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Sounds like you had a bad experience with a church. Every church I've ever gone to even without me being very religious has been very accepting and nice.

Making blanket statements after one or even a handful of experiences doesn't help anyone and can be said about things also not relating to churches as well.

I wonder if a type of 'restocking' fee can be applied to games.

It happens where you get a game try it and it doesn't work on your hardware or it just wasn't what you expected.

I'd gladly pay a 10-20% restocking fee for whatever process they need to do to recycle that key and issue a refund rather than be stuck with a game that will never be played again in my library.

After playing a game more than 2 hours good luck getting a refund on steam, and good luck finding out how much you really enjoy a game in 2 hours.

30 days seems a bit extreme and I do see it ripe for abuse.

I would have expected the rate at which drivers are less likely to stop be parabolic rather than linear.

Find a few 'influencer' types who are popular at the school. Get them to sell your app by either paying them as an advertiser or tell them for each student they get on the app you will give them x amount of money.

Let them work for you!

What happens when AI takes over this job?

I recall recently some animated thing was on a top of a Cam site and the girls were up in arms upset that people were watching a cartoon over them.

Would it fall on the creator of the cartoon? What is the creator of the cartoon is literally an advanced A.I.? Would it then fall on the creators of the AI?

Anecdata storytime:

I used to smoke a pack a day, and when I switched to vaping I personally felt much better. I was able to do things a bit better than when I was smoking cancer sticks.

Looking back I was lying to myself thinking it was just as good as quitting. I didn't feel the heavy tar on my lungs like cigarettes. I still noticed when pushing myself on work outs or hiking or biking or anything requiring aerobic activity that I would get sick to my stomach and almost puke like when you run long distance and are not used to it. I could go further than when I smoked but I would always hit this "wall" where I would get sick.

Quit 100% 3 months ago and took up XC Skiing. I could only do 2 miles when I first started. Just last week I did 10 miles and I have been going once on the weekend every week so in 12 sessions I was able to 5x my aerobic ability.

Starting at 0%, switching to vaping I would say made me feel/perform overall 15-20% better compared to cigarettes.

Quitting vaping filled in that other 80% and the difference is like night and day and so obvious I was lying to myself to keep the habit alive longer than I needed to.

Smoking timeline:

Smoked 18-30, transitioned to vaping.

30-31 vaped 12mg juice.

31-32 vaped 6mg juice.

32-33 vaped 3mg juice.

33-34 vaped 0 mg juice.

Quit Vaping 100% last Thanksgiving cold turkey (really was just mental habit at this point smoking 0 mg juice) 3 months vape free!

I worked there for 3 years.

First year we received close to $1200 and in 2004 being a poor college kid this was an amazing bonus.

The 2nd year there was a series of high value thefts so we only ended up getting like $250 or so.

Our Lost Prevention employee who was just some guy who looked at security cameras all day, went out of his way on his own time to research all the same stolen items looking for them in local craigslist/pawn shops and finally e-bay.

He found one account on e-bay that coincidentally was selling all the same items our store kept missing! (Some of these were brand new laptops)

The account name of the seller was firstinitial+lastname+numbers

He took that account name, and cross referenced it with our employees and found a match. He then forwarded all this information to the police.

I remember one day going to our monthly manager's meeting (once a month had a store wide meeting where managers went over everything with all employees)

We did the entire meeting, free pizza and donuts, talked numbers shrink etc, and the best part was that on the last page of the presentation they had the guy running the Lost Prevention department come up to talk shrink. He explained everything above and then flipped the presentation paper to the last page which had the e-bay account giant sized on the paper. He said this is the person who has been caught selling everything and they will be taken care of.

We all turned around from our meeting and there were police offers waiting to arrest the perpetrator on the spot.

Said person was a 20 year old who had everything handed to him on a silver platter. He drove a $40,000 car his parents paid for type of thing where most of us had rusted beaters to drive around.

He was doing it only for the thrill, worked in the electronics department so he was able to steal things from the cages when trucks came in and you are supposed to unload all the pallets.

I just remember that meeting so vividly because they let the kid go through everything, thinking everything is normal and I wish I was able to see his face when his username was shown right away.

I won't forget his face and cries as he was being arrested saying, "You cannot prove that is me!" even though it was his first initial + last name and year he was born in.....

I worked at a company during college who at the end of the year would give every employee a "Shrink" check depending how well/poor their store performed over the course of the year.

If you came in mid year they just pro rated the amount you would have gotten if you stayed the whole year.

I remember this helped employees keep an eye on each other as you were essentially stealing from everyone else's shrink check.

Just wait until they make this retroactive, flag every post you may have "liked" as a teen and now jail you as an adult.

Can't wait for thought crime to be a thing.

Biggest thing I notice is on USA labels there is no % next to the grams of sugar in foods.

I heard the sugar industry lobbied very hard to remove this because a typical adult only needs 30 grams of sugar or so and if soda companies had to put 150-200% per serving next to the sugar it may hinder sales.