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usrevenge t1_j2uho6j wrote
Reply to comment by AstreiaTales in Home price increases weakened sharply in November, posting the smallest annual gain in 2 years -CNBC by wander9077
Buy a house for $200,000 renovate and fix it up make it multiple family building for $150,000 more then then rent out 4 apartments for $1500 each per month.
Frankly lots of companies just buy that house fix it up enough to call it livable and rent it out for $2000 a month.
That means someone works for 3 weeks and hands the wages to the landlord then survives off the scraps.
usrevenge t1_j2t33dr wrote
Reply to comment by IWankToTits in Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to federal fraud charges in New York amidst renewed federal probe by fadufadu
Idk he did the biggest crime possible in the us.
He stole from the rich.
usrevenge t1_j2c2xwg wrote
Reply to ELI5 How do companies make money by selling products at a low price and competing with other companies? by [deleted]
You sell computers for $300.
You spend $200 on the computer.
So you make $100 per computer.
You sell 10. So you made $1000.
You drop price to $250.
You sell 30 computers now.
You made $1500 this time.
Companies find the point where their product maximizes profit. You can't sell for less than $200 or you make $0. But if you sell more than $300 almost no one buys any so you make no money.
Some companies will try a loss leader which is a product sold for a loss but you end up buying other stuff when there. Like if McDonald's sold a 8 piece nuggets for $.50. They might lose money but they are getting most people get fries and a drink while there as well so they make money.
For computers and computer parts most items are way cheaper at the OEM level. Dell pays significantly less for parts than you will pay. Things like windows 11 will cost almost nothing to them compared to retail purchasers.
usrevenge t1_j2c1lzp wrote
No one wants to see your feet.
And it's unsanitary for you.
Also if this is about indoors it's to protect you from stuff on the floor. If s small shard of glass is on the floor you might cut your foot and then it's super unsanitary for everyone including you.
Just don't be barefoot outside areas you should be barefoot.
usrevenge t1_j2920ur wrote
Reply to comment by ashwagandha_ksm66 in This day, 100 years ago, the USSR was created by SENPA-A-A-A-I-I
The effort put forth seemed pretty minor which is expected since Spanish flu was ravaging the planet and this all happened during/right after world war 1. No one wanted to actually war with communist right after fighting Germany for 4 years.
usrevenge t1_j283e9g wrote
Reply to Amazon lost half its value this year as tech stocks got crushed and recession fears grew by predictany007
I work at Amazon.
There is a big automation push. It's expensive. Buildings are getting multimillion dollar automation lines that won't see a "break even" in terms of investment for years.
Like 15 workers get replaced by a 2 million dollar retrofit.
usrevenge t1_j2642ff wrote
Reply to comment by needabiggerhammer in Exxon sues EU in move to block new windfall tax on oil companies by davetowers646
That's when you say ok nationalize any assets in the name of national defense.
usrevenge t1_j262hwt wrote
Reply to 'Freedom Convoy' organizers now promising 'world unity convoy' in Winnipeg in February by CanadianBeaver1983
Make sure you guys in Winnipeg buy your gallons of gas and put sugar in them early
usrevenge t1_j1xb1as wrote
Reply to TIL that the Flag of Puerto Rico's colors are not specifically defined. While its independence-era flags used a sky blue, and its readoption in 1952 used a dark blue to match the US flag, there is no official definition for what shade of blue must be used in the flag. by RexSueciae
Does that mean I'd I change the colors I can claim it's the puerto Rican flag ?
It's going to be purple.
usrevenge t1_j1q5k7d wrote
Reply to comment by ZwischenzugZugzwang in TIL Sigmund Freud made the decision to flee Austria after his daughter Anna was interrogated by the Gestapo for nearly 12 hours. He was able to buy safe passage out of Austria just in time with 31,000 Reich marks in 1938 by Ok_Copy5217
Yea but most of us not only don't have that kind of money but couldn't even get that amount in a loan.
If I sold everything I had maxed out my credit cards and made applications for a few more I doubt I'd have 100k.
usrevenge t1_j1k7h3m wrote
Reply to comment by Cheapskate-DM in TIL 46% of mobile game revenue comes from in game advertising. by One_aspect_
Doesn't help phones are just the worst interface for gaming.
Your hands. Cover the screen and it's never accurate enough.
usrevenge t1_j16duj9 wrote
Reply to comment by ChallyPrime in Finland blocks sale of property near army garrison to Russian citizens. by FINCoffeeDaddy
So send them back armed. There is no fucking way the entire border is being watched.
usrevenge t1_j0tfryo wrote
Reply to comment by grateful_american in Iguana causes power outage in Florida town for third time this year | CNN by GZAofTheMidwest
Eh they are causing these issues because they are shorting the lines.
Odds of surviving that have to be low.
Birds don't have this issue because they only sit on 1 line. If they could hypothetically reach over to one of the other lines you would have fried bird
usrevenge t1_j0adtol wrote
Reply to comment by AudibleNod in Feds file lawsuit against Arizona over border wall made of shipping containers by AudibleNod
The us should just bomb them.
It's their property. They own it
Call forth bomb king and tear out the new raider
usrevenge t1_j009b65 wrote
Reply to comment by pummers88 in How daredevil drones find nearly extinct plants hiding in cliffs by Sariel007
Is this the plant scientist think was used as birth control ? Amazing if so
usrevenge t1_iz43ixk wrote
Reply to comment by RainbowEmpire in TIL "The Twelve Days of Christmas" STARTS on Christmas Day, and ends of January 5th (Three Kings Day). by HauntedHippie
Iirc in peasant times all these were paid holidays basically.
The average person who works 40 hours a week works significantly more hours a year than they would have as a peasant.
usrevenge t1_iy7vqpa wrote
Reply to Eli5: Some ice cream recipes put ice + salt outside the recipient to make it cool faster. But in the winter, salt is put on snow on the street to melt faster. Why one make cool and other melt? by zimobz
Salt makes the melting point of water/snow lower.
So salt water needs to be less than 32f/0c to freeze.
You put salt on snow to melt it because cold water is less dangerous than snow.
You do the same icecream makers on the outside with ice. This is because it's better to have the colder than ice water than ice which has air pockets between the ice and the bowl
usrevenge t1_iy2ucaq wrote
The event horizon is the edge of a black hole.
Black holes exert gravity.
The move gravity in an area the slower time travels.
Technically this means if you could chill out next to a black hole for a few days you could come back to earth but it will be years ahead here.
usrevenge t1_ixxuznd wrote
Reply to Eli5 what is a circlejerk? by [deleted]
Uh like an actual circle jerk?
It's when a group of people form a circle and masturbate. This also includes when a group of people form a circle and jerk the other person usually to their right.
Circle jerking on reddit is usually the phenomena where reddit comments will breed reddit comments agreeing if it isn't countered quickly enough. You see this a lot in terms of fanboyism or random hatred
Example is how everyone on reddit is hostile to Fortnite, ea games, and Activision. Going so far as to make stuff up about these games and companies.
The circle jerk there is how everyone joins in and beats the dead horse.
usrevenge t1_ixu6jf3 wrote
Reply to comment by Laser_Souls in Black Friday online sales to hit new record by wander9077
Lines weren't even long.
The longest line we stood in was 1 person deep. Walmart we literally walked to self checkout and was done in a few seconds because we only had a few things.
usrevenge t1_ixu6giy wrote
Reply to comment by Nani_the_F__k in Black Friday online sales to hit new record by wander9077
Yea people spout the same shit on reddit repeatedly about black Friday but it is objectively the cheapest time to buy a lot of different things.
I bought some gaming stuff for the cheapest prices they have ever been. And I did my yearly purchase of a year supply of shampoo and body wash that I like. 12 bottles for $80.
usrevenge t1_ixqfsph wrote
Reply to comment by EuropaWeGo in Amazon workers in the U.S. and 30 other countries plan Black Friday protests by AmethystOrator
Because Amazon has everything.
I work at an Amazon and honestly it isn't half as bad as people say but I don't work in a fullfillment center which I hear is worse
They aren't paid enough but frankly the job is near brain dead and while it is physical it's not absolutely balls to the wall physical like construction jobs can be.
They should get paid more though but the entire delivery part of Amazon bleeds money. Which is why they are pushing automation so hard now. They need to cut huge percentages of the work force to make money on that aspect of the business.
It won't happen but I hope the automation means less workers but they get paid more. Frankly their biggest waste on money is how many managers they have tracking other people or metrics or dumb shit like that. My building had like 50 people working. But there was like 8 managers and 3 PAs not including the safety manager and HR person.
This also doesn't include the other portion of the business my building does where they load vans, get returns, etc.
They could probably cut half the managerial force if they cut all the bullshit metrics and crap they do.
Like get this. They are allocated hours worked for different tasks. So if something happens like, the dock runs slower than it should. They can't just add inductors/loaders to bring it up even if the people are there. If stowers aren't going fast enough in a certain lane they can't send more people over to help, they have to switch them out. Because they don't have the hours allocated.
The dumb part about that situation is if the stowers are doing great and dock is slow they can't drop a stow worker and send them to the dock because they aren't allocated hours for that. So someone will twiddle there thumbs in stow path rather than be allowed to help the dock.
It's a constant battle to add and remove people. It's a constant battle to labor track. It's a constant battle to do the weird crap managers do "insta cleans, 5s projects" and crap like that.
I told the managers yesterday they should grab a bag and start inducting packages by hand to get done early for Thanksgiving. I knew they couldn't but it would have gotten the job done even faster so everyone could go home even earlier than they did
usrevenge t1_ixfg8pf wrote
Reply to comment by pegothejerk in Associated Press reporter fired over erroneous story on Russian attack by Moynamama
Ap is one of the better news sources I doubt fox or most other media would fire journalist for the story.
usrevenge t1_ixffppv wrote
Reply to comment by Ok-Letterhead-3276 in Republicans ask Georgia high court to halt Saturday voting in US Senate runoff | CNN Politics by irkli
If only covid wasn't a road map for easy to do mail in votes.
You should get your vote form in the mail. Check a few boxes for who you want. And put it back in your mailbox.
That is how voting should be. The only other step is you should be able to check online that it was accepted and look at what your vote counted toward.
usrevenge t1_j2uhwuz wrote
Reply to comment by Velkyn01 in Home price increases weakened sharply in November, posting the smallest annual gain in 2 years -CNBC by wander9077
Renting a house is like renting a car except unlike a car the property increases in value constantly and every time it's time to renegotiate your terms the owner wants more money not less.