The higgher-up managers came out of from other departments like clothing or gifts. They were used to departments where the only job of the staff was to re-stick stuff and point out bathroom locations. You don't need an expert salesman to help you pick a shirt or novelty mug. They didn't understand that people coming to the store to buy sonar or a trolling motor don't know what they need to know to pick a unit. Or that someone isn't going to wait an hour in line for a salesman to talk to them about buying a gun that they legally cannot buy without going through the salesman, when they could go to 5 different stores in the same town and get service immediately. To be fair, many of those managers didn't last long. I personally got HR to fire the AGM when one of my salesman let me know that the AGM forced one of my people to sell a gun to someone after another employee had refused to sell it to them because they thought it was a straw purchase.

Not sure where you live but it's quite shite in both countries (nonof them tge US) that I call home as well.

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Well that's Linux for ya. I boot into Linux and Windows occasionally, but driver compatibility for Photoshop and Blender via Wine isn't perfect.

TIL phatic. nice!

I really wish they used different name for that utility though, since it has nothing to do with ""Linux"" sudo. It is like when they released a package manager called winget, which is not really a package manager, but more like a program/installer manager.

DDG is amazing. They do have the option of AI though with duck.ai. Their products are great. I may be a bit bias, I've been using it for 12 years.

This is so american, people should talk about politics

But how do you "pay respect" without f?

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Thanks for that. I am not suggesting it need to be directly tangible like the gold standard, but something ostensibly public (perhaps embedded into an international economic alliance) that is directly ties to ownership of a secure portfolio of investments across a variety of intrinsically valuable staples or otherwise being carefully managed by skilled investors. Think 401K, and the bond market, but without being subject to the whims of national foreign policy. Crypto regardless of how impenetrable it is technologically, if it's inevitably controlled by unethical actors, it's still worse for the world and not a safe investment to recommend. And like everything else, tangible or untangable, it's value is still subject to market interest, i.e. as you say, people agreeing to pay for it assuming others will buy it off them in the future.

My case won't take money to fix so much as all the other pain points. Gotta clean the shed so I can drag the genny out, so I can dump the old gas, put it all back together again, get on a ladder with the electric chainsaw and go to work, in the Florida heat and humidity, hope I don't get crushed to death like my great uncle. LOL, just not motivated right now! It'll hold till fall.

Buttplug with wireless control and a motor % inversely proportionate to s&p500 changes. Make your whole day a little happier.

Yes. Mine.

Cargo cult.

Exactly, the foundations of this nation are sturdy. Freedom of speech is well guarded by all administrators and the constitution of the state! Foregin influence by other nations secret service operations does not exist and is minimal. russia and China can not influence elections or public views through social media apps in the US, rather it is the other way around. The free internet opens doors to their freedom!