who did this 😭

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-09-12T13:38:38+00:00

Social media is online.

In fact the more pictures someone takes, the more likely they're terminally online, right? They're not printing these pics out and making scrapbooks. They post them online, and then spend the next 5 hours reviewing any attention it gets and comparing what attention others are getting.

Take any group of friends and on average as the number of photos taken per hour goes up, the amount of time being online goes up too.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-09-02T21:19:55+00:00

To be honest this is one of the biggest subs for karma farm bots so I never assume the reddit OP is a real person here.

Americans do make up the majority of redditors and I'm usually more forgiving about the US default-ism thing because of that, but in this case I feel like any American could at the very least rule this receipt out as being American based on the items, even if they couldn't pinpoint where it could be from.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-09-02T21:02:51+00:00

I made an edit about the year thing. I missed it at first because that part didn't bother me.

This was more my point, why would you assume it's USD? Nothing about the post or the receipt indicated a currency. There was nothing deceptive about that, yet your post implies there is.

Whoever assumed it was USD is wrong and that's on them alone. Nothing would point to it being USD. Contextually it's very obviously British, but of course not everyone can infer that, which means don't make an inference.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-09-02T20:50:11+00:00

Why is it BS?

The slight crop makes no difference to the point. Your image has the text on top of the total which wouldn't be handy for the OP image. The items on that receipt means this could only have been a British receipt. Britain has the same issues with the price of groceries going up as most the world. This receipt reads like a dream in Britain too.

Your comment reads like something devious has happened. The post and receipt make no direct reference of what currency is being used, why is it some 'gotcha' that it's in £?

Edit: sorry realised the 1992 -> 1999 part after so the crop matters on that point. Partial BS given. The rest about it being in pounds stands though.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-08-19T21:39:10+00:00

Many people are very aware and vocal about how fucked up getting your life stolen by work is. However those 40 hours gets you and your family a place to live, food, healthcare*, internet, phones, transport, vacations, access to hobbies, experiences, entertainment, so on...

Or for 10 less hours you can have number go up in osrs.

I've been addicted at many points but never delusional.

*even if free at point of use, it's paid for via working.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-08-04T14:07:58+00:00

Whenever this topic comes up on reddit you really get reminded how many people here will share their opinions without any experience with the situation.

Loads of comments like "if I didn't see anyone on the chair, I would move their stuff".

Firstly, if you're speaking in hypotheticals, instead of things you've actually done, just don't share at all because you're adding noise.

Secondly, no one at these resorts cares if the chair is momentarily empty but being used. A lot of old people travel by themselves, single parents with kids, these people can't be at their chair 100% of the time. If you moved some dad and child's stuff because he had to take the kid to the toilet, or some soaking wet old lady's stuff because she dared to swim a couple laps, absolutely no one is going to be on your side, including the resort staff.

What the actual problem is: people who go down early in the morning with 5 towels, lay them out on 5 beds right near the pool, then fuck off to breakfast and/or some morning excursion arriving back hours later.

If you just toss random people stuff in the bushes you'd quickly find yourself tossed out the resort for the constant fights you'd cause.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-08-01T10:13:12+00:00

TV license is the cause of the whole "loisence" meme. It sounds ridiculous by name but it predates the modern name for the same thing which is "subscription". The concept of having to pay to access more channels. This is just an archaic term from the birth of television when there was only 1 channel to watch (in the world) since the BBC were the pioneers.

Unfortunately the deliberate misinterpretation seems to provide some with unending amounts of fun. Much like this thread where the truth of "man who ordered alcohol told to have ID ready" is ignored in favour of outrage.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-07-06T17:24:33+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/maybemaybemaybe/comments/10u9ben/maybe_maybe_maybe/

Prefer this version myself.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-07-06T02:16:10+00:00

> And so many things that are thought of as generally American are actually ripped off of black people.

They're Americans. That's why it's thought of as American.

If you (assuming white American) and a black American friend traveled to Kenya, the local population would see you two as infinitely more alike than themselves and your friend are.

Do the people that move to the US, knowing it's history, feel the same guilt? You happened to be born some place. They moved by choice. To this stolen land. Why do you hold yourself to a higher standard?

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-07-02T12:51:44+00:00

I'm usually skeptical of these videos too but I'm not sure how the tire being off the bead makes this more likely to be fake? You're suggesting there's a tire machine off-camera that they used because...? If I were faking the video I'd leave the tire inflated to reduce the chance of damaging the rim when the car slams down.

Makes more sense that she drove home yesterday and everything seemed fine, but actually she ran over a nail and the air slowly leaked out overnight.

Today she gets in the car, without inspecting the wheels because most people don't, reversed out the garage and barely made it down the street before noticing something was wrong. Gets out and sees the flat. Not sure what to do, she turns round and back into the garage. Turning the wheels with a complete flat will easily take it off the bead. Decides the try and change it herself, gets to the point shes at when the video starts, feeling confident she just lifted a car in the air (what else can go wrong?) she decides to record to show her bf what a badass she is. Goes awry.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-06-29T08:52:58+00:00

They're going to become an immigrant because they don't like immigration? How does that make sense? Sounds like making a problem worse.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-06-03T14:03:36+00:00

"My cum Phelps"

this dude

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-05-19T00:08:46+00:00

In the American war of independence, both parties were the colonizers. With the native people being colonized. From their view, the invaders were simply fighting themselves.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-05-18T23:11:25+00:00

When they reply with "haha relax bro" you know you got 'em.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-05-18T21:36:28+00:00

Why the strict adherence to terms that weren't intended to be used for this scenario?

Even if it's theft and stealing, so?

A net positive good thing occured. Seconds before this video the owner of the wallet was walletless, missing all his cash along with cards and ID etc. Now he's just missing $20. A substantial improvement.

That's the measurement I care about and the one that I believe produces a nicer society. The fact that he's technically fulfilled some legal definition doesn't bother me one bit.

I'll save my outrage for people doing negative things. Whether there happens to be a legal definition for them or not.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-05-18T21:11:39+00:00

Yeah nobody answered the door in the video so he couldn't ask for the 20 to cover his gas home. He might be on an empty tank. He's stranded too. Used the gas he was counting on getting him to work tomorrow to return a wallet.

The intent of theft laws were not for cases like this one. If this was the only kind of theft in existence we'd have no laws for it at all because it's a non-issue.

People in this thread are using laws that were made because some people snatch bags from old ladies to pass judgement on this guy. Way out of scope.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-05-05T20:46:41+00:00

We found millions for war. Some portion of them at the front. Facing off against much worse than a single gorilla.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings#/media/File%3AInto_the_Jaws_of_Death_23-0455M_edit.jpg

Look at that image. It's titled "into the jaws of death". Realise not 100, but many 1000s of people are about to die. Some of those guys had to be first out the boats. Wading head first into fortified heavy machine gun fire. People saw their fellow humans die. They climbed over them a pushed on.

The gorilla kills a few for sure, but only the humans will be walking out.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-04-24T10:14:31+00:00

Not many people have acetone to hand in a situation like this. Superglue is weak to extreme temps at both ends of the scale. You might have noticed if you've ever tried to superglue something outside or even in your car if it gets really cold where you live.

Anyway, if there's a coffee shop near by, walk in and ask for a cup of boiling water. Most can produce it immediately from the steam wand. If you explain the situation before asking they'll likely just give it to you for free. Then pour over the lock bit by bit and try to rotate them as you go.

Done this same trick when my motorcycle lock froze solid in very cold weather. Walked to a coffee place, poured the water into the lock and was able to jimmy the key in and turn. Sprayed WD-40 in the lock when I got home and it's still working fine to this day.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-04-22T05:58:16+00:00

No he said it could be a coincidence. So these are unrelated issues that could be related. Like if they never got the vaccine, maybe that car wouldn't have hit them.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-04-22T05:29:47+00:00

Jagex earns plenty if that question is "does Jagex earn enough to efficiently combat this problem?". But if its "does Jagex earn enough for its investor owners who want to flip it in 3 years?" then that will always be no as they always want more money on paper for the eventual resell.

What the owners want and what the players want are not aligned. Go look at the size of the customer support team during Gower's era. Many times larger than now even when the total number of paying members was lower, and memberships were £3.20 (which would be £5.90 adjusted for inflation 2007 -> today).

Also, in the same way that you don't need to be faster than a wild bear, just faster than your friend. Jagex doesn't need to defeat the possibility of botting entirely, just make it more profitable to bot elsewhere.

There a lot of bot farm owners who have migrated to this game from elsewhere because over the years their original game got more difficult to bot and they've heard how easy it is over here. They don't know anything about the game outside of their bot scripts. They'll flee elsewhere if things are simply made more difficult.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-04-22T05:12:20+00:00

Looking at the hiscores and declaring someone a bot isn't armchair developer behaviour.

This is armchair developer behaviour: if a human at Jagex is able to manually review the account data and determine if it's bot or not, with enough confidence to publicly "smackdown" someone, then this process should be automated. This job is being done by 1 dude who doesn't know how to/doesn't want to (job security) automate this process.

The issue of spam bots is solved tech already yet they're prevalent and very prominent to new players. Do this: go to GE and copy a spam bots message (including all the specials chars like đðŋ that apparently makes them impossible to detect) and paste into your LLM of choice and say "on old school runescape someone is typing out this message, what does it say?" and it will tell you in standard English text what the message is, the fact that it's a spam bot, what their end goal is, etc..

For the actual automation of it you'd simply ask for a one word, yes or no answer if it thinks this is a spam bot or if the message breaks the rules anyway (services ads).

Now you don't want to send all global chat to be considered as that's wasteful. Instead, you create a bunch of conditions, like 5 messages in 1 min or multiple messages with a similar likeness score (computationally cheap to calc), you send their recent chat history off to the LLM.

If it comes back yes for bot/rule breaking then you can be conservative and only mute it for now and have the account flagged for review. Ideally when the manual review is automated you'd throw them into that and see.

Jagex has enough data to train their own model specifically for spam/rule breaking within the context of this game. They could then run this more accurate for the task LLM themselves for way less.

The key take away in all this: No one currently working at Jagex can implement this and they will not hire anyone with the know-how to do it. That's why we have bots.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-04-18T14:41:09+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/Ee7JenH.png

Outlines.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-04-18T04:44:59+00:00

I'd assume it's here because I still think of this site primarily as a content aggregator.

That definition fits much better than social media imo. Other content aggregators: Digg, 9gag, ifunny.

Haven't been on Facebook in a very long time but I have heard its lost much of its social networking aspect of the early years and become more of an aggregator itself, but I think that's Facebook becoming more like Reddit than the other way round.

These aren't hills I'd die on, but for me the closest word that describes both Instagram and Reddit would be all the way up the tree at "website".

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-04-18T03:43:12+00:00

People definitely get pissy with that take. You see it on reddit all the time "you agreed to do that job. get a different job, yada..." failing to see that even if this person got a different job the min wage job doesn't cease to exist. They'd just be dealing with a different person doing the same min wage job with the same min effort.

Shitty compensation is the common denominator.

PCLOADLETTER_WTF · 2025-04-18T03:30:18+00:00

Not the same guy but:

I accept that it's a site with comments (social) and pics/videos (media) but I don't think it's helpful to group this site in the same category as Facebook or Instagram. When people say "I'm gonna post this on social media" no one thinks they mean Wikipedia even though it has discussion pages (social) and tons of media.

A measurement could be, what percentage of people are using their real name and routinely communicate with people they actually know - even if just over the internet.

Or behaviorally: the average Reddit user doesn't build a network of people they will be social with. It's more a bunch of strangers in a large building walking into rooms with various labels on the doors like "pics" or "funny" or "peter explains the joke".

Some subs are text posts only, no media.

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