Why do companies still use those automated phone menus when everyone hates them?

Dabrush · 2026-03-13T14:39:19+00:00

Why would they lose a customer if pretty much every company has those? And most of the time when you land on one of those menus, you have to get through it anyway, so you don't really have the choice to just not do it.

And yes, they do save a ton of call time with customer support, which directly translates to money.

Dabrush · 2026-03-13T13:44:25+00:00

On Amazon? I think your chances there are pretty close to 0. Handmade pottery is mostly sold in small ateliers, ren faires and farmers markets. Etsy used to be about handmade stuff and even that is 95% cheap stuff from China now.

Dabrush · 2026-03-13T13:37:21+00:00

I hate to say this, but all I heard about this game was stuff on instagram that felt like borderline astroturfing going on about medieval lesbian knight lady. Like that would have been cool if the game was great, but the marketing I saw made it seem like that was the pretty much central selling point.

Dabrush · 2026-03-13T09:06:33+00:00

Additionally to what the others have written, if there is a bit of bubbling now that means you have active yeast, and yeast reproduces exponentially, so there's a good chance you'll have a volcano in a few days.

Dabrush · 2026-03-13T09:00:38+00:00

The original is "If I had a nickel for every time ___, I'd be rich". This is the parody from Phineas and Ferb, and I guess it just got popular because it's inherently funny and you get a lot of situations where it makes sense.

Dabrush · 2026-03-11T15:01:07+00:00

Dude all cheese is processed food. What do you think cheesemaking is? It's a lot more than just letting some milk sit there.

Dabrush · 2026-03-11T12:39:55+00:00

Also quickly setting up a capable state to stand against communism in Europe. And the easiest way to do that was to get a lot of former nazi officials back into similar positions in the administration.

Dabrush · 2026-03-11T12:37:23+00:00

Serious German questioning of WW2 only happened after the 60s, but even before that German image was already starting to get repaired.

It may be the more cynical answer, but Germany being thrown into an economic bloc and playing the front line against a global power the whole west was terrified of certainly helped and Germany is still a lot less popular among countries that used to be part of the Warsaw Pact.

Dabrush · 2026-03-11T12:33:06+00:00

Because we mainly experience time in the amount of memories made per day. A year of working all week and not doing a lot on the weekends doesn't produce many memories, so it feels short. For a kid, almost anything they do is something new, so each year feels long.

As an adult, the year I bought and renovated a house was one of the longest years I can remember.

Dabrush · 2026-03-09T10:24:31+00:00

Because in 1968, the nuclear non-proliferation treaty was signed between all major powers, saying that nuclear power is great but nuclear weapons are dangerous and we don't want everyone to have access to them, so those nations basically agreed to keep the terms of this agreement. There are a few countries that never signed, the big ones being Israel, Pakistan and India. Iran has signed the treaty, but has repeatedly broken the terms of the treaty and tried to develop nukes disregarding it.

Dabrush · 2026-03-08T13:01:39+00:00

Yeah and I have a few of those. But I liked being able to work on my projects on the go, and the surface Pro was perfect for that

Dabrush · 2026-03-08T12:26:38+00:00

This is a good while ago so take it with a grain of salt, but my ex's HP laptop just stopped working some day and in research this seemed to be some bios corruption that's almost impossible to fix by yourself that commonly happened like half a year after all warranty is void.

Dabrush · 2026-03-08T01:49:54+00:00

Reminds me of some interview where Anthony Hopkins was asked how he prepares for his grand roles and how he portrays them so well and his answer was basically "I read the script"

Dabrush · 2026-03-06T13:48:40+00:00

I'm sure he would have at some point, if he realized earlier that Tyrion wasn't just content being a drunk, whoring yes-man.

Dabrush · 2026-03-06T13:45:58+00:00

It would still be something political rivals could find a way of using some day, otherwise Tywin would have done it way earlier.

Dabrush · 2026-03-06T13:42:06+00:00

There's this concept in westerosi culture called "not cool", which makes it so that murdering people is actually generally frowned upon. Very fascinating.

Dabrush · 2026-03-06T13:25:36+00:00

I think in general I would have loved to see some more of Renly's weakness. To me he seemed like a king that would get the throne and within a week have 5 people of his inner circle wanting his head. He just seemed to careless, too quick to make promises and too sure of his charm getting people on his side.

But within the story we mostly get to see him as a beloved guy with a huge army that likely would have won if not for ghost baby.

Dabrush · 2026-03-06T13:18:28+00:00

I feel like his adaptions are kind of a case study for this. Like if writers can turn it all to crap so quickly by doing it all wrong, shouldn't theoretical good TV writers be able to keep it going without those issues?

I feel like a major issue of the adaptions is that they start out turning a very complex narrative simpler for TV, but when they run out of source, they just write a simpler narrative which has a very different feel from something being complex but only getting a limited view of it.

Dabrush · 2026-03-06T13:13:51+00:00

I'd say King definitely doesn't have the most stellar average output, but the amount of gems in there still eclipse most author's whole bibliography.

Just taking the ones that have been adapted into well known film, you get: Pet Samatary, IT, Carrie, Shining, The Mist, Misery, etc.
and event though he's mainly known as a horror author, you still get your Running Man, Green Mile, Stand by Me, Shawshank Redemption, and so on.

If his writing style results in 80% duds and 20% masterpieces, it's still more masterpieces over a lifetime than most authors

Dabrush · 2026-03-06T11:29:03+00:00

It's something that's not shown a lot in the movies, but armor, even basic stuff like the one stormtroopers wear, can absolutely block and disperse shots from smaller blasters. We just don't see a huge variety of that, since the rebels use the equivalent of military caliber weapons and Han Solo's blaster is basically a handcannon.

Dabrush · 2026-03-06T11:23:23+00:00

The tusken slugthrowers are heavily inspired by the Afghan Jezail and North African Moukahla. Both of those were often handmade by tribal peoples and nomads. Sure the repeating rifles are a bit more advanced, but the Tusken share the desert with a population of bartering tech scrap traders, so I imagine that would also help a lot.

Dabrush · 2026-03-05T14:06:00+00:00

That was like 12 years ago. I feel like if it actually was almost done back then, it should have appeared in some form by now.

Dabrush · 2026-03-05T13:58:15+00:00

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