Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

[silverfox]

I'm pretty close with my family but there were some for sure tensions this year. Something it's very wrong with my mother, but none of us can figure out what it is and counseling is also not cutting it. In return my older sister was critical as hell back at her.

I'm not looking forward to the upcoming announcement of my younger sister's engagement and wedding preparations. (He hasn't proposed yet, but he has the ring.) I think it might just be a huge divider. Not only because it will be a huge stress on mom, but also because he isn't Mormon so there is a whole extra cultural thing.

[Auspice]

@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Tinuviel Winkel III or gtfo

Ew. Fuller.

'Oooh look at me I'm so hip because I like one of the non-standard map shapes'

just get a globe

[insomniac7809]

@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@insomniac7809 I do sometimes get screwed up with Pacific Time and Eastern. To my east is where the Pacific is, so it takes a little mental jiggering to reorient myself.

I mean, from the USA, "the West" is to the east and "the East" is to the west...

[eye8urcake]

That 30 seconds I hear strange male voices coming from the back room of my house at close to midnight before I find out the cat that lives in that back room has just turned on the YouTube 'fixing weird shit on a car' video my husband was watching earlier.

Fucking Smudge just absorbed an extra life from me

[Arkandel]

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/23/20991659/ebook-amazon-kindle-ereader-department-of-justice-publishing-lawsuit-apple-ipad

"But Apple couldn’t enter the ebook market while charging consumers five dollars more per unit than its biggest competitor was. It needed some assurance that no one would have a cheaper product than it had. So it made a deal with five of the Big Six publishers (Simon & Schuster, Penguin, HarperCollins, Hachette, and Macmillan; Random House, then the biggest trade publishing house, abstained): They could all sign on to Apple’s agency model, as long as they guaranteed that they’d also use that same agency model with every other retailer they worked with. That way, Amazon, too, would be forced to sell its ebooks for $14.99 — and if it refused, publishers could withhold their ebooks from Amazon and make them exclusive to Apple.

Publishers agreed to the deal. And just like that, everything changed."

[Derp]

@Arkandel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/23/20991659/ebook-amazon-kindle-ereader-department-of-justice-publishing-lawsuit-apple-ipad

"But Apple couldn’t enter the ebook market while charging consumers five dollars more per unit than its biggest competitor was. It needed some assurance that no one would have a cheaper product than it had. So it made a deal with five of the Big Six publishers (Simon & Schuster, Penguin, HarperCollins, Hachette, and Macmillan; Random House, then the biggest trade publishing house, abstained): They could all sign on to Apple’s agency model, as long as they guaranteed that they’d also use that same agency model with every other retailer they worked with. That way, Amazon, too, would be forced to sell its ebooks for $14.99 — and if it refused, publishers could withhold their ebooks from Amazon and make them exclusive to Apple.

Publishers agreed to the deal. And just like that, everything changed."

Solution: Everyone quit buying Apple shit.

[Ganymede]

@Derp

Counterpoint: you reap what you sow.

When the Kindle came out, Amazon put the screws to the publishers. They fell in line as big box bookstores started to die out. That Apple put the screws in a similar way does not make me cry for them in the slightest.

Have I stopped buying Apple shit? Yes. But let’s not pick on this little corporate skirmish as the best reason to do so. Amazon started the fire, and Apple adapted to it.

[Derp]

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Derp

Counterpoint: you reap what you sow.

When the Kindle came out, Amazon put the screws to the publishers. They fell in line as big box bookstores started to die out. That Apple put the screws in a similar way does not make me cry for them in the slightest.

Have I stopped buying Apple shit? Yes. But let’s not pick on this little corporate skirmish as the best reason to do so. Amazon started the fire, and Apple adapted to it.

Oh, no, I have a myriad of reasons to hate Apple. This is just but a drop in the pond.

[dvoraen]

RL Peeve, Disgruntlement, and Irk: This head cold, and the asshats who go around in public giving it to other people. It's causing me to wake up super early and I hate it.

[Arkandel]

@Ganymede What bugs me specifically is how easy it is for markets to be cornered illegally through price fixing these days, to the detriment of consumers.

The same thing applies to ISPs. Underbid everyone until competition is basically extinct then price fix with other major corporations still in the market at will. What are the sheep going to do, go elsewhere?

[surreality]

Jesus fuck, this shit again? Really?

[Ghost]

Uh-oh. Yall in trouble.

[Ghost]

Peeve: My 69 year old dad keeps sending me pro-<insert politician> stories via email. They're mostly bullshit he wants to believe are true because it fits his narrative.

WHAT I WANT TO DO: "How fucking stupid are you to believe that this guy is some legacy champion of minorities??? WTF. You enable this piece of sh-"

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS: "Heh. Politics. LOVE YOU SO MUCH, DAD."

[Auspice]

@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Peeve: My 69 year old dad keeps sending me pro-<insert politician> stories via email. They're mostly bullshit he wants to believe are true because it fits his narrative.

WHAT I WANT TO DO: "How fucking stupid are you to believe that this guy is some legacy champion of minorities??? WTF. You enable this piece of sh-"

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS: "Heh. Politics. LOVE YOU SO MUCH, DAD."

I had to sit through my dad ranting that global warming isn't real a few weeks ago.

I also get mocked, a lot, by all members of my family for not toeing the Conservative line. (Esp. by my sister who, if you read her Twitter, is p left-wing so I dunno if she does it in front of / in view of our parents to get 'points' or if her Twitter is a false front.)

[Ghost]

@Auspice I know. it's so fucking unfaaaaaair.

By rote of weird habits like fact checking I could wade in and dismantle their platformy bullshit and fight it out until they're in a corner and resulting to stupid arguments like: You voted for Obama or SomethingSomethingClinton. But I don't. Why? Love.

I just wish I could find some telepathic way of making them understand that I'm not dismantling their confidence-tied importance on being some kind of FOX news analyst because I'm playing love first, and that since I'm sitting down for Thanksgiving dinner as a neutral elysium that is free of posturing that it is important they do the same.

But then...hes my dad, he's turning 70 soon, my other brothers are narcissistic/selfish fuckwits, and I'm not sooooooo...

But then my mom goes and says something like: "I dont agree with this person. I dont even like them. I hate it. But I vote for them because I'm loyal to my party..."

"Heh. Politics. Love you, mom."

[WildBaboons]

@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

are narcissistic/selfish fuckwits, and I'm not

Did someone new take over Ghost's account again?

[Ghost]

@WildBaboons Not the Hog pit. Enjoy the flag.

[Auspice]

@Ghost I don't engage because it's just exhausting.

[Ghost]

@Auspice It is. That and what's the reward for "winning" those fights? Awkward silence?

[WildBaboons]

@Ghost It was meant as a good-natured ribbing, but text/tone, etc etc. I'll take the flag.