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  • In the Winter, 1, plus heavy socks and sometimes with a sweatshirt. I keep the thermostat set at 50F at night, in the Winter.

    In the Spring and Fall, 3, sometimes with socks.

    In the Summer, 18 or 20, never with socks.

  • Hey! Did you hear about the kid who held the door against a school shooter, got shot a bunch of times, and survived? Yeah, there's a picture of the kid in the hospital with a cop thanking the kid for doing the cop's job. Because, we all know a cop would not have done the same--or even have been in the building.

  • Many years ago (I was there) expiration dates were useful and only on products that would actually expire--mostly just milk, cheese, and meat.

    Then, I think it was Budweiser came up with the "born on date" marketing campaign for beer. Since then, on anything that doesn't actually expire, like beer, it's been used to prompt people to throw away perfectly good food, so they'll hopefully buy more "fresh" food.

    It's been going on for so many years, we now have at least two generations who have been duped into believing them.

  • I've had Netflix on-and-off since the DVD in the mail days. I tried Amazon Prime for the shipping years ago, when they first started playing with streaming. Those are the only two I've had.

    I have neither now, and if it turns out I can't get the few shows I want to watch through other means, then I just won't watch anymore. Passive media isn't especially valuable to me. I have other forms of entertainment, including games, and the old stand-by, books. Outside is fun, too, when the weather isn't crap.

  • Someone near the top got the idea that the brand matters more than consistency in message.

    When people started calling Coca-Cola, "Coke", they didn't change the name to "Cola", and they didn't abandon Coca-Cola.

    Just one more example of meritocracy being dead. Fools at the top pulling levers they don't understand just because they can.

  • I canceled Netflix, and then soon after moved from Verizon to t-mobile. I got Netflix "free" through t-mobile, so I logged back into my "cancelled" account like I'd never left. Netflix raised the price and t-mobile passed it on, so I was paying $4.50 for Netflix. They raised the price a couple of more times, I think, and then a couple of months ago they raised it again, and I was paying $11.00 for Netflix. After I finished watching Kaos, I cancelled Netflix. I only kept it because it was so cheap, but I rarely watched anything.

    All the time I had Netflix, I also was a sailor, because I want to watch things not on Netflix. I should have dropped it the first time they raised the price.

  • I did this a few months ago when it was still dark at 6AM. The clock by my bed doesn't say AM or PM, so I woke up, saw that it was "6:00" and was light outside, and was confused for at least a minute thinking the time had changed, or something I couldn't explain.

  • When I read /r/teachers and all the trouble they're having teaching the next generation, this is the sort of thing I imagine is coming. A couple of years ago, GenZ was saying, in essence, "We just need to wait for all the 'boomers' to die off, then everything will be better." No. No, that will just make things worse. GenX leftists are the only ones holding the line, and Millennial teachers are about to give up and walk away, seriously. It's pretty fuckin' bad, and it's clear it's going to get worse, looking at how many kids are coming up through the school system who can barely read and write and have practically zero attention span or motivation.