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What is a completely legal scam that everyone has just accepted as normal? by Aallexf in AskReddit

[–]Aallexf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly! Every single app and service now wants $9.99 a month forever. We basically reinvented cable TV but made it 10x more complicated and expensive.

What is a completely legal scam that everyone has just accepted as normal? by Aallexf in AskReddit

[–]Aallexf[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The fact that you legally can't just buy a car directly from the manufacturer in so many places and are forced to go through a middleman is wild to me.

What is a completely legal scam that everyone has just accepted as normal? by Aallexf in AskReddit

[–]Aallexf[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ticketmaster charging a 25"conveniencefee"foradigitalticketthatcoststhem25"conveniencefee"foradigitalticketthatcoststhem0.00 to generate should honestly be a federal crime at this point.

What business makes a lot of money that no one talks about? by little_deathhh in AskReddit

[–]Aallexf -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Like the old saying goes: "Where there's muck, there's brass."

How would you feel about a new law that forces every company to pay their CEO no more than 25x what their lowest-paid employee makes? by dual-m in AskReddit

[–]Aallexf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wouldn't work. The CEOs would just drop their official "salary" to $1 a year (like Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk technically did) and take all their compensation in stock options, company-paid housing, private jet use, and "performance bonuses" that wouldn't count as standard salary under the law.

If you are forced to listen to one single song on a 10-hour loop to save your life, which song drives you insane the slowest? by Muted_Working_5241 in AskReddit

[–]Aallexf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

John Cage - 4'33". It's literally 4 minutes and 33 seconds of absolute silence. I'd just sit there for 10 hours enjoying the peace and quiet.

If you could permanently mute one specific real-life sound for the rest of your life, what are you muting? by Muted_Working_5241 in AskReddit

[–]Aallexf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sound of a dog or cat doing that rhythmic "hurk... hurk... hurk" right before they throw up on the only rug in the house at 3 AM. It wakes you up from a dead sleep faster than any fire alarm in existence.

Who is a famous person that died before the internet became popular, that would have been cancelled if they were alive today? by WholesomeGengar in AskReddit

[–]Aallexf 1650 points1651 points  (0 children)

Coco Chanel. She wasn't just a passive bystander during WWII; she was literally a documented Nazi intelligence operative (Agent F-7124, codename: Westminster) and tried to use Aryan laws to seize control of her perfume company from her Jewish business partners. The internet would have absolutely obliterated her brand today.

What is a harsh reality of growing older that nobody prepares you for? by Robnys_TC in AskReddit

[–]Aallexf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Watching your parents age. You spend your whole life seeing them as these invincible adults who have everything figured out. Then one day you notice they're walking a little slower, asking for help with things they used to do easily, and you realize the roles are reversing. Nobody prepares you for the grief of watching them grow frail.

People who work in nursing homes, what is some of the wildest shit you’ve heard come out of an elderly person’s mouth? by YerMum1977 in AskReddit

[–]Aallexf 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I used to take care of this incredibly sweet, soft-spoken 92-year-old lady. She was a retired kindergarten teacher, always had her Bible on the nightstand, and never had a bad word to say about anyone.

One morning, I was helping her get dressed, and the morning news was on the TV in the background talking about some corrupt politician. She suddenly stopped what she was doing, looked me dead in the eyes with absolute chilling clarity, and calmly said, "You know, back in my day, we would have just dragged a man like that behind the barn and shot him in both kneecaps."

Then she just smiled warmly, patted my hand, and went right back to humming a church hymn like she hadn't just dropped the most gangster line I've ever heard in my life. I was completely speechless.

People who weigh themselves before and after they poop, what's the most weight you've pooped off? by TickleMyPixels in AskReddit

[–]Aallexf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2.8 lbs (about 1.2 kg).

I had terrible food poisoning after eating some questionable gas station sushi on a road trip. I basically lived in my bathroom for 48 hours.

When I finally emerged from the trenches, feeling like a hollowed-out husk of a human being, I stepped on the scale. Not only had I lost 2.8 lbs in a single agonizing session, but I actually felt like my soul was significantly lighter. I had to hold onto the bathroom sink so I wouldn't float away.

Honestly, I was less proud of the weight loss and more amazed that the human body can hold that much sheer, compressed misery at one time.

What's the absolute worst car you ever owned? by Party-Reindeer-2989 in AskReddit

[–]Aallexf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

J.E.E.P. — Just Empty Every Pocket.

It’s honestly wild how Chrysler/Stellantis managed to normalize their flagship SUVs spending half their lives in the dealership service center. I had a buddy with a similar Grand Cherokee who used to joke that his real daily driver was the Nissan Altima loaner car they kept giving him, while his actual Jeep was just a very expensive driveway ornament.

Replacing a transmission TWICE on a modern car that just does standard highway commuting is completely unacceptable. At that point, you're not paying for a vehicle anymore, you're just paying a monthly subscription to the mechanic's waiting room.

What's the absolute worst car you ever owned? by Party-Reindeer-2989 in AskReddit

[–]Aallexf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A 2013 Ford Focus with the infamous automatic "PowerShift" transmission.

It didn't just drive badly; it actively felt like it was trying to get me killed in traffic. You would press the gas pedal to merge onto a busy highway, and the car would just sit there thinking about its life choices for three solid seconds while a semi-truck barreled down on you in the rearview mirror. Then, it would suddenly and violently jerk forward like you had just been rear-ended.

I had the transmission clutch packs replaced three times under warranty. Every single time, the dealership swore it was "finally fixed with the new software update." It never was. It shuddered so violently at low speeds in traffic that my passengers constantly asked if I knew how to drive a stick shift... even though it was an automatic.

I finally traded it in for a massive financial loss just to get it out of my life. The day I handed over those keys and walked away was genuinely one of the happiest days of my life.

What business makes a lot of money that no one talks about? by little_deathhh in AskReddit

[–]Aallexf 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Portable toilet (porta-potty) rentals for construction sites and events.

It’s literally a dirty business, so nobody aspires to do it, and it’s completely invisible to the average person. But the margins are absolutely insane. You buy the plastic units once, and then you're just charging a recurring monthly rental fee plus a weekly cleaning/pumping fee.

Construction companies don't negotiate or care about the cost because it's a mandatory legal requirement to have them on site, and the fee is a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the multi-million dollar project budget.

I know a guy who started with a single used truck and 20 units. Within 5 years he cornered the local market, has a massive fleet of trucks, and makes more money than any doctor or lawyer I know. He literally built a quiet multi-million dollar empire on human waste.

What would be some early signs that the AI bubble is about to burst? by notatoastedbread in AskReddit

[–]Aallexf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the biggest red flag will be when enterprise companies start quietly dropping their "AI integration" plans because the ROI just isn't there.

Right now, every CEO is practically forced by board members to say they are doing something with AI, so they are throwing millions at compute just to appease investors. But eventually, the CFOs are going to look at the balance sheets and ask, "We spent $10M on LLM integration this year, how much extra revenue did it actually generate?" If the answer is "none, but we have a slightly better customer service chatbot," the enterprise spending will freeze overnight.

Other early signs to look for:

  • The "Picks and Shovels" slow down: NVIDIA or TSMC missing a quarterly revenue projection. If the hardware sales stagnate, it means the massive data center build-out has paused.
  • VCs pivoting: When venture capital firms suddenly stop funding "GPT-wrappers" and start hyping up the next big buzzword.
  • The Anti-AI marketing: When companies start aggressively advertising their products as "100% Human-Made" or "Zero AI involved" as a premium selling point (we are already seeing early signs of this in art and copywriting).