When I listen to a radio and want to change stations, it’s simple: I reach over and change the station! It takes two seconds. When I listen online, however, it&r... more When I listen to a radio and want to change stations, it’s simple: I reach over and change the station! It takes two seconds. When I listen online, however, it’s go to the home button, select log on option, Touch ID here, open this, click here, minimize that, scroll, scroll, scroll, swipe right three times, select station, confirm that I want to leave the current station, close this, select again, decline the opinion poll, scroll again, tap twice, decline the pop-up ad, enter zip code, pretend to read the entire privacy agreement, accept privacy agreement, click this again . . . Grrrrrrrr. Okay, so I’m exaggerating.
What are some examples you can cite from personal experience of technology making something more complicated and/or more difficult as opposed to making it better?~ less
A. Abandon the country immediately?B. Bribe him with a lifelong sandwich deal to get yourself a position in his court?C. Conduct coup d’état to overthrow him an... more
A. Abandon the country immediately?B. Bribe him with a lifelong sandwich deal to get yourself a position in his court?C. Conduct coup d’état to overthrow him and restore the rightful leadership?D. Defend his ascension to the throne as the exact thing your country needs at the moment?E. Establish a wait-and-see attitude, giving him 30, 60 or 120 months to determine whether or not life is better under his rule?F. Find a way to infiltrate his government and bleed the coffers dry of the rich tilde-based revenues?G. Give exclusive interviews to the foreign press of your knowledge of his past misdeeds, thereby embarrassing him and having the international community shame him into abdicating?H. Hire a hitman?I. Investigate further to uncover the origins of this fishy deal?J. Join him as an ally and carve out your own piece of the pie as a nobleman or noblewoman?K. Keep a secret stash of avocados, mayonnaise and Vegemite in preparation for a poisoning plot?L. Lose your mind in giddy excitement that y... less
I have two neighbors like this, my one neighbor right under me always brings her grandkids over every wknd and my whole floor shakes all wknd and i hear a lot o... more I have two neighbors like this, my one neighbor right under me always brings her grandkids over every wknd and my whole floor shakes all wknd and i hear a lot of stomping around, i got lucky this wknd cause theyre not here, then shes up at 4 or 5 am which is her business but she'll crank up her music and stomp around herself and it shakes my bed and she makes a lot of noise, i heard this tuesday shes going to stay with her grandkids for 3 months, have thought of calling the police on her but im afraid she'll figure out its me so im waiting to see if she'll leave.
another one goes dumpster diving, he does this everyday, hes about 90, ive heard hes got dementia , his girlfriend who lives with him makes him throw it back in there, with covid going on the last thing we need is garbage, it brings bugs to the building too, ive found some in my apt, his daughter wont put him in assisted living, im wondering why they let him run around like that by himself with dementia going on t... less
I can understand the fuss over Aunt Jemima as it is rather racist. But the same company wants to do a way with a black chef on the cream of wheat box. I wrote to them saying I was ... moreI can understand the fuss over Aunt Jemima as it is rather racist. But the same company wants to do a way with a black chef on the cream of wheat box. I wrote to them saying I was strongly opposed to that as the man was it professional not a Slave and I didn't see how a black chef can be considered racist. So what do you all think? Shouldn't they make an exception foreign Cream of Wheat chef?
I inadvertently shut down my phone just after putting a phone number into it and I had neither pressed dial nor saved it as a new contact. The people who... more
I inadvertently shut down my phone just after putting a phone number into it and I had neither pressed dial nor saved it as a new contact. The people who gave me the number left, they will be waiting for me to call, and based on my assurances that I would do it, they did not get my number. It was a chance meeting, I don’t know where they live or work, and I don’t have any other way to contact them.
