Personally I have always been happy to use their restrooms with no concerns but if I’m going to spend more than 5 minutes at a table I’ve always felt the need to make some sort of small purchase. And 1000x moreso at a non-national coffee place.
Would you let Amazon scan your palm?
Would love to know what goes through the mind of someone who lets Amazon scan their palm to save 15 seconds at Whole Foods checkout. I mean I’ve got a Prime Visa credit card but come on.
Maybe Amazon Fresh and other gig workers are so pressed for time and there frequently enough they are forced to?
Honey browser extension accused of ripping people off
I kinda just assumed this was the whole point of Honey? And it always seemed like a privacy disaster that didn’t actually find any good codes the couple times I looked at it.
Honey’s deal-hunting browser extension is accused of ripping off customers and YouTubers – https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/23/24328268/honey-coupon-code-browser-extension-scam-influencers-affiliate-marketing
— The Verge (@verge-poster.bsky.social) December 23, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Peppermint pretzels
Why don’t they make the peppermint pretzels in acquirable quantities? Both Rold Gold and Costco variants are great and only available for like 3 days per year.
Upgrade your version of Internet Explorer
We are like two weeks away from the year 2025 is this is a real life error message on barnesandnoble.com right now. The last version of Internet Explorer was replaced by Edge in 2015.
What’s wrong with wearing Threadless t-shirts from 2003?
Wait should I not still be wearing this Threadless tshirt of a T-Rex playing Asteroids on an arcade cabinet? Is that not cool anymore? Or this one about refrigerator-based haikus?
MENSWEAR GUY: Furthermore, you’ve neglected to even cut the vents of the shockingly poor-fitting sport coat you’ve, for some reason, chosen to wear to breakfast
MAN WHO STILL WEARS A THREADLESS TEE FROM 2003 WITH TWO ANTHROPOMORPHIC HOUSES HUGGING UNDER THE TEXT “HOMIES”: haha get his ass derek
In a fun coincidence, I ended up working with the Threadless fridge haiku creator/poet Rolf Nelson for a couple years back in 2019 or so. Threadless tees were like 40% of my wardrobe in the 2000s.
CFP final 12-team playoff
Biggest takeaway from College Football Playoff final rankings: CFP committee/ESPN protecting those conference championship cash cows.
Middle school choir
Middle school boys choir concerts amuse me because based on appearances these 7th and 8th graders range from approx age 6 through age 45.
Why don’t telcos block known spam risks and telemarketers?
The better question is why do US telcos know that calls are telemarketers or dangerous spam calls yet just label them and send them through?
Google Photos thinks Marble Falls is in Thailand
People scared of AI becoming sentient, yet google photos is still not smart enough to intuit that I didn’t hop over to Thailand during my trip to the Texas Hill Country.
