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      This is my daily. I am harder of hearing than my wife so I have to turn the TV up, but then it is disrupting her sleep.

      So then I sometimes use headphones, but sometimes the odd quietness of the room at that point causes her to wake up.

      🤷‍♂️

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    I guess being unable to lose weight?

    It is ridiculous how privileged it is in the context of human history to actually struggle with too much calories.

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      My wife is technically obese. She’s not bedridden fat like you see on TV, just nicely rounded. She complains about wanting to lose weight and finding it hard.

      I suffered pretty serious poverty before meeting her and turning my life round, and also the brexit-covid combo basically emptied our supermarket shelves and scared the shit out of us all.

      My mouth agrees with her that we should both do more to lose weight, but my mind says “bitch finish that sandwich let’s get a bit more famine resistance in us.”

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        I think this is also a big part of the issue.

        Many countries are only recently in the phase of over consumption, meaning that parents and grandparents are often teaching kids early on to not waste food in a extremely unhealthy manner once you are in the context of over consumption.

        For some people their parents grew up in a time where wasting the last few bites of a meal, or letting food go bad, or not eating food that in front of you would actually be bad. Like, if you didn’t eat the last few bites you are wasting a valuable resource that you might not get the privilege of eating tomorrow.

        But for example in many parts of the US right now, you are much better off learning to throw food away than to learn to force feed yourself.

        It is a shame that the world is like that, but the reality is that for many people today, being okay with throwing away food is an actually important part of staying healthy.

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    My 65" oled tv is pretty laggy, and there’s supposed to be an Optimize section in the menu, but there isn’t, and the firmware is up to date.

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    A couple of weeks ago, my favorite coffeeshop was closed. And, to make matters worse, my backup coffeeshop was closed. I was very lucky that my second backup was open. Otherwise, I would have been forced to go to the fucking Starbucks.

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      I’d rather eat a spoonful of dry instant coffee than set foot into this establishment.

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    I dated a girl who’s family never kept leftovers from meals even thanksgiving dinner they would throw out anything not eaten after dinner.

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    When I lived with my grandparents for a while I had to use the bathroom without heated floors whenever the maid was cleaning the other one. My current bathroom straight up doesn’t have heating.

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    My friend is a multi-multi-multi-millionaire. Her father started a retail giant in my country. She has her own pool building with (i think it’s called) a free span roof. It is big enough to contain 6 copies of the house I used to own, exterior, roof, chimney and all. She spends more money per month heating the building and pool (which has not been used in 3 years) and paying maintenance and upkeep, than most people pay on their mortgage per year. She complained that the cost of natural gas went up 1.2%. She was spitting mad, tearing up the bill, balling it up and throwing it down in a huff. She also has a 30 car single span roof garage with row after row of industrial racking which contains mostly packrat stuff. She keeps that “Quonset” as she calls it, a balmy 20C all year through our -25C winters. And also complains about that cost.

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    I live in a nice village, my company were going litter picking volunteering which I really wanted to do but after day 1 (found a few items) it was just going for a walk with an empty bag.

    I considered dropping lower the night before my son had to do a litter pick for a beavers badge

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    The most first world problem I ever experienced was years ago, some games show tips and info during load screens, well my new computer was loading the games faster than I was able to read the tips, the moment I voiced my complaint about it I knew it was the most first world problem I would ever experience.

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      Variants on that problem have been around for quite some time.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button

      On some older IBM PC–compatible computers, the turbo button selects one of two run states: the default “turbo” speed or a reduced speed closer to the Intel 8086 CPU. It was relatively common on computers using the Intel 80286,[1] 80386 and 80486 processors,[2] from the mid 1980s to mid 1990s. The name is inspired by turbocharger, a device which increases an engine’s power and efficiency. When pressed, the “turbo” button is intended to let a computer run at the highest speed for which it had been designed.[3]

      With the introduction of CPUs which ran faster than the original 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 used in the IBM Personal Computer, programs which relied on the CPU’s frequency for timing were executing faster than intended. Games in particular were often rendered unplayable, due to the reduced time allowed to react to the faster game events. To restore compatibility, the “turbo” button was added.[4] Disengaging turbo mode slows the system down to a state compatible with original 8086/8088 chips.

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          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beige_box

          IBM’s early desktop computers (e.g. IBM Personal Computer, IBM PC/AT) were beige, and box-shaped, and most manufacturers of clones followed suit.[citation needed] As IBM and its imitators came to dominate the industry, these features became standards of desktop computer design.

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        Every time I wonder why they decided to call a button ‘Turbo’ if fast was the default mode

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    I now have a motorized desk at work and unlike the one we have at home, you cannot single-tap the memory setting and just watch it adjust. I need to hold it until my desired height is reached.

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      Pretty sure the ones at my work (only by the higher-ups and the people responsible for ordering stuff) don’t have presets. So since my desk was just outside my boss’ boss’ door, whenever he was out I would pop in and move his desk halfway up. That way, every single time he walked in to use his desk, he’d had to move it whether he wanted to stand or sit.

      I didn’t dislike him or anything. I (and every person I told to do it when they went into his office) just thought it was funny.

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        The thing is, the desk in the office does have presets. You still have to hold the button until it stops at the saved height.

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    Get those little pressure lines on your fingers carrying bags of groceries into the house.

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    A family with too much stuff in their house. We’re sometimes given brand new clothes with the tag still on that they forgot about and no longer want. And this is like upper middle class.

    Anyway, what I mean to say is tax the rich.

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    The motorcycle I bought to zip around and have fun on is broken, so I have to drive my car instead while I wait for the part to arrive.