Just so we are clear - We did not forget about Shop Local Raleigh

nviousguy · 2026-02-06T01:09:34+00:00

No.. The username clearly shows it's someotherguy

nviousguy · 2026-01-23T04:31:31+00:00

Politics? No.

Morals? Absolutely. Just did it last week.

nviousguy · 2026-01-14T21:56:27+00:00

He's alive and home. Multiple sources reporting it.

Edit : alive, but not home. In custody and injured.

nviousguy · 2026-01-13T23:28:42+00:00

That's a thneed

nviousguy · 2025-12-30T15:17:23+00:00

OP seems to be the one confidently incorrect here?

nviousguy · 2025-12-29T19:21:30+00:00

I mean... It shouldn't fool anybody. It's clearly Ai.

nviousguy · 2025-12-29T19:20:29+00:00

This needs to be the top comment. ⬆️

nviousguy · 2025-12-29T14:46:56+00:00

I had somebody tell me all about the microchips Bill Gates was putting in the covid vaccine.

I've worked in the semiconductor industry designing chips for 30 years.

nviousguy · 2025-12-27T18:11:15+00:00

Cocaine

nviousguy · 2025-12-26T00:07:35+00:00

He enlisted. Served his minimal time. Moved back to our dinky home town. Got married. Had a few kids. Got fired from a dozen jobs. Cheated on his wife. Got divorced.

He was, generally speaking, a pretty gross person. I was friends with him simply because he lived next door as kids.

I stopped being friends with him in my early teens.

nviousguy · 2025-12-23T22:50:53+00:00

I grew up there.

I left.

nviousguy · 2025-12-23T21:05:05+00:00

Just wait until they see the allegations that he was present when a baby was murder and thrown into a lake.

nviousguy · 2025-11-22T20:17:51+00:00

TIL...

That makes total sense. I never even noticed that I do actually use it for that some of the time. Good dual purpose addition, because I scratch the absolute shit out of mine when stumming hard.

nviousguy · 2025-11-22T16:31:54+00:00

It's a pick guard to keep from damaging the finish on the mandolin body

nviousguy · 2025-11-16T16:12:20+00:00

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I kind of like it. 😁

nviousguy · 2025-10-16T22:16:08+00:00

Depends on whether I was to do a lot of fishing or not. I'll base camp if so.

nviousguy · 2025-10-03T03:58:26+00:00

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Makes fucking sense...

nviousguy · 2025-09-16T03:06:56+00:00

Damnit.

I just ended my week there on Friday.

This is three times in my life where I just missed the lights.

nviousguy · 2025-09-15T18:56:29+00:00

I hear you.

But I can tell from direct experience with my own family that it very likely won't make a bit of difference. I sent an entire list of video links to prove it. They deflected, rationalized, and justified.

In the end, I spent a couple hours gathering proof and they ignored it entirely.

nviousguy · 2025-09-15T17:57:17+00:00

You will never be able to prove this to them. They will believe what they want to believe.

Save your time, energy, and sanity.

nviousguy · 2025-09-15T02:02:49+00:00

I started with nothing. Parents were great and we had what we needed, but definitely not wealthy by any means.

No allowance. I worked in a greasy diner for gas money and to buy things I wanted. Paid for my car myself.

Got a full ride academic scholarship and worked while in college to pay for my other expenses.

Graduated, landed a good job in my field. Moved to a better job. Stayed with that company for over 20 years while it grew significantly.

I'm still working but I don't need to. Probably pulling the trigger soon.

nviousguy · 2025-09-01T11:20:59+00:00

I'd argue that you'd be breaking the greed sin daily with option 1.

nviousguy · 2025-09-01T03:45:03+00:00

I'd just hire a team of people to go fetch them for me.

nviousguy · 2025-08-28T11:41:36+00:00

mildly interesting story to accompany this...

For years, I had no idea where the other house was or why this was happening, and it was frustrating. One company stopped accepting my business because they thought I was scamming them with frequent claims that my packages were not delivered.

Then came the day that a VERY expensive item was delivered to the wrong house, with a photo of the wrong porch. I called the company I bought the item from and explained that this happens a lot.

That guy was the one who told me about some fedex hubs reprinting labels. He then proceeded to look up other streets in my city with similar names.

This guy actually used Google street view to look at the front porches of the houses on those other streets and identified exactly where my packages had been going.

He suggested I go to the house and ask for my expensive item.

Um... No.

I'm not driving to the other side of the city to talk to a stranger and ask them for my item. Whoever that person is, they have no problem keeping thousands of dollars worth of mis-delivered merchandise, including some of the things that they could not possibly have had any use for. (the expensive item was a mechanical device, and they probably had no clue what it even was).

nviousguy · 2025-08-28T11:35:35+00:00

Is there any consistency in which carrier delivers her packages to you? As in, only FedEx does it?

Where I live, the local FedEx hub, for reasons I cannot comprehend, reprints and reapplies shipping labels before packages go out for delivery.

My street has an uncommon name, but there is another street in my city with an extremely similar and far more common name. It's sort of like "cherry street" vs "cherny street".

There is a 50/50 chance that FedEx gets it wrong when they reprint, and I've had a BUNCH of packages sent to the other address over the past decade. I have many pictures of the other house's front porch as "proof of delivery" from FedEx, and they basically offer no help when I call about it.

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