Gaius Marius posted:It's objectively not I'm pretty sure I'm right on this.
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Gripweed posted:"Steel-cut" oatmeal is just regular oatmeal but they changed the name to sell oatmeal to men. I thought the market for steel cut oatmeal was 40+ year old ladies
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Jan 26, 2022 20:34
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isn't steel cut oatmeal more sliced up
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Jan 26, 2022 20:44
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FishBulbia posted:isn't steel cut oatmeal more sliced up Other way around. It's less processed than the various types of rolled oats, and takes hours to cook.
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Jan 26, 2022 20:49
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thetoughestbean posted:I thought the market for steel cut oatmeal was 40+ year old ladies Old ladies love steel, and cutting. DrBouvenstein posted:Other way around. You've been hoodwinked by marketing.
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Jan 26, 2022 20:52
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Gripweed posted:Old ladies love steel, and cutting. Maybe you didn't grow up on the blood-soaked street of Babushka Alley...
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Jan 26, 2022 20:54
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Manager Hoyden posted:PHUO: Guy Fieri is going to occupy the same cultural niche as Mister Rogers and Bob Ross when he gets old Guy Fieri loving rules, long live donkey sauce. If anyone dislikes him then they hate both humanity and food.
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Jan 26, 2022 21:43
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Gripweed posted:"Steel-cut" oatmeal is just regular oatmeal but they changed the name to sell oatmeal to men. This is not even close to true "Steel cut" just means that the raw, complete oat grains are chopped into pieces then sold. Rolled oats, which is the rest of the oatmeal in the store, are smashed and cooked before they are sold The terms "steel cut" and "coarse cut" predate you so no it's not a marketing thing Where do you get these ideas and how are you so confidently wrong
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Jan 26, 2022 21:50
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I am literally tripping over myself to copyright “Damascus Steel-Cut Oats (For Men Only!!)” right now
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Jan 26, 2022 22:03
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Just make instant oatmeal with whey in it.
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Jan 26, 2022 22:05
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Manager Hoyden posted:The terms "steel cut" and "coarse cut" predate you so no it's not a marketing thing When do you think marketing was invented?
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Jan 26, 2022 22:11
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They should nominate me for SCOTUS.
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Jan 26, 2022 22:21
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More groups should use parliamentary procedure. Things move more efficiently, but it would also give people a basis to understand some things that happen in the legislatures, senate, and courts.
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Jan 26, 2022 23:56
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Gripweed posted:When do you think marketing was invented? trick question: it wasn't invented, it was gifted to us by the aliens that built the pyramid* *they only built one of them as a demonstration.
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Jan 27, 2022 00:02
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Some sorta, pyramid scheme your sayin
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Jan 27, 2022 00:08
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Gripweed posted:When do you think marketing was invented? Quite frankly though, the most popular and ancient form of promises within trade is undoubtedly marriage.
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Jan 27, 2022 00:09
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Streaming should be illegal. We have broadcast technology. Gripweed posted:We should still be calling computer programs programs instead of apps. Manager Hoyden posted:Phones were fine To phone someone, you've got to be comfortable with interrupting whatever they're doing while having no way of knowing what that is. When your phone rings you've got to stop whatever you're doing and answer it because you've got no way of knowing whether the call is important or not. It's a massive imposition. And that's before you even get to the difficulties of poor audio quality and lack of visual making miscommunication far more likely, and the awkwardness of having to hold a lump of plastic up to your head the entire time you're talking. People don't avoid phoning now because they're alienated or suffering from excessive anxiety or any of the other stupid reasons people put forward. People avoid phoning because talking on the phone is loving terrible. Manager Hoyden posted:And all forms of social media should be banned with prejudice, and every time someone tries to invent it again that person should be executed publicly credburn posted:I just saw for the second time in a week someone refer to something as "living rent-free in your head" and now I know this is another Thing and I'm probably going to hear it a lot during 2022.
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Jan 27, 2022 05:17
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Wait, so does that mean Outback Steakhouse’s Bloomin’ Onion lives rent free in my head? Because I spend a lot of time thinking about Outback Steakhouse’s Bloomin’ Onion.
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Jan 27, 2022 06:24
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Robobot posted:Wait, so does that mean Outback Steakhouse’s Bloomin’ Onion lives rent free in my head? Because I spend a lot of time thinking about Outback Steakhouse’s Bloomin’ Onion. Demand back rent from Bloomin’ Brands Inc. immediately.
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Jan 27, 2022 06:43
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Tiggum posted:Why would we want to go back to an objectively worse technology? If I have the choice to listen to the radio, or the stream of the exact same radio station, I'm picking the stream every time. The audio quality is better and it doesn't fade out or go staticky if I dare to move slightly. Radio isn't just analog dials attached to plate capacitors. They had digital tuning for a couple decades before satellite radio. It's fairly straightforward to tune to center frequency even with minor frequency shifts. Sure I use a manual clarifier at times, but an FM radio handles that for consumer use. As to digital, non-packet radio is... different. You can get signal fade on AM, or tonal variation on FM, but only with digital do you get this... t... of... it. Streaming packet drops tend to be all or nothing. You either have best-effort protocols that pick back up with the first available packet (so we couldn't decode five seconds but the signal is back realtime), or sequence-correct protocols (buffering... now we're back... five seconds delayed) (worst case it loses everything for thirty seconds before timing out and restarting). Analog is very easy to decode even with degradation, and very easy for people to "here" even with some signal loss. Digital is comparably very jarring; takes more mental effort to "fill in the blanks". So it depends on your needs (like anything). They bounce carrier wave off the moon on AM or SSB (earth-moon-earth). Digital is good for cell phones.
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Jan 27, 2022 08:15
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PhantomOfTheCopier posted:This is the only part I don't agree with personally. I finally broke down and got a new vehicle and they've been hounding me with SiriusXM advertisements daily ever since. Since I wasn't messing with that while driving I did some searching while parked, waiting for people, etc. I think I listened to 75sec of my free one year subscription. I have no idea what you're even talking about. I'm comparing using my phone, alarm clock, or any FM radio, to listen to 105.9 (ABC Classic FM in Melbourne) with loading up https://www.abc.net.au/classic/listen-live/player/ or using the ABC Listen app. The actual radio is poo poo. The web/app version is perfect. And you don't have to stop and figure out what the new frequency is if you travel to a different part of the state/country because it works the same everywhere.
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Jan 27, 2022 09:00
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Tiggum posted:
 gently caress talking on the phone seriously phuo: fake watermelon candy flavour is better than real watermelon, which is mediocre at best
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Jan 27, 2022 10:59
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Watermelon is only good at BBQs and should be filled with vodka.
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Jan 27, 2022 13:42
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Incidentally, i hope that the trend of everything being a podcast, livestream or video essay dies off. Same goes for stuff like Twitter rooms, Clubhouse and what have you. If you can't put it in writing, it's not worth it.
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Jan 27, 2022 14:03
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a podcast for cats posted:Incidentally, i hope that the trend of everything being a podcast, livestream or video essay dies off. Same goes for stuff like Twitter rooms, Clubhouse and what have you. If you can't put it in writing, it's not worth it. This but treating Discord like it's capable of being an owner's manual/reference guide for something.
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Jan 27, 2022 15:01
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docbeard posted:This but treating Discord like it's capable of being an owner's manual/reference guide for something. Lord above I hate that When the documentation for something is just a faq with a note to join their discord gently caress you that discord isn't going to exist in a few years
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Jan 27, 2022 16:41
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Tiggum posted:I have no idea what you're even talking about. I'm comparing using my phone, alarm clock, or any FM radio, to listen to 105.9 (ABC Classic FM in Melbourne) with loading up https://www.abc.net.au/classic/listen-live/player/ or using the ABC Listen app. The actual radio is poo poo. The web/app version is perfect. And you don't have to stop and figure out what the new frequency is if you travel to a different part of the state/country because it works the same everywhere. OK the reason i wanted streaming banned is that it's literally killing the planet but now I want it banned just so you can't listen to your poo poo radio station the way you want to.
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Jan 27, 2022 20:05
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Killing the planet is good since it will kill more people. Earth will recover.
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Jan 27, 2022 20:12
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
Put a little salt on it and watermelon becomes 10x better. Robobot posted:Watermelon is only good at BBQs and should be filled with vodka. This also works.
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Jan 27, 2022 20:14
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I have serious side eyes for anyone who talks about population reduction The people who will be reduced won't be wealthy westerners, guaranteed. So I wonder about the folks hankering for it
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Jan 27, 2022 20:14
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Mu Zeta posted:Killing the planet is good since it will kill more people. Earth will recover. that's uh a phuo alright hopefully, not a phuo: personally, i'd prefer that the amount of people dying from non-natural causes was zero (or as close to zero as possible)
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Jan 27, 2022 20:14
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Any place that prides itself on its customer service is a godawful place to work at. As a low level employee I should be able to ban customers from returning for little to no reason
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Jan 27, 2022 20:17
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thetoughestbean posted:Any place that prides itself on its customer service is a godawful place to work at.  quote:As a low level employee I should be able to ban customers from returning for little to no reason You should be allowed to punch rude customers in the face imho
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Jan 27, 2022 20:40
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The only people who should be allowed to own guns are people who have jobs where they have to deal with customers
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Jan 27, 2022 20:48
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Customers are never that bad to deal with, and seeing people hyperbolically vent about their struggles of having to answer basic questions or show someone where something is is mostly just sad
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Jan 27, 2022 20:49
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Gaius Marius posted:Customers are never that bad to deal with, and seeing people hyperbolically vent about their struggles of having to answer basic questions or show someone where something is is mostly just sad Tell me you've never had a customer without telling me you've never had a customer.
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Jan 27, 2022 20:52
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I work at Costco
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Jan 27, 2022 20:53
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Gaius Marius posted:Customers are never that bad to deal with, and seeing people hyperbolically vent about their struggles of having to answer basic questions or show someone where something is is mostly just sad I have had one or two really bad customers but yeah IME mildly infuriating is typically as bad as I get. And usually, that's just because it's a very tech-illiterate person trying and failing to use our website that is, admittedly, not super-well designed in a way that I have no direct power to address.
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Jan 27, 2022 20:53
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Customers who are dumb as bricks are one thing ("what's a browser?"  ), but I've had openly racist and/or misogynist customers, customers who screamed at me for things I couldn't control (items being non-refundable, for example), yadda yadda yadda. Phosphine posted:Tell me you've never had a customer without telling me you've never had a customer. I don't want to make any assumptions necessarily, but the possibility that customers have more positive interactions with customer service people of specific not-so-marginalized demographics is there too. When I had a call center job, I had customers who would praise me & complain about my "ghetto" coworkers right after I told them the exact thing that my coworkers told them.
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Jan 27, 2022 21:03
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The customer is, in fact, always right. In a literal, not a metaphorical sense. When I walk into a store I gain reality-warping powers and if I say one plus one is seventeen then it is true.
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Jan 27, 2022 21:31
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