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Re: I want a buzzer to Zap politicians during press conferences when they don't answer a question. - Yesterday

What ever happened to these folks...

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Re: whats your favorite way to roast a chicken? - Yesterday

QuoteRAMd®d They're about 4/5 to 2/3 the size of Costco's chickens, which aren't huge themselves, but still make a three meals for one person. I get 7 meals out of a Costco chicken (I always select the heaviest one that they have out). 1) Left shoulder and wing 2) Left breast 3) Right shoulder and wing 4) Right breast 5) Left thigh 6) Right thigh 7) Left and Right drum sticks

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Re: Anyone know if Costco price matches Microcenter? - Yesterday

Quotemrbigstuff I surmise that the only free reign the store manager has is to set prices of clearance items. I once negotiated a price with the manager but it was a rather unique situation. It was a portable air conditioner that was sold through Costco.com, but someone returned to the store unopened. Since the store didn't normally sell that item they had no place to put it so it was taking

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Re: Anyone know if Costco price matches Microcenter? - Yesterday

Quotegadje I don't think Costco does any price match, I never heard of this. The only price matching I've ever asked them to do is to match themselves if the price drops within 30 days due to the monthly flyer, and I know that's their policy to honor it. I've even wondered if they'll price match another Costco. I've seen price variations on some items in the $0.50-$1.00 range between store

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Re: If you watch one Cybertruck review….. - Yesterday

Another great review "America's Most Radical Pickup Truck"

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Re: The George Santos Revenge Tour Begins And he's naming names - 2 days ago

Why should anyone believe anything he has to say?

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Re: Santos Expelled from Congress - 3 days ago

Quotehal https://santos.house.gov is already down (now hilariously leading to a 'Vacancies of the 118th Congress' web page) and the phones are going to generic voicemail acc to twitter They already changed the locks on his former office.

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Re: Holiday gifts delivered early, what to do - 3 days ago

I didn't see any in the MRF break room, could you check on that order?

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Re: "The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds." November 9, 1970 Whale Explosion Incident - 3 days ago

"As God as my witness, I didn't think blubber could fly"

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Re: Santos Expelled from Congress - 3 days ago

Looks like Kevin McCarthy didn't vote, guess he's still paying off the installment plan for Santos's vote in January. AOC also didn't vote.

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Re: Tesla Cybertruck prices and range - 4 days ago

QuoteRolando Quotekj When you get on the Tesla app to pay for a CT, you will know exactly what it will cost. With the others you will get all kinds of shenanigans, just like you always have at car dealers. I agree the CT is likely a dud, but ford made the Pinto. Chevy made the Vega. I had a Taurus! Look at the Ford EcoSport. Wtf? Duds a plenty. If I was in the Market for an E-Truck and t

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Re: Tesla Cybertruck prices and range - 4 days ago

QuoteCarnos Jax Don't be fooled by Ford's MSRP, $50K is for their base 'pro' commercial model, but you'll pay more than $60K for it after dealer markups (assuming you can even find one). Thus there's no economic reason Tesla should sell theirs for less than $60K. QuotepRICE cUBE I doubt Tesla will prioritize the RWD model in order to make more money off the AWD and premium models. Agree

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Re: Tesla Cybertruck prices and range - 4 days ago

QuotepRICE cUBE This post indicates one must roll down a window and push a button to open the passenger door? This was an observation made during the CT rollout. Anyone know if this is accurate? If so, sounds like a pain in the neck. The prototype I saw doesn't seem to have door handles on the front or back passenger side unless they're very hidden from view.

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Re: and in a related subject - medigap - 4 days ago

Quotefromish F. We talked to a number of insurance advisors, read about the coverage and options, and despite the expense for the 'Cadillac' plan. This website compares Blue Shield medigap benefits. The costs are based on age rather than community, so they always increase. We have found it more than worthwhile and have received total benefits that are greater than the total premiums we

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Re: and in a related subject - medigap - 4 days ago

QuoteFritz So I'm thinking G You might look at the High Deductible form of Plan G also, premiums are really low, so if you're healthy you'll pocket those premiums you would have paid for the normal G. You still get the big cost savings of only needing to pay 20% of the Medicare negotiated rate for services until you reach that high deductible, which you likely will never hit unless the poop

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Re: Lawyers: Trump never took oath ‘to support the Constitution’ - 5 days ago

Quotepdq Besides, he had his fingers crossed. And when being sworn in, instead of saying "I do" he pleaded the 5th.

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Re: 2-in-1-washer Dryer Combo - 5 days ago

That GE combo is pretty interesting, but the big downside that they didn't really mention is that with multiple loads you can't pipeline things having the second load in the washer while the first load is in the dryer, so a much bigger time penalty for multi-loads.

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Re: Amazon "Q": will this spark a trademark battle? - 6 days ago

In case everyone missed it, I was referring to Qanon in the initial post.

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Re: "Students for Trump founder arrested, accused of assaulting girlfriend" - 6 days ago

QuoteAccording to court records, Fournier grabbed his girlfriend by the arm and hit her in the head with a handgun. I guess that classifies it as an Assault Weapon.

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Re: oh, love to love you, baby?!.....1st Christmas love movie with sex scene coming..... - 6 days ago

Will a Reindeer or Elf be participating in the scene too?

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Amazon "Q": will this spark a trademark battle? - 6 days ago

Amazon just announced their AI Chat-bot named Q. I wonder how the followers of that other similarly named artificial not so intelligent chat-bot will react to this news. Can there be more than one Q? Are there any trademarks on the name? Quote Welcome to a new world of work with Amazon Q Amazon Q can help you get fast, relevant answers to pressing questions, solve problems, genera

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Re: Diameter is not circumference. - 6 days ago

QuoteBernie All this MATH could get this post moved to the other side.

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Amps are not what? - 6 days ago

In the specs for the Toyota Corolla Cross, as an interior feature of the Hybrid models they list... "One cargo area 120V/150A auxiliary AC power outlet" See page 18 of this brochure. They're pretty consistent with listing it that way as a feature in the details if you search for specific new cars for sale that should be equipped with it. That's 18,000 Watts, and 150 Amps i

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Re: A White House Christmas - 7 days ago

QuoteOmbligo other than the color, I like the simplicity of Melania's. It needed to hide ketchup stains.

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Re: local stores checing receipts at exit - 7 days ago

Quotegabester I wonder if anyone who's ever worked in theft prevention at a store could speak to the purpose and effectiveness of this strategy of checking receipts. I'd wager that the thinking goes, "checking multiple people exiting the store whom we know have not stolen anything puts thieves on alert that they may similarly be checked and therefore are more likely to be caught."

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Re: local stores checing receipts at exit - 7 days ago

When Walmart started check around here there also seemed to be some racial profiling associated with it, and they always seemed to just wave me through. But every now and they they have some guy that wants to do a very thorough job and counts the items in the cart and looks at the item count on the receipt and they gets very confused when the counts differ because I purchased sodas and the CA

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Re: Man, I really want someone to break Amazon's Monopoly... - 8 days ago

Quotegabester wait wait wait... How do you CALL AMAZON with complaints / delivery issues?!? I've only ever seen the web forms that are mostly useless. Using the secret phone number that the used to post and still works that I've kept in my records, but is now impossible to find. Show spoiler Hide spoiler They now have an AI Bot

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Re: Man, I really want someone to break Amazon's Monopoly... - 8 days ago

QuoteOmbligo Maybe the easiest thing is to just send back the broken piece using the QR code. I think that is what I would likely do. Except that the item was disposed of about 6 weeks ago once they confirmed verbally for a second time and by email that they wanted me to dispose of it. I supposed I could try to just return a piece of paper with the QR code and see how that goes, but it would

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Re: Man, I really want someone to break Amazon's Monopoly... - 8 days ago

Just called about the above, got the best Amazon customer service agent ever, spent 35 minutes on the line with her, she was British in South Africa with a perfect phone connection and easily understandable native British accent. And she's been with Amazon for years, and was testing a new release of their customer service system. She understood exactly what was going on, was perfectly honest

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Re: Man, I really want someone to break Amazon's Monopoly... - 8 days ago

I need to call them again about an order where they broke it in transit because it had a thin plastic part that you could snap with your fingers and really needed to be shipped in a box but they shipped it in a paper bag. When it arrived broken I called, they ordered a replacement at no charge and setup a return at Whole Foods, but then at the end of the call they said that since it was damage

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