Yes, you beat me to it.

@nocturne@sopuli.xyz shoot me a message on where you’re at. Depending on the country, I may be able to help and send you a hundred of these can openers linked above.

Edit: Give me the food bank’s address please.

Nah I’m not knowledgeable on it. I just read that some people were having it done at a cost of $6k-$8k for popular car models that were easy to work on.

Sure thing. I think I read that some had paid between $6-8k for conversions.

Buy an older ICE car, pay for an EV conversion.

It’s about what I paid for an 8kw system in the northeast. Shave off $500-$1k and you’ll be even with me. I got quotes from a dozen companies if that helps. After sifting through new, old companies and “too good to be true” pricing, that’s where I landed.

I use a related phrase in Photoshop. If you have something selected, the movement around the thing is “running ants”.

*in the US, if they are w2. If contractor, they must provide the tools themselves.

Subie Outback gang is here to embrace you

It’s easy and it started with that.

Edit: The services I’m talking about have fees. Barrier to entry prevents knowledge and usage. There are hundreds of services that provide this, all to different degrees of quality. But you could just Google “UTM Generator” and, assuming you set up a free GA4 account and set it up on your site, congrats, you’re now using cookies to track purchases based on link clicks to your website. Very easy and literally free.

Google is not the ads industry. Google is a small part of it. I know ad sellers that partner with Google and 60 other data brokers to know when you’re taking a shit.

Cookies don’t even matter for advertising anymore. They don’t need them. You leave breadcrumbs everywhere. Literally where you are, your wifi connection, browser used, browser build, device used, screen size, Google account logged into a browser, just to name a few. They string all this stuff together over days, weeks, years… you’ll slip up at some point no matter how diligent you are with something big, like that Google account login, a share from social media… there’s so much more lol

Some advertisers know their market and pinpoint, others just drag net to see what sticks. You’re getting the equivalent of cold calling for ads. If you show interest in something even once, you’re a target.

Edit: All advertisers are not geniuses. If they’re serving you the same ad for a thing that is not consumable, then one of two things happened. First, their tracking pixel at checkout was not able to associate you with your purchase. Maybe they set it up correctly or there was an error. Maybe you saw the ad on your phone and bought on your computer without enough common data points to connect them both to you. Second, the advertiser may not have set their campaign to stop serving after you converted, which is a total waste of their money. Laugh at them.

I dabble in marketing for my company. Let me just say advertisers don’t need a damn cookie to know who you are to serve you ads. Even across multiple devices. There are so many methods… literally over a dozen when cross referenced tells companies exactly who you are, even on vpn, even incognito.

It really, really depends where you live.

They wanted $30k for like 6k envelopes a year for my company. With Conga Sign, it was less than $5k for UNLIMITED. They didn’t adjust pricing with competition. They need to shrink or go extinct.

Get out of my head

Always compare active ingredients for OTC stuff too

Flour - disagree. King Arthur for baking vs your basic supermarket crap is a tangible taste and texture difference in baking. While you’re at it, get a mill and buy organic wheat berries and save money for higher quality l, more nutritious flour. It’s literally cheaper to get better quality if you are willing to mill it.

Butter- Same for butter if you’re using butter as a spread. It’s ok to use cheap stuff in cooking but if it’s the main complementary flavor, like butter on toast, treat yo self to some Kerry Gold.

Pocket to aggregate everything

Don’t forget that making a spliff out of your train ticket, ink and all, is a thing lol

Edit: There are also pockets where the police won’t go because they recognize they’re full of crime and drugs, but as long as it stays within those couple of streets, they’re happy to let things stay as they are so it doesn’t spill out.

Oh and over a quarter of the population consists of immigrants.

And there’s free water everywhere… hiking, in towns… just bring a water bottle and find a fountain that’s always running. The water is ice cold year round too.

It’s also the home of H.R. Geiger (Alien design fame) in Gruyère. You can go to the town of Gruyère, which is gorgeous, and see the museum, go to the Alien-inspired café, see how they make the Gruyère cheese that you probably know, and even visit the Cailler chocolate factory, which has a Willy Wonka-type tour with infinite chocolate tasting at the end… mmmmmmm…