The absolute crap interfaces that are being developed for electronic devices. There’s no reason for them to be as bad as they are at this point. They were getting better and better going from say 1996 until about 2005. After that they just started dropping off fast. The last few years they’re just atrocious. And there is just no excuse. I know it annoys people when I say it, but as far as I’m concerned, the people who develop these interfaces, when they get up in the morning, they do lines of crack until their brains just about explode. Then they go to work and say this would be a cool idea even though the rest of the world looks at and goes. What the hell?

There’s no logic in the interface no common sense that you can use to use them.

And the target/hit boxes are becoming so small if you have any sort of muscular issue good luck on ever using it.

The developers, the executives the companies do not give a crap. Their attitude is if you don’t like it just buy something else. The problem : that’s the way it’s all being designed so you literally have nothing else to buy.

Then you have the consumers , their attitude is basically you have a choice. You don’t have to buy it. Which is a completely moronic statement.

My response is basically I’ve stopped buying things. Unless I absolutely have no other choice I just make do with what I have and the world go screw itself.

I watched my mom try to tap an icon on the screen seven separate times before it would actually activate. think about that , seven times just to activate whatever she was trying to touch. That’s stupid. So I literally knelt down right next to the table and watched herfinger very carefully, hit the screen and come up. The problem was her finger was moving by just a few pixels. So it was counted as a drag. Who the fuck thought that would be a idea? I mean, I could understand if you touch and drag, like a distance on the screen OK well that’s dragging. But that incredibly tiny amount? What jackass thought this was a good idea.? If your finger so much is twitches, it won’t count it as touch. It’ll count it as a drag and it won’t activate.

Not sure why that people do it, and yes it is annoying.

And how many died under Stalin? How many have died under Chinese rule?

am i an expert ? no.

am I pretty good at it. I’d say yes. what i haven’t done I have seen done enough times I should be able to get it to work.

making fire.

Yeah we know. Our at least those paying attention do.

Either Hawaii, or someplace like Sweden or Ireland

20% for excellent service.

It goes down from there. Yes zero tip is acceptable if the service sucked. If I ordered medium rare steak and I get well done steak. I normally won’t deduct that from the tip since that is a hard one for the server to see. But if it’s something they could have seen and didn’t fix, yeah I’m probably reducing the tip.

The tip is for service above and beyond, not a required part of the bill.

Pay rent your whole life?

Mean from birth to age 18? I’ve never heard of this.

After age 18 then yeah you should be paying rent. Why wouldn’t you pay? Why would you live off of them? Help out.

If you are going to college and your parents don’t charge you rent, give them a huge hug and say thank you. Don’t be surprised if you graduate and they start charging you rent.

Edit : I usually read the comments before I comment. Definitely should have this time everyone is asking the same thing.

Then it sounds like you work with assholes. If person a sits down with person b and says I’m sorry about what happened I want to do better. Please help me. Let’s talk about what I did wrong so I can improve myself. Only an asshole says no.

There is an obvious exception to that statement, if you are sitting there and yelling at them or being incredibly incredibly aggressive during the initial conversation. They might not be receptive right away. But if you come back, say the next day and apologize and say look, I wanna do better know I was in the wrong, but I need your help to improve. Can we talk so I can make sure I never do that again? A human being would say yes a good person will say yes let’s figure this out an asshole will say no.

It’s called compassion and sympathy. Sadly it’s also something that is sorely lacking in the United States and worldwide right now.

I guess here’s a question for you. Is this happening at multiple jobs or is it happening just at the current job?

You tried therapy and that’s good the problem is trying to find a GOOD therapist is very difficult.MOST of them shouldn’t be a therapist they can only regurgitate what they were told in class. They can’t think outside of the box and think critically.

I respect the fact that you are trying to find an answer to solve your problem.

You even gave examples of different coworker situations.

Sadly I don’t have an answer for you. The only thing I can say is don’t give up.

Maybe sit down with one of them one on one outside of work. Mention what happened earlier and that you noticed a serious change in their body language and apologize then say you want to do better. Then ask for their input on what you did wrong. Maybe they can help.

I’d say the iPhone. A truly innovative, smart phone. When it first came out, I mean.

I can’t speak for anyone else. But for me personally. I don’t mind if they have a female or male lead. What I care about is if the story and characters are believable. Many times it’s like they just said well here we are going to have a female lead just because. Yet when you look at the story and at the character it doesn’t make sense.

Ex :

A strong female lead who is supposed to be commanding people and yet when she gives commands it just comes across as bitchy not assertive. And when you look at the story the character wouldn’t have the training to be able to know even what to do.

It’s like the director and writers just had to put a female on the screen.

The above example is just an example not meant to point at a specific movie or show.

A few of movies where they did it right.

The women in the movie Red. That was excellent writing and acting. The original Alien movie was awesome. Oh yeah and Mr and Mrs Smith kicked ass Angelina was awesome in that movie

To many current movies just feel like a board room full of people with an agenda of let’s make a movie with a female lead without asking if the scenario makes sense.

This is just my opinion as I can’t speak for others.

Vehicle makers that angle their hood in a way where it seriously blocks what you can see at the front right corner of the vehicle. Instead of slanting the hood down it’s straight out. Making it very difficult to see the curb when making a turn.

Also subscription fees on cars

Non repairable products parts on cars

Go to bed at 9 pm. Get used to going to bed at that time. Your body will adjust.

Think of what a bar of gold is worth. 1,000,000. That’s 25 pounds.

I don’t have that much money so for me the weight would be significantly less. That would be super easy to conceal and head some where safe. If the US fell the gold can be converted to any currency. Even if it took a year or two for another country to pick up and be a stable place to go, the gold would still be good.

So that makes gold a solid place to store the value. Go back hundreds of years people still wanted gold. Hundreds of years from now people will probably still want gold.

If it’s a serious crash but the US dollar comes back. Gold will still be a good solid place to store the value. If the US changes from dollar to something else, then gold still works.

The only question is timing the market, but to me still not a big deal since generally safe gold goes up in value.

1990 price was $383 an ounce in 2023 it was $1943 an ounce. I’d say do the math to those that doubt. And yeah timing is tough. But even if the US doesn’t fail gold goes up in price generally speaking

Buy gold. It will go up in value. When things bottom out, sell the gold. Buy back into the markets.

Note this is not financial advice. I can’t predict what the markets will do.

Let them know for those that I want to know get together with. Otherwise if they remember … great, if not no big deal.

Any form of site where people can communicate, be it, lemmy , Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc is creating a problem of people going that sort of thing

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