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2d ago

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Got banned from a gardening sub for saying you don't need expensive tools

My buddy Mike got banned from a woodworking forum for saying you can build a decent bookshelf with a circular saw and a straight edge. He wasn't being rude or anything, he just posted photos of a shelf he made in his driveway with like a $60 saw from a pawn shop. Pretty soon some guys with thousand dollar table saws were jumping all over him saying his joints would fail and he was gonna get someone hurt. Mike tried to explain he'd been building furniture that way for a decade and never had problems, but they just kept piling on. I guess some communities really need people to spend money to feel like they belong.

2d ago

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Chose a $500 Google Ads campaign over Facebook for my landscaping side gig. Guess which one actually got me calls.

7 leads for $350 total is not bad but you are ignoring the LONG game. Facebook builds awareness over months while Google catches people already searching, so comparing them on 2 weeks is like judging a marriage after the first date.

4d ago

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I hit 500 death threats in one week for saying I don't like pineapple on pizza

Were these people actually angry about the pizza take or do you think they were just using it as an excuse to be nasty? I've noticed people online love finding a little harmless thing to pounce on when they're really just mad about something else in their own lives. That much hate seems like it's not really about fruit on bread, you know? What kind of stuff were they even saying in the death threats?

5d ago

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Password managers used to feel like overkill until I got hit with credential stuffing

Bitwarden's great, just set up 2FA too since passwords alone won't stop everything.

7d ago

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That volunteer at the dig site who pointed out a flake I overlooked

Look closer, that's a pressure flake" - same thing happened to me with an arrowhead in a creek bed.