time with her children than a housewife in the 50s. Children used to go outsid…

In LA, Hispanic neighborhoods have 24 hour urgent cares but the doctor quality is all over the place though usually bad. Urgent cares used to be pretty upfront. I went to an urgent…

We eat the loss and the chargeback fee, it's just a cost of business. It's not worth it to ban the customer. 90% of them don't buy again. Of the 10% that do, it's worth it to keep …

Have worked in men's and women's porn. Women have this solved, all their porn is from Amazon. Historically don't chargeback so that hurdle never existed. I wouldn't be surprised if…

Used to work in a business that sold porn DVDs and had to deal with chargebacks. We had an inbound sales call center, and a customer service one where you could cancel. Among the c…

Interesting, I have a few friends who were formerly EMTs and when I spoke to some former paramedic acquaintances, they seemed to believe the speed bumps were detrimental in certain…

You may be right. It's been a while. I remember reading a news article some place where they had the stats before they put them in, and found out after that ambulance times were de…

Seconds count. We already know that speed bumps kill 9 for every 1 life they save, due to ambulance delays. Ambulances are heavy and can't go over speed bumps very quickly. The 1 l…