Signtist
@Signtist@bookwyr.me
Formerly /u/Signtist@lemm.ee
- Comment on 6 days ago:
My mom would send me a dozen or more conspiracy theory links every day before I cut contact.
- Comment on I always hit this button 1 week ago:
Gotcha. Yeah, I try to tip based on whether or not the employee’s pay is being cut down due to the expectation of tipping. I can’t do anything to change the jobs that are already allowed to pay peanuts, but I worry that all of this rise in tipping prompts is to try to make a case that tipping is expected in places like fast food, and will be used to justify paying those workers even less as a result. You’re right that it’s a lot of work regardless, though.
- Comment on I always hit this button 1 week ago:
I guess? I mean, they still follow my directions with what goes into the burrito, wrap it up nice with a sticker to keep it closed when they’re done, and ask if I want napkins and utensils if I’m ordering to-go. Seems like the same work but with a shorter time frame.
- Comment on I always hit this button 1 week ago:
I’m confused. Wouldn’t ordering takeout at the counter also require the worker to ensure that the meal is correct, containers are properly sealed, and extra items like napkins and sauces are included? I’m not necessarily saying that those duties aren’t tip-worthy, but it seems to me that the only difference between ordering online or over the phone vs ordering at the counter is whether they hand you the food directly or put it in a pickup shelf.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 2 weeks ago:
I got lucky for sure. A lot of my friends in the office tried to keep working from home after covid and got let go. I just happened to time it perfectly where I asked a little later, after the higher ups got worried they were letting too much of the younger talent go by being so rigid with the in-office mandate.
I thought for sure they’d let me go when they found a replacement willing to be in the office, but it’s been years and none of the new hires in my department have picked it up nearly well enough to take over my responsibilities. I think it’s settled down enough by now that I’m pretty safe with my work from home exception.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 2 weeks ago:
As soon as I got a taste of working from home back in 2020, I knew I was never going back to the office. I bought a nice chair and built a good computer, and now I just hang out every day while working when I feel like it. I’ve come up with enough shortcuts and workarounds that I can do my job over twice as fast as my coworkers, though I’ll never tell my boss that. I do have OT sometimes, but I get paid well for it, and still rarely have to put in a full 8 hours in a day, even when getting an extra several hours of time and a half. People look down on hourly pay, but it’s way better than salary for times like those.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 2 weeks ago:
Morf is a good way to introduce more mainstream-centric people to the sound of throat singing
- Comment on I baked eye ball cookies for Halloween 2 weeks ago:
All my homies got eye nipples.
- Comment on N. 5 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 3 weeks ago:
Sorry to hear that. The isolation definitely exacerbated my mom's conspiracist ideation as well.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 3 weeks ago:
No worries, I hope your parents manage to get themselves out eventually. If they're anything like my mom, no amount of outside pleading will change their mind.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 3 weeks ago:
The one she talked about all the time was called the Minnesota Assembly. I think it's an offshoot of the whole sovereign citizen thing. I believe they used a telegram group chat as their main way of communicating. She died a little over a year ago, after they convinced her to treat her breast cancer with the herbal teas they sold instead of going to a doctor, so I'm not sure what's going on with the group anymore.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 3 weeks ago:
Oh, yeah, I don't necessarily think that every toxic site was specifically designed to be toxic, most were just designed in a way that people are drawn to. But when enough people flock to a place, it becomes toxic eventually. That just happens to coincide with the fact that when someone becomes wealthy from their website taking off, they often become corrupted by the attention and become the big figureheads we hate. They were probably assholes before, but now they're rich entitled assholes, which is much worse.
In the end the biggest issue with the internet is that too many people becoming easily connected to one another must also include toxic people easily connecting with one another, spreading the toxicity until it's inescapable in the community. I think we could slowly overcome the issues associated with connectivity on our own in time, and we were for a while, but the internet opened the floodgates and gave us too much connection before we were able to handle it.
My own mom went from a staunch democrat to believing Trump was literally the second coming of Jesus Christ sent to deal with actual honest-to-goodness Lizard People running the government, all because some small community of 100-odd people she found on the internet said so, and that many people can't be wrong.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 3 weeks ago:
Fair, I used the term as a catch-all that ends up inadvertently catching less-harmful sites as well. However, while there are only a few toxic sites, they're the most popular, and even when they fade into obscurity, they're replaced by other new toxic sites. They're designed to draw people in, so it doesn't really matter how few there are, they're always among the most popular websites on the internet.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 3 weeks ago:
The real question is whether the benefit of better access to scientific research offsets the detriment of social media. Unfortunately, I think social media use is much, much more widespread, and is thus having a significantly stronger detrimental effect than scientific research access and every other benefit combined.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It doesn't actually matter to him what the truth is, it only matters that you can't prove it's not what he's claiming it to be. It's the tried and true strategy for bigots everywhere.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Being a conservative just boils down to being scared that people will do to you what you do to them.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The loophole is to deny the humanity of the people you dislike.
- Comment on Anon is an artist 5 weeks ago:
My door growing up couldn't even latch, much less lock. Though I was smart enough to ask my grandma if I could have my late grandpa's giant old desk so that I could put it in the corner of my room and nobody could see what I was looking at or doing.
- Comment on Is Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII Worth Playing in 2025? 1 month ago:
It was my friend's favorite game when it came out, though I never played it myself, and he was a huge FFVII fan, so it might've just been viewed through rose-tinted lenses. Still, if you're big fan like he was, I'd say you might as well give it a shot if you have the opportunity. If I recall correctly, he said it was only 5-10 hours long, so not too much of a commitment.
- Comment on Years ago while drunk and high I sent my sister a syphilis plushy. 1 month ago:
They had these STD plushies at a store my family visited several years ago. My sister and I were checking them out, so I picked one up, read the tag, and told her "I got The Clap." I assumed that she'd read the plushie she had picked up, tell me which one it was, we'd have a chuckle, and find something else to look at.
Apparently she hadn't yet figured out that they were STD plushies, and thought I had chosen that moment to tell her in confidence about an STD I had contracted. It was pretty awkward, but it was at least nice to know that she'd have brought me to the doctor in secret if I'd needed her to!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
About half of my family photos were taken in black and white film throughout the 90's. I think the film was marketed as having a "classic touch" or something to keep people buying it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
After I got my first girlfriend, now wife, through a dating site at 25, I found out later that her best friend's mom and my best friend's mom are friends, and we only found out because the two of them just happened to be talking on the phone and got on the topic of how people in their lives had recently found love, then realized they were talking about the same couple. The connection may have been a little late for me and my wife, since we'd already gotten together, but it would've been a great match otherwise.
My friend himself met his wife through a recommendation from his pastor, whose niece was also a shut-in who loved manga and anime; you might as well take the opportunities that come along. It might not work out, but the only way to get good at asking people out and dating is to ask people out and date.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 month ago:
20% has actually been the norm for a while. Maybe it was a bit on the upper end a couple decades ago while now it's more default, but I remember my parents tipping 20% for normal service back in the 90's. Of course, with prices soaring tipping is still getting pricier and pricier, but the expected percentage here has been relatively stable.
The thing that's out of control is where you're expected to tip now. I often see a tip prompt come up at retail stores where the only service the employee provided was ringing up the items I brought. I never tip in those kinds of situations, and I doubt the employee would see any of it even if I did.
- Comment on Deep dish thought 1 month ago:
Love me a Papa Murphy's stuffed pizza.
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 2 months ago:
I used to tell a story about how my boss had to call me into his office to show him how to maximize a window after he accidentally changed its size. I had to do similarly basic instructions for several young news hires lately, and most don't seem to be picking it up very well.
It's less that kids are dumb with computers - since everyone's dumb with computers when they're inexperienced - and more that they're as unwilling to learn as my grandma; I'll show them how to do something, and they'll completely forget how by the next day.
I saw computers as an exciting new thing, but the next generation seems to think of them as outdated tech.
- Comment on Pro tip 2 months ago:
It definitely was, but now I can only find this pic.
- Comment on Did you have one of these? 2 months ago:
It was pretty useful until I had an argument with my mom and the lights would constantly turn off and on.
- Comment on Sad but true 2 months ago:
Guilty in the legal sense means you've been found to be guilty in the court of law. Until you've been tried, you're not guilty. Otherwise anyone could just say "that guy committed a crime" and it'd be their word against yours.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Videos that pushed this rhetoric were the first step in turning my mom from a normal shitty person into a full-blown conspiracy theorist. This is definitely going to be a problem.
