I hate Facebook. Firstly, the interface confuses me. Secondly, the people in charge think they know me, know what I want, and know what’s best for me. They don’t. If they did, I’d be even more pissed. Thirdly, I’m sick of the ads in the middle of videos. Put an ad in a video I’m watching, the rest of that video is not getting watched (also looking at you too, YouTube).
But this isn’t new; it’s just that now I’m not getting anything I need from social media that attracted me to it in the first place, and it’s all because they think they know what you want to see, and then serves up ads for that.
Here’s the meat of it: You click one thing that’s interesting to you, and social media thinks that’s who you are and the only thing you want to see.
TWITTER.
In the early days, the point of Twitter was to see interesting conversations between people you did not follow and who did not follow you, drop in on them, add your 2 cents, and make new, interesting friends. It was like a cocktail party set to mêlée and everybody had fun.
Now, not so much. First, you don’t see many people you don’t already follow or who follow you. Second, people guard their tribes as if it’s inside a ten-foot-thick block of ice. Prepare to be ignored or chased out of the conversation.
Twitter’s usefulness for me is gone.
PINTEREST.
In the early days, the point of Pinterest was to see random things that caught your eye. You pinned them to your board. Searching was encouraged, but who would think to search for things like “Altoid tin art” if you’ve never heard of it before? I was introduced to many, many things I never knew existed through the chaos that was the Pinterest home page. “Search!” they say. “Search!” Um…can’t search what I’ve never encountered.
Now … all you see is different versions of the same things you’ve already pinned. I do not want another elaborate late Victorian, early Edwardian spiral staircase that has been lovingly restored in the same color stain, same carpet, and same wallpaper (almost always William Morris).
This is not useful.
FACEBOOK.
They have the videos tab there. I can’t stand to let a notification badge go unclicked, so I click the videos tab on my iPad. ONE TIME, I clicked on a video to watch how weaves were done. ONCE. I was curious, so I clicked. Now that’s all Facebook shows me. I want the chaos that encourages discovery, not the same stuff I looked at once to satisfy my curiosity.
Nothing is going to change, I know. I’m shilling books (when I get up the courage to do so, I mean), and Facebook’s treatment of my posts is another rant for another day, which I will not do because everybody knows about it and rants about it and nothing changes.
Thus, I am on Facebook because that’s really where my readers are—if Facebook allows me to reach them without paying to do so (which is a rant for another day).
I have to remind myself: If the service is free, I’m the service. But damn. I’m missing out on a lot of fun stuff I don’t know exists and thus, cannot search for it. If you expand my horizons by showing me stuff I’ve never seen before, you would expand your list of things you can advertise.
Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook: I’m not who you think I am, so go back to allowing me to decide what I want to look at.
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415 responses to “Facebook thinks I’m a Black woman”
Spud’s drunk. One of my sisters is watching the wife at home, and I’ve been drinking scotch with the guy who owns the cabin next to ours. He’s a family friend who just lost his wife to dementia.
Thanks for posting an article MJ!
Huh. Mojeaux is an albino. Who would have thought?
This is the only social media I do, for the reasons stated above.
I guess you missed her original albino avatar.
I object. I am not albino. I am GLOW IN THE DARK.
Hawt!
I’m glad to hear you’re getting some time to hang out and relax.
Thanks. It’s been two years.
Could you send your sister over here for a few hours?
Not a black women?
*places penis back in pants*
Silk pants?
Comedy call-back.
Nicely done.
I had a drinking buddy, Tiffany, and we did that constantly. I think we mutually “friend zoned” each other, but goddamn, we drank a lot together. She left a bumper in my parents driveway one night. *sigh*
She left a bumper in my parents driveway one night.
These euphemisms.
Not even a little bit. Toyota Tercel, IIRC.
Full bumper (cover) left in the driveway.
We drank. A lot.
Regular Cars on the 1997 Toyota Tercel.
Oh, Sean–never go full bumper.
OK; tell it to Tiffany
I still say your name looks like it’s pronounced Mo Jew.
Bigot.
UCS has lost his mojo, baby.
Agreed. I think in their quest to provide “What people want” they undercut a lot of people.
But obviously a lot of people like what those platforms give.
I think social media proved what happens with “democracy,” much like the critics of Athens had long ago noted.
Yep.
Speaking of black women, I’m watching Blacula right now. Good stuff!
An underrated small role for Elisha Cook, too.
That’s his entire career.
I’ve always liked the old Mad TV homages to the genre. This one in particular:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zlz4EezTyOQ
I can’t imagine Twitter and Facebook have that much positive impact on someone’s life.
I’ve never been on Facebook, but I’ve found plenty of things through Twitter. Although more than half the people who were there when I started have been canceled.
Facebook is just baby pictures and what’s going on with cousins in other time zones I haven’t seen in decades.
Twitter is subject matter experts or location nodes who link me to the things I want to know about.
I just follow content that helps and don’t follow the rest. These problems with arm wrestling and politics that some have never happen to me; if I don’t like a guy at the bar, I just get up and sit somewhere else for the next hour. I see the same advertising problems everyone does but look at them like the Dodge ads on ESPN: I’m never going to buy one, but I’ve got to listen to their jingle and the monster truck voice read off all about the hemi whatever . . . okay: still ain’t gonna buy one.
Thank you, Mojeaux. Short and to the point, and a pretty trenchant observation of social media’s evolution. You give it (I think) it’s proper due. At the start, there may have been some kernel of an idea, an underlying principle for those things, but they pulled a Fonzi a long, long time ago.
The push to monetize these things is the culprit and I am not slamming that part. There was a time I would have paid a subscription fee for Twitter for it to stay the way it was, but that has its own problems.
I would DEFINITELY pay a subscription fee to Pinterest, if it showed me everything.
Facebook, I’d rather not have, but that’s where the normies are who read my books and who would like to read them if they knew they existed.
I mean, you pretty much don’t have to, these days…
Oh–PINTEREST! Got it.
I’ll take things I don’t do for $500, Alex.
There are things you don’t do for $500?
$500 is $500.
Same as downtown.
More like uptown.
I tried to recalibrate my social media when I got sick of the bullshit. I hoped to make pinterest and Instagram work. They both suck these days. You’re 100% right about the algorithms just rehashing what you’ve already seen. Instagram is bad at that, but pinterest is the worst. Sometimes it’s pages of the same 3 images
All that said, I don’t do social media anymore. My life is much happier without it.
I’m angriest about Pinterest. I don’t actually mind the ads, but I love pretty things and I want to see lots of different types of pretty things.
What annoys me about Pinterest is that their pictures flood image searches but you can save them.
Pinterest won’t let me look at stuff unless I create an account. This guarantees I will never join the app.
My good friend loves unique, singly-owned bookstores. i.e. Non-chain ones, he can’t stand any of the major booksellers.
When I asked why he gave me a one-word answer: “Curation.” He loved the SFMoMA bookstore particularly, but he could wax poetic and philosophic on the value of curation, especially now in the Age of (overwhelming) Information. It’s made curation a much more valuable (butt still underappreciated) skill and process. There’s art and even some science in it.
You know what I’ve found about single location bookstores tend to, well, have less curation than randomized inventory.
I don’t know. My experience has been different, but it could be a function of where in a city you look or hang around. The SF Modern Art one is notably good, but I’ve found some small ones in places like Boston and even smaller, out of the way places, that provide a much needed break from the sameness of the B. Dalton/Borders/Waldenbooks. I think I would even prefer “random” to the ocean of sameness that predominates commercially.
All three of those chains are out of business. And B&N is on life support.
That’s just it. Curation can get too narrow and I’m tired of being herded into niches I’m already tired of.
Yeah, that’s what I was trying to get at. Facebook’s curation is all about selling stuff from their advertisers. Facebook is like the interstate highway system with the sameness of the offerings for long stretches. Route 66 took you through actual towns with a helluva lot more variety. I’m not saying that doesn’t have its limits, as well, but it sure beats the blaaaahhhhh that is I-40 (for example). Or like I-95 on the east coast as compared to Route 1. The 5 in CA vs. 101/1 up the coast.
Facebook is the highway with billboards. I don’t know that there’s anything that does a good job, although for a while I loved the old Google frontpage that I could customize with different feeds, and news sites, and add and subtract… and then they announced they were pulling it. I wonder if that’s because people were so “individualized” in their curations that it wasn’t helping Google’s bottom line with advertisers? Just a thought. I might have smoked some weed.
I think you nailed it, stoned or not.
FUCK I40. I will ride a hundred miles out of my way to stay off that miserable piece of asphalt.
Huh. I prefer chain stores for exactly that reason. I don’t want to be “curated”.
TBF, I only visit a bookstore when I know what I want, but I still feel there is a better chance of discovering something new where there is a much larger inventory to look over. Assuming we’re talking about new books here.
Used books – the calculus is clearly different.
So a black mormon who writes European period pieces?
Hokay.
Just change this to your avatar
https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/29/adversarial-patch/
and they’ll just show you sliced bread.
That is amazing. God, the possibilities!
I keep telling myself that KSP is just a game, but when the rocket returning from a nail-biter mission to minmus comes down on the side of a mountain and looks like it might stop, but rolls ever so slowly down the side until it finds a cliff to roll off of and explodes, taking several hours fastitioud effort and several hundred points of science with it…
I’m not at my calmest.
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! The Crash Killed Bob!
Killed Bob!-
Was he your uncle?
No, he was the starting scientist with the program, and the first Kerbal I’ve ever lost in any playthrough.
expand my horizons by showing me stuff I’ve never seen before
I agree, and yet many people are afraid to click on HM’s links.¯\_(ツ)_/¯
*polite applause*
My horizons have been expanded far more by you lot than on any of my brief forays on FB or the like (I’ve never Pinterested or Twittered, FWIW).
100 percent. Some rep was in endo from Minnesota and was about to start some long winded story about “Minnesota Nice” when I stopped him. “Yeah, I know all about dude.” Uffda.
Yeah that guy is the worst.
Facebook thinks I’m a Black woman
Some people like when that mistake is made.
I was thinking of this.
This article only serves as more proof that you are the worst.
Can I get a vote?
Nikki will always be the worst.
I vote Hyperion is the worst.
Hear, hear!
I am not on the ballot, mister!
Too bad.
Children are the worst.
Coincidentally that exact belief is why Nikki is actually the worst.
Well, you’re right that children and SJW scolds are a lot alike.
I’m working at a charter school. Kids do stupid things because they’re kids, and they’re really not too bad. Their parents, OTH, are the biggest group of idiots that I have ever seen assembled in one place outside of a Raider’s game. Lord help me, how in God’s name did these people survive long enough to procreate?
Except, that’s not really true. Only a percentage are idiots, and that’s why they survived; it’s like the free rider/herd immunity thing, only with stupidity instead of disease.
I don’t want to displace Nikki.
Who? Nope, you deserve the title.
Oh, fine! I’ll be the worst.
I don’t remember why I’m the worst, tho…
Pulling ponies around, ruining our family friendly status, shall I go on?
You described my problem with Pandora.
Oh! That, yes. I bailed on that long ago but I didn’t depend on it for discovery the way I depended on Pinterest.
My problem was that they were obsessed with Alison Krauss , no matter what station I started and how many up thumbs or down thumbs they’d eventual push some AK on me, ‘Oh, we see you started a Charles Mingus station and seeded it with The Dead Boys and Body Count, you’ll love this retro pop country shit.”
May I humbly suggest a local radio station here in Edmonton that is also available on the InterToobs?:
https://ckua.com/
You’re welcome. (And I found out from this station last night that Bruce Cockburn is releasing his first all-original instrumental album in about two decades, called “Crowing Ignites.” SQUEEEEEEEE!)
Yep. Same here.
LinkedIn is my only social media account. Everyone just tries to look awesome for their careers. I do look in on GAB occasionally to see some alt think.
I have a confession to make: I have no idea how many times I have work blackface. It’s more than once but probably less than 350 times.
I think.
Wow. We got a racist and a bigot in the same post. Glibertarians are the one, true Shitlords.
You yourself admitted to being drunk.
Your cognition is impaired.
Are you kidding? At this moment, I am one of the most profound, wise people you’ve ever known. Just ask me.
I know, right dude? I mean when I used to smoke some weed, I’d just have some profound revelation and I’d grab a pen and write it all down. The next day I would look at it and be like ‘What even in the fuck? That doesn’t make any sense!’. Yeah, like that.
This is why if I’m a little drunk, I never look at my posts here the next day. I don’t even want to know.
I avoid friends for awhile after heavy drinking in mixed company. I have no idea how many thoughts I randomly blurt out that I would never say sober. I’m hoping they’ll forget
That’s why it’s best to drink with friends that will drink as much as you do. Otherwise, drink alone.
Yeah, if you’re pretty buzzed, you’ll say just about anything, but if everyone else is just as buzzed, they won’t give a shit either. I choose my drinking partners carefully.
I drink alone.
“I drink alone.”
With nobody else?
Yeah, all by myself.
Ewe prefer two Bea bi you’re self?
I think the same thing when I am drunk. Wise beyond my years.
Social media is really like a sort of cancer on society. I recommend avoiding it like the plague.
But don’t worry, we can get rid of all the ads and get everything for free once we get rid of this capitalism and replace it with everything all the dem presidential candidates want.
Depressingly true.
I had Facebook for maybe 3-4 months before I’d had enough of it. That’s was around a decade ago and no social media since and never will be. Besides, I don’t have any ugly kids or pets to share with everyone who I’m sure would think they are the most interesting thing ever.
My computer thinks I’m gay.
But you are!
‘Here’s the meat of it: You click one thing that’s interesting to you, and social media thinks that’s who you are and the only thing you want to see.’
You people have no idea what clicking on your links has done to my YouTube recommendations. On second thought, I guess you do.
*flat stare at HM*
Flat? Nope, not HM’s fault, “bubble stare?” that would be HM.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&t=1m20s&v=9aMLwcDggMo
My most memorable HM was deleted by YouTube, and few curves where present. Hardons, hardons everywhere, then gun fire, blood, no more hardons. Justice was served…
Found it!
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34slax
YouTube deleted that? What a bunch of assholes.
Only flaccid, gay, artfully lighted penises are permissible on YouTube. This is known.
At least you’re not staring at me.
I don’t think even YouTube buys the idea of a guy my age being a conisure of pre WW2 music and Gracie Allen.
😉
But to your point about social media: remember that you’re the product and those sites, especially Facebook and Pinterest, only want to send you things it thinks you’ll purchase. To them, you humanity is reduced to being banhammered for wrong speak or be solicited for you cash.
But their narrow curation is to their detriment. If they show me more stuff, they’ll have more things to shill at me. That won’t make me happy, but I’d deal with it to see more things I’ve never seen before that I might like.
My only guess would be that they’ve worked out an algorithm that maximizes profit by pigeonholing people? I don’t know. You might just have a larger range of interests than your average person in their eyes and it’s not worth it to them to make adjustments. Shitty, I know but there it is.
That’s an interesting observation. I never thought about it that way.
You’re just like, too cool for social media school, hepcat. It shouldn’t be much of a surprise from my point of view. We are a very eclectic outlier in regards to political philosophy, why not the things more mundane?
I only hang out in two communities, this one and one I established 15 years ago that has only 5 people in it.
I love you people.
/not even drunk
Back at cha’, toots! I think we live in the same metro area, one day I’d like to meet you and the hubby and some of the fellow crew from here. Not right now though, my life is in complete upheaval and I’m not exactly at my best. Maybe in a few months. Ha!
Yes! That would be AWESOME!
Mr. Mojeaux and I have met OMWC, SP, and Libertesian so far.
I’m sick of YouTube putting ads in the middle of videos. Also, is there a way to flag a video you have no interest in seeing? They keep offering the same video I do t want to watch.
Ve have vays of making you vatch.
But more seriously, this is why I go overboard with ad-prevention technology.
Ve have vays of making you vatch.-
*herl snap*
Jawhol!
I wish there were a way to flag vids you don’t want. The ads in the vids are to get you to subscribe. I would subscribe to Pinterest. YouTube, no.
I block YouTube comments, sidebar etc.
But I had to switch browsers and now I get auto “next video” in YouTube which pisses me off & I need to figure out how to disable that. Probably a check-box in my ad blocker.
BREAKING: Justin Trudeau Is A Total Assclown
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1174777921262649344
WTF, eh?
Cue the repo man “it’s society’s fault” gif.
Remember when he dressed up in traditional Indian dress and went to visit India? If that didn’t prove the point, nothing will. The Twink of the North is… well, a total assclown.
Now I’m tempted to bring back one of my Trudeau avatars.
From the Zoolander or Twink of the North avatar series?
I was thinking more along the lines of Transgender Durga Puja.
Christ, what an asshole.
Word.
Why is there even a bill for D.C. statehood? It is a constitutionally mandated district for Congress. Nevermind I know the answer and AOC says its because of racists.
“AOC says”
There’s this little secret… not many people know. but, well, she’s not too bright. I mean, you know, I’m talking semi-retarded.
Semi?
Because they think a state of 600,000 people should have the same representation in the Senate as any other state not named Wyoming, North or South Dakota, Alaska, etc.
It gets them 2 more dem Senators forever. That’s the entire point.
Yep.
You are all overthinking this. They think (correctly) that it would give them 2 Senate seats and a Rep. There is no other reason.
^This. DC will be the bluest blue that ever blued electorally-speaking. That’s pretty much a guaranteed three Dem Congresscritters.
I think the typical presidential vote for DC is more than 95% democrat. Imagine that, an entire district made up of only government employees voting for democrats. Who would have ever imagined that?
Right? Now, who would’ve thought that an entire city built to support the federal government would vote for the party that tends to favor the expansion of the federal government?
Great minds think alike.
They could always give it back to Maryland.
WDATPWIM
Nah, man, make Virginia take that shit!
Make a state of DC/Fairfax/Arlington/Alexandria, and Virginia probably goes back to being reddish. Hell, give the state Montgomery and Prince Georges too.
I’d give it 10 years til we’d have to bail out the fedgov state.
Let’s just admit it, both MD and VA are now nothing more than overflow pools for the swamp.
Yup. I was sitting in bumper to bumper traffic at 645pm behind people with diplomat plates. Loudoun is starting to get swampy, and Prince william would be if it wasn’t so poor.
Kiefer Sutherland cooks Beef Stew
I’d rather watch lost boys.
How about Corey Feldman singing Blackbird…ummm…not so well?
The guy had a rough childhood. Give him a break.
Oh absolutely not. He is a terrible person and deserves to be mocked mercilessly.
His work in “The burbs” buys him a pass from me.
One of my favorites – Joe Dante makes fantastic movies.
Kiefer used to drive a bitchin ’67 Chevelle back in the nineties, or at least he used to own one. Some hot chick was doing the driving.
A bit long, but well written and worth reading.
I gave up. The writer didn’t seem to know his own thoughts.
I tapped out here. Kindergarten is irrelevant to where you go to college, and even that is irrelevant to where you’re working 10 years after you graduate.
This is somebody drawing an arbitary line between upper and lower class and saying you either end up at the top of the heap or mired in the mud. It doesn’t work like that.
I have known several children of elite professionals, and by several I mean a single digit denominator fraction of my high school, and a majority of my grade school, a decent leavening of my under grad and easily a quarter of my law school class. Trust me if you are a couple years behind some of those yahoos, you like cake.
In L.A., they are called the idle rich. Dumb as rocks. Couldn’t solve a problem to save their lives. Very opinionated about high end brands, though. They look at you funny when you tell them you have to go to work.
I’m not sure what that means. I could totally believe they’d look down on everyone else, and I could believe some of them have made it into the stratosphere in terms of income. But you can get by on a lot less than seven figures, and the measure of success in one niche is not the measure of success in life overall.
Same thing with Google News. You search ONE TIME for something to settle a bar bet, and now your news feed is jam packed with articles about clown porn.
My prob with Google (ok i have more than one prob with them) is that I search for a baby shower gift for a friend or relative (car seat, stroller) and it assumes I’m preggers or a mom and bombards me with that shit all the time.
Same at Amazon. I look at 30 SLR camera models, pick one and buy it, and for months they try to interest me in buying an SLE camera . I just bought one from you very nitwits!
Yes, that!
I bought The Thing. I don’t need another The Thing.
It either shows how bad the AI is or how unique humans are. Take Glibs. We all have a similar political philosophy but I doubt you could find one thing we all like and we’re a small self selecting group.
We all prefer pizza with no pineapple.
You bastard.
I bet that there’s not one person on these boards that would turn down a 1911.
Not sure if that’s my favorite Kurt Russell appearance, but it’s up there for sure.
Captain Ron. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.
How hard is it to write an algorithm to de-emphesize recently purchased durable goods and increase the accessories for said product instead?
I was embarrassed when after googling Plus Size dresses, if I show colleagues a search for any other product like a diode or whatever, it’s sprinkled with ads for fat chicks and menopause.
Thanks, dickheads. Do they flash ED ads for men?
I WOULDN’T KNOW WHO TOLD YOU
Yeah, my wifey is sort of thicc and I buy lingerie for her and sometimes she gets on my computer and browses because of the 3 big screens. And then next thing I know I have all these chubby chicks in various states of dress all over my screens and she’s like ‘hey, who is she, what is that?’.
/humblebrag
If you are man searching for diodes the they show LEDs…
Sure, we know them are some those mareequaner grow lights you are looking for!
I’m pretty sure some of the ad providers are using IPs for targeted advertising rather than cookies to try and capture multiple devices or cookie blocking. I get ads from time to time that appear to be targeted to my wife. I can only imagine what she ends up with.
Do they flash ED ads for men?
**HEAVY SIGH** Yes.
Digikey sells dresses?
Yup. As soon as they suspect that you are male and above, I don’t know, lets say 45. Whether you search for it or not.
That’s weird, since Target managed to figure out that buying a stroller or a car seat and no other baby item meant “shower gift”, while things like unscented laundry detergent and lotions and various vitamins meant “pregnant”.
Yeah, that Target algorithm (what I’ve heard about it) is scary smart.
All of them are getting smarter. But it does get really annoying. Now I find that if I just to go a site and browse it, I don’t even have to create an account or put something in a shopping cart or anything, next thing I know I am inundated with ads for the products.
Well, if you have a smart phone with all the shit turned on, Target follows where you walk in the store. So it has a good idea what you looked at, but didn’t buy.
How Target figured out a teen girl was pregnant before her father did.
Well, they are called Target.
So how many people can have sex in a tiny car?
All of them, if you plan right.
THIS…is the best answer ever.
As for rhe complaint, so eloquently stated, against social media: here’s a million dollar idea: a plug in that suggests new things. Maybe you click a bunch of boxes to indicate what general things you like, maybe with rankings, etc. And you’re given a list of links, like RealClear does. And then have it throw in occasional links to subjects you haven’t picked.
StumbleUpon used to do just that. Used to be one of my favorite sites. Then they effed it up and went all clickbatey and sponsored. Haven’t been back in a long time.
Nolan Chart rap battle.
Also, because of my habits in porn, The National Review (e.g.) thinks I’m a young woman interested in buying a designer skirt.
“I’m a young woman interested in buying a designer skirt.”
A short, plaid skirt?
Sure, whatever upsets the ghost of William F. Buckley the most.
Who isn’t?
Looks up designer skirts..
And a long jacket?
Cake for the win!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u7aDstrDMf0
I love this song, and I love Cake.
I love lamp.
And I pooped a big red candle.
They all love cake, because they all want cake.
It’s a studio track, their live versions suck.
IFIRC, Twitter was an actual useful tool for the attempted “green revolution” in Iran, until president Obama (gags slightly) told both sides to calm down, thus relieving the Iranian govt the need to show mercy.
Then he destroyed Libya and Syria peace and power balance.
Way to go. ValJare.
“Then he destroyed Libya and Syria peace and power balance.”
To be fair, he had a lot of help, Hillary, John McCain, CNN, just saying. Arab Spring, a term that shall live in infamy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOguxw-2OII
Those social media sites keep sending me DMs or whatever saying some random hot single wants to meet me, STOP THE LIES.
Also please stop the DM/spambots.
Then say you don’t want to meet!
I just ask them to send me pics of their bobs and vagene. That usually shuts it up, but I don’t wanna put the effort no mo’.
Copy pasta. Make it like F6 or something.
Then, how come you dance so good?
OT: ( do we have a topic??).
My most comfy boots are both Doc Marten. I ordered a new pair of slightly above ankle slip on black Air Wairs in my reliable Doc Marten size.
But because they were pull-on style with the slight expanding elastic panels, they wouldn’t fit my fat calves. I put them away in self loathing.
Now, 30 pounds lighter, they fit beautifully!! Can’t wait to wear tomorrow.
It’s the little things sometimes
A good pair of shoes is worth their weight in gold. I just got a pair of work boots rebuilt and they’re better than ever. Basically the only thing the same is the leather above the soles.
I have had cowboy boots reheeled and resoled many times.
Hard to find a good cobbler these days. Mine in Minneapolis was an elderly black gentleman with a speech impediment who took great pride in his work and seemed genuinely grateful that a young white woman appreciated his dying art.
Your move, Facebook…
😉
I use composite toe Cat sneakers. Don’t like weight and steel gets too hot/cold.
Working in high voltage, I insist the safety shoes be composite and without metal shanks.
Electrical Hazard (EH) boots are only good to 2 kv and often have metal toes and shanks.
I hope that extends to appropriate clothing too.
/too many graphic electrical safety videos
‘Grats. It’s nice, huh? Sigh. I need to find an alcohol not based on sugar. I do like 8 to 9 plus miles a day at work, and still have the belly. If I quit drinkin’, I’d be… well, sober and broke from having to buy new clothes. But man, slim with new clothes? Man, I could take selfies to post on Facebook and Instagram!
I need to find an alcohol not based on sugar.
I am not a chemist, but I am pretty sure any alcohol that you find that doesn’t come from a consumable sugar (or starch) is going to kill you if you drink it.
exactly
but it’s easier than that: all alcohols kill, just some slower than others; the root of inTOXICated doesn’t mean “nutritious”
I’m pretty sure scotch was eroding my jaw bones. I tend to keep it in my mouth for a long while. I haven’t been drinking it for the past few months and my teeth have firmed back up. Now I just have a few beers.
Thanks! Long way to go yet but feels good.
Congratulations!
TY !
It’s a tough slog, so I appreciate the encouragement
It’s only congrats if she didn’t lose that in all the right places, you know what I’m sayin.
My wife gets pissed if she tells me she needs to lose 10 pounds and I say ‘not off that booty you ain’t!’, that’s my stuff!
+1
I lose my hair and my boobs.
Ah man, I feel like I should have something inappropriate to say here, but my brain is wiped out from accounting homework.
She loses her mojo!
Hawt.
Nice job!
Happy for you, but you know we like pics…
Go on witcha, girl! Enjoy the day in the old ‘new’ boots.
I have started wearing “skinny’ style jeans as of late. It’s actually quite fun, even if I am behind the curve, so to speak.
/don’t harsh my high, man–you don’t know!
My beef with YouTube, besides the excessive ads before/during/after (that also disabled navigation buttons), is despite clicking the not interested/stop showing me buttons, they continue to show the same videos and ads. Hello? I clicked not interested. WTF does YT think that means?
It means the advertiser pays them to show you ads, and you don’t pay them not to?
That sounded funnier and less confrontational when I typed it, please read it that way.
*clicks not interested in comment, doesn’t go away*
Whhhhhyyyyyyy??
Even better, I think it was spectacularly on point.
That, and they want to steer you to the more popular videos because those can be monetized more. Your preferences likely shape the content you see but aren’t strictly deterministic like you’d want/hope.
That’s a UX thing. I forget the term, but it’s a thing to put a button that doesn’t do anything somewhere in order to make the user feel like they have control over a situation when that’s not really the case. The classic example is the buttons at crosswalks. In most cases, the button doesn’t do a damn thing; the signal is calibrated to turn in conjunction with the normal traffic lights, but putting the button there makes people feel like they’re waiting with purpose.
Meh. I’ve been a pedestrian, and in some places those buttons absolutely let the light know that there is a pedestrian waiting to cross. In downtown areas, where pedestrians are assumed to be present, then yes, most likely they are whatever term you cant remember and I can either.
Elevators, though, I’m telling you, every single button is fake, even the ones you press for the floor number.
The buttons sometimes activate the same switch that the metal plate in the roadbed activates, but I think that is only where a low traffic street crosses a thoroughfare (ie an intersection meant to stay green the same way unless and until someone needs to cross).
I remember a time & place when those buttons actually worked but that was before the lights were all synchronized and they decided pedestrians could go fuck themselves.
It depends on the program the lights are running on. During high-traffic periods there’s no way grandma pushing a button is going to switch the light and screw up traffic for an hour. When they’re just down to the pressure plates or at off-peak periods, then yeah, they either trigger a light change or put you in line for one.
I think they can also change the amount of time spent on green even when not triggering a light change. I’ve noticed that, without pushing the button, the light will stay green only long enough for cars to clear. But, when the button was pushed, the light didn’t change any sooner to get the pedestrian started, but it stayed green longer to give them time to cross.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxuuVssqsAs
Mojeaux:
YES!
Thanks for writing this. I’ve become a crotchety 61-year-old, and I’m becoming convinced that antisocial media may be the worst invention of our modern age. Talking to more people can lead to great discoveries and “Aha!” moments — unfortunately, it can also lead to ever-increasing friction.
I don’t mind the “social” part of social media, as in, talking to people, because I’d rather do that on line than in person. IRL, I have resting bitch face because I’m totally in my head and I don’t want to be bothered.
It’s all the crap added to its base functionality that gets to me. I can’t see what I want to see and what I have explicitly opted in to see. Why can my wishes not be respected? Show me ads, sure, okay, I’ll live with it, but show me also what I have told you explicitly to show me.
The anonymity of the internet really brings out the cunte in people, even when you know them in real life.
What’s this cunte meme?
C’mon, Ms. Mojeaux – ‘fess up!
Chapter 18 of the medieval historical romance I am writing.
Here’s the summary:
Hmmm…it’s been an hour. Commodious must really be hitting his bunk, IYKWIM
“I’ve become a crotchety 61-year-old”
If you were 61 and not crotchety, we’d be losing faith in you already and probably you’d have your Glib card revoked, your orphans confiscated, and maybe even…. dare I say, a cattbut in your future?
I’m just disappointed that at a crotchety 59, I can’t tell you to get off my lawn.
One of my firehouse nicknames was, “the Curmudgeon”. I was in my mid 40s.
Ron Swanson would be proud.
I wish an algorithm would’ve predicted that Houston would be running away with this game. I’m about to lose $5 on this shit!
Why didn’t you ask!!!11?
/ Houston contemporary football subject matter expert
Ah, it’s no fun if I don’t do it myself. I’m about 50% on the nose for college ball this season. Don’t ask me about my NFL record, it’s a sensitive subject.
Mijo went to Houston, so my depth charts on them only go back to 2012. NewWife = eight seasons of UGA.
The Vols spreadsheet has tabs going back decades: most of those guy aren’t even alive any more.
Good lord, imagine if you used those powers for good! And by good I mean sports betting for profit.
One of these days when I get the right combo of motivated, nerdy, and bored, I’ll see if I can learn me some machine learning algorithms by writing something to look for patterns in point spreads, odds, and broad-level data like team w/l records at home versus away, in conference vs out, etc.
I really thought Houston would travel and upset.
Hoo, that was close as hell.
https://www.youtube.com/user/PuddlesPityParty/videos
The real eighties. Say what you will!
Nice! I forgot all about that song.
There was some tune posted recently that was that new pop thing where you strum through electric chords and then fumble through a bridge or solo that sounds like a sixth grader with his first Mel Bay book. I guess that’s cool now; full disclosure: NewWife has made me take her to see Spoon, so I respect that this is a commercial fact that has come to be. Two questions occur to me:
a/ What’s the minimum instrumental competence for linking to a tune on Glibs? I need a benchmark. My Sharona is too tough (a bit too competent for my purposes). There’s got to be a tune that is the definitive border between competent rocking and rolling versus, well, let’s be nice and just say less so.
b/ why aren’t I rich already?
Dave Barry has a bit where he claims if you throw a guitar down a flight of steps it’ll play ‘Gloria’, I’d suggest that, sure it’s three chords and the solo is dead simple but you got to have a few chops to not sound like you’re banging out “Smoke on the Water” at the High school talent show.
‘a/ What’s the minimum instrumental competence for linking to a tune on Glibs? I need a benchmark.’
Given that I used to habitually post videos to old, shitty punk bands and can’t recall ever taking shit for it I’d say pretty damn low.
According to Glibs I, Chapter 7, Verse 14: Verily, I say unto thee, that a song must possess as much baby-making potential as this, or more, lest thou be cast into the lake of semen known as the Basement of Warty. !הַלְלוּיָהּ
*fans self*
It’s hot in here…
First comment (by a guy):
“I’m pretty sure I’m pregnant now.”
Anyone who clicks that link immediately has to pay child support.
Did he post a want ad?
FACT: John Linnell’s voice is the complete opposite of whatever Mojeaux’s feeling.
Barry White’s groovin’ to it in his grave . . .
Really? Sigh. Try this or this or maybe this.
Why my comment awaiting moderation? Shit, they know me up in here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2a9dVs1ioc
The juxtaposition of his voice and his appearance is as unsettling as he likely means it to be.
You seem maudlin tonight I’d suggest some TW but you seem to be on a Puddles kick, so here’s the best of both worlds.
Posted that one. Not maudlin, just taking the opportunity to exhale.
I was gifted tickets to see Puddles last year, but no one to go with. So I didn’t go
A superb two hour, one person show.
I got tired if all the nonsense ads I would get, especially after Christmas when I would be shopping for other people who had fastly different interest than mine (I don’t even know what the hell a Pokemon is). So I spent an hour one day looking up sexy lingerie. Then when I started getting ads with hot chicks wearing sexy lingerie in web sites, I would make sure to click on those ads at least once every day so they would keep coming. Now at least my ads are very nice decorations on sites I visit instead of for stupid stuff.
I like the idea. Manipulate the manipulators.
I’m pretty happy with the results
I refuse to comment until I know if Mojeaux’s got that ass.
You’re drunk
Baby got back.
Then I don’t blame the holy algorithm.
SHUT THE FUNK UP, KEYTARD
Pink eyed booty queen specter? Pics or it didn’t happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Lo8Gs8PCk
For years Google seems to think I’m interested in dating older women or Asians. I always seem to get bombarded with click bait dating sites with one of those two themes.
Well, are you?
I would suggest staying away from cougar porn, and yellow fever porn.
Or you can combine the two, like a normal person.
Too much closeup of Japanese teeth, just because you drive on the British side of the road does not mean you have to learn dentistry from them.
She says she’s Thai.
But the comment still works.
This is how every white person over the age of 55 raps.
+ Will Smith
First comment:
“A sheep…Well that’s appropriate.”
It’s that shit that makes me say “Happy Holidays”.
Give it a few years and that will no longer be true. Eminem has got to be pushing fifty by now…Christ, that makes me feel old.
My favorite rap
A classic!
https://youtu.be/F5Pm7BL-hyo
Black Albino Straight from Alabama
The Julian Donkey Boy scene is epic, but I can’t find it.
I’m not attracted to anyone until I’m sure they agree with me on most things.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/mark-ronson-identifies-as-sapiosexual
Sapiosexual, a term the use of which guarantees that no one who was attracted to intelligence would ever touch the user.
Christ, what a pretentious asshole.
To be fair, some people have a bimbo fetish.
Not me. But I don’t go blabbing to the media about any of that stuff and if they asked I’d tell them to GFT.
I tried getting media coverage about my fetishes, but all I got was a sexual harassment charge and a restraining order.
Courage! ✊?
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/gwinnett-county/man-accused-of-destroying-his-own-business-in-fake-hate-crime/985998170
Nice swastika, negro.
That haircut is a hate crime.
He should just shave that shit off.
Then he could have blamed it on a skinhead.
Some day, one of these things will turn out to be real.
Maybe.
I dunno.
I’m not gonna hold my breath.
Unfortunately, ‘Pulling a Jussie’ is a real thing now. Thanks, Obama for making the rising oceans recede and bringing us racial harmony… I mean sort of like what was already happening until you ran your stupid mouth and helped bring about the modern democrat party of identity politics always, all of the time. Shithead.
I want the chaos that encourages discovery, not the same stuff I looked at once to satisfy my curiosity.
Social media is for owning libs. How tf are you gonna own the libs with that gay shit?
*hangs head in shame*
https://twitter.com/NatureisScary/status/1174505206849200129
spooky
Lightning my ass. Someone very evil is buried right there.
It’s McCain isn’t it?
Long gone from FB. Kicked off Twitter. Ran screaming from LinkedIn. Pinterest?
My suicidal media is you fuckers and Drive Tribe, which is you fuckers…
“Kicked off Twitter.”
Is there a Glib Medal of Honor?
How did you get kicked off Twitter?
Re Pinterest, this is what I said about it a few months ago:
I just would like to see more differenter pretty things.
I kinda figured Pinterest would succumb to the woke disease killing online crafts communities.
I got kicked off of Disquis several times. And my comments on all those sites were very innocuous just like here. I’m guessing that he got kicked off Twitter like everyone else does, by not being sufficiently SJW enough.
No idea. It was soon after the move from TOS. I tried to log in and I was suspended or whatever the fuck they say.
Didn’t care enough to go any further.
Their algorithm finding certain terms in your posts would probably do it. Libertarian, 2nd amendment, free speech, all of that hate stuff, that would do it. The Borg really does exist and it’s them.
I don’t want to live in a world where the Minnesota nice of Tundra is too controversial
‘Minnesoda’ Say it right, you hater.
I will never pronounce Minnesota correctly. EVER
Islamaphobia too, I see.
Ask Leap. Minnesota Nice is a myth right up there with Bigfoot and the existence of libertarian chicks!
Hey, now! I’m right here! (Of course, that’s just what Tulpa would say…)
I’m more interested in your band.
Links?
We retired a couple of years ago – decided we were getting too old to be hauling all that crap and spending all day Sunday recovering from a three-hour early evening gig. LOVED doing it, but the work before & after was wiping us out. Hubby’s back out there doing what he can, mostly solo. I devote my weekends to indolence and sloth.
If I dug deep enough, I might be able to find some amateur video that didn’t suck. Of course, I’d be doxxing myself. Lemme ponder what, if anything, I could share..
Did you ever play in Lexington? I owned a venue down there from 94-00, and I think you said you were from the S. Ohio area? I’ll doxx myself since I pretty much did with my handle. The club was Millennium.
Lol. No worries. It just amazes me at what we have here.
We only played around the greater Dayton area, and very occasionally. I think the furthest we ever went was Richmond, IN.
Facebook is the only social media I use to any extent. I got sucked into it to fulfill my duties as Goddess of Shameless Self-Promotion for my old band, and I find I still depend on “Events” to see if any of our musical friends have gigs of a weekend. Now that the band has retired, I’m spending less and less time there.
Certainly TDS helped drive me away, but the other habit that drove me up the wall was “Vaguebooking” – either veiled comments that hint at drama without offering any of the juicy details or appeals along the lines of “I can’t give you any information at all about the horrible thing(s) going on in my life, but I desperately need your prayers/positive vibes/animal sacrifices.” FFS, do you need to broadcast it? You can’t pick just one or two people in whom you can confide via a private message? No – you have to drop a bomb and leave us all thinking “WTF???”
It is important to have people who don’t give a damn about you pretend they do for some reason.
Facebook is lame. You are way too cool to be on there.
Aw, shucks! Thanks, YGTGA! I’m just trying to be cool enough to be here!
He’s drunk, he doesn’t mean it. And he’s going to give Tulsi Ying Yang YOUR car.
NOOOOOO!!! Not my Subaru! I wubs my Soobadoo! I can go to Yellow Springs, OH (AKA Berkeley East) undercover!
Hmm, girl car, check. Female libertarian… needs more checks.
Libertarian’s oppose checks Tulpa!
Unless you’re Ken Shultz and about to write a wall of text to excuse you extreme misunderstanding of the Constitution. *clarifies* checkboxes.
No, but oddly I have an Article that is a wall of text on my totally correct and indisputable understanding of the Constitution scheduled for Tuesday evening.
I only take cash.
I am drunk. That I cannot deny.
But, let it be said that the best way to trigger a libertarian in 2019 is to mention Yang or Tulsi. And let it further be said that I am not a Yang supporter, but I truly do love Tulsi’s foreign policy (and her jugs)
Her Commie jugs.
I’ve had sex with a socialist before. Political beliefs don’t transmit that way.
Those jugs are infused with her righteous indignation opposed to the warfare state
Also, Gender Traitor is way too good for Facebook, which a social networking site meant for those who are neither social nor have a network
Vaguebooking
My sister joins the story half way and then bails before resolution. It’s almost always misdirection, so I ignore her and wait three months to see what got repossessed or who died.
I call her on her birthday and figure nothing important happens the other 364.26 days.
Vaguebooking. Amazing. I had no idea there was a term.
I have a cousin-in-law who will post stuff on her timeline (?) like “People who don’t get home from the club in time to put their kids to bed don’t have any reason to criticize how other people parent,” or like, “From now on I’m just going to do what I know is right and anybody who doesn’t like it can look in the mirror” or some shit like that with no context whatsoever. As near as any of us can figure she’s doing it specifically to get someone to ask her what’s going on. Nobody does, because we’re adults, but she must get something out of it because she does it to this day.
That is precisely what vaguebooking is. It’s very passive-aggressive.
And lastly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3O1XojnTag
‘Night Glibbies.
Night
Nite. I’m WFH tomorrow and don’t have a meeting until 9:30am, so I’m good for the rest of this beer.
Sort of like your co-workers, who just like you, cannot wait to get the fuck out of there so they don’t have to see you again until tomorrow or hopefully next week. Or even more hopefully after a long holiday?
“It is important to have people who don’t give a damn about you pretend they do for some reason.”
That reply was supposed to be to Jarflax.
I give a damn about you, Hyperion
Sure you do, and you’re going to give Tulsi Ying Yang your car.
I would never give ying yang Tulsi. WTF? Screw you now
I’ve been drinking a wee bit
Yes. If we do not like each other I don’t need your condolences, congratulations, or phony interest in my life. And if we do like each other and I discuss any of that stuff with you, why do you then share it with people who hate me, and whom I dislike?
Of course I make Mencken look like Schweitzer so don’t take social advice from me.
Submitted without comment:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EE3vObRUEAAx85D.jpg
Do the voices!
Alvin always lucks out. Would that chipmunk
Alvin and the Chipspunks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9FhdYLanKc
hawt
We The Internet: Waking up from a coma in Trump’s America
LOL!
It’s actually scary that is a totally believable situation.
I thought that was a documentary.
Is that parody?
I just don’t know how to respond to something that’s funny anymore. Do I clap? Is laughing too problematic? Is it racist to find humor in comedy?
I honestly don’t know anymore. I haven’t heard a joke without the punchline “orange man bad” in over three years
Awfully generous with the word “punchline”.
https://p.4cache.net/1273441644939.gif
NSFW.
http://tubezzz.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/08180529-6261-tubezzz.net.jpg
NSFW.
http://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm1r7tv0lP1qzo84co1_500.jpg
NSFW.
http://zapatosadidas.info/images/fee97865ec5dbe451c9c58aeb43aef9c.jpg
NSFW.
Trigger discipline = fail. I rule these girls not gun girls.
The hot redhead at one o’clock has trigger discipline. I deem her fit for copulation.
Yeah, but the one in the center is about to shoot her in the face, so you better get her soon.
Just take a page from McAfee’s book and hold the gun to her head during intercourse.
Well done
Are we talking eugenics?
https://mobile.twitter.com/thehill/status/1174354266322083840
We’ve gotten to the point that foreign teenagers are giving policy advice.
FOR THE CHILDREN!
Where it always ends.
It’s so cute when they play GI Joe!
Dancing?
“Testimony” before Congress? Are you fucking kidding me??
It amuses me that a room full of Ivy League educated lawyers seems to have no idea what constitutes testimony. Hint, random person’s unsupported opinion is generally inadmissible.
I’m not sure about the exact rules, but I think they can invite anyone they want to show up voluntarily.
Would have been great if they had treated it like actual testimony: Ms. Thoringornussenthorson, can you please cite the scientific data to which you are referring?
Well I was somewhat skeptical until no0w, but this convinced me.
I hate Facebook. – Facebook hates you so you are even.
Good morning glibs
‘Morning, Pie!
“AOC fighting to block massive ‘Walmart of Liquor’ from her Queens district
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is fighting to block a massive booze retail store that critics call the “Walmart of Liquor” from opening on her turf in College Point, Queens.
The firebrand freshman congresswoman, whose opposition helped scare Amazon away from opening a new campus headquarters in Long Island City, urged state Liquor Authority Chairman Vincent Bradley to deny Total Wine & More a license to open because its rock-bottom prices would undercut smaller neighborhood liquor merchants.
“My district enjoys many of the benefits of a vibrant small business economy: job creation for and by community members, socio-economic mobility for immigrants and new Americans, and long-lasting relationships between proprietors and their customers,” Ocasio-Cortez said in the Sept. 17 letter to Bradley obtained by The Post.
“I am deeply concerned about the potential impacts that MCT Fine Wine & Spirits would have on the local small business community. As a large retailer with ties to a billion dollar nationwide chain, Total Wines has access to resources and economies of scale with which smaller retailers could not compete,” she said.”
https://nypost.com/2019/09/19/aoc-fighting-to-block-massive-booze-store-from-her-queens-district/
“I support price gouging by the state-supported monopoly that was set up in the wake of prohibition and its blue laws.”
Maybe she’s getting that sinking feeling that she might be bartending again and doesn’t want the competition?
Nah, it’s simpler than that. The liquor store cartel is surprisingly powerful – no surprise, given the protection it receives from various arcane state laws.
economies of scale – perish the thought
What a fuckwit!
Ads on social media? I guess that’s what those things are that I click off the instant I am able. I can’t recall what a single one of them was advertising. I do get pissed when trying to read a site and I have to play old times space invaders before I can see the content, but I never actually look at any ads.
I don’t mind people making money selling ads but I would appreciate it if they wouldn’t be so damned obnoxious about shoving them in my face.