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That's a good take on it and helps excuse her actions since her experience has so changed her way of thinking and seeing time. But the poor dude was still existing in linear time and was NOT The Sisko.
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Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is one of the greatest collections of poetry. That being said, you can read about 4 pages of it and get the gist of the whole thing.
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All those cute little videos where people harass and mess with telemarketers aren't funny. They're not excited to be cold-calling strangers, but it's obviously something they need to do to support themselves and their family. And as far as I know, most work on commission, so all you're doing is taking money out of their pockets and putting them at a greater risk of losing their jobs. The same goes for people that do pranks on drive-thru employees.
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Ugh, you people are arguing about spoilers? Ugh!! Spoilers dont matter because fiction doesnt matter. As ive said before: nothing is good. All movies, tv shows, books, comic books, video games, animes, cartoons, etc. are garbage and bad! None of them are good! So it doesnt matter if people spoil them for you because they were bad to begin with! Star Wars is bad. Harry Potter is bad. Doctor Who is bad. The Hunger Games is bad. Game of Thrones is bad. Stephen Universe is bad. Adventure Time is bad. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is bad. Marvel comics in general are bad. The DC cinematic universe is bad. DC comics in general are bad. Star Trek is bad. Disney cartoons are bad. Pixar movies are bad. Actually there are a few things that are good: farting, taking huge dumps, and actually that's about it, I cant think of anything else off the top of my head.
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Feb 2, 2017 22:04
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Low Desert Punk posted:The same goes for people that do pranks on drive-thru employees. The light-hearted pranks where people do silly things and make the employees laugh are great and I can fully support. But like any trend, many people take it way too far.
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Low Desert Punk posted:All those cute little videos where people harass and mess with telemarketers aren't funny. They're not excited to be cold-calling strangers, but it's obviously something they need to do to support themselves and their family. And as far as I know, most work on commission, so all you're doing is taking money out of their pockets and putting them at a greater risk of losing their jobs.
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Feb 2, 2017 23:27
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You should always talk to telemarketers and buy their poo poo
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1080p is perfectly fine for TV and movie watching. Anything more is just silly.
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Feb 3, 2017 01:44
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I will take the time to gently caress around with that phone scam where they want access to your PC. Usually saying I can't close down a porn window, it's important, then ending with saying I own a Mac. Sadly they've called enough for me to decide to do this.
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Low Desert Punk posted:All those cute little videos where people harass and mess with telemarketers aren't funny. They're not excited to be cold-calling strangers, but it's obviously something they need to do to support themselves and their family. And as far as I know, most work on commission, so all you're doing is taking money out of their pockets and putting them at a greater risk of losing their jobs. Drive through employees are not the same as telemarketers. If you choose to do something lovely and predatory as your job don't be surprised if people don't like it. Most of them are outright scams nowadays anyways that are trying to steal from you.
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As someone who worked in call centers for years, I would honestly love to encounter a prankster, at least I'd have a funny story to tell at break. If they call you, feel free to gently caress with them.
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"The truth is in the middle" isn't always wrong. Sure, there are times when it isn't, but still.
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MisterBibs posted:"The truth is in the middle" isn't always wrong. Sure, there are times when it isn't, but still. I mean, it's trivially true in the sense that for most issues with opinions falling along some continuum, there exist opinions to the dramatic extreme of either side which are bad. But in terms of the way it's actually used (since the aforementioned meaning is pointless), it is virtually never an appropriate sentiment. Even if the best opinion does lie between two other stated opinions, that's just a coincidence and has nothing to do with "the truth is the middle" being some accurate guiding principle.
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You Are A Elf posted:1080p is perfectly fine for TV and movie watching. Anything more is just silly. 4K is really cool. 1080p is still really good but 4K is objectively better.
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The_Rob posted:4K is really cool. 1080p is still really good but 4K is objectively better. It depends upon stuff like how far you are from the screen and how big the screen is too. Though given that I can notice the difference between 1080p and 2k on a smart phone screen, I imagine it's even more noticeable on larger screens (though I feel like 2k is getting close to the limit of what eyes can notice on smart phones). You can really tell the difference between 1080p and 2k on a smart phone if you actually play a video in those resolutions on Youtube or something. The 2k on such a small screen is absolutely incredible and feels like you're seeing things in real life.
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oldpainless posted:Meg dies in Little Women More like oldsisterless.
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You Are A Elf posted:1080p is perfectly fine for TV and movie watching. Anything more is just silly. veni veni veni posted:Drive through employees are not the same as telemarketers. If you choose to do something lovely and predatory as your job don't be surprised if people don't like it.
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You Are A Elf posted:1080p is perfectly fine for TV and movie watching. Anything more is just silly. Most technology is just silly. Silly little gizmos and video game bullshit. That's all we have to look forward to. We're not going to cure AIDS or anything. We're not even going to get any dystopian death robots or cyborgs. Just more stupid phones and apps and video game bullshit.
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Jastiger posted:Drug testing employees is stupid and a waste of time, and completely invasive. Agreed unless it comes to a job where you're constantly driving, operating heavy machinery or doing anything that could endanger other people. In that case opting into drug testing should be standardized If you work retail or something then gently caress that
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Telemarketing is generally bad. BUT, as someone in sales, I think its kind of a detriment too. So many products and services people buy, but if you approached them over the phone its somehow "evil" or "Bad". I'm not saying telemarketing for some bullshit magazine subscription is a good thing, but I interact with people every day that use their phone for everything, except phone calls. They'll spend hundreds of dollars a month on something, but if you approach them for a product THEY ARE ALREADY PAYING FOR, they will refuse to communicate over the phone. Its really quite weird. I mentioned this a while ago too: You should always answer your phone even if you don't recognize the number. It takes literally 3 seconds of your life to figure out if its important to you or not.
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Jastiger posted:I mentioned this a while ago too: You should always answer your phone even if you don't recognize the number. It takes literally 3 seconds of your life to figure out if its important to you or not. No
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Jastiger posted:Telemarketing is generally bad. BUT, as someone in sales, I think its kind of a detriment too. So many products and services people buy, but if you approached them over the phone its somehow "evil" or "Bad". I'm not saying telemarketing for some bullshit magazine subscription is a good thing, but I interact with people every day that use their phone for everything, except phone calls. They'll spend hundreds of dollars a month on something, but if you approach them for a product THEY ARE ALREADY PAYING FOR, they will refuse to communicate over the phone. A government number kept calling me multiple times a week trying to get child support money from me for like two years even though I'm gay and don't have children despite having told them multiple times I wasn't the dude they were looking for I think not answering after a while was good
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Since there's a lot of movie talk: I'm a huge fan of cinema (arty-farty stuff). I don't give a drat about the resolution as long as the quality is overall good. When I buy Criterion discs I buy the DVD version because I watch most movies on my laptop, not my 1080p TV. Other movie snobs have claimed I'm not a true fan, because if I was I'd only want to watch movies in the best possible resolution possible in the optimal setting. I honestly don't care enough, and don't find that my enjoyment of a movie changes based on how detailed the image is I'm looking at.
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It's fine if your eyesight is bad. I felt the same way until I had surgery.
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Jastiger posted:I mentioned this a while ago too: You should always answer your phone even if you don't recognize the number. It takes literally 3 seconds of your life to figure out if its important to you or not. If it's actually important they'll leave a message.
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Mu Zeta posted:It's fine if your eyesight is bad. I felt the same way until I had surgery. I see the difference, it just doesn't matter much to me.
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Jastiger posted:Telemarketing is generally bad. BUT, as someone in sales, I think its kind of a detriment too. So many products and services people buy, but if you approached them over the phone its somehow "evil" or "Bad". I'm not saying telemarketing for some bullshit magazine subscription is a good thing, but I interact with people every day that use their phone for everything, except phone calls. They'll spend hundreds of dollars a month on something, but if you approach them for a product THEY ARE ALREADY PAYING FOR, they will refuse to communicate over the phone. if i want to buy something i'll come to you, i don't want you interrupting my life to pressure me into buying poo poo that i don't want. it's the same with door to door salespeople and the reason they don't hardly exist anymore.
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I have never in my life been called by a telemarketer trying to sell an actually good product. They are shilling mediocre products at best and conmen at worst. They might not have a choice about working there but I certainly have a choice about whether I want to talk to them. Sales in general is a profession that's difficult to respect. To be good at it you have to constantly con people into paying more than they need to, even if you are being completely honest about the quality of your product (which would be pretty rare).
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Mu Zeta posted:It's fine if your eyesight is bad. I felt the same way until I had surgery.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I have never in my life been called by a telemarketer trying to sell an actually good product. They are shilling mediocre products at best and conmen at worst. They might not have a choice about working there but I certainly have a choice about whether I want to talk to them. Commissioned salesmen are the scum of the earth do a great job of representing how garbage capitalism is.
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Fashionable Jorts posted:Commissioned salesmen are the scum of the earth do a great job of representing how garbage capitalism is. Yeah I think the commission part is what ruins and forces them in to high pressure tactics which nobody enjoys. If I could go in to sears or whatever and tell the guy what kind of TV or appliance I wanted and they took me to exactly the one I need, that would be fine. But since they need to make the largest commission possible, they will say the thing I actually want is poo poo and drag me to the one that costs twice as much, and oh by the way, you'd have to be an absolute moron to not buy the 3 year extended warranty, and by the way your TV will be practically useless if you don't buy these Monster brand cables to hook everything up to it.
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You Are A Elf posted:1080p is perfectly fine for TV and movie watching. Anything more is just silly. A store-bought VHS cassette played on a good VCR, displayed on a good Sony-brand (but I repeat myself) 40" high-definition liquid crystal display television with the correct settings is perfectly fine. e: DVD and The Blue Ray are much better of course. I'm just saying VHS is fine.
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Telemarketing should only be allowed from certain number ranges so you can immediately tell if it's a telemarketer calling and ignore it.
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Collateral Damage posted:Telemarketing should only be allowed from certain number ranges so you can immediately tell if it's a telemarketer calling and ignore it. Yeah having D on your contact list filled with DON'T ANSWER DOON'T ANSWER DOOOON'T ANSWER DOOOOON'T ANSWER etc. is a pain in the rear end.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Yeah having D on your contact list filled with
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Collateral Damage posted:Doesn't your phone let you have multiple numbers per contact? I just have a single contact named SPAM that I add known telemarketer numbers to. I think it's limited to like four? It's from the late nineties.
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There are numerous apps that just block known garbage numbers for you. Don't mess with adding spammers to your contacts.
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Mu Zeta posted:There are numerous apps that just block known garbage numbers for you. Don't mess with adding spammers to your contacts. Jerry Cotton posted:It's from the late nineties.
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Mu Zeta posted:There are numerous apps that just block known garbage numbers for you. Don't mess with adding spammers to your contacts.
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Blue Star posted:Star Wars is bad. Harry Potter is bad. Doctor Who is bad. The Hunger Games is bad. Game of Thrones is bad. Stephen Universe is bad. Adventure Time is bad. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is bad. Marvel comics in general are bad. The DC cinematic universe is bad. DC comics in general are bad. Star Trek is bad. Disney cartoons are bad. Pixar movies are bad. Well, yeah, all those things ARE bad, but you are only picking trash and saying it is representative of everything. Also you are Blue Star, so your opinions are inherently wrong.
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