Random randomness

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Dec 21, 2021 5:07 pm

Dutch Bros seem to often have a pointy roof but I see exactly 0 of them on the east coast and just about none that aren't in the west.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dutch+bros

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Dec 21, 2021 5:09 pm

telcta wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 5:04 pm
Jaymann wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 4:49 pm A drive through wedding chapel?
Marriage at the first window, divorce on the other side. Hmmmm...

The window in the middle is the liquor.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Dec 21, 2021 5:58 pm

Since the last Firefox update I can't see tweets here. So now I have to use MS Edge. MS or Firefox update made me have to go to MS Edge to visit Yahoo News too.
Hope I can still use Firefox to see pron.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Tue Dec 21, 2021 6:12 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 5:58 pm Since the last Firefox update I can't see tweets here. So now I have to use MS Edge. MS or Firefox update made me have to go to MS Edge to visit Yahoo News too.
Hope I can still use Firefox to see pron.

Somebody said if you ditch Duck Duck Go you can see tweets. No great loss as far as I can tell.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Tue Dec 21, 2021 6:19 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 5:58 pm Since the last Firefox update I can't see tweets here. So now I have to use MS Edge. MS or Firefox update made me have to go to MS Edge to visit Yahoo News too.
Hope I can still use Firefox to see pron.

FF was wreaked havoc on my ability to you Google properties across devices. I've been reading the general computing page and debating moving to another browser.

http://octopusoverlords.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=98372

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Tue Dec 21, 2021 7:23 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 6:12 pm
dbt1949 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 5:58 pm Since the last Firefox update I can't see tweets here. So now I have to use MS Edge. MS or Firefox update made me have to go to MS Edge to visit Yahoo News too.
Hope I can still use Firefox to see pron.
Somebody said if you ditch Duck Duck Go you can see tweets. No great loss as far as I can tell.

You don't have to ditch it, just disable it on this site. If you don't use DDG, dbt, try disabling your ad blocker on this site.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Tue Dec 21, 2021 7:37 pm

Kraken wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 7:23 pm
Jaymann wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 6:12 pm
dbt1949 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 5:58 pm Since the last Firefox update I can't see tweets here. So now I have to use MS Edge. MS or Firefox update made me have to go to MS Edge to visit Yahoo News too.
Hope I can still use Firefox to see pron.
Somebody said if you ditch Duck Duck Go you can see tweets. No great loss as far as I can tell.
You don't have to ditch it, just disable it on this site. If you don't use DDG, dbt, try disabling your ad blocker on this site.

I turned off the DDG slider for privacy on this site and it did the trick.

Hipolito · Post by **Hipolito** » Wed Dec 22, 2021 1:07 am

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 8:21 pm
LordMortis wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 6:38 pm
Brian wrote: ↑Sat Dec 18, 2021 8:36 pm
LordMortis wrote: ↑Sat Dec 18, 2021 8:19 pm The Iron Giant. Movies don't make me cry but The Iron Giant does it to me. shrug And with that I still will watch it again. shrug
Superman...
Don't know why but it really gets me in the :cry:
I've been thinking about this song all week. It's hitting me differently now than it did 20+ years ago.

Thanks for posting this. I've heard a few CTD songs but somehow not this one. Beautiful tune. I've been playing it in my head the last couple of days.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Dec 24, 2021 2:02 pm

‘Wheel of Fortune’ Contestant Correctly Solved Puzzle, Yet Pat Sajak Wouldn’t Give Her the Audi She Won

If you scroll down you can see the video. I and many others think she won. Audi thought so too and gave her a Q3.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Fri Dec 24, 2021 2:16 pm

I don't know if Audi agreed, but they saw an easy PR win and took it.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Fri Dec 24, 2021 2:33 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 2:02 pm ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Contestant Correctly Solved Puzzle, Yet Pat Sajak Wouldn’t Give Her the Audi She Won

If you scroll down you can see the video. I and many others think she won. Audi thought so too and gave her a Q3.

I can see why she didn't win. She knew the solution but didn't say it in it's entirety. Sajak wasn't being a dick, it was just unfortunate.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Dec 24, 2021 2:54 pm

She said all the words in the right order with a pause.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Fri Dec 24, 2021 2:57 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 2:54 pm She said all the words in the right order with a pause.

If so I would say she won. I thought she said all the words with "card" then just changed the last word to "word."

Exodor · Post by **Exodor** » Fri Dec 24, 2021 4:29 pm

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 5:07 pm Dutch Bros seem to often have a pointy roof but I see exactly 0 of them on the east coast and just about none that aren't in the west.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dutch+bros

It looks very much like a Dutch Bros to me.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Dec 24, 2021 4:37 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 2:57 pm
Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 2:54 pm She said all the words in the right order with a pause.
If so I would say she won. I thought she said all the words with "card" then just changed the last word to "word."

She didn't. She said the whole thing both times. There was a six-second pause, which was, apparently, legitimately against the rules. But it's a terrible look, and they really should have done a 'the judges talked it over and...'

You leave your viewers with a smile, not a frown.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Dec 25, 2021 2:17 am

If I wanted to mail something to Austria would I be best served going to the post office or UPS?

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sat Dec 25, 2021 3:56 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Dec 25, 2021 2:17 am If I wanted to mail something to Austria would I be best served going to the post office or UPS?

Definitely USPS. Trust me; I shipped a lot of international packages in my Curio City days. But it will cost you a lot.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Sat Dec 25, 2021 10:25 am

stimpy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 9:39 am I've owned 3 houses in my lifetime.
Never had to buy or replace a furnace or a/c unit.
Has it always been a racket?

Got a quote from the first place I contacted. Was recommended by a person at work.
Came in at $4800. Did some research and found this wasnt a bad price. Pretty typical.
Just for comparison, got a couple more estimates.
Both came in around $7200.........

The one place that asked if I got other quotes magically decided they could match the $4800.
W.T.F.

Sure....I'll hire you after you JUST tried ripping me off for $2400...........

I paid $10,000 for a full AC, furnace, and coil replacement this summer.

Do you have full details on the brand/efficiency/tonnage of the equipment you were quoted? Those factors can really explain the differences in quotes.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Sat Dec 25, 2021 12:49 pm

pr0ner wrote: ↑Sat Dec 25, 2021 10:25 am I paid $10,000 for a full AC, furnace, and coil replacement this summer.

Do you have full details on the brand/efficiency/tonnage of the equipment you were quoted? Those factors can really explain the differences in quotes.

We paid about that for replacement of our just out of ten year warranty A/C two years ago. They did replace everything, including the pipes that run under the foundation. The only thing they didn't replace was our filter box, which was in good shape and uses four inch thick filters.

stimpy · Post by **stimpy** » Sat Dec 25, 2021 2:20 pm

pr0ner wrote: ↑Sat Dec 25, 2021 10:25 am
stimpy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 9:39 am I've owned 3 houses in my lifetime.
Never had to buy or replace a furnace or a/c unit.
Has it always been a racket?

Got a quote from the first place I contacted. Was recommended by a person at work.
Came in at $4800. Did some research and found this wasnt a bad price. Pretty typical.
Just for comparison, got a couple more estimates.
Both came in around $7200.........

The one place that asked if I got other quotes magically decided they could match the $4800.
W.T.F.

Sure....I'll hire you after you JUST tried ripping me off for $2400...........
I paid $10,000 for a full AC, furnace, and coil replacement this summer.

Do you have full details on the brand/efficiency/tonnage of the equipment you were quoted? Those factors can really explain the differences in quotes.

I did and it was all pretty much apples to apples. A couple of companies did do a good, better, best list.
I was looking in the good range, which was more than fine for my house.
I got the first place down to $4500 by paying cash upon completion, so I went with them.

They finished up, tested everything, I paid them and all was good to go.
Literally 4-5 hours later I get a call from the company saying they installed the wrong a/c unit and wanted to come back the next day to swap it out for the right one. I ran home and checked and sure enough, it was the wrong model. Now....if it had been in my favor, I was going to ask for some sort of compensation for the mistake and inconvenience, like free maintenance for a few years or something. Afterall........job was signed, sealed and delivered.
However.....it turned out to be a 2 ton that they installed instead of the 2.5 ton I ordered. They scored major points with me, as they certainly could have left it for the same reason.......signed sealed and delivered. But the woman that called said they wanted to give me what I paid for.
In the end, I was very satisfied with both the price and the company.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Dec 25, 2021 10:56 pm

Geez I had no idea of the cost of shipping a package overseas. I was expecting to add maybe $20 to a normal ship price. I mean we've sent stuff in the past and I get shit from China all the time for like $5 or free. USPS site is showing for a small box 8" big is $40 and a medium 11" is $80 freaking ! wth.

EDIT: I was looking at flat rate thinking it was cheapest. Maybe theres something else. Like priority or something.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Sat Dec 25, 2021 11:29 pm

Does evolution teach us that if docile, timid rabbits formed the modern genepool, that at some point there must have been bold, vicious attack rabbits who were very bad fighters?

Not necessarily. But probably, right?

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Sun Dec 26, 2021 12:33 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Dec 25, 2021 10:56 pm Geez I had no idea of the cost of shipping a package overseas. I was expecting to add maybe $20 to a normal ship price. I mean we've sent stuff in the past and I get shit from China all the time for like $5 or free. USPS site is showing for a small box 8" big is $40 and a medium 11" is $80 freaking ! wth.

EDIT: I was looking at flat rate thinking it was cheapest. Maybe theres something else. Like priority or something.

China has a special subsidy to keep their mail cheap... from the USPS. The special rate is called "ePacket".

As for current rates, check the current ePacket rates and it may be cheaper than you think.

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Sun Dec 26, 2021 12:50 am

I used to mail occasional gifts to friends in Europe, but that tradition went the way of the dodo about 10 years ago when USPS rates skyrocketed.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Dec 26, 2021 2:29 am

Sudy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 25, 2021 11:29 pm Does evolution teach us that if docile, timid rabbits formed the modern genepool, that at some point there must have been bold, vicious attack rabbits who were very bad fighters?

Not necessarily. But probably, right?

Nuralagus

Nuralagus rex was six times the weight of the extant European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and could weigh up to 23 kg (51 lb).

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Sun Dec 26, 2021 10:42 am

Sudy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 25, 2021 11:29 pm Does evolution teach us that if docile, timid rabbits formed the modern genepool, that at some point there must have been bold, vicious attack rabbits who were very bad fighters?

Not necessarily. But probably, right?

There have certainly been ancient tales of rabbits with vicious streaks a mile wide. Apparently; they were the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodents you'd have ever set your eyes on.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Dec 26, 2021 12:08 pm

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Sun Dec 26, 2021 12:11 pm

sigh... yes Daehawk, very good.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Sun Dec 26, 2021 2:48 pm

Winnie the Pooh enters the public domain on January 1.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Dec 26, 2021 2:50 pm

Book, not Disney.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Sun Dec 26, 2021 3:44 pm

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 4:37 pm
Jaymann wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 2:57 pm
Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Dec 24, 2021 2:54 pm She said all the words in the right order with a pause.
If so I would say she won. I thought she said all the words with "card" then just changed the last word to "word."
She didn't. She said the whole thing both times. There was a six-second pause, which was, apparently, legitimately against the rules. But it's a terrible look, and they really should have done a 'the judges talked it over and...'

You leave your viewers with a smile, not a frown.

Yeah, have a feeling this rule will be changed because of this. There's no reasoning for it, and it makes Sajak look like a dick. The important thing is that she gave the right answer before the time ran out.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Dec 26, 2021 4:50 pm

Tru dat.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Mon Dec 27, 2021 7:37 pm

Just a reminder...

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon Dec 27, 2021 8:03 pm

Well crap................

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:58 am

Wife went and changed the controls of the washing machine during a wash cycle and it went crazy.
And just like always she denied it. It gets old dealing with an adult three year old.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Dec 28, 2021 11:19 am

Just got a call from my mechanic. It seems the reason my engine went bad is because the radiator blew up. It is not included in the engine replacement. <sigh>

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Tue Dec 28, 2021 2:03 pm

Alexa is trying to kill the kids now

Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it "challenged" a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.

The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa for a "challenge to do".

"Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs," the smart speaker said.

Amazon said it fixed the error as soon as the company became aware of it.

The girl's mother, Kristin Livdahl, described the incident on Twitter.

She said: "We were doing some physical challenges, like laying down and rolling over holding a shoe on your foot, from a [physical education] teacher on YouTube earlier. Bad weather outside. She just wanted another one."

That's when the Echo speaker suggested partaking in the challenge that it had "found on the web".

The dangerous activity, known as "the penny challenge", began circulating on TikTok and other social media websites about a year ago.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Dec 28, 2021 2:20 pm

I'm amazed that they found a way to let Amazon know. I've had zero success reporting dangerous problems to them.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Tue Dec 28, 2021 2:26 pm

Seems like providing any challenges is inherently dangerous. Heart attack much?

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Tue Dec 28, 2021 2:35 pm

As someone who tried a similar trick as a kid, I can attest to the badness of the idea...

When I was around 10yo, I couldn't resist the urge to drop a quarter on the exposed prongs of a lamp plug. While I knew better than to be touching the coin as it met flowing electricity, I failed to anticipate the loud bang and blown breaker that it caused. Once the lights were back on, I saw the burn marks on the wall and discovered the quarter had actually melted onto the plug...had two notches going about halfway through when I pulled it off the prongs.

So yeah, doing this as a TikTok or Echo challenge isn't so smart...