I reblogged one of these but this one is even better.
It’s depressing that the most common Native American language spoken in New Jersey is a language native to what is now Oregon, rather than any of the Delaware languages spoken by the tribes who lived here before Europeans showed up.
When you vote a straight democrat party it changes Beto to Cruz on some machines. If you’re in Texas and voting please RECHECK your answers. If your machine does this, notify someone working at the polling site.
The issue is with specific machines that let you push one button to vote straight-ticket, which is a “feature” that is configured by the people running the machines.
Essentially they build a small script that tells the machine which checkboxes to check when somebody selects “straight ticket”. When used correctly it’s a nice time-saving feature.
However.
An unethical person might “incorrectly” program the feature to select whomever they want, thus hijacking votes. Of course, when caught, it’s just “a programming error” and nobody goes to jail for tampering.
The workaround is NEVER use the “straight ticket” feature if offered.
Instead, hand-select each vote then verify the results before you submit. It’s seriously not very tedious and has a much higher chance of not being messed with.
I can’t even find one earlier post complaining about one ridiculous thing: fighting falling sleep whenever I mostly lie back with my legs propped up in the bed. Which I should be doing much more often trying to heal something, but not if it means a nap every time 😪
Sitting down for very long is bad enough that way these days, but lean back and get comfortable at all and it’s honestly kind of worrying.
Anyway, reading is a definite no-go. Watching something I’m engaged with is sometimes better for staying conscious, sometimes not so much.
But, I just discovered new depths of ridiculousness with it a little while ago. Caught myself dozing off while trying to go through a dungeon in Skyrim!
Didn’t even want to try anything but sitting totally up last night, but I figured actively playing a game should be enough to keep me awake. Tonight I could tell I really needed to elevate that leg (after not doing so all day), and…not so much. Trying to go out like a light anyway.
Taking a break and fortifying myself with caffeine right now, but yeah I don’t think I’ll try that again tonight.
Looks like this post is 5 months old, but yeah that’s still a problem. I just haven’t been getting down and propping that leg up much at all except to sleep, which is probably one of the reasons it’s still an issue.
I know I really need to stay off it more, but honestly I manage to get little enough accomplished around here anyway without fighting zonking out whenever I do. Probably a good indication that my system does need more rest, but hey.
Anyway, I do actually feel a little better about it now. I mentioned being frustrated with that tonight after supper, when I really needed to get down for a while.
Mr. C’s response? “Sleep more!”
I am aware that I do worry excessively about coming across as lazy when that’s not what’s going on. (And no wonder. That was a repeating theme, just extra jarring under those circumstances.) It can be hard to work past, though.
Seems like a pretty good indication that the people around you are maybe not tending to think that way if they’re actually suggesting you should rest/sleep more, however. Guess I needed the reminder.
(Then there was that “Seems like the problem is the opposite of laziness!” comment a few years ago. The jerkbrain is stubborn 🙄)
Dumb bitch in the notes arguing planned obsolescence is necessary to keep costs down,
I thought planned obsolescence was to prevent your phone from just suddenly turning off and never working again? Like it’s meant to be an “oh, my thing isn’t working, I should invest in a new one soon.” Kind of thing?? Like shits gonna break either way, I just thought this let us know like a month earlier than it would otherwise.
I mean… that’s kind of what they want you to think?
Sure, throttling your phone’s cpu so that the battery doesn’t wear down faster is certainly… a thing that’ll extend battery life… but, uh………… Hey, why don’t we just allow customers to replace their old batteries, you know, just like batteries were originally designed to do?
This extends far beyond phones/computers/etc as well. I recall, there’s light bulbs that exist from around the time of their invention that can still burn to this day. But companies only manufacture light bulbs that degrade and burn out over a few years, so that they can keep selling more light bulbs and turn a profit.
There’s a lot of examples of this, really. But, no, the main purpose of this is simply to make people continually have to replace their old “““broken”““ products for new ones, when the only reason they break to begin with is because they purposefully build in deficiencies that cause the product to degrade over time. It’s capitalism, baby
My mom had one vacuum cleaner all through our childhood. That first generation of vacuum cleaners was made to a very high standard because the companies were trying to convince people who had never seen one to buy them. Now, unless you buy the very high end models, they break in five years.
Can confirm, once helped my dad paint a client’s house interior and needed to vacuume after due to all the sanding we did. Dad’s shop vac would have taken us hours to clean since it was made for small messes and not whole carpets. Dad dug out the client’s home vacuum (with permission) which was this ancient heavy metal kirby from the 70s and holy shit not only did it still work but it had the strongest suction I have ever seen in a vac and it was that day that really hammered into me that planned obsolescence was A Thing.
I can literally go to a junk mall, but a 1920s sewing machine, oil the moving parts, replace the rusted needle and sew on that damn thing for the rest of my life.
And if one part or piece breaks, literally takes the mechanical knowledge of a 3yr old with plastic tools to fix it. I can access every part of that machine and fix it with a screwdriver and needle nose pliers. No special screws so only a “””professional””” can fix it. No parts that can be “so hard to fix you might as well buy a new one”
Corporations CAN make functioning lasting products. They just choose not to.
Thing is though: if they made products that lasted, everyone would switch to them. Then they could expand on what they offer, with a loyal clientele already built in.
The other side of planned obsolescence is that I don’t replace my smartphone when it breaks.
I replace it when the software I need is upgraded past what it will run…often unnecessarily.
The other side of planned obsolescence is software developers testing everything only on devices that are <6 months old and saying “Well, buy a new one then” if your “older” device won’t run it.
I just turned to my housemate and said, “y’know, we’d never know if we were haunted” because we have four cats between us, so every clunk, bump, and crash gets entirely ignored
and now I want a movie about a ghost becoming increasingly desperate to haunt a family but they have cats and so the poor dear goes completely ignored
I’ve had this thought before. My cats aren’t allowed in the bedroom, and sometimes I hear them try to come in and just shout “No thank you!” at them. How hilarious would it be if I was really yelling at a poor ghost, trying to spook me.
Between my cat and my ADHD (wait, where did I put my purse? Wasn’t just here? Oh it’s in the pantry. Eh, must be a brain fail. Again.) I would never know whether or not my ass was haunted.
Spirit: (pulls out a tablecloth, everything on the table crashing onto the floor) Cat Owner: CUT IT OUT! WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE DINING ROOM? Spirit: (nervously moves to the kitchen)
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