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Dear mods: poly asshat isn’t a click away. It buries discussion. I know you like your circle jerk. But if discussions I engage in get effectively disappeared I’ll just stop. You might think that’s cool but this place is already noticeably dying. Don’t hasten its decline.
Also fuck off
You’re right, it is dying. Why that’s so isn’t so cut and dried. If not being able to poliass about Elon and Trump is your line in the sand, well fuck you too. I don’t get paid for this shit and neither does anyone else. We do get to get the complaints from any side, the ones who want to poliass in every forum and those that don’t care to see it.
It was pretty apparent that thread wasn’t going to come back from the poliass trend it was on. It was all just political drivel at that point, milk discussion aside.
They asked for moderators and Abraham and I were the only ones that volunteered. If anyone wants to take my place and moderate this place I’m all for it, step up and volunteer.
There was a call for people to volunteer to join the circle jerk. It's not like it's a closed society or anything, you could get involved.
People who've been here for a long time and choose to ignore the fact that there has always been moderation annoy me. ONS did some, frozen did too. Hell one mod effectively took on India and nuked the incessant spam every morning so the first page wasn't full of spam threads.
It's not a surprise that a thread or two gets moved to polyass, the discussions pop up every 2 years about what's the line. It's not like we/they really want to move everything into polyass.
Well, I’m out.
See you guys in gear swap some day maybe.
Who were the initial contributers that initiated the building of poliass in the first place? Was it like 2009?
Timvw, Spook, and 2 Benny's?
I was going to post in that thread that the original Iceman prolly didn't know what was going to happen when he made it in 2016.
But Elmo sure is fucking clown type annoying.
From those of us who have never bitched and moaned to a moderator about anything (that I remember), thank you, mods, for your service.
And for the farts and bacon forum.
Yeah, thanks mods. Never complained but glad to see the thread moved. I clicked way too many times hoping to see pics of rockets but only ever saw very large images of text. The IFT-5 landing burn is very photogenic:
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I don't get it, why can't you just look at it in Poliass?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mustonen
WTF? Leaving the forum because a fucking thread got moved to a different sub-forum? That is some weak shit. Seriously, this is one of the lamest tantrums I've ever seen here and that's saying something. I hope you haven't actually left because I think you need to distance yourself a bit from this and look at how weird this behavior is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mustonen
You can’t get to poli from the app. Don’t know why and I don’t need to know, it’s just one more broken thing. I don’t come here for poli, but I do come here for discussion and opposing points of view and that’s one I was loosely following in the free time I don’t really have these days.
This wasn’t THE reason, just the last one. It’s not trying to be some bs circle jerk popularity contest, but it is one just the same and I’m pretty over that too. If being a mod is so thankless and hard why make it worse by this kinda bullshit? That’s annoying.
So, I deleted the app. It’s mostly the same thing. The html version is worse, somehow, so doubt you’ll see me much from here. It’s a good thing. I’ve been working on decluttering. Tell your dog I said hi.
I tried the app once and it sucked. I tried Tapatalk once and it sucked too because it kept the pictures from the NSFW thread in plain view.
Both of those are annoying.
I use the black and white metro mobile setting on my phone. I like it. On a computer I use the blue setting as Dog intended.
Not sure what large format old person phone you’re using, but you can get to polyass from the app just fine
The biggest problem with the app is how it tries to turn numbers into emoji codes (at least via iOS)
It also does video differently
But the lack of ads is huge and the screen dedicated to just thread makes it still the better viewing option imho
The image preview can be turned off in the settings so that nsfw imgs don’t show in your first forum screen
I don't have any adds using b&w metro mobile in my browser. I'm looking at this right now on my phone in Chrome with no add blocker.
I thought everyone posted from a cream-colored desktop and tube monitor.
The announcement of the withdrawal of the $7500 EV tax credit would’ve brought the Elon thread back to a discussion of Tesla, but I guess we’ll never know.
The reasons (technical or otherwise) people avoid polyass have been discussed here plenty.
But assuming Elon has a role in the new administration, his thread would’ve gone poly eventually.
Huh, I don't have any of those problems coming from the same post office. Stuff that shows up in that email shows up in the mailbox when it says it will and it comes on what seems like a reasonable amount of time.Quote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
The only one I have on occasion is if USPS is delivering a parcel but the package is too big to fit in the lock boxes...10-20% of the time I think they are too lazy to actually bring it to the door step so they just don't attempt to deliver it. Almost always shows up the next day. I like to think this only happens when the regular postman is off duty and the fill-in guy just leaves extra work for him when he gets back.
I've inherited my previous owner's junk mail. Guy's wife was on every single mailing list you could be on...I'm getting catalogs every day, often from clothing/furniture companies I've never even heard of. And they all say "Or Current Resident" so they don't get forwarded.
Although the post office has also done a terrible job of forwarding mail. We get a fair amount of the previous owner's mail...which makes me wonder how much of our own mail isn't getting forwarded.
Also annoying: at my last place I got a lot of fundraising junk addressed to some dude with my same last name. Lots of the like...sad full color cleft lip mailers, that kind of stuff. Never got them where I lived before that so I assumed it was just a coincidence that a former resident had the same name (and the post office was now delivering it because the name on the box matched)
I was real excited for those mailers to disappear when I moved. Nope. Somehow all of those fundraising agencies have updated this dude's address in their systems and it is now addressed to that guy at my new address. WTF?
Dang. They bring things to your door step? USPS has never once brought something to my house. If a package is too big for the box, they'll leave a "sorry we missed you tag" and I'll go pick the package up at the post office. Although about 20% of the time they can't find the package because the delivery guy didn't bother unloading it off the truck. And about 5% of the time the guy doesn't leave the package or a tag, and the box just gets returned to the sender as undeliverable because I didn't know I had a package that I needed to go pick up (this happens about once a year).Quote:
Originally Posted by singlesline
Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk
The post office drops off packages at my door if they don't fit in the mail box, and they have to drive almost a1/4 mile to do this.
Nevada City!
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Do you know the first name of your mail carrier? I do. She brings any package too big for the box to the door and signs for it if I'm not home. Whatever USPS issues you are dealing with it will only get worse.
Well that sucks. I guess that's the benefit of living on a paved road in a dense neighborhood...Everything's a tradeoff, but I think I've only had to go get something at the post office once in the last 3 years (but it wasn't actually there because it hadn't been unloaded from the truck).Quote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
Nothing beats the mail service I got when I lived in a high rise on Chicago's north side. Place had a loading dock, a package receiving room, and at least once-daily visits by every major carrier and Amazon. Packages always came and never got stolen.
Since the carrier trucks were there daily, you could also send/return packages of any size without having to go to the post office or UPS store.
Stop junk mail easy peasey
https://www.paperkarma.com/
You're welcome.
We have our kids process all junk mail through it and it works great.
I'll admit I didn't even know there was "app." I access this site 100% of the time from a computer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazderati
Especially after a dog is appointed postmaster general.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cisco Kid
trying to get a straight answer from people these days
"yeah no absolutely like whatever literally for sure"
A fucking app with a fucking monthly subscription. Mother fucker I hate this world.Quote:
Originally Posted by heckacali
Louis DeJoy (trump appointee) is still the postmaster general. Doubtful they replace emQuote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Overqualified.Quote:
Originally Posted by brutah
I have a use case that makes it absolutely worth it for us though, so, yeah, maybe a single residence makes it absurd in that case, but it is effective at stopping junk mail if neededQuote:
Originally Posted by concretejungle
For $5 https://dmachoice.org/ will kill most unsolicited sales junk mail (from senders you've never bought anything from)
https://optoutprescreen.com will stop credit offers from banks you've never used.
OK folks, time to take down the Trump and Harris lawn signs. Enough with the virtue signaling, or whatever you call a Trump sign--asshole signaling?
Some asshole left his gallon jug of pee in the middle of the road. WFT? You stopped to lean out your door and put it in the road why couldn't you have dumped it out and discarded the plastic jug properly?
I hate lazy ass ppl who litter acting like the world is their garbage can and no one else matters.
damned truckers always using their piss jugs and chucking them out the window, gross.Quote:
Originally Posted by KQ
Way of the road boys, way of the road
our lack of quality peein’ infrastructure on our nations highways and byways is disgraceful….
road trip fact.
Is this a metaphor?Quote:
Originally Posted by KQ
FIFYQuote:
Originally Posted by m2711c
iPhones not having a separate ringer and alarm volume…
Jeez man--you have a device that fits in your pocket that allows you to communicate with anyone in the world who has one, which gives you access to all the knowledge in the world with the touch of a finger, which can keep you endlessly entertained, and most importantly, connects you to the greatest ski enthusiasts in the world, and you complain about the ringer and alarm volume? : -- )
In his defense - that's some BULLSHIT not having separate alarm/ringtone volumes. :nonono2:Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Silence yer phone, free yer mind eh