The [Disco Chives] Misplaced Parrot Complaint Thread
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McGyver said something about disappearing for a while due to the new DAZ advertisements becoming a bit unbearable.
A tracker just insinuated itself on my computer. While I was reading the forum messages! This is the only page that could have done it. I have only one other tab open, and they don't use trackers or ads of any kind!
A tracker meaning what? A cookie, or actual executing code? A cookie might come from an ad.
I don't recall that ever happening to me. If there's one thing I can do, it's ponder.
If there's one thing I can't do, it's math. And probably that thermodynamics thing.
Sometimes I wonder how hens and roosters do it. but my brain stubbornly refuse to figure it out.
All I know is what you see in that image...it was the warning from Norton. After I saved the screen capture, it went away.
An ad is one thing, but placing anything on my computer that tracks my activity is troubling. And there is already far too much of that going on already.
AI, Artificial Insemination*, it's all the rage these days, even Google is doing it.
* Or have I misunderstood AI?
..yikes, shades of the Mining days again.
...meanwhile here in The States we fell out of the top 20 from 15 to 23
Yeah, winter here did that rather abruptly. Didn't get to enjoy much of the nice almost summery weather as my allergies slammed me about as fast and hard as a speeding TGV between Paris and Marseilles. Was in absolute in misery for four days because of all the tree pollen. Never been hit this bad before. Now that normal Portland "spring weather" is back (50s and drizzle) I've been feeling better. Guess I'm finally a true Oregonian now.
That was part of the reasson Ii've been MIA for while. Another is the super depressing not very fun time pursuit of mine I cannot discuss here.
...nah you have it right.
Speaking of Automated Intrusion, I found that to completely disable the W11's "Copilot" assistant, I have to mess around with the registry. Not very thrilled about that. .
The happiest country with some of the least happy people I have ever met. It's a weird dichotomy, but of course the report doesn't actually measure how happy (as in content) the person is. Last time I checked it's based on a cantril ladder, so it actually doesn't ask how happy you are, it asks "how would you rate your current situation compared to the worst and the best you can imagine". The average annual sample size is also about 1000 people for each country (so 3000 in total because the survey covers 3 years). Like by default it's affected by the sample size, biassed in that people who reply to it are likely to be people who in general respond to surveys, and I'm not even sure if the people being surveyed are randomized.
It doesn't even ask "are you happy" and then summarize the answer. The answers are collated to six factors (levels of GDP, life expectancy, generosity, social support, freedom, and corruption) and compared to hypothetical Dystopia which is the average of the worst performing countries. You know, things that measure quality of life rather than how happy you as a person feel.
This leads to a situation where you have people who are often perpetually discontent, have high suicide rates, high domestic violence, and problems with substance abuse (i.e. alcohol) BUT still have high quality of life compared to others - aka they are "happy".
I wonder how such surveys cope with countries like the UK where the population is never happier than when they're complaining about something, or preferably complaining about lots of things? And there's often a competition to be the most miserable, most downtrodden & hardest up in any group. A common greeting seems to go
Greeting: "How are you?"
Response: "Alive & Kicked".
Regards,
Richard
We are cleared to launch our balloon if the weather holds.
Launch time: 29 March 2024 01:00 am
Launch altitude: 100 m
Burst altitude: 26000 m
Ascent rate: 5 m/s
Descent rate: 5 m/s
Flight time: 2 h 9 min
Linear distance: 184 km
Sensor touchdown in Alma IL.
Flight path map.
Pretty good seeing that the Finland is on the top.
But, If you're happy all the time how do you know? One needs a little misery in one's life for comparison.
That's why I suggested a flood of visitors to Finland. A point of comparison.
I lived in Florida for half my life. I know about tourists.
Is anyone interested in exploring the Balloon Project for this year?
Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project (nasa.gov)
Might have great news soon. I finally got the funds for the application/background check for the place I am looking at.
Good luck wishes.
Been there, done that. Didn't help. Or perhaps he's run out of nightmare critters to describe?
I personally don't think that matters or that it's even true. I mean if you are already happy (as in content) what would misery give to you? I don't think that knowing misery is beneficial even to people who are unhappy because it often comes in the form of "I'm unhappy now but at least there are people who are even more so" or "I shouldn't be unhappy because everything is good in my life (by comparison to some previous bad event)" and those thoughts are really only going to increase your unhappiness.
It's similar to how people say that "working hard" somehow elevates a person and makes them appreciate what they have more, but it way too often just leads you being overworked and miserable and sloppy and wanting more (especially if your hard work barely makes ends meet) - and possibly connecting your value as a person to your work and some arbitrary metric like how much money you earn.
I mean sure if you have worked yourself to a burnout, you can learn to appreciate a slower and healthier pace more (says I cuz I have been there), but you wouldn't need to do that if you hadn't overworked yourself in the first place. Maybe instead of working hard it would benefit people to work smart!
Wonder what they will release for free in the beginning of April?
I found this interesting thing on a streaming platform. It has this guy who was in one of the Harry Potter movies. I think the actor's name is David? I can't remember the name they gave David's character. Do you know his name?
The actor is David Tennant. The character is Barty Crouch Jr.
...complaint. auto logouts.
Not fond of seeing the "Signing you out" message in general, but really detest it when It appears after I just click on a thread that has a dozen or two new responses since I was last here. as afterwards after signing in, the software considered that you already read all the new posts in that thread and takes you to the last one.
Other complaint: #5 seed Wisconsin was knocked out in the first round in the "sports ball" version "March Madness" which is going on, by #12 seed James Madison #2 Seed Marquette barely made it by #10 Colorado after leading by 11 points at halftime. (low numbers in "seeding" are good high ones are bad).
Non complaint: Allergies have finally subsided totallty only because rain has washed all the pollen out of the air for now.
Still finding myself tired at midday becuase of all he naps I took while I wans't feeling well which totally disrupted my sleep schedule.
Two years our healthy robust tax accountant met the love of his life online and travelled six states to meet hr and her adult children. Last year we texted our accountant and he seemed really off . . . Yesterday wetexted our tax accountant a message to his cell phone, 'hey when should we shoot our taxes your way' and signed it from both of us (no last names). But instead of a typical reply like: next week, tomorrow, or anytime, we got a message from his new wife. The message was directed at me, not us, saying call me. I have never met this person . . . so I didn't. Now she's sending frantic messages to call by this day at 5 pm. So I'm thinking, why no response from him . . . is he dead? I google the accountants name and obituaries and sure as S**t he is. Died in January 2024. And what really bothers me is this: she has his cell phone. He used it to send PDFs of tax records. She has all our tax info. She as every other clients tax info. Sure hope that family is more honest than they look in online pics. Maybe I watch too many forensics shows . . .
So many Youtube tutorials for Houdini are done by people with heavy accents who don't seem to make much effort to speak clearly speaking into low-quality mics like they're trying not to wake up their partner in the next room. This is before we even get into how effective these are as tutorials, which varies wildly, with many hovering in the area of "helpful if you already mostly understand how to do this". I really need to buckle down and start making some Houdini tutorials.
I sometimes silent some letters when I speak. Covi is how I say covid.
And Life Goes On: Laundry day again tomorrow. Yay, another chance to get out of town and visit the big city. Wheee, a bus trip, laundry, a drugstore visit, breakfast at BurgerKing, an Uber ride, and another day on this side of the ground. What more could an transportless, single, old man want?
Weather will be sunny and in the 50s (F).
...here our brief taste of summer (and for myself allergies) came to an end but it's still much more seasonable than a couple weeks ago, Rain and upper 50s is more the norm this time of year here and this weekend there will be another bout of pleasant sunny weather ahead (may need to get some Claritin™ just in case as leaves are beginning to pop out on the trees).
Thursday is supposed to be particularly ugly (49 and 17 - 20 mph winds) but have no plans to go anywhere. After that it will be in the 60s until the middle of next week with lots of sun.
I am having difficulty reading the forums on my phone.