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Dettweiler42, in Duh !

The real struggle was explaining the input button to your parents afterwards, and how your video games did not break the TV.

Meissnerscorpsucle, in Health "care"

having been through this exact situation, I get the point of the meme, and realize their intent was that “doctor” should be read as “healthcare industry”. Just poor word choice. Other side of the story, the healthcare professionals that cared for him where wonderful and did everything they could for him and I am totally OK with them getting paid for their efforts.

madcaesar,

The sad thing is that the people who do the actual work barely see any of the money.

catbaba,

Those CEOs work the hardest if you ask me

Raine_Wolf,

Especially the ones at the insurance companies where the patients medical decisions are ACTUALLY made.

Reddfugee42,

All the layers of the bureaucracy managing the profit need their cut.

CoriolisSTORM88,

My wife had a miscarriage a few years back. Yeah. All we got for our trouble was a massive bill. 0/10. Fuck this shit and this place.

Draedron,

They get paid in countries with a decent healthcare system as well

somePotato, in Almost got me there Google!

Google: mind if we put a keylogger on your browser for spellchecking?

You: don’t

Google: OK, we won’t use the keylogger data for spellchecking

DanglingFury,

They’ll just use all the other methods they have to track what your typing.

…yahoo.com/…/identify-keystrokes-just-sound-typin…

Researchers had artificial intelligence listen to the sounds of typing through a phone and over Zoom, with eerie results.

SpacetimeMachine,

This was kinda overstated though. It really only works when you already have a dataset of that specific type on that specific keyboard. It’s not gonna just work on anyone.

DanglingFury,

Good distinction. I imagine anyone typing into a google search bar with an android device nearby could have their keyboard mapped though, if Google ever wanted to do such a thing.

Anticorp,

People: “Can we please get some government regulation against all this spying?”

The government: “Best we can do is some tax cuts for Google.”

superduperenigma, in Almost got me there Google!

Is this some kind of Chrome meme that I’m too Firefox to understand?

cyberpunk007,

This is my guess. But I wouldn’t know.

asuka,
@asuka@sh.itjust.works avatar

Imagine using anything Chromium-based and supporting a wannabe monopoly.

cyberpunk007,

Exactly.

KirbyProton,

It’s more a Google account thing afaik. You get the same prompt in Firefox if you use Gmail

JustUseMint, in Almost got me there Google!

Google has already gotten you there, like a million times

hungryphrog, in Almost got me there Google!

It’s so fucking annoying how I can’t turn grammar check off in google docs on my phone. I’m not sure how bad grammar check is if you write in English, but in Finnish it’s such a clusterfuck because it always tries to ‘correct’ compound words and doesn’t understand declension.

addie,
@addie@feddit.uk avatar

It’s tolerable if you’re writing something quite prescribed; business reports, perhaps. It’s too limited and obsessed with tedious bullshit if you’re writing prose, say. It wouldn’t do to express yourself.

ChillCapybara, in Almost got me there Google!

I use a Windows PC for work with Chrome because we are on G suite and it’s just easier that way. I am constantly annoyed by how terrible the spellcheck is within chrome. It did not used to be this bad. It highlights “thier” as misspelled but only suggests thief theirs and shier. Yeah… ok google. Expect me to believe that when AI is in every thing. I can run a LLM on same the laptop OFFLINE. Word 93 knew to autocorrect to their with no internet and no ai. Of course you get frustrated, go to settings and see this stupid little toggle. Fucking Google already… it will only get worse. They’re already key-logging you they just want to pay out less on a future class action settlement. Like the one they just settled for tracking user data during incognito sessions. God damned Google. Oh sorry, I mean aLpHaBeT. You guys like letters now do ya Google? Well here are my faves. F and U !

blanketswithsmallpox,

I’ve always wondered how that works. Are their databases just too large and it fucks up returns or is there someone smart out there purposely returning bad searches constantly to ruin their spell check. Is their dev inept? Lol.

Gboard was my go to for ages but finding a different keyboard on mobile has not been fun for off brand phones.

crsu, in Almost got me there Google!

“I’m not a cop you can trust me”

Boxtifer, in Duh !

This has nothing on component. Bring me that dual red connectors while trying to figure out which one was video or audio.

kerrypacker,

Takes about 10 seconds if you guess wrong, what’s wrong with you?

Buffaloaf,

And every component cord I’ve used had some way of separating the two audio cords from the three video cords. I’ve struggled more trying to figure out which way is up on an HDMI.

macgyver,
@macgyver@federation.red avatar

Seriously, HDMI is the worst connector to try to fiddle with. At least DisplayPort lets you kinda figure it out

letsgo,

USB beats HDMI hands down. Ever heard of HDMI Superposition? No, me neither.

(I just DuckDuckWent it to be sure.)

linuxdweeb, in Oh, you guys want my opinion? Well...

I met a family member’s kid once who would both narrate himself while playing Minecraft, and have full conversations with whatever youtuber he was watching on a second screen (who was also narrating himself playing Minecraft)

I also met an old lady with dementia once who would have full conversations and arguments with people on TV.

I’m not sure if this phenomenon has a name, but it’s something currently afflicting both the silent generation and generation alpha.

some_guy, in Too damn high

When I was a teen, my older brother told me how he got trapped in a cycle of buying candles for light when his electricity was shut off. He thought, “I could pay this damn power bill if I didn’t have to buy so many candles!”

I got trapped in a similar poverty cycle years ago. I couldn’t replace broken dish-ware because I kept having to buy disposable plates for my meals. My mother bought me some cheap plates for xmas that year to break the cycle.

It’s the fallacy of the cheap boots. A rich person can buy nice boots that last ten years. A poor person has to buy cheap boots that need to be replaced every few years. In the end, the poor person spends more on boots with less to show for it.

Michal,

It’s expensive being poor. On the other hand you have rich people getting free stuff and avoiding paying tax on their wealth.

possiblylinux127,

That’s why company bonuses are good

DrPop,

For all my broke homies, target has some incredibly cheap plastic plateware. a single bowl plate and cup are only like $3 total. You will be cleaning a lot of dishes but still cheaper than disposable.

driving_crooner, (edited )
@driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br avatar
calavera,

I don’t get it. Cheap plates are so inexpensive why couldn’t buy it? I mean, on a quick search I could find one for 1,79€

FollyDolly, in Oh, you guys want my opinion? Well...
@FollyDolly@lemmy.world avatar

Huh, I never thought about doing this. Maybe I should start.

DragonTypeWyvern,

How to develop a parasocial relationship

ThrowawayPermanente, (edited )

Is this why people like podcasts and YouTube? This makes so much sense.

Rhynoplaz, in What a concept!

That’s the thing with ancient wisdom. Over thousands of years, it either stands true and turns into common sense, or is replaced with better modern wisdom.

Sheeple,
@Sheeple@lemmy.world avatar

It’s also because it was meant to be read by lords and nobles to teach them the basics of war. A lot of them were EXTREMELY disconnected with reality and didn’t even fathom basic shit like “Oh yeah your troops need food. They can’t just forage mid war like animals would”

galloog1,

That’s a very good point, Sheeple.

emergencyfood,

Also many lords of that time were superstitious, and thought that things like ‘honour’ and ‘glory’ were more important than the lives of soldiers.

Pistcow,
DragonTypeWyvern,

Well, they can, it just makes the peasants hate you.

It’s not just that though.

Anyone can get tunnel vision. A basic set of aphorisms is useful to keep yourself on task.

For example, let’s say you’re the greatest general who ever lived and Russia’s being a petty bitch and keeps running away from fights.

You can either read a basic set of fundamental rules to remind yourself not to lose it all with greed, or

BastingChemina,

It’s like the IT version of “did you check that the computer is properly plugged in ?”

Everyone roll their eyes having to check the plug but a lot of the time the issue can be something basic like that.

tdawg,

Reminds me of that time I drove an hour across town to one of our remote offices… Only for the printer to be unplugged AND the cable to be sitting in the hallway (you could trip over it!)

Anticorp,

Or invade Russia, split your armies on the way to Moscow, and end up in Russia during winter with a splintered supply line?

MrMusAddict, (edited ) in Too damn high

Two things:

  1. see if your power provider offers an “equal pay” plan, where your payments are normalized over 12 months. This provides consistency.
  2. Budget Budget Budget! Keep track of your monthly income and expenses, and plug this equal pay into it.

Often times your power company will let you do equal pay before having 12 months of usage history.

The one thing is that if you use more than you’re paying for, you have to pay the overage at the end of the 12-month cycle, AND your payments increase. So, don’t get used to leaving all the lights on!

On the flip side, if you use less, you’ll either get a refund or accumulate credits which will lower your next year’s payments.

TIMMAY, in Oh, you guys want my opinion? Well...

I dont do this as often as the meme implies but I do stop and talk things over out loud sometimes, either to grapple with what I just heard or to follow a tangent thought to its conclusion before the podcast continues

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