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Best Buy Membership "discount" (lemmy.world)

So I was shopping with my wife today and I said "oh let's see if my membership helps out." So we went and added the same item to each of our carts, and to our surprise, the total was the same! So what is it exactly that I'm paying for in this membership if the items "original price" is higher for me than it is for regular...

braxy29 ,

i posted about having this experience on reddit a year or two ago and people were pissed? but yeah, empty shelves and barely any employees. it sucks, because i used to enjoy going there to see what's new.

braxy29 ,

what the heck... you're really super into amazon, huh?

braxy29 ,

i thought you were serious. and then i thought you weren't. honestly, now i'm not sure, but i'm impressed either way.

braxy29 ,

okay, but that made me laugh

braxy29 ,

i think there's like a whole subculture around these shoes, no joke

edit - other people in thread explaining it better!

braxy29 , (edited )

i ran into this kind of garbage the other day looking for a Nicholas Jaar video when i couldn't recall the name. like BoC, there's tons and tons of tracks by Jaar, but results gave me one or two of his most popular tracks and a buuuuuunch of other stuff. i couldn't even just keep scrolling, there were a dozen results and then the "related search" garbage.

ugh, i'm so fed up with google, and at the same time not motivated enough to figure out workarounds. i have work and shit to do around my house.

i guess, with me, they won.

edit typo

braxy29 , (edited )

based on memory, so a little vague, but examples - access to various merchants in Bravely Default required you to have passed others. i remember this because i was sick with flu and spent a couple days with my 3ds and my daughter's running/"passing" each other repeatedly so i could unlock everything.

to the best of my memory, some turn-based rpg's (Persona? SMT? Etrian Odyssey?) would allow you to access customized personas/demons/teams? others had made available. like maybe someone had a really great high level persona (basically a pokemon) with a really great selection of skills on it and you could use it instead of trying to build the same thing yourself, before you might have normally had access to it.

so the latter type thing was cool and fun, but i didn't get many of those. the first example is a situation where the game doesn't really fully work without spotpass.

edit - you could visit houses of people you had passed in animal crossing and buy their stuff, too. so you could see how other people decorated and access furniture you might not have access to yet (seasonal, Gracie).

Please, for the love of God, VOTE! (pawb.social)

I don't like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in...

braxy29 ,

throughout reading this thread, what echoes in my mind over and over is this - "the perfect is the enemy of the good." and honestly, right now i'm defining "good" as "not-fascism," "not-Trump," "not the man who will burn it all down as quickly as possible."

yes, i'm hiding from the next bullet. i'm hiding myself, my family, my friends, my co-workers and clients. my choices are the man with the loaded gun who has TOLD us what to expect, and any other possible alternative.

for now, i happen to think this is GOOD ENOUGH, and those who would sacrifice that on principle have not really imagined what is very likely to happen next. i'm sorry i can't save the people of Gaza, but i can try to save those i know and love.

braxy29 ,

wtf

braxy29 ,

https://youtu.be/ukAkG6c_N4M?si=6LbXPPh1nd1JB1cr

https://youtu.be/8F9gzQz1Pms?si=FiI1Ox2nVKalwUdg

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock. (www.theverge.com)

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock.::Reddit seems like a likely candidate for a meme stock. But the actual reaction suggests that r/WallStreetBets isn’t going to send the stock to the moon.

braxy29 ,

never did link my account to an email address. so that's an email i never got. 🙂

braxy29 ,

amazingly, chemistry has given us the ability to have a better quality of life, even when our brains work differently.

when she's 25 and benefitting from meds, she may resent it if this was not an option you explored with her.

braxy29 ,

the only time i ever lost a paper/document (at 13, for social studies), was on an apple IIc. then i rewrote it. i cried A LOT.

it has never happened since, and writing is a significant part of my job. i learned the hard way.

braxy29 ,

if i could parent my oldest kid again, i would let him struggle more and fail more.

the inevitable rude awakening was ROUGH.

edit - grammar

braxy29 ,

i can't give you a source for "most people," but personally my out-of-pocket is $6k for myself, $12k for my family. about the only thing covered before that number is met is yearly physicals. i pay about $500 a month for this (after my employer's contribution). dental separate, no vision.

braxy29 ,

but... if you really like your shampoo, why not buy $35 worth at once?

braxy29 ,

someone at 24 has several more years of experience in the adult world. someone at 24 has several more years of neurological development (which isn't complete until around 25). in other words, at 24 someone has better context for decision-making and better decision-making ability than someone who is 18.

braxy29 ,

been free for two or three years. i haven't missed a thing, as far as i can tell.

braxy29 , (edited )

somewhere online is a copy of a pamphlet that was made available to resistance folks during ww2, full of similar fun facts.

edit - the simple sabotage field manual

braxy29 ,

... yes, my phoneless childhood was super dangerous. it's amazing i survived a couple of decades without one!

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