The Official First World Problems Thread™
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My 2015 Prius unlocks the doors when I touch the handle. It's freaky, but I think I like it :)
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did it feature an onion attached to the seat belts?
Pfffffffbt, it barely had seat belts. It did however have far too much horsepower for a 16 year old. It was a 1969 Camaro Z/28 and goddamn that car was sexy.
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I have only ever had one car that did not have keyless entry
My (later, my ex-wife's, until she totaled it) 2007 Toyota Yaris didn't, nor did it have power windows, but it's just about the cheapest car you could buy in the US.
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Toyota Yaris
Well, there's your problem...
I am sure there have been cars out there for the last 20 years that didn't have keyless entry. We just never had them.
In addition to the Camaro, I also got a 1990 Thunderbird SC because the Camaro was...less than practical. Even it had keyless entry. I even had a Mazda MX-3 and it had keyless entry. My 1986 Corvette came with factory keyless entry.
Not having it is rare anymore. We used to even order work trucks with keyless entry and tie the tool box locks in to it.
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Australia’s workplace tribunal ruled that a woman was bullied after she was unfriended on Facebook following work dispute
But in paragraph 19:
Legal experts said the case did not mean that unfriending a colleague on Facebook would automatically constitute bullying.
"The Fair Work Commission didn't find that unfriending someone on Facebook constitutes workplace bullying," Josh Bornstein, a lawyer at the firm Maurice Blackburn, told ABC News.
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FWP: The soft keyboard on my tablet pushes the top of the draft window outside the viewport in landscape mode, so I can't see what I've written. I need to hold the tablet in portrait, and that's not as confortable.
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The phrase “first world problem” is these days used as a comical apology for moaning about trivia. It is also an enjoyable internet meme, with a dedicated subreddit. (I particularly liked “The Wi-Fi at the luxury Greek villa my wife and I are staying at only supports 4 devices at a time”, and the rather subtle: “I want to order pizza, but it is too early and I don’t want to be judged by my doorman.”) But why do we speak of “first world problems”, exactly, and what might we unintentionally mean when we do?
For a start, the phrase is an anachronism, since we no longer talk about the “third world”. [...]The rest of the article is as bad.
Comments section not as bad:
Worrying about whether you should use the phrase "first world problem"?
First world problem.
You are definitely over-thinking this.
This is analogous to a humblebrag. It pretends to be caring and progressive but is lightweight enough to be in the daily mail.
It's like the Guardian is consciously skirting the event horizon of up-its-own-fundament blackholery.
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FWP: The server backing the mobile game I was playing was semi-down this morning (no idea exactly what the problem was) and it wasn't accepting my purchase (with in-game pseudo-moneys) of more defence power. Come back now and it's like it was done. So either things were going through but not reporting this and my in-game pseudo-moneys stash wasn't decremented, or they just fucked up massively and they game operators credited everyone a bunch of stuff.
Filed under: Is that stupid and whiny enough?
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Filed under: Is that stupid and whiny enough?
Nope. Needs more vitriol and hysterics about not being able to access the IN GAME ENTERTAINMENT your purchased! If they can't keep a mobile game server running 24/7, then maybe they don't NEED YOUR BUSINESS!
A good paragraph whinging about the 0.057% extra defense power you missed out on would be a good step. Working "your rights" in is almost mandatory.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
A good paragraph whinging about the 0.057% extra defense power you missed out on would be a good step. Working "your rights" in is almost mandatory.
That sounds like work to me.
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Useful.
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NOREPRO:
Filed under: [The joys of being TL4](https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-official-reasons-why-we-love-being-tl4-thread/8583)
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what's up with the round and rotated avatars??
you fa-spinned them?
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Yup, I have fa-spinning avatars on my machine.
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your machine seems to be more seizure-inducing than japanese cartoons :P
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your machine seems to be more seizure-inducing than japanese cartoons
Don't look at her profile. Or user card.
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Apparently I don't come to this thread that around frequently, because I'm just seeing those posts from Sep 15 now, but can I just say: holy fuck you guys are dense. How was it not clear to you from the very first post (well, ok, the second, the first one was a bit disorienting) that @gribnit was talking about a specification that he'd written that a third party was implementing wrongly. For a bunch of so-called programmers y'all sure do suck at abstraction.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
git
Oh yeah? Well if git is so great, why doesn't it have an undo button? Even mspaint back in windows 3.1 had an undo button. Hell, even Microsoft Office has an undo button. Microsoft Office is a better version control system than Linux Torvalds.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
git
Oh yeah? Well if git is so great, why doesn't it have an undo button? Even mspaint back in windows 3.1 had an undo button. Hell, even Microsoft Office has an undo button. Microsoft Office is a better version control system than Linux Torvalds.Did you just reply to part of the emoticon's name?!?
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how many funnies we could get from a 3rd world problems thread...
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Was I not supposed to do that?
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nobuddy should do that, only blakey because he likes git
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because I'm just seeing those posts from Sep 15
FWP: Not even going to try to find those ancient posts on this "premium forum product."
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No, it's a floor wax!
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A dessert fox?
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FWP: The War On Loudness War
At the top, the song from the CD; at the bottom, the same song from a live album.
Look, I know you guys are trying to have some dynamic range in your music in those hard times, and I appreciate it, really, but here's the problem: you can barely hear shit on most hardware. I don't know if stereo makers are now compensating for the brickwalled CDs, or if I'm simply going deaf, but even the CD (top) version is hard to listen to on what I have. The bottom one might as well be silence.
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The War On Loudness War
FUN VIDEO TIME
Metallica releases an album. Death Magnetic. They market the everliving fuck out of it. It's supposed to be THE BIGGEST MOTH FUCKERING ALBUM EVER. Keep in mind that this is, arguably, one of the biggest heavy metal bands in the world, with decades of experience, untold millions of dollars and pretty much complete control over the final product.
It's a loud-warred unlistenable piece of crap.
But as part of that marketing machine, they strike a deal with Guitar Hero to make a Metallica branded version of the game. Guitar Hero has mixing and in-game effects on a track-by-track basis. If you're playing the Guitar part and fuck up a note, it silences the guitar track, but not the rest of the song. You can also adjust the mix amongst the various instruments. The only way this is achievable is to hand the master tracks over the Guitar Hero. Metallica does so, giving them the pre-Loudened masters.
Guitar Hero does a better job of mixing the tracks together than Metallica. Like, enough so that fans would rather rip the music from the game than from the CD.
Like, it's literally this bad:
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Great example for a much too quiet album:
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me (1993)
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I'm simply going deaf
There might be a fair chunk of that. I usually listen to music with my master volume turned right down (to the point where the next stop down is to turn the sound off) and I have no problems hearing things. I conclude that a lot of people must've damaged their hearing from listening to stuff that's just too loud for too long.
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I didn't know they released any albums past St. Anger.
What a shit that thing was. Ugh.
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I didn't know they released any albums past St. Anger.
Death Magnetic was actually kinda good, aside from the terrible mix. Not Ride the Lightning, but not garbage can drumming either.
Well, there was also Lulu, but it's kind of like Love Beach by EL&P - the kind of album you don't mention in a polite company.
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Their first FWP:
More than 30 asylum seekers refused to get off a bus that took them to temporary accommodation at a holiday park on Sunday night because they didn't want to stay in such a rural location, Sweden's Migration Board has told The Local.
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Is that new? There was an incident like that this spring, but there were more issues than the rural area.
Hell, all of sweden is a rural area compared to the overcrowded cesspool that the refugees come from.
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Is that new? There was an incident like that this spring, but there were more issues than the rural area.
The date on the article is from a few days ago. I don't follow Swedish news much, so it wouldn't surprise me at all to find out I've missed other similar incidents.