What’s the purpose of the megathread? I’m so confused what’s going on with this community…

I write a blog on Medium.

You need to have a ton of content to make any amount of money. After writing 200 articles, I started making a consistent $100/month. Not quitting my day job any time soon, but I have a lot of downtime at work, so it’s a productive way to pass the time.

Oh, and the $100/month is pretty consistent. I took a month off from writing, and they still sent me money for the read time on my old articles. The pay is low… but my boss wouldn’t send me a small stipend if I decided not to show up for a month. So, I really can’t complain.

Bosses hate this one. The things they’ll do for a full office…

When you order something with 2-day delivery, it not only needs to be in stock… but it needs to be in a warehouse in your city. This requirement means there needs to be a surplus.

They don’t know where the orders will come in, so they make enough to send them to every warehouse in the country. But if all of them got sold, the supply would drive the price down. So, they wait until a certain number gets sold (say… a few hundred) and then destroy the rest.

It’s sickening that this is even a thing. But that’s the world we live in.

Never tried it… but I should!!

Ooh, sounds amazing!

Peanut butter and cheese.

Peanut butter and pickles.

Peanut butter and raw onion slices.

Peanut butter and tuna fish.

I’ve tried peanut butter combined with the strangest pairings I can imagine. They’ve all been excellent.

Awesome, thanks!

I like liftoff too, but the notifications screen won’t show me which post people are replying to, so ot gets confusing.

Is there a way to fix this?

I wish my energy company had that sort of an app! I usually have to calculate everything manually using the rates included on the back of each bill I get.

Excellent point. Thanks.

Thanks, this is the answer I was looking for. I’m trying to save money because we don’t have a lot. My wife is on board with saving, but she hasn’t done the math to see where most of our money is going.

I might need to back off a bit. I like to save, but this might be a bit much.

But if you pirated a book to read it, then applied those ideas to make a product, you still committed a crime.

The problem stems from the fact that brands want their products to be made readily accessible to anyone who wants to order with next-day delivery, which means there needs to be a surplus to satisfy customers’ cravings for instant gratification… but a surplus would drive prices down, which is why they mass-produce products, then immediately trash whatever is not sold.

It sickens me to know this is even a thing. But what can be done to prevent it?

This should get you started:

import requests

# Fetch post from Reddit API
def fetch_reddit_post():
    reddit_url = "https://www.reddit.com/r/{subreddit}/comments/{post_id}.json"
    subreddit = "python"  # Replace with the desired subreddit
    post_id = "abcdef"  # Replace with the desired post ID

    url = reddit_url.format(subreddit=subreddit, post_id=post_id)
    headers = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3"}

    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
    if response.status_code == 200:
        post_data = response.json()
        return post_data
    else:
        print("Failed to fetch post from Reddit API")
        return None

# Post to Lemmy API
def post_to_lemmy(post_data):
    lemmy_url = "https://lemmy.ml/api/{version}/post"
    version = "v3"  # Replace with the desired Lemmy API version

    url = lemmy_url.format(version=version)
    headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}

    # Extract necessary information from the Reddit post
    title = post_data[0]["data"]["children"][0]["data"]["title"]
    content = post_data[0]["data"]["children"][0]["data"]["selftext"]

    # Create payload for Lemmy API
    payload = {
        "title": title,
        "body": content,
        "community_id": "abcdef",  # Replace with the desired Lemmy community ID
        "auth": "your_auth_token"  # Replace with your Lemmy API authentication token
    }

    response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
    if response.status_code == 200:
        print("Post successfully created on Lemmy")
    else:
        print("Failed to post to Lemmy API")

# Fetch post from Reddit API
post_data = fetch_reddit_post()

if post_data:
    # Post to Lemmy API
    post_to_lemmy(post_data)

That’s incredible. I would love to live in this sort of a city!

Fascinating article – thanks for sharing!

According to Gino “we are trying to make a good impression on others, and show them we are knowledgeable and competent individuals.” Taking advice somehow feels like admitting that we don’t really deserve our high status.

Oh, the irony… since ignoring obvious advice only makes us look even more stupid.

O_o

It really wasn’t hard. I took them to an animal shelter, and we talked about how there aren’t enough families willing to give homes to these cute puppies. If only there was a family who was willing to help for every dog here…

My kids didn’t want a dog until I planted the idea. Now, I roll my eyes along with my wife every time the kids ask for a dog.