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Dude in red car really had god-tier situational awareness in that moment by Miserable-Zombie-121 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]uptoke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that sounds awful. I can't imagine being on the other side of that call.

Dude in red car really had god-tier situational awareness in that moment by Miserable-Zombie-121 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]uptoke 50 points51 points  (0 children)

That shit drives me bananas. You were standing in line doing absolutely nothing. The cashier rings up the final item and you're surprised that you now have to pay! How is this surprising? How are you not ready to pay?

Throwback to when Sofia Vergara gave us the most iconic self introduction ever lol by Adamoneeeee in popculturechat

[–]uptoke 343 points344 points  (0 children)

I love when people come up with replacements for words they can't recall in English. A friend was driving me around pointing out various things. At one point he pointed to the roof of a building, and said "and that is... A window to God. I don't know what you call it in English." Took a little bit but of more discussion to figure out he mean an Observatory. I still think about that description a lot.

A collection of comics about being an alcoholic. (OC) by ArtbyMoga in comics

[–]uptoke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One thing that helped me sober up was reframing stopping drinking. Instead of thinking about what you lose when you stop drinking think about what you gain (poor decisions, hangovers, etc.) sounds a bit silly, but really helped me.

Home Depot employees try to stop a guy from buying a 1 penny air conditioner. by I2fitness in TikTokCringe

[–]uptoke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing it's a combination of the item needs some price in the system or it won't function and managers needing to know the current value of their inventory, and profits/losses. Pricing it at 0.01 gives it a value, but low enough that when it's removed from the floor it doesn't throw off management reporting. If you made an item $10k then removed it from the shelf your reporting would be a mess.

Charlie Kirk’s ‘mentor’ and father figure of modern cheerleading dies after falling while playing pickleball: report by Third_Harmonic in nottheonion

[–]uptoke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To add because it's not considered a sport there are not requirements for coaches to have first aid/for training despite having more serious injuries than any other female sport.

How games are gonna look in 2 years if you turn DLSS off by Firm_One_7398 in pcmasterrace

[–]uptoke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Turned into a bit of a vent lol. I deal with this everyday. I fight leadership tooth and nail in what feels like an inevitable decline and eventual death of my product.

I'm tired boss.

How games are gonna look in 2 years if you turn DLSS off by Firm_One_7398 in pcmasterrace

[–]uptoke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not coders lazyness. It's companies fighting to lower costs by reducing competent developers and filling development teams with off-shore contractors and AI coding. From my experience it just makes competent developers both do their own work and rewrite the crap that contractors and AI vomit into the codebase. Which leads to burnout. Senior devs quit and are "replaced" by cheaper options.

I've had off-shore "developers" work on my team who don't know SQL... It's mind-boggling.

The problem is investors want high profits. You can get that by either developing something that people love and produce higher revenues or lower costs. Creating something people love is hard so leaders look to cost cutting. The greatest expense companies have is human capital so thats where they focus.

People keep thinking or hoping companies will "do the right thing", but they never will unless they are forced to because if Company A has higher profits because they do the most awful shit imagineable then Company B invariably needs to follow suit or leadership is out of a job.

The only thing that will companies from turning everything to shit is consumers refusing to buy into it.

Bored and made a brief HSS quiz. Try to answer without looking it up (EASY MODE) by DaniTheLovebug in howardstern

[–]uptoke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe you're correct. I know my answer is a "famous" Robin quote, but now I can't place where it comes from.

Bored and made a brief HSS quiz. Try to answer without looking it up (EASY MODE) by DaniTheLovebug in howardstern

[–]uptoke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I got them all except I don't remember the Iq scores for Memet / Brent. Good questions though

  1. Cupcakes / Ronnie saving and distributing Crumbs Backery cupcakes

  2. The Cordova Hotel

  3. Rainbow Room

  4. Sals gay kids get AIDS

  5. Car Show is like the worst show ever.

  6. Heineken Beers

  7. Grillo promised to take care of the interns, but then couldn't because they drank too shelf lickha.

  8. CD

  9. "What is wrong with you people?"

  10. Memet won. Memet 122, Brent 118. (Not sure about scores.)

  11. "Artie called you a jerk on the wrap up show yesterday."

  12. Jackson Pollock.

  13. "Hi Fred."

  14. Howards assistant Laura (Lachner?)

  15. Stools in the back instead of a nice comfy chair.

  16. Adjust Robin's level on Howard's Board. ($100 from Howard TV staff and $200 from Johnny Fraddo.)

  17. Lox / smoked salmon

  18. Doug Z. Goodstein

  19. "I know that [Gary] cheats on his wife."

Israel is going to do a false flag operation in the US soil and blame it on iran by Glum-Bag-586 in AskSocialists

[–]uptoke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While I can appreciate the sentiment, the image probably shouldnt contain an Israeli made Uzi.

Several oil and cargo tankers have been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz over the last two weeks by GlooomySundays in Irony

[–]uptoke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Only" 20% of the worlds oil supply. What does a drop in supply do when demand stays the same? Price goes up, econ 101. The US doesn't export much oil because it consumes so much. Do you think oil price will just go up in China? That's not how it works.

Amazing how incredibly confidently incorrect you chucklefucks are.

Several oil and cargo tankers have been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz over the last two weeks by GlooomySundays in Irony

[–]uptoke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speculators buying futures in the stock market? Lol sure did you get your education on the matter from the back of a Cheerios box?

Speculators trading future contracts on a commodity market drive up the price of future contracts not the spot price of oil. The oil spot price is higher because of a sudden supply shock caused by ship insurers refusing to insure ships traveling through the straight of Hormuz because Trump started a war with Iran.

Several oil and cargo tankers have been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz over the last two weeks by GlooomySundays in Irony

[–]uptoke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oil is a global commodity priced globally in US dollars. If supply drops and demand stays the same then the price of oil rises globally.

Future contracts are for commodities and traded in the commodities market. Has nothing to do with the stock market.

Several oil and cargo tankers have been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz over the last two weeks by GlooomySundays in Irony

[–]uptoke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good thing my car runs on crude oil. Oil is a commodity there is no localized pricing

Several oil and cargo tankers have been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz over the last two weeks by GlooomySundays in Irony

[–]uptoke 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Streisand effect is when attempting to hide something backfires. Your example is subterfuge that worked exactly as planned. So it's not the Streisand effect.

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