I mail products every day through USPS just like a million other businesses. We resend about 1/25 packages every single day due to it being indefinitely delayed beyond some reasonable time line. We just eat the loss and move on, USPS is absolute disaster right now. I didn't even think about voting mail in ballots. That is going to be a major problem if the vote is close.
Readit NewsI’ve been a middle school and high school robotics coach for a number of years. I think VEX robotics makes the best products to teach kids of any age robotics.
You buy a relatively affordable kit of parts, but then you are free to assemble and program the bit in whatever way imaginable.
VEX annually comes out with new games and challenges for your robot to be able to complete. There are teams and clubs across the US, and it’s an all around great program.
I’m looking forward to my kids being old enough to build and compete, It’s a blast for kids and adults!
My son has been competing since 6th grade. They got 2nd place at states and loved it, so intense watching them play.
Get the school to start a Vex Robotics competition team. My son has been in it for 3 years in middle school and he is absolutely hooked.
97s commented on Apple loses top phonemaker spot to Samsung reuters.com/technology/ap... · Posted by u/ilikecinnamon
I had a top tier Samsung phone the s22ultra. Within a little over a year the service basically stopped working. Samsung had tons of reports of other s22ultra with the same problem. Samsung basically said no refund no exchange. You can trade it in for 400 towards a new Samsung. This was a 1000+ dollar phone that barely made it past warranty.
I will never ever use a Samsung again. It was my fault for not checking the warranty. I should have known better when a 1000+ flagship phone only has a one year warranty it can't be very good, right?
I now just buy cheap phones cause that experience ruined me. Their support was so bad and they didn't care at all about the forums of people with the exact same issues. I don't know how this company is top seller. This surprises me so much.
97s commented on Does America suddenly have a record number of bees? washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/softwaredoug
our backyard in California is full of native plants, lavender, fennel, and tons of other pollinator friendly plants.
There are quite literally hundreds of bees basically working in our backyard every single day, 365 days a year. And it takes almost no effort other than some basic gardening. It's outrageously simple to support bees. It's comically absurd how difficult the world wants to make it seem.
Exactly this. Thank you. I have a bee friendly yard in suburban neighborhood with HOA. I keep the front streetside nice and neat for the HOA, but the side yard and back yard is full of clover, a plot of wildflowers, blueberries, blackberries, apples, and a lot of flowers for birds and butterflies. The total amount of effort and cost for all this? Maybe a few hundred dollars over a few years and very minimal work. Turns out that the stuff bees like are basically weeds and will establish and come back with basically no effort at all. The hardest part is stopping the stupid bermuda grass from overtaking it.
I cannot wait for my wildflower plot to shoot up. This year I turned over about 10m x 10m of bermuda grass and sewed a southeastern wildflower mix. I left the center of it grass and a path into it. I plan to go lay down and meditate in the wildflower patch while the bees zoom over head.
My son and I both cried. Imagine going to a Godzilla movie and then crying. I am huge Godzilla fan and it was the best one I have ever seen.
97s commented on Quitting the full-time poker scene team-bhp.com/forum/shifti... · Posted by u/ankit70
Author here. Yes, the grind is something like that. I used to watch couple hours of theory videos and maybe have a hand review session before 4pm. The grind starts around 6PM and I play on-off till 5-6am. Rinse repeat for all 7 days of the week.
Every couple months I used to travel for some juicy tournament series to try my hand at live games.
It is frustrating isn't it to watch people back when we played idolize it as some glorious career, when it reality it is probably one of the most stressful, depressing and negative jobs mentally a person can have. The variance and amount of hands required to overcome it with skill can be a living nightmare to work through. I can't imagine playing when you played. It was pretty easy back when I did it, but still taking peoples money by isolating bad players with addictions wore me out after a while. I am happy to have played and the skills and determination I learned there helped me throughout the rest of my life. I run my own business from home now and I am much happier. I am glad you found some peace as well.
97s commented on Quitting the full-time poker scene team-bhp.com/forum/shifti... · Posted by u/ankit70
I played back during the glory days of 2000-2004 and through the net-teller shutdown for America. Back then the money was absolutely absurd, because the game was very new online and very few people understood basics. This combined with the massive amount of marketing that was going on for television, tons of people were addicted to the thrill of the game.
Every single year the game became more difficult as more people studied and I continued to move up into higher and higher stakes. At one point I looked at how much money I had made/compared to how much I hated what I was doing and decided that I was done. People around me never understood why I quit because they knew me and the amount of income I had made, but the thing is no one can understand what it is to live on a grinders schedule like that.
I would get up at 10-11AM study the hands from the previous day to make sure I was playing correctly mentally, read over new material, review a partners hands as we both did each others to confirm playstyle and decisions were correct, around 3PM I would start scouting tables across various levels looking for soft players that I had datamined information about. Around 4-5PM I would start playing and continue to add tables with soft players and immediately leave any tables that didn't contain any soft players or they had busted. This table hopping and monitoring is absolutely exhausting, but critical to being as profitable as possible.
Repeat this until about 11PM. Then go to sleep until 4AM, get up and play against the players on the other side of the world as they were starting to play loose. Play against them until about 7AM, then go to sleep and get up around 11. Repeat. Do this for 4 years and almost anyone will decide enough is enough even with the amount of income I was making back then. The only rest I took was on weekends, just to remove myself mentally from the exhaustion.
Of course poker is much tougher now then it was then. I wouldn't even dream of trying to play now. I was maybe upper 85-90% player, now I would be in the lower 50%.
97s commented on I've overlayed stays on a light pollution satellite map darkhotels.co... · Posted by u/louison11
I am confused how do I see the places I can stay?
I've found USPS to be like the VA. They're excellent for us (W.Cent.FL). Other regions have horror stories.
Most of my USPS stories are very positive. The 1 or 2 protracted issues were resolved well - even if the gears ground somewhat slowly.
One of my clients is a web retailer. I grabbed a quick look at their shipment notifications back to June and didn't spot any USPS delivery issues. It's all small parcels so maybe that's a factor.