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@Magus said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra my dude, have you heard of earth-Chan?
.... Of course there's a chan for that. What Internet Rule is that?
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
I'm actually surprised I'm saying this but if that's the new iPhone that camera bit looks a bit ugly. Not a word I usually associate with apple products.
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Human jobs
Machines are workers now?
I'm actually surprised this hasn't happened sooner. I worked a company that developed ivrs. . They're a pain in the arse when you're trying to do something that requires a person but our metrics showed that somewhere north of 90% of people were actually able to get what they needed done in the ivr and avoid getting to a person. That was about 3 years ago. Should be a bit better now.
*Fake edit : actually thinking about it they're pretty poor at picking out multiple items in a sentence. I keep forgetting that you train yourself to make Alexa work.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
"Okay Machdonalds. Make Me a Number seven, a number six, no mayo, a number two extra lettuce, large fries all around, and biggie size the drinks. Diet Coke, Regular Coke, and a Lemonaide"
"I'm sorry, i didn't quite catch that. Could you repeat it please?
"Fuck that. i've tried eight times already. I'm going next door to Wendy's instead."
"I'm sorry, i didn't quite catch that. Could you repeat it please?
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
"Okay Machdonalds. Make Me a Number seven, a number six, no mayo, a number two extra lettuce, large fries all around, and biggie size the drinks. Diet Coke, Regular Coke, and a Lemonaide"
"I'm sorry, i didn't quite catch that. Could you repeat it please?
"Fuck that. i've tried eight times already. I'm going next door to Wendy's instead."
"I'm sorry, i didn't quite catch that. Could you repeat it please?
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
This is like a month's work
I don't believe this
Said with the assumption that they have a full time web team that is competent. I'll concede your point.
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
"Okay Machdonalds. Make Me a Number seven, a number six, no mayo, a number two extra lettuce, large fries all around, and biggie size the drinks. Diet Coke, Regular Coke, and a Lemonaide"
"I'm sorry, i didn't quite catch that. Could you repeat it please?
"Fuck that. i've tried eight times already. I'm going next door to Wendy's instead."
"I'm sorry, i didn't quite catch that. Could you repeat it please?
token Scottish YouTube clip about voice operated devices.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
Vision scientist Dr Geoff Cole, at the University of Essex, was part of the first full scientific study of trypophobia, working with his colleague, Prof Arnold Wilkins.
"We have all got it, it's just a matter of degree," Dr Cole told BBC News earlier this year.Uh-huh. Does his scale include or exclude 0?
Yeah..... I wonder how contaminated the test results are with the nocebo effect.
See normally I look at my English muffin, crumpet, waffle, seed pods, what have you and go. well that's clearly a crumpet, a waffle, a seedpod and an English muffin. what of it? Also why is my English muffin all dry crumbly and like not at all good tasting? Oh..... this is the seed pod? F$%&#, that's the third time this week!
But then I read an article where it shows pictures and talks about how these pictures make people all anxious and disgusted and everything I feel like.... maybe there's something too it because these photos that otherwise would elicit no reaction whatsoever are freaking me out....
People talk about seed pods, but for some reason they never seem to mention something that looks like that but is actually dangerous: a paper wasp nest.
Explanations for why trypophobia is a thing never seem to include the obvious: instinctual defense mechanism against being attacked by homicidal psychopath insects with poison stings that, unlike bees, do not kill the wasp when used!
I do think the pictures google image search shows you (of skin with holes, fake or otherwise) are highly revolting. Now, that may not be an actual phobia but still something I believe is a very common reaction.
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@TimeBandit Seems like a good time to go after the heads at MyPayrollHR and their owner.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Now, that may not be an actual phobia but still something I believe is a very common reaction.
It's not the feeling of revulsion, it's the feeling of your lungs trying to crawl out your ears but first having to make a detour over the bridge of your nose. I'm not sure I can describe it any better than that.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Now, that may not be an actual phobia but still something I believe is a very common reaction.
It's not the feeling of revulsion, it's the feeling of your lungs trying to crawl out your ears but first having to make a detour over the bridge of your nose. I'm not sure I can describe it any better than that.
Oh stop being a baby. Find something real to be repulsed by. Like spiders. We have to fucking glass Australia.
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Instagram is not just for sluts
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@TimeBandit And yet "sleds" is a very similar word...
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@DogsB I mean, human factors matter... a cup holder that spills coffee isn't going to get used, and worse spills will happen.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
But we don't talk about it. One of the very few
peoplemembers ever to be banned from the forum.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
Binary planets have a secondary orbit around one another in addition to orbiting their sun. This is something that does not exist in the Earth/Moon relationship. The Moon orbits the Earth without having much of an effect on Earth's own orbit.
If you're going to invoke barycenters, then how do you deal with the sun-Jupiter system?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Ultimately users who have bought an Xbox One have signed up to it working like that
I've added it to my list of reasons to NOT buy an Xbox One
I couldn't give a shit. I don't use my XBox One for things like Amazon and YouTube. That's why I have smart TVs and Roku devices.
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@abarker said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Ultimately users who have bought an Xbox One have signed up to it working like that
I've added it to my list of reasons to NOT buy an Xbox One
I couldn't give a shit. I don't use my XBox One for things like Amazon and YouTube. That's why I have smart TVs and Roku devices.
If I want Amazon or Youtube, I'll use my laptop.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
But we don't talk about it. One of the very few
peoplemembers ever to be banned from the forum.And for very good cause, too.
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@Benjamin-Hall Indeed. Most forums would likely have banned it within the first couple days of its appearance. Joining a forum just to call the members would-be murderers doesn't create a good first impression.
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
More and more foxen!~
Hold on. Imma going to grab some popcorn so i can sit down properly for story time while y'all introduce me to all of them!
Back in a mo.
Ok, so there's some basics of the site itself that are relevant, too. Originally, the forum was powered by Community Server, then it was switched over to Discourse in early 2014(?), and then switched again in early 2016(?) to NodeBB. There's a whole lot of reasons for and results from the switches, including the development of a lot of in-jokes and terminology, which you will almost inevitably find if you stay here long. One "rule" is that inflammatory content, like politics or worldviews, must remain in the Trolleybus Garage (only accessible to members of the Trolleybus Mechanics user group), or, for serious discussions of those topics, in the Salon.
- @Accalia_de_Elementia joined 29 Jun 2011 on CS. @accalia joined 30 May 2014 on Discourse. IIRC, either there was some trouble porting accounts from CS to Discourse or she just forgot her password.
- @Fox joined 31 Aug 2015 on Discourse, and created @FoxBox as an alternate account on 26 Jul 2016 on Discourse. These are also the only for-cause banned accounts for an actual user (so excluding Chinese spam-posting bots) that I know of. (He repeatedly posted the same Garage content outside the Garage even after an admin deleted the post, asked him to stop, and temp-banned him several times.) A few other people self-banned, but that's another story.
- @Perverted_Vixen on 30 Mar 2017 on NodeBB for a user to post salacious content that wouldn't be directly connected to the other account. I can't recall whether the user cared whether we knew they were connected, though, so I'm keeping it separate and chronological by join date.
- @Unperverted-Vixen joined 18 Apr 2017 on NodeBB, unrelated to any of the above but as a counter-account to @Perverted_Vixen. I have my own suspicions on whose alt it is.
- Then you, @Vixen, joined on 09 Sep 2019 on NodeBB.
Other account names that start with fox:
@Fox2, @fox32best, @Fox_News, @foxbat42, @Foxbodind, @foxBorruill, @foxdatelux, @FoxDiormSlolo, @foxfireso, @foxiseki06, @foxiseki76, @Foxitteeprita, @foxladyg, @foxprorawks, @Foxtrot_tango, @foxyfoxy5, @foxymonk, @foxyshadis, @foxyt
I don't think any of these are active posters.
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@djls45 best piece of news I've read all week!
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
These are also the only for-cause banned accounts for an actual user (so excluding Chinese spam-posting bots) that I know of.
There was also MPS back in the day, but that was before my time. If you want that story, you'll have to get it from one of the old-timers. (I'm old as dirt, but I've only been on TDWTF since around 2012-ish.)
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@HardwareGeek My memory is shit, but I recall him as being fairly decent in the beginning, and when the forums decayed into rampant trolling and name calling he just slowly lost his shit.
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@Carnage also, he really didn’t like it when you “quoted the OP”.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Carnage also, he really didn’t like it when you “quoted the OP”.
Well, yes. But that was customary on forums back then so he wasn't alone in that particular view.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Carnage also, he really didn’t like it when you “quoted the OP”.
Oh! Yeah, don't do that, especially when the OP was a gigantic post!
I try to avoid it when possible myself. Sometimes the is a little to heavy though...
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
I'm actually surprised I'm saying this but if that's the new iPhone that camera bit looks a bit ugly. Not a word I usually associate with apple products.
It looks slightly better than the leaked versions from earlier in the year, but yes it's ass ugly. Tim Apple must've pissed off Jony Ive or something.
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
"Okay Machdonalds. Make Me a Number seven, a number six, no mayo, a number two extra lettuce, large fries all around, and biggie size the drinks. Diet Coke, Regular Coke, and a Lemonaide"
E_NOT_TWO_NUMBER_9S_A_NUMBER_9_LARGE_A_NUMBER_6_WITH_EXTRA_DIP_A_NUMBER_7_TWO_NUMBER_45S_ONE_WITH_CHEESE_AND_A_LARGE_SODA
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Unperverted-Vixen joined 18 Apr 2017 on NodeBB, unrelated to any of the above but as a counter-account to @Perverted_Vixen. I have my own suspicions on whose alt it is.
You're probably wrong, unless you're looking at the entire user table to try to figure it out. I don't think I count as an alt; my old account only made a few dozen posts (I mostly lurked for the first few years), and I pretty much abandoned it entirely after making this one.
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@Unperverted-Vixen said in In other news today...:
I don't think I count as an alt;
s/boy/boomzilla/g
s/girl/alt/g
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@Unperverted-Vixen It's easy to prove you're an alt. Go downvote any post, then look at the list of downvotes. There's a bug in NodeBB and it doesn't scrub your identity correctly in this case.
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This is my shocked face.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
was accidentally charged $67,689 for a beer that was supposed to cost $6.76
When calculating the price with VAT and local taxes, did they happen to multiply with the percentage values instead of a hundredth of them?
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@Unperverted-Vixen It's easy to prove you're an alt. Go downvote any post, then look at the list of downvotes. There's a bug in NodeBB and it doesn't scrub your identity correctly in this case.
Forgot about that.
Although even if I had remembered, I'm not sure whether @djls45 was referring to that or being serious.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
"Okay Machdonalds. Make Me a Number seven, a number six, no mayo, a number two extra lettuce, large fries all around, and biggie size the drinks. Diet Coke, Regular Coke, and a Lemonaide"
"I'm sorry, i didn't quite catch that. Could you repeat it please?
"Fuck that. i've tried eight times already. I'm going next door to Wendy's instead."
"I'm sorry, i didn't quite catch that. Could you repeat it please?
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
More and more foxen!~
Hold on. Imma going to grab some popcorn so i can sit down properly for story time while y'all introduce me to all of them!
Back in a mo.
Ok, so there's some basics of the site itself that are relevant, too. Originally, the forum was powered by Community Server, then it was switched over to Discourse in early 2014(?), and then switched again in early 2016(?) to NodeBB. There's a whole lot of reasons for and results from the switches, including the development of a lot of in-jokes and terminology, which you will almost inevitably find if you stay here long. One "rule" is that inflammatory content, like politics or worldviews, must remain in the Trolleybus Garage (only accessible to members of the Trolleybus Mechanics user group), or, for serious discussions of those topics, in the Salon.
- @Accalia_de_Elementia joined 29 Jun 2011 on CS. @accalia joined 30 May 2014 on Discourse. IIRC, either there was some trouble porting accounts from CS to Discourse or she just forgot her password.
- @Fox joined 31 Aug 2015 on Discourse, and created @FoxBox as an alternate account on 26 Jul 2016 on Discourse. These are also the only for-cause banned accounts for an actual user (so excluding Chinese spam-posting bots) that I know of. (He repeatedly posted the same Garage content outside the Garage even after an admin deleted the post, asked him to stop, and temp-banned him several times.) A few other people self-banned, but that's another story.
- @Perverted_Vixen on 30 Mar 2017 on NodeBB for a user to post salacious content that wouldn't be directly connected to the other account. I can't recall whether the user cared whether we knew they were connected, though, so I'm keeping it separate and chronological by join date.
- @Unperverted-Vixen joined 18 Apr 2017 on NodeBB, unrelated to any of the above but as a counter-account to @Perverted_Vixen. I have my own suspicions on whose alt it is.
- Then you, @Vixen, joined on 09 Sep 2019 on NodeBB.
Other account names that start with fox:
@Fox2, @fox32best, @Fox_News, @foxbat42, @Foxbodind, @foxBorruill, @foxdatelux, @FoxDiormSlolo, @foxfireso, @foxiseki06, @foxiseki76, @Foxitteeprita, @foxladyg, @foxprorawks, @Foxtrot_tango, @foxyfoxy5, @foxymonk, @foxyshadis, @foxyt
I don't think any of these are active posters.Another piece of lore that you might come across is that we might all be @boomzilla alts. I'm not sure where exactly this came from but it was the theme of this year's April fools Day prank.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@Unperverted-Vixen It's easy to prove you're an alt. Go downvote any post, then look at the list of downvotes. There's a bug in NodeBB and it doesn't scrub your identity correctly in this case.
Lies! I'm definitely an alt!
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@Unperverted-Vixen said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Unperverted-Vixen joined 18 Apr 2017 on NodeBB, unrelated to any of the above but as a counter-account to @Perverted_Vixen. I have my own suspicions on whose alt it is.
You're probably wrong, unless you're looking at the entire user table to try to figure it out. I don't think I count as an alt; my old account only made a few dozen posts (I mostly lurked for the first few years), and I pretty much abandoned it entirely after making this one.
Welp, there goes my theory.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Optimistic...
https://www.bromleytimes.co.uk/news/defibrillator-installed-at-crematorium-1-6266890
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
I don't think any of these are active posters.
Yes, these days. @foxyshadis most definitely used to be a semi-regular, but that was back in the Community Server days. (For all that had problems — mostly with attitude by one of its creators — it was a zillion times better than CS. CS was utter shit.)
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Optimistic...
https://www.bromleytimes.co.uk/news/defibrillator-installed-at-crematorium-1-6266890
Think of the stress for the workers if a single funeral were to suddenly become a double.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Tim Apple must've pissed off Jony Ive or something.
That would be neat. Maybe we can get rid of the flat design cancer soon.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
More and more foxen!~
Hold on. Imma going to grab some popcorn so i can sit down properly for story time while y'all introduce me to all of them!
Back in a mo.
Ok, so there's some basics of the site itself that are relevant, too. Originally, the forum was powered by Community Server, then it was switched over to Discourse in early 2014(?), and then switched again in early 2016(?) to NodeBB. There's a whole lot of reasons for and results from the switches, including the development of a lot of in-jokes and terminology, which you will almost inevitably find if you stay here long. One "rule" is that inflammatory content, like politics or worldviews, must remain in the Trolleybus Garage (only accessible to members of the Trolleybus Mechanics user group), or, for serious discussions of those topics, in the Salon.
- @Accalia_de_Elementia joined 29 Jun 2011 on CS. @accalia joined 30 May 2014 on Discourse. IIRC, either there was some trouble porting accounts from CS to Discourse or she just forgot her password.
- @Fox joined 31 Aug 2015 on Discourse, and created @FoxBox as an alternate account on 26 Jul 2016 on Discourse. These are also the only for-cause banned accounts for an actual user (so excluding Chinese spam-posting bots) that I know of. (He repeatedly posted the same Garage content outside the Garage even after an admin deleted the post, asked him to stop, and temp-banned him several times.) A few other people self-banned, but that's another story.
- @Perverted_Vixen on 30 Mar 2017 on NodeBB for a user to post salacious content that wouldn't be directly connected to the other account. I can't recall whether the user cared whether we knew they were connected, though, so I'm keeping it separate and chronological by join date.
- @Unperverted-Vixen joined 18 Apr 2017 on NodeBB, unrelated to any of the above but as a counter-account to @Perverted_Vixen. I have my own suspicions on whose alt it is.
- Then you, @Vixen, joined on 09 Sep 2019 on NodeBB.
Other account names that start with fox:
@Fox2, @fox32best, @Fox_News, @foxbat42, @Foxbodind, @foxBorruill, @foxdatelux, @FoxDiormSlolo, @foxfireso, @foxiseki06, @foxiseki76, @Foxitteeprita, @foxladyg, @foxprorawks, @Foxtrot_tango, @foxyfoxy5, @foxymonk, @foxyshadis, @foxyt
I don't think any of these are active posters.Another piece of lore that you might come across is that we might all be @boomzilla alts. I'm not sure where exactly this came from but it was the theme of this year's April fools Day prank.
Really? I though the theme was Je Suis @Polygeekery.