Gotta love corporate greed.

If you are displaying ads to the user, the ads should pay for their access. If a user is paying for access to a service, they shouldn’t see ads.

I wish removing a song from my Discover weekly or similar lists actually worked. I swear I remove the same song from that playlist for months and it still shows up.

I definitely see a shift where I live in the US (Northeast). We used to get snow that stuck in November and it carried us through to March or April. Now we will get some flurries but nothing really sticks until January. The overall length remains the same, but it seems shifted by a month or two

This is literally the first case I see in the results: https://www.microcenter.com/product/504427/thermaltake-versa-h17-microatx-mini-tower-computer-case-black

That’s the most frustrating part. I don’t mind watching limited ads. I get you gotta pay for your shit somehow. But don’t give me 30 minute ads, and don’t haphazardly place the ads in the video so there’s no transition from an important part of the video to your ad.

I typically use an adblocker but for some uses (smart TV) I’m too lazy to set up a workaround. It doesn’t bother me that much.

So I’m a little lazy and have to watch ads when I watch YouTube on my TV. I don’t care enough to fix this.

Anyways, I don’t mind the short ads. I get it, you gotta pay for your stuff somehow. What I don’t get is these ads that can stretch on for 10, 15, even 150 minutes. I think I had a 3 hour ad at one point. It’s insane. You should have to opt in to these ads that are longer than say 30 seconds.

I think the main difference is the time scale for their responsibilities.

For your average worker, they generally have daily tasks or responsibilities. Your c-levels generally “solve” the larger problems. The timeline for those isn’t daily but probably quarterly or longer. This would allow them to take on another role because of how the deadlines work.

Not saying it’s right, but just trying to explain it.

Ah ok, I get this. But I took the tone of the post as “fuck this guy for taking up four spots”.

Maybe I’m a little annoyed at other posts and choosing a weird hill to die on with this one.

I mean I’m giving the guy the benefit of the doubt here. He’s practically on the line to the right and slightly over on the back. Oh no! Burn the witch! I’ve seen people in small cars park worse.

Sounds like you just hate trucks, and that’s ok.

While I generally agree with giving people shit for taking up multiple spots, this one isn’t that bad. He’s just over the line. You see some people who park in the middle of those four spots.

Transactions are the safe way of doing it.

You can also return * to see the changes, or add specific fields.

Like for example:

Begin; Update users Set first_name=‘John’ Where first_name=‘john’ Returning *;

Then your Rollback; Or Commit;

So you’d see all rows you just updated. You can get fancy and do a self join and see the original and updated data if you want. I like to run an identifying query first, so I know hey I should see 87 rows updated or whatever.

Haven’t had any issues with table locks with this, but we use Postgres. YMMV.

Your presidential elections are like the last step in the process. If you want to make real change, you need to start from the bottom up. You can’t just say (not saying you do this) “oh shit there’s a presidential election this year? And I dislike the Democrats candidate? Time to vote for a third party candidate to show them!”

It’s kind of like baking a cake I guess. If you just jump in at the end and taste the cake, well you’re stuck with what it is. "Oh I wish this was a chocolate cake instead of vanilla. I’m not going to eat this cake. I’m going to eat this other cake ", well you should have gotten involved earlier and who knows what’s in that other cake, it could have those disgusting flavored jelly beans in it.

I do agree that not voting leads to problems.

So in your mind what Trump did was better?

If you want to teach the Democrats a lesson, do it earlier. The presidential election isn’t the time nor place to play games - as we saw with Trump setting the country back years.

There’s a scene in Fight Club about how auto companies approach recalls, and a similar method is applied for these price hikes. The company predicts how many people will leave or change plans or whatever with their changes and they price it out so that they end up making more money.

And for a small example let’s say you have two customers paying $10/month for a service. If the price increases by $11, and one customer leaves, you are now making $21/month from the service.

Now it’s not as simple as that in the real world, but that’s the general idea.

The issue here is that even if a vocal minority leave these streaming services, or social media there’s still a large amount of people putting up with their shit.

The product people who determine this shit need to be fired. If I had to guess, they’re over there planning this in Macs and shit. Force them to use their product and that will help resolve these dumb issues.

Read whatever is in the bathroom, like we used to do! It’s how I learned about TSS.

Updated thanks!

Here’s some.more music for your loss: https://youtu.be/G44xTr8D_bw

Second.

I also waited out the release of some games that launched on the Epic store first. I begrudgingly bought them on Steam, and I hope enough others did to discourage other companies from doing that in the future.

Similar to the war on drugs… Weird.