Anal probing would be a welcome change of pace.

Direct Inward Dialing, or basically a VOIP phone number.

I know that’s not what they meant, but DID is already an established term in IT.

Those highways are often very congested too. It can take like 2 hours just to drive through Houston, even using the loops/beltways

You’re assuming no traffic in major cities. I’ve gone from close to the Louisiana border to new Mexico and it took about 16 hours.

Yeah, people are fucking stupid. I empirically proved they’d never get a lower price, but they passed because they thought the capitalism knew more than me.

Guess what? Those fuckers didn’t get to deep fry a turkey because they’re stupid. Which I guess is a net positive for turkeys

I’d call it fraud myself. But retailers have been doing this shit for forever. But the thing is that people love this shit.

JCPenny almost went under when they stopped deceptive pricing tactics like 20 years ago and just offered a really low price.

Shit, I worked at a major sports and outdoors retailer and we had tags that said “Everyday Low Price.” Items tagged with that would never go on sale because they were loss leaders (just barely above wholesale to get people to buy overpriced accessories).

I had customers with the items in their cart ask me if it was on sale, I told them it was the lowest price they were going to find and even price checked other retailers whose sale price was higher than ours, and they put it back every time.

People are really fucking stupid.

Hmm, I wonder if I can use this on my Synology to manage things until I get around to finishing my proxmox setup.

I see you subscribe to the Amazon sales policy.

Didn’t they just start shipping grid size salt batteries too?

Exactly. 99.9999% of consumers don’t give a fuck as long as they can still access Facebook and TikTok.

I think it can also be an autism thing too. My SO is on the spectrum, and I’m definitely ADHD but possibly auDHD, and we were both mature for our age. We’ve always gotten along better with people older than us, especially adults when we were kids.

The biggest trauma I had was my parents getting divorced, but I was always mature for my age.

Being intelligent is quite literally a disqualifying characteristic.

Emails are orders of magnitude less energy intensive than mailing flyers.