I’m 40. I dream of missing the school bus.

Some times I dream of getting on the school bus but having forgotten to put on shoes.

I dream of being late for a cubicle data processing job I haven’t worked at for 7 years. (I worked for them for 11 years though). I then go on to do the work in the dream.

Like my brain torturing me.

What do you think “seven -ty” is. Seven ten

FB will probably buy them.

Discord actually probably needs an overhaul.

The most convoluted ui I have ever used in my life.

I guess that works. Thanks for the share

We need a community for just “stuff”

For screenshots or whatever that doesn’t really fit in other subs because , like you pointed out, this isn’t a meme.

But where else should it go ,?

The only people who could afford them already have human servants. They just want sex dolls. And friends. Robots to admire their “wit”.

I’m 5ft 2 and I feel like I barely fit in an airplane seat. And God forbid I have to use the restroom during the flight.

Restrooms smaller than portable Scotty potties.

I’m not someone who has claustrophobia but I’ll be real. Those restrooms feel like a coffin. And being on a flight longer 2 hours is a test of my mental fortitude.

I’ve been on an airplane a few times for about 9 hours and I honestly felt slightly traumatized by the experience.

Id love to travel to farther places but I don’t think I can handle those 13 hr flights.

I mean yeah I guess I would think it was a joke. Or they misspoke

Yeah I keep a piece of tape over my front camera on my phone.

A strip. Because there are usually other cameras you can’t see. Idk which they use but yeah. This tech was already in development 10 years ago. It definitely is common on most phones and apps by now.

I’ve never came across trendy psych social tricks that were actually true.

They often use real psyc phenomenon or terms but they construe it so it’s nonsense.

Like reading body language.

Or …and I love this one.
Ask someone to do something for you makes them like you because of cognitive dissonance.

How many of us like our boss or our lazy coworkers who are inept and ask us to do work for them ?

Or incompetemt needy friends or partners.

Oh and large pupils means they wanna have sex with you.

This stuff is all nonsense.

If someone just thought about it for a few seconds they would realize it but alas. They don’t.

It wouldn’t be ?

You just believe someone without critically evaluating what they say ?

Hey I have a great business opportunity for you. I just need you to first mail me a cashier’s check for 10k.

You will get back 1 million. Promise.

Greed. Lack of ethics.

Many years ago. I think it was like 2016-17 ish. I interviewed at a university for a grad program that’s basically “psychology -engineering”. Designing things to work with human psychology. Aka human factors psychology

(I ended up doing a different degree).

During this interview thing. I was there 2 days. It’s like an event. You meet professors and tour labs. See what other grads are working on and you have lunch and dinner with current grads and professors.

So a professor was talking about developing tech to do eye tracking on phones. So they could see what you were looking at on the screen and for how long.

Now at this time I knew a little bit about eye tracking methods. Firstly I pointed out that it would be impossible for it to be very accurate without stabilizing the head (as is done in research), usually with a chin mount that holds the head still. But the guy said it didn’t need to be that accurate as the intent was marketing. See what items people look at when scrolling on shopping apps/sites. And see how long they look at it.

I also pointed out that this was highly unethical because it’s using physiological data to manipulate someone into spending money. Indiscriminately.

I said What about people with a shopping addiction.? Or kids using their parents credit cards. And you would be using this data to psychologically manipulate people for purchases but the data could be used in all sorts of other ways that really even more unethical.

The idea was that if someone showed interest by looking at an item longer then that item would be presented again by the app. Multiple times even. To encourage purchase.

Or to show items that were similar to try to seal the deal with what the person was finding appealing.

Possibly with price alterations to encourage purchase.

When I said again that this was obviously unethical. As a scientist our goal should not be to manipulate the public I was told “someone’s going to do it, it might as well be us so we get paid for it”.

I was very surprised that this came with chuckles and agreement from other students.

Another professor I talked to about her work was investigating devices that could help people drive who were hearing impaired. So it was quite the contrast.

I did not get offered a PhD position but they did offer me admission to their masters program that was 50k a year. Near D.C. 2 year program. (Combo positiond are typically “free” in a manner of speaking. Highly competitive but that’s how it’s done). I wasn’t interested in paying them 200k for a master’s (after taking loans for living expenses too).

I also learned later they don’t even have masters/PhD program combos. Which is what it said on their website and I specifically applied to that. They also gave me a 2 week notice for the interview.

You ever buy a plane ticket 2 weeks ahead? $$$$$

They didn’t reimburse me for that either. Which is customary for these interview invites. Typically travel and lodging is covered by the university. They had me stay in some graduates house. They had like 6 roommates.

Cheap-ass, greedy, no ethics, bastards.

GMU

Idk if it’s a “Karen” if it’s legitimate.

Isn’t a Karen specifically an entitled outburst over something minor?

I mean. The wrong grade. That’s a con. That’s something to be angry about.

Every time I see a sapling trying to grow where it shouldn’t this little song plays in my head.

Like "don’t be suspicious and they won’t notice I’m a tree until it’s too late. "

I guess I thought some other people might relate. Guess not though.

Also I did notice the suspicious plant by the fence and it was a tree and I did remove it.

They could have done a spin off of their shenanigans or at least have them appear in random other series as the same characters.

I have nothing against league.

My point was he had zero other interest in life.

He was a bland boring person. He played one single game only.

I don’t know what kind of insult you thought I was implying about league players.

I don’t know any aside from this ex who played all the time. I was only talking about this one specific person. I never said he was “just like all other league players” nor did I say anything implying generalizations of any kind.

If you are a league player who plays no other games, IDK what to tell you. The post wasn’t about you. If you felt personally attacked because of a description of my ex… Yeah again. Idk what to tell you.

I think you are missing the point.

Yeah I didn’t break up with him over the gaming. He was a bad partner in many ways. The gaming thing to me was just him trying to excuse his poor behavior.

I just mean he only played one thing. That’s it. Like it’s kind of boring to only like 1 thing in the entire world to spend your time on.