somebody is going to take this as racist, but it’s just a factual observation: washrooms with a high indian user count end up like this far more than those with a lower indian user count

I’ve got enough data points over the past dozen years at multiple facilities in completely different population groups to safely make that statement.

my point is that it is normal for certain demographics. before somebody comes at me, no judgement is being made in this comment, I’m simply pointing out that it is in fact normal in some places.

Even with bad tires you shouldn’t get stuck in that. driver skill issue.

oddly, about half of the videos worked fine for me

I had trouble like this too, so what I’ve done is just give up on using Google photos in any meaningful way.

I still sync to it as a temporary backup, but I periodically copy all media from my device to my local home storage as the true copy.

I have yet to implement a proper open-source alternative for photo organization, but hopefully that’ll be one of the projects completed this year.

One of the problems I was having was that I wanted to take photos that I did not want to sync to Google photos, and yeah just deleting them from Google photos would delete them from my device as well. to get around this, you can force quit the application on your phone, work with the photos however you want, and then restart the application. as long as the photos aren’t in a location you have set to sync to Google photos, it should be fine. also sorry to my coworker who had to see a whole row of photos of my dogs disgusting butthole with a ruptured anal gland before I figured that out.

I discovered this week that on three separate dates around a year ago, a bunch of files in my team’s SharePoint were deleted. this went undiscovered until now because working with those projects was put on hold last year, and only the files themselves were deleted (not the folder structure).

if the folders had been deleted too, I might have noticed and thought “hey didn’t we have something here?” but since only the files inside the folders and subfolders were deleted, and those files were not being worked with, I did not notice

tysm microsoft

they obviously meant any moderator can add any other user

I am once again reminded of that manufacturing company owner who was shocked by the price of a made in america machine going up so much due to tariffs

like mf do you not realize how that machine gets made? the people who make it in america buy tons of parts from other countries because it’s cheaper, so yeah when they have to buy those parts here or pay tariffs because they literally cannot get the parts here, its going to cost more.

the number of people who own businesses and are absolute fucking dumbasses is just astounding to me. like good on them for having initiative, but wow is it ever surprising how many are stupid

people tried doing it the reasonable way. it didn’t work.

so what’s left?

also, what that guy said about in-groups — that’s valid. I’ll do everything I can to have reasonable conversations with people in person, especially those that I know, but online with random people? mock the fuck out of them.

I think they need to actually see the consequences of their actions and understand the cause

no bail outs. no support.

I don’t know man, it doesn’t feel that way up here as strongly anymore. I’m increasingly seeing more american-style conservatism

don’t forget the final nail in the coffin of choosing to not learn from their mistake and double down on it

99% of what I see from these people is “yeah I voted for this but I didn’t think it would hurt me like this and I am showing no indication that I would do it differently next time”

I give them the chance to pass by moving all the way right in the lane and slowing down at passing opportunities. after a few missed opportunities, I’ll fuck with them for the entertainment.

but yes, not always worth it.

hoping to figure that out this year, once I do an overhaul of what I’m using and figuring out

just know that half of my budget for this will come from what I was previously spending on mega corp subscriptions (not much, but more than I am now). the other half will be based on its value to me

the problem is my patience and frustration

I want to get my shit done and move on with my day, not sit here waiting on stuff and getting RSI from navigating directories so slowly

that’s such a good photo

the last few multi-hour highway drives I’ve had to make in bad weather (snow, ice) all had pickup trucks, and only pickup trucks, in the ditch lol

the other thing that people seem to forget about getting a second set of tires is that aside from the rims, there is no additional cost (assuming you change them yourself and have room to store them, which is a reasonable assumption for a large number of vehicle owners). I bought two new sets of tires five years ago and I’m still using both of them (I wfh and generally try to not drive much, though), hell my winters almost look brand new still because I drive so few km on bare pavement with them.

but they’re from 1995, not 2075

they’re definitely better than reddit’s in my experience

I would place them at a quality on par with reddit at the latest five years ago

you still get people who insist on not understanding what words mean, but less frequently

good, the more people in that database, the better