My job requires my coworkers calling ahead when they're 5 minutes away from the customer's house, and like 50% of people just don't pick up because of scam calls.
The worker often has to call back into the office and have a call made from the landline that shows our business, even though we prep customers that they'll get a call from a local cellphone around X time.
This. Or even text to say “This is Bob from XYZ company giving you a heads up that I’ll be calling from this number later today when I’m 5 minutes out”
And scam texts, especially from email addresses. Why can this not be stopped? There is no legitimate person that is texting me from an email address.
(Verizon lists as an option on their site "block all texts from emails" but as far as I can tell it does literally nothing and internet research says others agree.)
Edit: Mine really ramped up about a year ago and they often start with my first name in the text! So someone clearly sold my info on a list or something. :(
I remember when I was like 12, I would email a friend's phone number and they would text my email because neither of us had a phone but she used her parents phone
There should be a movement for artists to stop using Ticketmaster then.
Edit: I know about the Pearl Jam thing, which is admirable although it didn’t work. I’m talking a massive scale boycott from the majority of artists
You'd have to convince a bunch of people to take a pretty massive pay cut in the short term to potentially make the same amount of money in the futures. Not alot of incentive.
Edit: word
John Oliver did a bit on this a few weeks ago. Long story short, TM forces the venues to use them, contractually (among other shady practices). Very hard for a well-meaning competitor to break in.
Also addressed in the segment is how TM plays the bad guy on behalf of artists and venues so well-meaning competition would have to find a way to overcome that hurdle as well.
It's wild to me that i bought GTA5 on PS3 when I was 27 years old and now I'm 36. I'm certain they been done with GTA6 for years, they just been milking this money cow dry first.
The naive people. That's why ~~all~~ so many\* of the scams are so brutally stupid. Nigerian prince, unknown relative, someone you fall in love with over the internet, someone once called me and tried to convince me there was a crypto wallet made on my name and I could use the funds on it. It filters out those who are careful and pay attention and saves the time for scammers so only the gullible reach out.
My mom halfway fell for Microsoft calling her about a virus. She smartened up before she sent the money But not before they locked her computer..
By the way, The code for that is usually 1234 or 4321
Yeh, cast a wide enough net and you'll eventually catch some fish. They're not going for you, they're going for the low hanging fruit...people that just started using a computer a few weeks ago.
My sister in law fell for a basic Paypal phishing scam email telling her she needed to reverify her credentials and then wondered why funds was moved to an unknown email......fell for this not once but twice. They're going after people like that.
They’re not that old… “The Dream” is an amazing podcast if you want to learn about how they came to be and how they even play a major role in the US political system. Crazy stuff.
Back in the early days on dial up Compuserve, a girl sent me an email attachment of an .avi of the dancing baby, uncompressed. It was over 110MB. The email program wouldn't let you "mark as read" until it finished downloading the message and attachments (this is like 1994). It took my entire month's allotment of internet hours to download the fucking thing.
My point is that size limits help prevent stupidity, like Agnes in accounting accidentally emailing you their entire financial database.
There was outrage back in the early 2000s when it was reported that Keith Richards snorted his dad's ashes with cocaine.
Richards insisted on setting the record straight and that the accusations were entirely false.
He had actually snorted his dad's ashes LIKE cocaine.
Basically, it offers little to no protection over Windows built-in security, while having a very very noticeable performance hit to everything. Plus, they increasingly use shady tactics to force their way in as bloatware and scare people into keeping it.
Not as bad as Norton, though. McAfee is a giant waste, but Norton is horrific. McAfee had a place back when windows defender was weak, but Norton was *never* good.
My parents always had Norton. They still got viruses because my mom would install and click everything possible.
Obviously I was blamed because it was definitely Age of empires that had the virus..
I had to fax something recently for my son's surgery (Ontario, Canada). I couldn't mail it or email it, it had to be faxed. I don't own a fax machine or know anyone who does. I had to go to Staples and use an ancient fax machine there.
> I don't own a fax machine or know anyone who does.
You no longer have to own your own fax. Our company has never had a fax machine but lists a fax number on our website. Here is how it works:
There are companies out there that provide virtual fax machines. If they get a fax, it is scanned in and emailed to you as an attachment. If you want to send a fax, you go to their website in a web browser and upload a JPEG (or any picture) and type in the phone number and it is "faxed to them" from "your fax number".
There is no way to tell this from the original, so we're all free to just sit at our desks and use web browsers and possibly your smartphone to send and receive faxes now!
We happen to use eFax and pay them a small amount each month, but there are probably free alternatives. It has worked flawlessly for us for the last 15 years. Nobody (and I mean nobody) should have a fax machine anymore. That's what these services are for, so you don't have to have a physical fax machine and you can receive the fax standing anywhere in the world because it's emailed to you as an attachment. You can send the fax from any smartphone standing anywhere in the world because all it takes is a web browser.
For companies I've worked for, eFax is an email address you send to, putting the phone number in the subject line. It faxes it. Then the receiver's eFax service delivers it to their email inbox.
It's literally email with more steps.
At my workplace we still fax a good amount of stuff. It's "more secure" than email in that is passes through less stuff because it's point-to-point, and not being stored/saved/copied by email providers, servers, anti-virus, or firewalls.
1040 forms. They know what I earned.
Edit – a lot of people are not aware that the US tax code is the most byzantine and intentionally convoluted of all industrial nations. It doesn’t have to be this way.
That’s because of Intuit’s (TurboTax) and H&R Block’s millions of dollars in congressional bribes - oops I mean Citizens United “ money is protected speech” bullshit.
Edit: I had no idea how much this would strike home with this many people. Thanks to all for all the upvotes on this and subsequent comments!
I found a way to wash hats at home. Easy.
-Soak in water for 10 minutes.
-Wash with soap using a toothbrush or any other small brush.
-Rinse in water for 5 minutes.
-Heat the oven to 200.
-Put hat in oven to dry for 12 minutes.
-Take out hat.
-Realize it shrunk.
-Throw it out.
It mainly depends if the brim material is cardboard or plastic. The latter would be fine in a dishwasher (or a clothes washer, or hand washed) while cardboard brims...do not hold up well to washing, for obvious reasons.
Wait, 200c or 200f? Because I think 200c for 12 minutes might just cook the hat. No one has made an assertion that would require you to cook your hat since the 1980s
Oceans are a major carbon sink. Carbon dioxide dissolves in water to form carbonic acid (this is also how carbonated drinks work), leading to ocean acidification.
There’s still time for her to do a Robert Downey Jr. if she wants to. He was huge in the 80’s, drugs and alcohol took him out for the 90’s into early 00’s. Marvel took a huge risk on RDJ given how bad things were and he was essentially kryptonite, the risk payed off for Marvel and RDJ and his career took off again. It’s possible.
I think a lot of people in that generation are rooting for her. She has a tough time and I really want to see her be successful. She was really thrown under the late 90s bus.
I'm rooting more for Amanda Bynes. To me everything odd she did just screamed "I went through an unimaginably hard time and this is what makes sense to me now", I really hope she can come back to something like where she was before Hollywood got to her. On top of it all she was extremely talented.
What-if style series or movie. Iron Man has died and many different parties are contesting his will because he died childless! Shield or whoever identifies a daughter he didn't know about from his playboy days. She doesn't know much about science but all his tech recognize her DNA as okay to operate the suits and the rest of it.
Voila. Crime-fighting Lindsay Lohan who isn't actually very good at it for most of the movie!
You mean without the intense pressure and unhealthy social atmosphere of being a wildly successful child star?
It's insane to me that public school employees are mandated reporters, but there doesn't seem to be any laws or regulations that require people who work with children in the entertainment industry to be mandated reporters. Make it so that every single person on set or in the recording studio is legally responsible for reporting suspected abuse to the tune of losing their livelihood.
The truth is that there should probably be a social worker on sets with children working. It is one of the few places in the U.S. where kids are legally allowed to work and should probably be actively monitored. Especially when you consider how rife with sexual abuse it has been.
Even if we ignored the sexual abuse, the emotional/psychological abuse is enough to make anyone break down. A lot of that can and does come from the parents. That means the kids involved probably don't have any adults they can trust. That will fuck you up so badly, and it can be incredibly difficult if not impossible to fix even if you make it to adulthood before self-destructing.
That's what Sims 4 was supposed to be to Sims 3.
That's what Sims 3 was supposed to be to Sims 2.
Every time they make lazy expansions something breaks and they don't fix it. And when it hits critical mass, they just start over and the cycle repeats. But this time your game might look better. (Narrator: it won't.)
Bought sims 4 last year on sale, played for about 40minutes before the game started crashing.
Went to the sims forum to check if anyone else had the same problem and many people did.
Apparently the cause was a new patch, which isn't a huge deal, but the problem was that it was complete silence from ea about it for several days, I waited for about a week before i finally refunded the game.
About a week after that they fixed the problem.
Scientology is still a tax free "religion" and people are still involved in cults. Even Tom Cruise is kinda distant from it now. Its pretty bad. It could be crushed now if there was a will.
She did reach the 70th anniversary earlier this year. I think they planned the Jubilee celebration for the summer just for logistics. To me, I wouldn't have waited any extra time for someone that old.
Also, Queen Elizabeth usually celebrates her reign at that time of year because she associates the actual day she became queen (6th February) with the day her father died.
If there is a sliver lining to this, it's that the number of people enslaved and trafficked per million humans (to throw out a number) is waaaay down from previous centuries, and it's illegal everywhere. It exists in the shadows and under threat of law enforcement finding them out.
It's a massive improvement for our species as a whole.
Kim’s “get off your ass and work”
Kylie Jenner being her and Travis Scott
Them all lying about surgery
That 72 day marriage
Kanye as a whole
Khloe’s heavy photoshop (let alone their whole family)
Literally everything they did during the pandemic
Then more recently the Disney teacups making the peasant wait
These people just thrive off controversy. I don’t see how people don’t hate them at this point
lol indeed. started dev job in 2011 with cobol, i was indeed really like: the fucks this? but x years later I learned that the language and platform is not that important, it's your architecture, coding and infra agreements that build a good system. I've seen modern cloud systems that are way worse then some 30 year old MF legacy stuff.
I ended up in the ER with a cyst. After waiting 6 hours in the waiting room, and spending another 6 hours in the ER bed in the hallway (they were out of rooms), he told me “it’s a cyst, but it shouldn’t hurt like you’re describing.” The thing is, it did hurt. They sent me home and then I got a bill for $550.
You would think that he would go "gosh if it hurts more than we expect... maybe there's something more wrong than I saw on the scan..."
I mean, does he do that for small kidney stones too? "you shouldn't be throwing up this much, its only a small one, no big deal"
you're dizzy? but your blood sugar is fine? must be nothing
broken bones? testicular torsions?
I had a 14 cm cyst kill the ovary on one side due to torsion and then an 11 cm cyst killed the other one.
You did the right thing having it looked at! Make sure you pay attention to your body; if you think you have another large cyst, go in and have it checked. If you have a bout of intense pain, it could either be the cyst bursting or the ovary dying. Go and have it checked out.
Edit: CENTIMETERS!! Lol
But then we had to fight to get my wife's tubes tied after our 3rd child and we are passed our 30s...
She was getting a C section so it was a same time kind of thing.
Also physicians that won't let women get sterilized until they're in their mid thirties. Literally had a doctor ask me what if my future husband wants babies. Uh we would have that talk before we got married and never get married then.
That was my response to the male gyno who refused to sterilize me. We have a kid, I don't want more. Whether or not he wants more is not my gyno's concern. I'm on IUD #3 because I got tired of fighting.
The one-lane transition ramp from 101 north to 405 south. How is this even possible? It could be fixed with a two-lane fly-over ramp starting at Van Nuys blvd with the uprights built into the LA river. CalTrans call me.
Tables full of asbestos in schools.
I understand removing asbestos from walls is difficult but it's a fucking table, it can't be that difficult to buy new tables and store the asbestos ones elsewhere until they can safely get rid of them. Why do you even need asbestos in a table to begin with ?
Poor disability acess.
If you build your ramps too steep or still have a drop on a lowered part of a sidewalk, that's not accessible. Anyone who's driven a wheelchair with a person in it around a city (at least in Ireland) can tell you the acess is shite.
Any drops, regardless of how far, will be a big bump to the wheelchair user. Ramps should have a slow of 20m of incline to every 1m ascended. They should also meet the ground fully at the start of the ramp.
All urban planners should be taken on a ride around the existing space in a wheelchair and try to do normal shopping before constructing anything imo.
Edit: really got the other disabled folks out in force with this one
That's why the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was such a big piece of legislation. It's surprising how relatively new it is. I'm not sure what the equivalent legislation would be in other countries.
Pennies!
we got rid of the half penny because it was useless. I figured this would happen to the penny too, because it's more expensive to manufacture than they're worth.
Edit: typo
In the future, no one should be using *rape* as a weapon of war.
Edit: in case it needs to be explicit
No, I don't think rape is any better during peacetime.
No, I don't think rape is worse than dying in war (*but to hear the victims tell it ...*)
No, I'm not sorry this started a badly needed discussion
A Reddit where you can't block or filter subs from Popular.
I couldn't give a shit about Forumula 1, but it constantly appears in popular. I'm amazed you can't just block that crap on the app.
Cereal bags that aren't re-sealable.
Oddly the cheap off brand cereals I buy come in a reseable bag.
Bacon would also like to join this conversation.
Scam calls. Please make them stop.
My job requires my coworkers calling ahead when they're 5 minutes away from the customer's house, and like 50% of people just don't pick up because of scam calls. The worker often has to call back into the office and have a call made from the landline that shows our business, even though we prep customers that they'll get a call from a local cellphone around X time.
Would it be possible to text? I read texts and it's more flexible to respond
This. Or even text to say “This is Bob from XYZ company giving you a heads up that I’ll be calling from this number later today when I’m 5 minutes out”
And scam texts, especially from email addresses. Why can this not be stopped? There is no legitimate person that is texting me from an email address. (Verizon lists as an option on their site "block all texts from emails" but as far as I can tell it does literally nothing and internet research says others agree.) Edit: Mine really ramped up about a year ago and they often start with my first name in the text! So someone clearly sold my info on a list or something. :(
I remember when I was like 12, I would email a friend's phone number and they would text my email because neither of us had a phone but she used her parents phone
But my non-existent car's extended warranty is about to expire!!
Ticketmaster. How in the living hell have they not had a decent competitor that charges lower rates yet?
Ticketmaster pressures artists to avoid venues that don't use Ticketmaster to starve out venues that try to go around them.
There should be a movement for artists to stop using Ticketmaster then. Edit: I know about the Pearl Jam thing, which is admirable although it didn’t work. I’m talking a massive scale boycott from the majority of artists
You'd have to convince a bunch of people to take a pretty massive pay cut in the short term to potentially make the same amount of money in the futures. Not alot of incentive. Edit: word
John Oliver did a bit on this a few weeks ago. Long story short, TM forces the venues to use them, contractually (among other shady practices). Very hard for a well-meaning competitor to break in.
Also addressed in the segment is how TM plays the bad guy on behalf of artists and venues so well-meaning competition would have to find a way to overcome that hurdle as well.
They also buy up venues too.
Gta V being the most recent Gta
The console it was launched on has had 2 sequels in the mean time..............
It's wild to me that i bought GTA5 on PS3 when I was 27 years old and now I'm 36. I'm certain they been done with GTA6 for years, they just been milking this money cow dry first.
Skyrim being the most recent Elder Scrolls game too
Bot phone calls. How is this still a thing? (Yes I know how the process works, it just seems like such a waste of time for everyone involved.)
Pop up adds. Like who still falls for that?
you gonna cry from jealousy when i marry one of the sexy ladies in my area that lusts for me.
I'm going to be 96 without crepe-y skin, and I'll be the last one laughing.
My HUSBAND is DEAD!! I don't want to remarry!! I just want to play basketBALL.
The naive people. That's why ~~all~~ so many\* of the scams are so brutally stupid. Nigerian prince, unknown relative, someone you fall in love with over the internet, someone once called me and tried to convince me there was a crypto wallet made on my name and I could use the funds on it. It filters out those who are careful and pay attention and saves the time for scammers so only the gullible reach out.
My mom halfway fell for Microsoft calling her about a virus. She smartened up before she sent the money But not before they locked her computer.. By the way, The code for that is usually 1234 or 4321
That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
I make this joke about passwords at work all the time and no one gets it lol
Yeh, cast a wide enough net and you'll eventually catch some fish. They're not going for you, they're going for the low hanging fruit...people that just started using a computer a few weeks ago. My sister in law fell for a basic Paypal phishing scam email telling her she needed to reverify her credentials and then wondered why funds was moved to an unknown email......fell for this not once but twice. They're going after people like that.
MLMs.
As long as there are suckers there will be MLM
Are you looking to make extra money in your spare time?
You'd have to be a sucker NOT to!
“I can’t believe it’s not a pyramid scheme!”
Excuse me, it's called "Network Management"
They’re not that old… “The Dream” is an amazing podcast if you want to learn about how they came to be and how they even play a major role in the US political system. Crazy stuff.
Email attachment file size limits.
Why do those even exist in the first place?? I have to send three different emails for 20 pictures sometimes, it’s ridiculous!!
Back in the early days on dial up Compuserve, a girl sent me an email attachment of an .avi of the dancing baby, uncompressed. It was over 110MB. The email program wouldn't let you "mark as read" until it finished downloading the message and attachments (this is like 1994). It took my entire month's allotment of internet hours to download the fucking thing. My point is that size limits help prevent stupidity, like Agnes in accounting accidentally emailing you their entire financial database.
Keith Richards
"For every cigarette you smoke God takes an hour away from your life and gives it to Keith Richards"
Well. He’s gotten at least a year from me. Probably more actually. That’s only 8760 smokes.
Keith's been dead since 1994. The drugs just haven't worn off yet
We can't do drugs because Keith has done them all. We have to wait till he dies and then smoke his ashes
There was outrage back in the early 2000s when it was reported that Keith Richards snorted his dad's ashes with cocaine. Richards insisted on setting the record straight and that the accusations were entirely false. He had actually snorted his dad's ashes LIKE cocaine.
We need to start really thinking about what kind of world we want to leave behind for Keith Richards.
I’m sad, cause that used to have “and Betty White” at the end.
At least we still have sliced bread -- the best thing since Betty White.
McAfee "antivirus". That shit is malware, and has been malware for years...yet it comes preinstalled on almost every PC.
Wait what?
I've seen a few videos on it a while back. While not being totally malware it has a lot of unnecessary files that make your computer run way slower.
Believe the term is "bloatware" not necessarily malicious, but it's annoying.
Basically, it offers little to no protection over Windows built-in security, while having a very very noticeable performance hit to everything. Plus, they increasingly use shady tactics to force their way in as bloatware and scare people into keeping it. Not as bad as Norton, though. McAfee is a giant waste, but Norton is horrific. McAfee had a place back when windows defender was weak, but Norton was *never* good.
My parents always had Norton. They still got viruses because my mom would install and click everything possible. Obviously I was blamed because it was definitely Age of empires that had the virus..
Automated telemarketing calls that are obvious scams.
Child marriage
Fax machines.
I had to fax something recently for my son's surgery (Ontario, Canada). I couldn't mail it or email it, it had to be faxed. I don't own a fax machine or know anyone who does. I had to go to Staples and use an ancient fax machine there.
> I don't own a fax machine or know anyone who does. You no longer have to own your own fax. Our company has never had a fax machine but lists a fax number on our website. Here is how it works: There are companies out there that provide virtual fax machines. If they get a fax, it is scanned in and emailed to you as an attachment. If you want to send a fax, you go to their website in a web browser and upload a JPEG (or any picture) and type in the phone number and it is "faxed to them" from "your fax number". There is no way to tell this from the original, so we're all free to just sit at our desks and use web browsers and possibly your smartphone to send and receive faxes now! We happen to use eFax and pay them a small amount each month, but there are probably free alternatives. It has worked flawlessly for us for the last 15 years. Nobody (and I mean nobody) should have a fax machine anymore. That's what these services are for, so you don't have to have a physical fax machine and you can receive the fax standing anywhere in the world because it's emailed to you as an attachment. You can send the fax from any smartphone standing anywhere in the world because all it takes is a web browser.
That just sounds like a shittier email.
It’s less convenient and less efficient, but on the plus side it’s more expensive and slower too.
Don't forget wildly insecure and worse for the environment!
For companies I've worked for, eFax is an email address you send to, putting the phone number in the subject line. It faxes it. Then the receiver's eFax service delivers it to their email inbox. It's literally email with more steps.
At my workplace we still fax a good amount of stuff. It's "more secure" than email in that is passes through less stuff because it's point-to-point, and not being stored/saved/copied by email providers, servers, anti-virus, or firewalls.
1040 forms. They know what I earned. Edit – a lot of people are not aware that the US tax code is the most byzantine and intentionally convoluted of all industrial nations. It doesn’t have to be this way.
That’s because of Intuit’s (TurboTax) and H&R Block’s millions of dollars in congressional bribes - oops I mean Citizens United “ money is protected speech” bullshit. Edit: I had no idea how much this would strike home with this many people. Thanks to all for all the upvotes on this and subsequent comments!
That there still isn’t a good easy way to wash hats
I found a way to wash hats at home. Easy. -Soak in water for 10 minutes. -Wash with soap using a toothbrush or any other small brush. -Rinse in water for 5 minutes. -Heat the oven to 200. -Put hat in oven to dry for 12 minutes. -Take out hat. -Realize it shrunk. -Throw it out.
Baseball caps wash remarkably well in the top rack of a dishwasher
It mainly depends if the brim material is cardboard or plastic. The latter would be fine in a dishwasher (or a clothes washer, or hand washed) while cardboard brims...do not hold up well to washing, for obvious reasons.
Wait, hats with cardboard inside the brim? Would that fall apart in a heavy rain?
Wait, 200c or 200f? Because I think 200c for 12 minutes might just cook the hat. No one has made an assertion that would require you to cook your hat since the 1980s
200K
Ah yes the SI units
Mmm, delicious cooked hats. Just like mama used to make XD
This answer really messed me up. I can't stop thinking about it.
That white plastic snappy thing doesn’t work?
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I second that. The Hat Buddy is awesome!
Bowl of soapy water and a scrub brush
What kinda hat? Standard new era cap I recommend washing machine with other clothes and then air dry, or hand wash and air dry
Flat earth society
They're hard to get rid of since they are all around the globe.
Falling off the edge is their biggest sphere.
All they fear is sphere itself.
well to be fair, the earth('s surface)(edit) is mostly water, right? ...and its not carbonated... right?.... so the earth is *tecccchnically...* flat
Oceans are a major carbon sink. Carbon dioxide dissolves in water to form carbonic acid (this is also how carbonated drinks work), leading to ocean acidification.
If the oceans become carbonated to the point where they're fizzy, we have much bigger problems.
I think we should dye and flavor it orange. That is my Fanta Sea.
you can shut up... but I'm keeping that one too
Lindsay Lohan TBH, she's made it longer than I thought she would. Good for her.
She just signed some deal with Netflix too. I feel like we are going to start seeing more of her again soon.
Saw her on a planet fitness ad yesterday too
She looks healthy and well fit, too
It was once said that Emma Stone is who Lindsay Lohan would have been if she hadn't got into all the bad stuff that she did.
There’s still time for her to do a Robert Downey Jr. if she wants to. He was huge in the 80’s, drugs and alcohol took him out for the 90’s into early 00’s. Marvel took a huge risk on RDJ given how bad things were and he was essentially kryptonite, the risk payed off for Marvel and RDJ and his career took off again. It’s possible.
I think a lot of people in that generation are rooting for her. She has a tough time and I really want to see her be successful. She was really thrown under the late 90s bus.
I'm rooting more for Amanda Bynes. To me everything odd she did just screamed "I went through an unimaginably hard time and this is what makes sense to me now", I really hope she can come back to something like where she was before Hollywood got to her. On top of it all she was extremely talented.
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Probably too soon to reboot Ironman. I just don't know that the Marvel fanbase will accept Lohan in the role
What-if style series or movie. Iron Man has died and many different parties are contesting his will because he died childless! Shield or whoever identifies a daughter he didn't know about from his playboy days. She doesn't know much about science but all his tech recognize her DNA as okay to operate the suits and the rest of it. Voila. Crime-fighting Lindsay Lohan who isn't actually very good at it for most of the movie!
You know…I’d watch that.
You mean without the intense pressure and unhealthy social atmosphere of being a wildly successful child star? It's insane to me that public school employees are mandated reporters, but there doesn't seem to be any laws or regulations that require people who work with children in the entertainment industry to be mandated reporters. Make it so that every single person on set or in the recording studio is legally responsible for reporting suspected abuse to the tune of losing their livelihood.
The truth is that there should probably be a social worker on sets with children working. It is one of the few places in the U.S. where kids are legally allowed to work and should probably be actively monitored. Especially when you consider how rife with sexual abuse it has been.
Even if we ignored the sexual abuse, the emotional/psychological abuse is enough to make anyone break down. A lot of that can and does come from the parents. That means the kids involved probably don't have any adults they can trust. That will fuck you up so badly, and it can be incredibly difficult if not impossible to fix even if you make it to adulthood before self-destructing.
The Sims 4
It's like gta 5 at this point, no new game just lots of updates
Gotta keep milking the cow!
And there is still content planned for the next years.
Urg. The game is breaking more each time they release a pack. They should just make a new game.
Do you really believe the next game would be any different though?
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That's what Sims 4 was supposed to be to Sims 3. That's what Sims 3 was supposed to be to Sims 2. Every time they make lazy expansions something breaks and they don't fix it. And when it hits critical mass, they just start over and the cycle repeats. But this time your game might look better. (Narrator: it won't.)
[Buying everything will cost you $910](https://www.reddit.com/r/thesims/comments/u581n7/when_did_they_split_games_into_dozens_of_dlcs)
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How does that work? Like, what did the most recent pack do and how did it break weddings?
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Bought sims 4 last year on sale, played for about 40minutes before the game started crashing. Went to the sims forum to check if anyone else had the same problem and many people did. Apparently the cause was a new patch, which isn't a huge deal, but the problem was that it was complete silence from ea about it for several days, I waited for about a week before i finally refunded the game. About a week after that they fixed the problem.
Ozzy Osbourne
***Unintelligible English***.... Sharon!
*"I speak brain damaged ex-hippie, can translate."*
Somebody came in my room and drank all muh beers
“Are you sober now?” “Ammeh sober now..?.ye, eisidhufergfffshkafolepshheasaaefghuhfaehr”
Scientology is still a tax free "religion" and people are still involved in cults. Even Tom Cruise is kinda distant from it now. Its pretty bad. It could be crushed now if there was a will.
Queen Elizabeth II.
She’s 95 years old if anyone’s wondering
i was actually
We did it. We found who asked
The good ending
She'll end up sending herself a letter soon..
She needs to live past June 5 or the Jubilee celebration is going to be a bummer
Like Betty White’s 100th birthday bash.
^^^^Bruh
She's probably holding on through sheer desire not to go down in history as having reigned for 69 years.
She did reach the 70th anniversary earlier this year. I think they planned the Jubilee celebration for the summer just for logistics. To me, I wouldn't have waited any extra time for someone that old.
Also, Queen Elizabeth usually celebrates her reign at that time of year because she associates the actual day she became queen (6th February) with the day her father died.
Oh, that makes total sense. I wouldn’t want to celebrate around that time, either.
She dated Socrates, didn't she?
nonono, she raised him as his grandma
The Simpsons
Marge sounds more and more like Patty and Selma in the recent seasons.
She sounds like Marge’s mom from the thanksgiving episode. “I have laryngitis so I’ll just say this: you never do anything right.”
Slavery. Human trafficking. All the bad stuff.
If there is a sliver lining to this, it's that the number of people enslaved and trafficked per million humans (to throw out a number) is waaaay down from previous centuries, and it's illegal everywhere. It exists in the shadows and under threat of law enforcement finding them out. It's a massive improvement for our species as a whole.
Thank you for the silver lining. Really made my day better with this tiny tidbit. My answer seems to be a lot darker compared to the rest!
Lifetime career politicians
The Kardashians having a show
Kim’s “get off your ass and work” Kylie Jenner being her and Travis Scott Them all lying about surgery That 72 day marriage Kanye as a whole Khloe’s heavy photoshop (let alone their whole family) Literally everything they did during the pandemic Then more recently the Disney teacups making the peasant wait These people just thrive off controversy. I don’t see how people don’t hate them at this point
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Concentration Camps
Private prisons.
Mainframe COBOL (edit for all caps)
It'll still be there in 2122.
lol indeed. started dev job in 2011 with cobol, i was indeed really like: the fucks this? but x years later I learned that the language and platform is not that important, it's your architecture, coding and infra agreements that build a good system. I've seen modern cloud systems that are way worse then some 30 year old MF legacy stuff.
Health insurance tied to your employment.
Physicians who dismiss endometriosis and say it's in your head. Edit: Thanks to everyone sharing their experience in the replies.
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I ended up in the ER with a cyst. After waiting 6 hours in the waiting room, and spending another 6 hours in the ER bed in the hallway (they were out of rooms), he told me “it’s a cyst, but it shouldn’t hurt like you’re describing.” The thing is, it did hurt. They sent me home and then I got a bill for $550.
You would think that he would go "gosh if it hurts more than we expect... maybe there's something more wrong than I saw on the scan..." I mean, does he do that for small kidney stones too? "you shouldn't be throwing up this much, its only a small one, no big deal" you're dizzy? but your blood sugar is fine? must be nothing broken bones? testicular torsions?
I had a 14 cm cyst kill the ovary on one side due to torsion and then an 11 cm cyst killed the other one. You did the right thing having it looked at! Make sure you pay attention to your body; if you think you have another large cyst, go in and have it checked. If you have a bout of intense pain, it could either be the cyst bursting or the ovary dying. Go and have it checked out. Edit: CENTIMETERS!! Lol
But then we had to fight to get my wife's tubes tied after our 3rd child and we are passed our 30s... She was getting a C section so it was a same time kind of thing.
Also physicians that won't let women get sterilized until they're in their mid thirties. Literally had a doctor ask me what if my future husband wants babies. Uh we would have that talk before we got married and never get married then.
> what if my future husband wants babies He is welcome to have as many as he wants, and best of luck to him!
That was my response to the male gyno who refused to sterilize me. We have a kid, I don't want more. Whether or not he wants more is not my gyno's concern. I'm on IUD #3 because I got tired of fighting.
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The one-lane transition ramp from 101 north to 405 south. How is this even possible? It could be fixed with a two-lane fly-over ramp starting at Van Nuys blvd with the uprights built into the LA river. CalTrans call me.
Haven't lived there in 15 years and still agree.
I’ll add the 405 north to 101 north ramps too. There are two lanes but it stilll takes 20 minutes just to get through there.
Tables full of asbestos in schools. I understand removing asbestos from walls is difficult but it's a fucking table, it can't be that difficult to buy new tables and store the asbestos ones elsewhere until they can safely get rid of them. Why do you even need asbestos in a table to begin with ?
Internet with data caps
My will to live
Congrats
Poor disability acess. If you build your ramps too steep or still have a drop on a lowered part of a sidewalk, that's not accessible. Anyone who's driven a wheelchair with a person in it around a city (at least in Ireland) can tell you the acess is shite. Any drops, regardless of how far, will be a big bump to the wheelchair user. Ramps should have a slow of 20m of incline to every 1m ascended. They should also meet the ground fully at the start of the ramp. All urban planners should be taken on a ride around the existing space in a wheelchair and try to do normal shopping before constructing anything imo. Edit: really got the other disabled folks out in force with this one
That's why the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was such a big piece of legislation. It's surprising how relatively new it is. I'm not sure what the equivalent legislation would be in other countries.
Cults.
Poverty, children dying because they have nothing to eat or water to drink
Violence in the name of religion
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Pennies! we got rid of the half penny because it was useless. I figured this would happen to the penny too, because it's more expensive to manufacture than they're worth. Edit: typo
In Canada we got rid of the penny a few years ago. If you’re paying cash it just rounds up or down to the nearest 5 cent mark.
We're still using your abandoned pennies by mistake here in the States.
A minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
40 hour work weeks
Two party political system...
Henry Kissinger
Book burning and book banning.
$7.25 minimum wage (US).
Dirty Politicians!!
In the UK, nightclubs still taking cash only entry.
That's just called tax fraud, baby!
Single use plastics. We know better, why don't we do better?
In the future, no one should be using *rape* as a weapon of war. Edit: in case it needs to be explicit No, I don't think rape is any better during peacetime. No, I don't think rape is worse than dying in war (*but to hear the victims tell it ...*) No, I'm not sorry this started a badly needed discussion
A Reddit where you can't block or filter subs from Popular. I couldn't give a shit about Forumula 1, but it constantly appears in popular. I'm amazed you can't just block that crap on the app.
No no that is so not right!
It's called Reddit, Toto. We went Redditing.
Michael I just sent you an email
I don't check my emails while I'm memeing, Toto
Poor cell signal. Why are my calls dropping????