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[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 minutes ago

AT&T. We recently had an issue where our internet stopped working properly. My mom had to call them four times before they actually fixed our internet. The first time, she was put on hold for about 40 minutes before either the call ended itself or they hung up. The second time, she actually got through to someone but they didn't fix our internet and instead told us that our current internet package would soon be phased out and then spent about half an hour basically forcing her to getting something called "AT&T Air".

The third time she called, my mom told them that she didn't want AT&T Air and that if she can't use the package we have now, then we'll be switching ISPs. The woman on the phone said that she'll cancel the new package and put her on hold for about half an hour but she never did actually cancel the package or fix our internet, and she also never returned so my mom just hung up on her. The fourth time she called, the guy on the phone ran a diagnosis on our internet and finally fixed it within a few minutes. We have no idea why it took so long for them to do this but we're glad to finally have working internet.

But even though we do now have working internet, we are still thinking about switching ISPs. Even though they did send the equipment to use AT&T Air, we are not going to use it and we are going to send it back and try to get them to actually cancel the package. We aren't sure exactly when we are going to switch ISPs but my mom stated she wants to wait until after the holidays to do so, which probably means no sooner than January.

[–] inkzombie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 24 minutes ago

Just learned about aspic and now I hate that I wanna try it

[–] nett_hier@feddit.org 3 points 1 hour ago

I often say I hate people but I mostly just hate myself

[–] wer2@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago

Gambling loops put into most mobile games, especially when targeting children.

The people with high "personal" ambition that ruin this world for the rest of us. I am sure at least one of them was sitting at the table on that first thanksgiving thinking about how to exploit the Native Americans.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago
[–] chunes@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

That reality is so incredibly fucked up on a fundamental, physical level.

You're telling me that if I do nothing, my room will get messy, my house will decay, my machines will break down. But somehow matter magically organizes itself into life?

Fuck all the way off.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

But somehow matter magically organizes itself into life?

There is a recent, decently-supported hypothesis that the emergence of life is a byproduct of entropy, and the need for a system as a whole to almost “self-process” itself from a state of high order to one of lower order. So life is an emergent “engine” that allows entropy to function more efficiently. Or, at least a more efficient path than non-life.

Downside is that life - as we understand it - is only possible under a narrow range of environmental conditions, and complex life even more so. So while “life” may exist throughout the universe in measured single-celled doses, complex life - especially sapient life - may be distressingly rare or even wholly absent except for us.

Which is a real kick in the nuts when you examine the scientific evidence of how fast we are hurtling towards our own extinction.

[–] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Entropy is some god damned bullshit.

I had no idea how bad entropy was until I was an adult. I can't be happy just relaxing because of the knowledge that everything around me is fucking falling apart and I have to spend every waking hour fighting the entropy around me. You can't just live in a house or condo or apartment, it's constantly crumbling.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Turkey is fucking DRY and flavorless.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

While it is incredibly difficult to keep the breast meat properly hydrated (even I find the best turkeys seem dry with their white meat), another commenter is absolutely correct - a properly done turkey will have absolutely succulent and tasty brown meat. To the point where adding any garnish or gravy is almost an insult.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

You've been eating incorrectly cooked turkey.

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

That new wicked movie. It’s so bad.

[–] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Every single person now thinks they're smarter than everyone else. No matter what their political leanings are, they're all smarter than everyone else. Smarter than:

  • Doctors
  • Scientists
  • Engineers
  • Economists

It's absolutely ridiculous and it started sometime around the 90s around when Ross Perot first ran for president and it just got worse with social media.

That's the real problem right now. Everyone thinks they know more than people who spent decades studying and becoming experts in their field.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago

To be fair, there are a lot of bullshit economists and Doctors.

[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

"Now." Ironic.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 26 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I hate that most people's ideas of success is to earn lots of money and buy expensive things, rather than help the community.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

i mean, have you tried either?

helping your community is a task of endless need and criticism that opens you up to personal liability and attack. like i have been verbally assaulted and threatened by people for helping my community. i've never encounter that at my place of employment.

earning lots of money and buying shit is way more fun and easy. when i stay at a hotel the hotel staff don't threaten to beat the shit out of me.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago

Exceptionalism.

The kind that says “I’m special, but you aren’t”

The kind that lets billionaires exist and fuck with national politics and laws. The kind that lets rich people or corporations off of crimes with little or no punishment. The kind that lets a religious person use their religion to be shitty in any way, as a shield or a cudgel. The kind that lets someone festoon their pickup with LED lights and a squat so you’re blinded at night when they’re coming at you or tailgating you.

All of them think they’re special and the rules don’t apply, they don’t care how it affects those around them - or others are to be exploited.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 5 points 7 hours ago

Stupid People. Not people who are naive, they can be educated. But actual stupid people. They will kill us all.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 12 points 9 hours ago

MAGA and Assfuck Trump..

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

Selfishness. It's the root cause of many things that plague the world: people putting themselves/their immediate circle before others, lack of empathy, greed, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, racism, fascism, or pricks listening to stuff through their phone's speaker in public.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes! Let the hate flow through you!

Feel the true power of the dark side!

[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The fact that if you die tomorrow it will actually impact very few people and you aren't doing shit to change that

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

So what? Most of us were never meant to be impactful, or even lack the ability to be impactful. I would posit that life in general was only ever meant for us to vibe with the universe for a brief time. In the span of epochs, and especially once humanity makes itself extinct, vanishingly little will have any material impact on even the planet, much less reality as a whole.

Unless you manage to trigger false vacuum decay. Then you have made the biggest possible impact by destroying the entire universe. Not sure this is an appropriate goal to reach for, but hey. You do you.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 6 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Avocado. It's like eating snot. Somebody else's snot.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 21 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Depression

What the fuck

What the actual fuck

What the actual fucking fuck is this stupid ass bullshit

It's outrageous! It's unfair!

So you're telling me, I could just live a normal life, but a part of my brain is getting rebellious and won't cooperate, spreading negativity propaganda to the rest of my brain?

What. The. Fuck?!?

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

These bodies are complete shit. Evolution consistently results in biological forms that barely work. That's what it does, it produces a bare minimum viable product, so that's what we are.

This jumble of nerves and synapses and hormones and gut bacteria that we call a mind is a huge fucking tangled mess. Truthfully, it's tragic that we have to live in these bargain bin bodies that break down constantly and often didn't work right from the start.

I don't have an uplifting end to this rant.

We're all in it together?

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Whoever thought of putting an entertainment system right next to the waste disposal is a complete and utter moron.

I can’t even turn things on without wondering if the cleaners sanitized/wiped in the wrong direction.

[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

It'd be quicker for me to list what I don't hate these days, but I guess the main stuff that makes me tilt is:

Capitalism, billionaires, billionaires' bootlickers, ~~conservatives~~ fascists, state surveillance, bloated anti-user and anti-freedom (i.e. modern) software, anti-intellectualism, being in a "post-truth" era, AI slopaganda, and the relatively general apathy to all of that and lack of solidarity amongst us working people (at least where I live).

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Thanksgiving, cool idea but could we not celebrate genocide by murdering some birds whil living on stolen land, thanks 😊

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 hours ago

Everything, in general.

If I could give the cosmos a good wallop I would, horribly monstrous thing that it is.

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