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I'd be very tempted to install Firefox in my local appdata folders (which doesn't require admin rights to install), then install a theme to make FF look like Edge with something like this..

Still use real Edge browser for work stuff, but FF for less-than-work stuff.

Your shop rate is what you charge the customer wanting the seat done right? So in our example here (allowing for speculation because we don't have specifics), the customer would be charged $100, and the internal labor costs would be $50 (because we were told there were 2 seats). So a 50% profit margin. However, that doesn't take into account any of the fixed costs of running the business or maintaining the machines. I also assume that this work has some amount of seasonality to it so having consistent work may be difficult, meaning larger fixed costs to cover time between paying jobs.

Does that sound right?

The Oral B knockoffs can be had for about $1 each or less. They have models that use the same heads for almost 20 years.

Her bid for the 2 seats were 25$ each. He only chose mine because she’s been out sick all week & he needs them done by Friday.

Dumb question because I don't know your industry. What would a customer pay to have these 2 seats done that he is paying her $25 to do?

I can't remember the last time I've bought a toothbrush. Every time I go to the dentist for a cleaning I'm given a toothbrush for free. I've since switched to electric, but still have a whole bunch of toothbrushes from dentists past. I'm slowly going through them using them when I travel.

Ireland is missing from this picture. Americans love going to Ireland.

I feel you, but this work pays relatively well. If the work wasn't a bit soul destroying it would pay quite a bit less.

I hope the discourse climate will move in the right direction soon.

I hope so too, but with the number of bad faith arguments I see on a regular basis, I don't hold much hope.

My guess is there are only so many conversations you can have over whether a Silvertip Badger is superior to a Boar brush.

What is this obsession with the term “tankies” on Lemmy nowadays? Fled here from Reddit because it had turned into a quagmire of American politics, rage and misery. The others fleeing seem to have brought it with them.

First, welcome to your second month on Lemmy!

Second, a cool part about Lemmy/fediverse isn't that it is only one place with one core ideology. You and I are both on Lemmy.world which is a mildly left leaning general topics and population instance. However, federation means users from other instances post in lemmy.world communities ( = subreddits) like the one we're in right now commenting on Bluesky posts. Many of those other lemmy instances were created specifically to cultivate a particular ideology or mindsets. Just because a user is from a different instance with a known ideological slant doesn't mean that user subscribes to all the ideas, but its usually a good starting indication. When users from some of these more "passionate" instances post to communities outside of their instance, they frequently bring their ideology with them and turn or twist the conversations unrelated to their ideology to their ideology.

So back to your question on "tankies", there is an instance or two that are highly correlated with socialist ideas and are frequently accused of painting authoritarianism with socialism. This isn't an American thing either, most are unrelated to any US Politics.

Since many instances were specifcally created around political ideology (again, not American), I don't think you'll fully escape political ideas here on Lemmy. However, if that is a concern for you, instances can block posts from instances known to only be focused on those political ideologies. After that you won't see posts from those communities or users.

Driving another 40 to 60 minutes to get to the next closest grocery store in rural America may actually change their minds. Remember, GOP voters are frequently very quick to change their tune when they are personally negatively affected by policy.

trump is a child at this game. Walmart has such tight control over its vendors it could require all of them to create new SKUs and slightly change the packaging (perhaps even the quatities/serving size or item packages) which would then be whole new products with the built in higher prices. Walmart could then claim they've raise prices on zero new products and its simply the items available are more expensive to buy from their vendors.

Further Walmart would close stores before it takes a consistent loss. Imagine the damage to trump's image with his MAGA cohort if the local Walmart shut down with a giant banner out front saying "Store closing due to tariffs".