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Topic: OT - Pet Peeves Thread

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Cincydawg

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Re: OT - Pet Peeves Thread
« Reply #336 on: October 25, 2026, 11:07:20 AM »
UGA rushed the field once, and it was also after a win over the Vols.  It's a bit hard to rush the field in Athens.

The SEC will fine them for that, not the fans of course, just the program, which to me makes no sense.
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Re: OT - Pet Peeves Thread
« Reply #337 on: October 25, 2026, 11:25:55 AM »
I glanced at a ticket for the UGA-UF game, cheapest is $254.

Nyet.
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Re: OT - Pet Peeves Thread
« Reply #338 on: October 25, 2026, 12:36:22 PM »
way less expensive than a plane ticket to europe

and way more enjoyable
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Re: OT - Pet Peeves Thread
« Reply #339 on: October 25, 2026, 04:52:24 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on October 25, 2026, 10:34:22 AM
We vote on a touch screen which then produces a paper ballot which is scanned, seems pretty honest.

Pretty hi-tech compared to my county.  We gotta sit there with a pen and paper and fill in the boxes like we're taking a college Scantron test.  They're adamant that you fill in the box completely.  

Kind of annoying, and by the end of the ballot when it gets to the super local stuff I'm tempted not to bother.  But I do it anyway.  Our town is tiny, the county very rural, and the one exception is if I know both of the people, think they'd both do a good job at something, I might leave it blank.  Sometimes I know the people as patients from the clinic we used to work at.  I've voted for them before based off not much more than I thought they were good folks. 
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Re: OT - Pet Peeves Thread
« Reply #340 on: Today at 03:27:24 PM »
Apps for everything. 

I mean, this borders on grumpy territory. But the proximate cause is only a pet peeve.

A few weeks back I needed to get my daughter from school for an appt that due to schedule meant we needed to get lunch. So we went to McDonald's. 

The Monopoly game is going on. I pulled my little game piece and it said I'd won a food item... And the only way to redeem it was with the McD's app. 

Why? The goal of this game is to keep me coming back to redeem my winnings (and buy more food on top of it). But I'm not going to download your stupid app for a fast food joint I go to maybe once a quarter.

So I just threw it away. 

Not everything needs a goddamn app.
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« Reply #341 on: Today at 03:36:40 PM »

left out acct no's., pins, passwoords, updates & cookies
I'm going Amish
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Re: OT - Pet Peeves Thread
« Reply #342 on: Today at 05:04:16 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on Today at 03:27:24 PM
Not everything needs a goddamn app.


Similarly, not everything needs wi-fi access either.  

Srsly, a lot of--for example--dishwashers you can buy today want you to connect them to the wi-fi.  They claim to be Smart Dishwashers (or insert product here).  It usually offers virtually no functionality, to the point that I started looking into it, and, sure enough, most of this stuff is just trying to collect data on us.  

Why not connect every electronic device from whatever nefarious business/country where it can get a look at our data?  What could possibly go wrong?
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Re: OT - Pet Peeves Thread
« Reply #343 on: Today at 05:52:18 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on Today at 05:04:16 PM


Why not connect every electronic device from whatever nefarious business/country where it can get a look at our data?  What could possibly go wrong?
I'm sure it'll all be fine...

https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai
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Re: OT - Pet Peeves Thread
« Reply #344 on: Today at 07:08:59 PM »
ya know, if the apps simply worked properly, I wouldn't mind them much
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