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  1. 4 hours ago, Homercles said:

    Thought not fully in line with the intent of this thread…I had one of my patented ‘rants to sef while driving’ yesterday.  

    I accidentally broke our Christmas tree, bought at Costco a decade ago, by storing it in the bag, upside down.  Ran to Costco and bought another one.  Returned the tree yesterday, they took it with a smile and gave me $400 back.  

    The conundrum is the lady didn’t ask if it was the old $300 tree or the new $400 tree that broke.  She actually thanked me for ‘being the reason I have a great job’ after I apologized for hauling in a huge box on a cart.  

    Costco is one the least-shitified companies I use on a regular basis and try to reward them with my business when feasible.  They have a great return policy, pay their folks well, and don’t seem hell bent on screwing me over for a buck.  

    Thus I felt guilty for sorta gaming the system…but then again, large companies consistently used PPP loans to buyback stock, layoffs happen without remorse, Covid was an excuse to jack up prices long after supply chain issues, and my employer is insistent I waste gas to sit in an empty office to keep tax breaks.  

    The proverbial ‘They’ will take whatever they can get. If I have a loophole available, so be it.  Use ad blockers, VPNs, etc.  

    Costco is that way because they've built their business model to align their incentives with their customers. They don't really make much on retail sales, almost everything sold is with only enough margin to cover overhead. Where they make their real money is on memberships and services and product warranties, and customers will only keep buying them if they trust the business they're working with. 

  2. 25 minutes ago, locodos said:
    • Keyboard Patriots saving 'merica by repeating what they read on FB

    nailed it lol

    1 hour ago, Hate said:

    It’s going to be awesome. We’ll get to choose between “shits his pants” and “shit for brains” yet again. 

     

  3. 16 minutes ago, nbmishoid said:

    Companies can make choices based on what they think is “right “ among other things.

    And what they more often than not think is "right" is making the most money possible for their shareholders. Because it sure as shit ain't looking out for their employees or customers

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  4. 3 hours ago, BeardIP said:

    And to tie it back to the thread-- we are trending more about how things "feel" than how they "are" which helps to explain for me, at least, why the disconnect with the economy

    I think the problem is that when you say "the economy", you really mean the stock market. Of which, 50% of stocks are owned by the top 1% of wealthy individuals, and the next 35% is owned by 2-10%.

    If you turn off your critical thinking and only use the SP500 as your KPI synthetic for the economy as a whole, I could see why you would think "no, it must be GenZ that's wrong"

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  5. 24 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    Then just sat out 2017 and 2018 on here.  Everybody was a Nazi or a Libtard. 

    In fairness, literal nazis were marching in the streets chanting "Jews will not replace us" and killing protesters in 2017. Just to remind you how fucking insane shit was

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  6. 11 minutes ago, BP44 said:

    Hence @immamac’s dilemma. 

     

    There’s a lot to be upset about politically these days. I understand. But CR is an embarrassment and you know it. 

    My first pos rep. 

    HF was center. I know several that got banned by Katy for abbreviating “Palis” during an aughts Levant conflict.  Shag was very balanced. We’ve gone increasingly right to left over the last 20 years which is very understandable (as have I). 

    It’s the fucking Hanna Barbera cartoon soundboard.  It’s nuts. There is no room for any opposing viewpoint (and in a lot of cases with the right these days, there IS no opposing viewpoint).  Your summary judgement about me versus them is par for the course. I’m only commenting in the thread asking for opinions. 

    This. 

    Hey real quick, just a temp check: was the 2020 election stolen?

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  7. 2 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

    IMO, it's not that there are recalls happening. They're pretty much always going to happen for anything operating at scale because fuckups happen and amplify down the line when you're making high volume things. 

    What I do find contemptible is Teslas response to their findings of multiple major manufacturing defects - not software defects - and attempting to conceal it and push the cost onto their customers. It built a lie of a facade that Tesla was just better™ and was a big part of elmos ability to pump his TSLA shares. It was arguably fraudulent, considering they were selling cars with known defects and advertising/presenting them as bulletproof. 

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  8. 3 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

    I’ve already acknowledged that Tesla fucked up that situation.  

     

    4 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

    I am not doing a “both sides” bit here.   Just pointing out that when it comes to vehicle recalls, Tesla is not some egregious outlier.

    That fuck up in itself is an egregious outlier in how companies handle recalls. That doesn't happen with literally any other car manufacturers, much less the one that's larger than it's next 5 competitors combined. 

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  9. 1 minute ago, Guadaloopy said:

    Improper use of the driver assist functions in Tesla’s caused deadly accidents.  

    Improper use of driver assist functions (cruise control and lane-keeping) has caused automobile accidents for decades.

    People misuse technology    Reel at 11.

    Did improper use result in multiple fucking suspension arms doing an RUD? There's more at issue here than your $8,000 early access beta pedestrian smearing software, but you seem incapable of discussing literally anything else 

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    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/twitter-violated-contract-pay-millions-bonuses-us-judge-rules-rcna131034

    WASHINGTON — Twitter violated contracts by failing to pay millions of dollars in bonuses that the social media company, now called X Corp, had promised its employees, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

    Mark Schobinger, who was Twitter’s senior director of compensation before leaving Elon Musk’s company in May, sued Twitter in June, claiming breach of contract.

     

    Schobinger’s suit alleged that before and after billionaire Musk bought Twitter last year, it promised employees 50% of their 2022 target bonuses but never made those payments.

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  11. 4 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

    Engines die unexpectedly when the fuel pump stops working.  What fact did I not have straight?

    A fuel pump going out results in an engine stall out and loss of power. It's not a good thing to have happen, but the car is still controllable and completely fixable without any lasting damage after a warranty pump replacement. That's what happened to a number of Honda drivers, and Honda issued a global recall to resolve the issues. 

     

    A fucking suspension arm coming off a Tesla means uneven application of torque to the ground resulting in worse driver control. Plus a fucking wheel falls off and will almost certainly lead to significant body and potential frame damage. That happened to a brand fuckin new Tesla, and they stuck the owner with the repair bill AND COVERED IT UP! However they did issue a recall in China because they couldn't hide it from the Chinese government because they have worse regulatory capture there. 

     

    Honda covered the repair costs, and the damage was fully repairable with low risk of permanent damage and low risk to third parties. 

    Tesla stuck customers with repair costs for manufacturing defects, and the damage was catastrophic and made the car much more difficult to control in an emergency scenario. Sure the person in the Tesla may be fine, but the person/car they could spin into would be worse for wear.

     

    Like goddamn dude you are doing the laziest whatabout #bothsides

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  12. 2 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

    do all that to your very point that I see far too many people in the business world melt the first time they are wrong, don't get what they want, etc. 

    Yeah I know quite a few business leaders who fit this description, and they ain't spring chickens. I think it's a core lack of curiosity that ends up expressing itself whenever they encounter something that takes more than a moment to learn about

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  13. 12 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:

    You guys really buy that nonsense? LOL It's obviously fake. 

    Lol go to texags to fellate your fascist street fighter of choice. You really think a washout chud little murdering fuck that couldn't even stay in blinndergarden would be too dumb for the marines?

  14. 2 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    No-

     The top 10% owns 89% of the stocks in this country, meaning the bottom 90% owns just 11% of the stocks.

     

    Inflation is not high 2023 vs 2022, it was the 24 consecutive months prior of record high inflation that did the damage. 

    And one step of further division, the top 1% owns 53% of stocks in the country. The gains and growth of the stock market aren't being realized uniformly. Wage earners have been getting fuckin spitroasted

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  15. 28 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    I think that this sub is significantly over representative of people raised in evangelical/funda/conservative christian households, many in small-medium town texas. It's clear in many discussions, esp those where anything related to christianity is discussed, not just this one.

    Or perhaps in Texas, that IS the predominant christian experience? 

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  16. 3 minutes ago, JMFP said:

    Toyota and Honda aren't squeaky clean but you're right, when called out on their shit they mostly take their lumps and move on. I don't think they'd have the balls to blame a customer for a wheel falling off on a brand new car with 100 miles on it. 

    The reporting from Reuters and the paper records from the internal Tesla comms are pretty incredible. Tesla stuck a customer with a $4000 repair bill to fix their corroded power steering system because the customer had the gall to run their car through a car wash. Absolutely ridiculous behavior for the MOST VALUABLE CAR MAKER IN THE WORLD (by market cap)

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