The Official First World Problems Thread™
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@zecc
And since it's a third world problem, you can get your cookie the third world way... line up on the fourth Tuesday after a blue moon and hope they're not out by the time you get through the line.
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@izzion That's the second world way of getting a cookie. Third world would be eating a cow pat and trying to imagine it tastes like cookies
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@boomzilla " “They weren’t prepared to receive that information at those ages — it wasn’t in their sense of what was relevant to them.” I don't think that's why. When you're young (at least when I was) you feel you are supposed to refuse to talk about the death of your parents (and other older people).
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@chozang said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I'm trying to reconcile 3. and 10.
It starts raining half way through.
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@pjh said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@chozang said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I'm trying to reconcile 3. and 10.
It starts raining half way through.
I suspect that the confusion lay in the fact that in most cases "relocate to... the nearest pub" leads to "drinking on the floor" (or at least "passing out on the floor"), rather than the reverse.
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@scholrlea said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@pjh said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@chozang said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I'm trying to reconcile 3. and 10.
It starts raining half way through.
I suspect that the confusion lay in the fact that in most cases "relocate to... the nearest pub" leads to "drinking on the floor" (or at least "passing out on the floor"), rather than the reverse.
Well, the story did end early. He could have ended up on the floor again.
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@pjh Looks like they really wanted to go for "Trick or stick?"
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@jbert said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@pjh Looks like they really wanted to go for "Trick or stick?"
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@jaloopa said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@izzion That's the second world way of getting a cookie. Third world would be eating a cow pat and trying to imagine it tastes like cookies
r/fifthworldproblems
r/sixthworldproblems
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Unless those Soviets had managed to harness the Long Earth, there's some issues with your number of worlds.
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@pie_flavor Are you suggesting there are no problems in the sixth world?
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@boomzilla I interpret that headline literally. Like, cat getting vacuum cleaned literally.
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@anotherusername Obviously your self-driving car will need some counseling after the car wash to stop it from getting suicidal thoughts.
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On trying to save the environment one plastic straw at a time..
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@pjh said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
On trying to save the environment one plastic straw at a time..
Seems logical to me. They're made of paper... they might last long enough for a single-use drinking straw when they're in contact with liquid, but if moisture got into the packaging material, it would probably do them in. So, a cardboard container would not protect them adequately from damp... plastic straws, on the other hand, won't be harmed by a little moisture.
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@anotherusername said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Seems logical to me.
Who said anything about logic?
This whole virtue-signalling about plastic is largely fed off the incessant news reports of plastic in the sea.
Plastic straws, unless they're seriously lost, tend to end up in landfill sites, well away from large masses of water.
And that ignores what percentage of said plastic-in-oceans is plastic straws.
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@pjh Landfills are a problem too, you know. The problem is with stuff that isn't biodegradable in general.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@pjh Landfills are a problem too, you know.
Not in the public consciousness, they're not. Seas are getting all the news coverage, so that's what the proles are being led to believe is the reason for the plastic tax is.
No tax, yet, to save landfills.
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@pjh said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Not in the public consciousness, they're not. Seas are getting all the news coverage, so that's what the proles are being led to believe is the reason for the plastic tax is.
Right-pondian vs. Left-pondian. Over here, it's about landfills. We have rubbish bins at work labeled "Recycle — Paper, Aluminum, Plastic, Glass", "Compost — Food and soiled paper", and "Landfill — Think about recycling before using this bin". Storm drains have warnings about not dumping in them because they flow to the creek/river/bay/ocean/whatever, but solid waste, it's mostly about reducing the amount going to landfills.
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@hardwaregeek You can't blame those Brits from thinking more about the sea when they're never more than 113 km / 70 miles away from it.
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@jbert I didn't say either side of the pond was wrong, just different. And I'm even closer to the ocean, and it's still about the landfills here.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@pjh Landfills are a problem too, you know. The problem is with stuff that isn't biodegradable in general.
What's the problem with landfills?
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@boomzilla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@pie_flavor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@pjh Landfills are a problem too, you know. The problem is with stuff that isn't biodegradable in general.
What's the problem with landfills?
They have a tendency to...
...fill up.
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@pjh Joking aside, yes, that the problem. The main one, anyway.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@pjh Joking aside, yes, that the problem. The main one, anyway.
And where to put them...
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@dcon said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@pjh Joking aside, yes, that the problem. The main one, anyway.
And where to put them...
The sea.
That's what we do, apparently.
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I went to a job interview and actually got the job
now I have to work
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@anonymous234 Condolences.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@anonymous234 Condolences.
You're going to give him a house too??? So much responsibility....
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Every single time I buy games on Steam.
: Enter your card details
: copies number of temporary card from banking site, pastes on Steam, presses button to continue
_of_poop: That's not a valid number for this payment option you selected. Derp.
: checks and sees there are fewer numbers on the input box than they were on the banking site. Curses
: opens Notepad, pastes number, deletes spaces, copies unspaced number to Steam, still cursing under his breath
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@zecc Not with steam, or credit card numbers in general, since so many companies accept iDeal nowadays. But common enough with post codes and phone numbers which is similarly annoying.
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@zecc said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
: copies number of temporary card from banking site, pastes on Steam, presses button to continue
I need to find a bank that does that. Most of my cards are through Chase, which seems to not. I've seen it with Bank of America before, but I go to reasonable lengths to avoid them.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:We have rubbish bins at work labeled "Recycle — Paper, Aluminum, Plastic, Glass", "Compost — Food and soiled paper", and "Landfill — Think about recycling before using this bin".
At least they're well-labeled. Every office I've been in for the last twenty years has had recycling baskets, but they're never labeled as to what you can put in them and what you can't.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I went to a job interview and actually got the job
now I have to work
You have my deepest sympathy.
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@chozang said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
At least they're well-labeled.
Although it's not like anyone actually reads the labels — plastic juice bottles in the compost bin, ...
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Although it's not like anyone actually reads the labels
“Reading? ”
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And that also seems to apply to documentation and error messages too, at least if some our users are representative…
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@chozang said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
At least they're well-labeled.
Although it's not like anyone actually reads the labels — plastic juice bottles in the compost bin, ...
I think they should have a sign with two arrows saying "If you don't care" and "If you do", where the don't-care one points to one big bin and the do-care one points to the trash-recycling-compost bins. Takes up another can's worth of space but cuts down on the people who put stuff in the wrong bin because they don't know where to put it.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I think they should have a sign with two arrows saying "If you don't care" and "If you do", where the don't-care one points to one big bin and the do-care one points to the trash-recycling-compost bins. Takes up another can's worth of space but cuts down on the people who put stuff in the wrong bin because they don't know where to put it.
Isn't the trash (i.e. non-recycling) bin the "don't care" bin?
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@chozang No, and you're part of the problem for thinking so. There is stuff that legitimately belongs in the trash and can't be recycled or composted, but the problem with there not being a separate don't-care bin is that people have to sift through everything in the trash because they don't know what belongs there and what doesn't.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
people have to sift through everything
In a percentage of installations of the proposed extra bin solution, somebody is going to end up sifting through the Don't Care Bin anyway.
Also, you've got to get the labeling on that to work for "Can't Read / Won't Read / Care Less Than You Can Possibly Imagine", which means, having it be the first visible bin with at least a calorie's cost to use the other ones.
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@gribnit Yes, people end up sifting through the Don't Care bin. The point is that what needs to be sifted through is vastly decreased, because it doesn't also end up with the already sorted "trash" partition inside of it.
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@gribnit people who care enough about recycling to sift the recyclables out of the Don't Care Bin so that they don't end up in the landfill can go right ahead. They're not hurting me.