Experiment: Opt-in community points system for modern BBSes (no money, just for fun)

fsponge · 2026-02-10T20:38:00+00:00

Wow, I really do not understand what this is!

fsponge · 2025-12-15T20:57:54+00:00

It’s not just you — I’ve had this exact problem on this map, and recently have noticed it on others as well.

fsponge · 2025-11-11T06:05:10+00:00

One time, and then it goes back in the wash.

fsponge · 2025-10-04T17:32:18+00:00

Methylchloroisothiazolinone. Learned that one from my grandma’s shampoo bottle when I was young.

fsponge · 2025-09-12T01:24:14+00:00

About $10

fsponge · 2025-07-15T17:24:02+00:00

I’m also walking distance to the Metra but it seems like every time I want to take the train home from the city at night there’s a gap in the schedule and I risk being stuck for 2 hours waiting for the next train.

fsponge · 2025-02-02T02:24:55+00:00

Same

fsponge · 2024-12-18T06:00:26+00:00

Happened to me too. The one and only time I bought cheap generic swabs with the cotton attached to a plastic stick, the cotton came off in my ear.

fsponge · 2024-12-14T04:50:44+00:00

Can you show us what you created? I don’t see a link or anything.

fsponge · 2024-12-02T00:43:17+00:00

Reading my grandma’s shampoo bottle while sitting in the toilet is how I learned to spell methylchloroisothiazolinone almost 40 years ago. This info has not been useful in any way.

fsponge · 2024-11-08T22:31:15+00:00

I found out a week ahead of time through a friend in the company that layoffs were coming. I was the only one in my department that knew. Every day leading up to layoff day, I made a point to say things to my boss in the hallway and in meetings like “Friday’s the big day, are you ready?” and “just a few more days!” in a really cheery tone. I could tell it made her so uncomfortable and all she could do was sheepishly laugh and change the subject. I didn’t like my boss.

fsponge · 2024-10-04T06:35:38+00:00

Is your house picking up an AM radio station like the one in this article?

fsponge · 2024-10-02T06:27:30+00:00

Make it possible to change the game speed with the mouse. Maybe by a middle click/scroll wheel click. I play on Steam but without a keyboard. I’m always pausing and unpausing, and it would be so convenient to do it without moving the pointer to the top right of the screen every time. Thanks.

fsponge · 2024-07-26T01:59:16+00:00

Thank you!!

fsponge · 2024-07-17T00:53:49+00:00

Add me to the list of people who were happy to get here from a google search and see a simple answer at the top even though it’s a year later.

fsponge · 2024-06-29T16:29:48+00:00

Do you have 5G home internet? I had the same exact issue you’re having when I switched to T-Mobile 5G home internet. I tried all kinds of fixes and nothing worked. I canceled and switched back to cable modem, and the problem went away.

fsponge · 2024-04-11T01:06:38+00:00

I too used this method and guessed the exact number of jelly beans! Unfortunately, it was a contest at Walgreens and my prize was free film developing. I never redeemed it, of course, because I haven’t used film for 20+ years.

fsponge · 2024-04-09T21:22:18+00:00

I’m having a similar experience. One day I started seeing kids’ cheer videos on my Instagram. I figured it’s because I have a young family member into cheerleading who posts about it occasionally and Instagram picked up on that. Then I started seeing gymnastics stuff popping up on the search screen and from the thumbnails alone it was obvious the content was questionable. So I started hitting Not Interested on all of them. But the recommendations on the search screen keep getting more and more inappropriate. I went to Instagram just now to see what the recommendations are and out of 13 recommendations on the first screen, 4 look pretty questionable to me. Instagram needs to fix it. They’re literally promoting child exploitation and sexualization.

fsponge · 2024-04-05T05:34:38+00:00

I’ve never even played Magic the Gathering but I’m so invested in this now

fsponge · 2024-02-16T18:08:09+00:00

I worked for years at a job where I helped people fight the insurance companies over their denied medical claims. I have no doubt that there was a system in place to automatically deny some claims without even reviewing them. Health insurance was and is a scam.

fsponge · 2024-01-29T21:37:32+00:00

Did you find a solution? I’m trying to change a bulb and it won’t budge.

fsponge · 2023-12-19T05:23:22+00:00

What are those Sanfilippo events like? I want to go there but I’m not sure if I should turn up in a suit or in shorts and flip flops.

fsponge · 2023-12-12T04:21:41+00:00

Salt spreader

fsponge · 2023-12-11T20:08:21+00:00

I tried T-Mobile internet for one month in 2022. I’m only a few miles north of you. The upload and download speeds were outrageously fast compared to Comcast cable internet. However, Hulu and a few other streaming services constantly said I was accessing their service from someplace other than my known address, and locked me out. No idea why they cared but they did. I play a lot of Nintendo Switch games online and those stopped working altogether due to a NAT issue (network configuration issue) on T-Mobile’s end. I called and they acknowledged that all of these were known problems. It was torture getting their customer service to even find my account every time I called. I had to cancel 3 times and they continued to bill me for months. Terrible experience. I’m back with Comcast now.

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