This is wild to me, to be honest.

One of the great things about email, versus IMs and other more real-time forms of communication is that it gives the recipient the ability to address it in a more offline manner. In that way, I've always viewed it as more respective of people's schedule and work habits, since it's naturally asynchronous.

So I'm having trouble following the idea that people would view it as intrusive and obnoxious while also saying that the only way to get a reply from them the same week is to get in front of them with a real-time communication like a call or physical visit--way more disruptive to concentration.

I'm a little high and agree...

I feel like I might still agree while stone cold sober

Or do you actually not do this and live in a disgusting, filthy, dirt-covered house all the time?

Sadly, in my limited experience with people who wear their shoes inside by default, it has been this one.

I get what you're saying, but IMO a 2 hour movie is too low stakes to warrant spending more than a minute or two glancing at reviews, which is why RT and IMDB are nice, even if the summary score isn't totally reliable.

Am I interested in it from a quick synopsis or trailer?

Are the reviews generally at least mixed or better?

If the answer to both those is Yes, there's a good enough chance I'll enjoy it to give it a shot.

This looks like what you'd get if you asked an AI to produce a picture of Janeway after feeding it a training set consisting entirely of Ben Garrison's Trump cartoons.

I'm in this picture and I abhor it with every iota of my being.

But not enough to change.

also companies make anything beyond basic troubleshooting nearly impossible

I hadn't really thought about this before, but it's a pretty good point. Not just the companies who make the tech, but employers and providers seem do just about everything in their power to get you to submit a ticket or (even worse) chat with "support" rather than give you the tools to solve the damn problem yourself.

And the menus/settings you need to make more than superficial changes to your device get buried deeper every year.

If enough people love it, then full service pumps will still hang around as an option. Personally as someone who lived in Minneapolis for 20 years, full service pumps would have been fucking amazing in the winter, but mandating them by law is just stupid.

The fact that full service doesn't exist even in the frozen tundra of MN leads me to believe very few people are actually willing to pay extra for it.

They're getting downvoted because "Is this place a ____ echo chamber where dissenters get downvoted?" is a pretty shit topic for an AskLemmy thread.

Fuck Ron DeSantis and fuck all his clones.

Right??

Maybe some context would help explain why being asked to do your job is mildly infuriating.

On the chance you're not just making a funny - The walls of your house keep inside stuff inside and outside stuff outside. A thermos is just a wall for heat, whether that heat is trying to get in or out.