captain_aggravated
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast Took a temporary honorary demotion of one grade to honor Captain Kori.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 3 days ago:
I saw a video a few weeks back of a woman cleaning out layers of “decent quality insulated cups” from her cupboard, several each of a decade’s worth of fads. Those are going in landfills en masse before the 21st century is out.
- Comment on Y’all ain’t ready for this 3 days ago:
beat me to it.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 3 days ago:
Oh there’s gonna be Gen Alpha or Gen Beta kids filling dumpsters with Stanley cups, anime figurines, gundam models and retro consoles in the 2060s. “Why did my grandmother think this was cool?”
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 3 days ago:
My grandmother’s house. I have two sewing machines, a 6-place dining set, fine china to serve 8, two sewing machines, several rickety old pillar tables and candle stands, a cabinet full of random glassware, a drawer full of ratty, yellowed old doilies my father “remembers from when I was a kid.” So much shit my father wants, but won’t move into his own heavily cluttered house.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 3 days ago:
Shape shifting tables are actually quite common! There are quite a few types:
- Tilt Top Chair-tables. Hinged closed, it’s a table about the size of a poker table. Hinged open, it’s an armchair, with the tabletop forming the back.
- Drop-leaf tables. I’ve seen these in several shapes but the typical pattern is a long, thin rectangular table with hinged panels that can be folded up to extend the top. They can be folded to as little as 18 inches wide and stowed against a wall, you can open the free side with it still against the wall to seat a few people, or you can slide it away from the wall, open both leaves and have a full size table. Stowage of side chairs is a separate issue. The shakers were fond of drop-leaf tables, and made some truly huge ones that could seat a dozen people or more when unfolded, but would stow very efficiently.
- Extending tables. My dining room table is one of MANY examples, you’ll find them all over the United States because it’s objectively the worst of the lot: The long apron rails aren’t continuous but attached by a slide mechanism. The tabletop is split in half, so you get two table halves that can slide relative to each other. A gap can be opened wide enough to admit one or two lift-out sections to make the table longer. My dining room table can collapse to seat 4 around a (mostly) round table or extended to seat 6. All the additional hardware plus the two extra apron rails necessary make the table heavier than it should be, the slides never work right and if you prefer to have it collapsed, where do you stow the leaves? I guess with the two side chairs you nearly never use.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 4 days ago:
My understanding is there are several related things at play:
- The jello effect. So, once upon a time, serving gelatin was reserved for the wealthy because making gelatin from scratch means rendering animal bones. Then after WWII, there was suddenly a mass-produced easy to use product on the shelf called Jell-O. So in the 50’s and 60’s you saw an explosion in popularity of jello molds because serving gelatin was, to quote a Redditor I once read, “an impressive feat of housewifery.” Fancy dishes were similar; prior to WWII, fine decorated porcelain dishes were expensive, after WWII there were factories churning them out, and now Gladys from Topeka could have a floral print gilded gravy boat.
- Fancy dishes, and housewares in general, were marketed HARD to young women. Macy’s popularized the wedding registry, supermarkets started offering catalogs…it was common for young women to receive a portion of a china set for most of her adolescent gift-receiving occasions; Christmases, birthdays, high school graduation…this was the era of the hope chest, an entire industry sprang up for manufacturing pieces of furniture designed for young women to squirrel away a physical dowry in. You just weren’t a proper middle class lady unless you could come up with a fancy set of dishes to serve a Christmas dinner worthy of a Norman Rockwell painting on.
So these damn dishes that can’t be machine washed were manufactured in the quadrillions; Gramma got really protective over them, she was taught to value them from a very young age, and they’re delicate, easily broken, her particular set hasn’t been manufactured since the Truman administration so in a way they’re irreplaceable, and they must be hand-washed. So only a few Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners, “special occasions” were served on them, and then by the 80’s gramma got sick of washing them, boomer dad “remembers that from when he was a kid” and thus they’re more sacred than God, God’s brother Jod and God’s nephew Zhod. To a boomer, there is no occasion special enough to break out gramma’s china, it’d be like eating dinner off of the original copy of the Declaration of Independence. Unthinkable.
Millennials, who eat a lot of meals out of paper and plastic takeout containers, have no attachment to those damn dishes and haul them to thrift stores by the truckload.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 4 days ago:
which is why I have a wood shop.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 4 days ago:
Oh yeah none of it matters, gramma’s china is mass manufactured catalog crap.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 4 days ago:
I have collections of things, but things I use. I have a large VHS and DVD library, and I’ve watched pretty much all of them at least once. I legitimately don’t understand the people with walls of Funko Pops in packaging. That looks like damage to me.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 5 days ago:
It is my understanding that’s how all speculation bubbles work. Same thing happened to beanie babies. “People are buying these because they’re going to be worth something someday…somehow; we better buy some too.”
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 5 days ago:
and/or gambling that was shaped in such a way as to be difficult to prosecute.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 5 days ago:
NFTs just slide out of my brain.
I remember someone bought a piece of art, like actual bespoke art, that was NFT’d, for some millions of dollars. This created the dumbest speculative bubble I’m aware of when people were paying actual money for ugly randomized monkey pictures they could prove ownership of on the blockchain.
It’s my understanding that NFT technology could be used for things like proving copyright ownership; a creator creates an NFT of his work as published, and then anyone attempting to plagiarize it can’t provide the NFT, kind of like PGP signatures. But it didn’t get used for that and that dumbass monkey bubble probably poisoned that use case for a generation at least.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 5 days ago:
Okay, how do you do that? How do you make some weird bullshit uncute thing that gets a billion people to buy one or two and ten thousand people to buy four hundred? Trolls, beanie babies, funko pops, whatever the fuck a labubu is, to a lesser extent, pokemon cards…Surely these people are millionaires but don’t deserve it. I should be a millionaire and not deserve it.
- Comment on I am definitely a bird me personally 1 week ago:
Honduras.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 week ago:
You are correct; the point of gold plated contacts is anti-corrosion and long service life not for absolute highest conductivity.
I’m a ham radio operator; I have some silver-plated antenna connectors, because antenna feedlines are dealing with extremely weak signals on receive, so any loss you can eliminate in the connector the better. Problem is they corrode to hell everywhere they aren’t tightly screwed together. For consumer AV equipment the signals are basically never weak enough to bother with that.
I would think most audiophiles know this?
They’re not marketing to audiophiles. They’re marketing to dudes and dads. They aren’t trying to get the guy hooking a manual turntable up to a tube amplifier, they’re trying to get the guy attaching a PS5 to an LG TV to a Sonos soundbar. They’re going for the guy who is spending middle class money on AV equipment without bothering to understand it.
Wish I’d thought of it.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Some of those belong to the person in the background.
- Comment on True of mine but he more than made up for it 1 week ago:
dad bad is the new wife bad.
- Comment on True of mine but he more than made up for it 2 weeks ago:
I mean, Dad was watching the kids while Mom did the shopping? sounds like a functional and healthy family to me.
- Comment on Sweet ancestry 2 weeks ago:
They do that with dum-dums, I know. I…couldn’t tell you if they’re actually different flavors, honestly, they all taste “fake fruit” to me, but they’re definitely different colors, and instead of cleaning the machine between batches of flavors they just start making the next batch and some of the candy comes out mixed. Perfectly edible just kinda weird so they put a “mystery” flavor wrapper on it. Honestly I respect the frugality of it all.
- Comment on Praise them 2 weeks ago:
Hey, that’s a personal question.
- Comment on I'm definitely giggling 2 weeks ago:
Okay but why is it inherently funny though?
- Comment on Praise them 2 weeks ago:
So we’re just doing food items with no other context as memes? What’s it gonna be next month? Pasta?
- Comment on Word. 3 weeks ago:
Three. Wordpad also existed.
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 3 weeks ago:
See that seems like the kind of thing Matt Parker would make a video about, “Someone noticed a weird pattern in some numbers.” Like how 2 pi or the fibonacci sequence keep turning up in nature, and I just can’t muster up much more than a “…huh” about it. I mean I understand margesimpsonpotato.jpg but if you want me to do calculus you’re gonna have to bring me more than “I just think they’re neat.”
- Comment on Christmas Animals 3 weeks ago:
They’re on a mission from Gad.
- Comment on Word. 3 weeks ago:
Well tough shit, I learned something anyway.
- Comment on Word. 3 weeks ago:
Let me Wikipedia that for you…It was rolled into Wordpad circa Windows 95, and that write.exe is present in newer versions of Windows but it’s basically just a link to Wordpad.
According to Wikipedia, MS Write uses .wri files, which can be opened by LibreOffice 5.1 and later but not by any Microsoft software from Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later.
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 3 weeks ago:
I have never looked at math and saw this beauty people describe. Math to me is as beautiful as an angle grinder, it’s a useful tool that hates you and plots your demise.
- Comment on Word. 3 weeks ago:
PDF is one of those weird “not for editing” formats, like STL. Hence why it’s often in an Export As dialog rather than a Save As.
It used to be even hackier. You’d have to get some separate PDF authoring software which would present to applications like a printer driver, so to create a PDF version of your document you’d start with the Print command, not Save or Export, then instead of your printer you’d select your PDF authoring software, then when you clicked Print it would create a file on your hard drive instead of hosing data down a parallel or USB cable to one of Satan’s Own Favorite Contraptions.
- Comment on Word. 3 weeks ago:
The main problem with LibreOffice as a whole is the vast install base of MS Office. If you can work from the beginning in LibreOffice and store things as ODTs and ODSs, you’ll have a fine time. The second you need to work with someone who uses MS Office or deal with legacy documents made in Office, it beats your chin on the floor.