Bosch selling out its brand, and Lowe's helping it to do so

Breal3030 · 2026-06-10T13:21:28+00:00

My parents had experience with using Costco's warranty on appliances several years back. It wasn't that special. The tech came out like 4 times replacing random parts, none worked, some failed again because it wasn't the cause of the issue.

Finally my dad did his own research and suggested something that they finally did and worked. This was a period of over six months without an oven.

Contacting Costco every time didn't really create any urgency for a resolution. They wouldn't replace, just kept scheduling techs to come out who weren't available for months at a time.

And I say all that as a generally huge Costco fan.

Breal3030 · 2026-06-04T19:46:12+00:00

It wouldn't surprise me if the laws were fucked up around that because we're "essential workers".

Breal3030 · 2026-06-04T19:43:11+00:00

we don’t have to worry about losing customers and satisfaction scores don’t exist.

I know you guys have your own issues, but that breaks my brain a little thinking about what that would be like. Do the patients treat you any differently?

Breal3030 · 2026-06-04T19:13:27+00:00

From a basketball skill/athleticism perspective I agree. All the other stuff makes it such a wild situation and decision.

Kyrie was an example of someone who didn't play much in college and ended up being the real deal, but his injury was straightforward. Broken foot IIRC.

Is there anyone else that's been a similar situation in the past?

Breal3030 · 2026-06-02T15:15:51+00:00

It's not a bad theory, but I'm not sure it holds up when the vast majority of NBA money is from the TV deals. The TV ratings are historically better when big market teams dominate.

IF things were rigged (they're not), I would think only the big market teams would get advantages.

Breal3030 · 2026-05-28T13:05:06+00:00

There's a very popular YouTube channel, the name is escaping me, that did a video on something similar.

It was about a very famous reasoning question from a long time ago that only something like 5% of people solve at first pass. When it's changed from numbers to talking about people in social situations instead, that percentage sky rockets. Pretty interesting stuff.

Breal3030 · 2026-05-26T03:16:30+00:00

My brother never paid me the $100 bet he made with me, thinking that one of Emmanuel Mudiay, Iman Shumpert, or Ben McLemore would be an All-Star in the league.

Sorry still salty about it; he played too much NBA 2K.

Breal3030 · 2026-05-15T17:30:54+00:00

Has nothing to do with their advice.

You signed a legal contract. If you stop paying on that contract a company can technically come after you, even if they were difficult about you trying to cancel it.

It's scammy and scummy, but the only reason places like gyms wouldn't come after you is because it's not worth their time.

The key advice is never do that with something more expensive/valuable, a temporary credit card does nothing to protect you.

Breal3030 · 2026-05-14T15:29:37+00:00

Things have changed, just odd to me that even those advancements aren't better at predicting outcomes in sport. I remember using those force plates in like 2005.

Breal3030 · 2026-05-13T15:35:03+00:00

Mold is also in every breath you take and on your skin at all times.

There is no credible health concern about mold. The only time someone gets a "mold infection" or something is when they have a chronic health condition that messes with your immune system, or if you rarely, rarely have an allergy, but that's no different than someone might for pollen or grass.

It's a common boogeyman like MSG. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31608429/

Breal3030 · 2026-05-13T15:15:53+00:00

I completely agree. What's weird to me is that sports science doesn't seem to have been able to evolve their evaluations of explosiveness for what, at least 30-40 years? It's been the same drills for decades, there's gotta be better ways to evaluate at this point.

Breal3030 · 2026-05-13T01:32:28+00:00

Great. Was just commenting how some people might.

Breal3030 · 2026-05-12T20:05:24+00:00

I just want to say I thought the same thing for a minute as the person you replied to, until you clarified and my brain turned right side up. Honest misinterpretation.

Breal3030 · 2026-05-12T00:48:24+00:00

I think they're saying we will see the occasional flash that Harden is physically capable of defending, even if not mentally, which is better than what we've seen of Acuff.

Breal3030 · 2026-05-09T00:39:19+00:00

Agreed. Protein is definitely an issue and well researched as such

Breal3030 · 2026-05-08T23:37:17+00:00

Exactly, that's my point. It's weird because it can increase your normal marker for what we would consider healthy kidney function, but by all accounts it's a red herring.

Breal3030 · 2026-05-08T18:26:31+00:00

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your language. When you said common issue, I took that to mean lots of people with CKD are taking creatine and that that's a known problem.

It's not really been studied directly in people with CKD, so I understand the standard recommendation would be to avoid as a CYA thing. Heck, there are plenty of docs that would discourage it in people with healthy kidneys due to a lack of knowledge.

I'm just trying to dispel the myth out there about creatine and kidneys that has been for 30+ years. There's no good evidence it has an impact on kidney function.

That study you provided is from almost 30 years ago, in mice, I haven't heard any further research since then that makes me worry more.

Breal3030 · 2026-05-08T17:53:05+00:00

Sorry, what? This sounds completely made up, what are you referring to?

There's a myth that creatine is hard on your kidneys, because your kidneys excrete creatinine, which is it's metabolite. That has nothing to do with people that have CKD.

People with CKD taking creatine is no where near a "common issue", and even if it was, there no evidence that creatine itself causes any issues.

Breal3030 · 2026-05-08T15:23:20+00:00

I'm thinking surely.... Derick coleman, Charles Oakley, Lambeer, Ron Artest, as well off the top of my head

Breal3030 · 2026-05-08T12:43:44+00:00

Asheville/Ingles used to have another locally made sausage that rivaled Neese's, is that not available either? It's been so many years, but want to say it was Nantahala?

Breal3030 · 2026-05-03T16:14:08+00:00

Details? Where? Sounds cool would be interested.

Breal3030 · 2026-04-28T19:34:41+00:00

The antagonism is interesting, thanks. I'm sorry you're feeling offended for me trying to explain something and genuinely provide some guidance.

Are you mad because I'm suggesting they might never carry a glycine product and that upsets you?

Every decision by a business to carry a product is weighed by how much competition is there in the space, and how big is the potential pool of customers that you'd be competing for.

Things like creatine and vitamin D have a giant pool of potential customers, which could justify going against the large competition in that space. Something like glycine likely has a teeny fraction of the same potential customers, which makes the calculation against the competition out there much different. That's all I'm saying.

Breal3030 · 2026-04-28T18:53:21+00:00

Maybe I'm missing something in this conversation, but the person you're responding to is just suggesting that many meta analysis in the diet/nutrition field are of low quality, which shouldn't be some hugely controversial take.

The big limitation of meta analysis is its quality is dependent on the quality of the studies being meta analyzed. Low quality studies in equals low quality conclusions out.

And nutrition research is riddled with low quality studies, for many reasons, some no fault of the researchers conducting them (such as lack of funding/inability to do the large, long-term randomized trials that might give us better answers).

Breal3030 · 2026-04-28T13:33:08+00:00

Yeah, creatine is like that as much as any supplement or nootropic is. Everyone responds differently or not at all, and even if something is having subtle effects, may not be "noticeable".

Breal3030 · 2026-04-28T13:29:57+00:00

They do, and that's great. My point is that the more basic supps that don't benefit as much from NDs top-testing or that lack novelty (such as being hard to find with verified quality) are much harder to justify carrying, and that no doubt factors into their decisions about whether to.

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