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A chain jewelry store has been regularly buying up rush hour commercial slots on the local rock station since they've opened up about a decade ago. Their commercials usually consist of what feels like half an hour of clumsy dialogue between the manager and random employees about just how they absolutely love buying up jewelry by the pound in their spare time. The problem is over the years the tone of these voice actors has steadily evolved from the quietly suggestive "Diamonds are Forever~" to an all-hyped "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Experience the Summer Diamondapalooza like never before! Get a platinum dog cozie for your dog, get a pair of sparkly bull nuts for your lifted truck! Ever wanted to stick a large jewel in your SO's rear end in a top hat to show just how much you love them, well now you can during this Sunday's sale!!" Queue 3rd Tom Sawyer remix by Evanescence of the day.
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Yeah literally all the local alternative rock radio stations were bought out - one by ClearChannel, one being sold to another mid-sized conglomerate and the other basically buying itself into a tiny radio commune thing. They all suck now - the tiny radio commune doesnt have any money for licensing, so they play weird 80s b-sides all the time and say its part of their heritage or whatever, the mid sized radio station has very generic DJs who obviously are not live/from here and they play a lot of pop, and the big ClearChannel station stopped playing pink floyd.
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Vampire Panties posted:Yeah literally all the local alternative rock radio stations were bought out - one by ClearChannel, one being sold to another mid-sized conglomerate and the other basically buying itself into a tiny radio commune thing. They all suck now - the tiny radio commune doesnt have any money for licensing, so they play weird 80s b-sides all the time and say its part of their heritage or whatever, the mid sized radio station has very generic DJs who obviously are not live/from here and they play a lot of pop, and the big ClearChannel station stopped playing pink floyd. I was a college DJ for 3 years and I took it very seriously. This was so long ago though I spun actual records.
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Jul 13, 2023 00:57
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buglord posted:I use some little text expander chrome plugin for work and it saves me a ton of time but they’re enshittifying hard now. Thanks, I'll get to this right away!
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Jul 13, 2023 01:52
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That string has been disabled for literally years
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Jul 13, 2023 01:58
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Triikan posted:That string has been disabled for literally years The only way to view anything chronological on the mobile page (because I’ll be hosed if I install the app) is to click the hamburger menu, scroll down to Most Recent, then click Friends, at which point you get a very basic feed that shows your friends’ updates in chronological order with ads regularly interspersed. And it loads more slowly than the regular feed. There is a way to get to it on the desktop too, but Facebook is outrageous, reeking poo poo I check around once a week. It’s horrible, a genuine mockery of human connection.
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Hasturtium posted:The only way to view anything chronological on the mobile page (because I’ll be hosed if I install the app) is to click the hamburger menu, scroll down to Most Recent, then click Friends, at which point you get a very basic feed that shows your friends’ updates in chronological order with ads regularly interspersed. And it loads more slowly than the regular feed. There is a way to get to it on the desktop too, but Facebook is outrageous, reeking poo poo I check around once a week. It’s horrible, a genuine mockery of human connection. Even then it's still not showing you *all* of your friends, only the ones you interact with the most. Much like Spotify's absolutely dogshit "shuffle" prioritizing songs you listen to most often, this becomes self-fulfilling. Of course I only interact with the same 10 people and listen to the same 20 songs when that's all you ever loving show me.
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So I’ve had this issue with Spotify where it’ll auto generate mixes based on genres I like except holy poo poo they’re all hideously mismatched.  Example: I wanted to listen to Daily Mix 1. Instead it started playing the song Laid by James: https://youtu.be/0trh9Y598fM instead of, for instance, Profanatica. https://youtu.be/iAX5F7_Z2tc Now I love the song Laid, it’s cute!!! But Spotify…you made the mix stating that there would be Profanatica, who I have seen live, and let me tell you this key, foundational fact: they have very few threads in common with the song Laid by James. I’m no maestro but there is a distinct difference. Never fret, I found said metal mix…under Daily Mix 2, which states would it have Bowie and Kate Bush. It does not.
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Triikan posted:That string has been disabled for literally years I tested it right before I posted it to make sure it works, and it did. It's probably getting shittier country by country.
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I feel like just a few years ago, you could pretty easily find popular scenes of a lot of TV shows and movies on Youtube or maybe Daily Motion if you had to resort to that. But now, it seems like a lot of studios have been a LOT more serious about DMCA takedowns and scouring those places, so I'll try to Google for a scene and I'll get unrelated ones, or, worst of all...that God-awful loving "GetYarn" site that, seemingly, has almost entire episodes of TV shows on one to two second clips at a time. So their tagging/SEO will make it look like the given clip you're loading is the entire scene...but it's like part 1 of 20 for that scene because of how short all the clips are. And they DOMINATE all the video searches now.
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DrBouvenstein posted:I feel like just a few years ago, you could pretty easily find popular scenes of a lot of TV shows and movies on Youtube or maybe Daily Motion if you had to resort to that. Holy poo poo my world for a platform to hide all getyarn, it’s up there with Pinterest in wrecking any useful google results
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The quality of spray paint for huffing has gone way downhill.
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teen witch posted:So I’ve had this issue with Spotify where it’ll auto generate mixes based on genres I like except holy poo poo they’re all hideously mismatched. Lol Spotify put Arcade Fire in my "70s Mix" I guess because the song featured Peter Gabriel?
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pacerwpg posted:The quality of spray paint for huffing has gone way downhill. Mediocre!
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Anybody else in here wear Accuvue Oasys contacts? Have yours become just utter garbage? I can barely get my 2-weeks out if a pair when they used to go a month if I was careful. Just shredding around the edges, little chunks floating in my eye. Fuckin bullshit. They're in a class action lawsuit for price fixing over a few year period right now, I wonder if they're losing big money for Bausch and Lomb.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Anybody else in here wear Accuvue Oasys contacts? Have yours become just utter garbage? I can barely get my 2-weeks out if a pair when they used to go a month if I was careful. Just shredding around the edges, little chunks floating in my eye. Fuckin bullshit. They're in a class action lawsuit for price fixing over a few year period right now, I wonder if they're losing big money for Bausch and Lomb. I don’t think I ever had a pair of monthlies work for the entire month, three weeks in and they feel like cornflakes. Thankfully with WFH I switched to dailies and using glasses. Far cheaper and a 30 pack lasts for loving ever
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After being banned for 6 months, "Facebook Comments", the absolute best tiktok account has returned CHUDs are really mad about quarters now(?) https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8dv7eaV/
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Speedread this thread because I too have noticed things suck now. The nothing fancy hanes t-shirts I've been buying for 20 years are no longer Tagless:tm: and are now extremely scratchy. Two of them had torn seams right out of the packaging. Youtube suggests an unrelated video with no/a couple views to me every time I watch anything. Just sits there, third result down. They usually look procedurally generated. The amount of ads on mobile is insane. 2 preroll, 2 that play afterwards even if you don't have another video coming up. (I will say there's a lot of music being uploaded by rights holders in the last couple of years that you previously had to dig around in the scum basement to find, which you can usually listen to without premium.) Also, bread that goes moldy like a week before it's best by date. Not sure what's going on there.
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Winamp will never bite you and throw you in the basement.
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CJacobs posted:
why on ILLUSTRATOR? I’m too baffled for words.
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Volcott posted:
I know no specifics but I wonder if this could be something good actually. If supermarket bread is going bad quicker then maybe they're not using as many preservatives because the old ones have been banned. Bread is not made to sit at room temperature for weeks. We've all been raised with that abominable delusion. Keep it in the fridge or even freeze it. If you freeze homemade bread with no preservatives in it it lasts longer than you'd ever need anyway.
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Gmail's spam filter has allowed more obvious scam emails into my inbox in the past year than the previous 12 years combined.
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:I know no specifics but I wonder if this could be something good actually. If supermarket bread is going bad quicker then maybe they're not using as many preservatives because the old ones have been banned. Bread is not made to sit at room temperature for weeks. We've all been raised with that abominable delusion. I was gonna say, where the hell do they sell bread with a use by date that starts out more than a week away
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Avenza sucks rear end and I can't believe no one can design a usable GPS/GIS app. Like the functionality is largely okay, but holy gently caress why are all your UIs so bad? I'll happily pay for a pro version but not if the free version is so poo poo
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Speaking of Gmail, I’m really not fond of how it’s taken to assuming that after I’ve opened an email, read it, and then deleted it because I don’t need to keep it around any more, that must mean it’s junk mail and gets classified as that going forward. I’m this close to jumping to ProtonMail, and only hope that hasn’t begun circling the shitter without my knowledge.
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I feel like the average dog owner has gotten worse since the pandemic.
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Advertising in mobile games. It used to be an ad every now and then with the option to watch more ads to get free crap in game. Now it’s ads after everything you do, you’re offered ads for bonuses and if you choose no you get an ad anyway (but sans bonus) and the length of the ads has been creeping up and up.. I get 90 second ads now’s. Added bonus: the way 99% of games are now just Chinese ad generators with zero actual gameplay, plot and in some cases sound! Sure, I believe your rating of 500 000 five star ratings but only two written (negative) reviews is honest.
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bossy lady posted:I feel like the average dog owner has gotten worse since the pandemic. I was going to say as dogs get smaller the owners get shittier, but the larger dog owners are shittier too. Maybe people just suck more.
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A lot of people who absolutely should never be dog owners became dog owners during the pandemic.
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Speaking of things that are probably pandemic adjacent, people don't really say bless you or gesundheit or even a silly joke when you sneeze anymore. Just complete dead silence. It sucks. edit: I can get one out of them if I say "excuse me" first sometimes CJacobs fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Jul 14, 2023 |
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I now say "Are you done?" when someone sneezes in my presence. Take that poo poo outside, cretin.
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Ergo Propter Hog posted:Gmail's spam filter has allowed more obvious scam emails into my inbox in the past year than the previous 12 years combined. Oh yeah. The latest one I've seen, that's hit my inbox (PRIMARY folder, no less, not even shunted to the updates or promotional folders/labels) are scams claiming to be from Lowes' Home Depot, or Harbor Freight wanting me to do a survey to win some product. I distinctly remember the fake Lowes' ones claimed I'd get a Yeti cooler backpack. And it wasn't, like, one or two that got through. It was a weird surge where for a week or two, I'd get multiple emails DAILY to "take a survey to claim my prize" or something. Every time I hit the button in Gmail to flag it, but still got more...I did searching, and LOTS of people in various forums or the google help boards were literally complaining about the EXACT. SAME. EMAILS. Then after a week or two, they'd finally stop...only to appear again a couple months later for another week or two. I think so far it's happened three times and each time it was from a different one of those three hardware/tool stores. I expect the next batch will be fake ones from Tractor Supply, Co or like Acme Tools? CJacobs posted:Speaking of things that are probably pandemic adjacent, people don't really say bless you or gesundheit or even a silly joke when you sneeze anymore. Just complete dead silence. It sucks. Or the exact opposite, where a single sneeze or cough has someone making a COVID "joke".
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I got am email from Comcast once with the subject “A gift for you!” or some poo poo. For some reason my sixth sense tingled and it was a legit 100 dollar Amazon gift card for no particular reason. gently caress Comcast anyway.
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Extra row of tits posted:Advertising in mobile games. I downloaded Words With Friends 2 to play with my grandma, and it's close to unplayable with ads. And they charge like $25/month for ad free, who the gently caress is paying that for a lovely scrabble ripoff? Just scamming old people, I guess. My grandma doesn't pay that, but she's had multiple strangers start games with her and try to scam her too, which she is thankfully able to recognize. I had to stop playing, sorry g.
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Lowe’s has been discontinuing a lot of stuff for no discernible reason other than that it doesn’t sell at all or very well, so off it goes to clearance and then discontinuation. A lot of the stuff is for older homes and hard-to-find items that used to be in stock at the local hardware store before Lowe’s came in and ran them out of business. There is no reason to drop these items because they’re not replaced by anything new or different. There’s a Home Depot further away that 8 out of 10 times may still carry it, but HD eventually discontinues carrying the item, too. Ace Hardware will usually carry it and never discontinue it, but they’re always out of stock; ALWAYS. It’s always gonna be a part you need right then and there where you can’t wait for Amazon next day or whatever. It sucks poo poo.
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Volcott posted:Winamp will never bite you and throw you in the basement. Winamp shills NFTs and is an offbrand spotify knockoff these days.
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Bad Purchase posted:the smiths are good and the algorithm WILL have you acknowledge it I don't use Spotify that much anymore but when I did I rarely took its recommendations and I never used playlists. I would add and listen to music pretty much exclusively by album.
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armpit_enjoyer posted:Winamp shills NFTs and is an offbrand spotify knockoff these days. I made this post during Real Sleep Deprivation Hours and should have specified I meant the copy of Winamp v5.666 that I keep on a flash drive with Media Player Classic-HC and some other stuff in case the internet dies and I need functional apps that just work:tm: by virtue of not being updated in 10 years.
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My theory is the rise of content creation and social media stars has led to more dog owners. Because it's such a quick and efficient way to make a scroller pause and watch your content, generate engagement. What quicker way to a person's heartstrings? Same simple reason there's so many babies/cats/dogs in TV commercials. Remember like a year ago when some YouTube woman bought a new puppy and accidentally posted herself kicking and slapping it because it wasn't cute enough and didn't rocket her to stardom? Dog ownership is on the rise bc it's a career move DrBouvenstein posted:Oh yeah. The latest one I've seen, that's hit my inbox (PRIMARY folder, no less, not even shunted to the updates or promotional folders/labels) are scams claiming to be from Lowes' Home Depot, or Harbor Freight wanting me to do a survey to win some product. I distinctly remember the fake Lowes' ones claimed I'd get a Yeti cooler backpack.
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