tipicaldik

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submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by tipicaldik to c/mildlyinfuriating
 

The news of the tragic death of Gene Hackman (RIP!) reminded me that even tho I had always wanted to watch it, I had never seen the French Connection. I did a web search to find out who was streaming it, and I noticed in the search results that archive.org had it on their site. Just Watch said on their site that Amazon Prime could stream it for free. My wife has a Prime account, so I made a mental note and decided to go to Archive.org and watch it there since I'm sitting at my computer. It loads up and starts playing, no problems, and then at about 10 minutes in, my browser throws an error, and Voila! just like that the video is gone, suddenly no longer available. I get immediately suspicious and log in to Prime, and no, in fact, I cannot stream it for free, but I can rent it for $3.99. Nobody on this planet can convince me that Amazon's greed didn't have something to do with it getting yanked from Archive.org...

Opportunistic assholes.

[โ€“] tipicaldik 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Psychological warfare. Trump's an easy mark. We need more of it...

[โ€“] tipicaldik 2 points 1 month ago

who represents us stoners who work from home?

[โ€“] tipicaldik 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do elearning multimedia and run in to AI schlock all the time and hate it. With the background and soft-focus I can see why you thought what you did. While AI would have done good with the dog's face etc, details like the leash clasp would have probably been just poorly defined shapes or complete nonsense. That's the stuff I key in on...

[โ€“] tipicaldik 5 points 1 month ago

I work for a company that produces elearning, and we used to have a contract with the insurance trust that insures police forces and municipalities in Minnesota. The training we provided covered subjects that were designed to limit the number of lawsuits that these agencies were dealing with constantly. The year before George Floyd happened, Minneapolis's police department decided they didn't need to subject their officers to having to sit through this training each month, so they dropped their departments enrollment in this program. Guess which agency came crawling back the following year... Also, guess who our customer service dept had to deal with the most with calls from users trying to bullshit their way through said training when their deadlines for taking it would hit? Yep, you guessed it. Those officers would lie their asses off about taking the training, when all their activity in the courseware was meticulously logged by our Learning Management System. We could also tell from these logs that a lot of these officers would just click "Next" through the course as fast as they could and then keep retaking the end test until they'd finally pass it. Too many of them weren't learning a damn thing. Our system has all kinds of things in place to keep students from doing that kind of stuff, but we had to disable all those checks and safeguards so those crybabies could get away with that shit...

[โ€“] tipicaldik 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I was just at the one off of I-10 in Alabama not too far from the FL/AL line yesterday. I splurged on 4 BBQ sammy's, a bag of beaver nuggets, a small meat & cheese tray, a bag of homemade chips, a chocolate pie cup thingee, and a cup of coffee all for the low, low price of $64 smackeroos! That place was craaazy busy...

[โ€“] tipicaldik 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ha! I came to post this! I've LMAO'd at every comedian I've seen on that channel!

[โ€“] tipicaldik 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

maybe "extrude" is a better term...

[โ€“] tipicaldik 17 points 2 months ago

going to the grocery store and seeing an employee with a big dust-mop going up and down the aisles pushing along an ever-growing pile of cigarette butts because everyone would just drop 'em and step on 'em and keep on shopping...

[โ€“] tipicaldik 3 points 2 months ago

oh he's go plenty of "campaign contributions" to go around...

[โ€“] tipicaldik 44 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I've been fighting lung cancer for the last 2 1/2 years, and when I was first diagnosed, the insurance company doctor rejected the SABR radiation that my radiation and medical oncologists were both recommending. To hear my rad doc describing the argument he had with them was unreal. I was already stressed out enough without having to deal with that bullshit too.

[โ€“] tipicaldik 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

this sounds like one of Eloons stupid ideas...

 

I have been partoking for 45 years. I'm not used to having A choice, let alone this many choices... I feel like I need to go to all of the places and try all of the things! I'd love to hear from any fellow Floridians about their favorite dispensaries etc...

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