ExtremeDullard
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Ben Stein explains tariffs in Ferris Buellers Day Off 6 days ago:
It will be when the Trump voters discover that they will pay for the tariffs and not China.
- Comment on 'I love the scent of rain' 3 weeks ago:
Wholesome, yes. But the magic and the poetry is immediately spoiled by the poster’s username.
- Comment on Mail addressed to Mr. and Mrs. (husbands name) 3 weeks ago:
We make sure it’s very difficult to prove, especially wrt cohabitation.
- Comment on Being an already decided voter in a swing state is swell 3 weeks ago:
You know, I have to say you’re right.
At this point, unless you have been living under a giant rock, there are simple, hard facts you can’t possibly not know about Donald Trump that should be unacceptable to anyone regardless of political leanings. It’s simply impossible to ignore them.
Therefore logic dictates that whoever votes for Trump today must agree with the Nazi stuff, the Trump Purge, shooting protesters in the legs, hanging vice-presidents or locking up former speakers of the house. I mean LITERALLY agree - because he LITERALLY said those things. Even MAGA people shouldn’t agree with those things: making America great again implies not destroying America!
Meaning roughly half of this country agrees with those things. If that’s not fucked up to the n-th degree, I don’t know what is.
- Comment on Mail addressed to Mr. and Mrs. (husbands name) 3 weeks ago:
annoying to me because my wife didn’t take my surname!
You think that’s annoying? My wife and I aren’t even married.
I mean we call each other husband and wife but we don’t believe is shackling ourselves to one another, even for tax purposes, and we find the ease of permanent separation keeps our relationship fresh, and has for 35 years.
We used to get mail addressed to our house as Mr. and Mrs. <my name> or <her name> and we quickly realized why: it’s just advertisers collecting my name or her name, gender and the fact that we’re married (not legally but we say we are). Absent the name of the spouse, they assume a man would bear his own name and a woman the name of her husband.
Obviously it can’t be anything other than fucking advertisers since we’re not legally married: city or state agencies wanting to send us mail know exactly what both our names and marital status are and use them correctly.
The easy solution is to not provide real data to data brokers whenever possible. We now use fake names, and we also track which names we provide to whom because it’s interesting to see how they bounce back at us.
For example, is she uses the name Elizabeth Corona-Smith to, say, book an appointment at the hairdresser, and I get mail addressed to Mr. Corona-Smith with advertisement inside for arthritis products, I know the online service her hairdresser uses to book appointments sold her, data and the hairdresser filled in her approximate age to add to the data they sold.
With that knowledge, next next time she goes to town, she can give an earful to the hairdresser and tell them she’ll never patronize them ever again.
It’s happened several times. It’s really interesting to see how your information gets sold when you use fake information.
- Comment on Ding, fries ain't done 4 weeks ago:
With AI coming after everybody’s jobs, by the time you’re out of school, doing the dishes might turn out to have been actual revisions.
- Comment on Ding, fries ain't done 4 weeks ago:
They let all kinds of toxic shit in the kitchen and they don’t even have the power to stop it.
- Comment on Ding, fries ain't done 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I just have to wait too long for quality videos! 1 month ago:
Aah, the agony of not getting enough good free content…
- Comment on So now I have to PAY you to NOT store files on my device that I don't want? 1 month ago:
It’s legal because the Sun is a private company and they have the right to charge you to not datamine you. It’s not a public service and they’re not the only source of news out there, so you have a choice: if you don’t like it, get your news elsewhere.
What’s the problem exactly?
- Comment on Yelp is making me get their app to confirm my restaurant reservation 2 months ago:
I would cancel and tell the restaurant why.
Businesses need to know why they lose customers, because if enough of them report the same reason, they might do something about it.
- Comment on if you're not going to let me do this microsoft then let me turn off auto restart all together. 2 months ago:
Another person discovers that big tech has taken control of our computers without asking permission.
Well, your computers. I run Linux. It only does what I tell it to, not the other way round.
- Comment on The bots are evolving 2 months ago:
You know what would be ironic? If you were a bot OP. I mean, how can we tell? 🙂
- Comment on Google and Big tech are unbelievably vicious! 3 months ago:
I hate Google as much as the next guy - well, probably a lot more than the next guy actually - but here I’m siding with them for a change.
They require payment for a feature (your phone number: it is monetizable private data to them and that’s your payment) and you tried to get the feature without paying. And you failed.
The story here is that AI is frighteningly accurate when detecting embedded screenshots, not that Google is “vicious”: they’re not vicious in this case, they’re simply scary successful at detecting your attempts to game their system. Probably because everybody and their dog tries the same trick all the time, I would assume.
Generally speaking, I agree with your assessment of Big Data and Google. But not in this particular instance.
- Comment on The US shouldn't have so many men 6 feet and over 3 months ago:
Don’t worry: American ultra-capitalists are actively taking care of the problem
- Comment on Every time I drive by it, I get a little angrier... 5 months ago:
Maybe the restaurant is infested with investment bankers for whom life is indeed to short. Maybe the sign is a secret handshake to tell other Wall Street bastards they’re welcome in this joint.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 months ago:
It’s not just cola bottles here, it’s milk bottles, cream, fruit concentrates… Anything in any kind of plastic container with a screw-on cap.
Actually the soda bottles are the least egregious examples. The milk bottles are terrible: you’re 100% guaranteed to spill milk if you don’t detach the cap.
- Submitted 6 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 168 comments
- Comment on Astounding absurdity 6 months ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Astounding absurdity 6 months ago:
With a scalpel and a bone saw - at least that’s what the surgeon said - and because sometimes people are born with issues that need fixing later in life.
- Comment on Astounding absurdity 6 months ago:
Plus, they very likely can’t sell electrical equipment that has had its cord chopped up and repaired
I did it proper. You couldn’t tell the cord had been replaced. For the rest, yeah I know what you mean. That doesn’t mean it’s not crazy that the Red Cross should refuse free shit. My Dad lived through the war and the food restrictions, and let me tell you, he would have been outraged.
Next time, find a friend with small feet who would like to take it off your hands.
The funny thing is, I’m a clear foot taller than my wife, but my own feet have been shortened surgically a few years ago and are now shorter than hers, and I fit inside the machine just fine. But I didn’t want the machine because I hate foot massages 🙂
- Comment on Astounding absurdity 6 months ago:
Yeah. The only problem with that theory is, they didn’t even open my box. I know that because the box still had the tape I closed it shut with. So they couldn’t know I had replaced the cord.
Besides, it wasn’t a shitty splice: I actually opened it and replaced the whole cord. You could never tell it wasn’t the original thing.
- Submitted 6 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 42 comments
- Comment on This shit makes me want to murder, some times 6 months ago:
The less Google can figure out who you are accurately, the longer the ReCAPTCHAs get. For instance, if you run Librewolf with Resist FingerPrinting, you’re going to eat a metric shit-ton of buses, stairs, bicycles and fire hydrants.
Captchas are maddening, they’re forced labor and there’s a special place in hell for whoever invented them, deploy then and maintain them. However, you should take comfort in the fact that if you have a really hard time getting past a particularly stubborn ReCAPTCHA, it means Google has a harder time tracking you.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Oh the humanity!
- Comment on Thule 8 months ago:
How is this infuriating?
You haven’t been taken for a fool. You haven’t been taken by surprise. Thule isn’t an unavoidable monopoly you have to give money to.
You feel it’s overpriced and you haven’t bought a Thule product yet. So you can, ya know… not buy Thule.
- Submitted 8 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 43 comments
- Comment on CNN blocks Firefox with uBo 10 months ago:
I block CNN by not visiting their website.
The only CNN worth anything is CNN International, and that still works fine with all ad blockers raised. But even CNN International started pulling the same stunt, it’s not remotely good enough that I would miss it either.
- Comment on Hot Cheetos don't taste the same 10 months ago:
A lot of restaurants tone down their food for that reason
Here’s a little anecdote:
I used to work for a company in Utah that had a subsidiary in London. One day, two of our UK colleagues came to visit us. In the evening, we invited them to the local Indian restaurant, because they said they liked a good curry.
We sat down at the table, and our colleagues kept quipping about how US Indian food is bland compared to what can be found in London, that the best curries in the world can only be found in London, and yada yada.
The waiters arrived, took our orders, and asked each of us how spicy. Feeling cocky, the Brits said “Nuclear!”. The waiters paused a bit, then said “Are you sure?” “Yeah yeah! Bring it on!” “Okay then…” and they disappeared into the kitchen.
We asked why they asked that, and they said it would probably end up mildly spicy here.
Then our orders came : the two waiters served us, then served the Brits, then they simply stood them and waited. They didn’t go, they just waited, with absolute deadpan composure.
Uh oh… The Brits had a worried look on their faces all of the sudden…
Long story short, they got exactly what they wanted. We had trouble not laughing out loud 🙂
- Comment on This is way too expensive for a drink. 10 months ago:
I buy no-name cola - store brands and such. It’s pennies per gallon and I honestly can’t tell the difference between them and Coke / Pepsi. If there is a difference, at the second gulp, I’m already used to the new thing enough to have forgotten. I don’t think I’ve bought the real thing in 25 years.
90% of the price is the brand name.
