Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

[c4n]

When you get an email like this from your customer (a company from Egypt) you know you are doing something right:

Dear *****,

Kindly be informed that we had used ***** for more than 6 months and we are very happy with this product.
Thus, we need from you and email that contains any other products you have, Also if you can send us a demo URL for these products, it will be great.
Looking to hear from you soon.

Best Regards,
*****

Yes, I am a little bit happy. And a little bit proud. Now excuse me while I go figure out what other products I can sell them.

 

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[GPM]

I love Walmart. I never feel like I’m going to get a bad deal there. But, I’m a capitalist and my Walmart is better than most.

I wish I could say the same. I no longer feel like I get a deal there. Prices don't seem any lower than anywhere else anymore, and often times the item is of less quality.

However, if I need to buy some canned foods or pasta or something stupid like that Walmart is still great. But cheap shelving or totes or something of that nature I find them to be expensive and poor quality.

 

[Xeon]

Cast these devils out!

 

[MTF]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9NeN8emtCM


A huge FTE moment right there at the ripe old age of 4.

 

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[WillHurtDontCare]

@WillHurtDontCare

TikTok - Make Your Day

I'll do you one better:

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson on Instagram: "Peak performance male athletic body shape vs me… all jokes aside what an honour meeting @gypsyking101 tonight and going to one of his shows! Looking forward to learning more from the champ himself in the nea

235K likes, 1,188 comments - thorbjornssonDecember 8, 2021 on : "Peak performance male athletic body shape vs me… all jokes aside what an honour meeting @gypsyking101 tonight and going to one of his s...".

www.instagram.com

 

[loop101]

This song was in the latest Walking Dead episode. Weird how a song can get stuck in your head.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh3t49NsWBA

 

[GPM]

I'll do you one better:

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Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson on Instagram: "Peak performance male athletic body shape vs me… all jokes aside what an honour meeting @gypsyking101 tonight and going to one of his shows! Looking forward to learning more from the champ himself in the nea

235K likes, 1,188 comments - thorbjornssonDecember 8, 2021 on : "Peak performance male athletic body shape vs me… all jokes aside what an honour meeting @gypsyking101 tonight and going to one of his s...".

www.instagram.com

Tyson is an absolute beast!!! You would not know it by looking at the man though.

And for that comment saying that Thor would give him a run for his money... lol! Tyson would walk circles around him.

Those dudes are so huge it is crazy. They should put a regular sized human in that photo for some size comparison.

 

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[WillHurtDontCare]

Tyson is an absolute beast!!! You would not know it by looking at the man though.

And for that comment saying that Thor would give him a run for his money... lol! Tyson would walk circles around him.

Those dudes are so huge it is crazy. They should put a regular sized human in that photo for some size comparison.

Most of the time when I see a really muscular dude, I'll presume that he can't fight. I'm more wary of skinny or chubby dudes than buff dudes.

Getting as big as Thor is a full time job and he won't have time to learn to fight.

Tip: with most people, if you keep hitting them in the face, even with weak punches, they'll just panic and not fight back. Good luck if you run into the other people though.

 

[Mathuin]

Most of the time when I see a really muscular dude, I'll presume that he can't fight. I'm more wary of skinny or chubby dudes than buff dudes

Dudes get really big in the gym to try and avoid having to fight in the first place. They just want to look dangerous to most people.

 

[Antifragile]

Tip: with most people, if you keep hitting them in the face, even with weak punches, they'll just panic and not fight back.

I wonder how you learned this to be true... story time? How often do you hit people in the face with weak punches?

 

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[TheCj]

It's not quite like that. Donations are not tips for the store, here in Canada they are donations for foodbank or childrens' hospital. It's using the grocery store for donations the same way a chewing gum is at the exit, last item to grab.

From my understanding in Canada, donation's over $20 have to be issued a tax receipt for the donor, and those donations have government regulations on how much of that money must be used for the charitable cause. Where as donations under $20 don't fall under those regulation requirements and no receipts are issued. So the charities can take a bigger cut on being "non-profit" from the under $20 donations.

 

[Rabby]

This is a hard read, but refreshingly thorough journalism: The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles

 

[Xeon]

 

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[MTF]

At the Bottom of an Icy Sea, One of History’s Great Wrecks Is Found (Published 2022)

Explorers and researchers, battling freezing temperatures, have located Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship that sank in the Antarctic in 1915.

www.nytimes.com

At the Bottom of an Icy Sea, One of History’s Great Wrecks Is Found​

Explorers and researchers, battling freezing temperatures, have located Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship that sank in the Antarctic in 1915.

It looks really good considering it has spent 107 years on the bottom of the ocean.

 

[MattR82]

I can't understand why Go Fund Me cancelled and then refunded donations for Cain Velasquez, the ex UFC heavyweight champ that was arrested following his attack on the abuser of his 4 year old daughter.

Time is definitely up for GFM being the major player on that scene, surely.

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

I can't understand why Go Fund Me cancelled and then refunded donations for Cain Velasquez, the ex UFC heavyweight champ that was arrested following his attack on the abuser of his 4 year old daughter.

Time is definitely up for GFM being the major player on that scene, surely.

The one that really got me was when they cancelled and DID NOT REFUND the truck convoy donations.

Then there was also the donation for AOC's grandmother.

GoFundMe is too politically biased.

Wish companies today would at least attempt to be bipartisan, non-partisan, give voice to both sides, or neither, etc.

 

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[Raoul Duke]

The one that really got me was when they cancelled and DID NOT REFUND the truck convoy donations.

Then there was also the donation for AOC's grandmother.

GoFundMe is too politically biased.

Wish companies today would at least attempt to be bipartisan, non-partisan, give voice to both sides, or neither, etc.

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

Only this is progressive:


wait, not enough arson.

 

[MTF]

It's been a long time since I've been actively looking for new blogs to follow (or actually looking for blogs to advertise there or write guest posts for them) and my conclusion is that blogs are really dead.

Back in like 2010 there were countless incredible blogs with lots of activity in the comments, bloggers responding to another blogger's article, etc.

These days, blogs are mostly spam blogs, low-quality generic crap, or if they're any good, sooner or later they turn into podcasts (and some are newsletters disguising as blogs).

It's a shame as I preferred blog posts over today's social media posts but well...

 

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[Parks]

At the Bottom of an Icy Sea, One of History’s Great Wrecks Is Found (Published 2022)

Explorers and researchers, battling freezing temperatures, have located Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship that sank in the Antarctic in 1915.

www.nytimes.com

Sea drone value. Awesomeness.

Edit: Damnit @MTF already posted it

 

[eramart]

The one that really got me was when they cancelled and DID NOT REFUND the truck convoy donations.

Then there was also the donation for AOC's grandmother.

GoFundMe is too politically biased.

Wish companies today would at least attempt to be bipartisan, non-partisan, give voice to both sides, or neither, etc.

They blocked donations from Russia long before current events - probably to stay out of trouble

 

[Mathuin]

Loving the more frequent YT videos MJ!

View: https://youtu.be/Baw0N7B-jV4

 

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[doster.zach]

 

[doster.zach]

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To think that people would "take less money so others can have it" if the positions were switched is next level narcissism.

 

[jdm667]

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What if, instead of taxes going up for everybody, governments simply collected less revenue.

 

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[Andy Black]

@Lex DeVille, @MJ DeMarco I didn't know this was about charity as I've never experienced anything like this in any country. I understand a jar for leaving tips or a jar for collecting money for charity but it's weird for a cashier to ask that as you can't verify where your money goes.

Speaking of charity, @becks22 and @MJ DeMarco, I once also thought that you should judge a charity but how much money it dedicates to its programs. But the reality isn't that simple and in reality, the Fastlane approach to non-profits is to have a LOWER percentage dedicated to program costs and MORE to administrative costs.

I highly, highly recommend watching this talk as I'm pretty sure it'll convince you why:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfAzi6D5FpM


Do let me know what you think about it once you watch it as I'm curious if it will change your opinion the same way it changed mine.

Blimey. Dan Pallotta. I ran ads for a workshop he was doing for a charity client of ours. I'd best watch that video. Thanks for sharing @MTF.

 

[Rabby]

I can't understand why Go Fund Me cancelled and then refunded donations for Cain Velasquez, the ex UFC heavyweight champ that was arrested following his attack on the abuser of his 4 year old daughter.

Time is definitely up for GFM being the major player on that scene, surely.

Can't discriminate against "minor attracted persons." Welcome to the new morality.

 

[WillHurtDontCare]

Can't discriminate against "minor attracted persons." Welcome to the new morality.

 

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[Tommo]

Smart guy Mr. Peabody.

Colourful life of billionaire funding the return of Shane Warne's body

In 2005, so little was known about Terry Peabody, that he was referred to as 'the only Australian billionaire who is not a household name'. Seventeen years later, he still isn't.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

Saw a quote by Robert Greene that said something to the effect of "let other people do the work for you, but always take the credit."

Yikes! That might actually work if you're an employee climbing the corporate ladder (everyone will hate you), but not if you want to create real, bigger, lasting success. In fact, it sounds more like being a dictator.

For the fastlane, working with a Human Resource System and employees, my advice would be this:

"let other people work for you, or rather with you, and give them as much credit and praise as possible, multiplying your efforts and encouraging and rewarding them in the process."