Wall Street is the richest church in the world.

“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

Suppose he willed his car to his living son, his house to his son, and the remainder of his estate to Bob.

He dies. Son is alive. In this case, son gets house and car. Bob gets everything else.

Suppose son dies first. In this case, the house transfers to the son’s estate, where it is then transferred to son’s heirs. The house was bequeathed to the “son”.

But the car does not transfer to the son’s estate. The car was bequeathed to the “living son”. The car transfers to Bob with the rest of Dad’s estate, not to the son’s heirs.

#GuillotineParty

Roko’s Basilisk.

where users should be sensitive to persecution and the importance of safe, moderated discussion spaces.

Is that why you came to Lemmy? For “safe, moderated discussion”?

I feel like the overwhelming majority of “refugees” were escaping heavy-handed moderation.

Yeah, the health and safety standards are for a commercial kitchen, and are wildly conservative. I’d follow those standards if I was serving food for someone else. But, I’d also take the “expired” leftovers home and eat for a few more days.

They cut a big hole in the wall of the transgender bathroom.

They pissed off everybody.

The first time I had In-N-Out was the first thing I ate after Basic Training, so I remember it being the best thing I’d had in months.

You have to do it right, but yes.

There is a school in the US that converted stalls into actual rooms, which was good. But the way the law was written, the area outside the stalls was considered a prohibited, unisex "changing area’ because it was private rather than public. The solution was to make it a public handwashing area. But the way they did it was by cutting a window into the former “changing area” to make it public rather than private.

So it got reported by Republicans as a Democratic attempt to spy on kids in the bathroom. And since it was one of the bathrooms intended to accommodate trans students, it got reported as Republicans trying to spy on trans kids.

Basically, they did everything right, but pissed off everybody in the process.

“You know I’d like to keep my cheating strategy”

Actual lyrics: “You know I’d like to keep my cheeks dry today”

Blind Melon, “No Rain”

Is this my 1st purchase or 50th?

Oh, if you’re trying to return it arbitrarily, it is definitely your first purchase. I’ve got years of data supporting that. Repeat customers just don’t make arbitrary returns. If a repeat customer makes a return, it is because I screwed up, and I don’t charge a restock fee on my mistakes. Quite the contrary, I usually offer a replacement without a return, and toss in some goodies as well.

Being anti-consumer

I’m not being anti-consumer. “You” are not a consumer. You’re returning the product arbitrarily, not “consuming” it.

What you actually are is a “borrower”. Which would be fine if I was a library, but I’m a small business with tight margins.

Catering to borrowers takes time away from serving my customers. I don’t feel a pressing need to convert a borrower to a customer.

If they lose customers because of the fee, then aren’t they in essence paying the price anyway?

If I buy something from you, and then return it for no reason whatsoever, am I actually a customer? Or am I just some asshole you never want to hear from again?

Four of the five examples you provided are warranty claims: The product is defective, or otherwise not-as-described.

The fifth one is the only one where I would probably insist on a return fee. My wrench would clearly have its dimensions listed, and you’d have all the information you needed to learn whether it would work for your particular application long before you hit the “buy” button. When it doesn’t fit, I will be able to show you that you could and should have known that before purchasing. (I’d probably waive the restock fee if you were sufficiently self-deprecating and apologetic about wasting my time.)

If I look and realize I didn’t include that information, that would be a warranty claim.

DST is in use 3/4 of the year. It is “normal” time, where everyone recognizes that 4am is entirely too fucking early for a sunrise, so we push that back to 5AM.

“Standard” time is the abnormal abomination that we currently switch to for about 3 months in winter.

Seasonal depression in kids and teens is primarily due to the lack of outdoor activities in winter, which is caused by an abnormally early sunset driving them indoors immediately after school.

Locking the clocks on normal, “summer” time solves the problems with the time change. The “kids walking to school in the dark” problem is mitigated by the fact that they already spend the darkest three weeks of the year on winter vacation; we can extend that one more week by stealing three days from each end of the summer vacation. The remaining two or three weeks of early morning darkness do not justify stealing months of evening daylight from the rest of us.