Random thing you loathe right now.

MaxShrek wrote:

This may belong in PnC, but I hate people comparing politicians to Adolph Hitler. I've been aware of 7 presidents in my lifetime and people always called them Nazis or Hitler. Even governors. It makes the people sound kind of unaware of what a Nazi stood for, and worse, makes the original group of sociopaths appear to be not as bad as they actually were (are.) I may be in the minority on this one, but it may go beyond loathing and bordering on aggravation.

Sorry. Soapbox has been burned.

A few years back a guy that used to rent a room from my wife and I (he was active Navy at the time but had been out for a while) did that, in that he was sharing an item where someone else was comparing Trump to Hitler. I pointed out to him that it was a poor argument, and it actually hurt his position to do so. Rather, he should point out why the news article he was referencing was bad on it's own merit.

What followed was a few hours where he told me I was wrong to support Trump (never claimed to), I was a horrible person, I was supporting Nazis, I was then a Nazi myself, and at the end he told me I had no right to speak on politics because I'd never served in the military. So, I did what any sane person would do, I laughed it off and unfriended him.

This all does get a bit tricky when you start talking about the number of literal neo-Nazis who support Trump.

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PurEvil wrote:

What followed was a few hours where he told me I was wrong to support Trump (never claimed to), I was a horrible person, I was supporting Nazis, I was then a Nazi myself, and at the end he told me I had no right to speak on politics because I'd never served in the military. So, I did what any sane person would do, I laughed it off and unfriended him.

One of my current loathes: Oversimplifying complex political issues.

“People who believe in conspiracy theories are soooooo stupid.” - Not necessarily true. There are hundreds; maybe thousands of very talented engineers who believe in the flat earth theory. It’s just not that simple.

At times I have made similar assumptions. The problem is that this type of thinking doesn’t hold up. The cognitive dissonance which follows really frustrates me. It makes the world seem mystical and I hate that. I’ve spent most of my adult life trying to demystify the things that I don’t understand. Letting go of overly simplistic points of view is one of the first steps in moving towards true understanding.

While they can certainly grate, I think Trump/Hitler comparisons have their place, and can be important.

People have a dangerous tendency to think of Hitler as some kind of Skeletor-like figure that was garishly evil just for the sake of being evil, and then think "well Trump isn't that, so the comparison doesn't stand". I think the world would be safer if we think of Hitler as a regular banal leader, a charismatic populist whose supporters genuinely thought he had their best interests at heart.

Put another way: the thing about Trump/Hitler comparisons is that they're not comparing him to how Hitler ended up.

I'm more in line with people who have called every president a Nazi or Hitler. As I said, since I've been aware of presidents, every one of them since Reagan has been compared to Hitler. I dislike Andrew Cuomo in NY, and people compare him to Hitler. I just see it as too easy to do the comparison. Neo Nazis would be more appropriate, because they seem to be just angry pussies.

Obviously most direct comparisons to Hitler are hyperbole, but there's one thing you can say that is true of every president in living memory...

They're all war criminals.

Pretty much, to certain degrees of it.

The head of Japan's Olympic committee, a doddering 83 year-old former prime minister, made some sexist remarks and then after a few days of fallout finally agreed to resign. The current PM told him to choose someone younger as a replacement, preferably a woman. So now the new committee head is a sprightly 84 year-old man.

Well I don't know whether to be annoyed or very amused by the irony here. So I had an Amazon delivery today and the driver took the picture that is hopefully showing up for everybody. Now what you can't see in the picture are the two signs (purchased from Amazon) that say "Please place packages here" in very clear commercial lettering at the end of the arrow just out of sight.

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How dense do you have to be not to even notice any of these things? (Or maybe I have the "vengeful" driver who refuses to put packages where I want them out of spite.) As it was, I had to push the package with the door to get out of the house, go outside and *around* the door, because that's where the package ended up, in order to get it.

I have that problem at my house. Packages get dropped by the front door in such a way that they block the door from opening. If I'm getting a large delivery of medical supplies, I just flat-out can't open the door and have to go out the side entrance of the house, walk around to move the packages, then open the front door to carry it all in.

I've got shingles. It sucks.

RnRClown wrote:

I've got shingles. It sucks.

Dude!! That’s awful!! Good luck and I hope you heal quickly.

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bekkilyn wrote:

Well I don't know whether to be annoyed or very amused by the irony here. So I had an Amazon delivery today and the driver took the picture that is hopefully showing up for everybody. Now what you can't see in the picture are the two signs (purchased from Amazon) that say "Please place packages here" in very clear commercial lettering at the end of the arrow just out of sight.

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How dense do you have to be not to even notice any of these things? (Or maybe I have the "vengeful" driver who refuses to put packages where I want them out of spite.) As it was, I had to push the package with the door to get out of the house, go outside and *around* the door, because that's where the package ended up, in order to get it.

Maybe you should try reverse psychology. “Please mash my package and place it in such a way that it blocks my screen door from opening. By no means should you place the package here...” ::arrow points to the spot where you want the package to be left::

bekkilyn wrote:

How dense do you have to be not to even notice any of these things? (Or maybe I have the "vengeful" driver who refuses to put packages where I want them out of spite.)

Yeah...that's a contract driver exercising the tiny amount of freedom they have to put your package wherever the hell they want it, thank you very much. Or possibly it was tossed from a distance such that they didn't bother to read what was on the ground.

RawkGWJ wrote:

Maybe you should try reverse psychology. “Please mash my package and place it in such a way that it blocks my screen door from opening. By no means should you place the package here...” ::arrow points to the spot where you want the package to be left::

LOL

Coldstream wrote:

Yeah...that's a contract driver exercising the tiny amount of freedom they have to put your package wherever the hell they want it, thank you very much. Or possibly it was tossed from a distance such that they didn't bother to read what was on the ground.

That could explain the very sudden loud thump when it was delivered that nearly put me on the ceiling.

I think all the delivery companies and Amazon let you save delivery notes to your account (you'd have to create accounts with UPS/Fedex/USPS though). Doing that might not solve the issue, but would at least give you some more evidence when filing a complaint, and Amazon asks you for feedback on every delivery so it's pretty easy to do with them.

bekkilyn wrote:

Well I don't know whether to be annoyed or very amused by the irony here. So I had an Amazon delivery today and the driver took the picture that is hopefully showing up for everybody. Now what you can't see in the picture are the two signs (purchased from Amazon) that say "Please place packages here" in very clear commercial lettering at the end of the arrow just out of sight.

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How dense do you have to be not to even notice any of these things? (Or maybe I have the "vengeful" driver who refuses to put packages where I want them out of spite.) As it was, I had to push the package with the door to get out of the house, go outside and *around* the door, because that's where the package ended up, in order to get it.

Did you try putting in delivery instructions on amazon. They will be ignored but sometimes they are followed.

You can also offer feedback. The driver delivering to my parents' house kept delivering next door, despite both houses having visible house numbers. They gave feedback about the delivery going to the wrong address a couple times and haven't had problems since.

I did go ahead and send feedback about this delivery. They had already changed my delivery instructions that time when the driver dropped it in a puddle on the sidewalk, but I figured the time had come once again for more feedback.

RawkGWJ wrote:
RnRClown wrote:

I've got shingles. It sucks.

Dude!! That’s awful!! Good luck and I hope you heal quickly.

Thanks!

I've taken a week off work. With the option there for a second. Aciclovir was prescribed. The condition itself is rather unpleasant, but thus far tolerable, mostly, without pain relief. (I'm just odd concerning medication. I should probably pop the pain pills for the additional comfort. It can zing like a mofo as much as I no-sell it.)

The growing number of apps that minimize to the taskbar or tray instead of closing. If I hit the close button or push alt-f4, it's because I want it closed. Needing to right click the icon in the system tray and select quit is silly. Just do what my input indicates I want.

BushPilot wrote:

The growing number of apps that minimize to the taskbar or tray instead of closing. If I hit the close button or push alt-f4, it's because I want it closed. Needing to right click the icon in the system tray and select quit is silly. Just do what my input indicates I want.

Then tell those apps that in their settings.

Most apps which do that will have a switch to restore the functionality you want.

Jonman wrote:

Then tell those apps that in their settings.

Unsurprisingly, I've tried this before made the effort to come here and complain. There isn't always an option, or sometimes there appears to be an option but it doesn't have the effect you might expect. Or, if there is a way, it's too difficult for a reasonable basic user such as myself to find it quickly and easily. Off the top of my head, I use Steam, GOG Galaxy, Origin, and Slack pretty regularly and I think they're all guilty of this. Many, many more minimize to tray as the default when you click close (which is notably not minimize), but allow you to change it in the settings. It's probably a minor thing to most but to me it's annoying.

The video's credits include about 20 additional usernames that reek of the year 2001, including DrMeithos, The Yellow Yell, and Generic Superhero, thus giving credit to the "sh*tposting" community that toyed with the "All Your Base" phenomenon in smaller online circles and generated so many silly images for this video to leverage. What's more, the video's entire audio sequence—the robo-voiced intro, sequenced perfectly with the Genesis game, and then its devolution into thumping techno—was made by someone else, a group of anonymous Internet users who went by The Laziest Men on Mars.

Not a single mention for the source of the meme images: SomethingAwful forums. Nearly all of the All Your Base pics were straight lifted from a very long All Your Base thread. The Yellow Yell was particularly skilled at Photoshop. The Laziest Men on Mars were SA regulars and even wrote SomethingAwful themed songs ("The Terrible Secret of Space", "We Are Something Awful"). The guy who "created" the video didn't create any of the content.

I'm also wrongly attributed in the credits as "Quitin". My image of the street signs outside my old house appears at 2:43 in video.

BushPilot wrote:

The growing number of apps that minimize to the taskbar or tray instead of closing. If I hit the close button or push alt-f4, it's because I want it closed. Needing to right click the icon in the system tray and select quit is silly. Just do what my input indicates I want.

In a similar vein apps that assume I want them to open at Startup and don't give me the option to disable that at install time.

Rykin wrote:
BushPilot wrote:

The growing number of apps that minimize to the taskbar or tray instead of closing. If I hit the close button or push alt-f4, it's because I want it closed. Needing to right click the icon in the system tray and select quit is silly. Just do what my input indicates I want.

In a similar vein apps that assume I want them to open at Startup and don't give me the option to disable that at install time.

Yeah... sorry, developers, I don't value your program so much that I want to constantly dedicate RAM to the ability to load it several seconds faster on the off chance I need it.

Clipping my fingernails is annoying. Toenails are worse.

I hadn't taken my car to the car wash in months, no bird poo whatsoever. I finally take it out for a wash after the snowfalls of last week, and not one hour after...

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Finally get on a Battlefront 2 server that's not only full but moderately well balanced right from the start.

I'm playing well for some reason. Like, really well

I'm in the top five players.

I get a chance to be a hero (Rey) - I'm killing everyone and everything before me. I'm running from command point to command point - anyone near me just dies. The force is strong.

We board the enemy cruiser. I'm a literal unstoppable killing machine (apart from the 2 people with more points than me, but they don't count) Nobody can stand against me and my lightsabre (not a euphemism)

Get get to the final objective, I'm murdering my way through countless fields of stormtroopers! We're destroying the Core Reactor! I'm going to be on the end screen for the first time! The reactor is about to Blo........ Wait. What? WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"You have lost connection to the EA server. You will only be able to play Offline content".

f*ck you EA, f*ck YOU!!!!