Question of the day: why would someone take the time to post an online response to a question with the answer "I don't know" or "I'm not sure" or "I've never tried that" or any of the other myriad unhelpful, unnecessary, non-answers that typically appear in the Q/A section of Amazon product reviews?
It really shouldn't require explanation but the default response to every online question ever posted is "I don't know". One can easily assume the reason the poster posted their question is that they already didn't know the answer. Further, "I don't know" is effectively and unambiguously implied by not responding! There are presumably billions of people that don't know if the hard plastic handle of that skillet can withstand a 450 degree oven without melting. Unless you are a renowned expert on hard plastic skillet handles and your ignorance is significant, the world does not require your non-response.
Save the effort, the internet bandwidth, the time of a content moderator, the digital storage, and the time of every single eye-rolling reader who has to read and then consciously erase your response, and just do like the vast millions who also don't know... absolutely nothing.
And in case you're feeling clever, I'll beat you to the punch and answer my own question:
I don't know.
So let's see… another source of random and largely pointless sh*t on the web? Sure, why not!?
Thursday, December 29, 2022
Friday, August 27, 2021
Sh*t I just can't seem to remember...
- the words discipline, pragmatic, and deprived. Oddly, I can always recall the word ironic
- the difference between Willem Defoe, Christopher Walken, and John Voight
- how many electoral votes it requires to win the presidency
- my car's license plate number
The Amazon Unitasker Hall of Fame
Our mission: to spotlight the most exceedingly unnecessary and obscenely specific products available for purchase on Amazon. So without further a-doo(doo) I present our first inductee
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Sellers can't be (good) choosers!
OK Amazon, we get it... you choose everything!
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for "product for sale" |
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Announcing iOS ${old_version_number+1}
My secret wish: every time Apple releases a new version of iOS all the grocery stores in the Cupertino area that serve Apple employees should rearrange all the products on their shelves. Peanut Butter? Yeah that's not in Aisle 12 any more, it's now in Aisle 3, next to the bread. It just seemed better there. Likely we'll move it next to the jelly in the next iteration... trust us, you'll love it!
Saturday, May 25, 2019
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