I’m going to be in Hawaii for Election day. I already voted. Nothing more I can do personally. Gotta focus on the controllables in life. Going to try n enjoy paradise and tune it out as much as I can.

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Member back when you used to be optimistic about the upcoming innovation? Now the only “innovation” is enshitification.

It’s like 90% of discord emotes

I have no idea how Samsung phones are so popular. They are aesthetically pleasing I guess, but their insistence on bloat ware has driven me away since day 1. I almost got the 1 bloat free phone they ever made which was the S4 Google Play edition, but opted for the HTC One Google Play edition instead. Since then, every phone has been loaded with unremovable garbage apps that you can’t get rid of without rooting. I refuse to buy a phone with garbage apps that no one uses with the sole purpose of data collection. Say what you will about Google (I know) but at least their apps are helpful.

My mom has a Samsung Smart TV that recently kept turning on by itself to play their shitty TV+app which was pre installed on the TV, and never once opened (not on purpose at least) by anyone in the household. Apparently this is a common issue. I had to disconnect it completely from the internet, perform a factory reset, sign her Samsung account out, and plug in a Chromecast to replace the UI of the TV just to get everything working for her, and not waste electricity by having the TV randomly turn on every 30 minutes. It’s one thing if they were bloating their UI with good apps, but forcing a bunch of absolutely useless apps onto us is ridiculous.

Venus and Serena got their asses handed to them in their prime by the ranked 203 male tennis player.

https://www.theguardian.com/observer/osm/story/0,,543962,00.html

The women’s US National team lost to a regional U15 boys team.

cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-boys-squad-beat-the-u-s-womens-national-team-in-a-scrimmage/

Physiology, males are bigger, faster, and stronger. It is not fair to women to put them in the same contest as males in any sport that requires those 3 things puts women at a massive disadvantage and would lead to fewer opportunities for female athletes to succeed.

I’ll bet 10:1 odds if you sent the DNA off to 23 and me it’d come back Uighur.

Well… Did you win?

There’s one family owned hill in Tahoe called Diamond Peak that I still frequent. It’s unfortunate because it’s not the greatest hill in Tahoe (by fucking far) but hey, they let kids 6 and under ride for free, and while it is still expensive, it’s much less than their corporate counterparts. It’s also nice that I can bring my kids and not go broke. Most of my old stomping grounds have been bought by Vail and the like. It’s a shame because I would like to take my son to Squaw, Alpine Meadows, Northstar, and Heavenly but they are just way to God damn expensive now. I got a gondola pass for my wife recently at Heavenly. SEVENTY FIVE FUCKING DOLLARS. Mind you, that just gets you to mid mountain and no skiing/snowboarding. Those used to be $15 before Vail came along. They’re also charging for fucking parking now too. They’ve sucked all the fun out of the sport for sure.

Ha, I had a similar feeling when I went off a jump snowboarding that I literally asked my buddy if they made bigger overnight on the chairlift up. As I’m in the air, thought “yep, they definitely made it bigger. Holy fuck, I’m still in the air, I’ve never been in the air this long.” I actually landed it for like a second, then I completely ate shit n broke my wrist. Fun times!

I saw a lady slip on a banana peel irl outside of the Disney store in Dublin, Ireland. I didn’t even know it was possible. I felt really bad bc I couldn’t go help her up because I was laughing so hard and had to go into the Disney store so it wouldn’t look like I was laughing at her. I was just more shocked that it actually happened.

The 2 most ridiculous ones I’ve seen are

1. Reading a newspaper with a flashlight in his mouth

2. Eating a gallon of ice cream

Just tested on an incognito tab while logged out. Still works.

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Lol, I might need to add this to my rotation of fuck this crowd music to play on the touch tunes at a bar. I’ve cleared a few bars out playing the hulk Hogan theme song, the 30 minute pink Floyd song Echoes, and previously the uncensored 2 live crew song doo wah Diddy.

They took the latter off the whole ass app probably because of me. The song opens with “I met this bitch standing on the block, she’ll suck on my dick and I’ll buy her a rock.” All to the tube of doo wah Diddy. Boomers get all excited about it and then get all salty. They don’t make em like they used to.

It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it.

Also not the shitty suburb of San Jose / Oakland Fremont either apparently.

I’m a white guy, but can speak pretty decent Spanish. Oftentimes back when I was working retail, if someone was struggling with English, I wouldn’t even bother pulling out the Spanish because like you said, it often would have the opposite effect and make them upset. Basically my rule was I only used it if the customer could speak no English at all, and was looking for an interpreter, and there wasn’t any Latino coworkers around to help them. It sucks because I learned the language wanting to be able to use it. I did one time catch an unassuming abuela tell her daughter that I was hot. I couldn’t resist n said gracias… If you could see her face man.

Yeah, I’m a Fi subscriber, but some people might be averse to giving Google even more data about themselves.

Google Fi is similar, but I’m sure they are using it to farm the fuck out of your data.

I can take 'em or leave 'em. Mushrooms on the other hand can fuck right off.