Boozilla

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[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

I've worked at a lot of different places and in my experience it varies a lot.

Some bosses cut everybody slack. Some bosses are jerks and cut nobody any slack. I would say most of them play favorites with their employees (some are blatant about it, some are more subtle). Some bosses cut the workers with kids more slack. Some bosses cut the workers with kids less slack.

Anecdotal evidence is like that. It's emotionally compelling, but doesn't really tell us what's going on in the bigger picture.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, the pressure is immense and I suspect most would not miss it if they could just let it go and could experience life without it.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reduce, reuse, recycle in that order of priority.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The economics of Christmas spending is mind boggling. It's not a harmless once a year indulgence.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you, I'm grateful for anyone who gets where I'm coming from with this.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's awesome, but let's not ignore the billions in profits, and questionable spending, and plastic waste production that goes on every year because people feel cultural pressure to buy things for other adults. For every one thoughtful person like you, there's a thousand buying junk nobody wants or needs.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Thank you for the adult perspective.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So, nobody should ever nudge others towards new behaviors or ideas? And how do you know who I do and don't buy gifts for? Lot of assumptions here.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I don't see it as that black and white. Kids get special treatment in many different contexts.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you, well said.

 

I feel like an idiot for not knowing about these.

Every 2-3 months I have to snake out our shower drain with a 25' snake. Giant PITA.

After some web searches, I stumbled across these hair trap devices. They come in both external and internal configurations. Many different types to choose from.

I purchased an internal one, installed it, and am going to give it a try. In theory I can just pop it out and clean it instead of snaking the pipes. Folks tell me they work well. If this one doesn't work I'll try another type. They are fairly inexpensive.

 

We mostly watch news and sports in my house. So unfortunately, live TV. Occasionally we watch other things. I mute the commercials and browse my phone when they're on.

But I would love a TV that is smart enough to auto hide & mute every kind of ad. Even little logos on the athletes' uniforms. Hide the ads on the pitcher's mound. Hide the billboards and signs in the stadium. Show some cool little generic animation, music video, or slide show during commercial breaks. Hide the damned popup window ads and scrolling ads that some channels do. Remove product placements from movies and shows. Basically make all ads completely vanish.

 

Not asking for tech support here, just wondering if in theory it would be possible to create a plug-in or even a complete browser that blocks ads in a way that's impossible to detect. One model that comes to mind is a quarantined / containerized non-blocking virtual browser which queries the web server directly, then the UX filters the content from that container and presents it to the user ad-free. As far as the web server can tell, the containerized browser is just vanilla Chromium.

 

Some of the satire on there was gold. Had a wonderful lampoon vibe.

 
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Boozilla@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world
 

What a pointless fluff piece. It's the Motley Fool, so no surprise there. And I love how Huffman sounds like a 5th grader giving a book report. "All good companies should go public when they can."

How can anyone take these clowns seriously. I look forward to watching their IPO fail spectacularly, if it ever even happens.

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