start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

sounds pretty rational to me. just before xmas the number of crazy drivers soars. be careful.

lately the scary thing though is people backing out without looking, almost had my driver's side door caved in at least three times in the last two weeks by people who did that as I was going by.

in conclusion fuck cars, viva feet.

― Neanderthal

This'd be worse if you were on foot, I suspect.

Man, I hate everything involving VR. I hate articles about it, I hate what they look like, I hate commercials that make it seem like something someone wants, I hate the name Occulus Rift. I hate it all. But mostly I hate that it's something that keeps coming back every few years like it's a thing and not like, say, the Nintendo Virtual Boy or the defective glasses Steve Martin makes in "The Jerk."

word, i wish games people would stop trying to make VR happen, it'll always be a gimmick

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I dunno, I thought the same thing 11 years ago about 3D in films, and they finally got that to work. I tried some VR recently and it's fucking amazing, but clunky and awkward in ways which will probably disappear in another decade at most.

Counterpoint: who cares?

Weren't there some big pieces a year or so ago about how 3D is no longer the money-maker it initially seemed to be (this time around), and has already faded in financial efficacy?

no, 3d in films is still clunky and bad, or at least a gimmick

I like vr though

tbh neither is in the end state, but barring VR-style goggles or some great new screen innovation, 3D movies have a bit of a plateau. it's better than red/blue separation but movies are limited in that they are fixed perspective and on a fixed screen so we'll just get larger aspect ratio, better frame rate, and possibly better separation

vr has always been without an end point and having individualized views at a reasonable framerate is good. the video game starting point for consumer use is nice because virtual worlds now have a walking dimension. watching movies, where the director or dp no longer frame action and you can do a full range of movement, would be weird

the narrative vr video clips are fun but weird because you can draw attention, and you should, but I can still look at a blank wall while a character talks behind me

the thing with websites insisting that you disable Adblock is catching on ;_;

The checkout at tescos last night finished by saying 'ho ho ho, Merry Christmas' and instead of being a charming seasonal gimick it just sounded creepy.

That's your punishment for shopping at Tesco.

the thing with websites insisting that you disable Adblock is catching on ;_;

Fu Forbes.

A door lock that can lock but leave the key the wrong way up to extract. Or that will allow your key to turn in the barrel while attempting to lock it while not doing so. So you have to check that lock has engaged. The idea that you have to arm a lock in a too specific way when you have a head full of flu and you're in a hurry.

Is that common with locks these days.

I'm on an already p. futile quest to look for an artist/painting by searching Google Images for keywords that fit my hazy memory of the painting, which is basically not going to happen anyway, esp since I think it was just by a local-ish amateur artist and adding the place name isn't helping at all

but what's really annoying is that any such quest (see also the ILX thread asking to ID an awesome colourful stripy op-art-ish painting at some Art Basel of yore) brings up a bunch of Pinterest results, like srsly all of my results are at Pinterest apparently, and if you click on one you just arrive at some Pinterest list of eight billion paintings and as soon as you scroll down it goes NUH UH YOU NEED TO LOG IN, NO MORE THUMBNAILS FOR YOU

and even if by any chance the painting you clicked on (or any other painting you have any interest in) is on the first page it doesn't tell you anything about what the painting is or who painted it, it's just like, here are some images without attribution or context, oh noooo you can't see any more of my precious unlabelled images

tldr = FU Pinterest

Pinterest is the ABSOLUTE WORST
I have had projects where it would seem to be the ideal solution but using it makes me throw every computer/device out the window in RAGE

otm

got a speeding ticket in Valdosta in November - 86 mph in a 70 zone. valid ticket, but here's the fun part about Valdosta tickets

*they don't tell you the amount of your fine on the ticket, by design
*they give you a court appearance date
*Obviously, you can waive that date by pleading guilty - there's a spot on the ticket where you can sign to do just that, except nowhere on the ticket do they give instructions for what you're to do with the ticket after you've signed it (no envelope provided either)
*There are no instructions as to how you can pay your fine if you don't appear in court, no website info or details on how you can find out the amount of your fine
*I easily found the website searching on my own, but to pay it, you have to enter your citation number and fine amount. To get your fine amount, you either have to call a number or look at the schedule of fines they post online and find your violation on there and manually input the amount yourself.
*You make the payment, and then later you get an email telling you if you sent it to the right place and for the right amount or not
*Because I was 16 mph over, I can then get a secondary $200 "super speeder" ticket from the State of Georgia later.

wtf is this nonsense?

(tbh I'm not really 'angry' so much as I'm fairly sure I figured it out right, just amused at how ridiculously inefficient the whole process is)

I got a speeding ticket here in Southern California, pretty similar runaround bullshit. Best part is the ticket is $35... PLUS any little fee they feel like adding to it. New municipal building fund. New road construction. Starbuck's for the guys in the station fund. So it wound up being $240, would've been $300 if I had opted for traffic school; I'm poor and have a spotless driving record so I had to go for the former.

Just for the record, though, when I lived in NJ I got pulled over twice for speeding and neither time did I get points or a ticket, one dude gave me a warning and the other a small citation for not changing my address on my license (I had just moved and it slipped my mind) which wound up costing nothing when I had proof of changing it. So speed in New Jersey, I guess.

if you get caught speeding in virginia they ban you from virginia

can i get banned from kansas #bansas

Wondering if the opacity of speeding tickets in particular states has any connection to how POC in those states get fine-mined for revenues?

people who type "this is my surprised face" on FB with no actual picture to refer to.

Wondering if the opacity of speeding tickets in particular states has any connection to how POC in those states get fine-mined for revenues?

No doubt about it. Also makes it easier for cops to throw POC in jail for the slightest justification

Graphics used in online news stories to represent the threat of hacking/viruses/vague computer-related danger, such as the skull thing a third of the way down in this article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38517517

Boy do I have the thread for you: security flaw could allow hackers to

Haha oh god, how have I never seen that before.

i hate when i have my turn signal on but the road curves so before i make the turn the signal comes off and i have to put it back on again

Good one

omg yes

Definitely that.

And that every news site on earth now throws a blaringly loud video of the story into every text article.

that is the worst, especially on mobile sites.

especially when the video is hidden somewhere on the page and you can't find where it is to disable it or it freezes your shitty chromebook

the crinkling of plastic packaging/bags on overnight flights

actually that's pretty rational nm

the lone ornament that appears on the floor after you have packed up the tree & all the decorations

yesterday i found a rogue pine needle in my hair

I was waiting in line at the airport just a few minutes ago, waiting for the monitor to ding and tell me what attendant to see. Instead, this person down at the end starts waving and shouting, so I head down there. "I think your monitor number button is broken," I say. "Oh," she says, "I didn't press the button."

Why not!?!?!

Also, I hate the sound of people eating in movie theatres, especially popcorn.

i don't understand the monitor dinging story. i've never waited in a line at the airport where they pressed.. what, buttons? to make a sound that indicates you're next?

At the Southwest counter there is a monitor that dings and says things like "proceed to clerk 34" or "proceed to clerk 21" or whatever. When it's not dinging it's just showing pictures of Southwest staff making silly faces, which I stared at until they yelled me over, which they would not have had to do if they simply pressed the button and made the monitor ding and say "proceed to counter 21."

That's up there with people who knock gently on my front door instead of pushing the doorbell.

And another yes to harbl's turn signal.

13.1 and 26.2 stickers on cars. You ran a marathon, fuuuuucking grrreaaaattt I needed to know.

Everybody, everywhere, always. Maybe better suited for the depression thread. (Not to mistaken for misanthropy - I love people, I just find them deeply irritating)

I don't really deal with Facebook much these days, but I had a couple of friends who whose running devices would automatically post the distance they just ran. "Dan just ran 10 miles!" or whatever. I really wanted to post, like, "Josh just walked a half block!"

"Brian thought about walking from Staples to Trader Joe's but it was like half a block and the car was right there so..."

13.1 and 26.2 stickers on cars.

Yeah if you're so great at running long distances, why are informing me of that while you're driving?

It seems a trifle defensive. Like a beer mug that says "I didn't drink very much last month." Or a cookie tin that says "normally I go gluten-free, but I'm splurging right now."

I like to read this thread imagining it in the voice of Paul Rust and his new no-noes