Friday, October 30, 2020

Disney's Robotic Eye Contact Tech is Immensely Creepy


We may be a few years away from a complete robot takeover of the world, but now we know that when it happens, the descendants of these creepy-ass, bolt-sucking electricity munchers will be able to replace you and your family while making full and completely realistic eye contact. Go back to EPCOT you future-snatching wire-men.

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Dave Grohl Tells Jane Kennedy The Greatest Story Ever


Dave Grohl is one of those living legends who will literally never run out of amazing stories from his time on the road. 

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World's Worst Sheep Dog


The struggle is real, but oh, it is so adorable. It's certainly an unorthodox approach to herding those sheep, but little dude is trying his best. Gotta respect the hustle. 

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Homeowner Stages Revolution Against Corrupt HOA


A bad Homeowner's Association can be a place of corruption, vitriol, and ancient neighbors being impossible about garbage cans. There are loads of people who had to deal with a nightmare HOA, but few of them turned things around like this person and BECAME the HOA.

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Text - O r/MaliciousCompliance · Posted by u/Akummu 1 day ago 4 3 ;2 7 32 Revolution against our HoA oC L My wife & I moved into a 64 townhome community that was 10 years old at the time. The HoA board was comprised of 5 members that were original homeowners when the community started and had been the sole board members since the community started. their sense of entitlement was bat-shit crazy. They thrived on their quarterly walkthrough of the neighborhood as they would write-up every single ho

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Text - panels met), it needed to be repainted, the siding needed to be powerwashed (there was a patch of green moss behind a bush) and the sliding door on the deck was dirty (there was dirt on the bottom of the door from recent rain) and it needed to be washed. We had 30 days to fix the issues or beginning accruing a fee of $25 a day until they are resolved. I asked around and everyone gets these ridiculously petty letters every quarter. No matter what you did to maintain your townhome, you were

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Text - Fast forward a two years and a few of us had enough and decided to band together to replace the board at the next annual meeting. The existing board got wind of this and hit us all with pages worth of issues with our properties since if you have outstanding issues, you are not in good standing with the community thus can not run for a board position or even vote for those running. This petty move brought the community even closer and we all spent the weekend before the meeting helping eac

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Text - Come board night, oddly enough, the lawyer was there to give an update that no progress has been made with the township on dedicated our road. He stuck around as we moved to the elections for the next board. We brought our signed petitions to add our names to the ballot. The board says were not eligible as we all have outstanding issues with our property. We call bullshit with our receipts from the post office that they received our completed lists with documentation. They reply that they

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Text - With the exception of the 5 existing board members voting for themselves/eachother, we are voted in nearly unanimously to replace them. I lead the revolution because I was tired of the petty BS when there were real problems in the neighborhood. Sadly, the rest of the elected board members vote me as President. I have no idea what I'm doing. But we spent the next few sessions removing all the dumb violations from most of the neighbors. We went through the by-laws to really focus on what's

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Text - Ends up that lawyer was a friend of the previous President and was in no hurry to resolve anything as he was enjoying our excessive bill. I notify him if its not resolved in the next 6 months were finding new representation. He was actually good at his job when pressed to do it. He won the case, the town appealed and tried to drag it out. He fast tracked the appeal as it had been going on for ten years and we won the appeal too. The town dedicated our road, then the lawyer pressed that it

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Text - I remained President until we moved a few years ago. Our family began to outgrow the townhome. Now we live in a new larger development... with a new HoA... I was asked to run for a position on it. I replied, "not a fucking chance... but I will lead a coup d'tat if I need to" *edit* as to the original HoA President (50yr old Male), He wasn't actually eligible to be President. He wasn't on the mortgage. the townhome was in his mom's name. No one knew because he held the books. So being the

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Cringey Brain-Lords Trying Way Too Hard to Seem Intelligent


Being able to squawk about your perceived achievements and intelligence is one of the unfortunate byproducts of social media. It's given a chance for Brain-Tyrants who believe they're literal geniuses to spread their wings and fly into the ceiling fan of self-congratulation. Thanks for clogging up the internet, you mistaken brain-lords.

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Text - halogens, it exists as a lustrous, purple-black non-metallic solid at standard conditions that melts to form a deep violet liquid at 114 degrees Celsius, and boils to a violet gas at 184 degrees Celsius. 10:55 PM hah 10:55 PM i knew you were dumb 10:55 PM suck it loser 10:55 PM oops 10:55 PM wrong chat 10:55 PM context: my friend asked me if iodine melts, wich my smart ass replies with a yes but he goes "no it doesnt, it sublimates." 10:56 PM so now i proved him wrong 10:56 PM btw if you

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Text - Well I'm glad to see you approved my last post but you still haven't given me a detailed explanation as to why you blocked my original post so I'm gonna tell you this I'm not a patience person however I will allow you two days to do as l've requested ( and don't tell me to read your guidelines I want an actual response ) if you fail to do so I will make it my mission to make it known all over the internet that you are not an honorable Facebook group and let me warn you I'm very smart ( IQ

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Text - Serious question: anyone else having odd experiences w/the flow of time i.e. it seems to be moving faster? I have a theory but curious what others think? Already confirmed this with a handful of stellar patriots already experiencing the same. 5:48 PM · 08 Oct 20 · Twitter for iPhone 15 Retweets 1 Quote Tweet 123 Likes vo uct Succinctly: those increasingly (positively) affected by 5D ascension, if you want to imagine 3D time as a monorail-track, our consciousness is outgrowing this modalit

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Text - O points 2 hours ago I took Computer Science. There was stuff you didn't understand? I literally didn't have to ask a single question. I understood every single thing spoken out of those professor's mouths the moment they spoke it. I actually got docked on points in a couple classes for "non-participation", because I didn't ask questions in class. Why bother when everything made total sense?

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Text - 38 minutes ago • « SHOULD I DISCLOSE MY IQ TO MY MANAGER? I'm afraid l'll trigger some insecurity in him and he'll start looking for reasons to get rid of me. Whenever he assigns me a task, he acts proud of himself for thinking he's keeping me busy for the next few weeks. He actually looks disappointed when I'm done with the assignment by the following morning. He can't keep me busy, and I seem to be frustrating him because of it. My IQ test came back with a score of 146, higher than 99.9

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Text - oday at 8:34 pm I have a scientific mind. Philosophers have jumbled minds who keep asking the wrong questions, questions that have no connection to the real world. (edited) Today at 8:34 pm Cringe.

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Text - 7h: O What is on my mind? My basic human wants guide me to seek a partner. My higher intelligence lets me know that is base programming and the real divine will present herself when I am ready. I see you already and you destroy and rebuild me at the same time. I am just waiting like I always have. 36 7 comments O Like Comment A Share

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Text - aceademic is everyone an idiot or do i have a superiority complex from reading books and excelling in english class

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Text - 1h There's always a bigger cat. Reply + 22 + 22m given the nature of quantum physics and parallel universes that might be true, but purely based on our visual perception of the universe I would have to disagree with your assertion. 1 -3 +

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Text - able 23 days ago Bart is the second smartest Simpson behind Lisa. AsS a smart person (170 lq, could drive a minivan at 3 years old) but not academically myself I relate a lot to him

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Text - 3 hrs · e Did you know I read 4 different books a day ? Self development / business Romance book Masculinity & Bible A Like Comment Share

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Text - @ you're one of the more intelligent of the many commenters on youtube. that comment reads like something I would write, but no longer, having wasted too much time on the low intelligence demographic that is all too common these days.

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Text - 17:01 ll 59% O00 10k > This is a big "no duh" from me. I took one week and figured out the whole universe theoretically. Every point I have come up with has been proven true. I only used logic and physical principles to do this. 1 h Like Reply 25 View 48 previous replies...

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Text - you need to go back and read my entire comment before jumping to conclusions or making irrelevant remarks. And based on my track record of being right 99.8% of the time , l'd wager that I'm right about this too. (The other .2% is when I'm asleep)

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Text - Quora Q Search for questions, people, and topics Oranges (fruit) Fruit Colors (vision) What is the color of an orange? 4 Answers Kust a regular guy with lots of time to think about things. Updated July 5, 2019 - Author has 6.1K answers and 1.4M answer views Originally Answered: What color is an orange? Most people instinctively think an orange is orange in color. Some might argue that oranges were originally green. Both are wrong. Oranges don't have color. They have properties which cause

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Times People's Expertise Was Challenged


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the times that people's expertise was unnecessarily challenged. Nothing is quite as satisfying as putting someone's obnoxious assumptions about your skillset in check. 

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Text - -aged-like-wine- • 15h 2 Awards The property management company for my homeowner's association insisted that I had received emails that I never received. So I asked them to prove that I had received them. They said they're surel received them. I'm a software engineer and at the time I had just finished an enterprise email delivery system (like an in- house Constant Contact). I knew the rules of the CAN- SPAM Act by heart. I KNEW exactly how their system worked. So this real bitch of a pro

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Text - pn_dubya • 16h Went to a couples night once and the guy had wall to wall movies and framed posters in his basement, super into it. Mentioned I used to be a movie nerd but not so much anymore. He challenged us to a movie trivia board game, kinda in a condescending way and I tried to politely decline but my gf insisted we play. They went first, missed the question then we ran the table. Never heard from them again. Reply 3.4k ...

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Text - char92474 • 15h 21 Award Not me but my friend used to ride a unicycle as a kid. He worked construction and they were working at a house that had an old unicycle The other workers tried riding it and immediately fell off. My friend walked over to it and inspected the unicycle like it was the first time he ever saw one them said it didn't look that difficult. They all laughed at him and he said he thought he could ride it. Eventually one of them bet him $100 he couldn't ride it. He jumped o

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Text - Philip_Anderer • 15h 2 4 Awards While I was in high school I was the reigning city fencing champion, in both the youth and adult tournaments. My high school decided to do a school- wide fencing unit for Phys. Ed. and the coach they brought in to teach all of the students was my actual coach. During my classes, my coach naturally brought me up to help demonstrate the various moves, but for some reason one of my classmates didn't understand that I wasn't chosen at random. He started talking

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Text - MrJakeEpping • 15h When we were having a couple drinks on friday after work, I was challenged to a shooting, by a colleague. Little did he know I've been shooting air rifles competitively ever since I was thirteen. Not to say I am the greatest, but l've made it to the national finals for my country multiple times, and came third and sixth. I have all the special clothes and gear and such you need to make it to such a level. The next day, saturday, we showed up to the range i always shoot

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Text - mrschro • 15h 2 Awards For most of 2020 so far. I am an infectious disease expert (PhD from a Microbiology and Immunology program) and suddenly all my former high school classmates think they know more than me. They watch the news and learn a new vocabulary, and they bestow themselves a doctorate. Reply 3.8k •..

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Text - itskayguys • 11h I have perfect pitch. It's not a thing I can turn off, notes simply ARE a pitch clear as day, much like how red is clearly distinct from green. Anywho, music class in junior high. Teacher explains that Mozart had perfect pitch and walks over to the piano, plays a note and says "and just by hearing it, he'd be able to tell you what now that was... now can any of YOU do that?" At the time, I honestly had no idea this was rare. Raise hand, teacher with a smug look points and

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Text - FancyStegosaurus • 16h My father trying to explain to me how computers and the Internet work, after he's called me over to figure out why his computer and internet aren't working.

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Text - RyanDaltonWrites • 16h 3 1 Award A beginning writer asked some advice about a basic drafting method, so I offered my point of view. Some tough guy decided to butt in and say that what I said was proof l'm not a "real writer" and it was obvious I would never be published. At that time, the second or third book in my trilogy was about to be released. I asked the guy not to tell my editor that I wasn't a real writer. Reply 1 5.6k ...

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Text - discostud1515• 16h I wouldn't say I'm an expert at push ups but l've worked in the fitness industry for 20 years and workout myself fairly regularly. Doing 20 push ups isn't anything to me. I was at a party that was attended primarily by what I would call hipsters. A guy (who had been drinking a fair amount) challenged me to 20 push ups as fast as possible for $20. I won and got $20. Then another said he would do the same bet if we went right away (I guess thinking I was kinda tired). I b

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Text - IslayHaveAnother • 14h Pool water treatment isn't very difficult even for the average joe. Trust me, you do not need to pay someone $100 a month to treat and clean your pool. I love to listen to the sales people at Leslie's (local chain of pool supply stores) "educate" me and their other customers. I got into a polite discussion about algae one time and I was told that was wrong. I explained that I knew what I was talking about. He asked what I did and I responded "industrial water treatm

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Text - popkernel23 • 15h It was honestly like a movie. When I was in college you were limited to only a few guest passes so it was pretty common to ask people on your floor to sign in friends. So late at night while we were playing Mario Kart someone knocked on our door to ask us to sign in their friends. We didn't really feel like going down stairs and dealing with that so we hesitated. That's when he said if I beat you in Mario Kart will you sign them in? We of course agreed. Little did he kno

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Text - persad_power • 14h A3 21 Awards Kinda the reverse, for me. I'm a physical education teacher and I had a student that took a pretty bad tumble in class. Hit her head on the wall. Pretty clear concussion symptoms. So we get her stable, call mom & dad to come get her. Dad shows up & I start going through the concussion symptoms and treatments with him. Letting him know that a doctors visit is probably in order. Blah blah blah I keep going on and on about concussions. He just politely nods an

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Text - spliffwizard • 16h VOTE 3 Awards Not quite this but I tried to learn piano years ago, i bought a keyboard and learned the first movement of moonlight sonata but it was literally all I could play I had just started a new job as a chef in a fancy hotel, had been there maybe a month and was at the Christmas party, I sat at a piano and the head chef pointed me out, laughing and said "look at splifflizard, you cant play the piano", I thought l'll just act confident and play the only thing I ca

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Text - Curleysound • 15h I'm an academy award winning sound mixer and almost everyone on film sets think they know my job better than me. Reply 3.1k ...

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Text - marti14141 • 15h Well I am a veterinarian and I know how to prevent fleas. (Them) “My dog is itching and it's not fleas" (Me) " Ok but your dog is infested" (Them) "...it's not fleas" .run comb and show them hundreds... The doctor in Happy Gilmore ... I empathize Reply 545 ...

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Text - HatfieldCW • 17h EO &e 12 Awards Medieval Faire, 2002. Carnie running the fencing game picks me out of the crowd for being tall, and challenges me to a free bout against "The Master". Not a lot of people fence, so his gambit probably worked most of the time, but when he handed me that saber, I handed him his ass. Reply 19.3k ...

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Text - dabbit-secondus • 16h 1 Award I used to play fighting games competitively all over the world. Never made one of the top slots but I could usually hold my own. One of my best game was Super Street Fighter 2. Went to a bar by work one day and they just so happened to have an SNES set up with SF2. I order a drink, a bit. Some guy comes in and immediately starts bragging to his date that he's the best SF2 player ever. I asked him to play some games against me and offered to buy him a drink if

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Text - slurmgurm • 16h E 2eW 4 Awards It happens a lot lately, I'm a microbiologist, so the number of people who have suddenly taken an interest in the subject in order to be confidently wrong about it is pretty upsetting. Reply 11.0k

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Text - MarkHirsbrunner • 16h By no means an expert (l'd probably rate in the 1500s), but l've played chess since I was a small child and was the best player in the middle school chess club. The guy who owned the pool hall me and my juvenile delinquent friends hung out in was talking about how dumb kids are these days and said he bet nobody in my group of hoodlums could play chess. I beat him soundly, then again in the rematch. Reply 8.3k ...

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Text - gcm6664 • 17h 3 O 3 Awards My father in law challenged me about the capabilities of DVD. Specifically he claimed that you could only have widescreen video (not 4:3) on a DVD disc. At the time I was employed as a DVD author. I authored the very first commercially available feature on Scenarist. I am literally acknowledged in the first edition of "DVD Demystified" as an expert. I had already by that time personally authored literally hundreds of DVD's with 4:3 video. He knew all of the abov

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Text - Not_an_elk • 17h Not an expert, or even certified, but there's a specific kind of cargo parachute called a Small Airdrop Training Bundle. I can pack these correctly and by the book in less than 15 minutes. I was challenged by someone who had 5 years experience on me to see who could pack the most in an hour. I had 6 while he was trying to argue with the quality control guy (who has been packing parachutes for 20 years) over how correct he did step 3. I had a good day beating the guy who j

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Text - ghettoprinsessa • 22h 100% NTA. That idea is hilarious! And you're right, you shouldn't constantly clean her side. If they don't own the house, could you tell the landlord they're being pigs that can't clean up their yard? Reply Vote

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Text - DwasTV • 19h NTA Have you considered maybe they don't even remember putting the pumpkin back up there? It seems odd that they add Halloween decoration around it and leave the melted pumpkin still there. Do you maybe think it's possible they think you left it and refuse to clean it up and are taking a similar stance as yourself? Reply Vote ...

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Text - emthejedichic • 19h NTA for doing that, but I'm not a fan of passive aggressive behavior. Why are the only options putting a sign on it or cleaning it yourself? You could continue to ignore it or ask someone who lives with her (since you say you never see her) to pass a message that you'd like it cleaned up. Or put a note in her mailbox asking her to clean it. Idk, I'm a fan of direct communication. Reply Vote ...

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Text - ifitwasonlytrue • 16h I'm no expert but people never assume I can play Pool. I grew up with my parents going to the pub, so as an early teen would play ALOT of Pool and got pretty good. There's been a number of occasions where Il've got us a round of drinks or stuck it to some knob who's hogging the table. Reply 1 4.9k ...

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Text - Conscious_Tea • 16h My roommate who took a psych 101 class at a prestigious university told me, a masters level therapist, that the movie Split (with James Mcavoy) was an accurate depiction of "multi-personality disorder." Reply 1 4.8k ...

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Text - dontbadgerthewitness • 15h 1 Award I'm going to date myself here but I was in undergrad when the video game Halo was released. I never really played video games, but at the time I had a boyfriend (I am a girl) who was really into it. We played. A lot. Even went to some college based tournament games and did well. Fast forward some years later and my husband and I are at a house party. Someone turns on the Xbox and was looking for a 4th for Halo. My husband volunteers me. The guys were vis

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