This is a Chinese bot posting. In fact you can probably find the same earbuds on Ali Express.
The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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You can buy third party headphone adapters. I have this one.
Dave
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I thought about that but then I can't listen & charge. Fucking Apple.
They make those too.I thought about that but then I can't listen & charge. Fucking Apple.
Amazon product
Why can I not see Amazon/Imgur embeds here? I see them on other sites. Using Firefox.
Hijacked Reviews on Amazon Can Trick Shoppers
Looking to buy something with thousands of positive reviews on Amazon? In this look at hijacked reviews, Consumer Reports warns that some of that consumer input could be for other products.
www.consumerreports.org
Belkin also makes a pair of products for this. One has two lightning ports and the other has one lightning and one headphone.I thought about that but then I can't listen & charge. Fucking Apple.
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GasBandit
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Do you use an adblocker?
Dave
Staff member
The reviews on that seller are 60% positive/40% negative. So I am instead going with these:
Amazon product
Scammers will put up an item that is decent, and gets good reviews, but has little profit margin. Once it gets enough reviews, they'll swap it out with new photos, new descriptions, and new pricing for a completely different item that's cheap crap with a high profit margin. Since they simply changed the existing item, they keep the item number and the reviews.
They know most people will just look at the number, and not bother to read the actual reviews.
I should have probably mentioned that I wasn’t necessarily suggesting that was a good one, but just as an example. Glad you looked around though.
Yes... hm that may be it. It doesn't do this on other sites though
I turn off adblocker here, almost 100% for the amazon links 
GasBandit
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This site has to wrap the amazon things in a special wrapper to get them to show up as part of the post, and adblockers don't seem to like the wrapper.
Huh. Thanks!
I'm almost always on the go when listening to something from my phone, so I don't like having something bulky attached to the end. Do you mostly listen from your desk/bed/etc.?
Dave
Staff member
I just got a gym membership and wanted to listen while I worked out. But I also wanted to use it while DJing which requires the physical plug and possibly have to charge it simultaneously. I know I’ll probably still have to get BT earbuds for the gym, but I really need the dual inputs for DJing.
Oh boy. You are in my thoughts.
The lady who sold my parents our house knocked on our door to tell me she, her daughter, and her friend were hanging out at the lot next door, and DURING the conversation she actually said "I'm not sure if you remember me"...I have had at least TWENTY conversations with her, and see her slow-driving around my house EVERY week, OF COURSE I remember her!
This little bitch has been hanging around my house lately.
My supervisor appears to be engaged in some malicious compliance.
Our company has a Shanghai branch. Sometimes if the Shanghai branch can't handle a translation case, for example they don't have enough manpower or the deadline is too tight, they'll pass it over to us at the Taipei branch. We'll ask them when the deadline is, and take the case if we can.
Unfortunately, there's a project manager over at the Shanghai branch who always wants cases handed in before the deadline if possible, and will harangue the PMs over here in the Taipei branch, asking for updates on the case and requesting the case to be completed early if possible. This creates problems for my supervisor, because she arranges our caseloads based on the deadlines and wordcounts she has on paper. In other words, if a case has a deadline of 5pm today, but the Shanghai PM actually wants it at noon, then the translator and/or editor might need to sacrifice some of their cases in the morning in order to complete this particular case by noon, despite it having a deadline of 5pm.
My supervisor has apparently been trying to remind the Shanghai PM to give firm deadlines. Today we got a case passed over to us, and I was tasked with completing it. It's a tiny case, one that would literally take me 2 minutes to do. The deadline given by the Shanghai PM was 6pm today, but the PM literally started asking for updates on the case at 10am, and approximately once every hour after that. So my supervisor told me that since 6pm was the deadline set by the Shanghai PM, then 6pm is when we'll hand in the case.
I was all like, "Yes, ma'am, I will browse Reddit until 5:58 this afternoon!"
Our company has a Shanghai branch. Sometimes if the Shanghai branch can't handle a translation case, for example they don't have enough manpower or the deadline is too tight, they'll pass it over to us at the Taipei branch. We'll ask them when the deadline is, and take the case if we can.
Unfortunately, there's a project manager over at the Shanghai branch who always wants cases handed in before the deadline if possible, and will harangue the PMs over here in the Taipei branch, asking for updates on the case and requesting the case to be completed early if possible. This creates problems for my supervisor, because she arranges our caseloads based on the deadlines and wordcounts she has on paper. In other words, if a case has a deadline of 5pm today, but the Shanghai PM actually wants it at noon, then the translator and/or editor might need to sacrifice some of their cases in the morning in order to complete this particular case by noon, despite it having a deadline of 5pm.
My supervisor has apparently been trying to remind the Shanghai PM to give firm deadlines. Today we got a case passed over to us, and I was tasked with completing it. It's a tiny case, one that would literally take me 2 minutes to do. The deadline given by the Shanghai PM was 6pm today, but the PM literally started asking for updates on the case at 10am, and approximately once every hour after that. So my supervisor told me that since 6pm was the deadline set by the Shanghai PM, then 6pm is when we'll hand in the case.
I was all like, "Yes, ma'am, I will browse Reddit until 5:58 this afternoon!"
Malicious nothing. Shanghai obviously needs taught a lesson.
It’s required.
I know here in Columbus we get syndicated stuff like Steve Wilkos or Big Bang Theory in those slots still, but I wouldn't be surprised if they've moved their older material to digital substations or have those stations broadcasting as Comet, Heroes and Icons, or MeTV, all of which natively play older material for older audiences.