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@hungrier
Last time we did it we explicitly left our manager out because someone should have been there the next Monday to accept our resignations.
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@karla said in In other news today...:
@dcon and I both know playing is pointless and the economist both know that voting is pointless?
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@antiquarian Yes, but that's a different take on the subject.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@bb36e said in In other news today...:
They should have just had him pay the fat tax and been done with it.
Except for the risk of trying to hide something dangerous among all the clothing.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
(Apologies for the meme lead image but it’s hard to illustrate units of time.)
Uh...? Clocks, timers, and digital displays don't work?
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Youtube is listening to its users and fixing the problems that everyone has been talking about:
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I knew all those years of sleep deprivation would pay off:
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
I knew all those years of sleep deprivation would pay off:
Sleep is a poor substitute to coffee anyway
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I can't wait to see how this plays out:
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@Polygeekery said in In other news today...:
That guy is being a total asshat. She proposed a trade exchange. It is extremely common in media and advertising. The girl may be a cunt for other reasons, but all she did was propose a trade exchange and all he had to do was accept, counter the offer or decline. Instead he made a big media stunt about it.
Bearing even agreed with the douchenozzle and this is one of the few times I have disagreed with him. What she proposed was nothing unusual.
It may not be unusual, but he did go to the trouble of keeping it anonymous, so his point originally was just to try to get people to stop asking for free stuff in exchange for "publicity" to random people who would most likely never have an opportunity to visit his establishment anyways.
Then she went and doxxed herself and made it into a big deal about her and how she was treated.
His posting their subsequent interaction to her employer on Twitter was a jerk move and his "invoice" was petty, so there's plenty of blame to lay on both sides, and now they've got a flame war going on.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
It may not be unusual, but he did go to the trouble of keeping it anonymous
No he didn't. We have a thread around here somewhere dedicated to this whole debacle. It is fairly easily readable.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563217305472
It's an odd-enough phenomenon that the simplistic methods and definition of "priming" that they used won't accurately capture the concept. It's pretty well known that presenting a concept in a game in a certain way can limit the players' expectations for using it. Many games (and players) utilize that in various ways, some of which are well-known, from hiding traps above a doorway because players tend to look side-to-side before they look up (if they even do) to creating "trick" puzzles where the player has to think outside the box to use items in ways that might not normally be presented, like the way to get the "good" ending in DDLC or, as comes to my mind, progressing through Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. (My siblings and I played it for several years before we found out that you could use the arrowhead wrapped in an oily cloth to remove the loose screw on the back of the fallen bookcase.)
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
he did go to the trouble of keeping it anonymous ... she went and doxxed herself
I'll just leave this here.
Thread is /topic/24526/the-white-moose-café-was-re-in-other-news-today.
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@Polygeekery said in In other news today...:
It took me a minute to pick up on the double meaning in her tweet.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
It took me a minute to pick up on the double meaning in her tweet.
You need more
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
I've read that one of the worst things that can happen is to win the first time someone plays (in any gambling mechanism).
I know of a Bible professor from a Bible college who led a team of students on a summer missions trip to the American West. One of their stops was in Nevada, and the leader took the students to a slot machine (which are almost everywhere), and put in a quarter to show them how easy it is to lose money. He won ~$200. So he thanked God for strange providence, and they went out to a nice restaurant for dinner.
I know another person who stuck a nickel in a slot machine when he was a kid and got someone to help him pull the lever. He also won, but he was terrified when all the bells and whistles went off and the lights started flashing, so he ran back over to his dad. When they got to the machine, a bunch of people were standing around it watching the money falling out of it and looking for who had won. Because the kid was too young, the dad claimed the prize. I don't recall if the kid got any of the winnings, but he now avoids traveling to Nevada because he knows he's weak to gambling (he's lost a lot of money before), and he wants to avoid the temptation.
@Karla said in In other news today...:
I'm always amazed when work (of reasonably intelligent programmers) put together a lottery pool.
There's a guy where I work who gives out $7 in scratch-off tickets tucked inside Christmas cards.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
There's a guy where I work who gives out ~$9 in scratch-off tickets tucked inside Christmas cards.
I wish there was a polite way of telling those people I'd rather just have the money.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
I wish there was a polite way of telling those people I'd rather just have the money.
- Keep the tickets for next Christmas
- Give it back to them, already scratched, inside a Christmas card
- Write a note inside the card "It was worth NOTHING in the end"
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
I wish there was a polite way of telling those people I'd rather just have the money.
- Keep the tickets for next Christmas
- Give it back to them, already scratched, inside a Christmas card
- Write a note inside the card "It was worth NOTHING in the end"
Last year I went ahead and scratched them. I got $4 from them. The gas station attendant where I turned them in started grabbing more tickets and was a little surprised when I asked for the cash directly.
I haven't scratched the tickets yet that I just got this Christmas, but I'm not sure if I can turn them in for the sticker price. I'm nearly certain that I'd come out ahead to just get the $7. If I can't return them, then I'll just take whatever "winnings" I may get, like I did last year.
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Dutch secret service infiltrates russian hacking group during US presidential elections.
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@djls45 I've always just scratched them, I don't think you could return them anyway. Or maybe you could if you had the receipt. I don't really remember whether there was a receipt.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
he did go to the trouble of keeping it anonymous ... she went and doxxed herself
I'll just leave this here.
And how it was supposed to look, before removing the (admittedly poorly-done) attempt to hide personal info:
Thread is /topic/24526/the-white-moose-café-was-re-in-other-news-today.
Thanks for the link. I'll continue anything else in this vein over there.
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@anotherusername I'll ask at the gas station on my way home tonight and report back. :)
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
And how it was supposed to look, before removing the (admittedly poorly-done) attempt to hide personal info:
Still, her identity was obtainable from the original image and therefore presumably known to people already when she made the video. She didn't doxx herself; he did.
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@anotherusername Continued here.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
There's a guy where I work who gives out ~$9 in scratch-off tickets tucked inside Christmas cards.
There's a TV commercial running (or was) with that theme - the boss giving gifts to the employees. All I could think was "tight wad".
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@djls45 I asked, and state lotto tickets cannot be returned for the purchase value.
So I scratched them off and received the following:Ticket price Winnings $1 $2 $1 $0 $1 $0 $2 $0 $2 $0 Total: $7 worth of tickets ==> $2 of winnings.
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The sort of headline news editors dream of using.
https://youtu.be/muYiOdnKwj0Filed Under: There's one cliche they can check off their bucket lists.
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The articles are new; unfortunately, the don't-vaccinate-pets-either movement is not. Google shows results going back about 3 years, at least for articles that have a date visible in the preview.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Youtube is listening to its users and fixing the problems that everyone has been talking about:
Of course this comes not three weeks after Monstercat decides to split its content across two channels.
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I have no idea how many cat treats and catnip that sum can buy, but I guess there'll be quite a party.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Youtube is listening to its users and fixing the problems that everyone has been talking about:
Of course this comes not three weeks after Monstercat decides to split its content across two channels.
What??? Oh man, I forgot I usually had that channel going on in the background....
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Darn, I will literally never be able to use this App... Because it's not free to play.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Youtube is listening to its users and fixing the problems that everyone has been talking about:
Of course this comes not three weeks after Monstercat decides to split its content across two channels.
What??? Oh man, I forgot I usually had that channel going on in the background....
Yeah, they split. Now you have Instinct and Uncaged, for pop and harder respectively.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Polygeekery said in In other news today...:
It took me a minute to pick up on the double meaning in her tweet.
Knowing the "af" stands for "as fuck" disambiguates.
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While Trump seems to like gilded things, this might be a bit too much of a good thing:
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@hardwaregeek May they (anti-vaxers) get bitten by a rabid dog...
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@karla
This just in, herd animals like to be in a herd. News at 11.
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@tsaukpaetra I'll never be able to use this app because my phone has this stupid thing it does where once it reaches ~20% battery remaining it suddenly thinks the battery is empty and shuts itself down.
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
While Trump seems to like gilded things, this might be a bit too much of a good thing:
I'm guessing he'd have it installed in the bathroom in the White House's master bedroom. What does 'ductility' mean, anyway?
(Or whichever bedroom Putin would stay in if he came to visit. A good employee tries to impress their boss, after all.)
He wouldn't put it in his apartment in Trump Tower, because he already has one there.
Filed Under: The ones in Mar-a-Lago are forged from the compressed souls of the Damned.
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
@karla
This just in, herd animals like to be in a herd. News at 11.It's still cute!!!! Did she not have a herd at her farm?
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@karla said in In other news today...:
Did she not have a herd at her farm?
Probably. But now she's the slimmest one
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I am guessing that it got out of the pen and wandered around looking for its herd (some cows wander, others just sit down and die). It eventually found another herd to hang with.
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Deer used to herd up with our cattle.
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@e4tmyl33t
Too bad you didn't get an iPhone, then it would just be slow all the time, rather than shutting off early