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Light Gun Man posted:yeah what's up with tear here stuff? I swear this poo poo used to work fine. now I just get out scissors every time. did they have to make them bullshit because too many people were just hulking out and tearing it apart or something? it's like less than useless now. On a similar note, I swear they're using a worse glue or cheaper cardboard on the majority of single play carboard food boxes (e.g. cereal boxes). Typically, the top is two overlapping flaps glued together, with the idea being that you pull the top flap away from the bottom breaking the glue. But these days it's a coin flip whether the bottom of the top flap just stays adhered to the glue and you instead pull the top flap cleanly in half into a useless top half and bottom half that's still keeping the box closed. At this point the only way to open the box is to tear poo poo up, ruining the re-closability. There was always a chance of this happening, but now it's constant.
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The Captain Vimes boot theory of economics is broken because even expensive boots fall to pieces in a few months now.
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Dip Viscous posted:The restaurant across the street from me that has pretty decent burgers for the price point only accepts payment with paper checks now. Do they not even accept cash? What the hell
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Now I get to watch them refuse to ever revert the change despite losing most of their customers, close down in a couple of years, then post an angry rant on their Facebook about how card processing fees are killing small businesses.
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Youtube seems to have finally started cracking down on ad blockers I guess because it started scolding me for using my browser's built in one. Finally got me to download ublock origin, which still works fine. Kinda funny that they didn't start going after the most prominent adblocker that everyone uses as part of their campaign 
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Oct 10, 2023 10:26
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Anyone bought a klondike bar in the last year or so? They're so much smaller now, it's really something. Guess I'm never buying any of those again.
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Nov 14, 2023 01:18
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Pistol_Pete posted:I've noticed that Americans seem very down on the concept of self-checkouts, people mostly accept them in the UK? Personally, I can live with their quirks and annoyances, as it eliminates the much bigger annoyance of putting all your stuff down on the conveyer, then the person in front of you turns out to be a moron or troublemaker that holds the line up forever and you're trapped there now 'cos you've already put your stuff down. Self checkout was pretty good when it was first introduced like 20 years ago but, well, *points to thread title*
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Nov 21, 2023 18:18
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Just calling out, I got an Insignia 'dumb' TV from Best Buy for Black Friday - it was down to $130, normally $170. It's nothing amazing, just a 1080p LED screen, but it works fine. Better than the smart tvs I've used, it starts up right away. Yeah, people have been saying you can't buy a dumb TV for years and maybe it'll be true some day but it isn't yet. Maybe what they mean is "you can't buy a dumb tv [with all of these performance parameters I want to hit]", idk. Smart TVs do suck poo poo though. It's sort of incredible how like 80% of all consumer good were just objectively better 20 years ago.
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Dec 1, 2023 22:45
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I just use discord as a chatroom. 99.5% of the time on PC. I'm unaware of all of these features or why I need them. Like 90% of all software development since, I dunno, 2006 seems to be directed entirely at a tiny sliver of power users and even then it's like 50/50 on whether they appreciate it or are annoyed by it. Programs are using 1000x the resources for 1.17x the functionality.
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Dec 9, 2023 02:44
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Self checkout was great back around 2005 but it's been so thoroughly shat up since then I try to avoid it unless I'm only buying like 1 bag worth of items. Going to a cashier is usually faster if only because there's actually enough space to put all your items and the machine doesn't lock up and screech at you when you skip step c of the process.
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Dec 10, 2023 12:34
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Modal Auxiliary posted:
Also you better be able to fit all of your groceries on that red circle at once or the machine WILL lock up and you'll have to wait for the attendant to get done with the 4 other customers whose machines have locked up or are being carded for alcohol or whatever. Anyway human cashier but you bag the groceries is the best combo unless you're shopping at the Aspen whole foods or whatever where they still have dedicated baggers and don't just make the cashier do it.
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Dec 10, 2023 17:25
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Kit Walker posted:I can only assume that the self-checkout machines in the US are all complete garbage because I've lived in a few countries abroad and I've never once had any of these issues over the course of several years and living in several cities. The worst I ever had was a machine that needed me to scan the item, put it in the bagging area, then it had to take like 3 seconds to think about it before it let me scan the next item. And that issue seemed to go away after a couple months I think it's mostly a constant ramp up of loss prevention features because the US used to have good self checkout machines.
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Dec 10, 2023 18:55
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is pepsi ok posted:Holy poo poo yes, especially the part about glue being so loving weak. I feel like a lot of glue is too strong now, so when you're supposed to pull apart the glue on two cardboard flaps that are stuck together, the glue is actually ten times stronger than the flaps so you end up just ripping one of them off instead. Of course maybe the glue is the same as always and the cardboard is weaker, I dunno.
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Dec 11, 2023 22:33
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deep dish peat moss posted:I used to get my groceries delivered and it kind of owned because it would be a $10ish delivery fee and the items weren't marked up. $10 to save whatever time it takes to go to the store and shop was worth it and I didn't have a car so it saved me a ton of headache and hassle. My wife and I tried getting groceries delivered when we had covid and we ended up having to to the grocery store in person, twice, to get all the stuff we had already paid for.
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Dec 14, 2023 02:52
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All the auto shops other than Walmart and maybe, like, Pep Boys are closed on the weekends now so I need to take time off work to get my car fixed. It's good for the people working those jobs to have regular days off, but it sure sucks from my end.
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Dec 16, 2023 15:36
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wash bucket posted:Seeing a lot of articles today like, “The economy is doing great: here’s why it would be bad if things cost less (you loathsome rabble)” People have been telling me deflation is bad, actually, my whole life but it would be cool for me if food or houses or cars got cheaper instead of more expensive.
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Dec 18, 2023 23:37
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Woolie Wool posted:If you can feed a horse, milk a cow, and drive a plow with a team of oxen you're better prepared for the economy of the future than most people. The society of post-industrial smallholding farmers isn't going to happen until after the omega-war over all the arable land on earth that can support maybe a few hundred million of those. For that phase the more marketable skill is going to be fashioning sick hood ornaments out of human jawbones.
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Dec 19, 2023 02:47
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Duck and Cover posted:I watched the new Super Mario Brother movie which made me finally watch the old Super Mario Brothers. The old one is better. It isn't even close. One is a cheesy movie the other a collection or references with famous people voices and music you will recognize. It's like prequel Star Wars vs. sequel Star Wars. They both suck but at least the prequels had a vision.
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Dec 19, 2023 02:48
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Sometimes I think that advertising doesn't work but then I remember that half the men in America commute to the office in an $80000 pickup truck so who's to say
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Philthy posted:GAS PUMP ADS THAT SCREAM AT YOU AS YOUR CAR IS BEING FILLED UP I think my gas station hosed something up because the ads are always playing except they stop when you start filling up.
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Dec 19, 2023 22:01
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:hope no one in this thread weighs their 8 oz steak after its cooked at texas roadhouse There's a burger place in a town where I lived that did post-cooked weight and it turns out a half pound burger is actually pretty huge. Salt Fish posted:Wegmans is what snooty east coasters think a great grocery store looks like but they've never been to horrocks. People who think Wegmen's and Horrock's are any good have clearly never shopped at Glerbmund's The Moon Monster fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Dec 21, 2023 |
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Is Google on the take from toll road operators or something? Whenever I use google maps now it will try to direct me to a faster route that it doesn't mention is a toll road so I can pay $5 to save 2 minutes. I have to pick up my phone while I'm driving and press a prompt on the screen to make it stay on the route I told it I wanted. I was driving about 600 miles on Friday and it kept telling me it had found a faster route and trying to redirect me onto a toll road that, when looking at the screen, it claimed was actually 30 minutes slower.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:toll roads lol. crazy rear end poo poo. i cant believe that's a normal thing in most of the world Yup, I dunno about "most of the world" but they're also crooked as hell in the my neck of the US. The local government builds the road with public money, then sells it to a toll operator for a fraction of the amount and uses the proceeds to open a creationist charter school or buy more black paint and Punisher decals for the SWAT team's Bradley fighting vehicles.
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deep dish peat moss posted:The cool thing about new music is no matter what you listen to it will be better than everything released between 1960 and 1979 THE HOLE LEFT BY THE BEATLES DARK AGES I unironically agree tho e: drat that post was pages ago
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Vampire Panties posted:something like 95% of alcoholic drinks in the US are consumed by <5% of the population. We put all these laws in place to try and stop that <5%, but ain't nothin' stoppin alkies. I bought some "Aoremon" brand Sonicare replacement heads off of ebay for like 1/10th the price of name brand, and they're about as good. Electric toothbrush heads have always been a classic "that's how they get you" situation.
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People who allow white supremacists effortlessly to claim any innocuous thing they cast their eyes on claiming they're somehow fighting the good fight is a lol If you're acting like wearing a common, popular brand of shoes is like trying to "reclaim" the swastika and Hitler 'stache you should probably take a break from whichever corner of the internet you picked that up in because you're losing touch with reality.
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deep dish peat moss posted:I live in Arizona and the TV news here spent most of the last week warning us about apocalyptic storms on the way, saying you want to make sure to stay indoors this weekend and don't make any plans! And prepare yourself for the torrential rain! Weather channels here were talking about snow and apparently grocery stores were a mob scene on Friday. I can't believe people actually thought it was going to snow, it's 2024. There was a substantial drizzle over the weekend to be fair.
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Tythas posted:Youtube is now attacking you with a denial of service of your own hardware if you use adblockers Is this just with Chrome? I haven't noticed anything. Bold of them to sabotage their own lovely but inexplicably popular browser, if so.
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Bouillon Rube posted:wait is this supposed to be the cast of Friends? It's all the posters in this thread. Guess I must have forgotten to invite you to the shoot, sorry!
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His Divine Shadow posted:I have noticed Google Play Store has started showing adds that contains an install button when you open an app page to install it, so if you are careless it's super easy to press the first install button you see, except you're installing some random software from an ad, not the actual thing you were trying to install. To be fair hosting sites have been doing this for decades with ads that all prominently display a "DOWNLOAD NOW" button. You'd think google would care enough to keep that poo poo away but
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Was this whole food delivery trend that sprung up yet another thing where free VC money made it effective but now the chickens are coming home to roost? I feel like 15 years ago the idea of getting any food other than pizza or few others delivered to your door was vanishingly rare.Mulaney Power Move posted:One of many reasons I hate Spectrum. I can log on and buy equipment and services with a click, but if I want to cancel something or even ask about a charge on the bill I have to call in and then they make me prove I own the account by asking for my social security number. If I have to cancel something like that I always tell them I'm moving to Nepal. I don't think I've ever gotten into double digit minutes. It's still ridiculous that it takes that long, and that you MUST call them on the phone (lol suck it gen-z), and that there are "strategies" for getting them to do the thing, but it is what it is I guess. The Moon Monster fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Jan 21, 2024 |
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Like how the dilemma is apparently "order delivery or drive drunk" rather than "order delivery or don't order delivery".
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My grocery store tacked another dollar on to half the stuff I buy again. Depressing as hell. They also added an "every day low prices" sticker to most of the things with new higher prices, just to rub it in I guess? I'm surprised that phrase isn't trademarked by Walmart.StrangersInTheNight posted:I agree with this theory, I type like an insane person using mostly my middle fingers, but I get 90 wpm This is basically me except with my index fingers. I get a lot of comments on how impressive sounding my typing is.
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I just can't fathom wanting mcdonalds so bad I'd pay like $25 for it.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Hey fellow PE-havers. I got my EIT over a decade ago but all the PEs at my job told me not to bother, so I didn't. It has yet to come up.
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cat botherer posted:
This is my new favorite boomer job hunting advice. Have you tried just walking into MIT, looking Noam Chomsky in the eye and firmly shaking his hand?
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dreezy posted:not too firmly or it might disintegrate. he may have in fact died while i was typing this post So there's an opening, is what you're saying?
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I'd have more sympathy for doctors charging for being late if they didn't without fail make me wait for them after I arrive on time.
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Manky Tungeon posted:google is getting rid of cached pages. oops the thing you're looking for isnt on the page anymore and no one bothered to save it on the internet archive? get hosed drat, how will I read blocked sites at work now.
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Sentient Data posted:I've basically shopped by weight for years since I'm used to bouncing between a couple different stores that have different sizes of the same staples. That's helped protect me from surprise shrinkflation, but it leads to getting more and more disappointed every trip as things constantly creep upward Stepping into a grocery store is like an on demand depressive episode these days.
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Wendigee posted:That alphabet is ridiculous. Jar Jar is critical, now more than ever.
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