i love you sober friendly spaces i love you restaurants w mocktails on the menu i love you social events not hosted at bars i love you bringing non-alcoholic drinks to parties i love you shamelessly being sober so people know it’s accepted i love you not making fun of ppl who don’t drink i love you still inviting people who don’t drink to social events where ppl are drinking if u know they’re comfortable w it i love you normalizing not drinking
Remember kids, if a social media feature is ‘only available’ for US users, that means it’s probably so full of flagrant violations of EU privacy laws that you might as well just start sending your bank info to Nigerian princes too.
Relatedly I should mention that the US website Healthline is unusable over here if you decline their tracking cookies. It literally redirects you to a page that explains you’re viewing Healthline Europe and so most of its content will be unavailable, but you can see their content if you just accept their cookies :)
If you’re looking up info you don’t want the government knowing about, like reproductive care, maybe that’s something to consider
You know it would be really funny if cosplayers took over all the SDCC panels and gave pretend presentations about all the properties that were supposed to have big announcements.
Six Lokis in a panel telling you about the future of the MCU. No really, this is Disney’s actual plan and you should report on it. Totally not made up.
Tumblr really has ruined me. I was in a Rite-Aid and “out of touch” came on over the speakers, and I freaked out a bit because I thought I had missed my thursday morning meeting. It took me a minute before I remembered that Out of Touch playing does not always mean its thursday. sometimes people just play the song.
I was waiting for something and wound up watching part of an episode of the Apprentice UK and discovered a new fun fact about myself: watching people who claim to be good at negotiating fuck up literally the most basic negotiation tactics fills me with a wild animal rage
Anchoring (in negotiation) is a term for the way that the first number put on the table by a party sets the scale for all the other numbers used. For example, I could start a negotiation by telling you that I sold a painting at a thousand dollars. Your brain will take that number and latch on to it as a benchmark. If I were to then later say that I had a certain painting available for $500, your instinct will be to see that as a great deal. And if I were to then say I have another painting for $2000, your mind is naturally going to come back to the first number I gave you as a price comparison.
What the idiots in this show are doing, constantly, is saying that they’re trying to get X amount of money for something, and then that’s the first number they put on the table. They’re anchoring with the number that is their target point. It’s bad strategy. It leaves them nowhere to go but down, which means they’re missing the target every time. If they were anchoring at, say, twice what their target price was, they can use that baseline to convince the other party that they’re being offered a great deal when they negotiate down to their target price.
Just as another note, because everyone should know a little about how to negotiate: if you’re going to give a number, give the explanation for the number first. As soon as a number is given, the other person is going to be focusing on whether that number works for them, and will likely focus less on any explanation given after.
So you don’t do: The painting is a thousand dollars, because it takes months to complete. Instead: This painting is the product of months of work, so I would ask a thousand dollars for it. It’s a small thing, but you get less sticker shock when you preface the number with the reason for it.
I understand that people who subscribe to Discord Nitro get more, cooler features than us peasants. That’s what it’s for.
But why invonvenience regular, non-subscriber users? I’m talking putting the unusable Super Reaction button where the Reaction button used to be and prompting a Nitro sub window every fucking time I mistakenly press it because it’s deliberately placed there and then I get a fucking useless “buy Nitro” popup every time I just want to use this wretched app. Why is it there if I can’t use it? It’s not like I forgot to subscribe. I deliberately did not and this will not convince me (the opposite, actually). Whoever thought that was a good idea, I hope you get sand in your eye today.
oh and don’t even get me started on the fucking gift icon on mobile
Why is it there? I’m pretty certain no one uses the “gift Nitro” option on the same regular basis as the “attach media” button. Why the fuck would you put it there, as if people would willingly press it 5 times a day?? No one fucking wants any of that.
