I think there may be scale elements to these too. The chart I had included scale.

They are?

Is there a study on this?

Curious to see your list of blocked instances (and if you remember why for each one).

I’ve only blocked a couple, but I’ve seriously thought about many more.

I’ve thought about blocking the instance you’re on. Lots of garbage from that instance.

I’ve seen a diagrammatic chart showing the difference, but damned if I can find it on my phone.

Starbucks is burnt crap with a bunch of cream and sugar added so people can’t tell

Have you listened to any sports commentators? They all talk about <insert current game on tv> as if it’s the most important, world-changing event ever, and every little detail had some significance.

My god, baseball is a game for (as Brits would say) boffins. Fans of the game could put meth-head ravers to sleep. I’ve worked on more exciting spreadsheets for business planning.

And football has become just as bad, with the incessant pre-game/post-game commentary examining every nuance of a play - “I’m pretty sure if the inner aglet of his left shoe had moved the other way, we’d be talking about a completely different game”.

Bread and circuses, appealing to our base nature. The difference between WWE and “actual” sports on tv is only a matter of degree.

This seems relevant.

Whole grain bread means it has some whole grain in it.

Bread made from nothing but whole grain is a very heavy, tough loaf that most people today wouldn’t like.

Excellent approach, putting that in my book of tools.

I’d also be sure to ask the second person to finish what they were trying to say after person 1 was done.

There are 2 reasons:

1. Never know if they have a different perspective or other ideas. They may also have thought of something while listening.

2. In the help desk world you learn these kinds of people get worse when they get shut down. If you actively engage them (even if you don’t really want to), they’ll feel heard, and maybe be less likely to feel compelled to interrupt. Plus you come across as a Good Guy® at work.

Can’t get past the trailers or previews. Awful.

Wholesome?

I don’t see juvenile irresponsibility and adversarialism as “wholesome”. If you wanna say funny, to each his own, but in no way is that show “wholesome”.

Oh, God, such nonsense

Nah, it’s that it’s not as “deep” as it thinks it is.

Like 97% of them

Damn few shows are worth my time these days. Re-tread it’s galore, with simplistic emotional appeal to get you to react and continue to watch. Essentially producers saw what worked for “reality” TV in the 90’s and applied that same juvenile, transparent, boring approach to new shows.

So 2 is now all people over 60?

They did?

Never used it, never even intentionally been on the website.

The same ones you’d use with a wire.

WiFi is just Wireless Fidelity… A play on HiFi. It’s just a wireless equivalent of wired ethernet. You still have an IP address, you still have a router (without a router only one device in your house could connect to the internet, typically your wireless access point is a combination router with a wireless access point in it).

Yea, eff those damn balls, and I had some nice mice back then.

I recently cleaned up several large boxes of cables, parts, etc. Found a track ball, but not a single ball mouse in there.

If not sooner