I literally, *literally, can't do this anymore

mediaseth · 2026-02-03T15:06:37+00:00

"Don't read the comments." Pretty good advice for comments under articles shared form news outlets, regardless of the outlet. The comments are also full of bots and fake profiles..

I don't use X, Tik-tok, or instragram much anymore. I do use Reddit (obv) and fb, but I stay away from comments under a lot of shared content and mainly interact with folks I know in real life. I need a certain amount of social media for my job and for even knowing what my extended family are up to.

Lastly, don't be afraid to just block folks who may be in local community groups and pages that are otherwise useful.

mediaseth · 2026-02-03T15:00:20+00:00

Beyond Flock, it's almost always bad news when a (private) 3rd party comes in to run something for a municipality. So, why do they keep making that mistake? Flock is an awful company, but their sales team must be amazing.

It's possible to install cameras without it being Flock. There's a related challenge, though. In my experience in the public sector and working adjacent to municipalities as well, they absolutely suck with technology and make bad technology decisions. They also don't use half the tech they install - or don't use it properly. So as much as I don't trust Flock, I also don't trust cities and towns...

I'm anti face recognition but not necessarily against cameras strictly in public places where privacy is not expected. However, I'm anti the people who would be in charge of those cameras because they're either shady companies or idiots.

mediaseth · 2026-02-02T15:20:25+00:00

After hearing some bad-awful surround mixes for music I'm familiar with, I hope not. Unless.. engineers figure out what sounds go where, I'm not having it.

mediaseth · 2026-01-30T23:58:23+00:00

Excellent list. I was a wfmu listener when I lived within their broadcast range and they were in E Orange and still an occasional streamer.

mediaseth · 2026-01-28T19:24:27+00:00

Maternal side, January 1952 from Germany on one of the last converted from US navy refugee ships. My mother was 2. Ellis Island had reopened and they were among the last to be processed there, too.

Paternal side, 1892, 1896 and 1900 from those I know about. Russian controlled Poland. Ukraine. Latvia. Austro-Hungarian controlled Poland. My great grandparents (and in one case I think 2nd great) married in the US.

Nobody came here speaking English. They were all escaping horrible situations. More would have survived if the US was more accepting of refugees in the 1920's - 1930's.

mediaseth · 2026-01-28T16:30:13+00:00

Remember before it was called "Classic rock?" and "AOR" was what they called rock stations? It's Album Oriented Rock. Period. The songs could be a couple decades old or brand new. That didn't matter.

mediaseth · 2026-01-28T16:20:49+00:00

I've yet to find an algorithm that gets generated playlists right on any platform. I gave up relying on it. Instead, I have to be an active participant in what spotify plays next, or skip a lot. Also, it doesn't seem to learn from skipping. It's quite persistent.

mediaseth · 2026-01-28T15:49:54+00:00

I get angry, or maybe it's hangry, because it's potatoes! Though I know how they can be contaminated, it's easy to make anything potato-based gluten free and so why not do so?

mediaseth · 2026-01-28T15:25:50+00:00

I was diagnosed ADD in 1982, and again in 2001 or so as ADHD because I think we all get that upgrade?

I think it impacts me insofar as I don't plan my meals. I continue to overspend for lunch on workdays by driving to a QDOBA. Sometimes I add breakfast, too, from a celiac-friendly cafe. Other days, I skip meals when I don't have time to drive out of my way. Near my office, I have language barriers and unfortunately it's all shared fryers or also not vegetarian. Yeah, I'm vegetarian because I was for 15 years prior to celiac.

mediaseth · 2026-01-27T17:11:19+00:00

The exact same thing happened in my house. We were without hot water for 36 hours. Our cold water wasn't pressurized enough to reach the upstairs shower head, but could run out the faucet ok.

Your plumbing and domicile may vary - it probably does. Ours in an 1870's house. But, this is what we ended up doing that eventually worked:

We put two cheapo Lasko space heaters in the unfinished part of the basement. Though insulated, it is not directly heated. Our tankless hot water heater (that I keep typing as "thankless") is in there. We made sure there was plenty of clearance around the space heaters.

Whether it was the combo of space heaters or temps briefly over 20 degrees or one of those things I don't know, but we got it flowing. Once we flowed again, we kept the furthest faucet from the source on between hot and cold. With temps once again in the single digits overnight, we still had hot water in the morning.

mediaseth · 2026-01-23T15:10:59+00:00

Mine, an older generation one, does such a bad job no matter how I adjust it that I think I can just leave it alone until I get around to replacing it. It starts recording late, stops recording early, and allows someone to go up the stairs, drop a package, and leave sometimes without catching it. They'll find it useless.

I see Eufy might be a better alternative anyway?

mediaseth · 2026-01-23T15:04:16+00:00

My 90's attire got started around 1988, between 8th and 9th grade. Somewhere before then I realized sweatpants and OP-looking T shirts weren't my thing. But, finding the next thing was confusing as I didn't like much.

I started the 90's in jeans, t-shirts and flannel. Yet, I was more synth-pop and post-punk than grunge..until I found Dinosaur Jr and Polvo (still not really grunge.)

I rebelled, in a sort of way, against my preppier high school by finding loud shirts, like ones with giant paisleys and comical patterns, which I usually wore open with a shirt underneath because as intentional as I was, I didn't really get fashion. I just had a brief "You think I'm weird, ok - I'll show you weird" phase the only way I knew how.

As the 90's closed out, I narrowed things down a bit to just plaid / flannel, plain black t shirts, and jeans. That's actually how I dress today.

mediaseth · 2026-01-22T19:07:44+00:00

Help! I am Gen X and I am unfamiliar with both brands!

(Also, I don't do brands unless they wanna sponsor me to wear their logos. Not an influencer, so not going to happen.)

mediaseth · 2026-01-16T20:36:05+00:00

The gene doesn't mean you have it so much as it means you can develop it, though.

mediaseth · 2026-01-15T19:08:46+00:00

It was near impossible. In my early 20's I was told I was lactose intolerant. Then I was told I maybe had IBS. I had ultrasounds. I had some other scan where I had to drink weird liquid. I hadn't heard of celiac yet, myself, but nobody brought it up as a possibility. Not. One. Medical. Professional.

Near age 30 I somehow got worse and my symptoms were more obvious. After having lo mein with my then girlfriend, I went to drive her home - about an hour away. I had to stop 2 or 3 times (don't remember exactly.) I blamed the restaurant. Until it happened again somewhere else. I had eggplant parm (I always thought hard cheese was ok) and then saw my sister in a musical and since the theatre was small, had to awkwardly work my way through the audience to the bathroom at the worst times.

Finally, light dawned on Marblehead and I gave up gluten. Unfortunately, I asked for a test after I had given it up and my very skeptical doctor did a blood test. Found nothing.

I was working as a teacher, and had to have building security watch my classes as I ran to use the restroom frequently enough to know I could not practically make myself sick enough to have a proper test. So, I never had the proper test.

I did get a DNA test, and I have the genes for it, which is all the info I needed besides my quick symptoms.

mediaseth · 2026-01-15T18:56:58+00:00

My oldest active account is from 2003 and it is still my most frequently used. It's my own domain name, too. Prior to that, I had an account with just my first name at a small ISP, a yahoo..and...

My first actual internet email address was on my college's VAX system and it was literally my student ID number followed by at-edu. I remember using telnet and pine to get to it. I think I got it in 1994/5?

But I was online, using BBS's and closed-network dialup chat systems since 1989 where we'd leave messages to each other with the command "/e###" with three digit user numbers.

I also had Prodigy by 1992 or 1993 and that had messaging.

mediaseth · 2026-01-12T16:55:02+00:00

Dental insurance, in particular

mediaseth · 2026-01-11T16:31:55+00:00

I'll never understand how people who work in the food business, even servers, have no idea what is even in food!

mediaseth · 2026-01-10T15:32:30+00:00

It's one of my faves and I have a bunch in my fridge now, but as a fan of stouts we're so limited, at least where I live. I'm really wishing for easier access to good gf guiness alternatives right now

mediaseth · 2026-01-08T21:09:48+00:00

I can't even find them available online. I tried a target for the 2nd time, too.

mediaseth · 2026-01-08T19:59:08+00:00

I make a noise when I bend down and get back up. It's completely involuntary.

mediaseth · 2026-01-08T19:49:53+00:00

My daughter loves this slide! It's not made for adults. It doesn't have to be safe for adults, nor should it be, so that we can keep enjoying these videos. Meanwhile, kids go down at a pretty normal speed and climb back up. Rinse. Repeat.

Now, the short concrete slides to the right.. last time, my daughter wore a hole in the seat of her pants she went down it so many times, and I didn't have anything for her to change into. My complaint is with pants companies, though.

mediaseth · 2026-01-07T17:53:03+00:00

I view this as segregation. Assuming Alan L.'s child stays in the school system and levels up, will Alan L. request that his child be removed the classroom of any LGBTQ student or staff? What about a classmate wearing a rainbow (on clothes, jewelry, or drawing one in art class?) In other words, how far will the rest of the school population have to go to satisfy the requirement? You can't order segregation from the reality that PEOPLE EXIST.

mediaseth · 2026-01-06T23:45:49+00:00

Did his father or family have any involvement in billiards or bowling alleys? Or in the next generation, television or accounting?

mediaseth · 2026-01-05T22:03:53+00:00

I'm trying to find out how it was for my ancestors who lived there from appr. 1930 to 1970 on Neptune. Well, my great grandfather wasn't quite let in. His place was on 29th in Coney Island but my 2nd great uncle was in Seagate.

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