I wanted so badly to like Tidal (and Qobuz), but after using it for several months I discovered it had removed 5-10% of my music from my “liked” list. Presumably because the artists re-uploaded a higher quality version, but they didn’t give me any notification at all and there was no way to see what was removed.
People say Spotify does this too, but when I went back, my number of liked songs hadn’t changed in that same time frame.
Seeing cheese foam as on option on a sweetened tea drink was weird, but I get it. Seeing it as the default for a strawberry smoothie was absolutely wild.
That said, as a tea lover I love boba places.
I lived on an out-of-the-way island that closed down around that time, so we all had to move away. A few years ago I saw a youtube video of someone visiting the place, and it was a real blast from the past. It was a ghost town, my childhood locked in time like amber. The drive-thru still advertising the kids toy that came with the meal I got so many years ago.
Very bizarre to think no one lives there now.
There was a while there where I was really into wholesome memes. People really don’t get what wholesome is. I started getting legitimately upset at what people thought was appropriate there so I had to block the communities.
If literal hell on earth was happening, and I was spending most of my real world time dealing with it, and there was nowhere I could go to escape from it and people exclusively talked about it all of the time, I would kill myself. We are allowed to stop talking about it sometimes.
When I was in school back in the early days, I tried typing a random “wherearemypants.com” and it led to this forum run by some random guy in Texas for him and his friends. I made an account and just insinuated myself into this group of adults, and honestly, it was the golden age of social media for me. Absolutely nothing was monetized, just people sharing links and chatting about stuff.
Eventually he shut it down and I ended up on myspace>facebook>reddit>lemmy.
The biggest injustice of being fired when you were very important, is that often no one even knows that your absence is responsible for the fact that a bunch of stuff is going wrong. Maybe your direct manager and coworkers will think “Oh, shouldn’t have fired them!”, but there’s no chance that upper management will be aware or hold anyone responsible for letting you go.
I was running a VBA macro I made in Excel at an old job that did the work of three people. I told my boss where to find my files when I left (shouldn’t have, I was young), but from what I hear he never bothered to look into my old work at all. They just hired three extra hands after I left. No one realized he cost the company $200,000+ a year or held him accountable.
I went to a local battery specialist store to get some $2 watch batteries, and they asked me for my address and phone number.
Confused I said “No thanks, just buying some batteries.” He refused saying “Well I can’t check you out then”, smugly as if I had no choice but to cave and open an account. I simply walked out. He quickly changed to “Oh wait actually we can just-“. Not sure how that sentence ended as I was already gone, ordered two day delivery online.
I think the rest of Hide and Seek that doesn’t get sampled in other songs is underrated.
The absolute worst is when people say “You can’t really blame them. That’s just how things are.”
Of course I can blame them! They did testing on focus groups to figure out just how intrusive they could be before an unacceptable percentage of people got mad. If they miscalculated and overreached and upset me, then my being upset is perfectly valid. Also true if they knew someone would be upset and considered it acceptable losses. This applies to all sorts of things and not just advertising.
The idea that if an action someone takes is rationally understandable then you aren’t allowed to be mad about it is so toxic and I hate it. I can understand why they do intrusive ads, they like money. But it affects me against my will and I hold them responsible, as I should.
The worst is when you’re still at work half an hour later than normal, and someone walking by sees you and thinks it’s a good opener to chat. “Oh wow you’re still here, huh? It’s usually just me etc etc.” I’ve had people stop to chat for 45 minutes and I’m just thinking “Do you think I’m still here because I don’t want to be at home?!”
Also, when I smile, people frown and yell back
One time I was cashiering at a grocery store on Thanksgiving, only one to show up. There was a huge line of people buying a lot of stuff each, so even though I was the fastest cashier, it was a losing battle. Still, I kept my smile on and engaged each customer while working my hardest.
Then some asshole ten customers away started yelling things like “This is ridiculous, why aren’t there more cashiers? Hey! I’m talking to you! Answer me!” Like I had any pull on the people who didn’t show. He should have been yelling at my manager who was hiding in the back.
Decide to ignore him since no good would come of it. Then I hear “Stop smiling!”, which was so abrasive it literally stunned me. I looked at the line to see who was going to tell him to calm the hell down, and every person there was nodding along like “Yeah, I can’t believe this cashier has the gall to smile when we want to make him feel small.”
And just like that, suddenly I was in no hurry. Slowed down to about 1/4 speed and just glared at each person with no conversation whatsoever. Rude guy gets up there and starts in on some nonsense and I tell him “I’m a highschooler. I don’t have to pay rent. One more word out of you and I walk out on this job right now. No one else is here to check you out, but security is still here to keep you from leaving with anything today.” Still clearly upset, but he shut up.
My go-to BBQ joint is right next to a Planet Fitness. Upon returning after Christmas, and fighting for my life through the busiest parking lot of all time, I found a note on the door basically saying “We’re closing for all of January”.
I would actually bet the new GTA coming out will get widely panned for bad writing. The games are like 80% exaggerated satire, and satire is nearly impossible now.
Every time someone pitches the argument that billionaires got there through sheer intelligence and hard work, I want to scream “Have you seen anything this person has wrote or said in public? They are barely coherent! If you asked them where they are right now, they probably wouldn’t know because they pay someone to babysit them through their day.”
Learning about Shrinking right as I finished Ted Lasso and had a hole to fill was a huge relief.
I’ve never left a job thinking my direct manager would be a usable reference. Either they are the one who laid me off, or they are mad about having to replace me. Either way I’m not giving their number to anyone, so who cares if I make them more mad leaving without notice.
In the hypothetical universe where I leave a job with a healthy environment on good terms, I would give two weeks independent of the recommendation anyway.