I thought I read that the helium used in party balloons was a grade that wasn’t useful for medical devices. For example, this link. They of course are a company that is selling party balloon helium, so… This link might be more reliable.

The speaker at my college graduation was convicted of fraud a few years later. I can’t decide which is worse, that guy telling us what a great businessman he was, or an AI speaker.

I have a cat with IBS on my lap right now, and we had another one who passed away about 10 years ago.

For both, the prescription food was enough to control it. Going back to regular food would generate issues, and if the earlier one got into something he shouldn’t, he’d often toss his cookies.

Ours weren’t diarrhea issues, though. Both of ours were throwing up a lot. The earlier one, even with the prescription food, threw up a lot - even now with three cats, I still have less cat vomit to clean up.

Eventually, the cat that had IBS developed cancer and passed away. I had had him 12 years at that point, and he was a young adult when I adopted him (they said he was “about a year old” but a vet later told me that means “anywhere between 1 and 6 years old”). So he might have been as young as 13 or as old as 17.

(Same deal with lap cat - they told us he was about one, we adopted him in 2016, but his black fur is starting to fade in some spots on his legs, so I suspect he’s older than they claimed. No real way to tell though.)

I’ve seen this argument a lot, and I don’t understand it. Few people are buying those high end bikes, and no one is forced to buy one. Using that as justification that the prices are out of control is just weird to me.

There is an argument about prices to be made. I just looked up the base model Specialized Allez with 8 speed Claris, and it retails for $1200. A few years ago that would have been an ~$800 bike, I think (albeit likely with rim brakes instead of disc). I don’t know what all is driving the prices, inflation is certainly a factor.

But that conveys the issue way better than complaining about super bikes that cost $15k. The barrier to entry for a newbie has gone up that much.

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They don’t care. The only way for a Trump aide to get fired is to mock them on SNL.

30 years from now: “Haven’t they always been called Strawberrums?”

That is, ummm, interesting. Can their installed system do anything, though? There are so many restrictions, it seems like it would be a difficult installation to daily drive.

And some of the justifications are really confusing. I realize some are probably typographical errors, but I can’t figure out what a few of them are saying at all. It reminds me of the people that invent their own lexicon and just expect everyone to understand what they are saying.

If one woman can give birth to a baby in 9 months, then 9 women can do it in one month.

Heard that as an example of tasks that do not work in parallel in project management.

A good point. The BBQ place owns their own building, I believe, but in general that is a good point.

It’s not just fast food. They’re getting the attention because they’re supposed to be cheap, but the price of eating out in general has jumped over the last 4 years or so.

For example: We often eat at a local barbecue place, usually getting the same order each time. (During the pandemic, we would get take out.) I don’t have the numbers in front of me, but when I looked it up a while back, I think we were paying ~$15 more now for the essentially the same order. Adding $15 on to a ~$30 order is a huge increase, as a percentage.

In general, our dining out expenses have gone way up since the start of the pandemic, but we aren’t eating out more often or ordering more extravagant foods. The prices have just gone up. (When we go out for meals, we go to a mix of fast food and casual dining places, some with counter service.)

I’m no Boston (or Florida, really) fan, but I was sure that would be goaltender interference. Wow. That’s… Just wow.

Yep. Anyone who doesn’t support you is actively working against you.

It’s really disturbing.

I think we’re overlooking the 173 other people that voted against this bill, too.

I mean, yeah, this guy is exceptionally bad, but a lot of other people also voted against it…

My wife got into that lularoe shit. We set a limit, which she promptly blew past. You just had all these people, including the owners, telling you to buy buy buy.

They prey on people’s insecurities. They take advantage of them.

Call my wife stupid, I’m sure someone will because this is Lemmy where everyone is self righteous, but I think you don’t really understand the power of manipulation these companies wield until you see it firsthand. It’s actually really sad and dangerous what they do to people. And my wife has a successful career and makes 6 figures, we don’t need the money, but they still had her convinced she had to do this. I thought it would be a side hobby for her, but they were not kind to her. (Well, they were, but only to get money.)

I remember trying to warn her that the company makes money when she buys, not when she sells. I don’t think it sunk in, and let’s face it, that’s how retail works in general. But with regular retail, you control what you get - Lularoe just sent whatever quantity of leggings, blouses, dresses, etc you ordered. You had no control over the patterns. I’m not sure if you even got to pick what sizes you received.

Early on I helped, but I got tired of spending time and energy so she could sell one pair of leggings. She went to a few group sales things and would spend hours sitting there, plus all the prep and tear down time, plus gas, all to sell like three things. She only went to two of those.

A host of other companies jumped in to help, for a price. Website. Square. Stamps.com.

We still have some in the basement. I want to burn it, but we donate some to charities now and then, and occasionally neighbors and friends will come raid it (we give it to them free). We started watching the documentary on Amazon about it, but never finished. My wife was just too angry.

One meeting we went to before she got into it had the head of Lularoe on video conference. She talked about having “600 new arts each week”, ie 600 patterns. That comment runs through my head every time I see a particularly ugly lularoe pattern.

Ehhh at least I got a new camera out of it, for taking pictures of the stock.

I joined the antimlm sub on reddit for a while hoping for advice and info, but it was just a very negative sub, mocking people and no helpful advice. I unsubbed after a few weeks. Fortunately my wife eventually figured it out.

You’re not going to stop people from doing this by showing them numbers. You have to realize it’s an emotional thing. They are preying on emotions. You have to find a way to fight that.

People would be transferring to other ships, retiring, and so on, too.

I used to work in a hardware store. One day a guy came in looking for a skyhook.

After we called his boss to confirm the situation (this was well before cell phones), we all had a good laugh. I think the boss was shocked he fell for it.

I like that episode, but that scene…Data nearly gets himself killed by hitting the wrong controls, then a minute later knows - for certain - how to trigger the launch sequence and override the bay doors.

I prefer to cut the top off.

Yeah, I’ve used mine while cycling in freezing temperatures without an issue.