Your unpopular (non-political, non-offensive) opinions!

[wseaton]

On 8/9/2022 at 3:12 PM, Donut417 said:

That’s only if the authorities give a shit and if they have time. We have had some people report things to the local police and the police never show up. Some of these things were of a safety concern, things law enforcement might want to be involved in. 

Police depts in my are are severely under-staffed by up to 25%. Can't blame them for not responding to petty calls. 

[IPD]

Just now, wseaton said:

Police depts in my are are severely under-staffed by up to 25%. Can't blame them for not responding to petty calls. 

Here Here. 

[Donut417]

17 minutes ago, wseaton said:

Police depts in my are are severely under-staffed by up to 25%. Can't blame them for not responding to petty calls. 

Petty calls eh. Had a resident who approached a man who was next door to them banging on a churches door. The resident asked the guy if they needed help. He got irate and went for his waist band, like he had a weapon. All the dickhead had to do is said I didnt need help. Thats a situation where law enforcement might want to intervene. I mean I guess Michigan is a stand your ground state and we could just let that law handle the problem. I recall years ago one of my sisters neighbors had their house shot at and yep no police. If the city has issues with the department they can always do what Detroit did, and ask the state for help in the form of having State Troopers filling in the gaps. 

[captain_to_fire]

When it comes to donuts : Dunkin Donuts > Tim Hortons

 

Sorry Canada

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, captain_to_fire said:

When it comes to donuts : Dunkin Donuts > Tim Hortons

 

Sorry Canada

I’ve eaten at both while not being a Canadian.  There was actually a Tim Horton’s near my friend’s house in minneapolis and I wound up eating there.  I had timbits which were perhaps fluffier than the donut holes at Dunkin’ Donuts, but I think by singe digit percentages.  I would call them at least quite close.  Dunkin’ donuts has a bigger menu so points for that.  Tim Horton’s gets points though for not being bought at one point with mob money.  I don’t know if they are still owned that way.  My understanding is when one of the really big crime families on the east coast was taken down the relatives of the capo bought Dunkin’ Donuts, which resulted in the entire American police force refusing to enter the place.  This was some years ago and it was likely long since sold at least once.

Edited August 17, 2022 by Bombastinator

[IPD]

10 hours ago, captain_to_fire said:

When it comes to donuts : Dunkin Donuts > Tim Hortons

 

Sorry Canada

I am of the firm belief that the best donuts are almost always the hole-in-the-wall mom & pop local spots.  Like "The Hole" in Roy Utah. 

[Bombastinator]

9 minutes ago, IPD said:

I am of the firm belief that the best donuts are almost always the hole-in-the-wall mom & pop local spots.  Like "The Hole" in Roy Utah. 

It is my considered opinion that Dunkin’ is not even close to the best donuts  in town.  Best I’ve found so far is a Southeast Asia bakery.  Wouldn’t expect it, but it’s effectively a French bakery.  France was all over Southeast Asia once upon a time.

[Bombastinator]

I can’t help but think that “tiny home” is just a scrubbed up term for trailer. I get that “all trailers are tiny homes but not all tiny homes are trailers” but the vast majority of the time they are.

[Rauten]

The best donuts?

Well, clearly Donuts.

 

No, I'm not being cheeky.

Well, okay, I kinda am.

[IPD]

18 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

I can’t help but think that “tiny home” is just a scrubbed up term for trailer. I get that “all trailers are tiny homes but not all tiny homes are trailers” but the vast majority of the time they are.

Can be.  But there are tiny homes that aren't trailers or trailer based.  Like what Deion Sanders lived in.

 

https://www.realtor.com/advice/buy/nfl-star-deion-sanders-tiny-house-must-be-seen-to-be-believed/

[kasugatei]

All enterprise grade OS and generally all server/cloud software/services should be in English if you consider yourself an IT professional. Localization of server OS etc. just makes it difficult to troubleshoot and reduces the knowledge base significantly. Also if you want to attract international talent, your organization should use English OS.

 

Just be clear I am not talking about OS which sales/HR/finance etc. teams will have on their PCs, I am talking about server stuff.

[tatte]

On 9/8/2022 at 11:26 AM, Niksa said:

All enterprise grade OS and generally all server/cloud software/services should be in English if you consider yourself an IT professional. Localization of server OS etc. just makes it difficult to troubleshoot and reduces the knowledge base significantly. Also if you want to attract international talent, your organization should use English OS.

 

Just be clear I am not talking about OS which sales/HR/finance etc. teams will have on their PCs, I am talking about server stuff.

Yes, absolutely. But on a related tangent, if you provide localization they should be more than mere machine translations. Microsoft has dropped this ball hard with Xbox. Console is for recreation, and having it set on my own language used to make it a premium experience, but lately the quality has just been all over the place. In all fairness they seem to have fixed the issues I had on my mind, but that took months. I know we're a marginal market and yadda yadda, but maybe that's because so few stores even stock Xboxes, and when you get one it speaks broken language... Doesn't help that there's zero marketing, but that's not my problem. I just want my 500€+ console to make sense without having to relate the nonsense back to English to decipher it.

 

I bet you get more consistent translation picking any random Linux and localizing it. SMH

[Vishera]

[pythonmegapixel]

7 hours ago, tatte said:

I bet you get more consistent translation picking any random Linux and localizing it. SMH

At least if you do that, if there's a bad translation, there's generally some way to submit a better alternative...

[IPD]

7 hours ago, Vishera said:

Odd opinion.

 

I mean, if you are 100% against maple syrup, distilled beverages and other things that require removal of water--then I suppose it makes sense.

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, IPD said:

Odd opinion.

 

I mean, if you are 100% against maple syrup, distilled beverages and other things that require removal of water--then I suppose it makes sense.

Maybe they just don’t appreciate people giving out raisins on Halloween.  I was annoyed by it when I was a kid.

[Vishera]

2 hours ago, IPD said:

Odd opinion.

 

I mean, if you are 100% against maple syrup, distilled beverages and other things that require removal of water--then I suppose it makes sense.

It's not that, I just don't like the taste and texture of dried grapes.

It's texture and looks reminds me of cockroaches:

 

One of the images has dried grapes in it and in the other dead cockroaches.

[Bitter]

4 minutes ago, Vishera said:

It's not that, I just don't like the taste and texture of dried grapes.

It's texture and looks reminds me of cockroaches:

One of the images has dried grapes in it and in the other cockroaches.

Both dried grapes, silly person. I like dried fruit! Dates, apple slices, apricots, dried grapes, dried plums, dried currants, etc. Over dried grapes and currants are not very good, but when they're done just right the insides are gummy and jammy and the skin has that little pop to it...very good!

[Vishera]

9 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Both dried grapes

Google search fooled me...

Nonetheless it reminds me of cockroaches.

[IPD]

39 minutes ago, Vishera said:

It's not that, I just don't like the taste and texture of dried grapes.

It's texture and looks reminds me of cockroaches:

 

One of the images has dried grapes in it and in the other dead cockroaches.

I don't think your entomology-specific diet is what you think it is.

[Bombastinator]

49 minutes ago, Vishera said:

It's not that, I just don't like the taste and texture of dried grapes.

It's texture and looks reminds me of cockroaches:

 

One of the images has dried grapes in it and in the other dead cockroaches.

Wow.  They DO look like a specific species of cockroach without the legs.  Usually see that species in colder climates.  They’re quite small compared to some.  They don’t look anything like a palmetto bug.  This whole “dried grapes” thing is a bit odd.  The term “raisin” is more common. You could try currants instead.  They’re at least smaller.  The concept of the texture of a cockroach is quite disturbing though.  They’re not commonly eaten by humans.  Eating one could produce a certain amount of PTSD.

 

is this a back door way of saying “I ate a bug once, and it was awful”?

Edited September 10, 2022 by Bombastinator

[IPD]

I mean, what's next.  People who won't eat rice because of the passing resemblance to larval maggots?

[Vishera]

35 minutes ago, IPD said:

I mean, what's next.  People who won't eat rice because of the passing resemblance to larval maggots?

It's just dried grapes and nothing else that is like that for me.

Anyway that's my unpopular opinion,

I pretty much expected that most people would not think the same as me in the matter.

[IPD]

There's like hundreds of edible grape varieties, and thousands used for wine making.

[Bitter]

5 minutes ago, IPD said:

There's like hundreds of edible grape varieties, and thousands used for wine making.

The golden raisins are my favorite.

Anyone had plantain chips?