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Post by malfist »

threetonesun wrote: post #659
robocat wrote: post #623

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> race track I presume that F150 ain't getting round the corners very quickly. I reckon optimising for straight line speed is a strange goal.

Right, there's no form of racing that is a straight line, is there. Regardless, optimizing a pick up for 0-60 time is a strange goal, unless you have some express desire to launch 2x4s a great distance in a complicated way.

Optimizing for it? Probably not. But side effect of it's ability to tow 10,000 pounds that also makes it hella fun to drive? Absolutely.

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Post by malfist »

b0rtb0rt wrote: post #517
iugtmkbdfil834 wrote: post #432

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The fascinating thing for me was that they actually had trouble selling it ( and thus the production stop and fairly aggressive incentives to sell the remaining ones off ). I really do enjoy mine and I swear I was not a truck person.

it’s pretty much useless for anything you would actually use a truck for

You know how I know you're not an F150 lightning owner?

It's as capable, if not more so, than your standard F150 at truck duties in everything except towing. And it's a bit of a mixed bag there, it can tow way more than a standard f150, but it cuts the range to 1/3 so you have to charge pretty often. Still, 100 miles towing 10,000 pounds is nothing to sneeze at.

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Post by Zhenya »

Zhenya wrote: post #542
Spooky23 wrote: post #538

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You’re probably a professional with a good wage. The working poor are too poor to have much and too rich to be poor and get benefits. They are cashflow constrained. When I coached little league, we had parents who walked miles to games because the bus fare (1.50) for 3-4 people would push them over the edge. Vulture companies like dollar general exist because they sell consumer staples in smaller quantities at a slig…

These are not out of luck people if this is a long term Problem. These are people who are chronically bad at allocating resources. Even if they could afford the 65$ membership (yes anyone car). They couldn’t afford the per package goods. Is this even alluring to them? They demonstrate poor basic economic understanding.

The downvotes are hilarious.

Probably the same people who dump money into scams fronting as homeless assistance organizations.

Of course, there is no counter argument, just emotion.

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Post by vunderba »

wavemode wrote: post #612
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> It’s a foreign concept for many of us who seek out the best product or deals for each purchase and will change brands in an instant if another company releases a better product. For those of us who grew up in the era of the "Are you a Mac or a PC" [1], many Americans are intimately familiar with the concept of brand identity. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_a_Mac

Mac, yes. But I feel like being a "PC user" was never a coherent social identity. People use PCs for various reasons, usually pragmatic. (Reflecting on it, I don't think I ever knew anyone who was "loyal" to Microsoft, or, dare I say, even particularly liked them as a company. At least certainly not the way people like Apple.) In that sense, I feel as though Apple is the exception that proves the rule. There are real…

Yeah I could see that. I think Apple being naturally more vertically integrated (controlling the hardware and the software), was able to establish a stronger narrative around its identity early on in order to court certain types of people.

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Post by com2kid »

ethbr1 wrote: post #299
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Sometimes on a hot day for the short period the kid's napping I find myself at Home Depot searching for this or that tired from the work week under pressure as the clock ticks down having no idea what I'm doing and I make it to checkout tired no exhausted and I see the ice cold cooler the Coke its last moments before it's soaked with condensation open the door scan it rush to the car twist it open it screams wow some…

There's two takes on America. One: It's terrible that you're shopping at a big box hardware retailer instead of a local hardware store and drinking high fructose mass market soda. The other: Home Depot usually has what's needed, at a decent price, nearby. And Coke from the cooler next to the cash register is convenient, cold, and delicious. Neither of these are wrong, and they're both worth keeping simultaneously in…

Just went to my neighborhood HW store yesterday. They didn't have any of what I needed, so now I'll be going to Home Depot.

I just wanted some landscaping rocks. I didn't think I was asking for much....

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Post by redeeman »

thomascgalvin wrote: post #639
redeeman wrote: post #635

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and what iphone model do these americans have? I would be very very surprised if there were not adjustments that could be made that would significantly uplift these peoples situation

> and what iphone model do these americans have? A smartphone is not an optional component of modern life. You need a smartphone to apply for many minimum wage jobs now

way to misrepresent what i said. you can do that from the cheapest secondhand phone. What do you think most of these people have?

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Post by wasabi991011 »

antonvs wrote: post #587
cogman10 wrote: post #365

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> There’s nothing good or desirable about any of it unless you’ve been indoctrinated into thinking that. Ah, that's too harsh. Sugar water tastes good. Fast food is made quickly and it tastes good. There's no "indoctrination" that happens to make people realize that. I agree that coke has 0 nutritional value. However, the flavor is agreeable to most people.

You were addicted as a child to something unhealthy, and that's why it's indoctrination. > However, the flavor is agreeable to most people. Only because most people have undergone that indoctrination. You can't imagine that people could try Coke and think "what is this ridiculously sugary shit?" The reason you can't imagine that? Indoctrination.

> You can't imagine that people could try Coke and think "what is this ridiculously sugary shit?" The reason you can't imagine that? Indoctrination.

You are replying to someone saying "agreeable to most people" (emphasis mine).

Very clearly, they are perfectly able to imagine what you claim they can't imagine.

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Post by wasabi991011 »

antonvs wrote: post #250
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> "What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All th…

Andy Warhol was an apologist for the toxic consumer culture in the US. It’s a big part of why he was so successful. Coke is a great example. There’s no product more useless and unnecessary than that flavored fizzy sugar water. Or should I say, high fructose corn syrup water. If you drink it, why? Probably because you were indoctrinated since childhood. Same goes for pretty much all fast food. There’s nothing good or…

People have been drinking syrup mixed with water for centuries, maybe even Millenia.

Wikipedia dates the popularity of soft drinks to the medieval middle east, but the origins of sweet fruity water are thought to be ~400 BC Persia at least.

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Post by fooker »

type4 wrote: post #199

I have a really mixed feeling about Costco. I hate it, I going there, I hate the crowds, the parking, the people, being hawked a credit card, a cell phone, whatever the vendors are selling. It makes me feel like a pig in a slaughterhouse waiting to get out of the store, I feel like it's the platonic form of consumption. We all go to the nice little consumption center like good piggies to get our sustenance and to get…

Watch the Costco clip from Idiocracy, matches your description to the letter.

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Post by presbyterian »

michaelcampbell wrote: post #679
senkora wrote: post #171

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Trader Joe's is probably closest to what you want. It targets single shoppers with small quantities and low prices, and it rotates products frequently to keep things interesting. Anecdotally I feel like a lot of TJ's shoppers shift into Costco shoppers as they age up.

I'm reminded of a comedian's bit I heard recently (he does a lot of "crowd work") > So, what do you guys want to do? Feel like pooling all the cash we have and going to Trader Joe's to buy an apple? (TBH, I think he said "whole foods" there, but the sentiment is the same.)

Maybe it varies by location, but in my experience, Whole Foods is significantly more expensive than Trader Joe's. Trader Joe's is pretty affordable. It may not be Walmart cheap, but it's no worse than Target.
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