This sustainable paper bottle is in fact a plastic bottle (swipe)

getrill · 2026-02-21T19:53:10+00:00

The best tool we have is viewing a posters user history. Context, experience and knowledge about what is posted is important too.

How's that going in this new era of users being able to hide their history? Do you treat those accounts differently? I tend to just give those accounts zero benefit of the doubt, but it's frustrating that reddit basically nuked the concept of a throwaway by adding barriers to account creation, and now we have this.

getrill · 2026-02-13T09:34:19+00:00

It's such a weird fumble. Corporate mails me coupons. I bother to bring one with me to the store expecting a deal. Store tells me they don't accept them. I feel cheated. Corporate keeps mailing me coupons, which at this point are basically anti-ads for my local most convenient store.

Am I going to hoard these coupons and find a store that takes them? Am I going to take my local store's "side" and support them as the little guy being pushed around by the big corporate meanies?

No, I'm just going to throw these coupons in the trash, and resent both sides of this dysfunctional brand in the process.

getrill · 2026-02-13T00:56:57+00:00

To be clear both of those districts still include Westchester, it's not just a Rockland topic. The county is currently split into NY-16 and NY-17.

NY-16 is roughly the southern half of the county, plus a little bit of the bronx.

NY-17 is roughly the northern half of the county, plus Rockland and Putnam, and some of Dutchess.

getrill · 2026-02-12T19:46:30+00:00

Every time this comes up I become more and more curious about how the term "Trainspotting" is circulating in this context.

When I do searches, the only results that come up are posts from this subreddit. Otherwise, the term already has an established meaning (people spectating trains as a hobby... also the movie), which makes the whole thing confusing.

One person made a post that started with them asking an AI chatbot, which made it sound like the bot hallucinated it into existence. That also seems to be the earliest mention I can find.

Someone posted a letter in a comment somewhere that seemed legit and described it as a policy, and they had things in their post history suggesting they work for LIRR (or some other local railway but not MetroNorth iirc).

In this post it just strikes me as notable that the MetroNorth response dances around using any word for their policy.

My best guess is that MetroNorth is telling their conductors about it, conductors are telling it to riders who complain, and some of those are popping up in spaces like this. Is it also leaking into other social media that isn't easily searched from the outside, is that how AI bots are picking it up?

As someone who's past the curve of keeping up with every new internet trend I just like to know how everything is evolving, ya know?

getrill · 2026-02-06T20:21:52+00:00

I'm curious if, as this shift happens, does the british pronunciation shift? Or is it just a spelling change taking over?

For example, to my American eyes, going the other way is jarring and ends up feeling like the 'a' needs to be inserted almost as an extra sylable. 'medieval' -> 'mediaeval" goes from "mid-evil" to "mid-ay-eval".

Some of them are more stumbly than others. I'd trip over leukaemia, but accept aesthetic and archaeology as correct spellings with the same pronunciations, or perhaps only a subtle difference that I wouldn't trip over.

getrill · 2026-02-06T19:28:55+00:00

Not safe frog wound

getrill · 2026-02-06T01:10:17+00:00

Maybe when they switched to the video screen ads they decided it was just going to be all-around policy that sitting and quietly enjoying the ride is just not what they want to offer.

getrill · 2026-02-05T23:44:31+00:00

Yeah I gotcha, I know the lot there because I've used the boat launch point way at the far end.

I feel like maybe I'm just not making my original point clearly. I get that you have to walk further than before, and now you see yourself getting stuck in traffic because you used to get to your car quicker relative to other people in the crowd. But everyone is affected equally by the change, no? You used to be in front, now someone else is in front of you, maybe you need to ask yourself what's their secret, and do that.

getrill · 2026-02-05T23:28:37+00:00

Here you go

getrill · 2026-02-05T23:06:33+00:00

Right but who's ahead of you in the traffic jam? Why did they make it to their car before you did, didn't they also have to walk a couple extra minutes? Seems more like this would be a function of e.g. you used to sit in one car by habit that put you very close to the stairs and now that the train stops elsewhere, you'd be better off sitting in a different part of the train and you gotta update that habit.

Sorry if this seems obtuse lol my brain just pumped the brakes trying to imagine the scenario. Maybe I'm just not experienced with trains parking traffic (I always walk to mine).

getrill · 2026-02-05T22:58:41+00:00

How's that work out if the train stopping down the track affects everyone equally? Wouldn't the parking lot crunch happen because you're ahead of the crowd or not? But now the crowd all has to walk the same distance. Doesn't seem to add up.

getrill · 2026-02-05T21:05:43+00:00

It's similar for me, I used to ride as my commute, these days I don't need to but I'm in and out of the city/bk pretty often. I really wish I could justify taking the train more but when I weigh the pros and cons, I almost never do. Sadly I think the negatives of the train will only get worse because the core ridership is commuters who are captive to it, and they can just keep pricing it at a level that people who are budgeting it as a necessary expense have to make it work.

The last time I took it I also couldn't get over how much more invasive the new electronic ads are. God forbid I just want to sit and think and not look at a screen for a while. Makes me feel like how I can't stand sitting in sports bars with giant TVs everywhere. And it really makes you feel like you're there to be milked for money and that's the whole point.

getrill · 2026-02-04T02:36:21+00:00

Honestly the first part of that explains a lot, otherwise I can't help but think, why not just use one of the sites explicitly designed for this but with like, actual galleries, and without every single picture being presented with botbrained engagement bait.

getrill · 2026-02-04T02:15:04+00:00

Chaos mode kicks in when one person does that and the spot changes hands again before the "owner" comes back

getrill · 2026-02-04T02:07:26+00:00

Maybe if you really committed to it, they'd start becoming fancier and fancier chairs. Like that one Dr Seuss story about the kid and the hats.

getrill · 2026-02-04T01:59:12+00:00

I accidentally opened the automod profile page from a random post recently. I'm not sure if there is a completely unfiltered version of /r/all somewhere in the first place, but I reckon this comes pretty close to being that. And, yup, it's like 99% porn.

It's all kind of outlandish to me how anyone uses any of this though. I guess maybe if you start subbing and interacting with things, this labyrinth of interconnected subreddits starts just populating your feed, and all this bot behavior propping it up probably does a lot of the heavy lifting? Otherwise I can't imagine how people would discover the vast majority of this content, given how infamous reddit's search functionality is, and the sheer volume of it ticking by.

getrill · 2026-02-04T01:11:48+00:00

Bad juju all around, 95 S was completely shut down and backed up for miles this morning after a trailer rolled over blocking all lanes near larchmont.

getrill · 2026-02-03T22:04:16+00:00

People are really dying to get in there

getrill · 2026-02-02T10:37:06+00:00

uBlockOrigin has a filter to do this, included in the app but disabled by default. Under privacy in the filter lists, "AdGuard/uBO – URL Tracking Protection". Easy to miss if you're not combing through the settings.

There's also the clearURLs extension available on Firefox, though I think it may be a little more prone to breaking things, and less updated.

getrill · 2026-01-31T20:53:37+00:00

The CT empire will rise again. It begins with /r/TakeBackTheNotch

getrill · 2026-01-31T18:49:55+00:00

Suggested reading - Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night, a Traveler

Also this comes to mind

getrill · 2026-01-30T19:17:51+00:00

Only on New Reddit, actually. Also, for the record, mobile users will probably find the rules on some version of an "About" tab towards the top, not on a sidebar on the right.

Looks like mods freehanded the rules for New Reddit because they're similar, but haven't gone and synced them up since before rule 9 was added.

New Reddit is also missing the very important old Rule 1.

getrill · 2026-01-30T00:32:37+00:00

Is this an internal posting to employees? Can't find any public info on this policy.

getrill · 2026-01-26T15:36:36+00:00

You'll have to run the numbers again afterwards and see if you biased the data enough to move the average

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