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- ArchitectofFate2
I wake up everyday checking the weather, not because my kids won't dress for the weather or because I've got some walking distance to work.
But because I'm thinking – Is it good enough weather to be worth calling in sick to go discgolf?
- yespango
- call in sick as many times as you can get away with, regardless of the chicanery or purpose. work is a fucking time thief.face_melter
- update; went golfing, met a graffiti artist friend I haven't seen for 10y+ totally worth itArchitectofFate
- excellent. skiving off work brings infinite rewards.face_melter
- Disk golf is fun_niko
- utopian0
Are people still buying NFTs? Why are so many websites still popping up each day trying to push NFTs, particularly on the AWWWARDS website.
- they are in on itAQUTE
- It's a money laundering pyramid scheme like bitcoin.i_monk
- awe sup awwwards?!YakuZoku
- X got a licence for crypto payments. Bets on it becoming the WeChat of the West. Everyone using it for payments. NFT marketplace on there is inevitablemicrokorg
- ...som sorry Utopian, looks like NFTs are about to hit even more mainstream. Your nan will be buyin' a Pepe in no time.microkorg
- Nutter2
While my other half was in hospital I got Covid and had to stay away until I was cured. I thought I'd watch 'The Sandman'. A fantasy show sounded like just the cure from the sad reality of my life....
I was really not ready for how episode 6 starts.
Back then, and now, when I watch it I'm in tears. I was lucky I could be there til the end and say goodbye, but by god I wish things had turned out differently.
This isn't the full scene, but should give you a good enough glimpse into it if you haven't got Netflix.
- sarahfailin3
I just dodged a scam saying that I could get a 50% discount on my internet bill if I paid it a year in advance -- WITH A TARGET GIFTCARD.
They "waived" my internet bill for this month and then said that I need to call them at a specific number with an extension and use a Target Gift Card to pay. This was supposedly part of a promotion for Target gift cards and credit cards.
I got suspicious and googled "Target" plus my internet company and "promotion" and just saw "scam scam scam" all over the results.
I told the guy I see that this is a scam, and he said "but then how did I know your billing information and pay your bill?" and I said ok well thanks for paying my internet bill k thx bai.
The rub? I got my internet bill paid for this month by a scammer! Changed my password and enabled 2-factor authentication.
- It's actually a pretty common discount. I'm almost up on my full year, it's really the only time I ever go into target anymore.
take advantage dudefuturefood - i'll pay your internet bill if you send me hundreds in target gift cards. i won't save you any money though, it will be more expensive.capn_ron
- I called my ISP futurefood and it's not a real thing.sarahfailin
- My bank account has been suspiciously smaller lately. I got married, but that can’t be itfuturefood
- had a similar call for my phone bill. i hung up when he started asking for driver licence and passport numbers. phone company to verify and they're not away ofpango
- aware of any similar discount.pango
- ^ if theyve got your number and are phishing for passport no's etc then likely they will attempt a sim swap by claiming to be you to current company.microkorg
- It's actually a pretty common discount. I'm almost up on my full year, it's really the only time I ever go into target anymore.
- jagara1
Andor made me bored and depressed. Anybody bothered with Ahsoka? Any good?
- andor starts really slow. was pretty good towards the end. ahsoka might not be as good as andor. you kind of need to watch the animated series to get the back spango
- torypango
- I watched all of Andor. I really liked the very last episode, but was thoroughly bored otherwise. It was like social realist Star Wars. Not my cuppa tea.jagara
- the prison episode was great.pango
- < And that's the one i liked!jagara
- Horp0
I just posted in the blog thread, and it completely disappeared.
Apologies if it lands in an entirely irrelevant thread.
- you probably mentioned a banned word like set or bash or something. qbn is full of traps like this.hans_glib
- I mentioned 'end of the world' and I also quoted Magic Patch, page 1, entry 1, and wondered whether that had been nixed.Horp
- I think ultimately I just pressed the send button and too quickly flipped onto another window and it got mashed about on my circa 2016 geriatric Macbook air.Horp
- Horp0
Testing possible termination filter...
finding myself a bit hungry, so i may go and get a snack
- hmmmm, it wasn't that then.Horp
- Stop fucking about here, and get back on Discord, you!Continuity
- Hey so I lost my phone, and I'm back on my old phone... no Discord.
*shrugs*Horp - anyway HEY. HEY! You were the person working hard night and day to get my account reinstated on QBN, and now you chide me for not being on Discord WTH! :)Horp
- What can I say, I'm not easy to please. :DContinuity
- hahahahHorp
- Horp0
So anyway, I wrote a long 'end of the world' type post here in blog, and pressed BROADCAST, and it did all the things, and then it just *poof* it wasn't there.
If anyone finds it, please let me know. It mentions postmen in it, and errr, giant improvised immersive theatre, and I think I used the word zesty at one point.
About 800 words. You can't miss it. Reward for the finder.
- noob! Always copy your big posts in case they end up ith the aether, like I often don't.Nairn
- I don't even understand how I manage most of the typos I do on here.Nairn
- I know I should. But I long ago learned to embrace the uncertainty and to recognise that all of our words are just dust in a hurricane, man, aphids in a storm.Horp
- Back in about 1997 in the precursor to Yahoo Groups, a grizzly old stoner somewhere in the US typed this long unpunctuated text about ...Horp
- How stoner culture had changed. It was like beat poetry, but he didn't mean it to be. I immortalised it on a teeshirt graphic for Levi's...Horp
- Must have been replicated 50,000 times. Now, it's nowhere to be found.
Dendicannabist his name was. His words are lost forever. Dust, man, just dust.Horp
- Horp12
Just landed a project with a decent fee and a lovely team of people to work with.
I have absolutely no fucking idea at all what they want me to do, and just now was our third meeting on the subject.
I have professional dementia, or at least the modern world of work forces me to feel that way. I just sit there thinking "What the actual fuck is anybody here talking about?"
I am to use my keen vocational capabilities to identify a set of 'opportunity areas' for conveying information, in an extremely restrictive and rules bound mega-niche of b2b communication. Literally there is but one way to convey information in this space.
To help me along the way I've been sent about twenty 100 slide presentations, already done by other practitioners recently, exploring the exact same thing.
But this is increasingly what my world is about. It's an absurd situation where no research ever seems to be enough research, so I am provided with research to research in order to provide research findings to add to the research findings.
If they weren't offering to pay me for this I'd be saying, in a noticeably irritated tone "why don't you just look at the fucking research you already did yourselves, and leave me the fuck alone"
But that don't pay the bills.
- Replace 'mega-niche' with 'ultra-niche'Horp
- With all this pre-work, ChatGPT-4 can do like 80% of this project for you. (Actually probably 99% of the time-consuming busywork)********
- Are you working for a gambling company?SlashPeckham
- Sounds like pharma. Is it pharma?Longcopylover
- +1 vote for pharma
Or tractor tyres...!dee-dubs - its tractor tyres isn't it Horpfaxion
- Not tractor tyres. Pharma is close enough, but a niche area within that broad subject.Horp
- I'm in this post and I don't like itakiersky
- OBBTKN2
Another story to forget...
In the morning a client contacts me, she has a very urgent issue and needs my help.
Stopped everything I was doing and got to it.
At noon I go to lunch and when I return to the studio, my wife opens the door to a technician, who is supposed to come to check the fiber. I haven't called anyone and suddenly the connection goes away.
Asked the technician why he didn't notify me before making the cut and he tells me that he didn't know who to notify (????), that he would inform me as soon as he reestablished the connection.
He doesn't notify me, there's no connection, and the guy is gone.
I called my company and they have not sent any technician.
I'm hallucinating...
Another technician comes tomorrow and we'll see what the hell happened at the end.
Thanks god I've been able to continue working with 4G, but no one will give me back the 3 hours I have lost with this joke, and tomorrow I need to go up at 6 and finish this s***t!
It all looks like something out of the X-Files.
- doggydoggdog0
Does your job believe?...
a. you should be working your ass off during business hours
b. just a paycheck to support your life
c. somewhere in between?
- stewart1
2,8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2GB
It still sounds good to me and works fine.But I can't update to OS13 because it's mid 2015.
- Mac OS X version 13.4.0 or later is recommended for Adobe Photoshop 2024. An earlier version of Mac OS X was detected. Noooooo!!!stewart
- Let's generate some e-waste. Assholes. Microsoft too. When support ends for Windows 10, my perfectly capable laptop will be unable to update.jagara
- There seriously should be environmental laws against this shit. EU pressured apple to adopt USB-C on some of their phones. Justice. Proprietary fuckers.jagara
- It can at least still be basically usable for some tasks if you stick a linux distro on it. Your point is still 100% valid though, forced obsolescence is shite.BuddhaHat
- you can install never Mac OS if you really want with OpeCore.
https://www.youtube.…Nutter
- bainbridge2
How often should you get a raise?
- rate of inflation at least every year - otherwise you're taking a pay cut.trooperbill
- Daily, but as I'm getting older I don't expect as much action in the morning anymoreGnash
- Lol @GnashOBBTKN
- LOL, Gnash.
You dirty dog!palimpsest - Lol @GnashKrassy
- hahaha_niko
- Gnash wins!Continuity
- what trooper said. small increase each year, at LEAST, or else your employer is being inhumanemonospaced
- As salaries increase, employers need to match the market or else risk losing staff. So these days I’d expect a solid 5% each year just to keep up with inflationmonospaced
- OBBTKN4
Even though today is a hot a sunny day, weekend is expected to have dog weather...
I won't be able to make a bbq, but will take advantage of the bad weather here in Mordor to sit at the drawing table.
Good weekend locos!
- SimonFFM9
Maybe you remember me speaking about making a YouTube channel about apple cakes and baking with models.
I actually started the project in May, a well-planned and -executed project which turned out quite nicely. Put a lot of heart into it. Made a printed receipt on 700 g/sqm cardboard and then, two days before publication, the model said, she will sue me if I publish it.
Even though, I have a contract like always, this fun art project is not worth such a hassle. It's just a huge disappointment, because if she had read my brief, she had known it's a video publication and I had found another model if she had said no before we actually produced everything.
Long story short: I lost a lot of money and cannot show you a piece of work that I am kind of proud of because it looks really nice.
First time something like this happens to me.
- she said why?pango
- I believe the legal term for this kind of situation is 'bullshit'. Sorry that happened to you Simon.BuddhaHat
- what is the point of your contract, if you're afraid of being sued? seems like a Simon pity party. let her sue, go to court, have her reimburse your investment.imbecile
- What imbecile said... Sorry for you Simon.OBBTKN
- Sue her cunty ass into oblivion********
- What the fucking fuck. I hate her. I'm really sorry, Simon. :\Continuity
- So she signed and agreed to something she didn’t fully read and understand? Sounds like a model...futurefood
- Sorry Simon. A court would recognize your contract and you’d win. But the hassle would not be worth itfuturefood
- Why doesn’t she want it published? What did she think it was for?scarabin
- replace her with AI generated modelKrassy
- Wow... sorry, Simon. :( How do you let the rest of the modeling world know not to work with her?PonyBoy
- Ah man that sucks. If she works through any agencies I’d be letting them know what happened.thumb_screws
- I'm sure we would love to all see it. put it on a private link on youtube. share the link here for a day.hotroddy
- ^ terrible idea.pango
- Thank you for your kind words. Life goes on. My next post here will be more positive!SimonFFM
- hotroddy, your intellectual disability is shining********
- Kind of off topic but we need to have global rules about IP and all this stuff bcuz it's getting more and more common, and now its cross borders.cherub
- PonyBoy2
Work has finally picked up. I'm not alone in my 'need' for new projects / clients etc... got a very close friend also begging I keep them in mind as I seek new shit.
Well... I found something — right up his / mine alley too but the fucker responds "I don't know — we may have to learn some technology etc... it's probably not worth our time." About 10 minutes after that moment of negativity he began whining about how he needs money...
- thumb_screws7
Forgot how good a solid trek through the bush is. Went for a 13km, 950m elevation one that goes through numerous different landscapes, requires a bit of climbing and has rad views. Brain just tunes out and just focus on not falling over. Not thinking about shit is quite nice.
- Fuck yes. I listen to politics or self development podcasts when I ride, and last 100km ride I turned it all off. Felt so good to keep myself company for a bit.BuddhaHat
- try swimming. i can’t usually think about anything other than my next breath when i do it :)scruffics
- Mates been trying to get me into morning ocean swims, not sure about the 10ºC water temps though. It's had a massive positive effect on his overall health.thumb_screws
- Nice. Almost exactly the same here with the dog yesterday. Melbs weather this weekend was glorious.MrT
- OBBTKN11
Next week, our youngest daugther is going to live to a rented house near her Uni (weekends is back home).
The city is not too far, 115 kms, but we live in a small rural town, and is a big jump for her.
I can feel the excitement and nerves in her, big changes and very fast...
We try to be indifferent, but I know that the first days are going to be quite sad.
C'est la vie!
- Needless to say, I'm broke, and I hope my Fiat lasts another 4 years at least, or I'm f***d.OBBTKN
- <3PonyBoy
- Why weekends in her broke parent's house?bainbridge
- ...in Pamplona?Miesfan
- @Mies, BilboOBBTKN
- bainbridge; to keep in touch with the family, laundry that can't be done there, tupperware for the week, etc.OBBTKN
- @OBBTKN My oldest, is on her 4th year of Uni, still comes home for those same reasons ;)dmay
- Damn dude, milestones. But it's your youngest... so you've been through this before?Calderone2000
- NBQ001
Took 5mg Melatonin last night for the first time in my life and had a good 8hr quality sleep that I haven't had in what feels like years.
I have no problems falling asleep but I wake up too early at like 2-3am often and can't fall back asleep.
Anyone else using it?
- No, no pils for me, I put on my earphones with relaxing sounds and that's enough for me.OBBTKN
- Off and on, as needed.i_monk
- Took it for a bit. Had crazy dreams
It works if you use right dosage for yourself. Do not use as habitfuturefood - 5mg is perfect... I've taken it for years. The best part about it is if I only get 5 hours I still feel fairly rested as it truly does help ME sleep that deeplyPonyBoy
- Ambient music (sleep sounds or ambient sleeping pill on Apple Music), a great mattress/pillow(s) and the odd mg of gravel or melatonin.ideaist
- Take no more than 300mcg, shuts down all your hormones and increases prolactindrgs
- 12,5 mg of quetiapine is awesome.stewart
- drgs you what mate?NBQ00
- Hey, NBQ00 - I've done as much as you have, but apparently the useful productive dose of melatonin is more like 0.3 mg, Too much can be disruptive, if anythingNairn
- Induces depression
https://www.reddit.c…drgs - https://www.youtube.…drgs
- drgs is saying that keep it going and have a nice melatonin blue suicide mondaysted
- Wish there was a anti-melatonin. I sleep 8-9 hours a day, no issues falling asleep and take naps.ArmandoEstrada
- Meth?robotinc
- I used to take it a long time ago. Thanks for reminding me. Tip: don't take too much or it will make you groggycherub
- Ive taken it, it gets me to a deep sleep fast, but doesn't KEEP me asleep.Akagiyama
- There is 6 hour slow release melatonindrgs
- I see no big deal in taking up to 5mg. Melatonin is like Vitamin-D and a hormone "vitamin" that is produced by the sun too.NBQ00
- There are also other health benefits: https://www.youtube.…NBQ00
- other half took it for years, had a positive effectNutter
- https://www.youtube.…SimonFFM
