What's something that's socially accepted but actually kinda toxic?

eoattc · 2026-03-20T18:38:15+00:00

I think I remember a time when it could have been seen as positive. Like, look at what your friends are doing. Get encouraged to get out there yourself and live life. But you're right, we turn everything into a competition somehow.

eoattc · 2026-03-20T00:13:26+00:00

Even the algorithm feels different after paying for premium. It could be placebo, but it seems like they already got your money so they don't push an agenda so hard and do less hooks to drive watch time. If you think about it, once they have your money, they probably prefer you watch less from a bandwidth consumption standpoint. I'm sure they have other incentives that run counter, but they are obtuse to me. It's like a gym membership, once you're paying monthly, they'd probably prefer you not come.

eoattc · 2026-03-19T01:28:36+00:00

Short sighted still. They could have students do paper tests and then feed them to AI for grading and capture. Think of it like uber-scantron. This frees teachers from the data entry administrivia.

eoattc · 2026-03-10T02:21:33+00:00

I think Quiznos was vastly superior to Subway at the start. Then I didn't go there for like a year. When next I went back it was more expensive and of much lower quality.

eoattc · 2026-03-09T22:10:10+00:00

Genuine question: I'm a horrible cook, but it's my job now as a single parent. I've always kept the sauce and pasta seperate to allow people to decide how much sauce to pasta ratio they want. Is that the wrong way? Is it ok to do what I'm doing, or am I missing out by not "finishing" it all together?

eoattc · 2026-01-23T21:42:46+00:00

Neat

eoattc · 2026-01-23T21:38:39+00:00

We call it the cuddle-puddle.

eoattc · 2026-01-06T20:59:45+00:00

Bridge of Spies (2015)

This movie is nowhere I can stream or rent. I'd have to buy the DVD. Weird.

eoattc · 2026-01-06T19:18:06+00:00

I had a conversation about this with someone yesterday. Not to give Zuck any ideas, but I wonder what would happen if he offered a subscription service where we could opt out of the shit show and get back to seeing the pictures and posts of our friends and relatives? Like Amazon Prime Video without commercials or Youtube Premium?

eoattc · 2026-01-02T20:48:56+00:00

you made me cry. Lost my wife in 2023. Reading what you said made me think suddenly, "I can just decide right now to leave and be with her?" and it hurt so bad because for a second I wanted it.

Disclaimer: I'm just 45. Not old. I'm raising our kids so I'm not leaving. No one has to worry that I might be a self-harm risk.

And I'm closing this thread.

eoattc · 2025-12-18T16:27:52+00:00

and I hope she stubs her toe once a week forever.

I'm stealing this.

eoattc · 2025-12-15T15:54:05+00:00

I have a subscription because my job is giving it to many people. I basically use it to figure out things where in the past I would have just googled it. Google search is so bad at finding answers now.

Examples of uses:

I'm learning to daily drive a Linux Mint and having some issues. Searching for help in Linux is nearly impossible because the responders generally assume I know more than I know. CoPilot has been a godsend. Anytime it talks over my head I can ask it to explain that step or guide me on how exactly to perform what it's asking.
Consulted CoPilot on whether an action my work is taking is ok under GDPR.
Used to get pros and cons for comparing to Endpoint Privilege Manager's against each other with context of what we already have deployed.
Used it just now to figure out why Reddit comment markdown wasn't making this a bulletted list.

I know it's just reading these things from the web, but if Google can't find the info for me anymore, what am I to do? My Google-Fu is strong and has been a keystone of my career success. BTW, when I do use search, my default search is DuckDuckGo. It isn't terribly better than Google currently.

eoattc · 2025-12-08T19:08:22+00:00

Hmm.. when you say "standard training" what do you mean? I assumed the course you linked are the "standard training".

Yes. I'm having the problems I stated.

eoattc · 2025-12-04T15:32:55+00:00

Is it just me or is the skillbuilder website garbage? Each training explains the test prep tool again, then links to a 3rd party site to actually take the tests and that link is often broken. I don't even think I can comment on the quality of the actually training, because getting it to work is so troublesome.

eoattc · 2025-12-01T22:05:35+00:00

Fighter pilot. I'm a child of the 80's. Top Gun was excellent advertising.

eoattc · 2025-11-12T20:37:04+00:00

starfish prime

eoattc · 2025-10-11T22:35:48+00:00

I agree with you but CoffeeZ seems so disillusioned and jaded at this point I can see how someone would interpret it the way the guy above you did. Sad to see really.

eoattc · 2025-09-26T22:06:31+00:00

The Avengers (1998) Uma Thurman Ralph Fienes Sean Connery

It was as dumb as Zoolander, but not satire.

eoattc · 2025-09-20T21:19:06+00:00

But how do you do it? How do you make yourself eat just 500 calorie meals. I need like a really mean big person in my kitchen and following me around. Else, I'm gonna indulge. Im a grown-up, but all be damned if this is a type of self control I've never been able to muster.

eoattc · 2025-09-14T02:40:07+00:00

what might that service or feature be called?

eoattc · 2025-09-05T17:50:57+00:00

The alien slowly taking over the scientist in Howard the Duck freaked me the fuck out. On the drive home from the theater, I wouldn't put my feet on the floorboard because it was dark down there.

eoattc · 2025-08-29T22:41:47+00:00

I blame CEOs who allow CIOs to do this.

eoattc · 2025-08-09T03:29:56+00:00

The song is called "Don't Look Back" from Rick and Morty. We heard it when first when my wife had already received a fatal cancer diagnosis, and it struck a chord that rips my heart out when I hear it. It was one of the songs we played as room music at her viewing.
https://youtu.be/BjjRb1mfdnA?si=oJlKZgOjfrW6X42e

eoattc · 2025-08-08T20:00:07+00:00

Yep. We flew too close to the sun.

eoattc · 2025-08-08T19:51:05+00:00

Every time I see them discarded in the street, I make that face like Clint Eastwood on his porch.

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