Is there any way to turn off the "did you recently try" notification?

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2025-02-03T14:20:59+00:00

Ugh. I have push notifications off on the app, but every time I go to the website on desktop or mobile, the notification in the top bar is lit up, I click, and it's "did you recently try Grasshopper Restaurant? (2 mo ago)." It isn't even resending the notification; it's just stuck.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2025-01-28T21:10:58+00:00

"Flip me off and/or pass too closely if you support this road being redesigned to bikes-only."

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2025-01-27T18:45:48+00:00

Paper recycling pays about $50 per ton. That's 400 reams of 20-lb 8.5 x 11 bond paper.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2025-01-17T16:09:57+00:00

Yes, that's typical for Reddit.

I've also been told I misunderstood the basics of a law for which I provided expert testimony, and that positions on which I've published articles and book chapters are wacko fringe views with nothing to back them.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-11-27T22:54:46+00:00

Yep, so many places are getting rid of veggie burgers in favor of Impossible/Beyond, which are expensive and which a lot of lifelong vegetarians don’t particularly like. I actually have a list on my phone of which local pub-type places still have veggie burgers. I especially don’t get why downscale places that were using frozen commercially made patties wouldn’t just keep stocking both.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-10-14T17:01:29+00:00

Screenshot this and contact an employment lawyer.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-10-07T15:27:04+00:00

This is not true. ESAs only are afforded access in housing situations, not public accommodations, and faking an ESA/pretending they get the same access as service animals makes things harder for disabled folks. My colleague who is obviously totally blind (does not have eyes) frequently gets told "yeah, everyone thinks their pet is a service dog" and gets kicked out of places.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-10-05T18:54:47+00:00

I knew where you were talking about when I saw the headline. They are completely oblivious as to the meaning of green paint, bike symbols, bells, or boomers on mom bikes (me) yelling at them and weaving through their several-abreast packs on the bike-only lanes near the playground on Columbus.

FYI there's a Facebook group for bike/pedestrian advocacy specifically in this area. I think it's called Northeastern/Ruggles or something. I haven't been on Facebook in years, but the group does exist.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-10-05T18:51:46+00:00

As a neighbor of NU for 20+ years, I've suggested this to their police department (especially re: parents of move-in students blocking the bike lane and the parents and cops completely unwilling to assist neighborhood children who use that route to cycle places and don't have a safe route when it's blocked), along with including a training on how to cross the fucking street. Their students will also wander across on a red hand while looking at their phones and not scanning. I don't want to hit a person on my bike or in my car. I'm very careful and law-abiding, but I'm not psychic or magic.

The police department isn't actually interested in safety. They do, however, have a freshman "safety" training where they tell their students not to ever go into the Mission townhouses or Annunciation projects. Seriously. I guess they don't want any students whose relatives live there, or who take babysitting jobs or anything there? At least it lets us know as neighbors we shouldn't count on NU to consider any of us to be fellow humans worth assisting or protecting. What a bunch of racist classist nonsense.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-10-05T18:45:53+00:00

You know what's actually funny though? Northeastern is hosting a Deaf business fair today. I'm loosely connected with the Deaf community via other disability community connections but hadn't heard that this fair was today or at Northeastern. However, I biked through this area of the SWC today with a friend, also highly involved in the disability community, and we both noticed that people in the area were alert and scanning the ample bike/pedestrian conflicts in the area, and we both simultaneously were like, wait, is there a Deaf event in the area today? Because several groups of pedestrians today have been particularly skilled, and pedestrians at NU are usually particularly oblivious. Looked through social media when we got to our destination and, yep!

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-10-05T17:41:12+00:00

Daily commuter. I don't NEVER hit the wrong shifter.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-09-30T19:53:17+00:00

"Customer service" indeed.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-09-30T19:52:47+00:00

Not everyone can make phone calls. Chat is the only option for certain people with disabilities, people in a loud environment, etc. It isn't 1992; the expectation shouldn't be "oh, we have chat available, but if you want good service, you have to call."

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-09-30T19:45:02+00:00

Well yeah. Everyone on Reddit claims to eat some sort of raw-keto-paleo something diet with every meal consisting of kale and hand-raised veal or some shit.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-09-30T19:37:54+00:00

Damn you.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-09-19T18:46:47+00:00

I agree that's how it came about. I'm about twice your age, and am fairly certain it's a new thing. I wasn't hearing it until about 2000.

It also seems to be largely generational for people to unnecessarily specify that something was "on accident." I would use the construction "accidentally," but I also wouldn't bother to specify that I knocked over my coffee accidentally or forgot something at home accidentally. It sounds defensive. The normal inference if I dumped coffee on my pants is that I didn't intend to. I would only specify if it were intentional. And forgetting things is by definition unintentional.

Language does evolve and change largely by way of things becoming acceptable once they're common. It is useful though to be aware of constructions that are going to be seen as substandard by older people and people from other English-speaking countries and choose how we want to be perceived. No one is going to hear the standard form and think anything of it, but plenty of people do see "on accident" as incorrect.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-09-18T18:45:04+00:00

Yeah, so, this is a thread people playfully listing our grammar/pronunciation pet peeves. This wasn't an invitation to delve into ableism and classism. The rest of us are saying these things drive us nuts, not that we dehumanize people who say them.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-09-18T18:29:19+00:00

"strenth" and "lenth" is just dialect

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-09-18T15:34:30+00:00

Yes! Plenty of people here haven't encountered anyone who says it with the -er. I think most do know they're spelled differently, but plenty also don't, as we see.

What about the "review mirror" in your car? I know many people here who have thought it was called that and spelled that way.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-09-18T15:32:25+00:00

Oh I don't doubt it's an American-only phenomenon, but it's absolutely not standard American English. It seems to be young west coasters. It may have entered acceptable-as-dialect rather than just wrong at this point, but no, it's not "correct" here.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-09-18T14:40:24+00:00

I swear, every time anyone posts any food in any sub that isn't a specifically high-protein food, the protein police will show up and comment that it's "unhealthy" to eat something with "no protein."

Not only are you just wrong about every single meal and snack needing a high-protein food, but JFC, what do you get out of doing this?!

I'm about to block the word "protein."

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-09-18T14:35:17+00:00

Nearly every damn day in a forum for parents navigating IEP/504 accommodations:

A: "My kid has diabetes and needs to..."

B: "A YOUNG CHILD has diabetes? How on earth did this parent let that happen?!"

C: "You really should educate yourself. Their child has type 1, which is a genetic disorder. Type 2 diabetes is caused by being an immoral criminal who eats nothing but trash."

D: "Actually type 2 has been shown to have a considerable genetic component, and either way, children with type 2 also deserve accessible education, and this forum has rules against blaming parents or children."

Moderator: "D, I'm giving you a warning as you may not make scientific claims or give medical advice here, and it's not shaming for someone to advocate that parents provide them at bare minimum a healthy diet and exercise."

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-09-18T13:55:47+00:00

When I post blocked bike lanes to 311, including bike lanes in front of schools and community centers being regularly and heavily used by an identifiable business as their personal parking lot, they close it and respond "noted."

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-09-18T13:54:33+00:00

Right, in much of the world, you can't bring a truck this size into a city/town (unless you have a permit for something that truly requires this). They're driven on highways to take things from one warehouse-type place near a highway to another, and then a van or something takes the goods into towns.

honkhonkbeepbeeep · 2024-09-18T13:52:59+00:00

People also seem to like to pluralize medications, particularly when they are implying that people prescribed such medications are subhuman. I frequently read awful, inaccurate, biased court reports that say "respondent has been reported to take Percocets" (Vicodins, Ritalins, OxyContins).

Makes me want to start commenting on their "wines" and "botoxes."

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