Pet Peeves

My pet peeve is they've got the self-driving cars idea backwards. Not literally, but what is already easily possible.

We do have smart traffic lights. Vegas went with that several years ago. It really did improve traffic flow.

But with current Ai we can fantastically improve things. Ai doesn't need to do anything but recognize cars are on the road.

Imagine. Instead of needless sitting an extra minute longer Ai could switch your light in seconds it takes to cause the opposing light to go through yellow and red lights at normal speed.

It would never even bother to change the light from green if no one has come down the other road for ten minutes.

It would pay actual attention to the conditions of the moment not the hour of rush or even of the last minute.

Worried about it might turn opposing lights both green. Just make a physical switch that moves from one pole to another. It physically can't make a mistake. You could probably add a few extra backup safeguards if you need to.

However, you might need to add lots more traffic cameras than currently.

I was watching something on TV that was a piece about London Heathrow airport. In the background they showed a Southwest airlines plane taking off. I had to immediately change the channel as it lost all credibility.

Overstuffed paper napkin dispensers. You either shred a handful of napkins or pull out a card deck thickness of napkins you don’t need.

People who stop in doorways.

I logged on to a subscription meat service I'd used in the past and was surprised their monthly subscription plan includes a box to tip the hard-working folks who make it all possible.

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I logged on to a subscription meat service I'd used in the past and was surprised their monthly subscription plan includes a box to tip the hard-working folks who make it all possible.
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Everyone now has a hand out. It has gotten ridiculous.

You order take out, there's a tip screen when you pay by credit card.
I have No problem pressing $0.
I expect sometime soon you have to press 'Other' to get to $0.

Heck, there's now a tip screen for fast casual restaurants where they just hand you your order and you bring to a table to eat.
I also have no problem pressing $0.
I don't tip at McD where they also just hand me my order, and I'm not tipping there.

Tip suggestion on check (or screen) that starts at 18%.

Tip suggestion that says x% but it's after the tax. (So that 18% is actually 19.1% if 6%tax State)
I will go on yelp review and minus 1/2 star for that and tell them why.

Even worse if it's a buffet.
There, I will press other and leave the standard 10%.

Seat knockers. I'm peacefully sitting at a casino table, and people walking by just need to bounce themselves off my seat.

They're not tripping or falling, they can see me, they're just doing that tactile thing where they need to touch everything they pass as they walk, like the little kid walking along a fence running a stick along it. But due to the nature of table AP and my style of play I need to maintain situational awareness, and someone making physical contact induces me to respond.

People who leave their music loudly thumping in their parked car at the convenance store/gas stations. If I had a fresh bullet for every time that happened.

(okay I know it's mostly kids. Damn kids.)

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People who leave their music loudly thumping in their parked car at the convenance store/gas stations. If I had a fresh bullet for every time that happened.

(okay I know it's mostly kids. Damn kids.)
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On that note, people who Blast their Phones at Max Volume with Obscenity laden Rap or Foreign Music blaring because they won't wanna spend $20-$30 on headphones!

I've literally blasted Death Metal right behind them on a bus to prove a point... Which they never got!

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People who leave their music loudly thumping in their parked car at the convenance store/gas stations. If I had a fresh bullet for every time that happened.

(okay I know it's mostly kids. Damn kids.)
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On that note, people who Blast their Phones at Max Volume with Obscenity laden Rap or Foreign Music blaring because they won't wanna spend $20-$30 on headphones!

I've literally blasted Death Metal right behind them on a bus to prove a point... Which they never got!
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Mere death metal? Oh no, that won't do!

Brahms is best known for a lullaby, but most of his work will blow your head off. For my ringtone I use a couple of bars from a Brahms quintet that's slightly familiar. So if my phone rings someplace it shouldn't it's not embarrassing, it's intimidating.

Death to all but metal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfB7vF7nCdA
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Title Lock Services -- one of the stupidest things ever that no one should need.

If you were constantly moving it in transactions like a credit card, or opening and closing accounts i could see it. But if it's so vulnerable FIX IT!

FIX THE PROCESS!

I mean it's a freaking house. If you're going to make people jump through extra hoops for anything, it ought to be a house.

Being cleaned at! Cleaning at someone means cleaning in their area with no regard for their presence.

One time I'm playing at a machine, in the usual back-to-back configuration with another machine, and a dusting wand comes over the top. It didn't touch me but it was right near my face. Rude! So I tell the guy "Would you terribly mind getting that G-D thing away from me?"

"Oh, not to worry, not to worry, velly solly..."

Then he comes around to my side, and the wand comes around my arm to the front of the machine, while I'm playing it. Seriously?

Then I stand up- "You SOB! Get out of here!" My chimpout caused him to quickly retreat to another part of the casino.

Now I've had cleaning jobs and the right practice is to never wield that equipment freely around customers or guests. Everyone knows the kinds of things that are on it and the less your guests see of it the better. So you don't put it near anyone, gesture with it, wave it, anything like that. If someone came and asked me a question I would either put it down, or tuck the handle under my arm so I could point with my knife hands and talk to someone without them feeling like I'm about to slap them with a filthy dirty broom.

Even if that guy wasn't taught proper janitorial etiquette (which may be lost to history, unfortunately) he sure should have been told not to touch a machine that someone is playing because of what can happen if he presses a button.

My pet peeve is not 2 wheel vehicles riding on the wrong side of the street or against traffic on the sidewalk, but the people on them thinking that when they are moving probably 3 times as fast as a walker that a car pulling out from somewhere should see them. Besides I'm not only watching cars on the street before pulling but checking twice for motorcycles going in the correct direction.

Tucson has designated bike streets, usually side streets running parallel to main streets. It's nice to be able to drive without having to deal with slower bikes, and it's even nicer to ride without worrying about cars. Most intersections are small traffic circles, so it makes for a carefree bike ride, but the city is so unique that there are distractions everywhere.

It seems that there is now more advertising for RX's than anything else along with their diseases or bodily conditions that those RX's attack or cure. Then there are the endless "side effects." For me, really annoying.

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It seems that there is now more advertising for RX's than anything else along with their diseases or bodily conditions that those RX's attack or cure. Then there are the endless "side effects." For me, really annoying.

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Much of the advertising you see is targeted. Al Gore's Rhythm has determined that folks in your bracket are interested in medicine. It does seem some of the medicines they are pushing have a ridiculous amount of side effects, but that is the litigious society we have.

To advertise on Jeopardy! is simple targeting.

What would tv stations do without all these drug ads?

I have read that the three leading causes of death in seniors are:

1. Cancer (all types)
2. Cardiac disease/events
3. Side effect of medications

A major disease category is autoimmune diseases. People with autoimmune diseases rarely die of those diseases; they are much more likely to die from complications of the medications (prednisone and chemotherapy-like infusion drugs) that are prescribed to suppress the auto-immune disease.

"Stop taking this drug and consult your doctor if you experience death..."

Speaking of drugs, all the Lee's Discount Liquor billboards around town break an old rule of alcohol advertising- never mention alcohol, or its effects. It's usually a lot of empty but grandiose sounding "Experience the tradition..." type of verbiage. But Lee's jokes about drunkenness, addiction, misbehavior when drunk, and a social life that is dependent on drinking. All places that sellers of alcohol don't really want to go.

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It seems that there is now more advertising for RX's than anything else along with their diseases or bodily conditions that those RX's attack or cure. Then there are the endless "side effects." For me, really annoying.

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Ever since I turned 60 I can't believe how many ads that I am receiving for blue pills and other ED medication. I am wondering if my wife put me on some list.

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It seems that there is now more advertising for RX's than anything else along with their diseases or bodily conditions that those RX's attack or cure. Then there are the endless "side effects." For me, really annoying.

tuttigym
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Ever since I turned 60 I can't believe how many ads that I am receiving for blue pills and other ED medication. I am wondering if my wife put me on some list.
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Do you also get emails and facebook messages claiming to be from women who saw info about you and are interested in getting to know you better? Hooo boy!

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It seems that there is now more advertising for RX's than anything else along with their diseases or bodily conditions that those RX's attack or cure. Then there are the endless "side effects." For me, really annoying.

tuttigym
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I have never understood prescription med commercials, because who are they advertising to?? The average consumer seeing the ad can't just go to a store and buy a prescription drug. You need a recommendation from a doctor, and doctors presumably already know what medications exist, so they don't need to see the commercials, either. If you have "x" condition and are actively seeking treatment for it, you have already been to a doctor, and therefore don't even need to see the advertisement in the first place, because your doctor would have already told you what medications exist for your condition.

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It seems that there is now more advertising for RX's than anything else along with their diseases or bodily conditions that those RX's attack or cure. Then there are the endless "side effects." For me, really annoying.

tuttigym
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I have never understood prescription med commercials, because who are they advertising to?? The average consumer seeing the ad can't just go to a store and buy a prescription drug. You need a recommendation from a doctor, and doctors presumably already know what medications exist, so they don't need to see the commercials, either. If you have "x" condition and are actively seeking treatment for it, you have already been to a doctor, and therefore don't even need to see the advertisement in the first place, because your doctor would have already told you what medications exist for your condition.
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That's the old way.
Nowadays, if you want a drug, you can forum shop and find a dozen websites that will supply the drug after a consultation with an on-staff doctor.
Several of my family members suffered from what we called Viking Claw, now called Dupuytren's syndrome. Until a few years ago, curing it involved complicated surgery and you couldn't use your hand for weeks after the operation. Someone invented a shot to fix it, and we first heard about it on a television ad.

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It seems that there is now more advertising for RX's than anything else along with their diseases or bodily conditions that those RX's attack or cure. Then there are the endless "side effects." For me, really annoying.

tuttigym
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I have never understood prescription med commercials, because who are they advertising to?? The average consumer seeing the ad can't just go to a store and buy a prescription drug. You need a recommendation from a doctor, and doctors presumably already know what medications exist, so they don't need to see the commercials, either. If you have "x" condition and are actively seeking treatment for it, you have already been to a doctor, and therefore don't even need to see the advertisement in the first place, because your doctor would have already told you what medications exist for your condition.
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Many people aren't actively seeking treatment, or aren't seeking a new treatment. Notice a lot of the ads are for non-emergency things that you may or may not choose to treat: psoriasis, eczema, arthritis, a reptile dysfunction, irritable bowel, mentalpause-related, etc. These are all conditions that a patient knows they have but they might be treating OTC or with something other than this really expensive, patent drug and the idea is to get them to go to their doctor and say "Hey I'd like to try this new drug!"

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It seems that there is now more advertising for RX's than anything else along with their diseases or bodily conditions that those RX's attack or cure. Then there are the endless "side effects." For me, really annoying.

tuttigym
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I have never understood prescription med commercials, because who are they advertising to?? The average consumer seeing the ad can't just go to a store and buy a prescription drug. You need a recommendation from a doctor, and doctors presumably already know what medications exist, so they don't need to see the commercials, either. If you have "x" condition and are actively seeking treatment for it, you have already been to a doctor, and therefore don't even need to see the advertisement in the first place, because your doctor would have already told you what medications exist for your condition.
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That's the old way.
Nowadays, if you want a drug, you can forum shop and find a dozen websites that will supply the drug after a consultation with an on-staff doctor.
Several of my family members suffered from what we called Viking Claw, now called Dupuytren's syndrome. Until a few years ago, curing it involved complicated surgery and you couldn't use your hand for weeks after the operation. Someone invented a shot to fix it, and we first heard about it on a television ad.
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Is that the same shot you get when your tool is bent up like a boomerang? I hear those conditions are comorbid.

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It seems that there is now more advertising for RX's than anything else along with their diseases or bodily conditions that those RX's attack or cure. Then there are the endless "side effects." For me, really annoying.

tuttigym
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I have never understood prescription med commercials, because who are they advertising to?? The average consumer seeing the ad can't just go to a store and buy a prescription drug. You need a recommendation from a doctor, and doctors presumably already know what medications exist, so they don't need to see the commercials, either. If you have "x" condition and are actively seeking treatment for it, you have already been to a doctor, and therefore don't even need to see the advertisement in the first place, because your doctor would have already told you what medications exist for your condition.
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That's the old way.
Nowadays, if you want a drug, you can forum shop and find a dozen websites that will supply the drug after a consultation with an on-staff doctor.
Several of my family members suffered from what we called Viking Claw, now called Dupuytren's syndrome. Until a few years ago, curing it involved complicated surgery and you couldn't use your hand for weeks after the operation. Someone invented a shot to fix it, and we first heard about it on a television ad.
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Is that the same shot you get when your tool is bent up like a boomerang? I hear those conditions are comorbid.
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I'm not sure if it's the exact same shot and dose, but the procedure is approved for both disorders. My Uncle had an undiagnosed disease that left him unable to do some tasks with his left hand, so when this struck his right hand, it was a big deal. For most people, it wasn't worth getting the surgery.
Fun fact: for many years, it was thought it affected people descended from Vikings, but the last research I saw claimed it affected people with Neanderthal genes.