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Muscle Tracer posted:I am an American living in Canada, so while I pay most of my taxes in Canada, I owe the US a pittance each year. This year I owe the IRS $71. i've been doing that poo poo for like 17 years and every year my options for paying get worse, more confusing, and more obviously a kickback scheme to a private contractor who doesn't bother to use an address verification form that has countries or non-ZIP postal code formats built in. it gets more and more hosed every year. i am trying to give you money motherfuckers!!!! i am on the edge of sending pennies in a manila envelope
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Had two encounters today with people taking up both lanes of the road. I had to swerve onto the shoulder to avoid the first, as it was a double yellow line; fortunately the second was on a road with two lanes going both ways so at least the rear end in a top hat wasn’t driving (a goddamn Bentley) into oncoming traffic. But in neither case were they just veering a little over the line, they were at least halfway into the other lane. This is just months after they said that Ohio was going to “start” “cracking down” on distracted driving. Mhmmm.
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Apr 7, 2024 19:01
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YouTube should not allow people to upload "videos" that are just still images while they talk over it. Podcasts belong in the podcast box, videos belong in the YouTube box.
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Apr 9, 2024 18:13
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credburn posted:YouTube should not allow people to upload "videos" that are just still images while they talk over it. Podcasts belong in the podcast box, videos belong in the YouTube box.
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Apr 9, 2024 20:40
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I’ve listened to podcasts on YouTube Besides the ads it’s fine I listen to music on YouTube as well
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Some music (the DOOM Eternal OST comes to mind) is only properly available on YouTube. I am too cheap to pay for podcasts so I listen on YT as well - I usually throw on Behind the Bastards while I work out. I can't remember if it was this thread or another where we talked about action movies that have unrealistic confrontations where the protagonist and the big bad trade dialogue instead of just killing each other immediately. It occurred to me that the Equalizer movies are an entire series of this trope. Every single confrontation McCall gets in is just him sitting there saying some ice cold poo poo and then killing everyone in a very improbable way. It's dumb as gently caress but I find it entertaining.
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Apr 9, 2024 21:12
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The famous line "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk!" was supposedly improv, because the character was talking too drat much.
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Mister Speaker posted:I am too cheap to pay for podcasts so I listen on YT as well 
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Tiggum posted:Why would you have to pay for them? Yeah podcasts are one nice relic from the old internet. They are just RSS feeds pointing to audio files hosted wherever the creator chooses and the content is almost invariably free.
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Apr 10, 2024 07:25
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lobsterminator posted:Yeah podcasts are one nice relic from the old internet. They are just RSS feeds pointing to audio files hosted wherever the creator chooses and the content is almost invariably free. what the christ era are you from that podcasts are from the "old internet"
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Apr 10, 2024 07:59
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credburn posted:what the christ era are you from that podcasts are from the "old internet" Podcasts have been around since 2000. Myspace wasn't launched until 2003. Facebook wasn't created until 2004 and didn't become accessible to the wider public until 2006. Podcasts predate the social-media-based internet.
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Tiggum posted:Podcasts have been around since 2000. Myspace wasn't launched until 2003. Facebook wasn't created until 2004 and didn't become accessible to the wider public until 2006. Podcasts predate the social-media-based internet. Pre-social media? That's what "old Internet" is???
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credburn posted:Pre-social media? That's what "old Internet" is??? We get it. You are cool and only consider Gopher and USENET "old internet"
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credburn posted:Pre-social media? That's what "old Internet" is??? Yes
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It started with proto-social media (BBS, Usenet) but from 2024 the pre-Myspace era is absolutely "the old internet"
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It's a whole human generation ago. That counts as old.
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root beer posted:Does anyone else think people have become worse drivers overall since the pandemic? I see more people barreling through red lights and dicking around with their phones while driving now more than ever, like everyone either just quit caring or they got the brain worms real bad My wife works from home so she doesn't spend nearly as much time driving as me. There was a point last year where she was absolutely shocked to find out how often I honk my horn. I told her I probably end up using it at least once every single trip I drive. She's been doing more driving lately for a mix of work/parental health issues and found out lol yeah you have to be on that horn or you're best case getting stuck behind someone at a green light forever while they look at porn or scream on speakerphone or take selfies or whatever, worst case getting creamed by someone just driving on the wrong side or through a red.
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My wife tries her hardest to avoid using her horn when people are so aggressively terrible behind the wheel because she fully expects them to pull a gun on her. It isn’t just the bad driving, there’s a ton of vindictiveness in these people.
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I wish cars came with two horns: one loud angry blast, and one gentle little tootle.
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Rabbit Hill posted:I wish cars came with two horns: one loud angry blast, and one gentle little tootle. https://youtu.be/tVwBTh_L-lY
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Rabbit Hill posted:I wish cars came with two horns: one loud angry blast, and one gentle little tootle. I feel like the tootle would somehow make people more mad. Like how six hour probes always lead to the best meltdowns
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lobsterminator posted:We get it. You are cool and only consider Gopher and USENET "old internet" I am cool and I do consider BBSs and stuff "the old Internet." That leads to a new ponderance: are there generational titles given to spans of years for Internet? While I might argue about what "the old Internet" was, a new age was definitely introduced by Social Media. I guess I just consider the span between BBSs and Social Media something that fits between "old Internet" and "social media Internet"
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I'm the coolest and this is the old internet
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credburn posted:That leads to a new ponderance: are there generational titles given to spans of years for Internet? While I might argue about what "the old Internet" was, a new age was definitely introduced by Social Media. I guess I just consider the span between BBSs and Social Media something that fits between "old Internet" and "social media Internet" up to 1970: ancient 1970 - 1980: vintage 1980 - 1990: classic 1990 - 2000: retro 2000 - 2010: post-Y2K 2010 - now: post-cryptocurrency I suppose it could use an update, 2020 - now: "post" C19
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Anything after 1993 is the Eternal September era of the internet.
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FFT posted:I do actually have a classification system: Stop naming Atticus_1354 has a new favorite as of 20:31 on Apr 10, 2024 |
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Atticus_1354 posted:Stop naming generations "post". It's annoying and wrong to label a discrete set of years with a word that means "everything after this date". That's 2 different sets of numbers.
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credburn posted:I am cool and I do consider BBSs and stuff "the old Internet." Ancient internet: Pre-web Old internet: Early web Bad internet: Post-social media Nightmare internet: Web3
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lobsterminator posted:Ancient internet: Pre-web Except we'll never get it back unless something somehow causes mobile internet to stop working, because the internet used to be a thing you went to a specific spot in your house for and spent a small amount of time on, not a thing that was in your pocket all the time. We'll never, ever get to log off ever again. They'll bury you with your phone so you can take it to the afterlife, like an extremely cursed pharaoh.
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I told my nearly-7yo daughter "I used to fight with my sister to use the Internet" and it was very hard to explain. "Imagine your tablet is chained to where this phone jack is. You can talk to tons of people on here, but each member of the family wants to do that and there's just the one tablet. And... Go!"
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I told my nephew something similar and he asked why the internet was worth fighting over, then went on a hike. Fuckin' well adjusted kids, I swear. My Peeve: I work for a local government team that, among other things, handles environmental compliance at construction sites and responds to spill complaints in the city. Anyway. I hate it when someone tries to use my inspectors like a cudgel against construction projects they don't like. We get complaints about completely fabricated violations all the time. What they expect: A fleet of city trucks rushes to the site. Rough government men in hi-vis jackets shut everything down. Contractors are arrested. The project is cancelled. Statues are erected in honor of the complainant. What happens: My friendliest inspector stops by, finds nothing wrong, spends half an hour joking with the foreman about the stupid assholes who live next to the site. The complainant's name is filtered from the complaint system for repeated abuse. I know for a fact that inspectors from OSHA, the health department, and city engineering have the same problem. We're not cops! We're not predisposed to escalating situations for no reason and we carry a lot of legal liability if we gently caress up.
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Riatsala posted:I told my nephew something similar and he asked why the internet was worth fighting over, then went on a hike. Fuckin' well adjusted kids, I swear. I bet he brought the internet with him though.
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Punkinhead posted:I feel like the tootle would somehow make people more mad. I've seen electric cars that have a secondary horn that gives a gentle chime to alert pedestrians and yeah, it instantly makes people fly into a blind rage.
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In the south, many horns have been modified to have a woman’s voice saying “well bless your heart” and road rage has increased 4000%
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On the road, when a driver makes a slight error and someone else shames them by laying on the horn and following them for like thirty straight seconds. I have often thought there should be two honk options. One that is like a reminder, like hey, the light is green, or watch out for that, or even hey how ya doin, and another horn for shaming people or for when you just want to be fuckin loud.
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Does no one do the polite double-beep thing where you guys live? Where I'm from if you want to use your horn in a more friendly way you give it two quick taps.
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They should just make horns out of spider-nests. That way, you'll only touch it if you ABSOLUTELY have to.
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Hardcordion posted:Does no one do the polite double-beep thing where you guys live? Where I'm from if you want to use your horn in a more friendly way you give it two quick taps. Yeah, that’s usually what I do, in the rare occasion that I feel the need to do anything—like when it’s clear the driver is not paying attention to the traffic signal.
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Brawnfire posted:"Imagine your tablet is chained to where this phone jack is. You can talk to tons of people on here, but each member of the family wants to do that and there's just the one tablet. And... Go!"
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