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Shoebox arrived with coded UPS belly band inside outer shipper — WMS/LPN tracking? I'm baffled
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Shoebox arrived with coded UPS belly band inside outer shipper — WMS/LPN tracking? I'm baffled

Very confused about this feature so posting here - ordered hiking shoes, and the shoe box arrived inside a normal shipping box -- but the retail shoebox itself had a white UPS-style belly band around it that I had to break to open.

The band included identifying/shipping info, including my name (above SLNUS code, which I cropped out of the photo) plus what appears to be a picker/handler name (Drew D) and routing/barcode data. Felt f'ed up they would leak the personal info of a worker just to tag the box, but maybe this is common practice?

Is this some kind of item-level tracking or pick/pack verification?

Looking for any theories or experience from those who maybe ecnountered this, or who received a similar coded data band around their item (again, this was not a generic rubber bands or normal shipping label)

u/dzanong — 3 days ago
▲ 208 r/TonyRobbins+1 crossposts

Tony Robbins' AI Advantage Summit - garbage on top of garbage

I watched all three days of this thing and I can save you nine hours: it's a $995 bootcamp infomercial stretched across a long weekend and disguised as a free AI education event.

Day one softens you up with motivational keynotes recycled from the 90s with "and AI helps with that" stapled on every few minutes, a "proprietary" prompting framework that's literally just "tell the AI who you are, what you want, and what good looks like" (something every free guide online has covered for years), and a live demo where someone clicked one button in a Google product and presented it as a masterclass to 600,000 people. Day two escalates: someone claims they rebuilt their entire business from a beach on their phone and nobody asks for a single receipt, there's a genuinely good neuroscience talk that has almost nothing to do with AI, and then the bootcamp pitch drops for the first time with a live "hours saved" counter ticking upward like a telethon scoreboard designed to make you feel like you're missing out in real time.

Day three is where it gets shameless: same bootcamp pitched three more times, every speaker's bonus course stacked on top to inflate the perceived value, a scripted FAQ segment to handle your purchase objections before you even voice them, and a closing keynote telling you to "never leave the site of a decision without taking action," which sounds profound until you realize it just means "put in your credit card before your rational brain catches up to your emotions."

The entire architecture is deliberate: day one dissolves skepticism, day two builds desire, day three manufactures urgency and collects payment. There were maybe four or five genuinely useful ideas scattered across the whole event, but they exist to make the sales pitch feel earned, not to stand on their own.

tl;dr: Free three-day event that costs you nothing except your resistance to spending $995 on a six-week course teaching you how to talk to an AI that will literally teach you the same thing for free if you just open it and ask.

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u/dzanong — 5 days ago
▲ 0 r/mashups

man, Big Einstein slid on “Project Chick” like that old european genius been posted in the bricks his whole damn life, tongue out, hair fucked up, still catching the bounce like he invented gravity just to make a mufuckin beat drop.

for dude who been dead damn near 80 years, E talkin’ that shit crazy — Nobel Prize brain, Cash Money pocket, and somehow the old bastard got more rhythm than half these living rappers.

u/dzanong — 20 days ago
▲ 15 r/googleworkspace+1 crossposts

I just downgraded Google Workspace Plus and genuinely cannot believe how predatory the flow feels. The normal billing screen only pushes “Upgrade,” the actual downgrade path is hidden under More, and even once you find it, Google only lets you downgrade one tier at a time, with no obvious explanation.

Exact steps:

Admin Console

→ Billing

→ Subscriptions

→ click your current Workspace plan

→ More

→ Downgrade

→ choose Business Standard

→ Flexible

→ Checkout.

Then repeat the whole thing again after completed, from Business Standard → More → Downgrade → Business Starter → Flexible → Checkout.

Hoenstly would feel better if Google just presented a screen that said "Ready for the downgrade Goose Chase?" and made users find 50 virtual breadcrumbs to unlock the correct billing page

u/dzanong — 20 days ago