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The car chat made me remember an idiot from this morning. Was coming up to a red light at a T-intersection & there was a red Buick waiting at the light. While we're waiting he throws his car in park, gets out & starts looking for something in the passenger seat & back of his car. Light goes green, he's still rooting around in his back seat with his rear end hanging out the door. Went around, honked & saw him with his arms up like "WTF bro?" as I drove off. Hope someone ran his dumb rear end over.
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Stop lights and stop signs have just gotten weird as gently caress post-2020. I mentioned before I see people stop at stop signs and just not move for several minutes, I've seen people get out of the car like you describe, and people don't even try to pull over to the side of the road to park anymore. Just bring their cars to a stop and abandon them in the middle of the street and go into a business.
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Jun 21, 2024 21:31
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There's nothing more infuriating than the arm-raise from someone doing something objectively wrong. I've gotten arms thrown up at me for trying to enter a parking lot entrance that someone was exiting from. I've gotten them for turning left on a green left arrow while someone wanted to go straight. I've gotten them for zipper-merging!!!
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Jun 21, 2024 21:40
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I voluntarily stopped driving after getting COVID-19 because it felt like my brain had been microwaved and couldn't do it responsibly but everyone drives like a fuckin' psycho now.
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People in my town stop on the crosswalks. They don't do this other places -- I mean, yeah sometimes, some people might, and some people do because they're trying to get a better look at the traffic, etc., but in this town, it has a culture of: red light means stop on the crosswalk. As a pedestrian I find it extremely frustrating 
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And it's always super tall trucks with squared off noses so you can't even make eye contact with the drivers when you try to walk around them. E: I guess less of an issue if you aren't impressively short like I am. Dip Viscous has a new favorite as of 22:01 on Jun 21, 2024 |
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Jun 21, 2024 21:58
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At any traffic crossing as a pedestrian I use the Southeast Asian method of just walking and hoping for the best. If I die I die.
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Jun 21, 2024 22:03
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FreudianSlippers posted:At any traffic crossing as a pedestrian I use the Southeast Asian method of just walking and hoping for the best. If I die I die. I found that in Italy too. No-one had respect for pedestrian crossings, so I'd just bank on their scooter skills to dodge me.
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Jun 22, 2024 04:47
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Got a 24-hour mute on a Discord server for loudly and angrily complaining that it's hosed up that -- in the nine years since The Dress was a subject and immediately solved by the company that made it -- it's still apparently up for debate bet the mod involved is a white & gold moron /e: don't you loving dare make this a debate here
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Maybe you’re right but people super angry on discord are never pleasant lol
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Can't put my trash in the dumpster because someone filled it with uncollapsed cardboard boxes. There's a recycling like 20 feet away and a poo poo load of signs saying the overflow fees are getting passed onto our HOA bill. I would like to put some of my neighbors in the dumpster, so they can live in happiness as the trash monsters they are.
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Jun 23, 2024 18:24
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When you need two of a thing from a container. Reach in once, pull out one of the thing. Reach in a second time, pull out two. Then you gotta put one back!
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Jun 24, 2024 00:41
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Riatsala posted:Can't put my trash in the dumpster because someone filled it with uncollapsed cardboard boxes. There's a recycling like 20 feet away and a poo poo load of signs saying the overflow fees are getting passed onto our HOA bill. Cardboard in the dumpster is better than the reverse, at least. Somebody at my old place used to put soiled baby diapers in the recycling bin.
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Silver Falcon posted:When you need two of a thing from a container. Reach in once, pull out one of the thing. Reach in a second time, pull out two. Then you gotta put one back! Nitrile gloves, every single time
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I know it's well understood that the world produced exactly one generation of people who know how to use a computer, but why? Why don't kids learn in school? Who decided that no one needs to understand why tweeting file:///home/tiggum/Downloads/gFMxZwyBidE.html might seem to work on your computer but won't for anyone else? You need to use computers for everything and yet no one seems to think it's important for people to actually have a clue what they're doing.
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Nameless Pete posted:Cardboard in the dumpster is better than the reverse, at least. Somebody at my old place used to put soiled baby diapers in the recycling bin. 
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credburn posted:People in my town stop on the crosswalks. They don't do this other places -- I mean, yeah sometimes, some people might, and some people do because they're trying to get a better look at the traffic, etc., but in this town, it has a culture of: red light means stop on the crosswalk. As a pedestrian I find it extremely frustrating I had some rear end in a top hat in a big fuckoff truck behind me get super mad because I stopped at a roundabout that had a crosswalk immediately on the turn, and there was someone crossing. I threw my arms up when he honked, to say hey there’s somebody crossing, chill out dude. He followed me up the street mocking me with my “hey I’m stopped for a reason” gesture, tried to zip up a side street to cut me off, and was extra pissed off when I made it to the junction before he did and took my right of way. Everyone should chill out more on the roads. My car can go fast too, but there’s absolutely no reason to go fast at 3:05pm when school is letting out and there’s kids everywhere. I just assume all those angry people driving fast in suburban streets have diarrhoea and are about to poo poo themselves, and I still think making GBS threads yourself in the car is better than hitting a kid or pet.
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Tiggum posted:I know it's well understood that the world produced exactly one generation of people who know how to use a computer, but why? Why don't kids learn in school? Who decided that no one needs to understand why tweeting file:///home/tiggum/Downloads/gFMxZwyBidE.html might seem to work on your computer but won't for anyone else? You need to use computers for everything and yet no one seems to think it's important for people to actually have a clue what they're doing. Because there was exactly one generation that grew up with a personal computer that they used often. Young people these days grew up using a phone for everything that we used desktop computers for, and phones are greatly simplified. I'm sure they do learn stuff in school but you're not gonna internalise it if you're not using computers all the time.
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Yeah my son has a PC and I find that he's much worse at troubleshooting issues then I was at his age. I always thought that he'd know a lot more with me being more immersed in technology but troubleshooting is also a lot different these days. Things are a lot easier to use and troubleshooting is usually not possible so I guess it's harder to learn those skills.
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Jun 24, 2024 14:50
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Kids these days wouldn't understand the sense of satisfaction that came from creating a boot disk that could successfully run TIE Fighter with joystick support!
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When I tell you I don't know the answer to your question, it is not a negotiation. I'm not magically going to conjure up information I didn't previously no if you keep asking me the same things over and over.
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A Facebook group that's called "(local county): UNCENSORED!" where everything is censored and people are posting memes about poo poo going on in Iowa. WHY NAME THE GROUP THAT, THEN???
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Do they also do the thing where they draw a black line over text like it's supposed to be a redaction bar but the text is still clearly visible?
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docbeard posted:When I tell you I don't know the answer to your question, it is not a negotiation. I'm not magically going to conjure up information I didn't previously no if you keep asking me the same things over and over. When I say "I don't know" to my daughter, more often than not she asks "why?" Why don't I know? I feel like ignorance of a fact is its own explanation
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credburn posted:A Facebook group that's called "(local county): UNCENSORED!" where everything is censored and people are posting memes about poo poo going on in Iowa. WHY NAME THE GROUP THAT, THEN??? In my experience "uncensored" is just an obvious code for racist and right wing. The last one I dared to look into wondered why the snow flake liberals call everyone a Nazi when in fact it is the left that is acting like Nazis. Dozens of replies supported this view. 🤦
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YouTube recommending videos I've already watched. Often as soon as the next day. It's not that I never rewatch any videos, but if I want to rewatch something I'll seek it out. I will never knowingly click a recommended video that I've already seen. Show me new things or gently caress off.
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Quadramind posted:Door slammers Including cabinet doors
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I'm sorry, I have no-slam hinges at home and you really get used to these things!
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CordlessPen posted:I'm sorry, I have no-slam hinges at home and you really get used to these things! This is my plight after replacing all the toilet seats in my house with slow close ones. I'll occasionally just let go of a seat out in public and scare the hell out of myself with thr slam.
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National Weather Service warnings that break into programming (doesn't matter what it is) for robotic, interminable warnings about incoming bad weather. The older I get the more 'just the facts, ma'am' I get. I don't need to hear about every possible side effect of the storm and every one-horse town that's in its path. I've been warned; shut the gently caress up.
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I really wish it wasn't legal: Subscriptions to enable/utilize hardware in devices. My bike got stolen a while ago, insurance covered it, and I got a new one. The new one can lock down the engine completely unless I have a valid phone connected, otherwise it'll just honk angrily. That's neat. What's less neat is that the app tries to push a '12 months free, then 5 usd/mo' subscription for 'Flow+' which enables some extra security stuff. Most of the stuff in it requires an additional piece of hardware to enable gps tracking of the bike, so there's really only 1 feature you get out of it without it: The bike alarm. A basic alarm where it starts beeping and flashing the lights if someone starts moving it while locked. As you need no additional hardware, everything needed for it is in the bike. So why the gently caress is that part premium. Why do I need to pay for a subscription to enable something that isn't even online connected. (I assume the bike gets a token occasionally when the phone connects to it to unlock it.)
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