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Extra row of tits posted:It nearly impossible to get an actual discount now. Have you tried the Honey browser extension? Cuts a lot of time out of the coupon hunt.
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I remember when printers came with a full tank of ink when you purchased them, and for a while in the 00s, the printers themselves were so cheap, people would just buy a new printer when their ink ran out lol. It was legitimately cheaper than buying new ink. The manufacturers quickly figured it out, and since their whole business is predicated on continued ink sales, now new printers only come with these tiny little temp carts that are only enough for two farts worth of printing
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teen witch posted:My kvetch: thrift stores and the existence of Shein and the like. Yes! You also used to be able to find solid electronics and kitchen gear at thrift stores, but now it's just the cheapest straight-from-alibaba crap that's already broken. Like, thrift stores are now just full of badly made crumbling things people are too embarrassed or guilty to throw out. Just moving the trash from your house to the thift store and making it someone else's problem to dispose of your old humidifier that's missing its top piece. I used to LOVE thrift store shopping but nowadays it's just depressing.
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Jul 6, 2023 17:09
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Which reminds me of another thing people do - donating expired food to food pantries and homeless shelters. Or food that no one could possibly use. Stop that! If you're going to donate food to the needy, get staples and get them from the store so they're recent. Why do we think foisting our rotting poo poo onto the poor is an appropriate disposal solution? That's not something that got shittier over time tho, that's always been lovely, it's just sorta related to the thrift store thing.
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Brain Curry posted:I volunteer to pack free meals for elderly and otherwise needy people and the charity gets donations of expired food from supermarkets and other large companies. The charity has its own guidelines on expiration and we inspect every package for damage. The stuff we send out isn’t rotting and feeding people while eliminating waste is a good thing. Oh yeh that's different. I'm thinking of the super old stuff that's donated etc. I like this comic as a guide! https://www.thelily.com/advice-on-what-to-give-during-holiday-food-drives-from-someone-who-used-to-be-on-the-receiving-end/
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you've already heard nujabes if you've heard any lo-fi hip hop. people rec him bc of his work on Samurai Champloo which led to popularizing the entire musical genre. it all goes back to anime. always does.
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well and weather was abysmal this year making crop turnout bad. which...we're going to see more and more of as the earth slowly catches aflame
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Self-checkout is fantastic, plus it makes it easier for people in need to steal fresh things by measuring as the cheapest item in the store lol Plus you can always identify the boomers who are worth staying away from via self-checkout bc they always say poo poo about 'doing [someone's] job for them'. I can't imagine that any of these people would survive outside the US, or even in some of the larger US cities, where people also are expected to bag their own groceries. Meanwhile a lot of America has employees whose only job is bagging things for you.
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Aug 1, 2023 12:01
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Oh yeh Oglaf started in like 2010. It's an internet institution! Just add .com to the name and you're there.
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Aug 1, 2023 22:45
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What being forced to use QR Codes feels like https://youtu.be/bO206886Jrw
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Wilkins Micawber posted:I bought a box of bomb pop popsicles. Now maybe it's because it's a fancy flavor (sour patch kids maybe?) and they are a disappointment. Kind of soft and mushy and not the icy treats I craved. Now, I don't despise them, but I do see this as part of the overall process of sherbetification this thread was made for. sour patch products outside of the original candy are also universally known to be terrible. i can't blame you tho bc I'd still buy them to see as well, and be equally sad
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It's bc they're jackin' it, duh.
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There's a chubbyemu video about a guy who almost died like this, and got brain damage. Bitcoin mining: Not Even Once https://youtu.be/fr8bp8a2QS4 StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Aug 7, 2023 |
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Professor Shark posted:Also I got a yt ad for some scam my project funded by Elon Musk and Bill Gates where Canadians invest $250 and get regular cheques for $1000. It’s a pyramid scheme or something. But no way to report podcast commercials are even worse, it's now to the point if a service advertises on podcasts I do not trust it's legit. that's where the buy-gold scams have gone, I ain't trusting poo poo from that marketplace. we regulated advertising, but only for existing media like tv and magazines. poo poo like YT and podcasts are the wild west.
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Uh yeah a whole lot of therapy and sex work happens on Zoom. They're gonna generate the weirdest porn about self-actualization.
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My TV is from 2007 and it's on its last legs so I was gonna buy a new one soon. I had no idea to get 'dumb' tvs nowadays you have to buy the Best Buy Insignia brand now. Jfc what. Really. I just want a screen that shows things.
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Oh God, strong 'I just want a phone that makes phone calls, dammit!' Boomer smartphone energy in that last post. Nooooo it's starting....
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i spent the majority of my adult life packing my own groceries in nyc so now having people do it feels luxuriant and kinda too much. just....watching someone whose only job is packing my poo poo and standing there being like, yes, yesssss, pack my bags, bagslave. the trader joe's cashiers are always happy when me and my partner help pack our stuff  that said, it is actually a pretty vital service for disabled folks and elderly folks. i just wish it wasn't treated as an entitlement or expectation, the whole 'now the grocery store's got me working for them!' boomer narrative when you have to pack your own poo poo. Especially since getting to drive with your groceries after is so loving nice, just flying home on a magic carpet - I used to haul 2 weeks of groceries on a bus, covered like a pack mule. loving sucked. Having someone pack your bags for you then getting to stash it in a trunk and driving it home is very, very lush. I was in Poland for a short bit, and it was weekly trips to the nearby grocery where you packed your own stuff and rolled in home in a grocery cart, but you'd have to pack QUICK because those ladies would check you out with no mercy and move along at lightning speed and everyone in line would be glaring. Americans would never survive it. I loved it bc it was so fast and I never had to do small talk with the cashiers. It's taken me years to re-adjust to how long the checkout process is in the American South is. So...much....conversation. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Aug 20, 2023 |
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Aldi gets it, the cashiers just fill up your cart and send you to the counter to pack your poo poo yourself away from the checkout lanes.
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I dunno what the solution is but I remember when the SA Forums totally boned user bigbigtruck by hotlinking the 'you can't just walk into morder' gif straight from her website, which cost her a ton of money, and thats why we don't hotlink anymore
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She doesn't post here anymore ofc, late 00s/early 10s SA ended up alienating a lot of our coolest creators. Sigh.
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You Are A Elf posted:Just saw on the news McDonald’s is gonna phase out the self-serve soda fountains for “hygiene concerns” and staff will fill customers’s cups for them. Yeh the drink machines appeared as a way to shift that task onto the customer so that orders could get out more quickly, and whoops turns out there's a reason for why you had employees doing it in the first place That said, soda is so goddamned cheap to produce in those machines (soda water + syrup pack) and has a huuuge profit margin, so I do have a hard time believing they actually lost money on that in the long run. One patron's soda purchase could subsidize a whole portion of free drinks and the company would still make profit.
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But then McDs has also clawed back how many ketchup packs they give out. The feeling I get Everytime I walk into a McDs in the modern era is that it's run by a bunch of execs who are terrified of losing their jobs and making pennywise but poundfoolish decisions that make the profits look good for the latest financial presentation.
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PhazonLink posted:i heard a public radio bit about the "reverse" supply chain, and i think the journo said while abuse happens. normal people/buyers have a general sense of fairness or are just lazy and dont exercise decent return policies. and even min maxing abusers often have a net profit with BRAND/COMPANY Yeh the extra business they get from the perception of plused up customer service usually outweighs the losses, so returns policies like LL Bean are a loss leader and tbh I'm not sure I believe the idea that suddenly abuse of the policy spiked and it got taken away bc 'people can't have nice things'. Bc yeah, you can't resell it so it's just waste to dispose of, and that does have a concrete cost that begins to pile up. Over time that could very well get less and less sustainable.
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Like, the older I get, the less inclined I am to blame the petty whims of fellow consumers (and fellow workers) for being what tanks a working system, when it's the usually petty whims of executives at these corps causing the issue.
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StormDrain posted:Goddamn dude. How do you feel about a friend telling you a story? Or a professor giving a lecture? Both the friend and professor are real life experiences that develop connections with actual human beings. I actually love podcasts but am picky about them because yes, there's so much mediocre trash out there that's some bozo telling a boring story while I wait for them to get to the goddamn point. They're kinda like books - there's a lot of middling junk out there created just to hit a deadline, while the really good stuff that stands out is the kinda thing that takes someone years to investigate/research and put together in a presentable manner. For every In the Dark, there's ten, nay twenty, My Favorite Murder style podcasts.
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Sentient Data posted:At least one thread was swapped with a thread on the same topic from cspam (as a joke that nobody got), so there might be others Love to be some mod's creepy social experiment. I mean, that's what we're here for, right? So someone can test out their theories about forum users on an actual forum. Just call me TestUser3488 from now on. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Oct 2, 2023 |
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wash bucket posted:God yes. I don't know why they all end up like that but they ALL end up like that. the feedback forum is camped by a handful of regulars who I honestly think should be banned from that forum so that maybe they could return to some form of having use or value. but hell, mods don't have to take feedback, just maybe don't look down on the users so much that you start to mess with things bc you enjoy harassing them  and please, I fail to see how swapping the threads does anything to curtail muskposting. instead the switch has made the muskposting happen in more places, even now in this very thread. gj, mods. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Oct 3, 2023 |
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No, YT is poo poo to it's creators. Of all the 'services', it's the one that admittedly doesn't pay it's creators for content whatsoever outside of a few cents for ad views. Imagine if Netflix tried to charge a subscription fee, except instead of any of their original programming they paid to produce, or licensed, instead all of their shows were just some guys vlog, and he only gets paid if you watch it, but not if you subscribe to the service. They've essentially fooled people into thinking that they deserve not just A cut, but the Largest Cut of the money, for just being the platform that hosts the poo poo. So I don't even see where you get satisfaction in thinking the creators are getting paid, it's the service designed specifically to take things people's work that they did not support or produce, and sell it to you and take a cut for doing absolutely nothing except be 'the platform'. Consequently, that's why people get paid the worst there. Like, the writers strike has taught us the the guilt that streaming services heap on about how they can't afford to pay creators more due to ~~~piracy~~~ was total bullshit bc it turns out they services are actually just pocketing that money. So already that's a position trained into you by marketers, that paying for the service puts the money into the creators hands. It does NOT. But on top of that, YT would be the least likely to actually be ethical bc the whole concept is 'we host it, so we can monetize it' and sucking up the free work of others. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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i know people have said outlook search, but I'm mentioning it again because it somehow became worse recently? I don't know how it's possible but it finds even less of what I search for, now. just absolute trash.
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There's two MST3K paths you can do down in the modern era - Gizmoplex vs Rifftrax Friends, and the main difference is, if you were a Joel fan or a Mike fan. Joel got ousted from his own show by Jim Mallon and didn't get it back until 2015, and that leads to the MST3K revival on Netflix, etc etc. However, by a few accounts of how it all went down, Joel was ousted because allegedly he was being kind of a jerk to the rest of the team and crew about collaborating, although Mallon was absolutely a sleaze and not an easy guy to work with either. Both Mallon and Joel would claim the other was going for a power grab. From the outside, it seems like they both wound each other up about it being 'my show' and the other writers/crew were caught in the middle. Mike, head writer, was more well-liked, more collaborative in nature, and did what Mallon wanted, so he ended up hosting the majority of the show through its cable series run. Long have MST3K debates centered around which host was 'better', but undeniably the show has a different 'feel' depending on who is leading the writer's room/hosting. After MST3K ends, both Joel & Mike created internet versions of the property; Joel created Cinematic Titanic, Mike created Rifftrax. Joel/CT had writers Trace Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein, Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl. Mike/Rifftrax has MST3K writers Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett; so you have it split into two camps that kind of follow their own same vibes from the MST3K era. Rifftrax having the voices of Tom & Crow also helps - it carries a more consistent sound of the original, but the biggest thing IMO is that Rifftrax has the more relaxed and 'kind' vibe of the Mike Nelson era of MST3K. Anyway, what I'm saying is Rifftrax is only $5.99/mo and it's better than anything modern MST3K has spit out because new MST3K just has this whole chip-on-its-shoulder/feels-loving-weird-man thing going on that dates all the way back to the original split. Joel is trying his damndest to make his money back from his property after years of not being in control, and I get it, but yeah that poo poo be crazy, I'm not paying that for access to old episodes, or for access to the new stuff. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Oct 16, 2023 |
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Good, I hope employees steal more bc the entire system is predicated on you undervaluing your own work such that your boss can sell it to clients for more than you sell it to him. Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I steal TP on company time
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Exactly. All this hemming and hawing about shrinkage is just playing into the bosses bullshit. They're stealing far more in wage theft than any employee could ever take back.
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I mean, I googled it and Hy-Vee's membership is 12.95 a month or 99/year and there's a clear sign up link. Maybe it's a dead link if you try to go through with it? https://www.hy-vee.com/plus
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doctorfrog posted:Pretty easy and cheap to cook a whole chicken: oven, slow cooker, probably instant pot, etc. unless you're willing to come over and cook me this chicken yourself, shut up shut up shut uppppppppp. i've only got so many spoons, it doesn't matter how easy it is, i'm always going to be worn out at the end of the day and cooking is an activity which I have to literally force myself to do, so it's spoons on spoons here. any person who says cooking is easy and doesn't understand why others don't cook, your fate should be you cook for all of us then, if it's really so 'easy'. put your money where your mouth is then and provide for others - or shut up and let them solve it themselves in the ways they can.
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free hubcaps posted:There is one particular genre of games that I feel is really suited towards let's plays, and that is (especially older) point and click adventure games. I watched an lp of grim fandango recently and it was great getting all the dialogue, story and setting without having to deal with the frustrations of esoteric puzzles. Also spooky games. Fatal Frame games terrify me - the fact you 'sense' the ghosts through your controller heartbeat first before seeing them gets me every loving time. I can't make it through one with all my film intact for the big boss battles bc I panic and waste it on the 'normal' ghosts, so I always get stuck since the game is so brutal with resources. But also I want to see the spooky game! Watching someone else play means I don't have to stress myself out just to see some cool spooky stuff. Like, I don't ever want to play a Resident Evil game again, but I enjoy watching a playthrough. Resident Evil 7 was pretty brutally disgusting and kinda made me nauseous at a few points, I wouldn't have wanted to be actually playing it. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Oct 30, 2023 |
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I have been to places that don't have printed menus on-hand and it's the worst. I remember one place, I had a lovely connection in there and also theyd uploaded the full 300dpi print version of their menu, which was HUGE and took forever to load. The QR menu stuff upsets me because it's also a way of quietly filtering out by class, by making sure your restaurant can't even be used by someone lacking this technology. So basically, GTFO homeless people, your money's no good here. Every restaurant should have printed menus and take cash, so that anyone can just walk in and order and pay if needed; not doing so is basically saying only people of certain means and etiquette are allowed here. You shouldn't need to acquire a certain level of technology just to order and pay for food. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Nov 2, 2023 |
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dudes, inns and taverns served food for a long time, since like 900 ad. and i can immediately find poo poo online about food serving and restaurant culture in ancient china so respectfully - this seems like a very reductive eurocentric view that, hilariously, in its own way serves to erase all the free labor women of the households did for forever before that. the first cooks who cooked en masse weren't slaves, they were wives.
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I know this is the things that got shittier thread, but reading about the 35 minutes of ads in front of a movie made me realize I see maybe one movie a year, if at all. There's no point rushing to a theatre when I know it'll be on streaming in like 2 months tops. Which is honestly fantastic, remember when we were kids and they made people wait over a year before putting out the VHS of something? And they'd release it to rental stores first, then only for home purchase a few months after that. DVDs hosed that whole system up, thankfully. The pandemic basically got rid of even releasing things in the theatre and they're clawing it back, but I'll go back to a movie theatre pretty much never. I can't smoke weed, drink, and yell at the screen there. Plus, the food I have at home is way better than the frozen poo poo they toss in a microwave. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Nov 13, 2023 |
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