In other news today...
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Just in case anyone else on here agrees that overbooking is a fundamentally fraudulent practice that needs to end:
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
The flight was overbooked
It wasn't even overbooked. The flight was full, but then someone decided that transporting some staff to wherever was more important than letting paying customers travel on the flight that they had paid for.
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THE WORLD'S GREATEST DISCOVERY HAS BEEN DISCOVERED!
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
The flight was overbooked
It wasn't even overbooked. The flight was full, but then someone decided that transporting some staff to wherever was more important than letting paying customers travel on the flight that they had paid for.
Worse, they bumped paying customers who had already boarded the plane.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
THE WORLD'S GREATEST DISCOVERY HAS BEEN DISCOVERED!
Why the fuck do we still have laces? Honestly!
There are plenty of shoe models which have no laces, just an elastic bit that allows you to put them on and off but holds the shoes on your feet. Also, how the fuck are heels (not the heels themselves, just don't know a better name for them) perfectly fine even without the elastic part, but once you remove the actual high heel bit they stop being ok?
And if you hate both of those options, velcro is a thing!
Who the fuck decided that lace-less shoes are only for children? "Oh, yeah, you know that convenience of easily putting on your shoes? Yeah, forget it, you're an adult now, NO MORE CONVENIENCES, BECAUSE RAISINS!" Fuck off.
I'd buy all my sneakers in velcro variant if I could, but sadly most of them don't come in sizes over 36 or so.
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@Onyx said in In other news today...:
once you remove the actual high heel bit they stop being ok?
Without the high heels, they're called "flats" or "ballet flats":
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@Onyx said in In other news today...:
And if you hate both of those options, velcro is a thing!
Also, loafers:
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@Yamikuronue said in In other news today...:
@Onyx said in In other news today...:
And if you hate both of those options, velcro is a thing!
Also, loafers:
Ah, yes, those, I have some with little elastic bits I mentioned to make them easier to put on/take off. I just don't know the names of things, combined ESL and that we don't really have the words for many variation... or they are not used a lot at least.
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@Yamikuronue
I don't tie the laces on my sneakers ... because I'm hip.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
I don't tie the laces on my sneakers ... because I'm hip.
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@Onyx Believe me, I'd buy Velcro shoes in a heartbeat if I could
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Yamikuronue
I don't tie the laces on my sneakers ... because I'mhiptrip.As in you trip over your shoelaces/loose shoes
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@Onyx said in In other news today...:
Can't even find those anywhere these days
sneakers?
you can wear most by tucking the laces in instead of putting a knot in it
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@coderpatsy
Or he's angling for a hip replacement.From the tripping.
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@coderpatsy said in In other news today...:
trip over your shoelaces
don't leave them flapping about ...
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I almost exclusively wear slip on shoes or trainers that are loose enough to get on and off without undoing the laces. I had some buckle fastened work shoes for a while until they got all scuffed up
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
Here's my solution: impound everyone's cars and tell them they can have them back when they stop being petulant crybabies and actually work out a solution.
Or, y'know, remove the grass verges as the article suggests.
We have something similar in front of my school. It's a narrow two-way street where quite a lot of people are parking. And sometimes they're leaving very narrow spaces you can just barely maneuver your car through. Looks a bit like this:
Only that it extends about half a kilometer in both directions. Today I was just escaping this road when I noticed a 40-ton truck driving into this road (there's a construction site at one end). The driver will have had a metric shit-ton of fun when he came to the middle part I detailed in my sketch - because, as I said, a car could barely fit through there.
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@Luhmann
I'm wearing this
practically as it is displayed ... no tied laces, no loose laces hanging out
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My problem with shoelaces is I wasn't taught the two-loops method. I can't visualize which side is crossing over which when I use the one-loop method. I keep having to remind myself to tie shoes "wrong" so I can be sure I get a strong knot.
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@Yamikuronue said in In other news today...:
My problem with shoelaces is I wasn't taught the two-loops method. I can't visualize which side is crossing over which when I use the one-loop method. I keep having to remind myself to tie shoes "wrong" so I can be sure I get a strong knot.
I suggest you try to learn Ian's knot.
For a few days it'll be worse. So much worse. But if you keep practicing, you'll be learning a new knot rather than trying to re-learn a knot you've learned poorly; which should be easier. (?)
I found it easier to memorize by visualizing the shoelaces' starting position as a right-handed helix through which you put each of your hands.
You then grab the loop around your left hand using you right hand, and the loop around your right hand with your left hand, and you pull your hands away. Bam, knot done.Of course, it's hard to tie the knot with your hands inside it, so the trick is to try to keep the hands out and only use the tips of your fingers. :)
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Of course, it's hard to tie the knot with your hands inside it, so the trick is to try to keep the hands out and only use the tips of your fingers.
Eh, depends what you're into, I guess :P
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@Yamikuronue said in In other news today...:
This one is wearing leggings:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Someone needs to send these researchers this link:
Or this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cBtqhq5P28
But 'd.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
this video:
This guy needs to learn how to clean his fingernails.
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@Yamikuronue said in In other news today...:
@wharrgarbl "tights" is the term under contention here; regionally, some use it to mean pantyhose and some leggings. Otherwise, yes, you're correct.
I have a few pairs I would call tights and not leggings or pantyhose.
They have no feet, and are significantly more opaque and less fragile than pantyhose.
And they are thinner and stretchier than leggings and I would be sure to wear at least a longer shirt over them.
I think my favorite pants are my various yoga (and yoga type) pants (aquired mostly through modells and Kmart), and these from Amazon:
I rarely wear jeans and I am far more likely to wear a pair of jeggings than jeans.
I also have a bunch of capri leggings that I can't wait to wear regularly when it is warm. Very comfortable.
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@Yamikuronue in the UK Tights have feet. Leggins don't.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@coldandtired I can see how it's easy to miss the reference to Easter in the poster. I mean, it's not like it's in bi-
Oh, it is in big letters.
Not only is it in big, clear letters, but it's also in tiny, very blurry letters if you prefer those.
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Furries are busy this year.
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@Onyx said in In other news today...:
Why the fuck do we still have laces? Honestly!
Fundamental fraud on the part of Big Shoe.
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@boomzilla
They overbooked their velcro manufacturing machines?
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In what world does this make any sense? Unless, of course, they implement RFC 1149 for the last half mile.
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@Rhywden
Given (from TFA):So-called Business Data Services (BDS) provided by traditional phone companies like AT&T and Verizon use dedicated links to deliver "secure, reliable, and low-delay transmission service for moving voice, data, and video traffic" at speeds of up to 45Mbps upstream and downstream, the FCC's deregulation proposal says.
and (from the deregulation order linked in TFA):
Business data service (also known as special access) refers to the dedicated point-to-point
transmission of data at certain guaranteed speeds and service levels using high-capacity connections.
Businesses, non-profits, and government institutions use business data services to enable secure and
reliable transfer of data, as a means of connecting to the Internet or the cloud, and to create private or
virtual private networks. The FCC has historically subjected the provision of business data services by
incumbent local exchange carriers (LECs) to price regulations.This is talking about bonded-T1 service. Which generally won't have nearby competition from BDS service, because it's telephony and thus generally government-protected local monopolies (which is why it was regulated with a price cap in the first place).
But it's already being
competed withobsoleted by fiber optic Internet service (which was unregulated, until the still-contested Title 2 reclassification by the FCC last year) anyway. This is a nothingburger -- the market has already killed those price caps anyway, let's get an obsolete regulation (which has the force of law) off the books to make sure we don't wind up with yet another "crazy law" down the road.
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@izzion I still don't see the point of this "half a mile" idiocy, though.
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@Rhywden
My guess is the regulations for regulations means they can push through a revision that effectively neuters it more easily than they can completely remove it. (Come to think of it, this is probably how most of the Dumb Laws come to be). I don't really know either.
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@RaceProUK My Nan must be a fucking master thief then.
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@lucas1 Why did you mention me?
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@RaceProUK he wants his toys back, check your lawn
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@wharrgarbl said in In other news today...:
@RaceProUK he wants his toys back, check your lawn
I'd check @boomzilla's first.
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@dse See also:
Found on Reddit: Installing an app with an excessively large icon messes up Android phones badly enough to require a factory reset.
Cause is most likely the icon file size, its 3556x3556 and causing a Out of Memory exception error.
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@Zecc The largest size icon you need is, what, 512px square? Why make one so monstrously large?
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
THE WORLD'S GREATEST DISCOVERY HAS BEEN DISCOVERED!
Read it a while ago:
Yes, an entire website dedicated to shoelaces. Wish I had that much time on my hands.
Edit: aw, . Serves me right for not reading the thread to the end.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@wharrgarbl said in In other news today...:
@RaceProUK he wants his toys back, check your lawn
I'd check @boomzilla's first.
The bad ideas thread is
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
Why make one so monstrously large?
Because they assume it doesn't matter because no-one expects a large icon to screw up the OS?
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@loopback0 it's lazy and stupid making an icon that size