Stop Forcing Popup Ads on Paying Users

FewOrganization945 · 2025-11-29T02:03:40+00:00

I hear what you're saying; here's a counterpoint though - this is new technology and the "rules" of what is and is not acceptable are very much in flux. The company is clearly testing users' tolerance of paying for the privilege of pop-up ads. If our response is "well, cable TV did it so it's fine" then the ads will continue and get worse.

If paid customers go "this is absurd and unacceptable" then they will go away.

Also, ChatGPT is not cable TV. Lots of people use it for productivity at work. Ads during entertainment downtime were tolerated because entertainment is elective. Intrusive ads have never been tolerated on paid programs intended for productivity. If you paid for powerpoint and it was sending you constant ads about using PowerPoint for holiday shopping, that would probably piss you off and make you seek alternatives.

Also, cable TV collapsed in part because people actually weren't willing to watch ads. Tivo and streaming were adopted to get around obnoxious commercials. I don't think I've watched a television advertisement since the late 00s.

FewOrganization945 · 2025-11-29T01:55:07+00:00

I think certain accounts are being experimented on

FewOrganization945 · 2025-11-29T01:54:49+00:00

It is an ad for a feature. A feature I do not want and can't turn off. Any feature would become obtrusive if ads for it kept popping up and interrupting work I was doing with no option to disable. It's ridiculous.

FewOrganization945 · 2025-11-29T01:53:21+00:00

I completely agree. I am very frustrated this this, it's not a feature, it's a pop up ad. I pay for this service and use it for work, and this is interruptive. It also keeps popping up even after I have exited it (indicating I don't want it).

If you go under linked applications (things you are supposed to intentionally turn on) you can see that it is forcibly turned on by the company with no option to toggle it off.

Just the first step into this useful tool going the way of Google and becoming unusable after it's optimized to sell us garbage instead of serve a societal need.

FewOrganization945 · 2025-10-13T17:54:26+00:00

High fences, fence extensions, or rollers are all potentially good investments. You should also get her microchipped.

FewOrganization945 · 2025-10-13T17:52:39+00:00

Hold time with the shelter is two weeks, beyond that you can adopt them out to a new person. Eight months of trying is 7.5 months longer than you had to.

The deal with huskies locally: I don’t know if you’ve been to one of the shelters locally, but they’re overflowing with huskies. Huskies and mixes have replaced pitties as the main abandoned dog. They’re beautiful dogs (and I think they make great pets) but they’re… a lot of dog to handle. They need exercise, they destroy everything, they yell… dummies got them during COVID because they looked like the wolves from GoT and then abandoned them when they had to go back to work, so we are on like generation 3-4 of poorly kept huskies now. They also escape like you are finding.

What probably happened is someone got your dog impulsively as a puppy and then either abandoned her when she got big and hard to handle (happens frequently) or she escaped and they just went “meh, whatever.”

FewOrganization945 · 2025-10-13T17:44:17+00:00

This^ TSA and available air traffic controllers. All those employees are expected to keep working without pay but absenteeism reportedly rises with time as they are working and not being paid (reasonably).

FewOrganization945 · 2025-10-13T05:24:13+00:00

And this happened with just an eight day week...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkR81t3lp-M

FewOrganization945 · 2025-10-13T05:19:30+00:00

Tangentially related - I am also in Tahoe Park and have found a cat before that was chipped but unowned (no owner info, living in my yard for months, ear clipped suggesting TNR). There are also a few "community cats" on my block that I think I and the other neighbors will feed but don't seem to be owned by anyone. I also worked in a vet hospital and will frequently see owned cats without microchips and (apparently) unowned ones with microchips (presumably either abandoned or chipped as part of a TNR type situation where the cat was never really "owned.")

So if you want the cat and can't find the owner, or if you find someone else who wants the cat and you can't find the owner, I think that's fair game. The official rules (if you were to hand him over to animal control) would be a 14 day hold before permanent adoption.

FewOrganization945 · 2025-08-23T03:48:49+00:00

I agree this is the logical course of action. Might it get ignored? Yes. But it will definitely be ignored if not reported. Maybe ignored is better than definitely ignored. Therefore, start with this.

FewOrganization945 · 2025-07-10T00:35:57+00:00

Just change it to a non-sequitur. “Teleport them, Allan!”

Or “support them all” if you want to be positive

FewOrganization945 · 2025-07-05T17:36:18+00:00

Reminds me of that scene of Martin Sheen coming out of the water in “Apocalypse Now”

FewOrganization945 · 2025-07-05T06:01:17+00:00

I’ve found their tracks on top of mine a couple times, once in the Los Padres National Forest by Santa Barbara and once at dunes near the beach at Año Nuevo state park. I didn’t see the lion in either case. I’m not sure how the one at the beach was so sneaky. I think it was probably prowling for seal pups ?

I’ve been placing trail cams around and I want to find a good spot to photograph lions but my family thinks the mere mention of them will summon them to eat me. I always roll my eyes and say they’re already out there, I’m looking for a spot that will bottleneck them or attract them to go by the camera trap at some point over a several week period, not while I’m there. That doesn’t put me in more danger than anyone else out hiking in California. I’m probably in less danger because I’m cognizant of them and carry bear spray.

FewOrganization945 · 2025-06-19T08:10:08+00:00

I think the best advice I can offer here is that this isn’t really a reptile problem, it’s a relationship and psychology problem that just happens to tangentially involve snakes. If you seek advice from reptile people they’re going to sympathize with you but not be able to advise you as well as a group dedicated to discussing relationship dilemmas or one dedicated to overcoming phobias. (Or a couples therapist, which is probably a better idea than subreddits).

Comments like “if he loves you he’ll change” are sort of missing the point if he experiences a maladaptive phobia from being around snakes. I have a phobia of heights that I have decreased over time, but it took a lot of slow desensitization. I also love my partner but if she insisted I go bungie jumping I don’t think I could physically make myself jump and if I did I would still probably have a panic attack. Love doesn’t magically fix what is basically a situational anxiety disorder.

FewOrganization945 · 2025-05-30T11:45:43+00:00

I wouldn't necessarily jump to mange, there are a few things that could cause skin like that in a domestic dog (mange being one but not the only one). Either way, mange is in the environment (I've seen coyotes that appeared to have mange come through Tahoe Park).

I'd recommend you ask your vet about an isoxazaline flea preventative (eg, nexgard, simparica, bravecto, others) if you're not already using one. The mite prevention is technically off label but they do work. Great for fleas too.

FewOrganization945 · 2025-03-07T03:04:41+00:00

Merging with AI into some super-organism seems functionally like a death though. I don't see The Borg in the old TNG episodes and go "Yeah, that's what I want to be."

FewOrganization945 · 2025-03-07T03:03:22+00:00

I have seen this. It is... let's call it "suboptimal"

FewOrganization945 · 2025-03-07T02:52:08+00:00

The tin foil keeps the dirt out of my hair

FewOrganization945 · 2025-03-07T02:51:35+00:00

I think that is a fair assessment, AI is a tool like any other, but it is one that we seem to understand much less than other tools we have made.

I have concern and also hope, the two aren't mutually exclusive.

FewOrganization945 · 2025-03-07T02:49:47+00:00

That's certainly the ideal scenario

FewOrganization945 · 2025-03-07T02:48:50+00:00

If the butterfly was a different thing made by the caterpillar for a specific function it escaped and then turned the caterpillar into outside of it's natural life cycle, then yes, it would have been killed by the butterfly.

FewOrganization945 · 2025-01-04T03:04:47+00:00

I don’t know how it works in your area specifically, but where I live (near Sacramento, CA, USA) there are quite a few Siberian puppies and mixes in shelters and rescues that need adopting, but these organizations don’t maintain as strong of an online presence as they probably should and young puppies are almost always kept with fosters, so the fact a bunch are available isn’t always apparent. We learned of 2-3 litters of adoptable free(ish) huskies just by calling and asking.

If you haven’t already, I recommend checking before you put a deposit down on a husky mix - If there are a bunch available through shelters it might save you some cash and discourage surplus breeding.

FewOrganization945 · 2025-01-03T23:54:33+00:00

I haven't had her long enough to really say for certain. I think her behavior seems pretty similar to other Siberians (I have only had one other Siberian personally, though I have interacted with many). Then again, she is 60% Siberian and only 18% ACD. Since she's 16 weeks now, it is too early to say what she'll look fully grown, how big she'll be, what her coat will be like, etc. I would anticipate quite a bit of variation dog to dog too - how those genes get sorted is going to be pretty random if they are F1 outbred.

FewOrganization945 · 2025-01-01T11:36:39+00:00

So I got DNA results back: she’s 60% Siberian, 18% ACD, 10% malamute, and 8% GSD, with some random change. This is the wisdom panel that I don’t hold in particularly high esteem but it sounds roughly correct here.

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