credburn posted:

Your Costco has a self-checkout? That sounds horrible. How does that even work? Doesn't one go to Costco to buy hundreds of things at a time?

Cerekk posted:

On topic for both threads is that Costco got rid of the diced onions for the $1.50 hot dogs

Laserface posted:

The hentai car thing is a legit Japanese sub culture

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itasha

The cringe is the point.

Tarkus posted:

It's always been a thing and was worse 20 years ago since so many people smoked. You're just noticing it more for whatever reason.

386-SX 25Mhz VGA posted:

Why would anybody not have done this already in 2023? Do you people also go around sucking on doorknobs?

I don’t think I’ve sat through a full commercial in at least 10 years. It’s so bizarre and disturbing now when I do see an ad that I have to turn my eyes away and mute it until it’s over.

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

- LG MammyTech, which renders everyone in vaudeville era blackface makeup.

Triikan posted:

The secret to not bagging your own groceries is ordering your groceries for pickup. They even bring it out to your car for you!

Unless somebody explains why this is somehow lovely, I can see a future where you're not even allowed in the store at all.

LimaBiker posted:

While they're lower maintenance, the love you get in return will be utter poo poo if you don't interact much with your cat. That's how people get the notion that cats are cold, aloof bastards - and if you let your cat outside, your cat will simply become someone else's cat.

We have a lot of cats wandering on the streets here in a residential area. Multiple cats are trying to become ours, because even though we don't let them inside our home, we acknowledge their existence and give them a few pets and kind words. In return, one of them has become the security guard to my motorcycle. He sits on it all the time, and it hasn't been stolen yet so he's doing a great job.

Shockingly that's apparently already more than the actual owners do with them because they just continue hanging around our house instead of going to their own home. Even if there's no hedgehog feed they can steal.

Meanwhile my kitty is as loyal as a dog. She sits next to me, cuddled up against me on the sofa every night without exception. If i'm not sitting there, she'll bother me until i sit down for a few cuddles with her. If she's in my bedroom and i want her to go down, i say 'downstairs' and she'll either get up from my desk chair and walk downstairs, or hide under my bed if she's not feeling like going to bed yet. Cats can definitely understand commands as part of a routine, but they don't always care about your stupid commands if they wanna have more late night snuggles.

wash bucket posted:

... can I ask why you're still using Google Maps to get to a school you've been going to for over a year?

GolfHole posted:

ahh just like tv.

at what point do people who willingly go into advertising get treated for the scumsucking human poo poo that they really are?

Internet Old One posted:

Oh no this is called server side ad insertion and they inject the ad directly into the stream.

I can remember ads on VHS tapes as early at the 80s and they were getting pretty crazy with it sometimes at the end of the DVD era. If you had a compliant DVD player it wouldn’t let you skip them either.

Tenkaris posted:

One of my favorites in that vein was yahoo and tumblr

Diet Poison posted:

For the record I have a Pixel... 2, I think? I don't know how old it is, it's positively ancient as far as modern phone standards go, and I'm extremely happy with it. Unless I hear (from this thread, probably, lol) that the newer ones are poo poo I'll probably be getting another one when this one eventually craps out. Pretty sure it came with the adapter, wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't anymore because most people probably don't need it anymore, but they're cheap as hell at Best Buy and probably every store that sells phone crap. I refuse to get on wireless headphones. One more stupid thing to lose its charge, then lose its ability to keep a charge so you have to get new ones, but more importantly I would absolutely lose an earbud loving immediately.

MrQwerty posted:

Yeah the SMD part loving sucks

Extra row of tits posted:

Books.

Books are terrible now. Every book by a well know author is subpar garbage that would slip by completely unremarked if it didn’t have a famous name attached or is some goofy one off piece of poo poo with a designed-solely-to-be-noticed-on-the-shelf name “It’s Shelly Gibsons 30th birthday and my thighs are fat” by 30 year old barely talented hack who will be gone in a year.

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A Strange Aeon posted:

Wtf is a romance kit? Condoms and lube?

A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:

Today I tried to use an American Express gift card (prepaid debit) I've had laying around for a while. I found out pretty quickly that online stores basically won't touch it, and some brick and mortar places might not either! Neato!

A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:

You can't do it with these anymore as of just a few months ago, lol

Just tried to set one up; they only take Visa & Mastercard. Thanks anyway!

Professor Shark posted:

I guess Far Cry 7 will have a 24 hour countdown to complete the game, which I’m salty about. Who wants to have a “Time left to have fun” component to a game?

Black Noise posted:

Majora’s Mask

teen witch posted:

I work with images as a major part of my job and the day PowerPoint dies I am going to get so loving lit.

There is a contingent of people who believe that pptx is a graphics file format and that it simply better to embed tifs into a PowerPoint than to send me the actual files themselves. Our specs specifically state what formats to not send. And yet, 500mb pptx files.

Modal Auxiliary posted:

Because it's incentivized by manufacturers. Apple, for example, spent decades restricting their consumers' ability to perform maintenance and repairs on their own products, and only after a number of lawsuits (both class-action and individual) have they begun to back down a bit. Tesla, Johnson & Johnson, AT&T, Lilly Inc., T-Mobile, Medtronic, Caterpillar, John Deere, General Electric, Philips, and eBay, on the other hand, have spent a combined $10 trillion lobbying against the right to repair.

The fact that "right to repair" is even a thing strikes me as patently loving absurd, and is maybe one of the most obvious examples of late-stage capitalist bullshit on display at present. I bought the thing, I own the thing, I should be able to fix the thing without buying proprietary tools or taking it to some shady repair kiosk or backwoods mechanic.

When I was young I always hoped we'd end up in a cool Road Warrior dystopia where I could at least roam the wastelands in a dune buggy wearing spikes on my shoulder pads and palling around with feral kids that look like Steven Tyler, but nooooooo, we have to get stuck with the Wall-E/Idiocracy dystopia instead.

Vampire Panties posted:

I got a double western with crisscut fries and a chocolate shake a month or so ago, and it was over 20 dollars

Prettz posted:

Yeah the early 2000s were weird about jeans
Pre-ruined baggy jeans and then some guys were wearing flared jeans that were disturbingly close to bell-bottoms, which was at the time grosser than tight jeans would be 5 years later

Atopian posted:

Am I and the other person saying "use your loving phone as a remote" invisible?

Why does anyone tolerate collecting a pile of single-use controllers in tyool2023 when almost everyone carries around a general purpose computer in their pocket?

Edit: "Oh poo poo my horse is acting up! Maybe it's angry that it has to share stable space with my Ferrari!"
Man what.

ProperCauldron posted:

When you go to big stores like Target or Home Depot and suddenly your phone internet no longer works. Like god forbid you want to research products n prices, check out market. I deserve a reward for walking into your store, instead I get a punishment. Pretty evil I gotta say.

euphronius posted:

I have driven many new cars and the safety stuff is all garbage and detrimental and unsafe