Amazon.com
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I'm supposed to be getting a package soon. USPS tracking says it'll be delivered on Friday. But the most recent entry in the log says it left the local post office this morning and is out for delivery.
Or maybe they don't have much confidence in my particular postman.
And package not received today. Apparently it actually does take multiple days to get from the local post office to my mailbox.
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Well, when your entire menu basically goes as "Idiot 1" "Idiot 2" "Idiot 3" and so on...
I'm not sure that's not by design. Most of the people we make fun of on the driving anti-patterns thread can and do vote. So how do we stop them for voting for idiots?
Possibly. Certainly honest ones do.
It's generally even worse when the honest ones do get into office. They shamelessly perpetuate all kinds of WTFery because they think they're doing it for your own good.
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So how do we stop them for voting for idiots?
Since everyone is an idiot, this is impossible. The problem is thinking that giving the idiots more power is the solution. Let's make votes matter less by not letting the idiots in power fuck shit up for the idiots not in power.
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They shamelessly perpetuate all kinds of WTFery because they think they're doing it for your own good.
Government is not there for that, dammit.
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The problem is thinking that giving the idiots more power is the solution. Let's make votes matter less by not letting the idiots in power fuck shit up for the idiots not in power
Too bad so many people insist on thinking against all evidence that there are "the right people" who will wield massive power responsibly.
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Too bad so many people insist on thinking against all evidence that there are "the right people" who will wield massive power responsibly.
There probably are, but they wouldn't want the job.
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There probably are, but they wouldn't want the job.
I'm not convinced of that, or we would have found them by now.
I lean, actually, towards the guy who said he'd trust 50 random names out of the phone book more.
I think that idea has a lot to recommend it. Just make it so that passing a law that would benefit you or your family means you go to jail, and so that everyone in government is selected that way, and that the terms are short and you can't be selected twice within a long time period.
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I lean, actually, towards the guy who said he'd trust 50 random names out of the phone book more.
Actually, it was that he'd trust the first 100 people there over the Harvard faculty, but I think he'd accept your version, too. It was William F. Buckley, Jr., BTW.
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I lean, actually, towards the guy who said he'd trust 50 random names out of the phone book more.
I think that idea has a lot to recommend it. Just make it so that passing a law that would benefit you or your family means you go to jail, and so that everyone in government is selected that way, and that the terms are short and you can't be selected twice within a long time period.
This is actually similar to how democracy used to work in ancient Greece, Athens in particular. People voting to go to war would do so knowing that they or their sons would be doing the fighting. I don't think that scales well to 300+ million people. It could work here if we massively decentralized.
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I'm not convinced of that, or we would have found them by now.
That's assuming that we're looking for them. We're not. We're just letting people look for the position.
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Yeah, that's what i was thinking of.
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It could work here if we massively decentralized.
Massive decentralization is almost always the right thing.
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EVERYBODY WHO BUYS ONE LAWNMOWER STARTER IS CLEARLY AN ENTHUSIAST AND WILL BUY MORE IN THE NEAR FUTURE!
Since they know that starter was made in China, they know you will need another one really soon
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Government is like code in that adding more of it and more complexity to it is a common thing, in a very bad way.
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We're just letting people look for the position.
This thread has brought to my mind a couple of times a quotation to the effect that nobody who wants to hold a public office should be trusted with one, but my Google-fu has failed to turn up either the exact quotation or who said it.
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This thread has brought to my mind a couple of times a quotation to the effect that nobody who wants to hold a public office should be trusted with one, but my Google-fu has failed to turn up either the exact quotation or who said it.
Heinlein in the person of Lazarus Long, but I'm pretty sure he was restating something he'd read elsewhere.
Likely candidates include Mencken, Bierce, Twain....
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Heinlein probably said it as @da_Doctah mentioned, but so did HHGTTG.
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Another Amazon.com WTF. Well, I ordered something from them and it was shipped via UPS and that is where the WTF is.
It was a third-party seller in Chicago, who shipped via "UPS Expedited Mail Innovations". Another one of those services that lets the USPS handle the final delivery. I just checked the tracking information and it was "received by the local post office" in...Bensenville, IL. I don't live in Illinois. Bensenville, IL is 21.2 miles from Chicago according to Google Maps. So UPS picked it up from their location...and then apparently delivered it to the closest post office. Why? That is just idiotic.
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@Intercourse said:
Why?
If I had to guess, third party seller doesn't want to have to take trips to the post office and you pay for shipping so the extra charge is no problem for them.
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UPSMI occasionally does that if their own trucks are congested.
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http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Yellow-Dont-Make-Green/dp/0967962870
Because of this post, Amazon is now sending emails pushing books about painting and color theory. Thanks a lot, @antiquarian.
Edit: I meant to say "sending me emails," but I left it as is, because I suspect a few other people who clicked that link are getting them too.
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Because of this post, Amazon is now sending emails pushing books about painting and color theory. Thanks a lot, @antiquarian.
Edit: I meant to say "sending me emails," but I left it as is, because I suspect a few other people who clicked that link are getting them too.
You can remove the book from your amazon browsing history to stop the emails.
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I could, if I thought it was worth the bother, but it's more fun to complain about it here. :)
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I ordered a Samsung Gear Fit for my wife for xmas, today my suggested items include nearly every other fucking smart watch or activity tracker on the planet. Because that is an item that people buy every week...
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I could, if I thought it was worth the bother, but it's more fun to complain about it here. :)
Plus it's probably better than whatever thing amazon thought you liked because you clicked on a random link to read the funny reviews, anyways.
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You mean Haribo sugar free
laxativesgummy bears? Yeah, I got an email about those a couple of months ago.
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irredeemable jackalopes
That sounds like an attempt at a googlewhack.
Not a very likely successful one (I'm not going to check) though.
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No, not very successful.
Looks like Google still loves the Discourse forums as much as the CS ones though
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Looks like Google still loves the Discourse forums as much as the CS ones though
It's starting to get a bit better.
3389dae361af79b04c9c8e7057f60cc6 gets meta 3rd and us 6th for me, for example. (Other links are just reverse hashers.)
