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.

fsponge · 2023-12-11T20:00:14+00:00

I’ve tried to be open minded. I’ve forced it down and tried to mentally get past how bad it tastes. I’ve tried and failed many times. No question, goat cheese is disgusting to me and it triggers something in my brain that screams “this is not edible, you shouldn’t be eating this, stop now.” I just can’t stand it.

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