Neighbors are TR:wtf:
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@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
my humble opinion.
People who use that phrase generally aren't.
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@PleegWat that is why I use it, as a form of humor.
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@chozang said in Neighbors are TR:
both sides of the story.
Totally authentic other side of the story:
Back when he was fresh out of his wee-little-one days, @Polygeekery was still cultivating his arson skills. In order to help develop them, he went to the ideal training school -- a volunteer fire department! And it turns out, one of the fires he went to while on that VFD was at crazy neighbor's cousin's uncle's house, where they managed to save almost everyone. Except the crazy neighbor's cousin's uncle's dog, who was in the doghouse out back that wasn't on fire at all until after @Polygeekery's fire truck showed up. And the after-action report showed that the doghouse had caught fire under "suspicious circumstances" with signs of an accelerant... DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNN
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@izzion Obviously the dog was trying to pull an insurance scam
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We seem to have a lot of hipsters moving in to the neighborhood.
I'm going to need more kerosene.
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@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
I'm going to need more kerosene.
Go big or go
homeelsewhere:https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/massachusetts-explosions-fire-gas/570361/
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@lolwhat said in Neighbors are TR:
@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
I'm going to need more kerosene.
Go big or go
homeelsewhere:https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/massachusetts-explosions-fire-gas/570361/
There's my next idea for losing money doing something I love: Managed Arson. Arson at scale. Remotely managed incineration.
And...I do love turning money in to noise.
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@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
And...I do love turning money in to noise.
I'd rather turn noise into money.
Just, being a news outlet is rather stressful, I've heard...
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Human error is the most common source of natural-gas explosions.
A new nickname for @Polygeekery
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@PleegWat said in Neighbors are TR:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Neighbors are TR:
I'd rather turn noise into money.
You're starting a band?
A rubber band...
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@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
There's my next idea for losing money doing something I love: Managed Arson. Arson at scale. Remotely managed incineration.
Sounds like some kind of Agile consultancy. "Managed", "at scale", "remotely managed" (although you should rather say "on the cloud"). Just throw in some machine-learning or AI and you've got a bingo!
And...I do love turning money in to noise.
Yep, still fits with a consultancy.
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@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
There's my next idea for losing money doing something I love: Managed Arson. Arson at scale. Remotely managed incineration.
AaaS.
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So we are out of town until Saturday and I put a hold on our mail. This morning I get a notification that I have packages arriving via UPS and there is no easy way to put a hold on them. So I send a text message to the nosy neighbor from earlier in the thread. We help each other out and keep an eye on each other's place and get packages when the other is out of town.
Turns out she is out of town also. So she suggests I ask the neighbor that is next door to her. People that I don't really care for all that much. And before I can say no thank you, I am on a three way text with her asking those neighbors to pick up my packages.
Side note: This package is gun parts, and I have gotten the impression that these neighbors are anti-2A.
In the meantime I send a message to another neighbor. And I lie on the group text and say that he has agreed to get our packages.
Now I am part of a group text conversation that I have sent precisely one message in, lying and saying that my neighbor Doug will get my packages because I do not want them to, and they just keep texting back and forth and my phone keeps going off and I want to reply
Unsubscribe
I still haven't heard back from the other neighbor and they are currently chatting back and forth about how maybe he could keep an eye on their places as we are all out of town for the week and I hope they don't have his number and it turns out he is out of town also.
All of this because I got looped in to a group text that I never wanted to be on. There really should be a polite way to opt-out of those.
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@Polygeekery Can you turn off the notifications for that conversation? At least that way you can simply ignore it.
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@Polygeekery In my experience, not having WhatsApp is a great way to avoid every single one of those annoying group discussions.
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@dfdub said in Neighbors are TR:
a great way to avoid every single one of those annoying group discussions.
Those yes. But not the occasional ones where they go "You don't have Whatsapp?", look at you in disbelief, confusion and fear in equal measure, as if you had leprosy.
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@dfdub said in Neighbors are TR:
@Polygeekery In my experience, not having WhatsApp is a great way to avoid every single one of those annoying group discussions.
I do not have WhatsApp. I have never had WhatsApp. I am the Grandpa Simpson of WhatsApp.
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@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
@dfdub said in Neighbors are TR:
@Polygeekery In my experience, not having WhatsApp is a great way to avoid every single one of those annoying group discussions.
I do not have WhatsApp. I have never had WhatsApp. I am the Grandpa Simpson of WhatsApp.
So when you say group text, you mean an actual SMS text message with multiple recipients?
Yeah, your neighbors are truly .
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@dfdub said in Neighbors are TR:
So when you say group text, you mean an actual SMS text message with multiple recipients?
Yep.
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@Polygeekery With WhatsApp you at least have the option of silencing convos (if you don't want to leave them outright).
Just sayin'.
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@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
I am the Grandpa Simpson of WhatsApp.
you dropped something next to the burned Jim Bean warehouse .... here it is:
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@Rhywden said in Neighbors are TR:
@Polygeekery With WhatsApp you at least have the option of silencing convos (if you don't want to leave them outright).
Just sayin'.
By not having WhatsApp, I've taken the option of silencing all those convos.
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@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
@dfdub said in Neighbors are TR:
@Polygeekery In my experience, not having WhatsApp is a great way to avoid every single one of those annoying group discussions.
I do not have WhatsApp. I have never had WhatsApp. I am the Grandpa Simpson of WhatsApp.
I don't know what WhatsApp is.
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@dfdub said in Neighbors are TR:
@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
@dfdub said in Neighbors are TR:
@Polygeekery In my experience, not having WhatsApp is a great way to avoid every single one of those annoying group discussions.
I do not have WhatsApp. I have never had WhatsApp. I am the Grandpa Simpson of WhatsApp.
So when you say group text, you mean an actual SMS text message with multiple recipients?
Yeah, your neighbors are truly .
Huh?
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@mott555 said in Neighbors are TR:
I don't know what WhatsApp is.
Some sort of reskin of Facebook or something? I know it's owned by the vampire squidbois so I expect having anything to do with it is a bad plan…
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@boomzilla said in Neighbors are TR:
@dfdub said in Neighbors are TR:
@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
@dfdub said in Neighbors are TR:
@Polygeekery In my experience, not having WhatsApp is a great way to avoid every single one of those annoying group discussions.
I do not have WhatsApp. I have never had WhatsApp. I am the Grandpa Simpson of WhatsApp.
So when you say group text, you mean an actual SMS text message with multiple recipients?
Yeah, your neighbors are truly .
Huh?
Text messages were not exactly designed for group chats.
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@dfdub said in Neighbors are TR:
Text messages were not exactly designed for group chats.
You can say that again. Until recent versions of Android it was nearly impossible to tell who was saying what in group texts.
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@Polygeekery Well, if you try to implement something new that (AFAIK) the protocol doesn't support at all on top of that protocol without extending it in any way, the resulting usability shitshow should be no surprise to anyone.
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@dfdub the surprise is that people don't realize how utterly shitty group texts are and still do them.
I once asked to be taken off a group text where a friend spammed his entire contact list about something and then four people started having a totally different conversation. It was then everyone either asking to be taken off the text also or asking how to take people off group texts.
I think I ended up just blocking the whole lot of them. It was like the Microsoft email debacle, but more annoying and no Exchange servers were brought to their knees.
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@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
people don't realize how utterly shitty group texts are and still do them.
Group chats on Whatsapp are fine though. It makes SMS/MMS better generally.
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@loopback0 I in general don't like talking to people. I doubt a change in platform will change that.
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@loopback0 said in Neighbors are TR:
@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
people don't realize how utterly shitty group texts are and still do them.
Group chats on Whatsapp are fine though. It makes SMS/MMS better generally.
Or you could just use Signal, which is free, has the exact same features, can be used as your default text message app (it supports SMS/MMS for contacts that don't have Signal) and doesn't send your data to Facebook. And keeps you out of most group chats because not everyone has it.
50% of my contacts have it now, though, so I might have to switch to something else soon.
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@dfdub said in Neighbors are TR:
And keeps you out of most group chats because not everyone has it.
WhatsApp is useful because so many people have it. It's almost ubiquitous.
All these other apps that only a handful people have just result in needing more apps.@dfdub said in Neighbors are TR:
which is free
WhatsApp is free.
@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
I in general don't like talking to people. I doubt a change in platform will change that.
Me either, might as well make it less painful.
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@loopback0 said in Neighbors are TR:
Me either, might as well make it less painful.
Does it require a Facebook login?
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@dfdub said in Neighbors are TR:
@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
@dfdub said in Neighbors are TR:
@Polygeekery In my experience, not having WhatsApp is a great way to avoid every single one of those annoying group discussions.
I do not have WhatsApp. I have never had WhatsApp. I am the Grandpa Simpson of WhatsApp.
So when you say group text, you mean an actual SMS text message with multiple recipients?
Yeah, your neighbors are truly .
Have you never heard of group chats?
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@pie_flavor said in Neighbors are TR:
Have you never heard of group chats?
Like when a guy fires up the BBQ and invites some buddies; the group sits around drinking beer and chatting about sportsball?
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@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
@loopback0 said in Neighbors are TR:
Me either, might as well make it less painful.
Does it require a Facebook login?
No.
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@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR:
@loopback0 said in Neighbors are TR:
Me either, might as well make it less painful.
Does it require a Facebook login?
Nope. Functionally it's an independent app, even if it is owned by Facebook.
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@loopback0 said in Neighbors are TR:
WhatsApp is useful because so many people have it. It's almost ubiquitous.
I'm sure someone I know has it, but I'm not aware of it, and no one (aside from around here) has ever told me that I should install it.
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@boomzilla said in Neighbors are TR:
That must be @Polygeekery's house along the bottom row there...
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@boomzilla The farmer is just being nice and telling everyone that there is a hole in the ground that they'd otherwise not see #notserious
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@Benjamin-Hall Sinkholes are serious business.
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@boomzilla said in Neighbors are TR:
@loopback0 said in Neighbors are TR:
WhatsApp is useful because so many people have it. It's almost ubiquitous.
I'm sure someone I know has it, but I'm not aware of it, and no one (aside from around here) has ever told me that I should install it.
Since I slipped on the tiles around it and fell into the dating pool again, I've had the mispleasure of using a handful of chat apps, none of which are good. WhatsApp is about as bad as most.
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@PleegWat said in Neighbors are TR:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Neighbors are TR:
I'd rather turn noise into money.
You're starting a band?
I didn't hear him say anything about turning noise into debt...
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Posted by someone near(ish) me on NextDoor.com:
dog owners. I don't know what people think they are doing but it better not happen at my house again, I have been working on painting flower pots and seeds while sitting in my driveway in front of the garage. The other morning I actually found a bag in my potting soil with lots of dog crap. Two days later I found dog crap in an envelope laying on my flowers on the corner of my house. I would never even think about doing that to my worst enemy. I do not bother anybody in my neighborhood or any other neighborhood in this area and I WILL NOT tolerate anybody else doing such things to me on my property. I have made some changes and the next time I will know who is doing such stupid things and the authorities can take whatever action they deem necessary. Number 1, you are trespassing on private property. I am considered a very nice person and would help anybody but you back me in the corner and I will become the biggest bitch you have ever run across. I have spoken to the police and an attorney and I know my rights. Stay off of my property and leave me alone. You better make sure that dog crap or nothing else is found here again.
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@boomzilla There's someone in my neighborhood that likes to pick up their poop. And leave the bag. Fuckers. I'd rather you just leave the poop in that case.
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Here's a slightly amusing one from this spring, during the COVID (sort of) lockdowns.
So, last spring my neighbor calls me and asks if he can borrow my air compressor to air up a tire on his riding mower. I tell him sure, I will meet him outside of the garage door. Well, as he pulls up he cranks the wheel around to turn towards the garage door and rolls the tire right off of the bead. So I jack the front up, tighten a ratchet strap around the tire and pop it back on the bead. He was sort of impressed.
So this spring he calls me and asks again to use the air compressor and tells me he can do it himself and if I will just get the hose ready he can do it so we can socially distance and not have contact, etc. Ok, whatever. Before I hang up I give him a hard time and tell him to not go flying in the driveway and make a sharp turn and roll it off the bead again, and I also tell him to be very careful because on little tires it doesn't take much air. He chuckles, I prep the air compressor and leave the garage door open and go back in the house. I hear him pull up and moments later....
BOOM!!!
I go out in to the garage and there is my neighbor with a very surprised look on his face, all the dust in the garage is stirred up in to a hazy cloud and a mower tire blown open. I ask him if he is okay.
"Huh?"
Yep, I bet all he could hear was a dull ringing. So he runs and gets a new tire for the mower and leaves it in my garage and I get it put on for him and properly filled before calling him and having him come pick up his mower.
In theory, with the new tire he should not need to borrow my compressor again next spring. I guess we will see.