Like why some apartments allow no tenants with pets. Living in an apartment building, some tenants around me absolutely fucking suck with owning pets. Allowing them to bark, wrestle and play loudly, letting them take dumps everywhere and not picking it up. People actually running with their pets with no leashes when leashes are required.
Yeah I side more with apartment offices that have balls to say no pets. Nobody wants the noise.
Kids who came to school in dirty clothes, hair messy, dirt on their hands and faces. I thought they were just gross pigpen types. Not till I was older and less sheltered did I meet families where the adults had other stuff going on and didn’t see to their kids’ well being. I was lucky enough to have had no idea what it meant to be neglected.
When I was a child I thought everything was run by grown ups, who had the answer to everything. Then I grew up and saw everything as run by children, who made everything up as they go. Now I see everything as run by animals with insatiable appetites.
Knowing why your parents told you not to turn the cabin lights on in the car while driving at night when I started driving myself. You can’t fucking see shit outside the car!
Stoically treating people well when they are terrible to you isn’t going to bring them around. DON"T put effort into the problem people in life. “the idiot by fyodor dostoevsky” is a warning not a guide book. Those people will fuck you up and not remember .
The code stack at my company. At one time, I was confident that I could affect change, add modern features, and make the process form streamlined and user friendly. Now I get to explain our tech debt to our new not yet soulless new hires.
Now I get to explain our tech debt to our new not yet soulless new hires.
To explain the tech debt in the code stack you must first explain what the Perl language its written is to the young new hires.
Perl? Shit man I learned Fortran in college. There’s still COBOL systems in active use. At least Perl was invented after keypunchers were deprecated.
We actually still ship Fortran code where I’m at.
(This is totally being said in the Emperor Palpatine’s voice)
Just don’t tell them about the COBOL running in the back. It’ll scare them away.
Quality was mentioned, but I’ll add my view. Most everything is disposable now, whether you go with the upgraded option or not. Everyday items, cars, houses, tools, services…we’re surrounded by junk.
At Boeing the bean counters took over, look at them now. Most other corporations are doing the same, just with lower stakes.
It’s not just stuff–it’s interaction too. People are so hooked on throwaway videos, social media, etc that our collective attention span has severely diminished since the internet took hold. I was reading a book recently, and one of the characters described using a tactic of keeping another character off balance in conversation to gain an advantage over them. I feel like this is being done to all of us on the grand scale, intentionally or not.
What I’ve learned is that these trends will continue until we do something about it. I try to bring what quality and value I can to those around me, pass on what wisdom I’ve gained, and be a good influence. Even to strangers when possible. It’s up to us to carry and keep the torch lit.
People always talk about how much wiser you get with age. I didn’t really understand this until I hit my 30s. I can’t quite explain it, but it’s definitely true. I don’t feel smarter, I just have all this life experience that has taught me all sorts of things and made me loads more confident. I feel this will continue to get stronger the older I get with the unfortunate side effect of slowing down a bit mentally.
Sadly, a side effect of this is that almost nothing is surprising anymore. The world ceases to be full of intrigue and mystery. The banality of existence becomes a daily demotivator.
That’s when you start looking deeper. Pick up birding as a hobby. Start caring for plants. Consider woodworking. Not per se because of the hobby but because you’ll start noticing more and more detail everywhere around you.
This is something that has always interested me. Let’s say a group of specialists (in different areas of study) go for a walk through the park together. They’ll each have entirely different thoughts about the walk, simply because they have been trained to notice different things.
Maybe one is an avian biologist, and notices a rare bird; The other specialists don’t even notice that it is extraordinary.
Maybe one is an architect, and notices how the trails are snaked through the park with careful consideration to a specific design style.
Maybe one is a child development specialist, and notices how the playgrounds have been designed to encourage kids to play together with group activities, rather than isolating them with individual activities.
Maybe one is a civil engineer, and notices how the entire park is a former landfill that has been buried, and they can identify many of the strategies that builders used to safely manage things like off-gassing, water runoff, or low spots as garbage breaks down below the park.
Maybe one is an artist, who notices several idyllic spots they could return to with an easel and their pastels.
But the point is that even though they all went on the walk together, they all had vastly different experiences simply because they were trained to notice different details.
Hear, hear! There’s so much detail to pick up on!
Exactly. It really depends on the person though. Some people lack imagination and motivation while others keep exploring and opening new doors. Foraging, grafting and no plow, no till gardening are my latest interests.
I’m going to step in and kindly disagree. You’re living one life, your own. When you’ve experienced what you feel that there is to experience and all that, then things stop being personally exciting for you. Everyone’s lives is different from one another with shared generalities.
I compensate for this with telling tales around the fire and playing music. There is always room for more wonder and mystery with those
I feel this will continue to get stronger the older I get with the unfortunate side effect of slowing down a bit mentally.
It does, but the other issue is you see the young making the mistakes and you try to warn them using your wisdom, and they either don’t understand or don’t attempt to and go on with their mistake. With further time, you just let it go and don’t mention it at all.
I used to not get why someone would buy a physical DVD/Bluray/CD/whatever. Well, now I get it. I’d much rather own it than “own” it.
No buffering, can rip the disc to have a digital copy, offline viewing .etc
I got tired of blu rays somehow:
- trailers at the beginning (skippable)
- copyright and and piracy warning (non skippabale)
- usually no english subs for blu rays bought in germany (original english sound though)
- got one with really bad quality and other versions on the internet looked way better (original the hills have eyes)
- wanted to lend a friend without a blu ray player a few by giving him my old laptop with a blu ray drive. No proper software to play it without fiddeling under linux
- resources and plastic cases (started buying used - but then if it’s a really good movie the studio won’t receive any support for it)
- players will need updates to be able to handle new encryption keys (never ran into it though bc I keep my PS updated)
Pros:
- the collection looks nice in the shelf
- picking up a movie is usually easier for me than on netflix
- I watched the bonus material after the movie which was often interesting
Blu-Ray is just overrated. DVD is still around and still has decent quality. The quality contrast between DVD and Blu-Ray is narrow. It’s just the extra storage is there for when, whenever a movie is released, you just cram extra content into it. TV shows and anime shows have easier times for example because in the past, they’d have to release like 5 - 10 discs a season but now they can do it in one or two discs on blu-ray.
And streaming can have it’s strengths but obviously the services have crippled both quality and selection for the viewer.
The quality contrast between blu ray and DVDs is massive if done properly. As I said I only encountered it two times so far and I guess this was simply a cheap money grab and taken from the DVD or even worse sources yeah. Mostly noticable if they out multiple movies onto a single disc, but with all the other stuff blu ray is way more crisp than dvd. Maybe your tv is just better in upscaling. I guess especially for animes it’s easy to do so
I miss the behind the scenes footage
I mean, there’s no reason it can’t be bundled with shows on the streaming platforms, but they just don’t
This is all true with digital rips,… the advantage as far as I’m concerned is uncompromising quality
I used to not understand how people could spend so much money on a single meal at a really fancy restaurant.
But then, on a special occasion my wife convinced me to go to a Michelin star restaurant. It was amazing, honestly the best “food experience” I’ve ever had, so many crazy flavours, etc etc.
So now, i can understand why someone might go to a very fancy restaurant once or twice a year. I probably still won’t, but I do understand why someone would.
Mostly myself. When I was a teenager, I was an insufferable, arrogant shit person. I got better during college and even better after getting my first job, I started to understand better why I was such an arrogant asshole and why people, especially women, really would not rather interact with me.
When I was am apprentice we were not allowed to use the leaf blower or workshop air to blow out the workshop.
Now I am ac workshop manager they are the most infuriating noises when you’re trying to work in the office and get paperwork and phone calls done and someone is using a leaf blowerr
Don’t leaf blowers also have a sound decibel level that can cause hearing loss? Another good reason not to use it for that purpose
When I was a kid, my mom would tell me stories about some rich/famous people who ended their own lives, and she asked me what I thought about it, I said it was stupid since they’re rich and could just enjoy life
Now I have depression. I totally get it. (I mean I’m not rich, but still, I get it.)
🥲
Have you tried being rich
xD
Sure, brb lemme go rob a bank.
Being rich doesn’t change having assholes in your family that make you feel like you don’t belong.
I mean, you can buy a house and move out.
You don’t have that option if you’re poor.
I think you misunderstood.
I’m just talking relationships in general. I was just giving an example where if you value you relationship with your family and someone screws you over and you lose that relationship, it can lead to depression and there’s no amount of money that can fix that.
Money only buys you at the bottom two layers of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
Being rich would be nicer than being poor.
(Depressed on a warm beach with expensive prostitutes sounds better than most things.)Get meds. They’re how I’ve made it this far in life.
When the argument against an initiative says, “greedy developers” that is just a populist NIMBY smear spoken by even greedier, already-existing landlords.
I actually voted against a housing development one time because I got played by those words. I’m a little wiser now.
We had one here this past cycle where the opposition was calling them slum lords lol. Not charged language at all.
Did the alleged “slum lords” lose against the actual slum lords’ smear campaign?
I wouldn’t be surprised if they called developers “terrorists” at some point.
NIMBY property owners are so convinced of the righteousness of their assets – and of the evil lurking within any effort to slightly slow down their appreciating value – that I don’t think there’s a level of wickedness that exceeds a threat to those assets.
Like, I wouldn’t be surprised if they thought: “these developers are worse than Bin Laden. At least Bin Laden didn’t decrease the worth of MY property.”
I thought the worst part of dating was getting my heart broken, but what I remember best are the girls I let down.
Being an ostensibly-male-ish high schooler with a bad grasp of English and good looks had gotten me so much attention.
And every goddamn one of them was disappointed that I was ace and sex-repulsed and didn’t have the vocabulary to express it at the time. They thought I was spurning their advances deliberately!
(Of course, looking back, I bet that none of them actually wanted to be with an incredibly lesbian trans woman. (And yet, somehow, I married an ace trans woman of my own, shit’s nice.) I’m trying to work on not feeling bad that I disappointed those women, and that they found better matches of their own.)
Pardon my ignorance, but “ace”?
Asexual.
A contracted version of “asexual,” those who do not feel sexual attraction.
I didn’t understand the importance of quality and the true premium you pay for certain things. I often would buy the cheapest thing I could find to serve a certain function. After awhile, you find yourself replacing cheap things because they wear out quickly. Buying quality can mean paying a lot more, but it also usually means you don’t have to replace it much, if at all.
I’m a little on the flipside with this one. I’m figuring it out that some of the best things out there, aren’t usually the ones that cost a premium. It just boils down to what that something is and whether you want it’s best version. Like, some of the brand-names in stores aren’t usually some of the best that’s out there compared to generic brands. I know this from some of the review videos I’ve watched like Project Farm on YouTube.
I find this to be true with things like store brand foods but I’ve found the majority of the time if you buy something you need durability out of, you will regret buying the cheap shit
The tool method seems to be proven true. I’ve heard that you buy the cheapest tool until you get one that does the job for you. Like if the cheapest tool breaks on you, you move a step up above it until you’re comfortable with the value and quality of a tool that both does its job and lasts a long time.
You can apply that to many things.
I hadn’t heard about that. Only problem with that is once you buy several cheap tools you could’ve bought the most expensive option once.
Yeah, but that’s only really true for the things you use often, isn’t it? Sometimes you just need something that gets the work done and it’s okay if it takes a little more effort than using the premium one because you can’t justify spending that much for a one time use. Especially so if you need more than one specialty tool, because that adds up quickly.
Well yeah, it always depends. But in a scenario like the one described here where you’re repeatedly breaking and upgrading a tool, that sounds like a good example of that approach being more expensive 🤷♂️
Single layered toilet paper.
Project Farm absolutely rips
I’m finding this on a lot of the “deals” my wife has been finding on the TikTok shop. Piece of junk falls apart, so it inevitably gets replaced with a more expensive one I didn’t really need in the first place.
Oh shit. She might be playing me.
I kind of agree with you. I bought my first set of tools extremely cheap, like $25 for a whole tool case. I keep replacing the things I use regularly with better quality stuff, and the things I don’t use often don’t get enough wear to impact usage in the first place. But there are things like my Hilti power drill, which I do not want to fail whatsoever and as such I paid the premium upfront.
Yeah, I’ve done similar. Bought a “all-in-one” tool kit that includes almost every basic tool. While it is nice to have one of everything, you quickly realize that the metal is so soft that some of them only last two or three uses. So, then you replace it with a better one.
