I've not used Blue Apron, but I recently cancelled Hello Fresh for these exact same reasons. Interesting business model, but I think Blue/Fresh will be out of business within the next year or two.
I'm a Coloradan and this doesn't jive with my experience. I wasn't surprised it passed. We believe in personal freedoms here, and there is perhaps no greater personal freedom than the right to choose to die with dignity.
I think you missed my point. The point is that CO is extremely libertarian, but I was seeing resistance from areas that surprised me. Liberal urban enclaves I would expect to see embracing 106 were actually fighting it.
It's not the least bit surprising that a company like Rolex would not sell parts directly to customers. I imagine that 99% of the time that would end disastrously, and they would have quite a lot of customers who haphazardly dismantle their watches and then are unable to properly clean, lube, reassemble, and test them. Once that happens, you know who the customer is going to blame. This is exactly why companies like Apple are happy to sell you an iPhone but are NOT going to sell you a single capacitor or wire, or even a complete circuit board. Do you think Apple is going to sell you individual parts for that Apple Watch?
Continuing with your example, getting a Rolex serviced by skilled third party technicians, using genuine Rolex parts (because Rolex is happy to sell parts directly to qualified technicians), is not a problem. There are dozens of highly recommended shops in the US alone, e.g. https://www.bobswatches.com/more/watch-repair-service.
Yeah, I could understand that perception if chainsaws were given away for free to everyone who owned a house in the woods, and if they were touted as an easy-to-use entry-level sawing device.
SO is a mess right now. It is sort of amusing that the questions and discussions I find the most interesting are always closed as "off topic" or unproductive or whatever their language is.
