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A misanthrope posted:i believe this unironically what if I like symmetry?
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Nov 19, 2015 19:45
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US Suburbs are the absolute worst. You can't just pop down to the local corner store on foot/bike/scooter, there isn't one. So you need get in your car to drive there, as does everyone else, and thus it's traffic everywhere at all times, which means you might as well do your shopping once a week/month to save time, which means you need a big car to fit everything, which means you need a bigger house to fit your 2.5 SUVs which means you need to work longer hours to afford the lifestyle which means you have no time outside of work which means you need to pay for basic things like lawncare because you're so busy and the cycle just loving repeats until you die.
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Nov 19, 2015 19:47
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Moridin920 posted:This is from a few pages ago but dude gently caress off with this 'the only real cars are manual.' Yeah alright you probably get slightly better gas mileage and the car is slightly lighter but clearly you don't drive in big city traffic. Automatic is just better and easier in those conditions, sorry.
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Nov 19, 2015 19:49
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Darth123123 posted:what if I like symmetry? no offense but i feel like that may be a brain problem 
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Nov 19, 2015 19:51
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revmoo posted:US Suburbs are the absolute worst. You can't just pop down to the local corner store on foot/bike/scooter, there isn't one. So you need get in your car to drive there, as does everyone else, and thus it's traffic everywhere at all times, which means you might as well do your shopping once a week/month to save time, which means you need a big car to fit everything, which means you need a bigger house to fit your 2.5 SUVs which means you need to work longer hours to afford the lifestyle which means you have no time outside of work which means you need to pay for basic things like lawncare because you're so busy and the cycle just loving repeats until you die. welcome to are country https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFVdvXGIT34
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Nov 19, 2015 19:52
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A misanthrope posted:no offense but i feel like that may be a brain problem none taken, but that looks very efficient as well!
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Nov 19, 2015 19:54
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Darth123123 posted:none taken, but that looks very efficient as well! you know who else was "efficient"  
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Nov 19, 2015 19:56
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A misanthrope posted:you know who else was "efficient" I give up
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Nov 19, 2015 20:01
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A misanthrope posted:no offense but i feel like that may be a brain problem That thing in the middle is a MegaChurch(tm), isn't it? 
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Nov 19, 2015 20:05
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Tipps posted:That thing in the middle is a MegaChurch(tm), isn't it? looks like a nice retirement village in florida or something. community center where granny can hook up with the old guys
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Nov 19, 2015 20:06
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Google Chrome handles tabs so poorly that I don't know how anyone uses the loving thing: Which tab is which?  Unfixable via any add-ons, by the way (something about Chrome not allowing access to its visual styles). Compare with Firefox:  Unfortunately Firefox runs like complete dogshit when on any page that contains a video (HTML5 or flash, it doesn't matter) so I still need both installed. Chrome is the example of terrible design that I am using here, though. Also, no down arrow on the address bar so you can pick from your top sites. Gotta use a keyboard like a jackass. Another fun feature of Chrome: want to log into your gmail account on your work computer? Hows about we load up your entire search history and all the porno sites you have on your favorites bar while we're at it? 
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Nov 19, 2015 20:08
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God I wish Google would stop trying to make everything Google-related automatically save my entire identity. All of my passwords are saved by google. All of my credit card information is saved by google (Except for the CVV and phew what a lifesaver, a 3-digit code is definitely hard to crack when you have the rest of the cc#, for sure). My address is saved by google. Every time I log into gmail or youtube or on a google-enabled device it shares that stuff with whatever I'm using it on. I told it not to save any of my poo poo and it did it anyway and I have no idea how to make it forget it all and never do it again, and I know inside that the answer is "there is no way, welcome to the future of easily steal-able identities", but there should be a way.
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Nov 19, 2015 20:36
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Yeah but why the gently caress do you need that many tabs open at once. You can only look at one per window at once. Seriously, if you have 50 tabs open at once, why?
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Nov 19, 2015 20:38
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I only use incognito to log into my google stuffs on other peoples PCs. Works well.
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Nov 19, 2015 20:38
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revmoo posted:US Suburbs are the absolute worst. You can't just pop down to the local corner store on foot/bike/scooter, there isn't one. So you need get in your car to drive there, as does everyone else, and thus it's traffic everywhere at all times, which means you might as well do your shopping once a week/month to save time, which means you need a big car to fit everything, which means you need a bigger house to fit your 2.5 SUVs which means you need to work longer hours to afford the lifestyle which means you have no time outside of work which means you need to pay for basic things like lawncare because you're so busy and the cycle just loving repeats until you die. I have never understood why American suburbs don't have shops amongst them. Why do people not convert homes/land into convenience stores and make a mint?
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Nov 19, 2015 20:42
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:You are a bad person and the earth is dying because of you personally. Yeah none of that is true
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Nov 19, 2015 20:43
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Incoming Chinchilla posted:I have never understood why American suburbs don't have shops amongst them. Why do people not convert homes/land into convenience stores and make a mint?
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Nov 19, 2015 20:46
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CJacobs posted:God I wish Google would stop trying to make everything Google-related automatically save my entire identity. Log into Google, go to My Account, and find the Personal Info & Privacy section. You should be able to edit anything, delete stuff they have saved, and change the settings for saving things in the future.
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Nov 19, 2015 20:58
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Incoming Chinchilla posted:I have never understood why American suburbs don't have shops amongst them. Why do people not convert homes/land into convenience stores and make a mint? I read an article a while back talking about suburbs, and apparently they were originally planned and designed to be areas where people could live but have everything they'd need within walking distance. The idea was that there would be parks and large, open sidewalks, and the neighborhoods would be designed around convenient walking or bike riding to a grocery and school. This was in the 40's or 50's, though, and it's why sometimes when you're just outside of downtown in a city you see neighborhoods tucked away that look like this, because at the time they were built they were considered a suburb, but the city wound up enveloping them. The reason that it all changed is that in more modern times, they've tried to cram as many houses as possible into a subdivision, which resulted in zero parks, no sidewalks and houses that are 6 inches apart and about a foot from the street. Mix this with lovely zoning, and the best a grocery can do is try to pick a location equidistant between several subdivisions, which results in them being convenient to none.
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Nov 19, 2015 20:58
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FPzero posted:Yeah but why the gently caress do you need that many tabs open at once. You can only look at one per window at once. Wikipedia binges and/or porn. You open stuff you want to look at later in new tabs then as you finish your current thing you close the tab and go to the next one over and repeat.
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Nov 19, 2015 21:03
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Yeah, have you seriously never found yourself at 3am with 22 Wiki tabs about Incan pottery techniques open?
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Nov 19, 2015 21:07
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It's also the best way for choosing porn. You open all the videos up in new tabs, then skim through them to see if any of them star someone you went to high school with, then close the rest.
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Nov 19, 2015 21:10
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Bad designs make me horny as hell
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Nov 19, 2015 21:11
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Incoming Chinchilla posted:I have never understood why American suburbs don't have shops amongst them. Why do people not convert homes/land into convenience stores and make a mint? the entire point of those suburbs with all the culs-de-sac and and twisting streets is you never have to interact with someone outside of who you live with. no random encounters on the elevator or apartment building hallway or even sidewalk because you always drive and park in your garage. the kind of person who lives there doesn't want shops nearby to entice people to walk around near their houses
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Nov 19, 2015 21:12
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Not only that but mine only turn on when they detect not-direct-sunlight, and it has an override for me to manually force them on in case I find a scenario where I need headlights on but keys out of the car (which I haven't). It also keeps the lights on for about a minute after you get out of the car so you can see what you're doing at night, which is nice. Seems like american cars dont have an auto setting for headlights? I had a Porsche 928 a long time ago which had pop up headlights, this is the only car I have ever driven which forced me to turn lights on/off myself.
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Nov 19, 2015 21:21
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Puppy Galaxy posted:Bad designs make me horny as hell
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Nov 19, 2015 21:27
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Indy posted:pop up headlights speaking of bad design. not that theyre not cool but i must have helped my dad replace the motors for his car's headlights a half dozen times as a kid
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Nov 19, 2015 21:32
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The Skeleton King posted:Looks like I need to go pick up a carton of milk from the nearest store. Ugh, but my car will not start! Let's see if I can walk/take the bus/ride a bike to the store.... Hey at least our roads aren't in 24/7 traffic jams and cops don't care if you're driving at 100 miles per hour.
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Nov 19, 2015 21:54
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Isaac posted:They should give total privacy stalls but spray narcan through the air and block wifi so noones jackin it. i went to a supermarket in the UK that had blue lights in the toilets so addicts can't see their veins which seems a lot cheaper and also good design
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Nov 19, 2015 22:01
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Jose posted:i went to a supermarket in the UK that had blue lights in the toilets so addicts can't see their veins which seems a lot cheaper and also good design I used to work in this area of melbourne that at the time was like an open air heroin market. People nodding off in the gutters literally. What i learned is nothing will stop people shooting up. People would nod midway through trying to shoplift. Nod off in their car in the middle of the road with syringe still in their arm. The toilets had half height doors, blue lights and full time security and people would still shoot up in there.
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Nov 19, 2015 22:40
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Jenny Agutter posted:the entire point of those suburbs with all the culs-de-sac and and twisting streets is you never have to interact with someone outside of who you live with. no random encounters on the elevator or apartment building hallway or even sidewalk because you always drive and park in your garage. the kind of person who lives there doesn't want shops nearby to entice people to walk around near their houses There are a lot of reasons suburbs are bad, but I've never heard "you don't have to stare straight ahead silently while riding in the elevator with a stranger" as one of them
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Nov 20, 2015 08:13
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Lant posted:Hey at least our roads aren't in 24/7 traffic jams and cops don't care if you're driving at 100 miles per hour. sure do love driving 100mph on this empty road to nowehre.
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Nov 20, 2015 08:26
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appropriatemetaphor posted:sure do love driving 100mph on this empty road to nowehre. I live in nowhere and people overtake you if you are going 40 over the speed limit cause its too slow. No cops no laws out in the bush. Im talking kph which is 100 mph to 160kph
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Nov 20, 2015 09:00
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That looks like something to come out of Deep Dream.
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Nov 20, 2015 11:40
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Melmac posted:Google Chrome handles tabs so poorly that I don't know how anyone uses the loving thing: What kind of insane person has like 30 tabs open at once The only time I ever fill up a window with tabs is if I'm queuing up youtube a bunch of videos or something
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Nov 20, 2015 14:23
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Gibberish posted:What kind of insane person has like 30 tabs open at once I've got a job where I need to use like a million web apps at once. Multi-tasking like a slave and postin dumb gifs to GBS takes a lot of tabs. 
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Nov 20, 2015 14:29
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boom boom boom posted:There are a lot of reasons suburbs are bad, but I've never heard "you don't have to stare straight ahead silently while riding in the elevator with a stranger" as one of them That's actually a reason suburbs are good. Anyone who actually lives in a big city knows that people are poo poo and the worst part of city living.
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Nov 20, 2015 14:33
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lol if you have to acknowledge the existence of other, lesser people http://time.com/money/3018706/separate-entrances-affordable-housing-new-york-city/
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Nov 20, 2015 14:36
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boom boom boom posted:There are a lot of reasons suburbs are bad, but I've never heard "you don't have to stare straight ahead silently while riding in the elevator with a stranger" as one of them "I don't like silently ignoring other people and smalltalk is hard" says forums poster with ero monster girl avatar
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LethalGeek posted:My friend lived in an older apartment where they had redone the bathroom at some point, but someone didn't measure anything first because the toilet was in the way of the door. So they just cut a big notch out of the door to fix it. I remember I used to look at a lot of model homes years ago in California (80s). Everything was always white, and they would take most of the interior doors off to make the rooms look bigger - including bathroom doors.
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