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Dip Viscous posted:On of my dad's friends worked for FedEx and according to him they get put on timetables that are literally impossible. Make poo poo up about not being able to deliver or get fired for being too slow. They write out the "could not deliver" notices as they are driving. Yeah the problem is not that Amazon sucks, the problem is capitalism sucks and people are only just starting to notice because of Amazon's practices of giving a job to basically everyone who applies is giving a lot more people a look at how lovely things are.
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The metrics for delivery companies are insane so drivers do lovely things cuz it’s often a lovely job but they won’t get fired because there’s huge turnover because it’s a lovely job so they’re always short staffed which means more deliveries which are impossible to keep up with unless you work 14 hours every day so drivers do lovely things but everyone complains about the deliveries and then orders something they want delivered 14 hours from the time they click order it’s the circle of life
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May 27, 2021 18:32
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People (boomers) congratulating me on my dead dad's heroism in Vietnam. Vietnam sucked and he volunteered because he got brought over as a baby and wanted citizenship like the hosed up starship troopers country we are. I empathize with my dad, but he wasn't a hero. The war ruined him for life in fact.
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May 28, 2021 03:34
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:When I delivered sandwiches the worst I would get is petty customers and that was bad enough. My peeve is popeyes and how they set up their grubhub. The only way to get the spicy chicken sandwich is to order the combo which comes with the fountain drink. I just want the sandwich. Maybe even two of them. But I can't order that, I have to order the combo.
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May 28, 2021 03:41
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yeah I eat rear end posted:"Unable to access property due to gate code, delivery postponed" If you use UPS or FedEx you can find the distribution center's phone number, ask for the center manager or even just dispatch, have them send a message to the driver on their scanner with instructions. If it's UPS, call it a DIAD, they'll think you know what you're talking about. If it's a very important package, you can get them to turn around sometimes. If you always have the same driver for UPS or FedEx which is pretty normal, they'll deliver things how you want them if you talk to them directly.
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BattyKiara posted:I feel like I'm the only person who HATES the Eurovision Song Contest. I get that some people enjoy it on an ironic level, but I simply hate the whole thing. The music is generally terrible, or utterly boring. The over the top stage shows are just bleh! Sorry, I really do not get the appeal. I don't hate it, but self-conscious camp is an aesthetic that I just never enjoy, so Drag Race, Baz Luhrman films and EuroVision have never held any appeal to me and it irrationally bothers me that I can't rationalise why I find this aesthetic so off-putting. So, I don't hate EuroVision (or those other things) per se, but I hate how mean spirited not caring about it makes me feel. Disco Pope has a new favorite as of 20:57 on May 30, 2021 |
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May 30, 2021 19:50
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Companies just refusing to add value to their product when you pay, as opposed to degrade the product/platform when you don't: I don't understand why youtube premium doesn't offer/promise higher quality videos when possible. If youtube premium offered higher bitrate streams I'd probably get it. It's so incredibly obnoxious how incredibly blocky and lovely darker videos are, it's not uncommon to stumble over a darker scene from some LP or something that looks like it'd be right at home on a goddamn Video-CD. But instead they do the standard thing where instead of rewarding users for paying, they punish the ones who don't. (With obnoxious and frequent ads, with no regard for how it breaks up content at all.) (It's always amusing when I roll up youtube vanced on my tablet and see that youtube has queued up ads every 3 minutes or so, all of which vanced ignores.) It's just so grating how many companies just go 'what if we just paywall off existing features behind premium?' when developing their products, as opposed to making their premium options actually interesting or appealing by adding something new. Like how lastpass recently went and made it so that free users can -either- use it with desktops, or mobile, but if you want the extravagant luxury of accessing your password manager on both a pc -and- mobile, you have to be a premium user. Which is just brazenly lazy and greedy.
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May 31, 2021 14:54
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i watch 10-20+ hours of youtube a week and haven't seen an ad that wasn't an in-video sponsored product placement in years get an adblocker lmao
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When I'm on desktop and someone links mobile wikipedia. poo poo irks me more than it should. Other sites automatically shift to a desktop version, but not wikipedia.
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May 31, 2021 16:53
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"A few minutes" can be ten to fifteen at most. Forty-five and above is not "a few minutes" Just change the words you are saying or don't even estimate how long you'll take! Then we'll all be happy!
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May 31, 2021 17:33
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Brawnfire posted:"A few minutes" can be ten to fifteen at most. When I was about 19, a friend of mine wanted me to help him pick out a computer. He was staying at his dad's house at the time, so I had to drive about 40 minutes to get there, and we were going to leave "in a few minutes." This lasted until he figured out that Dragonball Z was on, so I was stuck there watching Goku power up a spirit bomb for an additional 30 minutes, because I could not pry him away from the TV.
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Iron Crowned posted:When I was about 19, a friend of mine wanted me to help him pick out a computer. He was staying at his dad's house at the time, so I had to drive about 40 minutes to get there, and we were going to leave "in a few minutes." This lasted until he figured out that Dragonball Z was on, so I was stuck there watching Goku power up a spirit bomb for an additional 30 minutes, because I could not pry him away from the TV. I'm sorry.. don't you mean 5 minutes? 
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FFT posted:i watch 10-20+ hours of youtube a week and haven't seen an ad that wasn't an in-video sponsored product placement in years
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FFT posted:i watch 10-20+ hours of youtube a week and haven't seen an ad that wasn't an in-video sponsored product placement in years Jeza posted:When I'm on desktop and someone links mobile wikipedia. poo poo irks me more than it should. Same question for Amazon's different sites for different countries. Other online shops don't have that hassle. But if someone in the UK sends me an Amazon link, it's useless to me because I need the Australian site. Why is it set up that way?
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Tiggum posted:Same question for Amazon's different sites for different countries. Other online shops don't have that hassle. But if someone in the UK sends me an Amazon link, it's useless to me because I need the Australian site. Why is it set up that way? That's because different countries have different seller and product availability.
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Sininu posted:That's because different countries have different seller and product availability. Yeah, but you don't need different urls for them. Other online shops handle that behind the scenes so you see the appropriate availability and pricing information for your country regardless of whether the person who sent you the link is in the same country as you or not.
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Hirayuki posted:I'm spoiled by my adblocker on PC, because YouTube via the PS3 app is downright lousy with ads I can't do anything about. The difference was only thrown into greater relief after my free premium trial ran out. Hateful. I'm in the same boat; my PS3 is basically my "let's watch stuff" machine between Universal Media Server and the YouTube app (it also has a lot of really good video games  ). The only time I ever see ads is the occasional before / during interruption on YT, and it's sort of jarring.Are some channels seem worse for this than others? You mention YT being lousy with ads, and that seems to imply you're seeing way more than I.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Are some channels seem worse for this than others? You mention YT being lousy with ads, and that seems to imply you're seeing way more than I. I've heard some people mention in videos that they could have put more ads in but didn't, so I assume it's up to the channel owner how many ads they want to allow in each video - although I believe there is some maximum number per minute (or whatever time period) so they don't have full control over it to just go nuts and show sixty ads in a five minute video.
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Yeah, ads are bad enough that it does make me consider paying for premium, but then I always decide against it cos its like paying loving protection money. If we have a boozy night in, it's fun to put on music videos on YouTube, but there are ads now between EVERY SONG, and even if you can skip them, it does kind of kill the buzz if you have to lunge for the remote every 3-5 minutes.
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As a fellow music video night lover, I feel you there. We ended up getting a paid YouTube membership offered to us as a gift by a relative (my daughter would ERUPT in FURY if a commercial broke up Peppa Pig) and it's definitely "worth it" insofar as something like that I'd worth anything
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Pastry of the Year posted:I'm in the same boat; my PS3 is basically my "let's watch stuff" machine between Universal Media Server and the YouTube app (it also has a lot of really good video games Actually, I seem to be getting ads on PC (Chrome) again, too, even with uBlock Origin. :/
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The Perfect Element posted:If we have a boozy night in, it's fun to put on music videos on YouTube, but there are ads now between EVERY SONG, and even if you can skip them, it does kind of kill the buzz if you have to lunge for the remote every 3-5 minutes. Check out the vevo channels on pluto.tv
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I keep getting ads like 10 seconds before the end of a video, which is dumb and annoying.
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I don't get any adverts on YouTube, what the heck, people.
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I have youtube premium but I didn't order it and I'm not paying for it anywhere. I accidentally managed to get free youtube for infinity somewhere and I am baffled and confused by it. Even youtube customer service shrugged about it and said to enjoy it. I feel like their entire business model is shrugging and hoping for the best.
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Unkempt posted:I don't get any adverts on YouTube, what the heck, people. I have uBlock on my PC! But I mostly watch YouTube on my TV using my Nintendo Switch, so I can’t exactly use an adblocker there.
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Butt Detective posted:I keep getting ads like 10 seconds before the end of a video, which is dumb and annoying. I think those are for videos that have a 10-20 second outro (a still with links to other videos, names of patrons, etc.), and putting the ads there catches the people who click out early to avoid the ads at the actual end of the video. So like you said: dumb and annoying. Eventually Youtube will crush itself under the weight of its own advertising.
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More USPS shenanigans: I was expecting a package today that would probably be a little too long for my mailbox, but lightweight. No problem, right? Just walk up the regular-length driveway to the short path leading to the porch and plonk that baby down, enjoying the beautiful weather along the way. The mail truck came and went, but no package. Why not? Well: That lying sonofabitch posted:Delivery Attempt  Apparently our good regular mail carrier (the one who holds back mail addressed to people who moved out 20+ years ago and brings all packages to our door along with any and all other mail) took an extra day off this weekend. Get your poo poo together! I have so little to look forward to! 
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Hirayuki posted:More USPS shenanigans: I was expecting a package today that would probably be a little too long for my mailbox, but lightweight. No problem, right? Just walk up the regular-length driveway to the short path leading to the porch and plonk that baby down, enjoying the beautiful weather along the way. I had a package that went "out for delivery" then later in the day became "delivered, picked up by customer at post office" It showed up on my doorstep the next day.
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Iron Crowned posted:I had a package that went "out for delivery" then later in the day became "delivered, picked up by customer at post office"
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Hirayuki posted:They just make poo poo up when it's nearing the end of their shift or they don't want to make the effort to get out of the Jeep. Last time it was some bullshit about not being able to access the mailbox. If they're smart (big loving "if"), they'll use a different preset excuse every time (because "don't wanna" is not a selectable option). I look forward to seeing them all put into rotation. I figured it got stuck behind the seat  To be honest I think that was just the worst possible excuse because I was about ready to head 5 minutes down the street to start chewing someone out over such an oversight before deciding to give it 24 hours. Should have just used "big scary dog"
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When you click on an image to expand it and it ends up popping up an even smaller version. Facebook messenger and sometimes google image search are the worst for this. I don't want to have to click on it to make it bigger and then ctrl+scroll to manually zoom.
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I know that everyone hates autoplaying vids, but there's a new kid in town. Vids that prominently show a pause sign, like they won't play, but then start loving playing when you scroll down past them.
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Here's a new one, as seen on this page: https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-8-million-empty-homes-103413523.html A little video pops up in the lower right (but doesn't play, probably because I have uBlock and another extension that turns off autoplay). Click the X to close it and it goes away. But scroll even one wheelclick and the fucker pops up again.
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It's sadly a non-issue since I moved to a place that doesn't have them, but I think Church's fried chicken is better than Popeyes. And yes, it bugs me that Popeyes doesn't have a drat apostrophe in its name.
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Pastry of the Year posted:It's sadly a non-issue since I moved to a place that doesn't have them, but I think Church's fried chicken is better than Popeyes.  Moving back to Texas has brought my extreme annoyance at luxury pickup trucks front and centre. All the worst and most stereotypical yeehaws drive an enormous white Ford with a bumper guard to make sure whoever they hit gets squished under the tires instead of rolling over the top*. And these ain't work trucks, these are the people who employ the people who drive work trucks, and their frat daddy kids. You see a beat-up muddy 1987 F150 loaded down with gear and hauling a trailer, they don't do Truck Guy poo poo because they are actually using it for poo poo that you need trucks for. *like gently caress I personally knew three people who were pedestrian/cyclists who were killed by trucks at low speed and almost certainly would have survived with minor injuries if you replaced the big dick murdermobile with a loving kia soul. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 13:07 on Jun 4, 2021 |
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I have never visited a chicken restaurant that had all their poo poo together at the same time. Doesn't matter which one, they're all out of something and a fryer is going down and you can hear a line cook having a breakdown somewhere. But Popeye's is so much better than Church's I have to wonder what's up where you're from.
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