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pencilhands posted:i retract my previous statement, you do not "gotta hand it" to lowtax under any circumstances
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"Death of the admin" argues that the function of a forum is independent from the intentions of its developer
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Mudlark posted:Precisely the reason I decided to come back and see if Something Awful was still around and active. Y'all are alright Same, I was stoked to come back after a few years and find that the community was stronger than ever. Love you folks.
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Minotaurus Rex posted:I’m sure it’s been mentioned many many times but everyone is being subtly programmed via social media to be reflexively horrible to each other and it’s enshittifying and corrupting pretty much all human communication I saw a video the other day where these two people got into a dispute over a parking space, but instead of like directly arguing with one another they each got their phone out and started recording while narrating why they were in the right. They were 5 feet apart from one another each going "so there I was just minding my own business when this rear end in a top hat comes out of nowhere..." We're a country of 330 million main characters.
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AARD VARKMAN posted:I mostly read sci-fi and feel like there's a good amount of new decent stuff coming out still, or at least, I am far less jaded about it than movies. Partly this is because recent years have really moved toward gender equality in awards and publishing in genre fic A lot of newer fantasy is really good, too, for example the 'Broken Earth' series by N.K. Jemisin. And I'm reading this really great series that I'm sure a lot of people are familiar with called 'Red Rising' which is kind of a fantasy/sci-fi blend.
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DeepL now requires you to register an account to use their service, still free but 
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Outlook moving the tabs to the side
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I tried the "new" Outlook. My task list went from 5-8 lines of 12 pt font to taking up my entire vertical screen height.
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Hotels all suck, shouldn't they want my business? $300/night rooms and $24 glasses of milk, get the gently caress out of here.
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Sep 19, 2023 22:32
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This fridge is for making questionable, shady profits off drunks and children, do not touch! 
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Sep 19, 2023 22:46
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What a hateful piece of technology lol
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Altering? Do they expect the items returned after having eaten them?
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I like how you have to request a fridge, for additional charge. And that's probably on top of it being 300 bucks a night for a lovely motel.
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digitalist posted:Altering? Do they expect the items returned after having eaten them? You are charged by these things just for opening the door. 'Altering' means moving anything inside the minibar.
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What if you kick it and make everything inside fall over?
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GolfHole posted:Hotels all suck, shouldn't they want my business? $300/night rooms and $24 glasses of milk, get the gently caress out of here. All hotels and motels are insane now. Prices have doubled or more from predemic times and I know Motel 6 isn't twice as sanitized as before.
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digitalist posted:Altering? Do they expect the items returned after having eaten them? I remember my dad telling me that on work trips people would drink from them then just stop at the liqour store the next day to restock them without the insane markup. Modern ones don’t do that. They should be illegal. Armacham posted:Here's the price list for the lazy Worse than I expected
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Wtf is a romance kit? Condoms and lube?
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A Strange Aeon posted:Wtf is a romance kit? Condom yes
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sebmojo posted:yes Maybe some lovely champers
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A Strange Aeon posted:Wtf is a romance kit? Condoms and lube? Sometimes one of those cheapo vibrators, breath mints, personal wipes...
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Wait, so let’s say you open it and grab a soda. Do you automatically get charged the price of the soda PLUS an extra 50 as it assumes you stored your own poo poo in there?
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pencilhands posted:Wait, so let’s say you open it and grab a soda. Do you automatically get charged the price of the soda PLUS an extra 50 as it assumes you stored your own poo poo in there? What does your heart tell you
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Maybe there is a camera in the fridge to monitor for unauthorized personal items.
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i just stayed in a hotel with one of those. I opened it to see what was in there but didn't move anything. 
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Modal Auxiliary posted:I loving love self-checkout dude, it's like an express lane just for shoplifting. Every piece of produce is a banana! BOGO specials on all items too light to be detected by the uncalibrated scale! Everything under the cart is free! don't make a habit of shoplifting from major chain stores. the employees may not care, but the company knows exactly how much you stole, because they have you on camera (these are very advanced camera systems that use facial/gait recognition to track you the whole time you're in the store). you're only temporarily getting away with it, as they wait for it to add up to an amount that the law cares about
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evobatman posted:I tried the "new" Outlook. My task list went from 5-8 lines of 12 pt font to taking up my entire vertical screen height. I actually really like the new outlook if and only if you have a portrait-orientation monitor to put it on
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pencilhands posted:Wait, so let’s say you open it and grab a soda. Do you automatically get charged the price of the soda PLUS an extra 50 as it assumes you stored your own poo poo in there? No. They're typically weight sensors. Otherwise it's inventoried at time of cleaning. If things are moved around housekeeping will mark it as used rather than rummage around to try and figure out what is where if it takes more than a couple of seconds. Also if they are dealing with your stuff in there it's a hassle, ranging from "ugh" to "ewww." They really don't want to deal with your leftover beef stew that you let drip all over poo poo. Also if it's weight triggered they want to discourage people playing Indiana Jones and thinking they're being clever by putting a rock in the place of liquor. Of all the awful things in the world happening now, the thread losing their mind over hotel mini safes is very late 80s, if not earlier. They're outrageously expensive, have always been outrageously expensive, and 99% of the time if you tell the front desk you need a fridge "for medication" they'll send one up for no charge beyond tipping the guy for carting it up. And I say at least 80s because those were forbidden territory when traveling with family as a young kid. They're predatory and awful and exist to take advantage of children, drunks, or business travelers and their expense reports. But they're hardly something new.
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PJOmega posted:No. They're typically weight sensors. Otherwise it's inventoried at time of cleaning. If things are moved around housekeeping will mark it as used rather than rummage around to try and figure out what is where if it takes more than a couple of seconds. Thank you! I appreciate the info
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If you have to stay in a hotel, consider bringing lots of drinking water, like a 24 pack or a few gallon bottles.
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erosion posted:If you have to stay in a hotel, consider bringing lots of drinking water, like a 24 pack or a few gallon bottles. I stay in lots of hotels, I like to bring a 12 pack of 12 ounce bottles. Also some jerky and some trail mix that's all nuts and dried berries, not any candy. These snacks are filling and shelf stable, which is good because you never know exactly what the fridge situation is going to be. The road to financial ruin is paved with minibars, room service, and bottled water on the desk that costs you $6 the second you break the seal.
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I travel a ton for work and I haven’t seen a “we charge you for storing your own poo poo” mini fridge, ever.
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Buce posted:I travel a ton for work and I haven’t seen a “we charge you for storing your own poo poo” mini fridge, ever. Yeah 50 bucks for opening the fridge is insane
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