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teen witch posted:On my break I intend to go thrifting and I know there will be people younger than me and oh god please leave. You all look like babies. This is only going to get worse for you. One day you'll go to the doctor and they'll look like a kid playing dress up.
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The trick is to never look into a mirror again. This way 20y olds will always seem the same age
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GABA ghoul posted:The trick is to never look into a mirror again. This way 20y olds will always seem the same age Everyone turns off their monitor eventually.
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Atopian posted:Everyone turns off their monitor eventually. Because there's no way to configure Windows or Mac to always stay on.
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teen witch posted:On my break I intend to go thrifting and I know there will be people younger than me and oh god please leave. You all look like babies. I want to buy my second hand miniskirts in peace (it’s me I’m the one that got lovely). 95% of the young people there either won't notice others whilst browsing, or they'll just want to swap cool thrifting experiences/ideas if they do talk to you. Unless your thrift stores are full of teen hipster douche bags who publicly comment on people's appearances to get extra Tiktok clout, in which case, uh, on second thoughts, please don't put Uncle Arthur's theory into practice
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GABA ghoul posted:The trick is to never look into a mirror again. This way 20y olds will always seem the same age Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me, Searching my reaches for what she really is. Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. I see her back, and reflect it faithfully. She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands. I am important to her. She comes and goes. Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me, Who invited the Vogon?
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Isentropy posted:Also didn't they switch fully to AI translation? Yeah and it's made some courses completely unusable. It's becoming such a garbage app for no obvious benefit (to the company; not like the users have mattered for awhile)
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Enfys posted:Yeah and it's made some courses completely unusable. I wonder which languages are the worst? You'd need a good corpus for the translation so French Spanish Portuguese are easy. I don't want to know what it does with Asian languages
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The Korean one is terrible to the point of actively inhibiting understanding, although that predates the AI changeover. It does some bad things with word boundaries that could easily prevent you from realizing how the grammar works. Danish was also pretty mediocre although I never had a real class in that so I don’t necessarily know what it’s missing. Full of bad English and very limited example sentences though. Japanese is surprisingly ok although they have no particularly good format for teaching the ideographic characters.
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re duolingo Husband took japanese for business in college and then actually used it functionally in his job for many years and ive been loving around and doing japanese on duolingo and he's just fascinated about how weird their order of operations is for teaching and also what they're teaching me certain words mean. Also the "no one uses that word, why on earth are they teaching you that" etc. Ill just eventually switch over to college text books that we still have hanging around after i feel confident in katakana and hiragana. Oh and he will hear the app speaking sentences out loud and he's just "what the gently caress is that intonation, it doesnt match the statement at all" Spanish seemed pretty on par with both order and what they were teaching compared to my 4 years of spanish classes but that was like 5 years ago when i rewent through the course to brush up so idk what they've done to it now. Its sad that duolingo is starting to suck so hard because ive kind of tried all the big ones - rosetta, mango, etc and for whatever reason duolingo generally meshed with my particular learning style and retention.
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teen witch posted:I just wish the kids understood that stopping in the middle of the aisles to look aimlessly on your phone is a pain to anyone else who wants to shop. In my experience it's the boomers who have absolutely no awareness of others or reasonable etiquette for navigating the crowded aisles of an op shop.
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In my experience it's the store's shoppers picking stuff for online orders that are far and away the worst. I guess they're under different pressures than the shoppers and probably getting poo poo pay to do it but holy hell did they invent a new, somehow even more unpleasant category of grocery store denizen.
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If the instacart shoppers didn't exist they'd just be replaced 1:1 by the people they're shopping for, who would shop less efficiently. It's the "drat buses causing traffic" problem.
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I would wager people shopping for themselves don't need to be glued into a shopping list to the extent of instacart shoppers. Instacart does not use the stores labor ala curbside and will not have the knowledge of where things are stocked. Glad they're able to get in the middle of that service.
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Ive received 5 Microsoftrdrd account single log on codes today. Love to be constantly under identity theft
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Ne Cede Malis posted:Ive received 5 Microsoftrdrd account single log on codes today. Love to be constantly under identity theft Booking.com for me recently
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Livo posted:I don't know if this is unique to Australian vets: my parents have a labrador with a heart valve issue, his prescribed medication is almost identical to human heart valve medication. For his prescription, it lists his name, and then also my parents surname to "make up" his full name on the list i.e. the prescription explicitly has a full name with surname on it, so my parents aren't on it themselves. They've never had a problem getting the medication from a chemist or online with this method. The only issue they've had, is a cautious young chemist asking if the patient had verbally told them about any side-effects, only for my parents to explain it's for a dog. His medical file is now officially annotated with a (Dog) from the chemist, so anyone accessing the prescription, can see that a chemist has marked it as being for an animal. Just an update: I spoke to my parents, the actual prescription does indeed say "Dog name + family surname" on it, not my parents names. They've used this prescription both in physical chemists & online to buy medication for over a year, no issues whatsoever.
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I go to drag shows, and lately if they've got a girl from Drag Race they set it up like a stage show and get chairs for the audience. Bc the TV drag fans are not used to the fact that drag is generally a standing room kinda thing, they are used to sitting and watching performances. But then tipping is almost impossible bc how are you supposed to stand up and make everyone in your row move every time you wanna give the performers a dollar. You don't, it kills the tipping vibes and it's painful to see these performers giving their all and not getting tipped. Venmoing the performers a tip at the end is nowhere near as fun 😞 Drag Race somehow manages to gently caress up local drag culture from multiple angles. Goddamn. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 11:16 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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Cerekk posted:If the instacart shoppers didn't exist they'd just be replaced 1:1 by the people they're shopping for, who would shop less efficiently. It's the "drat buses causing traffic" problem. I'd trade one of these people for, say, eight random shoppers in the store. It's not about efficiency, it's about them in particular being extremely aggravating and inconvenient to be around. And no it's not just a factor of them using a larger cart. But I only shop at one grocery store so I could just be bitching about 2 or 3 specific people, maybe the ones at your place are less terrible 
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Sounds more like a You issue. You gotta breathe and relax. It’s just people trying to live
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Holy poo poo, I just got a pop-up on my phone asking if I want to continue to use Google as my "Internet app" or switch to something else. I can now use duckduckgo to do an internet search from anywhere on my phone and don't have to copypaste urls into Firefox mobile like a cave man. Small de-enshititfications do happen sometimes. Thank you EU, thank yEU
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euphronius posted:Sounds more like a You issue. You gotta breathe and relax. It’s just people trying to live “Hey, could you move your cart? I’m trying to get through here and you’re blocking the entire aisle” “Just like, breathe man, we’re all just trying to live ya know”
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I just say "excuse me" in a polite friendly tone and people move.
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Literally A Person posted:I just say "excuse me" in a polite friendly tone and people move. I say "Oop, scuse me sorry thank you, thanks!" with a little half wave and I nod my head like an idiot at the same time.
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Livo posted:I don't know if this is unique to Australian vets: my parents have a labrador with a heart valve issue, his prescribed medication is almost identical to human heart valve medication. For his prescription, it lists his name, and then also my parents surname to "make up" his full name on the list i.e. the prescription explicitly has a full name with surname on it, so my parents aren't on it themselves. They've never had a problem getting the medication from a chemist or online with this method. The only issue they've had, is a cautious young chemist asking if the patient had verbally told them about any side-effects, only for my parents to explain it's for a dog. His medical file is now officially annotated with a (Dog) from the chemist, so anyone accessing the prescription, can see that a chemist has marked it as being for an animal. When you've signed a Narcotics Contract at your Pain Mgmt Doc's office and need that doc to keep working with you? You want to do everything possible to keep poo poo above board. Maybe i'm overcautious but I'd rather be that than hoping the pain management system will actually function properly, a thing it's not great at. I've seen a few dozen specialists over a large amount of time and the Pain Mgmt docs are the most dysfunctional of the bunch. in the past 25ish years I've dealt with over prescribers, under prescribers, etc. For a few years I just used a pill-mill cause it was easy? At this point I can just slap down a bunch of medical records but Pain Management is an ugly scene with few actual good doctors practicing it. Find a good one you don't gently caress around.
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Not saying it's not lovely but policies like that have existed for 20+ years at this point. Why no, my white friends and I weren't hassled at the mall while other groups of teens were. Curious.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:I go to drag shows, and lately if they've got a girl from Drag Race they set it up like a stage show and get chairs for the audience. Bc the TV drag fans are not used to the fact that drag is generally a standing room kinda thing, they are used to sitting and watching performances. Seems real easy to fix, just pass around the collections plate Waste of Breath posted:Not saying it's not lovely but policies like that have existed for 20+ years at this point. Why no, my white friends and I weren't hassled at the mall while other groups of teens were. Curious. Like 40+, it's been almost 20 years since most malls escalated to installing those loudspeakers that constantly screech at a tone the olds can't hear A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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Mall cops all staring at their watches at 3:59, prepared to charge forth and kick out all three customers.
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Of course Duolingo would get enshittified as soon as I finally downloaded it. Ya know, I heard the ancient Egyptians enshittified cats.
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Facebook sucks you are the product etc etcB.C. Supreme Court approves $51M settlement for Facebook users posted:Douez then learned from the website there was no way to opt out of what Facebook called “sponsored stories.”
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Outrail posted:Facebook sucks you are the product etc etc I feel like if there are going to be "three strikes" rules for people getting life in prison, there should be one for corporations.
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Animal-Mother posted:Of course Duolingo would get enshittified as soon as I finally downloaded it. ReVanced Manager has a Duolingo mod that makes it exponentially less lovely, I strongly recommend it.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Seems real easy to fix, just pass around the collections plate Yeah there's tip buckets but they don't always circulate, depends on if there's a tip helper bc that's a volunteer position usually. If there's no one to watch over it while it passes around, it is kept visible to the performers, firmly staying by the stage. This ain't church it's bars so no one's trusting just passing around a bucket of money without a chaperone lol Sure people can technically go up whenever to put a tip in the bucket, but having to ask people to move to do it means you just end up tipping less over the course of the show. Tbh I'm old so I don't hate the sitting, standing for the duration of a long show can get taxing. But you really do lose that feeling of handing the money right to the performer, the fourth wall of the proscenium arch can be felt. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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Time_pants posted:I feel like if there are going to be "three strikes" rules for people getting life in prison, there should be one for corporations. Nah, white collar prison is basically a holiday. Forced to pay any bonuses recieved in the position as punitive damages and banned from acting in a management, leadership or advisory role for* any company employing more than 20 people for life (this includes board positions, consultation etc). *For, not at.
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Yea so I mean its not great for news but I just read 2 articles on CNN and then clicked on a 3rd and it was like "You've read your free articles why dont you sign up for our service" and I was like "NOPE"
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