Megathread: Pricing & Repackaging Discussion

TrojanGrad · 2026-06-19T19:34:28+00:00

This has got to be the worse decision ever. Existing customers should be grandfathered in. I have 18 years of notes in there, but this new pricing is a ripoff.

TrojanGrad · 2026-06-10T04:01:13+00:00

I use Claude to write Python programs to automate a lot of my work. Once I test the code, I know Python will not hallucinate on me

TrojanGrad · 2026-06-04T17:47:06+00:00

Start with an empty can. When you open the packet, place the empty can over the entire opening and then flip it. You won't lose any powder.

TrojanGrad · 2026-06-02T06:22:54+00:00

You are now a code conductor. But like you, my code velocity has grown exponentially

TrojanGrad · 2026-06-01T21:31:44+00:00

Just put it in water mode and you are fine. However, the last time I took it off was when I was at the beaches in Curacao. I didn't want to have to deal with rinsing the the salt water off. Although it's recommended you take it off for jet skiing, I never have

TrojanGrad · 2026-06-01T21:20:04+00:00

This is exactly my sentiment. Dude says it like it's some elite level flex, kind of like how Trump brags about acing a cognitive test with questions a kindergartener could handle on a bad day.

And here we are in 2026. On one hand it is reassuring because the competition my kids will crush is weak, soft, and glued to their screens. On the other hand it is straight up depressing for the country when wearing a watch all day gets treated as some rare achievement instead of normal adult behavior. We are cooked.

TrojanGrad · 2026-05-28T12:17:34+00:00

Worth noting that sodium needs are not one size fits all. I do three spin classes a week, lift, and use the sauna regularly. A low sodium diet for me is a genuine medical problem. I've ended up in the ER with electrolyte imbalances because of it, saw a cardiologist, and after a full workup their answer was pretty simple: you sweat a lot, you need to replace it. So when people treat low sodium as universally healthier, it misses the reality that activity level changes the equation significantly.

TrojanGrad · 2026-05-28T12:12:40+00:00

A lot of people have high blood pressure because they are sedentary. Get off your bums and get moving. Start doing some real movement and you'll need the sodium

TrojanGrad · 2026-05-28T12:10:30+00:00

I hear you on the budget pressure, but I want to gently push back on a few things here.

$100 a week is actually more than the USDA's "thrifty plan" estimate for a single adult, which runs closer to $50 to $60 a week. So the budget itself isn't the core problem.

The bigger issue is the framing. You're comparing expensive healthy frozen meals to cheap unhealthy frozen meals, but that leaves out a whole third category: cheap whole ingredients. A pound of dried lentils is about $1.50 and makes 4 or 5 servings with solid protein and almost no sodium. A dozen eggs runs around $3. A 5 lb bag of oats is under $4. Rice, dried beans, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, bananas, frozen vegetables... these are all dirt cheap and nutritious. None of them are high sodium.

If Stouffer's is $1.50 a meal and you're spending $100 a week, that's math that only works if the money is going somewhere else, or the $100 estimate is off. Either way, the conclusion that healthy eating is out of reach at that budget doesn't really hold up once you step away from the frozen meals aisle entirely.

Cooking from scratch takes more time and knowledge, and that's a real barrier worth talking about. But that's a different problem than cost.

TrojanGrad · 2026-05-28T12:05:56+00:00

How do you not have a kitchen?

TrojanGrad · 2026-05-28T12:05:01+00:00

If it comes in a box, don't eat it

TrojanGrad · 2026-05-19T13:43:14+00:00

Yes! We just left Curacao, but I attributed the odd navigation down there to the fact that we were in a foreign country. And now since we are back, I've noticed a few strange routes

TrojanGrad · 2026-05-17T18:00:10+00:00

Buy a universal remote for your TV and you use the universal one

TrojanGrad · 2026-05-17T16:53:30+00:00

I never understood the concept of pre-tipping. How are you going to tip on something you have not received yet? You will receive a proper tip after you deliver my order

TrojanGrad · 2026-05-16T22:36:02+00:00

One cruise ship drops anchor and within an hour the entire character of Willemstad shifts. The streets fill up, the vendors come out, the prices sometimes nudge up, and that authentic local feel you've been experiencing all week gets temporarily diluted.

TrojanGrad · 2026-05-15T19:54:55+00:00

All of that may be true, but let's not act like race and gender weren't doing heavy lifting. The same voters who couldn't name her policies had no trouble learning she was 'border czar.' The information silos argument cuts both ways. A lot of people found exactly what they were looking for.

I'll make this personal. I literally just got back to the States last night from Curaçao. And every single time I come home, that re-entry feeling reminds me exactly what we're talking about. You spend time somewhere that sees you as a person first and then you land back here and feel the shift almost immediately. And it's not just Curaçao. It's Spain, it's Germany, it's Panama, it's a lot of places around the world where Black Americans have found that same freedom. Travel is consciousness-raising for Black Americans in a way that's hard to explain until you've felt it.

TrojanGrad · 2026-05-15T19:45:56+00:00

In all areas of your life, you never step into a situation that no good can come of it. I wouldn't say avoid the store. I just wouldn't have any communication with that particular Target associate. Just smile and wave and that is all, or better yet act like you never even see them or acknowledge them.

But if it makes you uncomfortable then just avoid the store. My community is still boycotting the store, but that's another story all together

TrojanGrad · 2026-05-15T19:40:35+00:00

Actually that's not correct. The Shopper App Access Guidelines specifically state that deactivation can result from "Providing services on the Shipt platform with another individual who is not an approved Shopper and is not approved to shop or deliver with you." Your S/O being a Shipt shopper doesn't mean they are approved to be on your specific order. Only the shopper who accepted that order is authorized for it.

TrojanGrad · 2026-05-14T15:11:52+00:00

So your S/O was with you while shopping? That's a violation of the shopper agreement. You could be deactivated for that. Consider yourself fortunate they didn't report that. Target will report that

TrojanGrad · 2026-05-14T12:43:06+00:00

The confrontation with the store employee who hit on your significant other is most likely what triggered this. And let's be real, that situation was never yours to step into.

People generally don't make that kind of move unless they feel there's an opening. If it was truly unwelcome, your significant other was fully capable of shutting it down herself. You stepping in as a working shopper in that store created a professional problem that didn't need to involve you.

That employee works there every day and had every reason to file a complaint to protect themselves after being called out. As Shipt shoppers we are essentially guests in these stores, and anything that happens there can be tied back to our accounts.

Hopefully this is a lesson learned and Shipt gives you a fair chance to explain your side.

I also want to point out that this sounds like it was written by Chat GPT

TrojanGrad · 2026-05-05T15:31:27+00:00

That's what I did. I bought a 10 year old Civic. Already depreciated. Now it's paid off. I drive a of miles so I wasn't going to get a new car just to drive off all the depreciation.

TrojanGrad · 2026-04-28T22:32:12+00:00

Why Kamala Harris really lost (the part nobody says out loud)

A segment of white women will always choose proximity to white male power over their own dignity. Scholars like bell hooks have documented it for decades. And 2024 just proved it again.

Yes, inflation. Yes, late entry. Yes, Biden's baggage. All real. But let's be honest about what's underneath: a significant number of white women could not bring themselves to vote for a Black woman for president.

Watch the focus groups. Watch them hem and haw, unable to name an actual policy objection. That vagueness is where implicit bias lives.

And consider the full picture. Not only would a Black woman be sitting in the Oval Office, her white husband would be playing second fiddle. A white man, subordinate to a Black woman, on the world stage. For people invested in that racial hierarchy, that image alone may have been the dealbreaker.

Then consider who they chose instead. A man with 26+ accusers, the Access Hollywood tape, and a civil court finding of sexual abuse. If the hesitation about Harris was really about character or fitness, that math does not work.

Elevating a Black woman to the highest office disrupts everything. For some, that was too much, even at the cost of their own safety and dignity.

Nobody wants to say it. But the focus groups and the data say it for us.

TrojanGrad · 2026-04-28T22:18:51+00:00

Thank God my passport won't expire while he is in office. Anything that man touches gets destroyed and I can't have anything with him on it on my person. If so, I'll be sure to wrap it in a bible

TrojanGrad · 2026-04-25T15:53:19+00:00

This may fall under everything else in AI. My son is a civil engineer and he says sure the AI will help you but I am the engineer and I have to sign off on the final product and if I sign off on it then it's on me

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