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Shibawanko posted:that sounds like it sucks. so you think it's a meds thing? No, I experienced it before without the meds, but Adderall did shoot my panic threshold to such a degree that it didn't take much to trigger it. Should also say that Adderall under the right dosages and responsible management can really help people and I know people who take it and it works great for them; it just didn't for me.
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Robobot posted:Timeout! I need to be WAY more high for this. I'm coming from the other side and was way too high for this
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Is that a trend? I was doing it for a while because of somethingawful shenanigans but I'm not about to be caught doing something if it's trendy.
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I think we should get rid of private practices but increase the number of public defenders so they're not so overworked. Edit: I realize that's an extremely simplified idea but this is the Internet
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When the "da da da da da da da da I'm loving it" jingle first appeared for McDonalds, I was like maybe eleven or twelve and I hated it. I forget what came before it, but this new one was terrible, and it was when I first started to become really cognizant of marketing. I remember thinking, Haha what a blunder, this is the worst marketing thing ever, and it's only going to be around for a little while and they're going to lose tons of money, Anyway, so, it's been like twenty something years, and I heard an ad for McDonalds on the
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I loving hate tipping. I hate hate hate hate having to awkwardly make eye contact with the server while I tell them or write down what monetary value I can assign to the quality of their work. But also I have to consider my own expenses, my own cost of living, my own available funds, but also I have to consider how much others at the table may be tipping or may not be tipping. I also should consider the state of the economy and what this server probably makes and how much a dollar actually is worth nowadays. I start tipping at about 30% and sometimes go up to 100%. I loving hate it. It's agony. The only place I like tipping is at the coffee shop or a bar. You pour drink? Here is a dollar. Simple. It's just part of the transaction. 2.50 for coffee and the business, 1 dollar for the server and their starving family. There's no loving judgment or putting value on service or a person or compensating for the economy or my lovely party. Edit: I read a Yelp review recently where a lady was loving pissed that, after she left her debit card at the bar, she found they have put an automatic 20% gratuity charge on it. And I was like, wait a minute, if I just leave my card there, I only have to tip 20% and nobody will make eye contact with me until I come to pick up my card, and if that's the next morning it probably won't be any of the servers from the previous night! Seriously do people think a 20% tip is a lot?! credburn has a new favorite as of 18:51 on Jun 13, 2022 |
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There was one time a server shoved his way into a booth I was sharing with a friend. We had only met this guy that night. He sighed and said, "gently caress this loving job," and then he just hung out with us and chatted for a while. So I left that guy a big tip... not because the service was good, but because it was at least different that made the experience different. Let's say I've been served by a hundred people over the last uh, year. Well, not a hundred people, but a hundred times. Maybe it's more. But anyway, what I'm getting at is that there isn't a singular notable experience I've had other than liking some servers more than others for reasons that have less to do with their ability to serve and more to do with my personal connection to them. There wasn't a time I thought, WOW this service AMAZING! Because it's never amazing. It's also never bad. Or if it's bad, there's always reasons for it. Like staff shortages, COVID, the weather. So this is all just -- this whole rant is just to say that every single server I can think of that I've met in the last year has delivered Just Fine service and is in my opinion equally deserving of the same tip-to-check ratio. So nevermind, I'll just tip 20% from now on and I don't know what I'm getting worked up about.
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Juneteenth has a rather prodigal son feel to it. It's not specifically a celebration of the end of slavery, or the Emancipation or the end of the war or any of that. It's a celebration for Texas who finally let their slaves go two fuckin years after the rest of the country. Like, it's specifically about Texas being two years late to the game. (this part edited out because it felt largely just ignorant and racist, which I'm trying not to be, while trying to express my frustration over a name, which just makes me sound racist) But, goddammit Juneteenth is a silly name, no matter what it's about. credburn has a new favorite as of 20:22 on Jun 20, 2022 |
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You can't flush toilet paper? Are you in Greece or Ancient Greece?
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Juneteenth was June 19th, 1865, aka immediately as Union troops entered and occupied Texas, the furthest confederate state from invasion. The place sucks enough without making poo poo up. Did you confuse two months with two years? Well, I must admit I was rather ignorant about the whole thing. I first learned of Juneteenth in 2008 when I was in a Texas jail, and then living in Texas for a little bit. I moved back North shortly thereafter and wouldn't even hear "Juneteenth" mentioned outside of Texas for almost ten years. The Emancipation became official two and a half years before Juneteenth. From juneteenth.com: quote:Later attempts to explain this two and a half year delay in the receipt of this important news have yielded several versions that have been handed down through the years. Often told is the story of a messenger who was murdered on his way to Texas with the news of freedom. Another is that the news was deliberately withheld by the enslavers to maintain the labor force on the plantations. And still another is that federal troops actually waited for the slave owners to reap the benefits of one last cotton harvest before going to Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation. All of which, or none of these versions could be true. Certainly, for some, President Lincoln’s authority over the rebellious states was in question. Whatever the reasons, conditions in Texas remained status quo well beyond what was statutory. In the Texas jail, there were no extra possibilities; inmates and cops alike were in agreement that Texas wasn't going to release their slaves until troops came to make them do it, even if they had the news of the Emancipation and the appropriate official orders or whatever. This was the version I first came to know... and I guess until, uh, today I didn't really look further into it. Edit: I'm really trying not to sound defensive about my ignorance but I don't know how to better articulate that in text :\ Edit 2 for rando anecdote: Juneteenth was a special kind of holiday for Texas jails, and instead of normal meals, we got stereotypical meals like collared greens, chicken and waffles, other awkwardly chosen foods. credburn has a new favorite as of 01:24 on Jun 26, 2022 |
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thetoughestbean posted:gently caress Calvin. I spit when I say his name but that's my name 
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Jun 28, 2022 21:58
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Love it when someone has a negative opinion about an overwhelmingly popular thing and they are assaulted on all sides by furious nerds as though this one person's opinion is putting their entire multi-billion dollar earning franchise at risk. I bet you could see a correlation between the amount of success a franchise has and the level of IRE a fan has if another person criticizes it. You know what? I like Phantom Menace kinda. And I dislike most Marvel movies. This isn't going to elevate Phantom Menace to some lofty pedestal and it isn't going to stop the next 30 boring Marvel movies being made. And though you may not believe it, I formed this opinion on my own, and am not being an "Internet contrarian" or whatever. I'm broadly addressing All The Internet with this but it really happens on these forums, too, and it's weird to jump on people for having an unpopular opinion in the unpopular opinion thread.
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Jun 29, 2022 20:45
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Powered Descent posted:I felt like The Last Jedi was two completely different movies that had been edited together. I kind of liked the movie with Rey and Luke and Kylo Ren, but for some reason they kept cutting back to the other movie, the stupid one, with Finn and Poe and the casino planet. Oh yeah, I always forget about the casino planet. But it felt fitting enough in a Star Wars movie to have an extended silly scene with adorable droid slapstick.
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Nameless Pete posted:They should do a remake of Logan's Run and then another remake every 30 years after that forever. That movie is one of my favorites and so much of why has to do with the incredibly goofy models and "special effects." The movie's plot and setup is good enough to stand on its own, but I sure don't want to see it looking like a modern movie. I want my big shiny boxy robot and my shiny glittery streamers and shiny shiny shiny fuckin everything good lord the future is sparkles
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Jul 3, 2022 18:52
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Gripweed posted:I have no idea what the difference is between Oregon and Washington Oregon has Oregoons Washington has Warshingtonians
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christmas boots posted:Northern Oregon is a lot like Washington and southern Oregon is a lot like California. And Eastern Oregon is so much like Idaho that there's a lot of people who want it to just be absorbed by Idaho.
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Jul 6, 2022 05:41
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Steak is weird because it's 2022 and we're still eating cows.
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Jul 9, 2022 15:41
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Watermelon has a like 1:1 weight-to-disappointment ratio going for it. Every single time I look at a watermelon I think it's going to be good, but it's always, at best, okay. Maybe I also only eat bad watermelons, because I sure like watermelon flavored candy and gum and poo poo
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Anyone who makes a blanket "[genre] sucks" statement probably has bad taste. Theres excellent music in every genre. Except zydeco. gently caress zydeco. Reggaeton sucks. Well, whether or not it sucks is really subjective, but reggaeton is just a drum loop. There are a billion reggaeton songs but they all use the same loop. If you don't like that loop, it's going to be hard to like the music, unless they're doing really creative stuff with it.
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I think that's by design to punish parents who bring their noisy out of control children to the grocery store instead of keeping them in the trunk like my parents did.
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Gaius Marius posted:Playing an MMO should be seen as a warning sign for mental illness and dealt with accordingly Post a popular opinion.
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Disco Pope posted:I've bounced off it. Douglas Adams is fine, but seems to be something you have to come to at ~14, or it comes off a bit "the world ended because there was too many teabags in the sink, only smart engineers like me can see how stupid everyone is" I first read Hitchhiker's Guide at 13 and it was a treasure for me for much of my early years. For one, it was a thing nobody else I knew was doing -- reading. Reading was for queers and poor kids who can't afford cooler poo poo. But that was also in 1997, and I was exposed to the Internet really for the first time, and what I discovered was that there was an entire world of people who all read the same goofy book and for twenty years we would loving reference it. It's a thing I can't imagine getting into for the first time now. For one, the nonstop referencing, which is not quite as prevalent now, but it's still there. Like, I am sure Scarface is a fine movie, but I still haven't seen it. I've seen enough loving people reference it and quote it that I absolutely have no interest in seeing it. I just don't want to hear a quote from the movie and think, "Oh, that's another thing everyone I know has been saying randomly for my entire life. Oh there's another quote everyone has been saying..."
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christmas boots posted:Prime numbers are positive integers divisible by precisely two positive integers right? 1 doesn’t meet the requirements It must be divisible by 1 and itself. 1 meets both requirements.
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Round pizzas are for suckers
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Evangelicals think that god giving man "dominion over the Earth" means that they don't have to care about conservation or the environment, because hey - god told us that we have control and can do whatever we want! It's a variation of the idea that being "saved" means that their sins are automatically forgiven. I mean, the great thing about religion is that you can talk to eight different members of clergy to get eight different interpretation of God's Perfect Word. When I used to go to a church when I was a teenager, it was an amazing place, where everyone was nice and the idea of going to Hell was almost unimaginable because it was all about how cool God is and how we're basically just created to worship him so his feelings don't get hurt and make sure his planet stays pretty. Every single other church I've tried to attend in my life has been the opposite, though... that we should destroy the Earth and we're all going to Hell because God's a loving psychopath who not just gave us permission, but told us to do it. Shrug. I know, religion being inconsistent and bad is a hot take that might take a moment to absorb.
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Coffee should taste like coffee and anything you add to it, milk or sugar or nutmeg or whatever just makes it taste gross.
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I read top to bottom, like most people I think do. When text is on the road, I still read it top-to-bottom. YOU THANK LANE ONLY BUS Stop this madness, nobody reads like that. Unless I'm wrong; I've never asked. edit: Oh to clarify, my PHUO is: this is backwards and the convention should be abolished. credburn has a new favorite as of 01:25 on Jul 31, 2022 |
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Neito posted:Obladi, obladah is a good song. This is a place for opinions, not facts.
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doverhog posted:Bowling can be rough. I wanted to use the heaviest ball, for hours, and my hand really hurt the next day. I knew I had to decide if I wanted to get better scores by being better or getting used to the pain. I average about 138 now, which is pretty good for someone bad at bowling, and I owe it all to the 16 lb Ebonite Tornado my grandfather left me, which I launch down the lane like a cannonball, and the inertia usually takes care of what my grace does not.
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thetoughestbean posted:Goons who refer to things as “win” or “fail” in tyol 2022 are deeply pathetic As opposed to "winner" and "failure"?
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Quantum Leap had like one episode with broader implications and consequences for every dozen standalone episodes. I think that worked really well for it.
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The only "bad politics" I was aware of when reading Harry Potter was the absolutely bizarre familiarity the wizards have with slavery, how weird it is handled, and how Hermione's attempt to abolish slavery are played out as such a whimsical and childlike effort. It's especially weird the slaves are called "house elves" and they seem to love being slaves. Every time slavery came up, I felt awkward. I don't know about all the TERF stuff. I only know Rowling's kind got some lovely opinions about trans women but I wasn't cognizant of those messages appearing in the book. But I was also in my 20s when I read them, and much stupider.
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I thought ska came and went around the 00s. I just went to a ska show last month and it was rad.
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Old people should not be allowed to compete in trivia or gameshows like Jeopardy! because they have an unfair advantage, having had significantly more time to acquire knowledge.
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I hate watching all three contestants rapidly pressing the button, waiting for Alex to finish talking. (I haven't seen the show in a while so possibly the button and/or host mechanic has been replaced)
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Gripweed posted:I genuinely don't understand how land acknowledgments are supposed to be anything other than dabbing on the native people. A lot of local theaters and venues I've noticed are doing this more and more, before they begin they acknowledge that this land once belonged to this specific tribe. The gesture to recognize this land was conquered and colonized by white people is, I guess, not-negative. But what specifically is meant to be accomplished here? We're sure not giving it back. And there aren't even any Native Americans in the audience, here to see a white play written by a five hundred year old dead white guy about antiquated white aristocrat hijinks. It feels like it's just to help ease the burden of guilt ever so slightly so we can watch this play knowing we Did Our Part.
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Telling the waiter your order is wrong is a dick move. Just eat the loving food. Possibly getting an order wrong is just part of going out to eat, you overprivileged snob. When you say your order is wrong, you cause all kinds of loving annoying trouble. 1) First of all, now your food is going to be thrown away. 2) The underpaid, stressed out waiter will feel like an idiot. 3) The waiter has to go back and tell the cooks to recook the food, all of which gets added to an already unmanageable queue, but also it doesn't count as a new food item; you effectively cause the cooks and the wait staff all to take a hit, which will have to be added to inventory and time sheets later, and the management will pick a person (could be the waiter, could be a cook, could be someone who wasn't even working when this happened) to lecture and bitch at and maybe even fire. 4) Now the rest of your party is eating while you wait for your new loving food to be made. Which leads to the "should we wait? is it okay we eat?" awkwardness. 5) You will be marked as a customer who did this, and if it happens again, your third visit will absolutely have public hair and spit in your food. 6) You will annoy those of us who just loving eat the food we're given because people make mistakes all the time and it's not a big deal unless it's like an allergy issue or something. 7) Once everyone is finished eating, the party has to wait for your new loving correct food to be consumed before they can leave. Furthermore, if you ever go to a fast food joint and complain that your order is wrong, you're just a loony idiot. You're a naive person for thinking a bunch of stoned teenagers at Taco Bell are going to perform to your standards. 100% of orders made at fast food restaurants are wrong. This frustrates me in the same way people complain when they're forced to work off the clock or they have their lunches deducted from their pay sheets. Yeah it sucks and it's a bummer but it's the world a lot of us live in. credburn has a new favorite as of 22:08 on Sep 7, 2022 |
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My dietary restrictions are probably the only reason I don't eat nothing but fast food. I mean, all my meals are microwaved. I have very low standards for food.
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Freshman year was the only mandatory gym in my high school (Class of 2002 if I'd graduated)
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I still don't see why everyone's so mean to Edgar Allen Ho.
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