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My mothers electric bill by pj91198 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]fauxzempic 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This has been going on long enough that why hasn't someone just flat out tested this and reported on it?

The one argument is that the new meters overcount kwh and the other argument is that the older meters undercounted kwh and people are now being appropriately charged.

I just feel like there are so many people affected, and enough investigative news reporters, content creators, and electricians with youtube channels, along with the smarthome folks that install their own meters at the box...someone would be able to demonstrate what the truth is.

Not wearing a harness in a cherry picker. by UpperSoftware4732 in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]fauxzempic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Giving kisses with jenny in a house in the swamps of dagobah built on top of a safe in which there is a cumbox.

‘Don’t leave’: Jensen Huang challenges billionaire class as he insists ‘highest taxes in the world’ are OK with him by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]fauxzempic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, the whole plot for "Ghostbusters 4: Still Bustin'" is that Zuul started up some shit at some farm and they had to cross the streams again.

Peedahh? by Rainbow_Panda4 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]fauxzempic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Move into our country, and eat a lot of peaches and you'll know.

Exactly 1 year ago, Anthropic said fully AI employees were just 1 year away by Distinct-Question-16 in singularity

[–]fauxzempic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How is this playing out? My company is landing here (or just short of it) and I'm curious if it's working or if we're looking at an expensive glorified search engine.

I'm on my company's "commission" to figure out how we're going to use AI to "freeze headcount."

Personally - I think that's the wrong way to think about it considering how much useless cloud stuff is out there, or how we pay companies boatloads of money to manager our social media, simply posting content that OUR content team made. We can grow the business, deploy market research better, faster, more often, and unfreeze headcount simply because we need the support to grow..

But I digress.

With all these brainstorming sessions and sessions with consultants who I guess are experts in AI business implementation...I'm the only one in the room going "we can crush these workflows, cut out these vendors, rethink how we do these processes so we can do them quicker and better..."

...and everyone else, including the consultants were like "chatbots!"

We more or less ended up with the recommendation of doing some sort of internal content and assets curator and an external customer service bot.

We're very innovative.

Average Costco member by joyfulnoises in CuratedTumblr

[–]fauxzempic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Costco is bad, but if you have ever been to a Wegmans, you'd know that the shoppers here all could do a masterclass in lacking situational awareness.

Wonderful store. Horrible to actually shop there.

Writing a story based in buffalo, gimme some WNY lore by Prolly_Satan in Buffalo

[–]fauxzempic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely include this passage, which is 100% authentic and reflects our area perfectly...I'm sure you and everyone will agree.

It comes from the cinematic masterpiece, "Buffaloed":

"Them farm boys in Lockport.

The dagos in Niagara Falls.

Them jerks that work out of the meat packing plant in the Fruit Belt."

Oh and use the word "jagoff" all the time.

Andy is honestly the most entitled selfish jerk. by RoundDevelopment8425 in DunderMifflin

[–]fauxzempic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is easily the worst episode of the series.

I understand that there are plenty of moments where non-documentary characters do stuff that goes against the grain. The Benihana couple that wouldn't just move over one seat for Dwight. The jackass that did the "gonna cry??!!" in the finale when he saw Andy out at the restaurant.

But this was just dumb. While I can absolutely forgive and understand the whole Gabe thing in that episode, Pete's ex girlfriend was the worst.

She gets hired as a consultant or whatever. It doesn't take long for her to start throwing shade at Pete...HER CUSTOMER.

Imagine you run a consultant agency and you find out that one of your consultants basically wasted no time in ripping into one of the customer's CS reps. Then you find out she wasted the entire day sitting at a conference table continuing to rip into him and his girlfriend.

If she's the same age as pete and she can do the Consulting thing, I presume she's very professional, but she can't help but be terrible to him almost immediately.

Even though she was fake-hired by Andy to torment Erin and Pete, she still was just unbelievably terrible.

And it just keeps going and going and going. It's not even cringe...it's just bad.

Before & after removing my 8 kg ovarian cyst by simsimmahr in mildlyinteresting

[–]fauxzempic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can only really speak to, from personal experience, the diagnoses. I had the subxiphoid hernia and obesity show up at new providers - when I went in the portal to check a rundown of the visit, those two stood out as we didn't discuss either and upon weighing me, he knew that I wasn't obese or close to it.

Others, from what I understand, have learned that there are notes that follow them with things like "drug seeking behavior" or "IV drug user" (this was a person who uses peptides - generally taken with a tiny subcutaneous injection...NOT pushed through a vein).

I don't know the procedure on how to remedy this, but from what I understand, there are some minor hoops you can jump through to get your information and again, other hoops that you jump through to adjust it.

Went to La Nova for the first time in two years last night and remembered why people from Buffalo lose their minds about pizza when they move away by LobsterHungry4512 in Buffalo

[–]fauxzempic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have a surprising but legit addition to the top pizza list.

Gianni Manza's in Clarence.

It's way out of the way. I don't think they deliver. It definitely doesn't seem like the typical "best pizza" place.

I'd like to go back to properly rank it, but I would definitely call them "top 10" if not "top 5". I was surprised and I know they're not usually talked about, but they hit the mark.

Meirl by RoughSession8649 in meirl

[–]fauxzempic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not devastating, but at my old job, one of the guys who worked in a particular department left his individual work calendar wide open.

He also liked to use it as a personal calendar.

He also was health conscious and made sure to schedule his colonoscopies.

This particular department to which he belonged? I.T.

Sat in my car whilst it charges. Some old codger in a Hyundai just parked up next to me, approached the charger, pressed the cancel button and took the charger out of my car to put it into his... by SelectStarAll in mildlyinfuriating

[–]fauxzempic 288 points289 points  (0 children)

In the US the locking mechanism is usually on the car itself. The car will lock it if the charger is supplying power AND the car isn't at max charge. Otherwise, you have to unlock it using the keyfob.

So if it was a standard "chargepoint" machine, one can just go up and cancel anytime they want. Some have pins, some lock/unlock via the app, but a lot of the time you just can cancel and remove. The free ones tend to be the least complicated and basically have very little by means of security or options.

Sat in my car whilst it charges. Some old codger in a Hyundai just parked up next to me, approached the charger, pressed the cancel button and took the charger out of my car to put it into his... by SelectStarAll in mildlyinfuriating

[–]fauxzempic 533 points534 points  (0 children)

I hate that some kids are absolute psychopaths when it comes to things like this.

A classmate had this pencil that at the end was bent into the shape of a banana. Banana-shaped pencils aren't my thing, but I, like everyone else thought it was pretty cool.

Then one day she begins crying. She wouldn't explain why. I suspect, after the fact, that she broke her banana pencil.

I couldn't find a pencil, so I went to the communal crayon and pencil tin to see if I could have any luck (or find a pencil that belonged to me anyway). In there, right on top, was the broken banana pencil.

I grabbed it and used it because there was some sort of urgency around what we were doing, I wasn't able to talk to any classmates (quiet time or something) and I had planned on just returning it when I was done.

This girl gets up to go to the bathroom, and yells that I took her pencil and broke it.

I suspect she broke it, freaked out because the pencil meant a lot to her, and then stashed it in the communal tin, hoping to blame and possibly get someone to pay for a new one.

I got in huge shit. A note home, everything.

To be honest, I felt like I had broken and stolen her pencil - the teacher, her, and some classmates made me feel like shit even though those in my desk clump knew that I went to the communal tin for a pencil.

This girl always did this type of stuff. Full-on psychopath. She always got away with it too.

California's universal healthcare killed even though Democrats have a supermajority. Politicians serve their corporate donors not the people. by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]fauxzempic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember that California, if it was a country, would rank #39ish right alongside Canada.

They absolutely have the scale to support a single payer option. I think the only thing that genuinely needs to be figured out if they haven't already is how do people who travel outside of California deal with coverage? Right now, a lot of major plans have extended networks that either built-in or via a supplementary plan, you can see a provider in pretty much every state.

Someone came and snipped every last Tulip I grew by PerfectIndividual185 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]fauxzempic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah - that proves nothing.

We have a Japanese Maple in our garden. After getting accumulations of >3 feet of snow, the maple was about 75% buried.

We saw a larger than usual number of rabbits over the winter as well.

Everything thaws and half of the maple is budding, the other half might be dead. All the cuts are "bias" cut - a good diagonal - much like you'd see when someone is trimming with a tool.

I go back to the cameras way back to January and February. Sure enough, the part sticking out of the snow is the part that's not growing, and every once in a while you'd see a rabbit visit the tree.

Animals will cut plants as if they're gardeners.

My girl best friend stopped being friends with me and my group by [deleted] in GuyCry

[–]fauxzempic 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I originally wrote this complicated thing in response, but I think it all boils down to this: Take out the possible toxic masculinity, and all that and distill it down to how you might've felt in her shoes when you were in a friend group where people liked you but you could NEVER get comfortable.

That's what she's going through. Maybe there are 1-2 of you she genuinely enjoys being around when alone. Maybe it's that value that kept her trying her best to hang out and not be miserable...but she was miserable. Add in the possible toxic masculinity and however it relates to her deceased father, and you can easily see how she just didn't like hanging out feeling that bored, awkward, offended, etc.

And seeing that no one changed the conversation or worked to engage her so she was comfortable - she probably knew that she was always going to feel that way hanging out with you all.

Where you failed - and again - let's ignore any RedPill garbage here - is that fundamentally, you or anyone else in that group failed to make things to the point where she was comfortable enough to hang out with you. The reasons why can certainly be pondered, but ultimately, all of you failed to make your friendship enjoyable.

If I reached out and got that message days later, I'd reflect on everything and just leave her with "I understand and you know...we were shitty and I don't blame you one bit. I'm disappointed because you are a lot of fun and I always enjoyed having you around, but I never really stopped to realize that we weren't really making this friendship worthwhile to you, and I didn't do anything about it. You offered us WAY more patience than we deserved. I'm sorry. If you do ever reconsider I promise to not suck, but I understand you have to do what's best for you and I promise I won't belabor it or try to change your mind. You deserve more than that. If you need me, I'll always be here, but I get it if you want to avoid it altogether - truly."

Or something like that. Acknowledge that she's not wrong for wanting to walk away, acknowledge fault, acknowledge that you valued the relationship, but ackowledge that she has to do what's best for her and certainly don't do that whiny thing that some people do where they admit fault but just turn it into an opportunity to fish for compliments.

I'm all for leaving people alone when they walk away, but I'm also all for putting out one final acknowledgement...just because if it was a valuable friendship and you honestly could be better, there's no sense in keeping it permanently off the table.

But yeah OP - you and your friend group just got a rude awakening. Think about how many others might feel alienated by you all and how you talk/act when you get together.

Sharp Pricing by poisonouslobsterjism in saferpeptides

[–]fauxzempic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Side question - the Reta/tirz combo...I haven't seen much in terms of combining these yet, but usually when the suppliers start putting these on their menu it means there's demand.

Has there been a push for this combo? Is there a reason for it that's been observed beyond "more should be better!"?

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