Olympic Mathlete posted:

I'm genuinely shocked you can buy a non-HDMI DVD player in tyool 2024.

And if we can talk about cables, connections and such, I hate Displayport. Oh you can go from a DP output to a HDMI input but not the other way around unless you have a special active cable which is expensive considering. And you can buy a HDMI cable capable of 4K 60 for a few dollars yet for some reason a standard Displayport equivalent is a stack more despite not having a licensing cost attached like HDMI production does.

That some PCs use this lovely standard is the worst. The only thing DP has going got it is the fact it locks into the port.

Dip Viscous posted:

YouTube randomly skips around periodically when I'm watching longer videos now. Sometimes it goes forward 45 seconds, sometimes it goes back 210 minutes. I can't discern any pattern to when or why it does this or what makes it choose how much to skip, and it happens no matter what device I'm watching from. Just have to spend a few minutes scrubbing through the video and hope I can find where I left off before it does it again.

JediTalentAgent posted:

A store removed their 'cost per ounce' listing from shelf tags. The tags are so full of numbers, though, it might be difficult to spot in the mix.

Outrail posted:

Everyone and everything is stupid and dumb and everyone and everything should stop being stupid and everyone and everything should stop being dumb, tia.

Also if you can't drive stick or regulate cruising speed you're basically a baby wearing adult shoes and you're not fooling anyone.

Outrail posted:

More like redhurt

Outrail posted:

JediTalentAgent posted:

A store removed their 'cost per ounce' listing from shelf tags. The tags are so full of numbers, though, it might be difficult to spot in the mix.

Outrail posted:

Everyone and everything is stupid and dumb and everyone and everything should stop being stupid and everyone and everything should stop being dumb, tia.

Also if you can't drive stick or regulate cruising speed you're basically a baby wearing adult shoes and you're not fooling anyone.

poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:

Popups suggesting dramatic and sometimes costly route changes that you have 10 seconds to engage with or they'll auto-accept?

The Moon Monster posted:

This poo poo is insane, I'm convinced google is being paid by toll road companies or something.

The Moon Monster posted:

This poo poo is insane, I'm convinced google is being paid by toll road companies or something.

Cerekk posted:

You can turn it off. Otherwise it will pick the faster route.

Houle posted:

Guys I want my cruise control to ram into cars in front of me instead of slowing down. Numbers scare me.

The Moon Monster posted:

Noticing the speed of the car in front of you is actually really easy if you're not ordering tendies on doordash or whatever while driving.

This, tbqh

This poo poo is insane, I'm convinced google is being paid by toll road companies or something.

Time_pants posted:

acquired a target.

Time_pants posted:

I don't have a dog in this fight--my car doesn't have cruise control--but I can tell you that threads get worse when they've acquired a target.

AARD VARKMAN posted:

enough about cruise control already god drat

poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:

private Turnpike

Pennywise the Frown posted:

What in the gently caress?

That's almost as shocking to me as private prisons.

wikipedia posted:

On April 11, 2002, Gov. Jeb Bush signed House Bill 261, creating Florida's Turnpike Enterprise, and directing the Turnpike to pursue innovation and best private-sector business practices, to improve cost-effectiveness and timeliness in project delivery, to increase revenues and expand its capital program, and to improve quality of service to its customers. At that time, the Office of Toll Operations, formerly a separate division of the State of Florida, was folded into the FTE and is exempt from FDOT policies, procedures, and standards, subject to the secretary having the authority to apply any such policies, procedures, and standards to the FTE from time to time as deemed appropriate.

bossy lady posted:

bossy lady posted:

Time_pants posted:

Jeb Bush is the most pathetic man alive.

Time_pants posted:

Jeb Bush is the most pathetic man alive.

Duck and Cover posted:

I suggest you do some research on a fella named Donald Trump.

Time_pants posted:

He's very, very, very pathetic. Upper 0.0001%, no question. But his biggest claim to fame is being a pathological liar and piece of poo poo. appearing in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

Outrail posted:

steinrokkan posted:

*Formerly

Houle posted:

Ketchup has been getting worse. Heinz is a watery mess that always has ketchup water regardless of how thoroughly you shake it.I always keep my ketchup in the fridge, couldn't fathom keeping it in the cupboard.

quote:

My friend, Zoltar (fake name), has been obsessed with ketchup ever since I met him. He is always trying out different recipes to make his own ketchup and getting me and all our friends to try them. Recently he made "his best ketchup yet". I tried it. It wasn't bad. It was ketchup. Now he has decided he is "finally going to break into the ketchup game."

He is convinced he is going to launch his own ketchup company and grow it to be one of the top providers of ketchup in the US. He literally has a photo of Heinz ketchup on a dartboard. He throws darts at it and mutters things like "I'm coming for YOU".

Anyways he has a scheme he wants me and others to participate in. Essentially it involves us all going to a restaurant, sitting at different tables, and enacting lines from a scene he wrote that will culminate in all of us trying and loving his ketchup and convincing the manager to buy it. He wants us all to memorize lines.

The gist of it is one guy is supposed to call over a waitress and say he likes the french fries, but hates the ketchup. I am supposed to lean over (from another table) and say "Sorry to butt in, hah hah, but I have to agree. I'm tired of this old fashioned, factory produced ketchup. Where's the real tomato flavor?" After a few other people do this, my friend is going to say "You guys won't believe this, but I'm a ketchup chef, and I have a few samples. Would you want to give it a shot?"

At this point everyone is supposed to try the ketchup and act astounded by it and basically all exclaim it is the best ketchup they ever had. I am supposed to stand up on my table and "make a trumpet sound effect" and then yell to the entire restaurant "We have the best ketchup ever made over here! Everyone come on over!"

One of the other people is supposed to get the manager of the place over and we are all supposed to try to convince him or her to buy an order of my friends ketchup. He is going to act "surprised and embarrassed" and try to tell us to "stop putting this poor guy on the spot" in regards to the manager. He then assumes he will make a "huge sale". Then he wants to do this same "operation" at other places in town.

I told him no way am I doing this. I hate public speaking/acting and having attention focused on me, also the idea is just so loving dumb and crazy to me. I told him that straight up. He acted offended and said I am "ruining his dreams."

I am astounded by this but some of my friends agree and think he is showing "hustle" and that we should all help him launch his ketchup business. Aside from his ketchup obsession Zoltar is one of my best friends but it seems our friendship is being ruined. A lot of people are telling me I am a jerk for going against his dream and not helping out.