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- Comment on Anon works in a high end restaurant 2 weeks ago:
My horrible, overactive imagination told me that the cans would explode while being removed from the oven and flash-boil the superheated apple juice as it was released, spraying people with a very sticky, very hot syrup that could not be easily washed or wiped away, as one would regular apple juice.
I doubt it could actually go from superheated apple juice to a maple-syrup consistency napalm, but my brain don’t care about logic. - Comment on ONS staff refuse to work two days a week in office 2 weeks ago:
My team resolved this by using the plethora of collaboration tools at our disposal.
We have a chat that goes all day, every day. At times, we have breakout chats for specific work projects.
We have a tool that lets us collaboratively project manage, centralize our files, and document organizational knowledge.I would move hundreds of miles away if I didn’t have to come into the office once a month to make an out of touch leadership feel better.
- Comment on Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating. 5 weeks ago:
They’re just cautious. If they mess it up, it could be months before your hair looks right again. I also ease into things when I think the person making the request doesn’t understand what they’re asking. Mind you, my clients are hiring me for graphic design, where my time is billable by the hour, and anything I do can be undone. I can afford to do exactly what they ask. (You know, unless they think I’m ducking with them to pad my time and use another GD. Then I guess I can’t afford it.)
Have them keep revising the trim until you’re happy, then ask them to take pictures on your phone of the views they as a hairstylist need to see. Show the pictures next time, so they know you know what you’re asking for.
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 5 weeks ago:
But it’s Google, so they know your browsing history and have you in a “bucket” for what their metrics think will drive engagement from you. (Or they don’t know enough about you and just think boobs will get you intersted, because sex sells.)
Meh. We’re all human. If Google thinks you like thirst traps, whatevs. Pretty ladies are pretty ladies.
But if you don’t want to see it, you can probably use feedback tools to change what they show you. - Comment on sun time 1 month ago:
Unless you’re Shawn Willsey, then every visit is like the first time. That man loves rocks.
- Comment on The real personality test 1 month ago:
That is both hilarious and insanely annoying.
How about they keep it professional by having useful fucking help tools, and software that isn’t intentionally designed to be useless so it can extract ever-increasing amounts of personal information?
I digress, but you aren’t alone.
My employer - 50k MS licenses. We used to have a monthly get-together with a Microsoft customer experience person. About 200 of the mid-high level IT folks would chat, air their grievances, be given guidance, and occasionally have those issues referred on to other teams within MS as bug fixes, feature requests, etc.Shortly after MS had that big layoff in early 2023 that took all of their training staff with them, they reassigned all their customer experience staff to other roles, and left our org with no ability to work with them on issues, other than the ‘feedback’ button on the apps.
In 2023, there were several instances where Microsoft sent emails to everyone in our org announcing features, or even just deploying things (like a ‘feature’ that exfiltrates company data to Microsoft’s AI service) without our IT execs knowing beforehand.Whatever they are doing, it is clearly not being customer-centric right now.
- Comment on The real personality test 1 month ago:
It sort of depends on the impact and stupidity of the problem.
If it’s a first time call, and I don’t really know if the problem is me or the company, the voice gets “I need a human” followed by “representative” if it pushes back. If it pushes back a second time, I start scatting and speaking gibberish into the phone, with random pauses built in, so the phone system has no hope of understanding anything I say.
If it’s a multiple call, dumb issue that’s clearly their fault, I immediately begin insulting the automated voice and demand to talk to a human. “I bet you’re running on a Pentium 2, you dumb fuck. Get me a human. You’re not qualified to open doors, let alone answer calls. I want a representative. You can be hacked with a cereal box whistle, you inadequate and poorly executed excuse for taking jobs away from people with families! Speaking of, get me a human, you scab!”
Usually I’m speaking with a raised voice, throwing ever more deranged statements at the bot. I don’t know if it helps, but I enjoy it. - Comment on M. Emmet Walsh, character actor best known for Blade Runner, Blood Simple, has died at 88 1 month ago:
I loved that move as a kid. I’m pretty sure I’ve made my wife watch it.
Heck, I might watch it this weekend. - Comment on I see your Outlook (new) and I raise you Microsoft Teams classic (work or school) 2 months ago:
Ooh. I made a New/Classic/Diet/Zero joke with my colleagues last week.
I wish I’d thought of Halo, rather than soda. Your version is much better. - Comment on Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox 3 months ago:
That’s fair. I meant that more in terms of using market dominance to shape the browser market, and not in entirely good ways.
I’ll rue the day that every website insists it only works with Chrome because of some user-privacy degrading feature that Google insists is a core web technology.
- Comment on Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox 3 months ago:
Chrome is the new Internet Explorer.
- Comment on Unsubscribe link from their emails takes you to this. You then to sign in with email and password (I don't know my password) to manage preference. I just want all out! 4 months ago:
Shh! We’re supposed to ignore that nearly all power is granted by fiat, and the government hardly enforces its duties to the common citizenry. It’s merely the threat of enforcement that keeps people in line.
- Comment on Unsubscribe link from their emails takes you to this. You then to sign in with email and password (I don't know my password) to manage preference. I just want all out! 4 months ago:
So, here’s my reasoning -
Inspecting the headers will let you see where the email came from - if it came from MailChimp, then you email the MailChimp abuse folks, who can apply their abuse policies. And the DNS registrar has the keys to the kingdom. Many registrars have terms of service that forbid using their service for spamming. That ought to include emails associated with the domain, no?
In the end, there’s a high likelihood of no real action being taken (not without a volume of complaints), but if the righteous wrath feels righteous, do its outcomes have to be righteous?
- Comment on Unsubscribe link from their emails takes you to this. You then to sign in with email and password (I don't know my password) to manage preference. I just want all out! 4 months ago:
I’m currently fairly ill (likely RSV, if the expired COVID tests are to be believed) and this is day 6 of moderate to severe insomnia.
A state of semi-delirium must be a good look for me, because I have received more complements on my writing in the last 3 days than I have in the last several years.
- Comment on Unsubscribe link from their emails takes you to this. You then to sign in with email and password (I don't know my password) to manage preference. I just want all out! 4 months ago:
There you have it.
When I’ve been in OP’s situation, I filed a complaint with the FCC, performed a whois lookup on their site to send emails to the abuse/spam emails of their DNS registrar and host and inspected the email headers to email their email provider’s abuse/spam account(s). I’ve not yet had cause to reach out to my attorney general’s office when I’ve had a company violate CAN-SPAM, but it’s an option.
I also make sure each company knows there’s a pending CAN-SPAM complaint. I keep it convivial, but serious. “Hey, just letting you know that one of your clients is violating your terms of service and the law! A complaint has already been lodged with the FCC. Toodeloo!”
That bit of knowledge tends to shift the interpretation of your complaint from “annoyed nerd” to “someone politely informing you that you’re going to get skull fucked by the long dick of the law if you don’t fix this ASAP”It may sound sort of excessive, but I’m a bit of a consumer rights absolutist.
- Comment on Why is this so hard 4 months ago:
I am, in the parlance of our time, a silly goose. Sometimes I just like to take the opportunity to throw words together in novel ways.
It is true that the finger lick thing is not my preferred approach, but my actual reasoning is boring - I don’t like physical sensation of licking my fingers.
- Comment on Why is this so hard 4 months ago:
But at that point I’ve already wandered the whole store and have touched any number of things that could have been manhandled by all the other finger-licking, unmasked hand-sneezing, butt-scratching, non-hand-washing straw men in the grocery store. One of those dudes is a septic tank cleaner, and he doesn’t wear gloves because he says he’s allergic! And soap burns when it gets into all the oozing sores on his hands.
There’s no way I’m licking my fingers until I’ve washed them or at least forgotten about my pus-leaking, poop-handed caricature!
- Comment on Aliens decide to communicate with us 4 months ago:
All religion is as meaningless as the meaning we attach to any word.
U.S. Christian Nationalists are engaged in a campaign of legal and political efforts to change U.S. law and public policy in such a way that it removes divisions between public policy and religious doctrine, or uses public money for Christian causes. The Temple of Satan was (at least partially) founded to combat those efforts and to set people free by spreading knowledge. They do this by subverting the laws that privilege Christians (religious holiday displays, religious after school clubs, etc); by working to shine a light on what Christian’s are doing while offering a community and guidelines for moral living without fear of gods concocted by prehistoric man. In many of their materials, they allude to being the snake in the garden of Eden, whose only crime was sharing information with Eve. In the one bit of research I did for this comment, I also learned that satan is just the Hebrew word for “accuser” - and originally they just pointed out how dumb some things were.
Contextually, the Temple of Satan name is honestly probably more relevant to them than Christian is to U.S. Jesus worshippers.
- Comment on Looking for an answer from Google 5 months ago:
Sounds like you need a good lawyer!
- Comment on How is woke a religion? 8 months ago:
I think the issue comes down to collective trauma and lack of free speech by the oppressed.
The massacre of the native peoples, horrors of slavery and resulting civil war, Jim Crow era in the south, the war on drugs, and the war on terror are all genocides in their own right, but the voices of the oppressed have been silenced in history books and mass media under the guise of ‘keeping the peace’ or promoting unity, while the people who facilitate(d) these things continue(d) to play a role in shaping national discourse.
(Say nothing of ‘lesser’ national traumas, such as prohibition, the race riots of the 50’s and 60’s, the intentional lack of healthcare for the gay community during the height of the AIDS epidemic, and the ongoing class war that’s being executed through education access and cuts to social programs.)The U.S. has never looked inward, or if it has, it has largely chosen to ignore the lessons that could be learned.
I think that even if there were a nationally traumatizing event of the sort that transformed Germany, the U.S. would gleefully skip past it to repeat the same mistakes.
I believe the issue is not lack of opportunity to learn, but a resistance to learning and a refusal to, as it were, e pluribus unum.