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5d ago

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Spent $60 on a Blu-ray box set that was just upscaled garbage

Man I actually have the opposite problem! My old DVDs look terrible on my new TV. I'll take a fuzzy HD upgrade over a super crisp picture of a VHS tape any day.

5d ago

in

Warning: my bullet journal almost got me in trouble at work last week

Oh man, I've totally done that. The zoning out is real.

6d ago

in

My video about a local zoning fight got stuck at 200 views for a month

Look at the numbers from my own channel. I posted a dry explainer on the new county landfill fees. It got maybe 150 views in two weeks, then slowly climbed to 20k over the next month without any big account sharing it. The algorithm does test content with small groups first. If those people watch the whole video and share it, it gets a bigger push. Your video might have just needed more time to find its specific audience who cared about zoning.

7d ago

in

Shoutout to the little shop in Boise that still uses a hand grinder

Forces a weird kind of slowdown. Line gets long, people start talking. Saw a guy last week get into a whole chat about bean origins with the barista. Creates a different vibe, not just a transaction. Actually kind of smart for business.

7d ago

in

PSA: Just read a report that 1 in 4 pressure vessel incidents involve improper post-weld heat treatment

Oh man, that hits home. We spent weeks arguing about a report before someone finally asked, "Wait, does one customer with five orders count as one record or five?" Total gridlock until we wrote down a single, simple definition everyone could see.