NireBryce

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🐥 I am not embroiled in any legal battle
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I live on the northeast coast of the US.

'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

There are definitely fancy paperclip companies out there, like prestige Japanese pen companies making paperclips they sell in 10-packs for $7 that are so nice you never ever want to use them.

It seems like it's that or the somehow-still-a-ripoff cancer wire.

Oh darling please, take a rubber-sheathed banana shaped paper clip with you! I insist! What good is living rich if you don't let your friends and neighbors indulge every now and then? This two bedroom apartment is just so spacious, I simply delight in entertaining your good company.

Carbon Steel laser etched designer paperclip, NRA Good condition. Minted in Spring 2008, mild wear. Comes with the box and paper manual, FFL transfer required, serious offers only. MSRP $0.015 adjusted for inflation to a reasonable $300.

Our local office supply place went out of business so now we order everything from Amazon, which sucks, and has led that that exact scenario! Although we also got some rectangle Fake Post-It Notes that have the sticky edge along the "wrong" side and they've actually been surprisingly useful, so we purposely re-order those. I'm sure the next batch will be "normal" and not useful, though.

can't you just walk into a store and buy some alright paperclips? is that not a thing in the US? I'm only asking because I would never even think of ordering paperclips online, like the nearest supermarket probably has some, at least I bought staples there once

Every single sundry sold in a store is now from a non-brand and cannot be trusted. I was in office Depot the other day and every single product they had in the paper clip and other sundries aisle was office Depot brand, and visibly shitty. Thumbtacks with extremely sharp casting flash on the plastic part that choose your fingertips up, that sort of thing. Even if I bought some of their clips and they were okay, the next time I went to buy some I'm sure they would be shitty ones that break if you flex them. I wanted to find a reliable source of clips. Literally this is the purpose of a brand, there are just very very few actual brands left.

Staples are another particular thing, where I've practically given up on buying staples. Most of the time they snap while trying to staple, and that's if you're lucky enough that they didn't jam and break your stapler.