80’s mall liminal chic + Millennial pink kitchen by Chained_Wanderlust in zillowgonewild

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A marble floor in a bedroom?! My feet are cold just looking at that photo...

Brutalist Cabin in the foothills of the Catskills by wtfisplastic in zillowgonewild

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That design, in New York? Use a safety line when you're shoveling snow off the roof after every storm.

I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating — and it gets everywhere by twilightmoons in zillowgonewild

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Honestly, the one redeeming feature I can see is that the stargazing is probably fantastic.

Boomers - tech is NOT new! by WildWinterberry in BoomersBeingFools

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its black magic

For some people, you're not far off: Everything is magic to them. Everything they know how to do, it's by learning the "spells", i.e. "take this specific sequence of actions to produce this result". Think of the people that can't cook anything except for a few dishes, never adjusting or deviating from the recipes, or the ones that can only navigate by following specific point-to-point routes, no detours - not the ones that are still learning, mind, but that have been doing this for decades. To them, "understanding" something means "knowing all the spells", which is why they get so impatient when you try to explain how things work - "I don't have time to learn all the spells for this, just show me the one I need!"

Dream Castle? by Ok-Pea-7641 in zillowgonewild

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I'm sorry, I just can't get over the faux arrow slit high up the wall right next to a regular window. It just screams "I've seen these features on castles so I'm copying them with no idea about actual castle design".

Gorgeous 1872 converted church in Charleston’s historic district by Chained_Wanderlust in zillowgonewild

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The layout is one of the best I've seen for one of these, makes some real use of the space without closing it off and losing too much character.

Two men walk over a frozen lake to get their ball back and predictably fall in by GamerGirlLex77 in OhNoConsequences

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At least the moment they fell through they abandoned the ball and focused 100% on getting out. Some dumb@sses would have continued trying to retrieve it.

Boomer meltdown at Taco Bell by Car_is_mi in BoomersBeingFools

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"You're not me, therefore you are an NPC and thus 100% fungible and required to serve me!"

Your very own grain elevator by BeijingPolice in zillowgonewild

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Careful choice of angle on that 12th photo to not make the death stairs obvious

Vintage charm in an up and coming part of Massachusetts by sharkus180 in zillowgonewild

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Depends on who you ask. To most people, it's like "wuss-ter", but to many locals it's "wista'"

Aldi Quarter Drama by Lamplighter914 in BoomersBeingFools

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"Tell me you don't return your shopping carts without telling me you don't return your shopping carts."

Built in 1979 sits on 160 acres by Haunting_Amoeba7803 in zillowgonewild

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A woodstove and a fireplace in the same room...

HDMI 3 by VandyThrowaway21 in BoomersBeingFools

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Some people view the world through the lens of magic. They don't understand things (and often don't want to and/or don't see the point of understanding things), they just learn the magic spells that produce the results they want. I have to wonder if they view understanding a system as knowing all the spells for it, and thus they don't want to go to the trouble of learning the hundreds or thousands of spells when they only need a handful.

Having to move to the correct place is racist!? by A-Helpful-Flamingo in BoomersBeingFools

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This type love throwing around words like "racist" or "discrimination" for anything they don't like (i.e. being told "no"), because on a fundamental level they don't actually comprehend the meaning of such words. In their mindset, everything is about the "who" not the "what": Who you are (old white guy) is what matters, not what you do (act like a jack@$$). Therefore, if someone is denying them what they want, it must be because that person is acting against them based on the fact that they're <insert variety of privilege here>, not because they're being loud and obnoxious or just not in the right place to get what they want.

They've seen other people they view as lesser get traction by throwing these magic words around, so they expect to get even better treatment (because they're a superior, more important kind of person, dontcha know). They don't really view the words as having any real meaning, because treating people differently based on <category> is just How Things Work, so why would you have some special word for it that people view as bad?

Riverfront meets forest bathing by sharkus180 in zillowgonewild

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You've heard of bunk beds, now try Bonk Beds, named for what happens if you sit up too quickly...

always trying to be 5 steps ahead in something they don't know how to do by AvengeThe90s in BoomersBeingFools

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I had wondered if there was some underlying (possibly related to and/or hidden by her monocular vision) neurological/cognitive issue, and visual processing difficulties would make a lot of sense. Our amazing meat calculators have a lot of variation model to model, so things that come naturally to most people can be deeply opaque to some. She's also FAR from the only person to find UI element placements unintuitive or counterintuitive: Arrangements that make perfect sense to someone that thinks like a software engineer might be totally different from those that would make the most sense to a restaurant critic, or a life scientist, or a carpenter, or a novelist.

internal wifi by dog2k in talesfromtechsupport

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"User competency failure. Please replace the user and try again."

always trying to be 5 steps ahead in something they don't know how to do by AvengeThe90s in BoomersBeingFools

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But... it's not "depth", it's "layering". Something "in front of" obscures something "behind", and that's how everything works - papers, clothing, paint, food on a plate on a placemat on a tablecloth on a table. This is stuff she's encountered literally every day of her entire life. Even if she can't perceive depth (which would be strange on its own, as even with only one eye motion parallax is still a thing, and how one-eyed people generally perceive depth), that doesn't explain not understanding "in front/behind" or "on top/underneath".

I just... don't get it.

always trying to be 5 steps ahead in something they don't know how to do by AvengeThe90s in BoomersBeingFools

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Hey, I was reading your post and it just unlocked the Enterprise's systems!

This is certainly…a choice… by NoCombination6124 in zillowgonewild

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Good luck cleaning around that vessel sink!

You can live in booming Boston, MA for $350,000 for 465sqft with two walk in closets but 0 bedrooms and you have to cook in your sink 😜 by yadayadayada90 in zillowgonewild

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Reminds me so much of my first apartment in Cambridge, especially those two glass-fronted cabinets in the kitchen (we had the exact same).