Things you can't believe exist in modern America
1. 3% cuts for real estate agents
In before "this thread".
Age of consent well below the age of adulthood.
Do you really think teenagers would stop having sex if the age of consent was raised?
My hot take: manufactured goods that aren't sold for a fixed price. We don't haggle over washing machines, why over cars?
Isn't that pretty universal in the Western World?
The age related thing that people in the rest of the civilized world don't understand is that kids in the US can be sent to war in a foreign country before being allowed to drink a beer at home.
I don't totally get this either. However, some cultures will haggle over the price of a new washing machine, making me wonder what shopping in that culture is like.
It's not traditional haggling but if you ask enough Best Buy employees (in store or through online chat) you'll find one who is willing to do crazy price matches.
We have a currency that is backed by nothing, and have printed 40% of the circulating amount the the last 6 years.
The interest alone on US debt is now greater that the entire yearly military spending budget.
but Space Force!
The rent being too damn high!
2. Mail
Today I had to send a Fax. To the 80s, apparently.
2. Norms surrounding feces removal as it relates to dog ownership.
I've had a few people ask me to do that recently. I just tell them I don't know what that is and ask them to give me an alternative. They almost always do.
The one jackass who wouldn't budge got a fax of some govt document that I sent via UPS Store. The document was printed on something designed to obliterate the text if faxed. The receiver apparently accepted it as I never heard back from them. Maybe they had a Captain Midnight Decoder Ring.
I play by the original rules of golf. Play it as it lays. My dogs are pretty good at hitting our property--or a small sliver of grace land that adjoins it. Elvis may have left the building but he leaves an autograph until the next rain or mowing.
My hot take: manufactured goods that aren't sold for a fixed price. We don't haggle over washing machines, why over cars?
In the old days (50's and 60's) haggling over any bigger ticket was the norm. It lasted in some places into the 80's. For a short while in my youth I worked at a large appliance chain and everything was negotiable. Anybody that paid the listed price was pretty much a sucker. The salesmen were real salesmen and not some minimum wage clerk and they could make real money. Once things got totally corporate all of that went away.
Do you really think teenagers would stop having sex if the age of consent was raised?
My hot take: manufactured goods that aren't sold for a fixed price. We don't haggle over washing machines, why over cars?
Actually you can haggle over the price of washing machines in places like home Depot and a lot of places will price match which is just a form of haggling.
The real answer to the crux of what you're asking is the more expensive something is the more it's worth the time to haggle.
olive garden
Fully functional robot taxis taking over big cities like Phoenix. That's just revolutionary, and yet people don't even notice enough to yawn about it.
That I can still legally buy a FULLY Automatic Assault Rifle or own a Functioning Cannon if I have the right paper work.
