It’s low as a percentage of total packages, but some areas are worse than others. For instance, in San Francisco it’s necessary to leave the trunk of your car open overnight so professional thieves don’t break your window to check it.

Most of what they deliver isn’t worth stealing. If they continue trying to take over the high end courier business, though, I doubt they’ll last long.

There are a small subset there that are pathologically obsessed with the freshness of the fish they eat. Getting parasites from barely prepped sushi is not uncommon.

Because they’re using an inherently insecure delivery service for expensive electronics. Extremely clear case of negligence.

If you don’t have a Micro Center nearby there’s really not a good choice. Just do Newegg or Amazon and hope for the best.

The cops definitely won’t do anything, but the paperwork can be useful if Best Buy decides to be worse than usual about it.

Tipping used to be discouraged in the US since it promoted class divisions. Then the civil war happened and there weren’t any slaves anymore and all of a sudden tipping is the greatest thing ever.

You used to be able to require a signature which would force a direct hand-off, but people got annoyed with it. Then drivers started skipping those deliveries to get through their shift faster. So now only expensive courier services and the postal service still really do it.

Standing next to a windowless van in nondescript clothes and a mask.

Those are both covered under ‘bad at business’.

That’s not happening in their lifetime. Unless all they want is something to talk to as they go senile and starve themselves.

You paid the plumbing company $300/hour. The plumber would be lucky to make $30 of that.

They’re not going to make any money selling to other rich people. They didn’t get rich buying someone else’s trash.

Learn code anyway. LLMs can’t code worth a shit, so there will be plenty of jobs available to clean up their mess.

Most of the rough living worlds and ships on the show are something like the future equivalent of Amish or adventurers. Choosing to live without the normal amenities as a lifestyle choice.

If you live on earth or another core federation world, you’ll likely have the same or similar access to services and entertainment that the crew does.

You could try joining up with the Klingons.

They said fictional universe.

I think the problem here is you somehow think you’re arguing a different point. You’ve missed the context of these posts so badly that you’re attacking only people on the side you claim to be on.

It’s rampant everywhere. You should know that better than anyone.

Buddy, if you haven’t figured that out by now, you’re just willfully ignorant. You’re out here punching at ghosts while the guy you pretend to hate is laughing.