Krudler

joined 2 years ago
[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Nobody is afraid of technology.

Most people buying this stuff are just gadget goofs with way too much disposable income, nothing more.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

To this very day, with only the slightest amount of technical knowledge, you can log onto people's existing devices, watch their video feeds, initiate print jobs, etc.

A 'haha im hax0r' amusement from 20+ years ago is still going strong.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm not condemning the person I haven't watched.

But I don't need a 41 minute video that sounds like he just expounds personal opinions and is not really meritorious.

I follow this stuff, I have for 30 plus years.

If he didn't heavily focus on extended warranties, he's in the weeds.

And I see no evidence from what people are discussing here that he clues in on that.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Oh wait how could I forget this one.

Yeah it was a sex date, whatever guys & girls, we all do it.

She came over with the specific intention to fuck me senseless, she brought toys, bondage gear, everything.

She was on top of me doing all kinds of things involving wet genitals rubbing against each other. She had my hands tied and I was loving it.

The next day, I get like 75 text messages about how I put my penis inside of her without her consent.

Let me again underscore that she came over with the explicitly stated purpose of us fucking, and she brought gear to enhance the fuck.

I let her be in complete control of me, and yet somehow in her mind, I had crossed a massive boundary because at the moment the tip of my dick slipped in, I did not have her sign an explicit contract stating that she now consents.

I mean my D was completely soaked with pussy juice at that moment... and she was flicking the tip up and down her labia ... like really?

And just to clarify for anyone wondering, she proceeded to screw me silly. All under her own control because we arranged it that way!

I formulated a lawyer-like response, telling her that she came over with all the equipment and she was the one in control and she was the one that put my penis inside of her without asking ME. And then I blocked her.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Those are the kind of ridiculous mind games that are actually very stressful for a man.

There is such a thing as being mature and open about your wants, needs, desires.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It's literally the question I asked.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

100% was thinking of her when I posted. Janis <3

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah you actually nailed it. It's a very similar process of women who are fat, but they do not want fat fetish guys, they just want guys who will accept or like them without that underlying, highly specific lust.

The truth is I have sex with a lot of younger women. But not that level of age gap. And lots of younger women love older dudes for many reasons. Most are just able to say it out loud without playing all these crazy games.

I think what happened was she was expecting mom to go out with her cousin or something for a movie, and she could get a quick bang but mommy stayed home unexpectedly, and she thought she could still get the bone and nobody would be the wiser.

That's the kind of clueless, selfish thinking a ~25 year old woman does. Which is why I date 30+ usually. Women (men included) are still idiots until the brain development stops. I kinda clued in that I was lied to about the age when I got there, but you can never really be sure. I mean, I look at least 10 years younger than my age/cohort.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

I haven't watched this video, but based on your comment I don't think I'll bother.

It is my sincere understanding that the degradation of quality is from the companies trying to leverage extended warranties as the true profit center of appliances.

edit: I should add in more detail. Sorry Avid, not trying to converse "around" you, it's just meant to inform other's on how I come to think this way.

The shit really hit the fan for quality when Maytag/Whirlpool bought Amana and restructured. They closed most of their manufacturing and consolidated. Really this meant that for all the "banners" or "brands" that various machines were sold under in the various stores, now for the most part they were all the exact same machines, literally made in the same plants, same pumps, elements, controllers, you get the picture. The drop in quality was precipitous from this point.

Oh, and Haier was trying to purchase either Amana or Whirlpool, can't remember which. But at any rate Haier was in the game walking the dog on consumers as well. Samsung, who had absolutely no fucking business making appliances, then jumped hard into the game because they're a major competitor. Businesses playing shell games and strategically competing.

All of this dovetailed with the larger industry-wide push to embrace the "extended warranty" profit stream. Companies everywhere were figuring out that the money was flowing like water with this scam. This slowly evolved into a quasi-subscription type business model where they are now designed and expected to fail in a specific time frame. Circuit boards by steam vents, changing key components to aluminum which corrodes. That type of obvious bullshit.

I think now they've got us by the nut sack. Buying an EW is almost automatic at this point. Nobody thinks for a second that their device is going to hit 18 months without a major malfunction.

They've managed to turn buying a washing machine into a Vegas Hotel type situation where the up front price is $47 but in the forensic accounting you're paying $160.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I just told her friend that I could have taken a mannequin on a date and it would have been just as interactive.

Of course, that was like pouring water on a fish for all the effect it registered.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Dude I had a very similar experience. I got literally nothing from her for 2 hours, and then when the date was over I just left and said well goodbye.

Later got a series of messages from her friend asking me why I was so rude and disinterested.

It's like bitch, I must have spoken 200,000 words that date, and the chick spoke 200.

Like what am I supposed to do, just talk in your ear for the whole relationship or like what's going to happen here... fuck this.

 

Could be any kind of performer be it comedian, podcaster, actor, etc.

 

While re-listening to Bitches Brew tonight it occurred to me, there's never been anything that sounds quite like it since, and there never will be again.

What are your favorite unicorn albums?

 

Come on, you know what I'm saying.

 

“Because 3D printing can produce complex geometries, save material, and enable unique designs, we see this printable alloy as something that could also be used in advanced vacuum pumps, high-end automobiles, and cooling devices for data centers,” adds John Hart, the Class of 1922 Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.

Here's the paper published in The Journal of Advanced Materials

 

A neat video from the 1930's demonstrating animation with synthetically-generated music

The synthetic sounds are generated by variophone, an optical synthesizer that used sound waves cut onto rotating cardboard disks.

Pioneering work in graphic sound was underway in 1926

 

This is our work cat, Fancy Pants

 

He was an amusing sales guy that got into the TV advertising game early in the 50's. He found great success from barraging radio and TV with ads, especially late night TV, and half-ass daytime radio ads that were so bad they were good

With a disarming and quirky personality, he wore an inappropriate outfit and tall cowboy hat. He'd refer to the furniture store as the corral, call the viewers partner and always end with his catch-phrase 843 Main Street - C'Mon Down!. None of the cowboy presentation made sense given our city's culture, but perhaps it help him stand out!

His gag was constantly blaming his dopey No. 1 Son for leaving the furniture-making machine on overnight hence the blow-out sale (You'd think after taking so many losses he'd install an timer kill switch on the machine or get his son help, but I digress)

He was clearly not concerned about quality in the radio ads in particular, and you could just tell most were first-take probably to shave every cent off ad costs. He often was too leisurely and charming in the first 15 seconds, then realizing he's running out of time spoke faster and faster to get out the sales points, until he has but a second left to belt out his closing catch phrase, good fun

His philosophy in business was "give the customer more than they expect" which I heard him explain on a local AM radio time-filler interview one random weekend, but that really stuck with me and truly served me well in my life!

Mr Hill passed away many years ago but his memory is still strong here. The original building at 843 Main Street is gone due to arson but few will forget the impact this humble furniture salesman had in our city's culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97FN0iuwb5g&t=10s

 

I know nothing about this but apparently most people are fully abreast of the situation

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