I am not an auto repair technician, but my father and grandfather were very handy when it came to cars\engines\machines.
My father-in-law had this one shop he absolutely loved and would always take his family cars to, and I could never understand why because the shop would fix the initial problem, but then a day or two or up to a week after getting his cars back, something else would go wrong and it would need taken back, each item with hefty repair bills. He never would take them directly to the dealer or somewhere else to get a second opinion.
I also have taken my car to a different shop when I was younger and never had an issue with them after repair. Now that I'm older I only go to my local dealer that works with my brand of car.
That said, there are a lot of factors when it comes to car repair. Since they don't specialize on a specific brand of cars like a dealership, their mechanics need to wear a lot of "hats" and they could unintentionally bump something, or they may not button everything up correctly after dismantling for the initial repair which could cause something else to break.
I would say though in my first example of my FIL that yes, that shop was intentionally breaking things to keep business drummed up, but not all small shops will do this. All in all, try a shop out and if you're unhappy with the result, take it somewhere else for a second opinion.
I imagine it's cheaper to not include pockets. There are lots of additional pieces to cut and extra steps to sew. Sometimes they're made of different thinner material that's often white so additional fabric and thread to purchase. Because it's a different thread color, another person would have to sew that part. More personnel equates to higher cost.
I would imagine its all about the profits since that is what investors will look at. They won't care about the drama if it isn't effecting the bottom line enough. I imagine they have already taken into consideration that the profit from ad revenue and the data they can sell with everyone having to use the default app would far outweigh the losses that the drama would create. This is just my guess though.
Tl;Dr: the stock will still likely hold for a couple weeks as investors and the market adjusts to the stupidity spez is. Once this happens spez will be removed/step down as he is gonna make moreoney than he can jerk off to.
Stocks and the market is wierd, but let's take the DoorDash IPO as an example. Before they went public, they get an estimate of the opening price. It was sitting at a little over $250 per share pre-ipo. Post-ipo, the stock plummets and continued to fall until it's where it's at today($70).
It did IPO at 160ish(still $100 less than expected. Then it jumped up to like $230 eventually all for it to drop again.
Why is this important? They were not and are still not profitable as a business. They have a TON of cash flow, but no profitablity. Uber has the same issue.
Reddit, although not profitable, may stillake a splash early IPO, but once the market realizes they have lost a significant user base and ad revenue to boot, it will inevitably fall.
Bad part is the little fucker spez is gonna make out like a bandit and then pass the CEO title to some poor fool that thinks they can fix it. So far the only time that has worked is like Chewy and GameStop.
Buying IPOs are generally pretty risky. It is not uncommon for the IPO price to be unrealistically high then a year later for the price to be much lower. It will be interesting to see what happens with Reddit. Not sure why the big deal of "getting in" on an IPO. How often does buying at IPO actually work out?
Absolutely risky, but most of the initial holdings are from employees. And they all usually sell a large share of their assets when they are cleared and able to do so. That also helps tank the IPO price.
Generally IPOs are risky. Always good to wait like at least a month or 2. Usually a year to let level.
Right now, you probably have a negative reputation, and my understanding is that the system is kind of borked. IIRC, downvoting decreases reputation, upvoting does nothing, and boosting (akin to a Twitter retweet) increases reputation. From other comments, I believe that this is likely to change before too long.
If, like me, you saw a negative reputation after you got on and started to worry that you were doing something wrong, I wouldn't worry.
Well, -8 now ;P It's very weird; nocritter even seems to know what the "boost" thing is supposed to be. Dealing with this is probably on a todo list somewhere, buried under a thousand incessant demands to do with every possible thing and a few things that aren't :-\
When I was in high school, I would say, “If this is the best time of my life, I’m in real trouble later on.”
Despite responsibilities and back pain, I am enjoying my 50s more than my teen years. I was a lot more carefree back then, but I that’s just because I didn’t know what I didn’t know.
If your life is slowly getting worse over time and it's not caused by illness or any sort of loss and tragedy then you're doing life wrong.
As I'm in my 30s I think one of the things I really miss from that time in my life is that my parents were still relatively young 40s-early 50sis such a different age range to be in compared to late 50s-60s. It's sad to see my once more active parents slow down.
Dissolved oxygen is not the same as the oxygen in water molecule. Think of the fizz in soda. That comes from the dissolved carbon dioxide. You can have soda that is flat and that is very sharp. The same way you can have water with less dissolved oxygen or more.
In more technical terms, think of dissolved oxygen/carbon dioxide as gas molecules held in cage of water molecules. The more cages you make, the more you can dissolve these gases until you reach the maximum amount possible at a given temperature/pressure.
Funny thing is, it's the more technical explanation you gave that helped me understand it better. Like, it clicked with me when I visualized molecular cages wrapping around other molecules. :D
I am happy that my undergrad degree in chemistry is helpful somehow :) I have found that often stem people underestimate how much others can understand.
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