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The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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According to my Fitbit, part of my morning route included swimming across Lake Banook. And cutting right through several houses.
Either that or my bike is suddenly amphibious.
Either that or my bike is suddenly amphibious.
*Sigh*
That is probably a lamentable tattoo choice, unless buddy really knows his history.
For more, see:
Here you can see the exact moment when Nick's fitbit was stolen by a beaver.
Ah, to dream.
You don’t remember that really thick fog patch?
Just for proof that I didn't swim in the lake or chase after Fitbit-stealing beavers, I filmed my ride this morning.
Actually, I used a feature on the GoPro Quik app I hadn't used before. It automatically edits my footage for me. So it took what was originally about 20 minutes of footage and cut it down to about 2 minutes. It even automatically added in cuts and music. And honestly, for a quick edit, it's pretty good. The only thing I edited myself was the video title. All the cuts and flourishes were untouched.
I'll probably play around with it more in the future, but for a first time automated editing thingy, I think it turned out pretty good.
Especially since most I know have a sensor that stops the door from closing when tripped.
So he must have been in a very strange position to have his face in the path of the closing door while NOT tripping the sensor at the same time.
figmentPez
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I knew several people in high school who drank caffeinated soda and coffee all day and were like "yeah, caffeine just doesn't effect me, I have no problem falling asleep at night". I wonder how many of them were ADHD and basically self-medicating.
*Raises hand* I'm still doing that
To be honest, I never had a problem falling asleep after drinking caffeinated drinks. And I don't take any medication.
While I don't have anything that needs self-medicating, once I hit my late 20's, I was down for coffee anywhere, anytime. The last few years, however, caffeine has been like Russian roulette for me. Most of the time I can have a coffee or tea, even in the evenings, and I'll sleep like normal. But every once in blue moon, my body/brain is like, "OH, WE STAYING UP TONIGHT?! ALL NIGHT?!? KEEP THE LIGHTS ON, THIS BRAIN AIN'T SHUTTING OFF!!!!".
GasBandit
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Conventional wisdom is because their brains have been reduced to only the base instinct to feed, even if they don't actually require the nourishment.
In some versions it's theorized that the eating dulls the pain is being dead... So yeah
I don't know, but I definitely feel the need for caffein and have often thought I might have ADHD
You generally develop caffeine tolerance pretty quickly, I don't think it's that weird that people who drink caffeine all day don't have problems falling asleep. I don't generally take in caffeine, but once in a while I'll buy a case of Coke Zero or something. First day or two I'll be up half the night if I drink one with dinner, but after that I don't notice much difference.
Yes. It has been “old wife wisdom” for a long time that a cup of coffee will calm a hyperactive child.
—Patrick
GasBandit
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If you really want to know what the difference his between a Millenial and a Zoomer, it's in the first second of the videos they record for the internet.
Lots of the (damn) kids on Tiktok have been roasting each other over the "Millenial Pause" and the "Gen-Z Shake."
And I, as Generation-X, am of course learning about this some days/weeks later by way of a post on a news website.
So basically, at the risk of making a "white people drive like this but black people drive like THIS" joke, how it goes is:
Millenials are motionless for about the first second of their videos, because being the generation that grew up with the growing pains of tech, they're used to a device not ACTUALLY recording until a few seconds have passed AFTER you hit record, so if you started talking the instant you hit record, the recording would start into your third or fourth word. This has conditioned Millenials to wait, and "check and make sure" recording is actually going before they start talking. But apparently this bothers Zoomers SO much that a lot of them will actually expend the effort to recue the video past the pause, even though it's usually 1 second or less. (You know, because Zoomers CANNOT STAND A SINGLE MOMENT WHERE HIGH BANDWIDTH CONTENT TRANSFER IS NOT OCCURRING OR THEIR ADHD WILL INSTANTLY RENDER THEM COMATOSE)
Zoomers do not place the camera before hitting record, they hit record and then put the camera down, meaning the first second is almost always unwatchable (to anyone over the age of 20) earthquake footage. But being kids, stupid shit doesn't bother them, and in fact it sometimes even becomes a signature of pride. It's become so prevalent to the point where kids will just shake their camera when they hit record just because "that's what you do to start a video" even if they're not putting the camera down.
Lots of the (damn) kids on Tiktok have been roasting each other over the "Millenial Pause" and the "Gen-Z Shake."
And I, as Generation-X, am of course learning about this some days/weeks later by way of a post on a news website.
So basically, at the risk of making a "white people drive like this but black people drive like THIS" joke, how it goes is:
Millenials are motionless for about the first second of their videos, because being the generation that grew up with the growing pains of tech, they're used to a device not ACTUALLY recording until a few seconds have passed AFTER you hit record, so if you started talking the instant you hit record, the recording would start into your third or fourth word. This has conditioned Millenials to wait, and "check and make sure" recording is actually going before they start talking. But apparently this bothers Zoomers SO much that a lot of them will actually expend the effort to recue the video past the pause, even though it's usually 1 second or less. (You know, because Zoomers CANNOT STAND A SINGLE MOMENT WHERE HIGH BANDWIDTH CONTENT TRANSFER IS NOT OCCURRING OR THEIR ADHD WILL INSTANTLY RENDER THEM COMATOSE)
Zoomers do not place the camera before hitting record, they hit record and then put the camera down, meaning the first second is almost always unwatchable (to anyone over the age of 20) earthquake footage. But being kids, stupid shit doesn't bother them, and in fact it sometimes even becomes a signature of pride. It's become so prevalent to the point where kids will just shake their camera when they hit record just because "that's what you do to start a video" even if they're not putting the camera down.
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Just had a customer who accidentally overpaid on an online bank payment. They missed a decimal or something and accidentally paid over $9,000. They were only supposed to pay like $90.00.
They were literally the over 9000 meme.
They were literally the over 9000 meme.
Not just old wives' wisdom. Straight from one of the clinicians in my department. Typical ADHD medication is a stimulant. Caffeine does the same thing.
Did you reassure them and let them know that theres no way that could be right?
Right. Was just saying that the affect of stimulants on hyperactive children was noticed as a "folk remedy" long before medical trials/research confirmed it.
DISCLAIMER: Obviously not all folk remedies are actually effective/based in reality. But some are.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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We got a bunch of spammers doing their thing lately.
I think I've squashed them all, and just for good measure found some IPs registered to multiple accounts (3rd world VPN proxies) and banned those IPs too.
Hopefully that'll do the trick.
We got a bunch of spammers doing their thing lately.
I think I've squashed them all, and just for good measure found some IPs registered to multiple accounts (3rd world VPN proxies) and banned those IPs too.
Hopefully that'll do the trick.