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- Comment on UNDER THE THC 🎶 1 day ago:
Some people ask “why are you hotboxing a lobster?”
Others ask why not. Others dare to wonder, to dream.
- Comment on Breaking Precedent, G.O.P. Changes Rules on Nominees 6 days ago:
It’s a “nuclear option” only to those who are not in power.
Right now, Republicans are doing everything in their power to stay in power as long as possible, to the detriment of democratic society.
See the problem?
- Comment on The universe thinks you're gay. 2 weeks ago:
The universe thinks correctly.
- Comment on Jeez, it's like there's no appeasing you tyrants 2 weeks ago:
we’ve been in the dumbest timeline for a good, long while now – you’re just now figuring this out?
- Comment on Booking.com ignored me after my bedbug nightmare 5 weeks ago:
I’m not saying you can’t do that, but booking.com or Expedia could just as easily be hacked. They might invest more in security, but they also have a much larger attack surface. Furthermore, when you use a third party site, your credit card details usually won’t be passed on to the hotel directly, that’s true – but then, when you arrive, third party reservations (which only have a virtual card on file from the third party site) usually need you to provide a credit card for incidentals. So one way or another your card details will end up in the hotels system.
Travel credit cards are always a good idea, or pay in cash, just be prepared to have to leave a deposit with the front desk for damages (that you’ll get back if you don’t trash the place) if you choose to pay with cash. Dealing with the hotel directly, though, will almost always drastically reduce your headaches. Need a refund? Just talk to the front desk or management. Need to change your stay dates? Call the front desk directly. No waiting in a queue for an available operator in a call center in India, no “well the hotel has to approve of it before we can […]”, no bullshit.
I am legitimately trying to save you the headaches I watched probably hundreds of different people go through for five years on night audit, and almost every time it was a problem I couldn’t solve, it was because it was a problem created by a third party site.
- Comment on Booking.com ignored me after my bedbug nightmare 5 weeks ago:
okay I don’t know who needs to hear this but as someone who has actually worked at hotels:
Stop. Using. Third. Party. Sites.
They do not care. Booking.com, Expedia, Trivago, Travelocity, whatever fucking stupid ass third party site out there – they only cause more problems than they solve. You want a good deal? Hell – you want a straight-up better experience? Call the hotel directly, explain the price that the third party site is showing you, and ask them to match it. 99 times out of 100, they will, because when you book directly with the hotel, the hotel doesn’t have to pay the third party site jack shit. The way third party sites make their money in the first place is by telling hotels charging a rack rate of $200/night “we’ll promote your hotel to guests in the area for $175/night, but you’ll only be charging us $150”. The guest pays Expedia or whoever $175, Expedia pockets $25 as a fee for promoting the site and passes on $150 to the hotel. In other words, they can either lose out on $25 by price matching, or lose $50.
Every hotel would prefer you book directly, and will happily price match, so they don’t lose any money to a third party site. More than that, if there are any problems with your booking – wrong days, wrong room type, want to cancel, whatever – you would have to go through the third party site again to do any of that. And waiting on or talking to customer support staff with thick accents at 3AM while your kids are wailing and you just want to go to sleep to fix a problem with your booking that, had you not gone through a third party site, the front desk agent standing in front of you could fix right now, is not fun.
Please stop using third party sites. For the love of God and all that is holy, use them to get discounts but do not book with them.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
That’s some good bait, right there.
- Comment on quick thinking 1 month ago:
- Comment on Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default 1 month ago:
now if only it wasn’t a chrome fork/Eich would take a long walk off a short pier.
alas, a man can dream.
- Comment on (Laser) Printer go brrrr 1 month ago:
you’re entitled to your own opinion, but I’ve never had anything but good experiences with my own Brother laser printer. I was the one who picked it out and bought it since my family needed to print a lot of stuff and I didn’t want to deal with troubleshooting it for them, and it has been by far the most reliable, easy to use printer any of us have ever dealt with. We used to have shitty HP inkjets, and those can all die in a fire along with HP.
- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 1 month ago:
And uses that peroxide to crap explosions at things. Extremely hardcore.
- Comment on Ubisoft: Microtransactions make games more fun 1 month ago:
you know, I was just wondering, replaying through Black Flag, how a company could go from making the best pirate simulator to… yeah, no, that explains a lot if that’s how they think “fun” works nowadays.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 2 months ago:
[with visibly bloodshot eyes] “Nah, man, I disagree with your definition there.”
- Comment on what 2 months ago:
that’s when you send the new offer of a whopping $21.37 and add “I’ll even throw in half a jimmy johns sammich if you accept in the next 30 minutes”
- Comment on choice 2 months ago:
God is dead and we killed him
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 2 months ago:
Ah, what a marvelous idea, we should look to the present!
[reads the news]
… Hm. I think I may have noticed a problem with this theory.
- Comment on Perspective 2 months ago:
This is gonna be our white and gold/black and blue dress, huh?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
fair enough, goes to show the gaps in my knowledge – but after seeing one guy desperately trying to crawl away with his legs blown off before being blown up by a second drone, I decided that was all the Ukraine footage I needed to see.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but: has anyone in Ukraine actually tried a shotgun?
I generally try to avoid watching anything that’ll scar my psyche, but, as far as I’m aware soldiers in the field don’t usually carry shotguns, but rifles, in the anticipation of dealing with enemies wearing body armor/at some distance. And hitting a moving drone with a rifle, yes absolutely that’d be a bitch – one projectile is not enough, especially for a moving target.
Police (and I’m assuming ICE as well), generally dealing with people not equipped with body armor, tend to keep a shotgun handy for a multitude of reasons (breaching doors, not overpenetrating through walls, etc), and skeet shooting is already a thing (though admittedly it would still be harder if the drone was moving erratically).
All this is to say: I don’t know anything for a fact, because I’ve tried to avoid watching anything that’ll scar me, but has anyone in Ukraine on either side had access to a shotgun or two before getting turned into gibs? because I can absolutely believe that soldiers with rifles would fail to shoot a drone, but I wouldn’t be so quick to discount a couple people with shotguns unless that’s already a solution the Russians tried before the cope cages.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That sounds like a fine way to have your (presumably expensive) drone carrying your (presumably also expensive) camera hit with buckshot.
I’m not saying don’t try anyways. But there’s a good chance the gestapo just starts blastin’.
- Comment on How do I use Firefox and block YouTube ads? 2 months ago:
uBlock Origin probably just needs its filter lists updated, you can update them by opening the extension, hitting the gears icon, clicking on the “filter lists” tab at the top and selecting update next to any that are outdated.
Personally, I use the nuclear option because fuck google – I have AdNauseam (which includes uBlock Origin), SponsorBlock, PopUpOFF, DeArrow, Return Youtube Dislike, and CanvasBlocker.
- Comment on Anon is investigated 2 months ago:
again, this is in case punching Nazis is simply not an option for you
- Comment on Anon is investigated 2 months ago:
honestly, though, don’t forget how dangerous/irritating you can be to an authoritarian, paranoid surveillance state by merely being a waste of their time.
If they’re nazis, then clearly the morally correct thing to do if you can’t punch them is to annoy them in some manner.
- Comment on YouTuber realizes sponsor might be an evil company mid-ad 3 months ago:
*Youtuber makes a skit about a Youtuber realizing a sponsor might be an evil company mid-ad
- Comment on Guess I'm on the right track 😌 3 months ago:
you apparently missed the word “net” in my comment. It does show downvotes on my app/instance. Ergo, his posts are still reaching people just fine, because again he has several hundred net upvotes, and many comments, meaning whoever was trying to limit his visibility has failed.
- Comment on Guess I'm on the right track 😌 3 months ago:
oh yeah, I’ll bet OP feels very unseen right now, with their nearly 500 net upvotes and ~70 comments on this post.
Point being, said loser has failed miserably to do anything other than make themselves look more like a loser.
- Comment on Talented child artist 3 months ago:
so is making regular pornography, only with regular porn you’re unlikely to require a working knowledge of animal genitalia, so it’s actually better. having said that, I think the world would just plain be better off with another oglaf or cyanide & happiness, don’t you?
- Comment on Talented child artist 3 months ago:
ehhh, I was gonna say furry conventions or perhaps more optimistically a lucrative career in shitposty online comics, but sure lets shoot for the moon.
- Comment on Helpful graph for the Titanic 3 months ago:
I’m afraid I’m not familiar with what a d◌ath is.
- Comment on Talented child artist 3 months ago:
now there’s a kid that’s going places. Not college, but places.