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  • Siri legit has gotten dumber over the last few years and it only got worse with “Apple Intelligence”.

    I used to rely on her a lot more but I can’t trust her for the most basic shit anymore. It’s easier to go into my phone app and pick my contact to call. At least I know it’s not going to do something dumb like call my ex when I said call my mom.

    I used to like having the option to tell Siri to “play that album” when playing a random song and she forgot how to do that. Also the whole change to just playing the song instead of playing the song with the album, or remembering my choice to keep repeat on. It’s infuriating because all they had to do was leave it alone.


  • They might! A lot of the products they offer through Amazon Vine are clearly Chinese products, through and through. Definitely just seems to be small time sellers trying to get their products seen and get some reviews to get a better head start in exchange for giving some people a free sample.

    On Reddit, there’s a subreddit for it and people like to show off their hauls. People sometimes get laptops and cell phones and you can tell because they’re usually Chinese, not the standard Apple or HP kind of laptop. But a free laptop is a free laptop!

    Though sometimes we get some non-Chinese stuff like I got a $300 water cooler recently that wasn’t from a small time Chinese shop. Probably made there, but not the same type of thing shipped and sold from there.

    If anyone is interested in joining, it’s invite only and the invite seems to get triggered when you do enough Amazon reviews. Not sure the threshold and I don’t think they make it public. It’s probably more so a ratio thing, how many products you receive versus how many reviews you do for those things bought and then you sign into their portal and they have a whole slew of stuff to pick from. You’ll see in the reviews a little green badge that indicates if a review has been done by someone who received it in Amazon Vine for free, so you’ll often see a lot of these small time operations’ listings have tons of Vine reviews.

    Not sure how sellers post their stuff, they might not even know the program’s name.




  • That’s why Amazon has the Vine program. They give “free” items to customers to review and they are genuine reviews, or should be. And for the purpose of giving new items a chance on Amazon to start with some reviews and other reviewers are aware of it.

    I’m part of it and I have to pay income tax on the stuff I get, but that’s it.

    I did have one asshole seller recently who said I and other reviewers were lying. The listing showed a completely different product and myself and others stated such and the seller reported us for fake reviews and removed the pictures showing they were lying. Fucking pissed me off and I still get emails telling me about my review getting removed sometimes now.

    I used to do the illegal way before I knew it was illegal. A guy from China would hit me up and I would choose a few items off his list and I would order them, give them 5 star reviews and I would send him the receipt and he would send me back the money in PayPal and a little extra, like an extra $5-$7.

    I gave everything 5 stars and part of it was adding pictures/videos, but I tried to be honest, in terms of actually talking about what I liked about it.

    Only did it like 3 times and got a kids camera and vacuum and a HDMI converter. I still have the stuff so it wasn’t all crap.

    I think a lot of these sellers prefer the illegal way because it’s guaranteed 5 star reviews than just exposure, especially when they know they’re selling straight up garbage.











  • Wells Fargo used to do that to me.

    We charged you to transfer money from your savings account to your checking account.

    Yeah because that robot needed to be reimbursed for their time lost moving MY money from one account to another.

    I had money transferred into savings because that was the requirement to have a “free” checking account despite me not wanting to use their bullshit savings account. It finally led to me canceling it because “you transfer too often from your savings account” and they cited this stupid law that says I can only transfer from savings so many times before triggering yet another fee that goes to the bank.

    Fuck all these big banks and the banking system that enables this shitty behavior.





  • This is me on nearly every level.

    But my little sister just ends up getting drunk, eating all the food and falling off the boat hahaha. So we put her ass in the jail sell till she sobers up.

    When I first read this, I thought your sister was doing this IRL lol

    My brother and I played a few times, but he’s not into it.

    I like playing alone sometimes but then it gets boring and repetitive playing by myself. I’m not into PvP either so I’m okay with meeting AI enemies, but as soon as another human comes around, I usually noped out because I just don’t want to be bothered.


  • Because most cheaters will repeat the behavior again. At least, that’s the way it appears. I don’t have statistics to back that up, but this is what a lot of people believe.

    And they may not necessarily be wrong because most things you do, you’ll do again, especially something as heinous as cheating, which is a betrayal of someone you supposedly have a lot of love and care for yet can go behind their back and do things with someone else that was meant only for that person who’s special to you. Many cheaters have an attitude of “who cares? It wasn’t that big of a deal.” which minimizes the act and seems like a way to justify it if it happens again or gets close to that point.

    I wouldn’t put cheating on the same level as murder, but I think it’s more similar to abuse and may be classified as a type of emotional abuse on some level. It’s really harmful and damaging and can be traumatic. I’ve dated some women who were cheated on and it changed their lives so much and made them very insecure and somewhat broken for future relationships. My last ex was a mess from her spouse cheating on her and leaving her and it greatly affected our relationship and how she interacted with me and eventually led to our downfall.

    People care about the person who was cheated on and don’t want them to be hurt again. They know the hardship that person endured and the pain they felt and don’t want them to experience more pain if that happens again, which seems likely to many people. And like abuse, if a friend told me their partner was abusing them, I’d feel very concerned especially if they have decided to get back together with this person after going through that. And I and many others feel very similarly about cheating.

    And in the case of relationships, it is super easy to overlook someone’s bad qualities and even evil deeds because of how you feel about them. I, to this day, struggle with reminding myself of the evil things some of my exes did to me that caused us to break apart and instead have “rose tinted glasses” and want them back despite the hell they put me through. Good friends remind you of the reality of that person and that relationship and do so because they care.

    That’s not to say that cheating should never be forgiven and you should always be branded as a cheater and never experience real love and you can never fully stop cheating. Nor to say that your boyfriend is wrong and you will most definitely cheat again. No, not saying that in the slightest.

    Just saying, that’s where most people come from and I hesitate to say that they’re wrong up to a certain point.

    If I were a friend of your boyfriend’s, I’d likely be in that camp too, telling him that I feel he’s making a bad decision to continue in the relationship with you for the cheating alone, just on that basis. But there does come a time where as a friend, you should back off and let someone make their own choices for their own life, you’ve given them everything you hope is truth and will benefit their life, and you earnestly hope and pray that you’re proven wrong and the decision they’ve made ends up working well for them. Thankfully cheating isn’t life ending, so no worries there, but a broken heart can last years and is really damaging and sad. No one wants to see their friend get hurt again if they really care about them.