I would get a smart watch tbh, I like the idea.
But do you like the idea of Apple farming your medical information? Apple sure loves that idea, that’s why they made a watch that can track your steps and read your heart rate, and blood oxygen levels, as well as monitoring sleep patterns and menstrual cycles.
Just use gadgetbridge with some huawei watch (they don’t have vendor pair)
Honestly, what I wouldn’t do for a smartwatch that could continually monitor my blood sugar. But you’re absolutely right. I want that shit going straight to my doctor. No middle men. Fully encrypted. Legally binding.
I don’t buy Apple products, fuck them.
I would buy xiaomi or something, and medical data is heavily protected by law and hardly of use to advertisers and propaggandists.
They still very much do sell it though, even if it’s “anonymized” as per their privacy policy. My sister has one of those fuckin watches, and for a week every single month, anyone connected to her WiFi gets bombarded with “feminine product” ads. This didn’t happen until after she bought the stupid watch.
While Apple claims to protect user privacy and not share personal data with third parties for their own marketing purposes, their policies also state that non-personal, de-identified information may be used for any purpose.
Infact, the FTC has issued strong warnings about it and seem very pissed off about such practice. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned that anonymization is no shield for ad data collection, and that companies making such claims can be held accountable for deceptive practices. Unfortunately for us, that just means that Apple would likely face fines and penalties if found to be in violation of privacy regulations, meaning Apple doesn’t give a shit as they and other massive corpos often do.
The hoverboards are for kids as far as I can tell. Childhood just isn’t the same without some way to bust your face open. Parks got nerfed by a well-meaning child safety crusade that fixed nothing and ruined playgrounds; because the problem wasn’t that the playgrounds are dangerous - the problem was that kids are stupid and clumsy so sometimes shit happens and a kid will die tragically. It’s literally unavailable, that’s what makes it an accident.
Some of these kinds of things - especially “as seen in tv” stuff advertised by fumblebums - are actually intended for people who are partially or wholly physically disabled. But if they market it for disabled people then they’ll sell less of them and the price will go up, and because we live in
Americahell, the disabled didn’t make nearly enough to survive as is. So they market it to everybody with an over-the-top ad instead. Remember the Snuggy? Literally designed for people in wheelchairs and with mobility issues.The rest is just brand awareness bullshit and market expansion. Seriously, man-wipes exist because they’d hit market saturation and are trying to squeeze out a profit increase by targeting a different demographic. Because in capitalism, the line MUST go up. Brand awareness is just a way of saying “Hey! Pay attention to me, I’m Diet Coke! Don’t forget! Are you thirsty now? Pick me!” And the quest part? Both stupid trucks work because people are dumb.
Arby’s can be pretty good if you get stuff other than their regular roast beef. I like their reubens, gyros, and jamocha shakes.
That said, they’re definitely not as good as they used to be. I miss their sliced roast chicken sandwiches, both the normal one that came with tomato and shredded lettuce and mayo, but more particularly the “triple cheese and bacon” roast chicken sandwich that they had like 20 years ago with sliced swiss, cheddar sauce, and parmesan spread.
A few years ago my friend’s father passed away. My friend’s mother continued to live in the house for another year or so. She never worked and had to eventually sell the house and downsize.
My friend had referred to her mother as a hoarder before. I’ve seen the reality TV shows about hoarders. But you don’t really understand just how bad the problem is until you spend several days helping your friend clean out their childhood home for sale, filling up several dumpster bags worth of… Stuff. Apparently the mother has always had some mental health problems and a shopping addiction, but spending over a year alone in that house drove her off the deep end.
We could have opened an entire new Harbor Freight store. There were clothes in sizes I didn’t know existed. My wife casually found a pistol just shoved in a random box. It was madness.
I grew up in this kind of house. My spouse retrained me. I didn’t know that it was weird for your living space to smell like urine.
Glad you improved your situation
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My MIL once brought a trash bag full of clothes for my wife, from friend who didn’t want them. Most of them were brand new with tags still on them. We thought it was strange, but they mostly fit and we didn’t think too much about it. Next visit she brings two more big garbage bags of new clothes, and one of the bags had dirt (like actual earth/dirt) on the outside. It turned out that the friend was a shopaholic and had been stashing the bags of clothes under the house so her husband didn’t see, but she was running out of room, and was trying to make space.
We stopped taking the clothes. It felt like taking advantage of someone’s mental illness. Never met the lady, but seemed sad.
See also: Hazard Fraught Tools
Dude wipes are the most toxic masculine bullshit product I’ve ever seen. Honestly who the fuck buys that shit except the most fragile male ego in the universe
Agreed. Stop flushing wipes, none of them are “flushable”. If it doesn’t dissolve from light manipulation when wet, it’s not flushable.
Bidet. Just get one. They’re like $30 and take 10min to install. Clean buttholes forever.
Bidets are great if you’re at home but if you travel you need something
Have you tried toilet paper?
No I’ve only ever tried wiping with your mom‘s tongue
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Fuck it unattended hose in someone’s yard
You really don’t. Toilet paper does the job for 90+% of people, at least in the US.
And 90+% of the United States population walks around with shit on their ass. It’s gross.
To be fair, a moistened wad or two of toilet paper works just as well as “flushable” wipes.
I’ve tried to get them to install one at work, but they keep slapping that one down.
I’m sitting on a fine $700 one right now and it’s heaven. My real office.
I can’t even imagine what features $700 can buty you in a bidet.
Guess I was wrong about price… it’s $850 but it’s the Toto S550e. Bought it two years ago and haven’t regretted it at all. I’m actually going to have an electrician come out to install plugs in the other bathrooms to put bidets in all of them.
The one I have now also sprays the front area for the ladies to I can’t comment on that but might be why it’s so expensive.
The seat heats, the water is warm that sprays, auto open… pretty much all you need. I will say that as a dude on the taller side (6’ 2”), I really have to scoot my ass forward quite a bit so I’d probably find something else for my next bidet.
TOTO SW3056#01 S550E Electronic Bidet Toilet Seat with Cleansing Warm, Nightlight, Auto Open and Close Lid, Instantaneous Water Heating, and EWATER+
Ah man, you’ve got a Cadillac.
I had me an old Panasonic model at my old apartment that wasn’t as nice but goddamn if you set that MF to the strongest setting 🫨🫨. The thing would clean your ass, rectum and colon lol.
Ah that’s a lot more features then even the nice hotel in Korea had. The instant heat and all the automatic stuff is probably why it’s so expensive.
The second nozzle for vulvas is standard on even cheap models.
Turns out there are a lot of those people. They’re probably doing fine.
they’re probably doing better with cleaner buttholes than if these didnt exist
They’re larger than regular wipes, and the chemicals are less irritating. Compare to cottonelle wipes which make my down there burn, and the choice is easy. These days I prefer crocodile wipes though.
So then call them “XL wipes” and put a line about sensitive skin
Pass that along to their branding coordinators. No one here can do shit about what products are named.
We can do a little bit by mocking the branding mercilessly.
Who’s out there wiping crocodiles?!
when you have large hands and a large asshole that takes large messy shits, you need a larger than normal ass wipe. dude wipes is the largest asswipe on the market. no cap.
I’m a caregiver for a man who needs coaching through the entire bathroom hygiene process and I can say that in my professional opinion, Dude Wipes are terrible. They pull apart just getting them out of the package (see below), let alone when someone with dexterity issues tries to clean their butthole with them. He ended up with a poop covered hand after pulling the bits of pulled apart dude wipe out from his butt.
They are the largest “flushable” wipes, but are smaller than a normal baby wipe. Flushable wipes shouldn’t be flushed anyway, just bite the bullet and get the one with the baby on it.
Fine, but now big gals with same need to buy “dude wipes.” Just call it heavy duty, or industrial strength.
Or Carl’s jr EXXXTRA BIG-ASS wipes.
dude, cmon
Not to go political but have you paid any attention to the number of supporters of the king of fragile male egos, their king? It’s a huuuge market segment.
I buy them because they smell like mint. I prefer them over normal wet wipes. I didn’t think this was such a passionate issue for people.
You also seem to be taking it really personally for some reason.
I buy the product, the comment attacks people who buy the product. I’m quite literally the target group. “For some reason”
Yeah same, I got ones that smell like Shea butter, they’re pretty nice. I mean if the store had other ones branded differently with the same wipes I would just buy those lol. I feel like the only ones triggered by the imagery are ironically the guys who are insecure in their masculinity and feel threatened by a literal moist toilette.
If it gets men to take care of themselves…I’m for it.
REAL MEN HAVE SKID MARKS
/s
I know a guy that said he doesn’t wash around his ass when he showers because “that’s gay as hell”. I don’t even wanna know what kind of biome he’s got flourishing down there.
Anything other than a bidet, bonus points for charging more for having more ‘masculine’ advertising
I liked the answer that I once saw here: “Real men do whatever the fuck they want.” No one cares about this kind of judgmental assholery.
Yes, Real Men™️ fall for toxic masculinity marketing tactics. Real Men™️! Also, just your average mindless consumer regardless of gender but Real Men™️, too! Especially, Real Men™️!
Be Real Men™️
Real men have painted nails when their kids say it’s time to paint nails
Now these are my kind of ads 🤩
I don’t get the hate for Arby’s. The brisket sandwich and their sauce are good as fuck. Maybe it would have made a difference back when they first started and were like 5x more expensive than the competition (their signature sandwich was $0.69 when the next most expensive fast food was $0.10) 🤔
I had Arby’s one time, and it was terrible. I would go to literally any other fast food chain over Arby’s.
I had an ex who was so excited to take me to Arby’s for the first time. It was gross. I held my tongue as she went on about how much she loved their horsy sauce and cheese stuff, but it was nasty. She had terrible taste in food.
Well, I don’t go there for two reasons -
- Their vegan options don’t seem that interesting.
- They don’t seem to have a presence in the continent I’m on.
vegan
What part of “WE HAVE THE MEATS” do you not understand? /s
If you’re not willing to travel to another continent to get your food are you a Real Vegan?
We don’t take too kindly to vegans round Arby’s
I have a standing theory that people that hate Arby’s used too much horsey sauce, or gets older dry meat repeatedly. I don’t love the place, but they don’t deserve that much hate.
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Go to Arby’s
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Get their roast beef sandwich
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Stop by the grocery store
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Get REAL horseradish sauce
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Go home or wherever, put the real horseradish sauce on your roast beef sandwiches, enjoy.
Arby sauce and their “horsey” sauce are garbage. Their actual foods are mostly fine.
Is it wrong that I think the Arby’s sauce is kinda good?
It’s not something you can really buy as a condiment, but it’s good.
Try Carolina style BBQ sauce
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It’s all just salty processed meat block. It’s absolute shit compared to the real thing. It’s like they are advertising fancy German brats and then serve you a hotdog.
Yeah I fuck with Arbys, that sauce is dope and the Jamocha shake is pretty good too.
I have a thing for bad gas station food too though so I might not be the best judge.
I dunno, some gas stations have good shit. Had a pre-packed Italian sub from a Loves truckstop that blew most sandwich chains out of the water. Loves is kinda cheating as far as “gas station food” goes tho.
The best fried chicken strips I’ve ever had come from the Krispy Chicken places attached to Chevrons. They put the grocery store and fast food options to shame.
Ive heard of Krispy Krunchy chicken in a shell gas station before, i dont remember it being very good tho.
There’s a chain called Huey Magoos that is pretty good. Zaxbys is great too but the nearest one is like, a 2 hour drive from me
I had it confused with Chester’s Chicken. Someone else mentioned it and I realized that’s what I was thinking of. Krispy Krunchy is indeed the Shell one.
Chicken strips are exactly what I was thinking! We have a “Chesters Chicken” attached to some of the gas stations here that have these big battered potato slices, they’re almost a meal by themselves!
That’s what I was thinking of! Chester’s, not Krispy 🤦♂️
The curly fries are good if you can get them hot and, y’know, cooked all the way through. Arby’s is very consistently disappointing as an experience.
I’ve heard people and seen videos of people comparing Arby’s curly fries to Jack in the Box curly fries and I’m over here like “they’re literally the same.”
Ohio’s weird, I don’t know that we have a jack in the box in the state
It’s not top notch, but depending on what you get they have some gems. The buffalo chicken sandwich is super simple and good.
The apple watch one is stupid, almost everyone I’ve talked to that owns an apple watch bought it because it’s one of the best in terms of collecting metadata and stats regarding your heath:
- blood oxygen level
- heart rate monitoring and notifications
- irregular rhythm notifications (like atrial fibrillation)
- can capture an ECG in combination with monitor alert/notifs or any time you want
- fall detection
I could go on and on. The apple watch was a GAME CHANGER for my elderly grandmother as well as my own damn self as heart problems run in my family history.
but go ahead, apple bad and thus anything apple is also terrible and anyone that owns one is an asshole
it’s one of the best in terms of collecting metadata and stats regarding your heath
…and sharing that to Apple, your mobile provider, the government, your health care provider, and every huge business who wants to know everything about you against every single bit of privacy we as human beings should have by default. Apple is an evil corporation (and so is Google, and Amazon, and Microsoft, and tons of others) and the less information you give them, the better. If you want to monitor your health, find a device that YOU control and does not give the information to anyone you do not approve of. (And Apple will say they don’t, but it’s been shown in the past that this is a huge lie for so many other things they swear to keep private.)
I would probably hate wet sandwiches too. Glad my Arby’s near me doesn’t have wet sandwiches. It sucjs that even with all the work franchises do to try and make sure each location is as similar as possible, some people just get unlucky that the one they live close to sucks.
The Popeyes here sucks and that annoys me every time I drive by.
We struck gold with our nearby Popeyes. One of my favorites. So good id eat one of their biscuits without something to drink
I dunno, I fucking love Arby’s.
Me too!
Not my favorite, but their chicken sandwich is okay
You went too far with Arby’s
I like it how Arby’s just takes a random stray
Thanks now i want a beef and cheddar I reslly miss arby’s
The quesadilla maker’s pretty useful. Skillets only cook food on one side at a time, you know.
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What a waste just to save a couple mins.
I know, why do people have ovens when they could just cook everything in a fire pit? Lazy assholes!
Nice false equivalence friend.
Mine has been sitting in the back of my cupboard for at least a decade. This post just remindied me to donate the thing to Goodwill. There once was a time when I would eat a quesadilla on a regular basis. At this point in life I can’t justify having a whole appliance for making only one type of dish.
I read this in AVGN’s voice.
