🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Silly sod. I bet he feels like a right divot.
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Bad idea: thinking about saving settings for userscripts in a hidden tag in user's bio instead of cookies.
There ought to be some other form of local storage.
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HTML5 has local storage.
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Whatever the fuck is going on with Pintrest....
I found a picture on facebook that would look really good as a print, so I click on the attribution to see if it's for sale. I then find myself on a facebook page for the people who make these images, which is the fucking worst place to find any given image. But they advertise having a gallery on pintrest, so I click there. I find a few images I like and, since pintrest claims each image is a link to the place it came from, click on one to see if it takes me to a site that might have a shop or something. I'm forced to sign up before I can do whatever clicking on a link tries to do, so I shrug, click "sign in with facebook", and figure it'll be one more empty burner account for usability becasue everything fucking requires login now.
I get taken to a fucking new user tutorial. I don't care, get me back to the image!
I go back to where I was, and click the image again. I can "re-pin" it, or click through to the site. I click to go to the site.
I CAN'T FUCKING LEAVE PINTREST UNTIL THE TUTORIAL IS COMPLETE.
Now I can't even find the goddamn tutorial again to finish it. No print for me. Fuck this.
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There ought to be some other form of local storage.
HTML5 has local storage.
You do realize that half of this project is doing shit intentionally wrong and abusing the Discourse
architecturebroken code as much as possible, right?
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I do now. Carry on.
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Whatever the fuck is going on with Pintrest....
I found a picture on facebook that would look really good as a print, so I click on the attribution to see if it's for sale. I then find myself on a facebook page for the people who make these images, which is the fucking worst place to find any given image. But they advertise having a gallery on pintrest, so I click there. I find a few images I like and, since pintrest claims each image is a link to the place it came from, click on one to see if it takes me to a site that might have a shop or something. I'm forced to sign up before I can do whatever clicking on a link tries to do, so I shrug, click "sign in with facebook", and figure it'll be one more empty burner account for usability becasue everything fucking requires login now.
I get taken to a fucking new user tutorial. I don't care, get me back to the image!
I go back to where I was, and click the image again. I can "re-pin" it, or click through to the site. I click to go to the site.
I CAN'T FUCKING LEAVE PINTREST UNTIL THE TUTORIAL IS COMPLETE.
Now I can't even find the goddamn tutorial again to finish it. No print for me. Fuck this.
The misogyny thread is that way.
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wut
I would simply have filed the entirety of Pinterest in the bad ideas thread, that way.
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The misogyny thread is that way.
There's a misogyny thread? How did I miss it? I've been logged on every day for the last two weeks! Link, please.
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It's the one entitled "Misandry is real" and evolved into sane political discussion fairly quickly.
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Bad idea: Electing a 12-year-old as mayor.
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Entirely missing the point of your "bloke sweeping the street" background acting job.
Filed under: "this sweeping thing is hard, none of the dirt is actually moving"
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Leaving your time lapse unattended
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O05nyS6hwQ
Filed under: Dicksplash still can't onebox YouTube mobile links
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Masterful trolling in the animal kingdom
Well you trolled me alright... :-)
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Sorry, I was wrestling with it trying to get it to onebox. I give up.
I might fix it next time I get on a desktop. The URL is fixed though.
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That looks like a good idea.
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Always following the rules:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8-d0USED0g
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Go for the high score
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TRWTF is that toy being pink and not purple.
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There's a white on in there, too. They are really Doing It Wrong™.
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I had one of those. I wore it out.
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You were Doing It Wrong™. You're supposed to wear it "in"
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Ignoring the fact that something clearly isn't working
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAQlEWqwnaA
Filed under: There's a metaphor for Discourse here somewhere
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Toilet... themed... diner..?
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You were Doing It Wrong™. You're supposed to wear it "in"
Not That There's Anything Wrong With That.
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Prepare to feel offended, @PJH:
And for posterity, the company information that's currently coming up for the search "greggs" on Google:
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And for posterity, the company information that's currently coming up for the search "greggs" on Google:
The “company logo” appears to have been originally sourced from Uncyclopedia. I'm going to guess that Google will be fixing this fairly soon…
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I'm going to guess that Google will be fixing this fairly soon
I would imagine so, although "fixing" might not be the right word.
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Prepare to feel offended, @PJH:
What for? It's not entirely inaccurate.
Especially the one near me, being - as it is - the nearest purveyor of hot 'food' to the Crown Court....
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Calling people who cover their faces with scarves and throw Molotov cocktails "protestors".
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@Intercourse said:
Calling people who cover their faces with scarves and throw Molotov cocktails "protestors".
They are protesting not being in jail.
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They are protesting not being in jail.
I know that such actions are not motivated by logic, but if you look at it from a logical perspective you realize just how fucked it is. They are protesting someone getting shot, by doing things that almost guarantee someone else will be shot before it is over with.
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@Intercourse said:
Calling people who cover their faces with scarves and throw Molotov cocktails "protestors".
They are protesters, they just aren't peaceful protesters.
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They are protesters, they just aren't peaceful protesters.
Probably more of those "mostly peaceful" protesters I've heard so much about.
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So, if I understand this well, the cops like to shoot people, the "militants" also like to shoot people, the looters like to steal things while the other groups are busy shooting each other, and the people who just want peace are fucked.
A.k.a. a standard violent conflict.
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If the police hadn't brought out the APCs and aimed automatic weapons at people's faces on day one, maybe it wouldn't have escalated this far. Any problems they have now are their own damned fault for being so fucking stupid about human nature.
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So, if I understand this well, the [b]authorities[/b] like to shoot people, the [b]dissidents[/b] also like to shoot people, the looters like to steal things while the other groups are busy shooting each other, and the people who just want peace are fucked.
A.k.a. [b]all of human history.[/b]
My take on it.
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If the police hadn't brought out the APCs and aimed automatic weapons at people's faces on day one, maybe it wouldn't have escalated this far.
Possibly. I have no sympathy for looters and rioters, though, and I haven't paid enough attention to know which came first. Those guys deserve to be shot. Or at least arrested. But there definitely are people out there simply protesting with signs or whatnot. And I don't include molotov cocktails in "whatnot."
I definitely think that most police forces have over-militarized.
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I definitely think that most police forces have over-militarized.
I don't care if they want to take an APC out in the dirt track and tool around or whatever. Owning the weapons isn't a problem. Actually using them near civilians they are supposed to be protecting is.
EDIT: That said, owning them is kind of a problem because it's a huge waste of their budget.
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Possibly. I have no sympathy for looters and rioters, though, and I haven't paid enough attention to know which came first. Those guys deserve to be shot. Or at least arrested. But there definitely are people out there simply protesting with signs or whatnot. And I don't include molotov cocktails in "whatnot."
I definitely think that most police forces have over-militarized.
From what I've read, there are two separate crowds. The peaceful protesters, and the hooligans that are rioting/looting. The latter crowd isn't there for any other reason to be a rebel without a cause, they're just taking advantage of a situation that lets them act out.
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But remember the hooligans didn't show up until after the police were acting like apes.
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Nah, the Kandahar Kops showed up about the same time.
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I don't care if they want to take an APC out in the dirt track and tool around or whatever. Owning the weapons isn't a problem. Actually using them near civilians they are supposed to be protecting is.
EDIT: That said, owning them is kind of a problem because it's a huge waste of their budget.
Yeah, owning is a problem because they are going to figure out how to use them. Plus, the obvious budget waste problem that you point out.
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From what I've read, there are two separate crowds. The peaceful protesters, and the hooligans that are rioting/looting. The latter crowd isn't there for any other reason to be a rebel without a cause, they're just taking advantage of a situation that lets them act out.
Yeah. Maybe the Cardinals will win the World Series and the rest of St Louis can get in on the action.
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Not if the BoSox have anything to do about it.
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EDIT: That said, owning them is kind of a problem because it's a huge waste of their budget.
There is the real problem! It does not come out of their fucking budgets. They are given this shit by DHS. All they have to do is file a request and voi-fucking-la, East Bumfuck Nowheresville has a tracked APC that they have no use for and an entire police force looking for any excuse to go play with their toys.
Yeah, owning is a problem because they are going to figure out how to use them. Plus, the obvious budget waste problem that you point out.
See above.
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@Intercourse said:
There is the real problem! It does not come out of their fucking budgets. They are given this shit by DHS. All they have to do is file a request and voi-fucking-la, East Bumfuck Nowheresville has a tracked APC that they have no use for and an entire police force looking for any excuse to go play with their toys.
Yup, all subsidized. You could fit the money that they pay for these things into a wallet, they're so cheap.