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

(phone headphones without a mic are barbarism)

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, May 9, 2018 9:32 PM

Andrew photographed on the way to work, yesterday

https://www.headphonesencyclopedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Headphones-with-Mic-768x768.jpg

You would too if you could pull it off.

Whoever posted upthread about the increasing uselessness of Google search is mfotm. I'm noticing lately that if I do a search for six words, I'll see results on the first page which have excluded five of the six words I searched for. I can do internet randomizer all by myself, Google.

This has been enraging me for a good couple of years. At least now they helpfully strike through the search terms not included in the result so you can see upfront exactly how useless it is. Most of my last google searches have "quote" "marks" "around" "every "word or phrase" in a vain effort to search for what I actually want to search for - it still decides I want something else.

Verbatim mode is what you're both looking for. You can get 'default to verbatim' plugins for firefox and chrome. I find I want to use it 80% of the time, sometimes I want to include alternative spelling and some words missing, but usually I don't.

hooray for the wonderful march of progress that has led us to a search engine that you have to hack to search for what you want

while it quietly pockets all your personal data

What I really want is Verbatim mode + obvious synonyms and alternative spellings + a suggestion if I've misspelled anything.

My real problem now is with google image search, which I now need to hack to even download an image, surely the whole point of it. Video search has never really worked.

weirdly, bing's video search is pretty good

oh god GIS has been ruined for life but i'm confused how come in an era where bandwidth feels more abundant than ever before why more and more douchebuckets seem intent on preventing their pics from being lovingly sampled/detourned

i'm not trying to rip-off your creative endeavour people i just want to post a sarky jpeg on a Turrican thread

hooray for the wonderful march of progress that has led us to a search engine that you have to hack to search for what you want

― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, May 10, 2018 11:21 AM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is so so otm. I had such a thorough course on using google (really) in the late nineties at uni, and I could find anything I want, exclude stuff etc. Then google introduced their algorithm shit and nothing mattered any more.

i'm not trying to rip-off your creative endeavour people i just want to post a sarky jpeg on a Turrican thread

― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, May 10, 2018 11:38 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is also so so otm. ;)

^ yes this is making me crazy too

Officially going back to AltaVista, guys.

(Officially just learned that AltaVista died an ignoble death several years back. Fuck, what now.)

https://askjeeves.net/

http://www.dogpile.com/

don't try asking jeeves what the best search engine is people, it's not helpful

(Officially just learned that AltaVista died an ignoble death several years back. Fuck, what now.)

a little bit of my adolescence just died :(

earlier today btw i watched my boss type 'google' into the search bar of his homepage, which is aol.com, in order to get to google to find something

this has happened several times and i think it's probably taken about three months off my lifespan

i think that's rational anger tho tbf

just googled aol.com cos i couldn't believe it still existed

This shit right here:

https://i.imgur.com/c7HEp4f.png

nailed it

I have to log out and clear my cookies sometimes just so Google will give me all the non-local versions of whatever asset I'm searching for.

(would a private tab be easier?)

mind did used to boggle when google.com would always appear near the top of the published searches, but these days there's a combined url / search bar so who's to know? in fact, if you try and type into the google search textbox on the chrome homepage the text ends up in the 'url' bar.

(the text box on askjeeves has a 'google custom search' watermark on it before you type)

You know, I could go incognito. That's never occurred to me.

I'm looking for art to use in a story about these retirement centers. We've published stories in the past about them, so all I'm getting is the old art that I personally uploaded, along with every other photo on our site.

im reading ilx incognito rn

You know, I know they're a necessary evil, but I kind of hate socks.

But think of the wonderful things I achieved as nude spock.

trying to start a roll of toilet paper is above my pay grade apparently

Getting tired of people moving out and the ongoing relegations. It’s like living on a construction site

Every bloody newsletter begging me to stay on because of the General Data Protection Regulation ('GDPR'), doing so almost exclusively in a grating 'innocent smoothie' kind of voice.

when someone's obviously under the wrong impression or misinformed in a conversation, and you reach out with the little olive branch of "well, I sometimes get that confused with this other similar thing, myself" and instead of taking the out, they double down on their wrongness

there's an entire group of people like this at work and it vexes me

One of my best friends pronounces genre as "ge-NAIR" and I still can't tell if he's fucking with me or not.

the hell

Fucking prices in hip cafes written with one decimal point - e.g. a $6.50 sandwich? No, that costs 6.5, how vulgar to refer to actual currency.

recipes that express vegetable amts in cups instead of how many vegetables you need

1 cup onion, diced instead of 1 small onion, diced

i get sometimes exact amts are needed but for shit like spaghetti or bastardized ragus & whatnot it should not matter so much

its rich to complain about that when the underlying issue is that you are a continent that pretends that a "cup" is a measurement

three continents tbf, though the US one is 10ml smaller than their northern neighbours and the other two continents

we've had weighing scales since 2000 BC ffs, "cups" for non-liquid ingredients is bollox - you can't order a pint of onions.

Taking sides: $6.5 sandwiches versus $3.169 gallons of gas.

Do some restaurants still have "the lady's menu" i.e. a menu with no prices listed? What a thing.

> "cups" for non-liquid ingredients is bollox

but a cup of sugar makes sense. a cup is only a bigger spoon so anything that is sensibly measured in tablespoons is fine as cups.

(maybe not honey, that would be messy)

you can't order a pint of onions.

THE HELL I CAN'T

I've been renting out/subletting my apartment (in a completely gut renovated building) to two very close friends for over a year and a half at ~60% market rate. It's a co-op building that has an on-site superintendent and porter and neighbors above, below and around. I am in another country and I get the most absurd texts.
The smoke alarm is chirping
a wire fell off the washer/dryer
the radiator pipe has been making a really loud clanking for 2 weeks
the stove is no longer igniting
the kitchen sink has a slow leak
the bathtub has a clog etc etc.

I don't understand how people can be in their 40s and not know how to deal with these very simple things.

Fuck ^^^

The one from last week is that they want to have a special birthday party in one of the shared common spaces that wasn't even open yet when I lived there, and they contacted me for the rules. The rules were sent out on their by management a few days later and my friends are surprised that they are so strict. It's like yeah, this is NY no one wants big parties in common spaces where stuff can go wrong or annoy neighbors or result in an insurance claim.

yeah you sound pretty reasonable to me, Yerac

When someone goes viral on Twitter and feels obliged to post an in thread follow up like

"While you're all here please check out my Thing* and maybe give me money"

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