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- Comment on I don't know how to title this 11 months ago:
This is the photographic equivalent of Lewis Black’s “if it wasn’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.”
It doesn’t make sense at first, but your brain has to rationalize it so it comes up with a plausible explanation. It doesn’t have the context to know if that’s the right explanation, so while you’re driving to work and going about your day it’s still trying to process this in the background, quietly pushing you toward an aneurism years later.
- Comment on Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices — A new report details Amazon’s Project Nessie pricing algorithm 1 year ago:
“Subscribe and save” is a scam.
They advertise that you will save 5% by using subscribe and save, but then the price of the item you are buying just happens to go up by 30% on the day they decide to use as the basis for your order, which is not the day you ordered it or the day they pulled it off the shelf. It will occasionally go back down to a normal-ish price, but there will also be random months where it goes up 50% or 100%. I’ve seen $15 case of paper towels go up to $45 some months.
Then they keep prodding you to add more items to get 10% off your entire subscribe and save. I added some items a few weeks ago, got the extra discount percentage, but when they priced my order a few weeks later, the cat food I’ve been getting from them at a pretty stable price suddenly went up in price by the exact amount the extra discount was saving me.
Amazon essentially took the “four square” concept that car dealers use to shift higher costs to an area of the transaction where you are less likely to notice it.
- Comment on P'takh means Girlfriend 1 year ago:
If one was from France and the other was from Portugal, they missed an opportunity to meet in the middle and speak Andorian/Andorran. He could still read her poetry but without all the ducking involved in Klingon courtship.
- Comment on The Lucky of the Irish 1 year ago:
Those Dubliner jokes are awfully cheesy, unlike the munster comedygold coming out of Kerry.
- Comment on Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history 1 year ago:
It seems to me that we need some software that intercepts the data being sent to Google, replaces all proper nouns with “Sundar Pichai,” all numbers with a 10 followed by 100 zeroes, and randomizes everything else before sending. The data they receive would look like it was smuggled out of a Being John Malkovich parallel universe.
Or we could just use Firefox. Or Lynx.
- Comment on It's been a long road... 1 year ago:
And you don’t want to do the chainsaw dance of contrition after failing to pay your host the courtesy of synchronizing your chronometers with their planet’s capital city.
- Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock? 1 year ago:
I somehow read this comment in the voice of the cleric performing the “mawwiage” ceremony in Princess Bride.
Cleric: “Sunwise…” long, uncomfortable pause. “And for the exact same weason.” Pause. “Clocks go clockwise because their pwedecessors did… and what were their pwedecessors?”
Humperdink: “Look, can we hurry this up?”
Cleric: “Sundials.”
Humperdink: “Just skip to the end!”
Cleric: “Countewclockwise… as said in another comment… would be… widdershins.”
- Comment on SNW x Lower Decks Crossover just dropped early! 1 year ago:
Lower Decks feels like Webby Vanderquack from DuckTales 2017 wrote an animated video podcast about Star Trek. It’s cool if you’re into that, but it’s not Star Trek… it’s a bunch of kids using current vernacular to geek out about Star Trek.
This was an hour-long ad for Lower Decks to boost viewership after Prodigy’s cancellation.
- Comment on Recently picked up Chrono Trigger - Amazing Game! 1 year ago:
I was walking around the Iowa State Fair for an hour last summer before I realized I was whistling the theme to the Millennium Festival.