Sadly, that description was motivated by a direct experience I had a few days ago with Google maps.
But I’ve definitely had that other experience as well, where the next leg of the trip is to go straight for 20 minutes, and Google Maps chimes-in every 30 seconds to remind me to stay straight.
The most recent meaningful upgrade I have seen in the software is that instead of deciding to either play each piece of audio through the phone speaker or the Bluetooth, quite at random, it will now play things through the Bluetooth. Livin’ in 2024.
Every food “appreciation” group always devolves into burgers, fries, English breakfasts, pizzas and steaks - usually the most pedestrian LCD versions thereof.
I know it’s not fair to point at one particular post, but the one that made me decide to back away from food communities was that somebody had simply made a hamburger and it got front paged on Reddit.
All they had done was slice of brioche bun in half (poor choice), sliced it improperly so the top was like an axe head, toasted it on the grill but such that it was 50% saturated in grease like a sponge. They had used processed melting sandwich slices (not cheese) that was burned black on two corners. The lettuce was a jagged square they cut with a metal knife so the edges were orange and oxidized. Out-of-gamut mustard and ketchup dripping down that appeared to be dollar store preparations. Proudly perched on a grease-spotted plate alongside frozen, inconsistently-baked bag fries.
Mapping software that can give directions the way human navigator would.
When I’m driving in my own city, my mapping software should be intelligent enough to know that I am aware of most of the roads; it can track me.
I don’t need to hear
“Keep straight on Highway 101 West signs for Highway 101 West for 300m, then take exit 104 South signs for Highway 104 South, take exit 104A South signs for 104 South, merge onto Highway 104 South signs for 104 South. Go straight on Highway 104 South for 400m then take the left lane and turn left on route 40 Eastbound signs for route 40. Boodle-ding you are on the correct route. In 200m turn left onto route 40 Eastbound signs for route 40 Eastbound. Turn left onto route 40 Eastbound signs for route 40 Eastbound.”
… When what is needed in a realistic sense is the following:
“In 300m take the exit to 104 Southbound then after 400 m, turn left at the first set of lights onto route 40”
A month ago I took a really long shot and actually messaged a girl’s Snapchat from a dating app. It took all the courage I had, but I just told her I was attracted to her and I wanted to be physical with her.
She’s almost 30 years younger than me, and drop dead gorgeous, and goth hot.
She’s on her way over right now for our third “date”.
Not saying this to brag, I’m saying maybe go browse a dating app and message hot chicks and see what happens. I still can’t believe this is happening to me but it is.
Bro I was at the thrift store and I saw a PlayStation demo disc for $2 and I laughed because I didn’t even think it should be there. But I will literally go back, take a picture, buy it and send it to you if it makes your Christmas better lol
The reason I suggest diectly going to janitorial supply is because you get the off-label stuff which is basically all the same chemicals for a good discount.
It’s not “zep brand pro industrial floor cleaner super duper wizbang” or anything, it will come in a blank jug with mixing ratios and the WHMIS info printed on it. Brands are for the public, janitorial supply is for frugal quality.
Same thing with oven cleaner, it will just come in a can that says “concentrated oven cleaner”.
At most you might see something vague like “Bottled by XYZ Chem co, Montreal”. Because that’s all that happens with industrial soaps, degreasers, lubricants, etc - some factory buys a bunch of 240 gallon drums, and squirts them into smaller bottles.
If you must search online, use Zep but seriously it’s so much better just to go in person.
Because I prefer to create. I like to make YouTube videos, downloadable audio clips of my journaling, etc.
This is going into a rant but it will come back to the point.
There is a visceral hatred for small creators for some reason and there almost always has been since 2000ish. It always comes with this sinister idea that you’re only doing it to make money. Meanwhile anybody that has made art/content realizes making it large is like getting into a professional sports team - we can all play for the love and impossible dream but we’re never going to make a penny, in fact it’s going to cost us far more to create the content than we will ever see returned.
If you are tiny and you post your own efforts, apparently you’re spamming your channel for that fat payday. My channel with 800 subscribers, daily videos, and a million views didn’t pay for my microphone.
But if you’re a big site that probably doesn’t need the exposure as much as the smaller would appreciate, that’s fine for people to post.
We’re living in the beginning of the post-social media world, I lived in the BBS days so I’ve seen a lot. I really think it’s time to intentionally go back to small forums, small content creators, hobbyists, and fuck the big boys already. They have carried their nonsense as far as they can go and it’s just not going to work anymore especially with the rise of AI trash content.
But to the answer the question, it’s disheartening, and a bit of a waste of time to try to post your own content and that’s all I’m really interested in posting. It’s too exhausting being beaten down continually and criticized just for wanting to add something to the world and share.
I get all my cleaning chems from the janitorial supply.
Super concentrated, and you get effectively 20 times for the same price.
You can buy a 4L jug for like $35, and a teaspoon is enough for an entire mop pail. Sounds like a lot of money until you realize that’s an entire lifetime supply.
I made two posts one on asshole design and one on dangerous design and they cumulatively got something like 7,000 up votes and then “magically” the problem was fixed on reddit!
Just a personal story to bring one example into focus.
I got sober 8 years ago and never talked about it online until I was about 4 years sober. Never saw a single promotion for anything related to alcohol…
Until the day I made a single comment on Reddit telling my story to help support another person who was just starting their own sobriety journey.
And like magic, all promoted communities to me were alcohol related. Even though I’m an ublock user, when I would selectively disable it every advertisement I saw online was related to booze.
So even though there are ethical applications for my data, I found that it was used in an attempt to target me based on human frailties.
Controversial opinion perhaps, but I think because in general humans aren’t funny and they don’t really have anything new to add to anything. Babies love to see the same joke a million times, it never stops being funny to them, but it’s something that only changes a little as we age and not as much as we would think to think about ourselves.