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More food thoughts, turns out. When did ordering pizza become such a faff?
Feeling lazy and didn't want to deal with the typically long times my favourite local place suffers from, so I went ahead and rang up Pizza the Hutt. Got put on hold. Landed in a call center instead of the local number I dialled. Was offered three add-ons and a survey. Received six text messages in the next thirty minutes telling me my order was being made, ready, being picked up, being delivered, nearly delivered, and had been delivered would I like to take a survey. And my local Phutt is apparently so skint for drivers (read: has driven them all off, pun acknowledged and ignored, by treating them like shit) that they're farming out deliveries to bloody Doordash.
Next time I'm just going to call ahead and get a pickup from Local Place.Cheap, fast, good. Pick two.
They want us to read minds, I want read/write.
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More double-tapping this thread. Some more office archeology turned up a crusty old notebook of mine from the mid 90s-early 00s, full of old computer game stuff. Y'know what most modern games lack? Cheat codes. Now, obviously you don't want people cheating in multiplayer, but even in single player games, they're just mostly missing. There are some that still have console commands, there are some that have what used to be cheat codes as accessibility options! But there was something neat about finding that shit out secondhand or on the nascent internet like it was some big secret. The important ones from OG Doom are still burned into my brain 30 years later - IDDQD, IDKFA for life!Cheap, fast, good. Pick two.
They want us to read minds, I want read/write.
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Been hearing Rush's music all my life... and really started listening to it for the last 30-ish years... I feel kind of foolish for not noticing the drums at the beginning of "The Spirit of Radio" are supposed to represent someone turning an old manual radio dial quickly past a bunch of stations to find "a familiar voice"... and it happens twice, second time right before the 'reggae" bit."Kamala the Ugandan Giant" 1950-2020 • "Bullet" Bob Armstrong 1939-2020 • "Road Warrior Animal" 1960-2020 • "Zeus" Tiny Lister Jr. 1958-2020 • "Hacksaw" Butch Reed 1954-2021 • "New Jack" Jerome Young 1963-2021 • "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff 1949-2021 • "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton 1958-2021 • Daffney 1975-2021
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I worked in retail for an unholy amount of years and yet no sucktomers nor Black Fridays ruined the holidays for me.
A family member in just 2 years time has with their past vindictive, judgmental attitude, added to carelessness.
Now each holiday brings up very bad memories of said holiday with that person. The season is ruined for me.
I'm sad.
edited for typos"Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably
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As someone who graduated American high school in the traditional way, and then had to go to more than one other graduation,Pompous Circumstances*coughcough* Pomp & Circumstance still to this day gives me the twitches. The 'Noah's Ark' set of Fantasia 2000 wasn't a bad use of it though.Cheap, fast, good. Pick two.
They want us to read minds, I want read/write.
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I tend to worry that I don't contribute enough to the household because I don't get a chance to do the outside stuff but after this past month I'm gonna say no one EVER has the right to tell me I'm not doing enough."Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably
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Bah. More grousing about the internet. Even as a Firefox user, I've finally fallen foul of YT going "You're using an adblocker! You shouldn't use an adblocker!". I might have considered it once, if the ads they serve weren't almost entirely intrusive in nature, excessive in number, and often for scams and other borderline content.
I get so tired of life being just inundated with bloody advertising.Cheap, fast, good. Pick two.
They want us to read minds, I want read/write.
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Yeah. YT keeps updating their adblock detection, and then a day or two later ABP updates their detection evasion, and on and on. I turn ABP off when YT figures it out, then turn it back on when ABP updates. At the moment, it's back on again....
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers
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Quoth Nunavut Pants View PostYeah. YT keeps updating their adblock detection, and then a day or two later ABP updates their detection evasion, and on and on. I turn ABP off when YT figures it out, then turn it back on when ABP updates. At the moment, it's back on again....Cheap, fast, good. Pick two.
They want us to read minds, I want read/write.
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The Adblock thing seems to be resolved on YT. The ad does load but maybe only plays 1 or 2 seconds for me. That's how the update is designed, to make YT "think" the ad plays in full. I think someone here said that.
Anyway, my thought:
"I've conducted my finances in such a way that I don't feel the need to ask for help" doesn't seem like a dangerous thing to say until Life decides to humble you."Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably
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Quoth Food Lady View PostThe Adblock thing seems to be resolved on YT. The ad does load but maybe only plays 1 or 2 seconds for me. That's how the update is designed, to make YT "think" the ad plays in full. I think someone here said that.
Anyway, my thought:
"I've conducted my finances in such a way that I don't feel the need to ask for help" doesn't seem like a dangerous thing to say until Life decides to humble you."I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."
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Just this evening I got the "Adblockers are against our ToS" again. So *click*, no more blocking on YT again. I'll turn it back on when ABP updates next.“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers
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I decided to watch Suzume to close out 2023. After watching that, I found out that Japan was hit by a 7.5 earthquake to start 2024. That is a terrible coincidence.
I hope the people of Japan recover quickly.This site proves Corey Taylor right. Man really is a "four letter word."
I'm now using my Deviant Art page to post my humor.
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I have a sizable collection of board games. One petty annoyance is when an expansion comes in a really nice box or something...that's entirely redundant because the expansion fits into the base game container with no issues. Sure, I just reuse the box somewhere, or hack the art off and stick it in with the main game, but still. Petty.Cheap, fast, good. Pick two.
They want us to read minds, I want read/write.
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