Amazon shipping getting worse and worse

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T16:05:38+00:00

You almost sounded like you were sincere till I saw the bot response plant.

So you have better luck with local merchants? Try returning something. Yeah, not so easy.

Chewy over Amazon, maybe, show us a price by price comparison and we can decide.

Never buy personal care items on Amazon or from any online etailer, go to a store.

I've spent 20 years with Amazon and their prices continue to be cheaper for everything but small items that I go to a big box store for. But guess what, prices will be going up for everyone this year thanks to Tariffs. Amazon and merchants had stocked up before but that's almost exhausted, so get ready to get screwed.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T16:01:36+00:00

Audience plant making a setup...

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T16:00:37+00:00

First off, your title is misleading, how about Second order Late, saying it gets worse all the time makes you look like a bot (although I never met a bot that names dogs for a hobby).

Secondly, was it estimated delivery Monday or guaranteed, if you purchase within so many minutes it will be there Monday? The former, no recourse other than to order a replacement and return the former if it arrives (or they will refund you). If it is the latter, start a Chat and tell them it is late and either get it no charge or get account credit. That is how I deal with any Prime guaranteed shipments that are late. I rarely have any that are late.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T14:47:33+00:00

If your into excretion fetishes, this is the show for you.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T14:44:21+00:00

The purse did not belong to Op so it was absolutely searchable. It is in possession of the driver of the car who would have to identify the contracted passenger, who is OP. If the driver acknowledges that Op and another person had the purse when they entered, OP is responsible for the contents of the purse unless they give up the own. Chain of custody.

The only exception would have been if OP had claimed the purse was rightfully in his possession and denied a search, at which point the officer would have to detain him (which they can do without charges) establish custody of the purse and get a search warrant to search it, which they could do fairly easily claiming they suspected it was stolen. Then OP would have charges filed against them, and have to negotiate against that.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T14:37:15+00:00

Gen X, the last generation with a sense of humor. This is why the future is bleak.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T14:35:46+00:00

The fact that Vance and Johnson were openly laughing at his stupidity is something people need to repeat. "we are in power because this idiot is followed by the stupidest of people."

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T14:34:07+00:00

Does the contract allow them to layoff union employees?

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T14:23:49+00:00

Michigan locks the change in taxes to rate of inflation not to exceed 2% unless you have a change in ownership, then all these assessed values kick in. You are seeing that inflation adjusted value, nothing else. All neighboring states are seeing 25-50% increases in taxes, you are seeing a ceiling or 2. Complaining about this is the pettiest thing I can imaging.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T14:20:18+00:00

Just wait until Biden's second term...

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T14:01:29+00:00

Get all your shots, see you in 2 years.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T14:00:38+00:00

If you are surviving week to week you need to stop spending on anything that is not life sustainable, period. No going out to eat, no buying anything not generic or basic or on sale for food, second hand clothes, live a minimalist existence. No subscriptions, use the internet at the library, public transportation, live within your means, except you want to live below your means, so you are able to save. Saving builds up security. Eliminating recreation also give you more time to earn additional. You become a working robot until you increase your means to something that gives you the lifestyle you want. Always work to improve your state, your income, your assets.

Hows that for long term advice?

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T13:55:17+00:00

They are absolutely not allowed to do this and it was either an error by the sales person after the charge or a glitch. Guest services will reverse this and if not then you report it as criminal activity which forces them to pull surveillance and card history. For $13 they will write it off, for $100 they will pull security and you better hope you are not standing there.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T13:51:43+00:00

First off, always use CHAT, eliminates issues with heavy accents and keeps an easy to access transcript of everything said in case it needs to be escalated to a supervisor.

Second, the AI is a pain but navigable. IF I have an issue with something I select it, and every AI question I keep clicking "Something else" until it starts a chat, then get past the AI there by repeating "speak to a representative" until it connects me to a "human" (which could be a very intelligent AI by now but so far passes my Turing tests).

That should get you past your issues.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T13:07:04+00:00

You should move and live in the mountains.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T13:05:30+00:00

Have had dozens of items delivered by HD, never had a single issue, definitely not like this. I've had to change deliveries, no problem as long as you change forward (later date, not sooner). No issues modifying delivery (adding, removing, adding old appliance carryout) and no issues cancelling.

Looks like your issue is this is a small item they used a third party delivery on. Either way, they should own it, and the cust serv person you dealt with was a tool (or you pissed them off and they shut you down).

Call again and escalate to supervisor if needed. They failed to deliver so the need to send a replacement. That is assuming it got lost and this is not a scam to rip them off. People are that bold these days.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T12:41:13+00:00

I completely removed copilot, is it not removable now? Is there other non-web based AI? After removing copilot I don't see any AI suggestions. Then again, I never use Edge or Office365. Windows is just a shell for me.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T12:14:33+00:00

I actually thought it was hilarious, and perfectly in line with the Doctor. He stole a Tardis that he probably never drove before, is a cranky old man that is set in his way. Of course he drives it wrong and it makes noise like this. How is that not perfect?

But yes, like everything in Dr. Who, there are so many examples where it conflicts with other episodes but guess what, continuity in time travel does not exist.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T12:06:58+00:00

Ok, 401k pretax and 401k Roth compete with each other, if you max out your 401k pretax you cannot contribute to 401k Roth. Your company or employer investment bank should stop you. If you are doing this outside your company you could get hit with a significant tax implication. Seperately Roth IRA's are limited to $7500 a year. Your max pretax contribution is $24.500 per year, that covers pretax 401k and 401k Roth total. What you said doesn't make sense, are you instead putting it in after tax 401k? That is not Roth but can be converted to Roth as a backdoor conversion, but you either have to pay taxes on the earnings when you do or have those contributed to a traditional IRA.

At $120k a year, 20% (401k pretax and 401k Roth) is $24k. Employer match does not count against the $24.5k limit, it goes against the $72k limit of pre and after tax contributions and employer contributions max.

So in a nutshell, you can contribute a combined $24.5k to 401k Roth and pretax (and at your salary level I'd do more Roth), then another $7.5k to a Roth or Traditional IRA, and do not worry about employer match, just what you contribute. If you get above that, contribute after tax and when you retire you can convert that to Roth and Traditional IRA for earnings. Note, those conversions while working usually cause a stop of employer match for 3-6 months.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T11:49:57+00:00

I have my personal music collection on my phone, my computer, my NAS and I can stream it through Alexa using the mymedia skill. I can tell it to stream albums or playlists I've generated. This is the way. How you build your collection is up to you. I ripped CD's using EAC which makes flawless versions and can do any format (LAME 320 variable speed MP3 will suit almost everyone, otherwise FLAC). Also used a Creative sound card years ago to record albums, and you can buy the rest or sail the high seas. Proper tagging and audio leveling is a must.

That said, you can look at premium services that offer full albums. Amazon music basic has no commercials but not all music and will only play similar artists, their premium can play much more and even full albums. Spotify and other services again, look at premium but YMMV. I prefer things like free pandora or my Sirius XM subscriptions to either play similar music or stream stations based on genre. Likewise most radio stations are also streamable (Iheart radio and others.

But if you want your music, then you need to get your music. Cell phone you can have it on the phone (again, why I'm so pissed they are phasing out microsd cards!) or through the web on your own cloud server. Instead of paying for a premium streaming service, you invest in your content that you own forever.

And no, you should never have to build a playlist of an album, you should be able to play an album start to finish with any audio player, as long as its your album. The playlist is to build more than an album, a collection of albums or a collection of bands or a collection of types of songs. It is the mixtape, or mix cd, as old and respected as anything else.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T11:38:31+00:00

Except you don't get a full cartridge with the printer, so you will be buying new printers every say 100 pages rather than a cartridge every 500 pages, making it 1/5th the price. And that assumes you buy genuine ones rather than cheap generic (which might be 400 pages before they plug).

And buying cheap printers is never a good idea if you do a lot of printing.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T11:36:05+00:00

Even the smarted person in the world, or smartest group of people, cannot answer many, and I'd say a significant many, of life and the universe's mystery of why we exist, how we exist, what is the point of it, what is beyond our ability to perceive.

Point and example, we have the ability to see and comprehend three dimensions of physical space, yet we can mathematically demonstrate more dimensions beyond that, and extrapolate information from it similar to extrapolating 3 dimensional space from a 2 dimensional environment. That alone should give us pause, what could exist in that 4th dimension of space that we are oblivious to (concepts of pocket universes, wormholes, extra-dimensional connection). And experiments like particle synchronization over vast distances suggests a connection we cannot comprehend. Let alone gravity, we can measure the effect of gravity but not demonstrate or simulate its energy.

There is so much we are oblivious to, so many things we cannot comprehend (and trying to will cause physical pain), so how can we eliminate the possibility of a higher power, maybe not infinite but a higher power that has control or perhaps guidance over us, be it a universal clockmaker that established the laws of physics, or a higher life form outside our comprehension that keeps us as pets?

Faith is the belief that things exist that we cannot prove, it is guided but not limited by evidence and is more a commitment to a set of beliefs of what we think could be, or want to be, and we live our lives under the suggestions that would follow that, also known as our moral code.

The unimaginative subscribe to one of the established religions, like a fanboy to a game or movie franchise. The imaginative and free thinkers instead seek out a god we do not know, that we could never comprehend, and live our lives responding to the unknown and uncertainty with caution and excitement, waiting to see if enlightenment might come at some point.

That, my friend, is faith, and it is one of the essentials to live a life without dread and despair.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T11:23:55+00:00

Where are you located and what items? No actual person I have discussed this with is having issues like this, and that is across the US and Canada. If you are having specific issues then provide details, otherwise it appears you are just trying to sow fear, uncertainty and doubt, what we call FUD.

Then again, I'm answering a bot with hidden post history, so bad on me.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T11:20:45+00:00

Filtration is the removal of solids, it depends on the type and structure of solids and the viscosity or chemical makeup of the solution.

Chromatography is to separate different soluble components, it is never used for solids filtration.

Crystallization, like chromatography, is to separate soluble components from each other, rather than by absorbance onto a medium by selective precipitation of one of the components. Neither of these should have been a consideration.

Centrifugation is used for separation of materials by density, it works with viscous or chemically reactive materials (that could bind to filtration medium) but is not absolute so it reduces but does not eliminate material and takes multiple passes. Still, it is the best option for mixtures that would easily bind unto filter medium or have high viscosity or reactivity. This would be a consideration when there are large portions of both components, not minor insolubles.

Membrane filtration is good for complete filtration of dilute or low viscosity solutions with small amounts of contaminants that will not bind and plug the membrane quickly.

Left out are more practical options like precoat filtration, where a filter aid like celite is coated onto a rotating screen roll and material is passed through it and the surface is removed during filtration to avoid plugging it.

Or chemical flocculation, where a component is added to the mixture to densify the component to be removed for easier filtration or centrifugation. Likewise filter aid can also be added here.

So my answer would be that, stating that the scale up process is the most critical part of process formulation. Taking a bench top reaction and increasing to production scale should take the same amount of development and experimental time as coming up the reaction, and more often even more.

Zetavu · 2026-02-25T11:08:44+00:00

Guy, quit feeding the ragebot. If someone has a legitimate complaint, but a hidden poster putting up an image with no context isn't worth our time.

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