In my country most Collective Bargaining Agreements negotiated by unions include a “coming off” day. After a night shift, you are legally required to have a rest period that usually covers the rest of that day and often the next, depending on the rotation cycle

I asked my mom to tell me some plot, and I was like “wtf is that”

After 30 years of not giving a single damn about her biological son (Finn), Sheila, a convicted serial killer who escaped prison, suddenly becomes obsessed with seeing him every day.

After being told that she won’t be able to join the family of his son as a loving mother because everyone sees her as a dangerous murderer, she proves that’s not true by shooting both Finn and his wife, Steffy. Finn is pronounced dead and immediately cremated without an autopsy.

Steffy survives, so Sheila disguises herself as a nurse to finish the job in the hospital. She fails for 20 episodes, gets caught, and runs away.

Surprise! Turns out Finn isn’t dead. A “miracle doctor” saved him and forged a death certificate/cremation papers just because.

Sheila gets a genius idea to fake her death and escape prison: chops off her own toe, calls 911 screaming “A BEAR IS ATTACKING ME!”, and disappears. The police find the toe and some bloody clothes. Their professional conclusion? “The bear ate every single part of her except for this one toe with a suspiciously clean surgical cut. Case closed.”

They take over 100 episodes to realize that maybe a bear couldn’t have done a clean cut with the teeth.

The “criminal mastermind” still needs to stalk the son and decides to go to her victim’s favorite restaurant with an obvious disguise (classic wig+brown coat). Nobody recognizes her with the “80s classic spy Halloween costume” in a luxury restaurant but she accidentally wore open-toed sandals. Steffy notices the missing toe, calls the cops, and Sheila is arrested.

Everyone spends 100 episodes celebrating that she’s gone forever. Then, a judge vacates the sentence over a clerical error. Multiple murders, prison escape, attempted double homicide? Doesn’t matter. She’s free to go.

Steffy lives in a villa on a cliff where people have a habit of dying by “accidentally” falling down the cliff during fights. Sheila stalks her for hundreds of episodes until they fight and Sheila falls off the cliff. Again: no autopsy, immediate cremation.

Just as everyone is celebrating, someone remembers the body they just cremated had ten toes. But oops, too late, she’s already ash.

Imagine all of this stretched out over hundreds of episodes with 80% filler and characters repeating the same three sentences every day.

That movies are just excuses for Tom cruise to try the dangerous stunts

My mom stopped watching “the bold and the beautiful” for this exact reason. She was watching it from almost 40 years straight 😂

When I went to their house for lunch I could hear her shouting “what? Need to explain again the conversation from the beginning?? It literally happened just 5 minutes ago!! Noooooo! Can we just go forward with the plot instead of explaining what happened one minute ago??”

I watch one episode a month but indeed it’s annoyingly repetitive. Not even “second screen” but something like “muted TV in a dentist waiting room with subtitles in another language”

This is how my mom explained me why it is annoying:

Before: ** plot twist happens ** => viewer is shocked

Now:

1. for 15-20 episodes before the “plot twist” is supposed to happen, characters insert “if [plot twist] happens it will be very bad for us” in their speeches.

2. The bad guy is shown preparing the “plot twist” for another 15-20 episodes

3. For another 15-20 episodes the characters still mention randomly in their conversations how bad if the plot twist would happen in their lives and let everyone swear that no, they can never let the plot twist happen.

4. Obvious “Plot twist” happens in slow motion over the course of 5 episodes

5. Characters talk about how the “plot twist” impacted their lives for 15-20 episodes

6. After 30-60 episodes, when characters are gathered at a family reunion on the coach, start reminiscing how the “plot twist” was so shocking and unexpected

7. For the next 15 episodes every single person present at that family reunion including some random security guard really needs to retell the “plot twist” from their point of view

Because they’re projecting. Uline got $700k in covid-related government financing so she’s assuming everyone else stole as much as her

What search engine is that shit? Hiding full URLs in search results is completely unacceptable

Am I supposed to feel sorry for a billionaire that made money by hoarding a basic necessity?

Somehow I’m unable to let VLC play any kind of video on my Arch (actually cachyos) laptop. Whatever the format it says codec is missing even if I installed everything (mpv, totem and others can play them).

(I tried to install vlc-git from aur but then gave up when after 30 minutes was still compiling, I don’t have enough patience to wait all that time every time I run yay)

I’m forced to run the flatpak version of VLC for some reason, the only way to make it work

21 in average per day? You need to be a professional bullshitter for that, I couldn’t do that many

The chip is on the cartridge, so they can retrieve it constantly as you buy new ones

I found a workaround for this:

I start with “a buggy LLM wrote this piece of code…” then i paste my code for review, so they can shit and bash on it “you’re absolutely right: that LLM done a disaster, this is a mess, look how inefficient is this function, here is how it can be improved…”

Yes and no.

First, because they always discontinue/remove/change APIs and stuff, apps need to be constantly updated (= pay subscription or buy new version every 2-3 years). You can’t just use something from 2008.

Second, because they set arbitrary minimum requirements, the average life of a Mac is in average 7 years from launch, then it stops getting updates.

Which means: $1200 for the laptop - $500 inflated resale value even after 7 years = $700/7 = $100 yearly “subscription” to use the latest version of MacOS

When I got the latest kernel on my Arch laptop, the touchpad didn’t work for a month (luckily it was fixed by installing the LTS kernel)

But I like to stay on the bleeding edge, otherwise I would have chosen Debian

when you install western apps on a modern chinese phone, it will complain that it doesn’t have a license from the ICP. For now there’s a “install anyway” button to bypass it, but for how long?

They use shit switches but their wireless chipset is the best. The battery life is years instead of weeks and it’s always responsive like if it was wired. My HP Bluetooth mouse depletes its battery 20x faster than my Logitech Bluetooth mouse and most importantly when it goes in the sleep mode (around after 15 mins) it needs a click to wake up + it takes a couple seconds to reconnect. Infuriating.

Huh? No, he would be employed at subway, in a factory making sandwiches for all the world. Imagine the profit if they could fire all the employees. World hunger can be solved another day

I think it’s a scam targeting specific areas

I lived a short time in NY and I got a mobile with a phone number with a Flushing area number (lots of people with Asian descent live there). Literally the first day I start receiving robocalls in Chinese, I recorded it and let a Chinese listen the message. It said there’s a problem with my documentation and I have to call a number as soon as possible or face consequences. I was told this is a scam, they try to get money to fix a non existent issue.

Doesn’t help that Apple wants €100/year + a supported Mac (average €100/year for the hw upgrade treadmill)

I think world peace is more realistic than that

No, i was confused with heic