throwmeback

There's something utterly amusing about posting Steve Jobs quotes under M$ critique and vice versa.

losing all nuance by virtue of getting dopamine quicker? count me in!

by community do you mean all the people who make an account just to ask a question on the project's discord, only ever open it to check if someone answered and then never use discord again?

Somehow as I was reading this post, a mugshot of Ted Kaczynski appeared in the background.

Wouldn't be here today without it.

Ehh, time to uninstall. Too bad, it worked great for me.

Whoa there Satan

I'm afraid life (at least mine) is way more complicated than that.

sounds like me, but I have ADHD :D

I'm sorry for the quality of this comment, but boo hoo.

Oh no. Poor Google-Meta advertising duopoly!

I'm honestly baffled someone could be "losing confidence in Amazon" in 2022. Sorry for the expression but like, where the f** have you been? I thought everybody already knows how horrible Amazon is in its absolute, demonic entirety.

This company always felt wrong. Like a shitty bootleg toy shop. Like a shady back-alley dealer. Like a cheap Chinese (sorry, it's a popular pejorative here) scam site. Strewn with knock-offs, bootlegs, mass fake reviews, terrible customer service. Oh and the site always felt really, really off in UI and UX, it's still like that. Later in life I (unfortunately) became more aware of the world around me, became a programmer and so on. But my sentiment starts way earlier than AWS.

Here in Poland (born&living) it's Allegro that was always our Amazon & eBay. Was (and still is) above and beyond the Bezos-ian quality of service. I'm almost sure people still almost never use Amazon here. For the longest time we'd have to use amazon.de for buying stuff if you want it shipped to Poland. I think that's not the case anymore but yeah... uncanny.

BTW I wouldn't be surprised if AWS was the most popular of all services offered by Bezos Co. in Poland.

Looks great!

I'm the same. I'm literally cathartic that someone had this same experience. I never, ever heard complete silence - there was always this whirr. I'm a musician so it's easy for everybody to dismiss my problems, but I remember exactly the same things. I always knew if someone turned the TV on. I always heard the TV noise even when it was off. There's also some certain upper-mid frequencies which completely destroy my sanity - bad PA systems and wall reflections are particular banes of my existence.

I've always asked myself - how could I get this if I always had good hearing? Is this even anyone's fault? How could a child have tinnitus when it had no real chance to get it? This entire post+comments has me almost in tears - my tinnitus gets unbearable e.g. when I'm stressed, panicking or overstimulated. It helps to know someone shares my pain, even if this treatment won't become available in my lifetime. I'm used to having stuff playing in the background anyway, it's just the times when I can't drown it out when it's the worst.

PS: BTW, something interesting happened to me recently: I recently visited a retro game museum while on vacation. Being obviously filled with old TVs, the noise was nigh-insufferable for me, but I pushed through because retro games is my thing. We spent ~1hr there and after we left, I felt like my own TV noise was somehow better for the day. Weird.

So many sites have that. I can't really express how frustrating this is - if you don't want me to click anything in your footer, why bother making a footer?