And let go of Costco regret.

Then why keep signing up? You clearly don’t need the bulk quantities, so why put up with that inconvenience?

To justify the subscription I made the commitment to buy all my necessities there that I could, and in return I get back the equivalent of a month’s worth of free groceries.

That’s my point, it didn’t work and we did quit shopping there.

The prices never really worked out in our favor and the experience of finding a cool product we did truly love only to find it not stocked the following month is awful.

It really makes me wonder how astroturfed the brand is.

Out of curiosity, where do you shop instead? Around me the prices are better than any other stores except Aldi.

Charleston, SC circa 2018-2022

Open your car’s manual, or pop your hood and it’s likely written on the oil filler cap.

But you can spend endless time reading forum debates about whether the OEM specification is the optimal one for any given car, complete with lab test results, which was the point I was making.

That’s insane. I just paid $800 for a much longer run, materials and labor.

Seattle has absurd labor costs.

Just the needed permits are a couple hundred.

Be careful how you ask for it, too. A "NEMA 14-50 outlet" is likely to be quite a bit cheaper than "EV charger" and especially "Tesla charger."

That would have been in the 1980s.

If you’re curious to read actual explanations for these things, https://www.radartutorial.eu/

Really toxic security anti-pattern.

I’m locked out of my 20 year old wikipedia account because they instituted 2fa without asking and my email on file was no longer valid.

Ouch. That's worse than the reddit accounts I lost for a similar reason.

Nearly lost a dozen other accounts when I moved from Canada to US and changed my phone number. Fortunately I had to foresight to pay about $1/mo to transfer my Canadian number to some VoiP service just so I could keep it active for scenarios like this!

They crave access the authority and gravitas that they perceive as extending from the lengthy history of Western Europe, and they covet subservience to the divine rule of kings.

What they need is a culture of UX focus, and I don’t think it’s present in the hardware team either.

They’ve coasted too long on consistent visual identity, and even that’s been slipping. Time to focus on actual user needs.

You can count on one hand the number of democrats in congress who could be part of the DSA.

But yes, Gottenheimer is a conservative democrat.