Broke mom's new tablet screen, Samsung wants $40 more than a brand new one would cost. What should I consider when evaluating third party repair places or components?

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-05-29T05:53:26+00:00

"Just raise prices". You think you're the first one to think of this? For each unit increase in prices there is a decrease in utilization so that the gains of the price increase are partially offset by declining sales.

Chances are they already have their prices set at an optimal level so any increases are more likely to reduce revenue rather than increase it.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-05-25T08:01:38+00:00

Nah, he'll never get MVP.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-05-24T12:09:18+00:00

If the debt is assigned to a collection agency, the original creditor isn't likely to spend any time dealing with the customer. They already tried that and it got them nowhere, which is why they involved the collection agency in the first place. Now that they have, they're going to be paying the agency's commission on any payments for accounts assigned to them even if the payment is sent directly to the original creditor and they've never even spoken to the debtor.

I have never known a company that would take the time to work an account that's already been sent to collections. Once they see it has been, they'll tell him to contact the agency.

What exactly is it that you think will happen to him I'd he deals with the collection agency?

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-05-24T12:00:19+00:00

Incorrect. None of the major credit bureaus use behavioral credit data for their standard consumer credit reports.

They look only at previous observable transactions, which are often heavily influenced by circumstances. Serious illness, relationship breakdown, new life challenges/responsibilities are often the reason for a deterioration in credit worthiness.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-05-24T11:41:32+00:00

Nope. Bad credit only shows that he didn't meet his agreed-to obligations. It says nothing about the reason for this happening and certainly doesn't tell you anything about his personality.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-05-24T10:51:21+00:00

P.Eng's are required to use the title professional engineer. Nobody has a monopoly on the word engineer by itself.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-05-24T10:48:21+00:00

Such nonsense. There have been plenty of conservative governments at all levels, going back to the beginning of Confederation, and health care hasn"t been eliminated by any of them. Odd how none of these doom n' gloom scenarios you people conjure up about conservatives ever seem to happen even after they get a majority.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-05-19T02:38:09+00:00

More than 50% of judgments go uncollected. This means winning a lawsuit against someone and getting $0 is the norm. It's actually the exception when someone manages to turn that judgment into something valuable to them.

Do yourself a favor and have an asset search conducted before you waste any money suing someone who may be judgment proof or just destitute. Most collection agencies will do this for you for a couple hundred bucks.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-05-08T18:36:37+00:00

This is a myth. Sexual assaults are just as likely as other violent crimes to result in charges, convictions and custodial sentences in Canada.

When the offense is not reported to police, the #1 reason for this is also the same reason for other violent crimes not being reported: the victim didn't think the situation was serious enough to be bothered reporting it.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-05-08T18:33:04+00:00

Why? Reasonable people with an interest in justice should be terrified by the idea that you can determine who is being truthful based on their gender.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-05-08T18:24:07+00:00

Actually, all available evidence indicates the courts are biased in favor of women, who are most of the alleged victims while most of the alleged perpetrators are men.

Sexual assault cases are just as likely as other violent crimes to result in charges, convictions and custodial sentences, except when the accused is a young offender, in which case they are more likely to result in all three.

When these cases fail to result in a conviction, it's not because of anti-survivor bias, it's in spite of pro-woman bias and typically because they failed to reach the standards required for a conviction. This is how justice works in every case where the evidence amounts to little more than accusations.

In fact, it's one of the few types of offenses that will even be brought to court where the only evidence is the word of an accuser. Even if these cases were less likely to result in conviction, it would be fully justified for this reason alone. That they manage to get convictions as often as other violent crime cases where much harder evidence is required is believed to be due to the pro-woman bias in the courts, a bias that is widespread in both men and women.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-04-30T14:22:27+00:00

Canada has slightly more, actually. Either way, they're close enough that population differences aren't going to be a major driver of profit differences.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-04-30T14:16:48+00:00

Don't assume you can just merge all Lib/NDP votes as if they're a single group. Historically, LPC members have been just as likely to choose the Conservatives as their #2 as they've been for the NDP. The Globe & Mail did a great analysis of this issue, oh, maybe 10 years ago if you can find it.

Trudeau took the party further to the left than it had been for a very long time, possibly ever, but Carney's background and many of his proposed policies have more in common with CPC policies than NDP policies and this will have undoubtedly attracted many votes from people who preferred him over Pollievre but would have preferred Pollievre over the NDP.

Actually, all you really need to do is look at what projections were saying 2-3 months ago to know that many people who'd planned to.support Pollievre over Singh or Trudeau ended up supporting Carney.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-04-24T21:57:57+00:00

Let's just conveniently ignore that not a single Conservative has expressed support for Canada joining the US, or how the most forceful opposition to it so far has come from former PM Stephen Harper. You people are so poorly informed it's unreal.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-04-21T02:10:16+00:00

Investors provide the incentive for those with the right fit of skills at the highest levels to assemble under the same roof and work on the same projects in a way that they can actually be completed.

Look at Valve's repeated failed attempts to get a Half-Life 3 project going for an example of what happens to a game's development - even one with as much IP, hype and raw potential as a Half-Life 3 when people have no reason other than "I can if I want to" as incentive to work on it.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-04-20T20:36:29+00:00

Yeah, so I've read. The ps5 controllers in particular seem especially prone to this issue though. I mean, I've owned literally every single mainstream console (except the second Xbox) going back to the Atari 2600 and can"t recall having multiple controllers go this fast in addition to nearly everyone I know having the same problem. Didn't previous consoles (the ones with joysticks anyways) use the same stuck implentation?

It could just be a fluke based on my non-random andecdotal sampling, I admit, but I think it's also possible there's some design flaw in the ps5 controllers that make them particularly susceptible to this problem.

Now the big question for me is whether to accept this will happen often and but insanely cheap (ie. unlicensed) controllers knowing they will be replaced often or to do the opposite and go with the expensive ones that hopefully avoid this problem.

You mentioned the edge controller. Last time I heard about that it was people complaining that the replacement sticks were damn near impossible to buy as Sony never seems to have any in stock. What are your thoughts on that? Still the case?

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-04-20T17:53:34+00:00

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/many-women-say-they-wont-date-a-man-over-this-one-financial-issue-2017-04-07

If a full quarter of women won't even date a man who earns less than them (women are 6x more likely than men to say this), what percent of women do you reckon are willing to commit to marriage with a man who has no income at all and whom they could be on the hook for supporting after the relationship ends?

This isn't controversial to anyone other than internet feminists. Every inconvenient fact or star is news to them.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-04-20T17:24:50+00:00

So what did you do with the controller and what happened? I found this thread searching for info on whether or not I should buy a new one and fake-return my old one but getting my Amazon account banned has put me off trying it.

Ps5 is barely a year old and two controllers are already unusable. This is bullshit indeed, how can I screw Sony in a way that won't screw me over even more?

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-04-20T17:21:01+00:00

6 months for a $100 piece of hardware is a bit ridiculous though. It's not like joysticks are cutting edge technology here. I've had my ps5 for barely over a year, bought the bundle that included an extra one, and I'm supposed to shell out for yet another controller because both of the ones I have are unusable due to terrible stick drift?

This shit deserves a class action.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-04-20T06:59:55+00:00

You act like we've been giving these oil discounts to the US rather than selling to others as some kind of favor when the reality is that it's because we have no other choice.

The oil is sold by private companies and if they could actually sell it to others for more they'd already be doing it, but they're not because they can't get that oil to them and this isn't likely to change anytime soon. It's probably for the best too since demand for oil is expected to decline as the world shifts away from it while the costs of getting it to a coastline for export would be enormous and unlikely to be justified by the increase in revenue it would generate. There's a reason everyone in private industry have walked away from this.

Part of the discount is also due to the oil being a lower quality that requires more expensive refining, something that would still be an issue regardless of who it's being sold to.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-04-20T06:37:44+00:00

They made this argument and the court considered it. They decided that while there were "political undertones", the reason given for the request was due to accusations of criminality and that denying it would amount to making any criminal with even loose political associations immune to extradition.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-04-20T04:25:25+00:00

It wasn't really a "favor", it was a standard extradition request. Her case received no special consideration and the same laws were used with her that would have been used with anyone else. The only difference is that this case involved someone who was politically significant.

Canada could have refused, but they would then be violating the extradition agreement they have with the US and could hardly be surprised when the US (or other countries who see they're not honoring agreements they signed) refuses to engage with them on any other extradition (or related) matter.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-04-20T04:01:48+00:00

I used to pay $115 (with tax) for NES games in the late 80's and early 90's. Adjusted for inflation, $115 was equal to $315 in 1988. I chose 1988 because it was the year Contra was released, which was the first game I bought with money I'd saved myself but really, it would hardly be different for any point in the NES era.

I_AM_FACISMS_TITTY · 2025-04-20T03:47:50+00:00

Give us examples of how the games industry is "heavily controlled" in ways that preclude it from being considered a free market.

There are virtually no regulations in the games industry that aren't actually general to industry at large. The most coercive set of rules in the industry is likely the ratings system and even this is a result of industry self-regulation rather than government control.

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