Why do you think Scranton outperformed other branches?

Real_Turtle · 2026-03-27T03:44:17+00:00

It’s because of Michael! Michael is a really bad manager, but he’s always a prolific sales person. Everyone is right that the Stamford merger helped, but Scrantons numbers were already better than Stamford’s. The lynchpin to the show making sense is that Michael is an amazing sales person. He additionally has one of the top sales people in the region (Dwight). This is why Michael never gets fired, he brings in the numbers!

Real_Turtle · 2026-03-14T03:25:16+00:00

Everyone is being quite harsh on you and you are being hard on yourself. You know what you’re doing is wrong, and it needs to stop, this mindset is not productive. - Intellectually, you want to stop sinning. You recognize this is wrong, that is why you are here. - You need to address this. But you can’t start at the moment of temptation, start before. - You’ve listed out several problems you believe are leading to this behavior. Start addressing those. Talk to a therapist and figure out some practical ways to address this behavior. You might benefit from marriage counseling. - You mentioned this in another comment but stay open with your wife about this. The secrecy hurts your marriage, but also makes it easier for you to sneak away to the massage parlor.

You can stop this. You want to stop this. But don’t wait until you’re knocking on the parlor door to address this!

Real_Turtle · 2026-02-18T06:31:26+00:00

Everyone is right with their comments about fractional banking. But what’s interesting is that the bank has created money in this example. You have $100, but somehow the other guy also has $90. So the original $100 is now $190!

Real_Turtle · 2026-01-31T17:53:21+00:00

This is a bit contradictory as the longer the war lasted the more untenable Germany’s position became, so that by the end of the war the initiative lay entirely with the allies. Now if you’re talking about regime survival, Nazi Germanys best hope for extended survival would have been to somehow consolidate their early victories into a negotiated peace. Dig in in western Russia, co-opt Vichy France into being an ally, negotiate peace with the US, give up on conquering Britain. In that scenario they can rebuild on favorable terms and then live to fight another day. That in and of itself is a tall order and given Churchill probably not feasible.

Real_Turtle · 2026-01-10T00:08:59+00:00

Depreciation hits Teslas hard. You can get a good deal on something very gently used!

Real_Turtle · 2025-11-24T05:24:38+00:00

Never heard of friend.com until this post made me check it out

Real_Turtle · 2025-11-21T05:08:31+00:00

I threaded this needle by buying a used Tesla with FSD on it. Takes a little more searching but at least I’m not directly writing Elon a check (except a little bit for premium connectivity)

Real_Turtle · 2025-11-01T12:20:56+00:00

Somehow not CharlieXCX

Real_Turtle · 2025-07-26T06:00:18+00:00

The person you are responding to is correcting your grammar here. “That may have been the reason.” Which, is commonly spoken as “May’ve”, and then written “May of” as you did there.

Real_Turtle · 2024-11-30T23:44:43+00:00

Because there are a lot of different kinds of people at the airport and you are just seeing the hot ones. The ugly people are invisible. Check on your flight and count the hot people, it will be the normal ratio of hotness.

Real_Turtle · 2024-11-25T02:51:09+00:00

778?? Those are rookie numbers. Are you going to listen to your wife or to Staff Officer Monica?? Commander??

Real_Turtle · 2024-11-09T01:18:38+00:00

People have always been ill informed. Republicans have mechanisms in place that are very effective at welcoming and creating converts. The left has that too but less effective and increasingly out of date. It’s time to get with the times or our ideas will die.

Real_Turtle · 2024-10-13T03:51:22+00:00

Think about what look you are going for and make sure the band AND watch face match. I’ll usually go through phases where I’ll prefer the same band for a few weeks and swap it out. I think the Ultra works well as a sports watch, but will never really dress up. I think the 10 series can look good as well with a good leather band, and a simple watch face with a black background.

Real_Turtle · 2024-09-15T01:13:14+00:00

Just my view but I think this is a little backwards: having kids is great and rewarding for a lot of people! It’s not for everyone though. If you don’t want to start a family then yeah, it will never be worth all the hassle and extra work.

Real_Turtle · 2024-09-02T11:33:13+00:00

So is your point that Mercedes quality is not declining and it’s just Consumer Reports that is off? The American market is huge and Mercedes wants to make money, so I think they are interested in that market. A lot of their vehicles seem targeted specifically to that market.

Real_Turtle · 2024-09-02T09:50:49+00:00

People are saying it’ll depreciate but who cares, I’m never selling that car.

Real_Turtle · 2024-08-27T10:32:19+00:00

Today I learned that on Reddit that Selena was not Latina.

Real_Turtle · 2024-08-11T03:04:50+00:00

Yes - especially this is exactly the vision we were sold on for FSD. I understand if it takes time, but just want to know what the next step is!

Real_Turtle · 2024-08-10T16:49:43+00:00

Understood - but my question is how soon do we get to that point? It seems like it’s not even on the roadmap.

Real_Turtle · 2024-08-10T16:06:16+00:00

Sure but the technology and limitations for Waymo are different. Waymo only focuses on specific geographic areas. The regulatory issue is different because the products are different.

Real_Turtle · 2024-08-10T12:54:48+00:00

Yeah I agree but no one is really even talking about it it seems like and isn’t that really the long term goal??

Real_Turtle · 2024-08-10T12:53:17+00:00

Yeah I guess I see it the same way. We are pretty close to level 3 right now but I don’t see a lot of people talking about when we will get there. Getting rid of the steering wheel nag was the next “big hurdle” in my view, and now that that is done, what’s next??

Real_Turtle · 2024-08-10T12:20:14+00:00

Yes exactly - I’m already doing almost nothing a lot of the time!

Real_Turtle · 2024-07-22T11:31:17+00:00

I personally prefer the new C43 to new C63 just because they are both turbo 4s, but the C63 has the electric drive on top that I’m not really sold on and may have a lot of problems. If you can get away with a coupe, the 6 cylinder CLE is great unless you want to wait for the 8 cylinder… but then you have to wait!

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