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Call me crazy but I still think manual grading beats those automated lines

Last week at the Williamsburg packing shed I had to pick between running our new optical sorter or sticking with the hand sort table for a big Honeycrisp order. I went with the manual crew because that machine still can't catch subtle bruising the way Frank with 15 years experience does. We finished 20 bins in 4 hours and the buyer at Kroger said our cull rate was the lowest he'd seen this season. Has anyone else found the robots just can't replace a good set of eyes?

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richard_roberts80•15d ago

Spent 6 hours trying to fix a leaky faucet that needed a $3 part

My kitchen faucet started dripping last Thursday and I figured I could swap the cartridge myself. Watched a few videos, took it apart, then spent the whole afternoon driving to three different hardware stores because none of them stocked the right size. Turned out the old cartridge was a weird brand that got bought out years ago and the replacement part was only available online. Finally found it on a plumbing supply site for $2.89 plus shipping, and it took four days to arrive. By the time I fixed it, the drip was gone in 10 minutes. Has anyone else wasted a whole Saturday on a simple fix that snowballed like that?

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seana14•15d ago

Finally cracked 100 sales on my Etsy stickers this week, and I still have no clue what I'm doing

I started selling dumb joke stickers back in March just for fun, and somehow I hit 100 orders yesterday. The wild part is my best seller is a drawing of a possum eating a slice of pizza, which I made in like 10 minutes. Meanwhile the fancy multicolor designs I spent hours on barely moved. I guess the internet just likes weird stuff. Has anyone else had a random design take off while their "real" work flops?

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young.emma•16d ago

Changed my mind about those 'buy nothing' Facebook groups after reading a post about a guy who snagged a working espresso machine

I used to think they were just for people dumping junk they were too lazy to haul away, but then I read a comment where someone scored a free washer and dryer set that saved them $600. Now I'm wondering what else I've been missing out on by ignoring them.

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jones.grace•16d ago

Spent 4 hours trying to close a tab on my browser yesterday and honestly I'm still mad about it

So I had like 47 tabs open (don't judge) and one of them just would not close. Clicked the X like 20 times. Restarted Chrome twice. Finally had to go into task manager and kill the whole process. How does a single tab beat my whole computer like that? Has anyone else had a browser tab just refuse to die for no reason?

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anderson.spencer•16d ago

That moment I realized my local park was a total ghost town compared to 5 years ago

I finally dragged myself to Riverside Park last Saturday after putting it off for months, and I swear it felt like a completely different place. Five years ago you couldn't find a bench to sit on, kids everywhere, dogs running around, even a little music from someone's bluetooth speaker. Now it's just... empty. Like maybe 4 people total, and two of them were just walking through. I asked the guy at the concession stand what happened and he said the city cut the maintenance budget by like 60% in 2022. No more trash pickup on weekends, the playground got tagged with graffiti and nobody fixed it for 3 months, and the bathrooms have been locked since last summer. It's wild how fast a place can go from community hub to sad echo when the little things stop getting done. Anyone else noticed a park or public space near them just fall apart like this?

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kevin_roberts41•16d ago

Drained 8 gallons of hot chocolate out of our coffee machine on Tuesday

The repair guy said a squirrel chewed through the power cord and the heat cycle got stuck on. Had to mop the break room floor for 2 hours. Has anyone else's commercial equipment pulled a stunt like that?

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