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Riatsala posted:At every new restaurant I've been to in the past year you either have to choose something in the 30 seconds it takes your waiter to fill your water glass or wait half an hour for them to check back in. Who hasn't already looked at the menu and reviews, and picked out your whole meal before you even leave the house to go out to eat? We live in the future and you rubes want physical menus and human servers? Gross.
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My peeve for like, forever has been US restaurants expecting the server to check in every thirty seconds to ask if you need a new drink and is the food good and who needs a complementary bj etc etc before you are done chewing the first bite. I welcome this bold future. I know there are weirdos out there who love the small talk. From both sides of the employee/customer dynamic. But me, eternal back of house guy, nah. If I'm off the clock I want to eat my food and talk to the people I came here with. On the clock, christ on a cracker the customer is always wrong and stupid, please do not make me talk to it and does Greg over on fry side have any more weed, I swear I can hit him back next paycheck e: a second eternal peeve: got called a "tryhard" in Age of Empires today while "co-op" playing with my niece. Immediately after we destroyed the other team natch. It grinds my gears when people adopt that attitude in multiplayer games. There was no trying. Y'all got demolished by a brainless cancer patient and a six year old killing time and caring for infants. It's called Age of Empires, not Age of Several Towns Peacefully Co-existing I don't get people who think "trying to win" is opposed to "having fun" in games where the entire conceit is that there is a win condition and a lose condition. Nobody would have fun playing chess against an opponent who just went "hahahah horsey make L" and then flipped the table when they lost Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 00:24 on Jun 7, 2023 |
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Jun 6, 2023 20:21
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I tell the waiter that them talking at me is making me uncomfortable and if they keep doing it I will leave and it usually works.
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For real, put some money down on the table and walk out. E: I always tip my waiter because I know they are paid nothing and are forced to do their bullshit speil, but leaving without touching my meal has happened a lot. Dip Viscous has a new favorite as of 08:42 on Jun 7, 2023 |
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Jun 7, 2023 08:29
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Being presented with the options "Yes" and "Not now". No; not loving ever. I do not, as it happens, want you to ask me this question every time I use this app from now until the end of time. I want to say "no" to your bullshit once, and mean it.
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Jun 7, 2023 11:16
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I don't get people who think "trying to win" is opposed to "having fun" in games where the entire conceit is that there is a win condition and a lose condition. Nobody would have fun playing chess against an opponent who just went "hahahah horsey make L" and then flipped the table when they lost My girlfriend then insisted she could beat me. I kinda took it easy on her until she was like "wait what do you mean you get a new queen for getting a pawn across the board??" Turns out she was also unfamiliar with the concept of conceding and completely rejected the idea so it went to the bitter end. It was not fun for anyone at that point.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Who hasn't already looked at the menu and reviews, and picked out your whole meal before you even leave the house to go out to eat? We live in the future and you rubes want physical menus and human servers? Gross. Except a lot of the time you look at the online menu, then go to the restaurant to order a specific item only to find out that you were looking at last year's menu and they no longer serve that item.
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FFT posted:Turns out she was also unfamiliar with the concept of conceding and completely rejected the idea so it went to the bitter end. It was not fun for anyone at that point.  Well, I can't recover from that. I concede. Well played. No; finish the game. The game is over. You've won. No I haven't. We haven't finished yet. I'm conceding though. No. Don't be a spoilsport. Finish the game!
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Tiggum posted:Being presented with the options "Yes" and "Not now". No; not loving ever. I do not, as it happens, want you to ask me this question every time I use this app from now until the end of time. I want to say "no" to your bullshit once, and mean it. This, but also website notifications. Have anyone in the history of Accuweather ever chosen to enable their notifications without straight up signing for the site (if that's even possible)?
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YeahTubaMike posted:This, but also website notifications. Have anyone in the history of Accuweather ever chosen to enable their notifications without straight up signing for the site (if that's even possible)? All website notifications need to die. I've implored the desktop engineering team at my job to globally disallow them via GPO, because we (deskside support) get frequent tickets for people thinking they have a "virus" because they click "Allow" on every website asking to send a notification, and most of those notifications are ads, and plenty of the ads are those scammy "your computer is already infected!" ones.
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Do you want this app to make changes to your device? What? Changes? No. Wait, but I can't open the app unless I allow this? What changes? Why isn't this worded better?? e: What is a "notification"? credburn has a new favorite as of 00:31 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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First thing I do when I install a new browser is get uBlock Origin, second thing is to turn notifications off for all sites.
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The store didn't have my usual brand of coffee filters so I had to get a pack of some different brand. The filters are a good half an inch shorter than my usual brand, which means grounds get splashed the gently caress over the edge if I make a pot larger than six cups. And I feel compelled to use them all before I replace them, because my brain is hosed
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credburn posted:e: What is a "notification"? Pop-ups in all but name.
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E: what the gently caress
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After the 3.1kHz tone sounded continuously over the Memorial Day weekend, it was silent for over a week. I actually thought it was gone. I can't tell you how much my mental health improved with that poo poo gone. It's BACK, BABY! Hell yeah, I wanna die Edit: Finally got a response about it, turns out it's a boiler and they're working on a permanent fix for it? Not sure 100% what that means but here's hoping Brawnfire has a new favorite as of 21:36 on Jun 9, 2023 |
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Across years and cities I have been peeves at people who don't pick up dog crap Now for a month or two someone is leaving it almost directly at the bottom of the exit stairs, about 2 metres/6 feet from the nearest free poo poo bag dispenser and poop drop off Who does this Why
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Brawnfire posted:After the 3.1kHz tone sounded continuously over the Memorial Day weekend, it was silent for over a week. I actually thought it was gone. I can't tell you how much my mental health improved with that poo poo gone. Does knowing what it is help with the stress? I always find that I rest a little easier when I actually understand what the source of a noise is.
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It really weirdly does. The idea that someone has identified the problem and that there's a possible fix and that I'm not the only loving nutjob getting the air loom treatment takes a lot off my mind as well. It really is aimed directly at my house, though. I walked the length of my street and the sound was effectively blocked by buffering structures on either side of the source, effectively channeling the sound waves into the front of my house.
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Jun 10, 2023 00:49
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It’s alien greys loving with you. You’ll be probed soon sorry
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CelticPredator posted:It’s alien greys loving with you. You’ll be probed soon sorry Aliens aren't real. It's obviously the CIA loving with him.
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CelticPredator posted:It’s alien greys loving with you. You’ll be probed soon sorry And I said, "PROMISE?"
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FFT posted:I'd rather they cut the breathing than have that weird vocal fry-esque affectation where the last syllable of every sentence is three times longer than any other. Some dude's videos keep occasionally showing up as recommended and they seem right up my alley until I get a few sentences in and go "oh, it's this guy again." I think they're using software that automatically cuts out pauses of more than a specific length, and they've intentionally or uninentionally trained themselves to extend the tails at the end of sentences and phrases to make pacing seem more natural. gently caress you! It sounds awful! Stop it! Do the work yourself! an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8nrzI8p7Hk
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Brawnfire posted:After the 3.1kHz tone sounded continuously over the Memorial Day weekend, it was silent for over a week. I actually thought it was gone. I can't tell you how much my mental health improved with that poo poo gone. I had something similar while in college, but it happened every couple weeks at 4 AM. Turns out it was a protein recycler for a dogfood company draining the used grease tanks of the mcdonalds across the street
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I still have loads of canadian change turning up and it's been years since I was in the country Should probably just spend it, idk that the person manning the register at Arby's is going to notice or care if some of the quarters are commemorative "Queen Liz and a Caribou" instead of being a state or a park or whatever infinite variants go on US quarters
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I still have loads of canadian change turning up and it's been years since I was in the country I work at a 7-Eleven and we accept Canadian coins. My boss says, "if someone notices, give them a real nickel, otherwise nobody notices or cares."
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:"Queen Liz and a Caribou" Is this a catherine the great thing
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Am I wrong, or did it used to be the case that you could set a computer to boot from a USB and it would do so whenever a bootable USB was present at startup, keeping that option set until you changed it? Because it seems like every computer now has this process whereby it sees that the bootable USB is no longer present and removes it from the boot priority list, meaning that if you plug it back in and want to boot from it again you have to go back into the BIOS settings and move it to the top of the list again. It wasn't always like that, was it? Why can't I just set it to "boot from USB if available, otherwise boot from HD" once and have it remember that forever? Also, modern monitors take those few seconds to actually turn on so you can't see the screen that tells you what key to press (or when to press it) to get to the BIOS, so you just have to mash Esc or Del (or occasionally F2 or something) and hope you got it right.
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Dear summer likers: it is way too hot and summer isn't even officially started yet. You are wrong. That is all.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Dear summer likers: it is way too hot and summer isn't even officially started yet. You are wrong. That is all. Good, outspokenly correct people like us need a support group. gently caress summer, and gently caress weather that is reminiscent of summer.
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why is there always so much noise all the time
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aggressively air conditioned buildings are the worst. like i'm grateful to have it in a place where it gets hot enough for everything to break but having to wear scarves and sweaters inside when it's 95 outside is loving ridiculous. and not only that, but there's the environmental impact as well. ugh!!!!!!
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We moved into a new apartment and we have our AC completely off but the AC from the halls and surrounding units keep it at 22C at all times. It's stupid
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Killingyouguy! posted:We moved into a new apartment and we have our AC completely off but the AC from the halls and surrounding units keep it at 22C at all times. It's stupid Man, that sounds just perfect for me. Low 70's F, but I also never have to use any of my OWN electricity to achieve that? Sold!
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But it's 30 out. The air feels unnatural. Tbf, my previous place only had a window AC that I barely ever used.
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Killingyouguy! posted:We moved into a new apartment and we have our AC completely off but the AC from the halls and surrounding units keep it at 22C at all times. It's stupid Sounds like my old apartments only with heat - never had to turn the furnace on in winter because I lived on the 3rd floor & the heat from everyone else rose up. Had to open my windows a few times because I'd get home from work or wake up in the middle of the night to an 80+ degree sweatbox. Sucked in the summer though since it felt like my AC was constantly running & drove my electricity bill up.
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Count me in with the summer haters. I was surely a polar bear in a past life.Killingyouguy! posted:But it's 30 out. The air feels unnatural. quote:30 degrees Celsius = 86 Fahrenheit  To be fair, I live in a 3rd floor one-room apartment with four 9'x5' (2.75 m x 1.5 m) windows facing west, in an area of the US with humid summers. 4 times in the past 9 years, my AC has broken (not my fault! it's an old building!). Even when it happened in the spring when it was a beautiful 70 F/21 C outside, my apartment became a sweatbox when that afternoon sun hit. ("You run your AC when it's only 70??" Yes! This is why!) The other 3 times were in the summer, and I don't know exactly how hot it got, but my thermostat hit its 100F/38C maximum register and stayed there even at night. My will to live was tested, I tell you what. On the plus side, my heating bills are really low in the winter.
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I was a polar bear too At boy scout camp
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Tiggum posted:Also, modern monitors take those few seconds to actually turn on so you can't see the screen that tells you what key to press (or when to press it) to get to the BIOS, so you just have to mash Esc or Del (or occasionally F2 or something) and hope you got it right. Or at least that's what always worked for me, haven't needed to in a while.
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I've never felt annoyed by being a manlet until today, where as the heightiest man of the household at a lofty 165cm we had to deal with a chirping smoke alarm and not owning a stepstool to deal with these exact situations Why does this diminutive hobbit hole not own a stepladder, you may say Good rear end question The horrible screeching god above is my only answer now
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