rolling FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS thread

Home for the holidays and wanted to watch Kurosawa's Ran on mom's big TV. Netflix sent me the Masterworks restoration instead of the far superior Criterion disc.

http://matouenpeluche.typepad.com/.a/6a00e554e97d5c8834013110006574970c-800wi

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u writing another book bro?

spent a whole day agonizing over the final few spots of my ballot for a music critic poll

s1sk downloads signing off in the middle of downloads and never coming back

anyone who thinks these problems are first world is poor

pancakes this morning were a little salty

I have cholera

as long as the oxen are fine we're good

Someone started a trypophobia thread and I don't know if I can stop myself from clicking on it.

Listen to me on this one. DO NOT OPEN IT. Trust me. You'll regret it.

^^^

triphophobia

recognize the poison in our board

nagging feeling of near-impotent guilt re: the 1bn ppl living in poverty

xps i seriously SERIOUSLY wish i had never opened that thread - i still get a queasy feeling when i even think about it :/

It is horrendous.

Yeah, I probably won't. I hope.

Really don't. I didn't know what it meant. I backed out as quickly as possible.damage wasn't quite done, but nearly

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oh shit wrong thread

oh fuck you grady

Ban grady!

give him one day for every lotus hole

UNBAN GR8080

yah i read that thread and u all r crazy they are just holes in things

if bein freaked out by that insane alien nonsense is crazy well mister I just don't wanna be sane.

lol!!!

Aren't at least half of escalators broken?

And post offices, DMVs, and other public offices always have multiple service windows, yet way too few people working at these windows to serve the long line of customers.

haha i caught myself getting pissed off at broken escalators yesterday

three words: single core processor

Escalators don't become broken they become stairs. Rip Mitch Hedberg.

Aren't at least half of escalators broken?

The escalator in my building seems to break down at least once a week.

Escalators don't become broken they become stairs. Rip Mitch Hedberg.

― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, January 11, 2011 8:54 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

rip indeed, but:

http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/13725/wm/pd1118986.jpg

^^^so sick of seeing this in the buildings surrounding my workplace/where i take lunchbreaks

this thread is the definition of first world problems

I HATE APPLE

went with my sister to the local pastry shop -- upon exiting, she exclaimed with dismay "they put my petit fours in the same box as your tiramisu!"

reddening — what does yr name refer to?

because earlier today I had this idea about a video game where at certain points you might be like moving down a long hallway and suddenly you find that you can't turn your character around or walk backwards or even see what's behind you, because [ghosts/magic/whatever] — then I saw yr name just now and I went "GUH?"

(possibly I saw it earlier and subconsciously remembered it?)

It's from a flash game called Johnny in an art game?, which is parodying games like One Chance and Every Day the Same Dream where you kind of march forward into your destiny. I think it was just the parody-maker being lazy, though, since you can turn around in both those games!

someone told me that escalators are extremely power-hungry and incredibly environmentally unfriendly as a result.

escalators are everywhere in HK, and we've got some reaaaaaallly big ones.

and some reeeeally freaking tiny ones.

I don't remember where it was now but there was an escalator that was seriously about three steps long. 'er indoors is short and it was only about half her height. Then there's that eight-storey fucken thing in Mong Kok. If you fall you are dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AothOuCTCM0

Hong Kong escalators

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUf-2NvxogE&feature=related

was listening to a tech podcast from CES this year and people were complaining that they'll have to upgrade their flatscreen TVs every 3-4 years now since the technology is changing so rapidly

sometimes i have to switch my QC3s to the 'lo' setting before i plug them into staticky speaker outlets. then, when i unplug them, the volume plays way louder than i thought it would and startles me for like half a second :( :( :( :( :( :(

my debit card expired so now i've had to re-enter the number on tons of websites -- also my netflix rotation got thrown off by two days

Debatable coaching decisions are really hampering my fantasy basketball team

can't wait for lex to lecture ilx more about privilege

thought abt this thread today when i got upset about some shoddy reparative tailoring on an old lanvin suit

scum tbh

Now a grim reality for the lad

http://i.imgur.com/oB3vRKv.jpg

Paul McCartney got sick so now we have to wait four more months to see him

I've missed a load of games due to Glastonbury and ugh the first one I will get to watch in its entirety will be Belgium USA, which will surely be like a really shitty midtable Premiership game.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 12:28 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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usb port on cheap laptop not deep enough to accept dragonfly DAC without having to jiggle the connection periodically

my new sofa is too big for my house

restaurants pricing sturgeon as if it were beluga, gtfo

Want desperately to go to sleep as soon as possible this evening, but must attend condo association meeting tonight.

human suffering is a strange thing -- I have experienced "problems" over the last several months that, by most people's standards, would deserve me a kick in the head for even suggesting they were problems, which I feel embarrassed even to repeat here. Yet I have spent months feeling irritable, anxious, and scared the majority of the time, feeling like I was in a vise that wouldn't let up it's grip, feeling like I was going to lose everything. I am reminded of the saying from the Sopranos. "- "Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky." And that great wind is upper middle class white privilege I guess.

i wish my colleagues didn't assume i had imessage on my computer and send me super long detailed texts with charts and files that no fucking way am I gonna deal with on my iPhone 6S

i wonder if unless thinking about all the blessings in yr life gives you comfort (like to meditate on all the wonderful things you have to dispel yr anxiety) it could be that your awareness of the relative frivolity of yr problems contributes to yr suffering since you don't give yourself permission to experience it - instead you experience the suffering alongside yr disdain for yr own suffering xp

i meditate on the comfort of my iPhone 6S on the reg tbh

I mean, to be clear these problems involved several *major life decisions* of the type expected to cause stress, it's just that they were major life decisions that I am so lucky even to be able to make right now that yes, I did kind of hate myself for suffering anxiety over them.

but even if the problems are truly trivial, the existence in which you are processing them is changing in unanticipated and unpredictable ways right now... it's kinda like trying to take a sip of a bloody mary while the plane flies through a a patch of turbulence

that's an excellent metaphor and captures how it feels

Somewhat relatedly, this is strangely affecting although slightly overdramatic and FWP (forgiveable offenses for an extremely talented high school student):

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/ontario-teen-numb-short-film-liv-mcneil_ca_5eecd230c5b6d71ac27ff017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSkbd6hRkXo

And, appropriately, the 15-yr-old director's commentary:

This is just a generalization of the feeling of isolation, not my personal feelings, I for sure haven't been enjoying quarantine, but some have it worse. We have all been going through stuff right now, especially with Black Lives Matter, my struggles are in no way comparable to some things people are going though right now. this is my own experience, some are a whole lot worse than mine. I'm just showing what I know.

This is a mini film, Numb by me. I did this for a school project but I'm really happy with how it came out, so I'm posting it here. This took me a combined 3 weeks or so. hope you enjoy! please feel free to share as much as you like, just please credit me and M83, the band who made the music.

company pass dangling from lanyard clacks annoyingly off my belt buckle when walking down the corridor of my office

Wait, how low do you wear your lanyard?

Back in the late 80s when I first joined corporate life, I remember hearing lanyards and passes would soon be obsolete now that retinal scanning was possible. The future has failed to arrive!

Wait, how low do you wear your lanyard?

how high do you wear your trousers more like

this lanyard is not adjustable, it hangs where it hangs

my belt is around my waist you maniacs

Tying a loop in the lanyard itself is knot a knoption?

(X post)

I’m concerned where this forces security guards to look to check your credentials.

Just get a shorter lanyard cord, if you want a rainbow one like mine I can give you one

ahah great problem.
yeah the solution seems obvious : tie it up !

or get your neck more swole

this lanyard is not adjustable, it hangs where it hangs

my belt is around my waist you maniacs

They're always annoying long. I always had to tuck them inside my shirt while working with clients.

Most injuries related to cutting avocados occur from April through July. Here’s how to reduce your risk.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/06/26/avocado-hand-injuries-knife/

Good thing avocado injury season is ending soon!! It's gonna be Taco Tuesday every day when August rolls around.

Moths in the snoring room

Couple win refund after buying £32m moth-infested London mansion

Iya Patarkatsishvili and Dr Yevhen Hunyak sued property developer over infestation that ruined wine and clothes

The daughter of a Georgian billionaire and her husband have been granted a refund after buying a £32m London mansion that was infested with moths.

Iya Patarkatsishvili and Dr Yevhen Hunyak bought the early Victorian seven-bedroom Notting Hill home in May 2019. It boasted a pool, spa, gym, wine room, library, cinema, and a “snoring room” designed for peaceful sleep.

enough of your first-world problems, i want solutions

https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/04/28/this-adorable-cat-shaped-fan-blows-on-your-hot-drinks-so-you-dont-have-to/

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/my-brain-finally-broke

Started reading that and going 'oh its only your brain that broke..'

Probably unfair but there you are.

The writing style of the first paragraph didn't exactly break my brain, but it broke my will to pay The New Yorker one cent in order to it read any further.

Started reading that and going 'oh its only your brain that broke..'

Yeah, that was several thousand words of "sounds like a you problem..."

is adult-onset dyslexia a thing?

She mentions offhand that she got Covid three times. That shit fucks your brain up.

Xp I would guess it’s related to middle aged vision deterioration… I bought my first pair of reading glasses ever last week. The frames are cute and blue so I will still maintain an aesthetic if I have to wear them on a zoom.

that would've been my next guess. but then i only saw the non-paywalled part of the article and it wasn't much to go on.

having told me i could only see two sentences it then offered me 20 other stories that it would only let me see 2 sentences of, most of which seemed to be about ai. that's a hard no.

Goddamn youtube forcing me sit through TWELVE FULL SECONDS of ads before I can watch a vintage video of Can in performance

My goodness, that is fully avoidable still with Firefox + uBlock. Never use the YouTube app on mobile. Gotta jump through more hoops on iPhone, but still possible to avoid at least watching them.

Xp this was me last night… except it was pet bloopers in newscasts, and they didn’t even have the full version of the “omg … that cat” clip

Yeah the YouTube app is awful, ads all over the place, but the website version is oddly still not yet fully enshittified.

At this point, I just cast YouTube from my browser to my Apple TV whenever I watch a video. It avoids ads and saves me from taking forever trying to type a search term with the remote.

that is fully avoidable still with Firefox + uBlock

This. I've literally never seen an ad on youtube when watching on my pc.