And then life happened.

rocky's crew dying from radiation exposure, something humans go to great lengths to prevent and are very scared of and ryland's crew dying in their "sleep" with nobody watching, something eridians go to great lengths to prevent and are very scared of. cool book that is easy to read through your tears.

some of you seem to be under the unfortunate impression that i enjoy finishing things. i enjoy making things

The most horrifying thing about being a human is that no matter how intelligent you are or how much customer service training you have, nothing will stop you from being the idiot customer on occasion. At some point you won't read a sign or you'll misread a menu or ask the dumbest question a human has ever formed and there is nothing you can do to prevent this. It will happen. Accept it and continue on your way as one of today's dipshit customers.

Listen. I've been working retail for over 20 years, and this is true. You are going to be an idiot customer several times over you life. Walking into a place can be pretty overwhelming. "No one reads signs" yeah but there are 350 signs filled with the smallest writing you've ever read, and they all have different information on them. Your eyes are going to glaze over and you're going to miss the pertinent one because you were so inundated with the irrelevant ones. It's fine, I promise. Just laugh it off and maybe make a self depreciating little joke about how you need better glasses or something (this is more to make yourself feel better about being a dumbass). They'll laugh a bit and say it's not a problem, that a lot of people make that mistake. Because you know what? You're going to be the 5th person that hour that missed the important sign because they were inundated with too much information. (and trust me, management has been told that the important sign isn't obvious or legible enough but they aren't going to do a damn thing about it because what does the grunt who interacts with actual real customers all day every day know? *they* didn't run the focus groups. They couldn't possibly anything about the Core Customer.) The person behind the counter isn't going to remember you. They may remember the 3 dozen people that came in asking the same stupid question as a collective, but they aren't going to remember you *personally*. Unless you're an asshole. Don't be an asshole and you will slip from their mind like the name of that actor from that show. You know the one. He's got hair and a nose. You may also be remembered if you're particularly nice or funny, but that's a good thing. I will bend over backwards to stretch the rules into a circle for my nice customers. But trust me, I don't remember a single non-asshole customer that has come in asking if we (a tea shop) have any tea.

The problem is not the idiot. The problem is the person who has such a fragile ego they'd rather mistreat a retail worker than take the L for the day and get on with their life.

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

absolutely boggles my mind how so many social media sites do NOT want you scrolling without an account. can't even click on an instagram profile while not being logged in without it blocking you. even if you put it in the url, it only lets you scroll like twice before it prompts you to log in. fucking youtube won't let me watch videos on my phone anymore because i use firefox focus and don't want to log in every time i wanna watch a video so it's instead flagged me as a bot. i also think social media sites are drastically overestimating how badly i "need" to use their sites. if you won't let me browse someone's profile or watch a damn video on the Browsing Profiles and Watching Videos social media sites then i will simply leave. the power of chucking your phone into the metaphorical ocean. i hope i hurt their metrics every time i close out of a tab <3