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  • I drive an ID.4, and I always feel like I am just a little short on space. My wife has an older Ford Escape hybrid, and it’s just a little bigger, maybe a foot longer, and it holds things like Christmas trees, bed frames, etc, better with the seats down than I do. And the number of times I’ve felt like I was just a few inches too narrow to really pack the car with totes for camping, etc, is frustrating.

    I’ve always had an SUV. I dont think I would function in my everyday life the way I do now with a smaller vehicle. I fill the back seat with the seats down full of packages pretty regularly. I love the car but different strokes for different folks.







  • This really is it. I managed a grocery store for years, and the problem these companies have is thinking that the self checkout can replace too many cashiers. Note that it can take the place of 1 or 2, but really, the boon of the self checkout is to really function as the best express lane ever. It should take the heat off your normal cashiers and provide an option best suited for quick purchases under 10 items.

    But what ends up happening is schedulers drop their usual front end down from 4 cashiers to 1 and a self checkout host and completely nullify any gains their customers would have gotten from the enhanced service options. People really do like self checkouts but resent the hell out of being forced to use them as a blatant cash grab.




  • It’s anecdotal, but also widely reported by pretty much everyone who’s bought a car in the last couple of years. I bought mine a year ago. Literally nothing but full trim on the lot, and they just took delivery the day before. My friend works for the dealer group, and that’s why I bought from him, but it’s been that way for a while, apparently.

    Of course, if the dealerships want to report what they are ordering to sell, I’m sure people would be interested. The car companies might have the data somewhere in their meeting notes since they are publicly traded, but that would just say what’s ordered from them, not necessarily where it goes.



  • I live here. I don’t care about the environment costs in another country if their government doesn’t step in to protect them. Whe used to mine super dirty in the US and its way safer now than it used to be. As the market grows, the demand grows, and hopefully, the countries most impacted by their own dirty practices will step up and help their citizens run cleaner operations with the added financial security. I’m not gonna act too concerned about it, though if the people actually impacted don’t care.


  • They can sell them, they just don’t want to order what people want to buy. It’s actually them ignoring the legitimate intention of the phrase: “The customer is always right.”

    Whenever someone says that, this is actually what the author meant. If your customers keep coming in to buy size 8-11 shoes and you only want to stock sizes 12 and 13, you are wrong. The customer always knows what they are willing to buy. Some people can be coerced, but you can’t make someone who doesn’t want a truck for 100k buy one.




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    1 year ago

    It really is a joke. I remember a decade ago talking about how pirated movies were a better user experience than buying a DVD because they were making you sit through ads on the paid product before you could view it, but the pirated product just let you get to what you were watching immediately.

    The whole experience is completely backward!



  • I think that them announcing mod support for next year actually caused people to abandon it quicker. I mean, they had to talk about mods because it was so expected, but I wish they had support ready to go with the October patch. Give everyone a month to play the story without the temptation to completely overhaul with silly mods, then announce support in time for holiday sales.

    I really enjoyed the gamed but I am also waiting to revisit it after mod support is officially added.