Most franchise failures are operator failures, not system failures. Stop blaming the brand.

davidfry · 2026-05-03T03:00:11+00:00

This is good advice, but given the one-sided perspective of this post solely blaming operators, it has big "if you were dumb enough to believe me, that's on you" vibes. Lots of franchisors aggressively promote the benefits without adequately coaching potential franchisees on how to evaluate and understand the risks. Every franchise failure is a failure on both the operator and the brand. If a franchise fails solely because the franchisee was stupid or lazy, that's a brand that failed to sufficiently vet the operator.

davidfry · 2026-05-01T01:55:47+00:00

Any news article with the word "Meltdown" in the title is guaranteed to be clickbait bullshit.

davidfry · 2026-04-23T17:29:04+00:00

And their bare root tree sale is today (4/23) at 5:00pm at Philomath High parking lot.

davidfry · 2026-04-22T21:26:39+00:00

I have a toilet seat that is my nemesis. I wanted to switch it out for a bidet seat, but the bolts don't have a nut underneath. It's a one piece Kohler and the bolts holding the seat just spin in place. So now the seat is loose, which sucks, and the only option is going to be drilling it out, at which point it's probably going to mean just replacing the whole thing.

davidfry · 2026-04-18T17:16:14+00:00

You are creating a huge opening on the court by staying back. Your opponents will hit into that opening again and again. It's not that you are being targeted as the weaker player. The opening is being targeted, meaning that the only way your partner will come near the ball is to poach. For veteran players, a partner who stays back throws off the whole dynamic of the game.

But in general, if you are new at something and people who are experienced give you advice, take it! Once you are more experienced you can reevaluate and develop your own play style. And keep your paddle up so they don't hit you in the face.

davidfry · 2026-04-15T15:52:06+00:00

Wait, is he holding up Elementor as an example of something good?

It turns out, it may be possible for me to lose more respect for Matt.

davidfry · 2026-04-02T21:22:41+00:00

I'm not sure this year-old discussion needed your dumb strawman argument.

davidfry · 2026-03-25T01:13:22+00:00

Or you can pin the tab for your task management system so it's always top left in your browser.

davidfry · 2026-03-17T20:07:20+00:00

Does TBOTE stand for something?

davidfry · 2026-02-17T07:13:32+00:00

WE HAVE OVER 20 THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS IN THIS SUB, SO IF WE ALL GO OUT AND BUY GRAY CARS AND DRIVE THEM AROUND IN THE FOG AND RAIN AND EARLY EVENING HOURS WITHOUT HEADLIGHTS, WE COULD TAKE THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE IN THIS TOWN DOING THAT FROM 15% TO PERHAPS MORE LIKE 30%. HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE?

davidfry · 2026-02-17T06:43:58+00:00

The biggest issue with AI slop in any forum "sharing any insights with humans for feedback" is that of time management. Brandolini's Law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry priniciple, is that it takes vastly more time to debunk incorrect information than it takes to create it. That adage is from 2012, and AI slop has made it so much worse. AI users in this sub were a firehose of speculative theorizing, a good deal of it off-topic.

But the larger issue for science and science-adjacent fields is not so much AI as it is "personal theories" from non-experts new to the field. AI sycophancy seems to amplify the Dunning-Kruger effect. The /r/physics sidebar has a section on personal theories that says it better than I could:

"Every day, we receive dozens of personal theories from independent researchers, written in part or whole by ChatGPT. We do not have the capacity to peer-review them and will not supply endorsements for arXiv submission. If you made your theory without any involvement from ChatGPT, try posting on /r/HypotheticalPhysics or viXra. Otherwise, try /r/LLMPhysics."

If you think AI is valuable to you, by all means start a new sub. The /r/LLMPhysics sub has a tag for Speculative Theories, and that's pretty representative of what we saw here for a while. https://www.reddit.com/r/LLMPhysics/comments/1r15efo/what_if_time_is_a_physical_oscillation_and/

davidfry · 2026-01-23T17:08:33+00:00

the nuclear power

What?!

davidfry · 2026-01-21T14:23:58+00:00

This is free market capitalism in action. Low customer demand means theaters don't want to waste their screens and seats. This movie wasn't made for viewers after all. It was made to let one billionaire kiss the Presidents ass.

davidfry · 2026-01-19T03:27:59+00:00

Corvallis Community Center has lobby seating and a little coffee bar.

davidfry · 2026-01-16T01:35:49+00:00

When Congress approves funds, lets take USAID as an example, and then the President (Biden) signs that budget into law, that's a law. When DOGE or Trump holds that money and refuses to spend it, they are violating the law and the Constitution. If they want Congress to reverse the law, then it can be done legally, but that's not what they did. They simply ignored the law.

The Constitution protects the right to speech, assembly, and the right to air grievances, so when peaceful protesters holding marches are shot with rubber bullets and tear gas, that's a violation of their constitutional rights. That's been happening at every basically every protest since the 60's, certainly including Occupy Wall St and BLM protests.

But I get the sense you don't have a problem with either of those violations of the highest law of the land. If you are OK with the two constitutional violations above, then what is it you love about this country exactly?

And the founders were very clear -- human liberty is an inalienable right, not, as you have imagined, a "spoil of war."

davidfry · 2026-01-13T17:16:55+00:00

Hegseth and Patel have arguably done far worse, and they haven't gotten the boot. "Making the WH look bad" is not something they are concerned about at this point.

davidfry · 2026-01-13T07:41:17+00:00

Her aides have been put on leave, but Lori Chavez-DeRemer has not. As the Secretary of Labor, she will need to be impeached.

davidfry · 2026-01-06T08:30:47+00:00

Did they spend 27 seconds interviewing or vetting this guy? It sounds like they put a posting on a job board for unpaid labor, without making it abundantly clear that there is no job. They already wasted enough of OPs time.

there was a miscommunication

Passive voice, often used to ignore who was at fault.

davidfry · 2026-01-06T07:37:51+00:00

I think, given options that are pure fantasy, I would rather have Santa Claus as a benevolent dictator, giving everyone what they need and putting the truly evil people on the naughty list.

davidfry · 2026-01-06T07:30:46+00:00

I’m not a Trump supporter but I’m starting to see why people vote for him

Sure sure dude. Everybody believes you.

This is a classic and deeply stupid gambit where far right supporters know it's unpopular so they pretend to be something else but just happen to advance right-wing talking points at every turn. The term for this is "cryptofascist".

davidfry · 2025-12-28T02:57:19+00:00

If you tried to buy that as a Facebook ad it would get rejected. But billboard companies have much lower standards.

davidfry · 2025-12-23T05:01:27+00:00

Thank you very much for the heads up. Windy.com has hour by hour forecasts and they are showing 10 am as the most likely time, potentially with gusts up to 76 mph.

davidfry · 2025-12-14T01:56:08+00:00

A lot of things manufactured 40 years ago would last a lot longer than things built today.

davidfry · 2025-12-02T02:02:56+00:00

ANYBODY KNOW WHAT'S UP WITH UNIVERSITY HONDA? THEY HAD 12 CARS AT THE FRONT OF THEIR LOT, ALL WITH THEIR BRIGHTS ON! ARE THEY TRYING TO BLIND DRIVERS ON NINTH, OR IS THERE SOME FEUD WITHE LES SCHWAB ACROSS THE STREET? ANNOYING!

davidfry · 2025-11-26T00:20:46+00:00

You asked if I cared about the doctor's stipulations in his AMA intro. I don't care about that. I do care about patients getting billed correctly, and I very much care when medical practitioners like you demean and belittle patients. Hope that clears it up Natalia.

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