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Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree with 100%
- iso1631 11mo agoWith a QR menu, if I can also order and pay from them, then they are far superior to having to try to flag someone down. If not its less useful, but it's useful for multiple languages. In all cases it should be a website, not a "download our app" There are no adverts on netflix, and I have a lot of subscriptions, but its still less (pro-rata) than I paid for satelite tv with adverts in the 00s.
- swiftcoder 11mo ago> There are no adverts on netflix The base ($7.99) Netflix plan does indeed have ads.
- thenthenthen 11mo agoSo you pay before you get your food? Some boomers might not accept that ;)
- AtlasBarfed 11mo agoNot a boomer but that's basically fast food or fast food plus. I'm surprised there isn't the complaint about over tipping. And the fact there is now inflation in tipping percentages.
- clickety_clack 11mo agoThere’s something about the inclusion of tech in the ordering of food that takes away from the experience. It turns it into something where the focus is on fast calories per dollar. It might make sense at your regular lunch spot, but not at a place you take a date or meet your friends.
- zarq 11mo ago> should be a website Yes, and please make the website one that actually works on mobile. In some restaurants, I've seen the QR code go to a full-page PDF version of the menu. Like, thanks, but I can't read that on a mobile device.
- jmclnx 11mo agoWith a QR menu the restaurant will sell all information they can get from your phone to ad vendors. The only place I have have seen QR menus are at national restaurant chains. If a restaurant does not have a printed menu, I leave and go elsewhere. Luckily were I live, QR Menus are very rare.
- fallinghawks 11mo ago> In all cases it should be a website, not a "download our app" Increasingly often, it is "download our app". And they will try to force it by sabotaging their website. I did a pickup order from Walmart once. You're supposed to take a numbered parking place and check in, but if you try it from the website on a mobile, it'll redirect you to download the app. There's no getting around it. I don't recall if I tried desktop mode on the website, but the website is a pretty cluttered widescreen mess anyway. (Fortunately at the parking area there's a phone number for checking in posted.) I run into similar sabotage issues with Facebook (yes I am just a year or so shy of being a boomer). You can no longer use messaging on mobile, it tells you to download the app. Desktop mode does work, though (for now; I'm sure someone will try to take it away). All this stuff used to work on phones.
- iso1631 11mo agoFacebook stopped messaging on mobile years ago, and I stopped using facebook for almost all purposes shortly after because of it. We're fortunate enough that we don't currently have any major social groups which require facebook messenger and easily managed on desktop.
- AtlasBarfed 11mo agoCable used to not have ads. Amazon prime has ads. Just wait
- iso1631 11mo agoYes, and I no longer subscribe to amazon prime because they added adverts to their standard plan. Indeed when I went to rejoin a year later there wasn't an ad-less plan. As such I don't subscribe.
- al_borland 11mo agoWith the payment I’d be more wary. I worry about bad actors placing their own QR codes over the official ones to redirect people to sites to steal the money, payment day, or both.
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- jebarker 11mo ago> Go fellate yourself with a cactus. I don’t think this makes sense.
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- infecto 11mo agoThe writing is insufferable.
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- daneel_w 11mo agoIt was a cool statement 25 years ago when the author was young. This "blurb" of an article gives me the impression that in some ways she thinks she still is.
- the__alchemist 11mo agoThe family Cactaceae comes in 127 genera with some 1,750 known species.
- inglor_cz 11mo agoThe author might have confused "fellate" and "sodomize".
- jsbisviewtiful 11mo ago> I don’t think this makes sense. Neither does most of the article. Being upset about 2FA considering how incredibly easy it is? Pretty dumb write up. Lotsy of cheugy humor that's not really funny, as well.
- neonnoodle 11mo agoI STILL don’t get this obsession with “participation trophies.” I’ve never seen one, I’ve never met anyone who says they’ve awarded one to someone, and I’ve never met anyone who received one. I’ve seen very minor “door prizes” that say, thanks for attending this event, etc. But this “participation trophy” canard has coasted for 30+ years now.
- primitivesuave 11mo ago"Participation trophy" has become a modern aphorism in many situations where people are rewarded for simply showing up.
- UncleMeat 11mo agoHere in this thread there are people who are insisting that the harm is specific to the physical object of a trophy, not some general thing given to everybody who shows up. It can't be both.
- AnimalMuppet 11mo agoThere's more than one person here, with more than one opinion. Expecting consistency is neither reasonable nor useful.
- UncleMeat 11mo agoMaybe you can speak to those people.
- Apreche 11mo agoIt’s a sports thing. If you go to some youth sports league, it is common that every kid will get a medal or trophy regardless of which team in the league won or lost. But it also exists for adults. Go to the NYC marathon? Everyone gets a medal. I’ve participated in a lot of organized bicycle rides. The rides aren’t even competitive like the marathon is. They are not races. But at the finish line everyone gets a medal regardless of what distance they rode, or how quickly. The harsh truth about the participation trophies is that boomers complain about them the most, but they are the ones responsible for them! I’m a millennial. I remember being in a youth basketball league in middle school. Our team did not win. At the final day, every kid on every team got a tiny trophy. I was very confused by this at the time. I expected only the best team to get anything. But who was running that league and decided to hand out those trophies?! Our boomer parents!
- 1970-01-01 11mo agoLED headlights are fantastic. They work everyday. They never get burnt out. In the spirit of boomers, if they're blinding you, go complain about the lack of inspections in your state. I love LED lights.
- quickthrowman 11mo agoAgreed, I love my (stock and factory aimed) LED headlights. Haven’t had an issue in 5 years where I would’ve replaced multiple lamps in an older style headlight, which was the case with the Subaru I owned before. LED headlight retrofit kits are probably what should be illegal, that’s where you get the poorly aimed and overly bright headlights.
- maxerickson 11mo agoWere you replacing them because they got dim or because they burned out? I haven't replaced my lights for an extended period and am wondering if that's why they are dim, but if they burned out that fast they were probably getting some kind of contamination on the bulbs (which concentrates the heat).
- teslabox 11mo agoHalogen bulbs do dim out as they age. The most common problem with modern headlights is the plastic covers get oxidized (cloudy) due to sun exposure. The cloudyness blocks some of the light from the bulbs, and scatters the rest. https://www.theautodoc.net/blog/why-do-headlights-become-cloudy-and-how-professional-restoration-works https://www.theautodoc.net/blog/why-do-headlights-become-clo... The other problem is that some bulbs are just not very good - the filaments aren't properly positioned, or they don't have a good spectral output. 3M has a kit for polishing the haze off headlights with a drill, and for restoring the UV protection layer [0]. Dan Stern [1] told me it's really better to just get a new OEM headlight. [0] https://www.amazon.com/3M-39008-Headlight-Restoration-System/dp/B001AIZ5HY/ https://www.amazon.com/3M-39008-Headlight-Restoration-System... [1] https://www.danielsternlighting.com/ https://www.danielsternlighting.com/
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- thenthenthen 11mo agoOther than that the author wont survive one minute in China (I doubts they are interested to visit anyway), a lot of the reasons/rationales seem pretty weak. I also hate QR codes as menus, but not because printing a menu is easy, it is the human interaction that suffers. I can spend days without communicating with humans here… which is quite distopic. Although enjoyable every now and then (after a 80 hour work week for example…)
- HPsquared 11mo agoWhy even go to a restaurant in person anyway, when food delivery exists? The reason is to be social. QR menus neglect this.
- idiotsecant 11mo agoThe purpose is presumably to be social with your group of people you're out with. There is almost zero social interaction in a typical waiter or waitress interaction, just false smiles and memorized verbal patty-cake. It has more in common with a TCP ACK than it does a genuine social interaction. If you think your waiter is socializing with you, you are mistaken.
- HPsquared 11mo agoIt's meant to be a hospitality experience.
- idiotsecant 11mo agoPaying a restaurant for them to pretend they're giving you hospitality is like ... Well I think we both know what exactly it's like. What you get at a restaurant is not hospitality.
- eviks 11mo ago> just false smiles and memorized verbal patty-cake. You know that you're the second part of that social interaction and can veer off the memorized track?
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- le-mark 11mo agoSomeone called me a boomer a few months ago and I was deeply offended. I’m gen x. The person was gen z. I was like dude do you not know what a boomer is? They had no idea that baby boomers were the generation born after world war 2. To them “boomer” was a slur applied to anyone older than them. I agree that actual boomers tend toward some unfortunate beliefs and characteristics, but “boomer” has become an ageist slur. As a 50+ year old in tech maybe I’m overly sensitive to this?
- samrus 11mo agoTheyre just frustrated by the ageism flung against them for being birn in a shittier environment by people who had the silent and greatest generations leave them an amazing economy
- al_borland 11mo agoA person will experience many different economic periods throughout their life. The younger generation also has a lot of advantages today that the baby boomers didn’t have, they built them. Like the devices and protocols we’re communicating with, which have also made investing in the economy more accessible than at any other point in human history. And then Gen X made social media for them, when was reduced the barrier to entry for starting a business to next to nothing. The world is as good or as bad as you want to see it.
- fortran77 11mo agoI’m an actual boomer. I don’t get offended when I hear it. I just know the person who called me a boomer is an idiot.
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- dragonwriter 11mo agoThe biggest increase in Trump support between 2020 and 2024, was in the 30-49 age bracket; the decisive swing wasn’t among Boomers.
- the__alchemist 11mo agoI agree with all (almost all maybe?) of these. Aren't they pretty un-controversial in general for consumers, but represent the business/consumer adversarial disconnect? Or maybe I'm wrong and people love QR menus etc. I couldn't have stated the 2FA thing better... Same with scare tactics (and forcing your hand) about software updates in the name of security. You can't just invoke security as an auto-win card! "Think of the Children."
- AtlasBarfed 11mo agoWhat's hilarious about boomers? Is that if you could summarize their narcissism in one fatal flaw for the entire generation. It is that they did not "think of the children" at all
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- eviks 11mo ago> Also, standardize the points of rewards programs so we have an idea if we need 104 or 97,000 points to redeem them for the pocket lint prize. This already exists, called money, and obviously won't be used because it's easier to realize how low the number is, but also harder to cancel/inflate away. Broader than that - is there any big generational divide about subscriptions (or, for that matter, many other points on the list)?
- egypturnash 11mo agoI used to be able to buy a piece of software for $30, and I owned it until that computer became an antique. All your turning Photoshop into a monthly subscription did — was make me download the free version, GIMP. Dude. Photoshop was like $700 back in 2008. You weren’t buying that anyway, you were pirating it or using an old unregistered copy of Paint Shop Pro. I’m not gonna argue that every single app being either a subscription or an in-app purchase funnel now doesn’t suck, but you were not buying that for $30 unless it was from Bob’s Totally Legit House Of Burnt CDs.
- ompogUe 11mo ago"Don't trust anyone over 30"
- odiroot 11mo agoLED headlights are not really a problem. The problem is how tall the modern cars are and how high are the headlights mounted.
- al_borland 11mo agoIt’s also an issue with people buying LED bulbs and putting them in cars not designed for them. That is what leads to the blinding lights.
- plqbfbv 11mo agoIt's not just that. LED headlights are much more focused beams than the old bulb lamps. As a guy with moderate myopia, even low beams can be extremely annoying up to the point of physically hurting my eyes if there are no street lights to reduce the contrast. I like that I can see better and further, but at the same time if I put my car's low beams just slightly higher so they project more than ~30m away, I get flashed from cars passing in the opposite direction, no high beams required. Matrix/Adaptive headlights should be mandatory with LED headlights to be honest.
- xnx 11mo agoAlso being poorly adjusted so they point too high or driving with the brights on.
- ch_123 11mo ago> Printing menus isn’t hard, or even costly. I'm not a fan of QR code menus either, but printed menus are not necessarily cheap. The owner of one of my favourite restaurants told me that he couldn't raise prices on his menu to match inflation because the cost of re-printing all the menus with increased prices would eat up the difference. IIRC, the restaurant later shifted to a cheaper and simpler menu design.
- inglor_cz 11mo agoMaybe tablets would be a good compromise?
- ndsipa_pomu 11mo agoI'd guess tablets would be expensive as they'd be lost, stolen and broken by customers.
- sjs382 11mo agoDepends. If you're a restaurateur, do you have the .ai files your agency created, an Adobe Illustrator license, and know-how to get in there and change the prices? And then know where/how to deliver the result to get it printed? If so, you probably still have something better to do... You probably pay an agency an hourly rate plus markup to get them updated, prepped and sent off to be reprinted. Next time: negotiate fixed prices/timelines for small updates, own the files, and own the relationship with the printers.
- Atheros 11mo agoSo.. the owner made a mistake getting expensive menus printed and then corrected his mistake? Even if he didn't have to adjust prices due to inflation, surely restaurants adjust the items on their menus frequently. I have been to a restaurant that printed new menus daily because it changed daily. It's like 10 sheets of paper or cardstock. It's not that expensive.
- SAI_Peregrinus 11mo ago> There’s a button for the hand brake now, it’s called the ‘electronic parking brake’. Nopeity nope nope. It’s called the oh-shit brake for a reason. I want to yank on that summabitch like my life depended on it, because — it might. At best doing that will do absolutely nothing useful, as anyone who's accidentally driven off with it set will know. At worst it'll spin you, since the hand brakes only lock the rear wheels. This is used deliberately to perform a "handbrake turn", but if you're yanking it like your life depends on it you're turning a front impact with big crumple zones into a side impact.
- Esophagus4 11mo agoI will say that my grandfather once limped a car to safety (slowly) using the handbrake after the brakes failed on a hot day. That was in the 70s. I suspect modern brakes are much less likely to outright fail like that, and so I don’t know if we still need the emergency aspect of the emergency brake as much.
- burnt-resistor 11mo agoTiny print is terribly inaccessible for a lot of people. Just make the print fucking normal and legible.
- lojban 11mo agoInterestingly, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) doesn't seem to think headlight glare is a problem [0], as unconformable as it may seem. I suspect there may be a selection bias at play here though. They also conclude brighter = safer. Part of me wonders if the glare also forces drivers to go slower, counterintuitively leading to safer driving. Anyway, either way, it sucks. Some of the headlight glare is so bad now that I'll see afterimage streaks from headlights even during daylight hours! [0] https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/headlight-complaints-abound-but-glare-related-crashes-havent-increased https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/headlight-complaints-abound...
- mvdtnz 11mo ago> Did you Know Writing is My Full-Time Income? I have a very hard time believing this quality of writing earns you an income.