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BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Rozzbot posted:

Every surface in any given public space is l covered in poop and jizz because nobody washes their hands

a lot of people probably think they wash their hands but they really don't

I'm talking about you, all of you who put soap on your dry hands and then immediately rinse it off without lathering and then rub water around for a few seconds

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BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Elman posted:

Who the gently caress does that?

Essentially everyone I've seen wash their hands next to me or heard while in a stall, I guess it sounds weird to pay attention to how people wash their hands but you don't even have to look at them to hear the soap dispenser go before they dunk their hands under the tap and splash around a bit

Maybe it's a woman thing though

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Outrail posted:

You get the soap, then get a bit of water then lather up/scrub and rinse off. It's not hard.

Right but when you do what I described the lathering part is rubbing plain water for a second or two because the soap is long gone

Recommended way is actually wet, soap, lather, rinse and if you swap wet and soap there is no soap when you lather

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Outrail posted:

I just did this with liquid soap to see if you're trying to gently caress with me and I can confirm there is lather. How bad are you at washing your hands? Do you think people just listlessly stare at the stream of water until it's washed the soap off their hands before rubbing them together?


What kind of soap? Because the foam soap the dispensers here put out washes off instantly as soon as the water hits it

Also the soap dispensers and taps are the automatic type that you don't have to touch

edit: liquid soap okay, but you're still washing wrong

BattleMaster has issued a correction as of 06:51 on Apr 26, 2019

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

not to mention all the public health signs telling you to do it in the way I described

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

do american cities not have, like, public health departments telling people how to do stuff like this and to sneeze into your sleeve and cover your mouth with your sleeve when you cough?

(people ignore them anyway I guess but at least an effort is put in)

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

paper towels my dudes

edit: everywhere I've washed my hands except really dingy places (like my house :xd:) have automatic flushes, automatic soap dispensers, automatic taps, paper towels, and no doors or push doors though; the latches on the stall doors are nasty to touch but if you wash your hands properly I guess it doesn't matter

BattleMaster has issued a correction as of 07:57 on Apr 26, 2019

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

I'm exceedingly germophobic and a woman so I have to sit to use the toilet but oddly enough sitting on a toilet seat doesn't bother me as long as it's dry and visibly clean, I guess because I don't touch my rear end and thighs before touching my face or food

I guess it's gross when you stop and really think about it but at least I haven't gotten a butt illness in my over 30 years of life

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

There's probably an element of fatalism, like "welp I guess there's no avoiding it :geno:" but I'm not really sure how it could be solved, but at least it can be made a better experience by people being courteous and not pissing on seats and strict housekeeping schedules wiping the seats down

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Elman posted:

I'd expect women's bathrooms to have cleaner toilet seats for obvious reasons but if my public toilet experience has taught me anything I'm sure I'd be surprised.

I don't see really bad toilet seats in the womens' bathroom often but when they're bad, they're bad. There's an element of irony in that when people squat or hover to avoid touching a nasty seat, they just piss all over it and make it worse, especially when there are multiple layers of toilet paper laid overtop by previous users. I don't do any of that poo poo and just go find another toilet seat and luckily I haven't had to try solid snaking into the mens' bathroom to find one yet

Also bad behaviour with feminine hygiene item disposal

Kitfox88 posted:

janitorial taught me that both genders are equally horrifyingly disgusting in common but also unique ways

^^^

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

pseudosavior posted:

You go to clock in and two large men sweep in behind you and escort you back to the front door.

It's this but with cage robots

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Dr. S.O. Feelgood posted:

what does smartmug do?

it creates ewaste

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Shear Modulus posted:

creates jobs for 9 year old chinese scrap harvesters

:hmmyes:

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Main Paineframe posted:

if they're gonna make customers do cashier work they should pay the customers for doing it, instead of pocketing the savings

passing savings on to customers is socialism

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000


actually it's called tate mode and is the best way to play vertical scrolling shooters

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000


What's worse, this or the American kids who talk with English accents because they spend more time watching Peppa Pig than talking to people?

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000


this isn't the future my mother warned me about

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

power word- Jeb! posted:

ok what the heck is a virtual youtuber

a miserable little pile of secrets!

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Big Mad Drongo posted:

But enough talk! Like and subscribe!

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Trabisnikof posted:

it also means you can keep employees from getting to drink soda on the job without paying full price

An enterprising employee will notice that they just need to supply their own container to get it for free, unnoticed :evilbuddy:

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

I see the algorithm is trying its hand at crowdfunding now

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

post was obviously about getting a boner at the thought of stealth blackhawks but I don't get the name

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

dunno if they made better ones in the last 10 years but you can jimmy them open with a paperclip between the ratcheting parts

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

what about the more expensive handcuff-style ones that have one loop and mechanism for each wrist? or are mass arrests so common now that police departments just use hardware store ties?

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Socks4Hands posted:

you wouldn't download a weapon to surpass metal gear

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

SlothfulCobra posted:

Technically, Steve Jobs didn't really invent much, he was just very good at taking (sometimes stealing) already existing concepts, sticking them all together into an aesthetically pleasing whole, hiring engineers to make it all work, and then marketing the hell out of it.

Although if you look at it from the other angle, many great inventors tend to never directly benefit from their inventions and waste away in obscurity So who's the real genius?

Anyways, this post seems like it belongs here.

even in the past it was woz doing everything

imo the man was a saint for letting jobs take credit for essentially anything

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

The humping roombas is :discourse: but I can't imagine having so much internet connected shut gadgets in my home

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000


couple of pages ago but lol, hope she learned something

uber_stoat posted:

and then he shows up all like

and Frodo leans over to Sam and is like sotto voce "that is the most powerful entity in all of middle earth..."

I read the book, although after seeing the movie, and I was absolutely flabbergasted that THIS was the guy that nerds were angry about not being in the movie

I honestly don't know why anyone wanted to see him singing and prancing like an rear end in a top hat and not adding anything to the story; it was good that the cruft was trimmed from the story to make it work better in the format and time allotment

the hobbit movies were bad for the opposite reasons though because they added fucktons of bullshit padding, turning a slim and light story that easily could have been a single movie into a trilogy because uh cargo culting lord of the rings or something

BattleMaster has issued a correction as of 09:11 on Jul 21, 2019

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000


what kind of psycho would do that to their kid, that's like "call CPS" right away kind of poo poo

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

I'm assuming that even today Japan's research and medical ethics standards are only a step up from Unit 731's if that was approved

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Subjunctive posted:

I bet it’s low-latency too, nice. even with all the motion bullshit turned “off”, too many TVs still do who knows what with the signal for dozens of ms and it sucks.

I bought a cheap lovely Insignia TV for $200 canadian years ago and the latency calibration in Crypt of the Necrodancer and Cadence of Hyrule both report 0 ms latency

obviously it isn't 0 ms but it's some negligible amount compared to the poo poo more advanced TVs pull

if this one wears out I am no poo poo going to buy another Insignia TV as long as they're still similarly capable because gently caress "smart" and image processing bullshit, just show me my goddamn pixels in a timely manner

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Just the preview image for that is fantastic

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

why is drug use in baseball even a thing when most players could improve their performance by exercising for 5 minutes

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Platystemon posted:

“We’re looking for a woman with bangles on her face.”

1 MATCH FOUND

Or if not they're going to pass failed recognitions to the backup ai aka underpaid third worlders to sift through

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Screaming Idiot posted:

There's nothing wrong with posting and texting and other internet stuff, but we should encourage kids to break out of the digital cocoon. Otherwise they'll end up in an echo chamber that will leave them incapable of adjusting to actual interaction.

Why else do you think the number of failson incels is skyrocketing?

more than anything I feel bad for kids who have tablets with youtube and bootleg free to play games shoved onto them rather than real TV and video games

not to say that TV or video games are good for kids but they have to be better than super-optimized for child clicks finger family nursery rhyme pregnant elsa videos and strange rope hero games

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Farm Frenzy posted:

when i was a kid i exclusively used the internet for lovely flash games, lovely flash cartoons about beheading barney the dinosaur, adn getting called gay by future neo nazis on internet forums. and look at me now!

yeah it's horrifying

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000


yes 112 million views in a month means you're being censored and also let's take a photograph of something on the computer because it's not like you can screenshot and post it using the computer :downs:

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000


It turns out that the generic NPC bandit names in post apocalyptic video games are actually the real first names of those characters :eyepop:

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

I have bad astigmatism so laser won't help my mutant lenses

I'm okay wearing glasses though

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BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Koishi Komeiji posted:

Why would it need to be upgraded to perform it's primary function? And you can trust that your data won't get shared or hacked. Just look at these two trustworthy lads:


Jaxxon Lungis, CEO


Kashton Kynlee, CTO

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