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The Mighty Moltres posted:What are feelings about sunglasses worn indoors?
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Andrast posted:Next you'll be telling me that a black trench coat doesn't make me look cool Only if you've got shades on  .
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Feb 8, 2020 10:48
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I saw some dumbass last night on the s-train, he was wearing two hoodies and a jacket, round sunglasses and a floppy beanie. He looked like an edgy character from a 90s movie.
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Feb 8, 2020 10:49
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Tiggum posted:Unless I'm going to be in the shop for a particularly long time I'm not going to bother bringing my regular glasses, so if I take off my sunglasses I can't see properly. Counterpoint: I don't bring my regular glasses to the supermarket, I take off my sunglasses and squint a bit.
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Feb 8, 2020 10:53
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Riatsala posted:I haaaaaate these, doubly so if they're used by boomers sussing out the secret satanic meanings behind whatever teenagers like these days. I keep seeing one that's "Did you know "hospital" stands for "house of sick people in trauma and labor"?" and it infuriates me. For one thing, no. For another thing, that's one of the clunkiest things I've ever read. I always explain to these people if you see someone telling you that a word is an acronym, and that word is from before WWII, they're wrong, wrong, wrong. Acronyms weren't really a thing until RADAR.
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Feb 8, 2020 11:19
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I wish the FoMoCo style of abbreviation would come back in vogue.
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Feb 8, 2020 15:57
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This conversation reminds me of those weirdos who wear hoodies with their hoods up at the gym. Stop! Peeve I came here for: being back home and all the southern fried small talk everyone has to constantly do. At the grocery store nearest my mom's just now, I literally got stuck behind some giant clan just chatting in the entryway, nudged past them, got all my poo poo, checked out, and had to loving nudge past them again as they were finally actually entering the goddam store. "polite" isn't this bullshit, it's a shitfaced stranger yelling "get the hell out of the loving way" and then you move and remember it and stop bothering people and everyone mutually likes each other more for it, and society continues to function. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 22:10 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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Feb 8, 2020 22:05
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Memento posted:Counterpoint: I don't bring my regular glasses to the supermarket, I take off my sunglasses and squint a bit. Countercounterpoint: I just wait for my transition lenses to go clear. Then remember I don't have transition lenses on my current glasses, these are my actual sunglasses and I left my normal glasses in the car. Thankfully, I'm short sighted, so don't really need to squint.
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Feb 9, 2020 06:46
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Butt Detective posted:Customers that walk around the store with their hoods up. Worst case scenario I'm going to think you're up to no good and planning to shoplift, best case scenario I'm going to assume you're insecure and don't want people to look at you. You don't need your hood up indoors you weirdos My daughter keeps her hood up all the time. For her, it's because she's autistic and it makes her feel safe. If she doesn't have a hood up, she wears a trilby with a flower in it. She always has to have her head covered.
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Feb 9, 2020 12:19
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Funnily enough I feel less safe wearing a hood because it blocks my peripheral vision
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Feb 9, 2020 17:19
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Negostrike posted:Funnily enough I feel less safe wearing a hood because it blocks my peripheral vision Yeah I look around like a meerkat so hoods drive me nuts
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Feb 9, 2020 17:31
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Yeah, I didn't want to be that guy but wearing sunglasses indoors can also be an autism thing. Similarly to the hood thing, I know people who say they feel safer/saner on transit with their headphones in so they can't hear any of the poo poo anyone else is talking about, but I'm the opposite, I can read or play video games but I need to be able to hear around me to feel I won't miss any threats that may appear
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Feb 9, 2020 19:35
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What if the people with their hoods up are just cold?
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Feb 10, 2020 00:15
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Dip Viscous posted:What if the people with their hoods up are just cold? So far I saw people here complaining about people wearing them indoors, where there's no wind or rain usually.
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Feb 10, 2020 00:28
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Hoods are great. Lots of my friends wear hoods.
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Feb 10, 2020 00:48
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My pet peeve is youtube started filling my suggested videos with fox news and other random american news sources. This is despite the fact that I have never once watched anything even close to fox or any american news source on youtube because I'm not american. I keep telling it I'm not interested in them and they just keep coming back! jfc I hate this poo poo so loving much. Why can't I just tell youtube I'm not interested in any of this dog poo poo?
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Feb 10, 2020 01:14
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Debunk This! posted:My pet peeve is youtube started filling my suggested videos with fox news and other random american news sources. This is despite the fact that I have never once watched anything even close to fox or any american news source on youtube because I'm not american. I keep telling it I'm not interested in them and they just keep coming back! jfc I hate this poo poo so loving much. Why can't I just tell youtube I'm not interested in any of this dog poo poo? The youtube algorithm was created to indoctrinate teenagers into radical right wing American politics. Every account ends up at the same precipice as yours, and there is no backing away from the edge, just staring into the abyss of fascism until you're compelled to jump. Just start a new account.
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Feb 10, 2020 02:06
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Riatsala posted:The youtube algorithm was created to indoctrinate teenagers into radical right wing American politics. Every account ends up at the same precipice as yours, and there is no backing away from the edge, just staring into the abyss of fascism until you're compelled to jump.  This seems like a bit of an overreaction.Go to your YouTube history and delete it, and while you're there tell it not to remember your searches or watch history, and it should stop. Sometimes it gets latched onto tangentially-related topics and just won't quit until you watch enough of some other thing for it to get latched onto showing you that instead, or manually tell it to cut it out. Also, it shows you recommendations based on the video you're currently watching and its tags including where the creator is based, so if you're watching a lot of american creators it doesn't really matter what the videos are about, it'll assume you're interested in american topics. Because it's stupid and completely useless, as all content provider algorithms are. Hence, disabling watch history so it stops doing that. CJacobs has a new favorite as of 02:14 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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Feb 10, 2020 02:11
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If you typed Fox News you can be sure you'll have Fox News advertisements and recommendations for years to come. Same if you even say "Fox News" aloud close to your phone. 
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Feb 10, 2020 02:48
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oldpainless posted:Hoods are great. Lots of my friends wear hoods. More like oldunpentientless. Cos this is a Spanish Catholic thing, right?
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Feb 10, 2020 02:58
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CJacobs posted:
I'll try this thanks. I should also mention fox is at least mixed in with a bunch of other stuff so its not just the right wing bs, thats just what pisses me off the most. I've also been getting videos in all sorts of foreign language like chinese, tagalog and spanish so it just seems like the algorithm poo poo itself and has no god drat clue what content I'm interested in.
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Feb 10, 2020 03:01
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Negostrike posted:So far I saw people here complaining about people wearing them indoors, where there's no wind or rain usually. You don't know at least one weirdo that's "always cold" even if they're indoors and it's 78F?
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Feb 10, 2020 03:49
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When I recommend a TV show to someone and they ask "What channel is it on?" like as though it's the loving nineties. I don't know! I don't even know if it's on any channel in Australia or ever has been! It's on BitTorrent. Everything is on BitTorrent. Every TV show and movie you could ever want to watch, whenever you want to watch them, for no money and with no ads. Why are you hurting yourself?
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Feb 10, 2020 06:53
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Contrary to popular belief, it isn't normal to do things that are illegal just to save money edit: And that's not even to say I'm anti piracy or whatever. It's just extremely normal to pay for things because there's 0% chance of getting in trouble and it requires no technical aptitude.
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Feb 10, 2020 07:17
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You absolutely should though
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Feb 10, 2020 07:18
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Andrast posted:You absolutely should though Okay, come teach my grandparents how to use bittorrent and how to spot which downloads won't give them malware
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Feb 10, 2020 07:18
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That's on you  I taught my parents to pirate and that went fine.
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Feb 10, 2020 07:25
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Tiggum posted:Unless I'm going to be in the shop for a particularly long time I'm not going to bother bringing my regular glasses, so if I take off my sunglasses I can't see properly. Same here. I mean, I can squint and have no problem reading labels, but it's annoying. Larry David once said that there's only two kinds of people who wear sunglasses indoors: blind people and assholes. In my case, I'm somewhere between the two.
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Feb 10, 2020 18:32
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CJacobs posted:Contrary to popular belief, it isn't normal to do things that are illegal just to save money It is if you're not a complete wiener 
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Feb 10, 2020 19:02
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:This conversation reminds me of those weirdos who wear hoodies with their hoods up at the gym. Stop! lol last week I was walking into my office with some coworkers and there were three ladies standing directly in front of the doors to the building, one moreso than others. People were walking around her to go into the building and one of the girls says to her "hey we should move over here, we're blocking the doorway" and the one in front of the door goes "well drat nobody said excuse me" No one should have to, idiot. Your spacial awareness should tell you you're in the loving way.
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Feb 10, 2020 19:37
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Joey Freshwater posted:lol last week I was walking into my office with some coworkers and there were three ladies standing directly in front of the doors to the building, one moreso than others. People were walking around her to go into the building and one of the girls says to her "hey we should move over here, we're blocking the doorway" and the one in front of the door goes "well drat nobody said excuse me" I used to work university special events and it's a huge problem. Attendants walk in, check in at the registration table, then stand there in the way. They get a cocktail, then stand right in front of the serving table to talk to someone. They hold entire conversations in doorways. And they do not like being herded, good lordy do they not like being herded. The only advantage I had was being a man, upper class society respects young men, it views young women as little more than part of the decor. Same goes for grocery stores. Lemme just park my cart sideways across the entire width of the aisle while I silently deliberate between two identical brands of canned beans with all the intensity of Indiana Jones picking out the holy grail
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Riatsala posted:I used to work university special events and it's a huge problem. Attendants walk in, check in at the registration table, then stand there in the way. They get a cocktail, then stand right in front of the serving table to talk to someone. They hold entire conversations in doorways. And they do not like being herded, good lordy do they not like being herded. The only advantage I had was being a man, upper class society respects young men, it views young women as little more than part of the decor. Same thing back when I used to bartend. A 150 person wedding would have like, 30 people just crowd around the bar, standing, and I'd have to shove through people just to get a proper line formed, and to make room when I had to go and pick up empties. Also made serving annoying because I'd see 10 people resting right against the bar (wasn't a big bar), and I'd wonder if there's someone in line for a drink or if I have time to take care of something else.
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People who just cannot wait for you to complete a sentence before speaking have been my absolute worst peeve recently. It's nice that the interruption is usually along the lines of "thank you's" or something else that's polite, but holy poo poo. We are not going to get anywhere if I have to stop and reply "you're welcome!" every three digits of a phone number I'm trying to read to you because you cannot hold it for three seconds  Also, don't interrupt me when I'm answering your question to ask another unrelated question. This is how you miss important information! Just let me finish!
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Feb 11, 2020 18:04
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I just keep talking while raising my voice gradually as long as the motherfucker keeps talking over me. I might get to bloodcurdling levels if the person still talking.
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Feb 11, 2020 18:47
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I hate when I qualify a statement with something like "look I know about xyz but..." and then the whoever I'm talking to retorts with "but have you considered xyz?"
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Feb 11, 2020 20:22
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I do this thing in meetings where if people have loud sidebars while I'm talking I just stop and stare at them until they're done, then continue (half the room inevitably joins me). Somehow the realization that they're the only ones in the room speaking is more effective than talking over them, etc, but it only works on people who feel shame i.e. people under 60.
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Feb 11, 2020 21:20
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So, Podcast ads. It feels like they're just surging upwards in amount, and a lot of podcasts don't have any way to get ad-free listening. (Nevermind that having to subscribe to multiple patreons/etc just to get ad-free listening in itself is rather tedious, though I do support some of the podcasts I listen to.) So many of them have ads at the start, middle and end. And older episodes might have been designed for sponsors instead of ad-based revenue, so you get an additional annoyance in them doing a sponsor and ads on top of it. (And on top of this, the region-based ads means that it's not unlikely that every single ad will be the same one, played on loop.) And because the ads are served per-episode, you'll generally get double-barreled with ads whenever you finish an episode and go over to the next one. I just really wish the podcast networks would cooperate and make a system where I can just shove a couple dollars a month into my podcast app, and have it distributed to the podcasts I listen to, while making them ad-free. I imagine the average person wouldn't have to pay a whole lot to make up for the tiny fractions of a dollar they generate in ad revenue per episode listen. (Take a chunk of it for processing, split the rest 50/50 on episodes listened to, and listen time. (So that it's not too unbalanced in regards to podcasts with shorter episodes vs longer ones.)) Wouldn't hurt if they rolled in the ability to tip and get supporter rewards like on patreon through the same system either, letting them sidestep pat--'getting a 5% cut for doing nothing except basic hosting is not sustainable for us because we've accepted millions in venture capital'--reon entirely.
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I listened to a comedian's podcast the other day where he had pre-roll ads, a read at ten minutes, and another one at twenty. He might have done more but that's when I tapped out, so I couldn't tell you for sure.
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This is why I Dont Even Own A Television, the F Plus, and Extra Credit are the only podcasts I listen to these days. I get my laughs at weird poo poo without anyone trying to sell me stamps or dildos. IDEOTV plugs their Patreon once an episode but that’s like twenty seconds of a 90 minute podcast.
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