Looks like you’re using ups. Try a 3rd party tracker. (Sorry i can’t remember the name of one - its been years since I had something shipped from out of country.)

I’ve had success in the past tracking that way.

At least with a brick and mortar store you actually know what you’re getting*

*to a degree. You still won’t know how well it will actually hold up in the real world - but you can at least get an idea of it’s construction (Materials/stitching and so on) that you don’t/can’t get via an online shop (especially with all the bogus reviews nowadays)

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet."

GNU Terry Pratchett

If they’re suffering let it end - if they can still maintain a good quality of life let them live… I’m also for human euthanasia.

No matter the amount of love - if the pain is unmanageable or their quality of life is shit let them go.

Both.

I tend to wash the larger stuff by hand so it’s not wasting so much space in the dishwasher.

I think it was maybe last week or the week before there was a thread about plex enshitification and I recall a lot of downvotes to folks praising/recommending jellyfin over plex.

Yeah, I had/have problems with Jellyfin transcoding too.

Basically transcoding things that didn’t need it and wouldn’t transcode things that did need it.

Only a small subset of folks want to live in a condo.

Also its a fucking condo.

At best they are pretty much useless for employees, at worst they are as dangerous as managment.

So sorta like the imaginarium of Dr. parnissius? ( its called something along those lines lol)

Dont know if it’s true or not, but I always assumed it was because the numbers get bigger left to right. Only 12 months, 30ish days, thousands of years.

It would all depend on the hired killer. Even the most horrible of people tend to have a ‘code’ they will follow.

Because there arent proper checks and balances.

So just like the corporate world and the us government the shitbags get in power and do whatever the hell they want with little to no repercussions.

The teamsters just went through that for years with that shitbag Hoffa jr. He just let the companies do pratically whatever they wanted.

Then you got stewards and shit who dont wanna do anything.

I didnt know any union reps/stewards until I went to managment.

Basically they only care about collecting dues and increasing their numbers.

They union doesn’t ‘demand’ anything beyond paying dues from its members so you’ve got tons of people who really think they can act however they want.

Complete lack of any sort of rules of conduct and no work ethic.

Unfortunately Unions get corrupted easy.

Ima throw your own words back at you.

You are cherry picking the few favorable studies over the heaps of unfavorable studies.

Because it goes against what they ‘believe’.

If you want another good example of positive ‘capitalism’ check out Sam Reich and Dropout.

His father is Robert Reich (Former Secretary of Labor).

Sam is expanding Dropout at a sustainable rate. since its founding it’s had only one or 2 price hikes bringing the cost from like 3.99 to 5.99.

And they weren’t just arbitrary hikes. We got a lot of new content as a result.

He takes care of his employees. And more importantly he cares about his employees as people.

In regards to another reply, there are multiple options of dealing with duplicates in calibre. From merging to deleting them.

It’s been a while since I had to do any library setup with calibre and Im kinda confused by what you are saying with “but it duplicates files when importing in a different drive where I don’t want ebooks”

Do you have multiple libraries in calibre?

Are you using multiple library managers?

Why not just use calibres folder structure?

And also if you don’t know about it - mobileread forums has been around a long time and has a whole section on calibre where you could probably get more specific help.

Everyone has the right to die if they want.

While I understand the loved ones point of view it is supremely selfish to say “you have to keep suffering, because I don’t want to feel bad.”

maybe it will get better. Maybe it won’t. If I dont wanna take that gamble anymore I shouldn’t be forced to. Especially if its something you have been fighting for years.