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Deep Glove Bruno posted:all american passenger vehicles are fat and huge now like the fat ferrari I've got some bad news, it's not limited to american cars...the fat ferrari exists and looks like an angry shoe  all cars are poo poo now and precision engineered to make life worse for people outside of them, and more expensive for those in them redgubbinz fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Jul 28, 2023 |
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Let’s all take a minute to appreciate how things are now, because after the next election it’s all gonna suck for years.
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Jul 29, 2023 00:33
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Extra row of tits posted:Let’s all take a minute to appreciate how things are now, because after the next election it’s all gonna suck for years. Mate, the LDP winning another consecutive election is not gonna change a goddamn thing for me.
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Jul 29, 2023 01:31
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Extra row of tits posted:Let’s all take a minute to appreciate how things are now, because after the next election it’s all gonna suck for years.
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Jul 29, 2023 01:35
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Extra row of tits posted:Let’s all take a minute to appreciate how things are now, because after the next election it’s all gonna suck for years. Starting to sound like the climate change thread in here.
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Jul 29, 2023 01:55
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:all american passenger vehicles are fat and huge now like the fat ferrari IIRC big car collision safety is a lie, since small cars are much less likely to be in a collision in the first place (as they are much more maneuverable, have shorter stopping distances, etc)
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Jul 29, 2023 02:21
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:all american passenger vehicles are fat and huge now like the fat ferrari And negating a sizable percentage of the real fuel economy gains we've realized in the process. It's not enough that they're huge, lumbering, ugly, and dangerous - they're more expensive to run than a smaller car would be.
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Jul 29, 2023 04:34
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VikingofRock posted:IIRC big car collision safety is a lie, since small cars are much less likely to be in a collision in the first place (as they are much more maneuverable, have shorter stopping distances, etc) Those benefits of small cars are negated by the fact that driver training and licensing is considered a cost center for the state. Let's just let people drive without knowing what the hell they're doing and up-armor the cars to compensate.
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Jul 29, 2023 05:16
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So there's a whole bunch of horses out of work since we start employing them to be ridden everywhere right? Couldn't we just train them to drive everyone about? Don't see them running into each other all the time, so they should be perfect drivers. Problem solved. 
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Jul 29, 2023 05:20
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naem posted:years ago at my first type-numbers-into-a-spreadsheet job, we used a piece of software that takes numbers and turns them into useful things like making payments etc. 
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Jul 29, 2023 05:40
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Those dumb fuckin Dyson combo faucet/dryer thingys that airports are putting in their restrooms. They don't loving work right and when you combine it with the stupid soap dispenser you have to wave your hand under I just walk right out and use hand sanitizer. WTF faucets and soap pumps and normal rear end paper towel dispensers are a solved problem idk why we need electricity and sensors and "engineering" just so I can wash my loving hands.
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Jul 29, 2023 06:51
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Those hand dryers also sound like a loving jet engine and freak out my kid to the point where it's hard to find a public toilet he'll use. And they don't even work as well as the actual warm slow ones did for decades before all being replaced. I don't need a fuckin ram air turbine to dry my hands by spraying all the water off them onto my shoes and the floor with 8000 pounds of thrust. I can shake it onto the floor myself if that's what we're supposed to do now
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Jul 29, 2023 07:02
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Arson Daily posted:Those dumb fuckin Dyson combo faucet/dryer thingys that airports are putting in their restrooms. They don't loving work right and when you combine it with the stupid soap dispenser you have to wave your hand under I just walk right out and use hand sanitizer. WTF faucets and soap pumps and normal rear end paper towel dispensers are a solved problem idk why we need electricity and sensors and "engineering" just so I can wash my loving hands. I suspect that trying to integrate all of that into the sink is an attempt to limit/reallocate cleaning costs - no puddles of soap to wipe up, no paper towels littered everywhere. If people didn’t become feral animals whenever they traveled (speaking of things that seem to have got shittier for no good reason), airports probably wouldn’t pursue it.
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Jul 29, 2023 07:06
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And yet most bathrooms I walk in to are still just as gross as they've ever been. You're not going to engineer your way out of that problem, it'll still just be a person with a rag, a mop, and a spray bottle
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Jul 29, 2023 07:12
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Arson Daily posted:And yet most bathrooms I walk in to are still just as gross as they've ever been. You're not going to engineer your way out of that problem, it'll still just be a person with a rag, a mop, and a spray bottle And they are paid per floor as a contractor. Enjoy your water fountain.
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Jul 29, 2023 08:28
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:Those hand dryers also sound like a loving jet engine and freak out my kid to the point where it's hard to find a public toilet he'll use. And they don't even work as well as the actual warm slow ones did for decades before all being replaced. I don't need a fuckin ram air turbine to dry my hands by spraying all the water off them onto my shoes and the floor with 8000 pounds of thrust. I can shake it onto the floor myself if that's what we're supposed to do now Can't seem to pull it up now, but I once read a CDC report which outlined the way that the high pressure dryers perfectly aerosolize and spread any remaining debris through the room. Eugh.
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Jul 29, 2023 09:14
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Yeah they shut all those airdryers down during lockdown here, one of the few good moves. Of course they immediately opened them up and doubled down on them once we beat covid permanently in 2022. I swear there are more of those loving dryers than actual toilets at the mall here.
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Jul 29, 2023 09:17
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Im gonna grab the low hanging fruit. Movies.
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Jul 29, 2023 13:53
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Extra row of tits posted:Im gonna grab the low hanging fruit. Eh movies always go in ebbs and flows of better and worse. Looks like finally comic book movies are dying off a bit, so possibly getting better soon.
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Jul 29, 2023 14:00
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No! Its all terrible forever!
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Jul 29, 2023 14:04
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Still waiting for Harry Potter... In spaaaaace.
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Jul 29, 2023 14:04
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dr_rat posted:Eh movies always go in ebbs and flows of better and worse. Looks like finally comic book movies are dying off a bit, so possibly getting better soon. The next wave is already upon us. Toy/product movies.
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Jul 29, 2023 14:08
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:The next wave is already upon us. Toy/product movies. Good, maybe we'll get a proper Garbage pail kids movie this time.
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Jul 29, 2023 14:11
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:The next wave is already upon us. Toy/product movies.
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Jul 29, 2023 16:21
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" Can't take screenshot because of security policy." gently caress you.
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Jul 29, 2023 18:01
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:The next wave is already upon us. Toy/product movies. Waiting on a dark fantasy Guillermo del Toro reboot of The Smurfs.
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Jul 29, 2023 18:08
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grocery store in my town has these fancy new automatic sink faucets and they're kinda good. you can do the whole process without touching anything. also the hand dryer projects a little DRY text onto your hand for aiming which I find hilarious for some reason.
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Jul 29, 2023 18:12
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My local independent supermarket got four of those self service lanes recently. They are slow Don't work on some barcodes There's always a free human service lane because they are just not that busy. Business!
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Jul 29, 2023 18:42
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Extra row of tits posted:My local independent supermarket got four of those self service lanes recently. Here's my "old man yells at clouds" moment. Now that I have a family of 4, I generally have enough groceries to warrant the lanes with actual checkers. But the last few months, the people working the checkout can't even muster a single word while I'm in their line. No "hello," "did you find everything okay?" etc. etc. Just nothing. I mean I get it. You work for Kroger and they're rear end, but I try to sort my poo poo out a logical way for bagging and will do my own bagging if enough baggers aren't available. So I just said "gently caress it. I'll just do the self check out." Except it is such a pain in the rear end. Every 10 or so items it magically decides I didn't bag something that I just bagged. Or just says that I need assistance for no discernible reason whatsoever. Like, the only winning move is not to play.
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Jul 29, 2023 19:03
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Out of all the stores I shop at with self-checkout lanes, Fry’s (Kroger in AZ) has the assholiest and most frustrating checkout lanes imaginable. This is the only store out of all of them that seems to have a weight detector in the bagging area, so if the thing you just scanned isn’t put in the bag in 1/1,000,000,000th of a second, it actually yells at you condescendingly, “PLEASE PUT THE ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA!!!!!” Like holy loving poo poo, I just scanned this thing and couldn’t have been quicker to toss it in the bag, and the machine still yells at me with an uncalled for smugness. And you can’t do a loving thing until it detects the item is in the bagging area, which is almost never and an associate has to come over and get involved and UGH. I’m told most, if not all stores have the weight detector in the bagging area of self-checkout lanes for anti-theft purposes, but most stores decide to disable it because if you already scanned the item, you’re obviously gonna pay for it so where’s the theft? Fry’s is the only store that has it enabled and it sucks poo poo.
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You Are A Elf posted:Out of all the stores I shop at with self-checkout lanes, Fry’s (Kroger in AZ) has the assholiest and most frustrating checkout lanes imaginable. This is the only store out of all of them that seems to have a weight detector in the bagging area, so if the thing you just scanned isn’t put in the bag in 1/1,000,000,000th of a second, it actually yells at you condescendingly, “PLEASE PUT THE ITEM IN THE BAGGING AREA!!!!!” I think the point is more to detect if extra stuff is bagged without being scanned which it can’t do unless you actually bag everything you scan, but yes it’s all dumb as hell.
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Jul 29, 2023 19:32
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Most self checkouts used to have an option to tare the weight of your reusable shopping bags so that you can bag your stuff as you scan it, but I've noticed lately they've either removed the option or you need to wait for an employee to come authorize it. Love having to scan everything and jenga-pile it onto the bagging area, pay, and then struggle to bag everything properly on the floor while the checkout nags me to take my items every two seconds.
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Jul 29, 2023 20:02
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Got no idea where else to post. Tried reporting animated/drawn CSAM both locally and federally on at least six occasions to the FBI. I talk like a hick; I say "poo poo" and "gently caress" for emphasis when riled up. They hang up on me because  I tried to report the issue, but me not supplying my name despite the operator refusing to give his was grounds for termination.
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Jul 29, 2023 20:17
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Yeah I don’t bother with self check out unless it’s like 2 items
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Jul 29, 2023 20:19
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I've never used a self check out without stealing something and if a cop is reading this they can straight gently caress off. They're a cost saving measure, but who said it should only apply to the store?!
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Jul 29, 2023 21:11
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Fruity Pebbles are still the artificially flavored sugar bullshit I loved as a kid but now an inexcusable number of the pebbles are stale, dense, inedible bits that ruin every bite. The QC on these are negligent
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Jul 29, 2023 22:02
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Yay, self checkout chat! I use them for 10 items or less. When I have a full cart, it goes to the professional.
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Jul 29, 2023 23:48
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It's me. I was the one who was really mad when Albertsons got rid of the self checkout
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Jul 30, 2023 00:09
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Self checkout: sixteen available spots, all taken, but line moves fast. Regular checkout: sixteen empty checkout lanes, one checkout person, it will take an hour to purchase groceries. I know this is kind of well tread material by now, but why have so many checkout lanes? Is it for the one day a year they have a Big Sale? I've never seen more than two used at a time*, and that's only in absolute emergencies. *since the advent of the self-checkout, I guess is what I mean. I was born in the 80s, I remember How Things Usta Be
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There's a special place in hell for people who take a cart full of groceries thru the self checkout.
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