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Talking on the phone while drunk is only okay when you need to speak to Kohl's customer service
Teriyaki Hairpiece fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Jan 21, 2024 |
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Jan 21, 2024 23:19
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credburn posted:When did video games start getting "seasons"? My favourite part of “seasons” is when they make certain cards unavailable in different seasons. You can’t use the items you buy. What a deal!
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Jan 21, 2024 23:34
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Talking on the phone while drunk is only okay when you need to speak to
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Jan 21, 2024 23:55
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Like how the dilemma is apparently "order delivery or drive drunk" rather than "order delivery or don't order delivery".
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Jan 21, 2024 23:58
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Cerekk posted:Sure it is. Nobody tips UPS drivers; 
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Jan 22, 2024 00:02
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Modal Auxiliary posted:Just got off a United flight and couldn't wait to share this with y'all: you can no longer purchase snacks or drinks using archaic methods such as "handing the flight attendant cash" or "using a credit card". Now you must install the United app (which doesn't work) using the plane's wifi (which costs money and usually doesn't work), then add a credit card to the app (which never actually saves your card because gently caress you), then tell the flight attendant the name on your account so they can look it up (which also rarely works because the wifi is so poo poo). All of this while stuffed into an "economy plus seat" which costs extra but is literally just a regular exit row seat that costs $170 extra per person. I never got my snack. Jetstar wanted $5 for lovely drip coffee. Quicky figured out to bring a sandwich/snacks and a thermos with actual decent coffee.
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Jan 22, 2024 00:46
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Duck and Cover posted:Maybe instead of pretending phone calls are ever the correct solution we could make the systems that aren't phone calls less poo poo. We have a state ubereats/grubhub etc. alternative that I'm convinced is just somebody calling the restaurant. No, dude. Putting an app between us is where we really saw the late-stage capitalism sink its teeth in. Things used to be a lot simpler when everyone just ordered over the phone where the restaurant. Who can skim in that transaction? It's customer to restaurant. We made the rod at our backs.
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Jan 22, 2024 04:05
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Restaurants should set up a system where they're like 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM dine-in, 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM delivery, giving 2 hours for cleanup with no customers and the staff splitting the delivery tips for the night. e: less gas and miles for the driver
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Jan 22, 2024 04:10
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I'll just keep eating blocks of cheese over the kitchen sink to side-step this whole conundrum. Thank you.
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Jan 22, 2024 04:18
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Even without the middleman it creates problems. I miss being able to look and be like "I'm going to eat here" or "gently caress this there are too many people." I've sat in a 20 minute invisible line and had to remind the staff I still have to pay them like they forgot how selling sandwiches works.
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Jan 22, 2024 04:20
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I usually make sure I have something ready to eat by time I'm hosed up late at night. Usually I'll go out and get a big sub during the day and eat half that night and half the next. And I'm trying to cook more finally. I used to quite a bit but sadbrains. I found that an air fryer that can only be used on a timer (the Costco special) is great for the late night drunk munchies, and if you pass out you won't burn your poo poo down.
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Jan 22, 2024 04:22
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Time_pants posted:No, dude. Putting an app between us is where we really saw the late-stage capitalism sink its teeth in. Things used to be a lot simpler when everyone just ordered over the phone where the restaurant. Who can skim in that transaction? It's customer to restaurant. We made the rod at our backs. I'd feel worse about the middleman existing if it hadn't taken a pandemic for these restaurants to even offer online ordering.
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Jan 22, 2024 04:29
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Outrail posted:Jetstar wanted $5 for lovely drip coffee. Prepare for flights as if there's going to be no food or drinks available, and that a crying baby will be positioned both beside and behind you, and you can't be disappointed.
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Jan 22, 2024 04:30
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Duck and Cover posted:I'd feel worse about the middleman existing if it hadn't taken a pandemic for these restaurants to even offer online ordering. Probably because it is an objectively bad idea and so they only did it out of necessity Atopian posted:Prepare for flights as if there's going to be no food or drinks available, and that a crying baby will be positioned both beside and behind you, and you can't be disappointed. Haha, except you forgot the third baby unless you pay for the empty lap upgrade. I just wanna watch the pilot of a small turboprop do his thing from 5ft behind him through an open cabin door, while chain-smoking cigarettes and drinking liquor until I can't hear my ears ring any more like my gramps did. Edit: also the 3rd baby is like, 23yo moist banana bread fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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Jan 22, 2024 04:38
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I remember the first time I ate in after Covid and being kind of shocked at how much better the stuff from the restaurant was when it hadn’t been stewing and cooling in a takeout box for a while.
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Jan 22, 2024 04:42
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withak posted:I remember the first time I ate in after Covid and being kind of shocked at how much better the stuff from the restaurant was when it hadn’t been stewing and cooling in a takeout box for a while. I had the opposite experience; a place I’d been ordering all throughout COVID and absolutely loved gave me the worst experience I’ve ever had at a restaurant 3x in a row when I went in and I never went back & haven’t ordered from them since Also re: air travel get status nerds first class rules
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Jan 22, 2024 05:15
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:Also re: air travel get status nerds first class rules No, status has gotten shittier for no reason. Between covid waivers and the premium credit card explosion and airlines getting better at predicting the perfect price point to maximize monetization of first class, the only thing status gets you now is a spot at #38 on the upgrade list for one open seat.
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Jan 22, 2024 05:45
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moist banana bread posted:Probably because it is an objectively bad idea and so they only did it out of necessity moist banana bread posted:Even without the middleman it creates problems. I miss being able to look and be like "I'm going to eat here" or "gently caress this there are too many people." I've sat in a 20 minute invisible line and had to remind the staff I still have to pay them like they forgot how selling sandwiches works. If only there was a way to get in line without being physically in line and get your food faster. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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Jan 22, 2024 06:31
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:I found that an air fryer that can only be used on a timer (the Costco special) is great for the late night drunk munchies, and if you pass out you won't burn your poo poo down. #alcoholichacks
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Jan 22, 2024 06:57
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Cerekk posted:Why would you tip when there's a huge delivery fee? The whole point of a delivery fee is that business are responsible for paying their employees. this has to be a troll. nobody is this stupid
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Jan 22, 2024 08:55
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Cactus Ghost posted:this has to be a troll. nobody is this stupid methanar was
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Jan 22, 2024 08:57
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Duck and Cover posted:I'd feel worse about the middleman existing if it hadn't taken a pandemic for these restaurants to even offer online ordering. online ordering sucks rear end. it takes fifteen seconds and one button press to order a pizza by phone and i can just pay when i pick it up. it takes bare minimum five minutes to order through some cokehead UX's latest fuckup and i have to type my fuckin cc info into some text field i cant see because zooming out is disabled on the mobile site for no god drat reason
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Jan 22, 2024 09:02
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I do find it interesting how much delivery food culture has changed us. Just a few years ago we somehow managed without things like Uber Eats, but now people look at you like you're crazy when you suggest that maybe you shouldn't spend your entire paycheck on overpriced food delivery.Cerekk posted:No, status has gotten shittier for no reason. Between covid waivers and the premium credit card explosion and airlines getting better at predicting the perfect price point to maximize monetization of first class, the only thing status gets you now is a spot at #38 on the upgrade list for one open seat. They've also become super stingy with airport lounge access too unless you pay up for the highest level credit card which keeps having its fees increased every few years. The funny thing is that if you're on a different airline alliance you're allowed to use them if you have status due to alliance rules, it's only for the people who have status on USA-based airlines that get screwed with lounge access. Along with miles become worthless, they also keep making it harder and harder to get status. I'm a longtime Delta flyer and now they only care about how much money you spend on the airline, you can't get it by just taking flights anymore.
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Jan 22, 2024 10:15
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they dont make money on flights, at all. if anything the airline is the loss-leader for the loyalty program
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Jan 22, 2024 10:38
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Aliensandwich posted:I feel like Sriracha sauce lost its kick after it was brought back recently. It feels weirdly watered down. I'd imagine it has to do with whatever shortage they were facing, but dayum. I've been having a sriracha sized hole in my life since the EU banned it. I know there are alternatives but I don't think they taste as good. And yes I saw those youtube videos where they had asian people taste the US sriracha and their stuff and hate the US version. I still preferred it.
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Jan 22, 2024 13:08
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credburn posted:When did video games start getting "seasons"? When games reached market saturation. If number doesn't go up, investments don't pay, and the supply of funding for the entire industry disappears. What do you do when there are no more new customers to conquer? 
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Jan 22, 2024 16:00
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Woolie Wool posted:When games reached market saturation. If number doesn't go up, investments don't pay, and the supply of funding for the entire industry disappears. What do you do when there are no more new customers to conquer? OK, so you start selling games that don't exist yet to pad the current quarter KPIs; but what do you do when THAT reaches saturation? (the answer is legal gambling for kids and crypto-jpgs, of course)
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Jan 22, 2024 16:22
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Woolie Wool posted:What do you do when there are no more new customers to conquer? It's simple. We uh kill the shareholders. *Pencil trick but with a whole keyboard*
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Jan 22, 2024 16:27
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Cactus Ghost posted:online ordering sucks rear end. it takes fifteen seconds and one button press to order a pizza by phone and i can just pay when i pick it up. it takes bare minimum five minutes to order through some cokehead UX's latest fuckup and i have to type my fuckin cc info into some text field i cant see because zooming out is disabled on the mobile site for no god drat reason I have anxiety and hate cold calling and talking to angry strangers on the phone who just want me to hang up so they can go back to their miserable minimum wage job Machines don't care how long I take or if I change my mind at the last minute Back in college we had a deal where id pay for food if my friends ordered it and picked it up and it was awesome. It was like a magic spell I could cast to summon food. I don't even like answering the door for the delivery guy.
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Jan 22, 2024 16:36
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Cactus Ghost posted:online ordering sucks rear end. it takes fifteen seconds and one button press to order a pizza by phone and i can just pay when i pick it up. it takes bare minimum five minutes to order through some cokehead UX's latest fuckup and i have to type my fuckin cc info into some text field i cant see because zooming out is disabled on the mobile site for no god drat reason if you're on iOS, stopthemadness allows you to prevent pages from interfering with zooming.
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Jan 22, 2024 16:38
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steinrokkan posted:(the answer is legal gambling for kids and crypto-jpgs, of course) I'm soooooooo tired of those loving loud rear end gambling app commercials. Every single one is multiple decibels louder than anything else. And they have big celebrities doing them. John Goodman, Drew Barrymore, Joel McHale, Sarah Jessica Parker, etc. It's all from one company too I think. Super loud and bright and multicolored commercials with people on roller coasters that sure would look fun to a child. For a slot machine game. I can't believe that China, of all places, is the one to stamp down on stuff like this and loot boxes or whatever that poo poo is.
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Jan 22, 2024 17:32
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I can’t loving stand all the gambling commercials
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Jan 22, 2024 17:34
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I'm soooooooo tired of those loving loud rear end gambling app commercials. Every single one is multiple decibels louder than anything else. And they have big celebrities doing them. John Goodman, Drew Barrymore, Joel McHale, Sarah Jessica Parker, etc. It's all from one company too I think. Super loud and bright and multicolored commercials with people on roller coasters that sure would look fun to a child. For a slot machine game. On the TV side, it's Draft Kings ads with Kevin Hart. But all the sports shows have internalized the gambling ads as part of their content now, so you have the Sunday Night Football analysts telling us that Josh Allen should run for more than 60 yards tonight, take the over! On Draft Kings.
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Jan 22, 2024 17:35
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That DraftKings/FanDuel poo poo is so exploitative and predatory and loving gross that it makes me goddamn furious. Several of my therapy clients have lost massive sums of money (not to mention interpersonal relationships) because these apps are weaponized to prey on people with addictive and/or compulsive personality disorders. It's loving deplorable.
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Jan 22, 2024 17:42
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steinrokkan posted:OK, so you start selling games that don't exist yet to pad the current quarter KPIs; but what do you do when THAT reaches saturation? Chris Roberts posted:Hasn't come up yet.
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Jan 22, 2024 17:48
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Y'see, the more badges you earn, the more chances you have to pick a mystery box, and if you're a new subscriber you get 40% off for the first three months, as long as you're signed up for auto pay, and that gives you double entries on every transaction for our big sweepstakes, which might just help you earn points at a faster rate, if you add an authorized user to your account the incentive for the referral bonus goes up to a low annual subscription fee which is significantly less than monthly
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Jan 22, 2024 17:59
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redshirt posted:On the TV side, it's Draft Kings ads with Kevin Hart. Yeah these are on TV too. That's what I was referring to. And +1 to all of the Draft King sports betting garbage too. Online gambling has exploded in the past 10 years or so. I'd imagine because it was probably illegal before. On a side note, my city might get a 350 million dollar Hard Rock casino that the people did not vote on and the outgoing (very very longtime) mayor may have done some back door dealings because it was very suspicious how they announced stuff without giving anyone time to respond. We only have native owned casinos here I think so the Menominee tribe will be in charge but I heard they're in partnership with the Seminole tribe in Florida and I don't want money from here going to Florida. Ugh. Sorry, I'm frustrated. The past 2 weeks I've been getting mailers, phone calls, text messages about how all of these amazing jobs are coming here that we do not need. Casinos are trash. Modal Auxiliary posted:That DraftKings/FanDuel poo poo is so exploitative and predatory and loving gross that it makes me goddamn furious. Several of my therapy clients have lost massive sums of money (not to mention interpersonal relationships) because these apps are weaponized to prey on people with addictive and/or compulsive personality disorders. It's loving deplorable. 
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Jan 22, 2024 18:35
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Online sports betting was legalized in 2018 after the Supreme Court struck down PASPA so about 6 years but yeah it’s gone loving crazy
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Jan 22, 2024 18:41
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Y'see, the more badges you earn, the more chances you have to pick a mystery box, and if you're a new subscriber you get 40% off for the first three months, as long as you're signed up for auto pay, and that gives you double entries on every transaction for our big sweepstakes, which might just help you earn points at a faster rate, if you add an authorized user to your account the incentive for the referral bonus goes up to a low annual subscription fee which is significantly less than monthly 
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Jan 22, 2024 18:53
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Back to the "getting in queue for places online", I have no clue what the gently caress is going on with some places. My 5 year old needed a haircut and the weather was about to turn lovely so I just found some SportsClips nearby that was open on Sunday. Registered an account through their website and "got in line" through their system. Haircut was at 3:45 so it said to be there at 3:30. I rolled up at 3:30 and sat down with about 10 other people in the waiting area. There was no cashier/clerk person, so after half an hour I went to one of the stylists and said, "Hey, I scheduled an appointment for 3:45. Any idea what time a stylist will be available?" The lady checked the system and was like "Oh, you were supposed to schedule an appointment when you came in". I told her I had scheduled one for 3:45 online, and she said "Oh that doesn't schedule an appointment it just sets you up to come in here and sign in on that kiosk over there". I asked what the point of doing it online was, and she said "It saves time for when you actually get here and need to schedule the appointment time". What the gently caress. So I'm giving them my email to say "Hey, just a heads up I'll be in around 3:30 and then I will want to schedule a haircut?"
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Jan 22, 2024 19:46
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