u/digtzy

I don't know what it is, but hearing the sound of the Facebook reels videos, the way it is encoded or processed is horrible. I have to nearly turn the video sound all the way to 1 on my computer, or basically off. Each sound is like, not necessarily "peaking" in the waveform, but it is uncontrolled. Whereas in Tiktok the sound doesn't peak like that, like if someone screamed in a video the audio is equalized to some degree. I have no idea why it is so bad... But Reels is the worst, shorts is the second worst. I can stand tiktok videos but even then I have to watch with subtitles. I hate videos where people make gross sounds and that seems to be a lot of reels videos where people are eating and making gross throat sounds for some reason??? Then shorts are just random loud noises.

Location: North Alabama

I have a neighbor that for a while has been problematic coming onto our property. We are friendly with our immediate neighbors and my neighbors across the street from us showed us a photo of her washing her feet with our spigot in the front of our house. That was the first instance of us realizing she was coming onto our property… I have been doing yard work and left sprinklers in my yard overnight many nights. Eventually the sprinklers would be on for the whole night and I thought maybe I was just forgetting to turn them off. This happened multiple times until I knew for absolute sure it wasn’t me. I asked my neighbors next to us if they knew anything about it and that our sprinklers were somehow being on at night. They said they see her walking around our property, even in our backyard, and try to shoo her off. Then the other one sent me a video of her washing her feet with the front spigot like the photo from the other time. And both our cars in the driveway so we were at home too and didn’t know. So my husband bought spigot locks for both spigots on our house. He also purchased cameras including a doorbell cam. She came one night and stood in front of our door at 1:25 AM and mumbled incoherently. Then another time at 1:50 AM and did the same. Another time during the day she came by and rang the door bell and then walked off a few seconds after. My husband said this morning she came back and actually tried to open the front door this time.
I asked my neighbor across the street about her and they mentioned to me that she was getting into our mail box and that they tried to shoo her off. My husband told me he had put last name stickers in the mailbox so that we didn’t get other neighbor’s mail… apparently he said she opened the mailbox and peeled up the stickers, then later on had peeled them up more and made balls out of them. We have her on camera going around the house and going up to the front door many times, not saying anything coherent. Genuinely just mumbling. Then she’s been turning our water on and messing in our mailbox. I draw the line at the mailbox and trying to open my front door this morning. Not sure what to do. I am going to purchase an expandable gate for the driveway to discourage entry as our house has an open ditch in front which is very hard to pass, only way really to get on the property is to either go in my drive way or my neighbor’s driveway. Other than that, what do I do? I have no idea if she has a caretaker and if she does they’re not really doing a good job… I don’t really feel comfortable getting police involved since I know they don’t handle cognitively impaired people very well and don’t want anything to happen to her. I just really don’t want her to be messing around on my property and all that… please help give me some advice!
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I requested accommodations to work remotely half days 2 months ago for my job. The tough part is that I am a contractor so my parent company has to also work with the company I work at to figure this stuff out. To make it even more complicated, I work in a closed area. No phones or technology from the outside is allowed in. This means most headphones are out. This also means I don’t have control over the environment and everything is heavily secured and regulated. Even the lights are required to be at a specific level of lumens… it’s intense. So this means that most accommodations you’d request for an audhd person just basically get nullified. I don’t understand why I can’t WFH if the laptop is unclass and the work is unclass, I do it all on the laptop anyway??? I don’t know if anyone has encountered a similar situation. Any advice is welcome.

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I have been doing a lot of thinking. These potato chips are by far the absolute best potato chip compared to any other brand and I'm willing to go to battle over it.

They somehow have mastered the art of "not enough" flavor theory you might find in other food items. These potato chips are not quite enough of any one thing, oily, salty, potato-ey... They aren't "quite enough" of any category, which leads you to continue consuming them until you find one in the bag that is exactly perfect, then you resume the search for the perfect chip again and again until the entire bag is gone.
The oil they use is amazing, and not quite like any other oil on other brands of potato chips. It's very simple but yet is retained by each chip and is lightly flavored and adds a nice delicate feeling and flavor to the chip. The salt they add is not quite potent to the chip but does add the extra bang of flavor while the oil does most of the heavy lifting. As said before, the chips themselves are not particularly well salted except for the occasional perfectly salted one which I feel like is very well balanced and by design. Because it's so perfect to continue eating them to find the perfectly salted chip that lurks in the bag. After this, you have the ruffles which add the incredible texture that combines with the oil flavor, texture, as well as the salty flavor and texture. The textures are incredible and I feel like other major brands of plain potato chips just don't quite nail it as sophisticatedly as this. They leave nothing left to be desired. This chip leaves you wanting more and then you can't really stop. You fall in love with them because they don't quite give you exactly what you want on the first chip. This is why they are the best chip. They are a textural and flavorful enterprise.