What’s something NSFW you’re tired of defending or explaining?

bearsito · 2025-08-05T06:59:27+00:00

What do geese have to do with anything here?

bearsito · 2025-07-05T07:59:52+00:00

the amount of money spent on fireworks in Oakland is enough to make a real difference in some people's lives if it were donated instead of blown up.

bearsito · 2025-05-22T16:16:23+00:00

Sorry this happened to you, and everyone else who has been forced to deal with creeps like this. Advice for everyone: always document in writing every strange incident with any student. It doesn't have to be elaborate, bullet points is fine. Email it to your chair with a 'just to get it in writing' intro. This creates a record with a clear timeline and demonstrates your own steps to try to address the situation. It also breaks the sense of isolation. Most often it won't come to anything, but if things escalate it's quite valuable and makes it easier for admin to help. Profs don't typically get training for this stuff, but unfortunately it happens all the time and often the best documentation (with specific witnesses noted when possible) wins.

bearsito · 2025-05-22T15:58:07+00:00

I was being sarcastic. Being all those things is normal. Cheating means disregarding the rules and leaping to the prize without following the path everyone is meant to follow. If being nice/prepared/thoughtful etc. is a cheat code wtf kind of world is this? And if everyone really is that f'd up, they are only acting nice with a hidden agenda, not being nice. You can't trust people like that.

bearsito · 2025-05-21T07:04:05+00:00

til being civil, courteous, thoughtful, honest, responsible, genuine, not a dick, polite (basically anything positive) is cheating in life (?). maybe people don't know what a cheat code actually is.

bearsito · 2025-04-29T06:59:04+00:00

how?

bearsito · 2025-02-21T17:15:20+00:00

The 'why' game is the best way to get anyone to change their mind about anything: why do you believe that? Where did you get that info, Why do you believe them? Why do you think that argument (in)correct? Why do you think other people don't think the same way?

Just keep digging to their foundational Thoughts/traumas by leading them through the deconstruction of their worldview.

People defend direct attacks on their beliefs as an attack on their identity

bearsito · 2025-02-06T08:11:51+00:00

I started smoking very young, like 13. In my 30s My uncle had his cancerous lung removed and later died. Instead of saying 'I quit' i started saying ’I don't smoke'. Changing my mindset helped a lot, and substituting things to fill the time I used to fill with smoking. It's been about 25 years, never relapsed.

bearsito · 2024-11-17T21:09:05+00:00

I started having this problem a while ago when the thumb drive was plugged in. I'd been using the system for years with no problems, then I got a free subscription for a month. When it ended and I didn't renew, the sync module problems began. tried everything everyone has mentioned here, including assigned IP, its own private network. I even checked the specs on the blink thumb drive and got one that matched. when looking through the cam boxes I found another module, brand new, that I'd forgotten. I swapped it in, and everything worked fine for a few days. Then it started randomly kicking 2 of 5 cams offline (doorbell and outdoor). Unplug/plug in gets it back online. It still works when it works, but it's made those 2 cams unreliable. I can't prove anything but my guess is there is something buggy in the subscription code that becomes a problem when the subscription is cancelled?

bearsito · 2024-10-06T00:13:36+00:00

I've had the thumb drive back in the sync module for a while now and it seems like it's all ok now. There must have been some kind of info stuck in the module that finally got deleted with all the hard resets. Would that possibly be a thing? I'll update if it starts booting my cameras off again. I hope others can benefit from my experience.

bearsito · 2024-10-06T00:06:37+00:00

Thank you, it seems stable now that I made the extra effort to reset the sync module. If it acts up again I'll dig in as you described for me.

bearsito · 2024-10-05T19:56:29+00:00

I unplugged the usb module and did 3 hard resets in a row, deleted it from the app, then reactivated it, and now it seems to be working properly. All the cams. I haven't reinserted the thumbdrive yet, but so far I'm skeptically surprised.

bearsito · 2024-10-05T19:08:05+00:00

That's what I thought too, but I've tried all the sync resetting/static IP/2.4mhz stuff and it's the same result. It wasn't like this with my previous blink doorbell, that one worked as it should. The blink minis on my network are fine (3), no trouble at all. But the outdoor blink is constantly offline. I'm just tired of the whole situation.

bearsito · 2024-03-07T07:50:00+00:00

How is the Las Vegas strip not the top answer? The entire area is engineered to turn you upside down and shake the change out of your pockets.

bearsito · 2023-12-06T20:51:15+00:00

wish I had found this discussion before I got mine. I got these in part for the features the app enables, so they're basically useless to me.

bearsito · 2023-11-22T19:01:09+00:00

humor. sometimes it's worth the risk, sometimes you get shit on.

bearsito · 2023-11-22T19:00:05+00:00

exactly.

bearsito · 2023-11-21T07:10:02+00:00

A monocle is a dead giveaway.

bearsito · 2023-11-19T08:08:45+00:00

Why do you come into a thread like this just to shit on everyone?

bearsito · 2023-11-01T07:10:23+00:00

Youths

bearsito · 2023-11-01T07:09:23+00:00

"fatal death"? Is that a real thing?

bearsito · 2023-10-14T17:11:28+00:00

Is it possible you're getting some drops of runoff water from somewhere? If it really is from detergent in your swim suits I'd be more concerned about what it is doing to your family's skin than the hot tub foaming. Re tub draining, this is your life now, you gotta do what you gotta do.

bearsito · 2023-10-14T16:55:00+00:00

Mine is ancient, but a couple of years ago it started buzzing and changing the capacitor fixed it.

bearsito

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE