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I used to do the breakfast shift at a fast-food joint bitd. Two eggs one-handed in both hands was definitely the way forwards when cracking 100-200 eggs for scrambled eggs!

Similar here. I do it one handed out of pure force of habit.

Don't do one in each hand though. Egg is cracked into small bowl, visually checked and then tipped into whatever it is going in to.

Bad eggs are rare but when you crack one into a bowl of batter mix that has already had ~30 eggs cracked into it used to spoil my day (and the batter mix).

bad eggs are rare

Not on this forum

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Nostalgia accounts on social media. Saw one today that was crowing how we used to drive on icy roads without ABS, four wheel drive, traction control and other safety features, and loads of Boomers post below it saying “Damn right” and other bullshit.

The drop in road traffic deaths since the sixties and seventies has been huge, with less than 2k deaths per annum in the UK now the norm. It was three times that back then.

Bullshit accounts like this really piss me off.

We should be doing far more to reduce deaths in our roads of course, before anyone points that out.

There is also a lot more traffic now so the drop is even higher unfortunately.

A company called Social Chain runs loads of those, they're basically just low effort engagement bait to tick along until they have a campaign when they'll all message about the same topic to get it trending.

"Your year in review" bollocks from all over the place, and specifically still getting notifications almost half way into January.

Ah, lead in paint, toys with finger traps, machines with no guards. No seatbelts back then. But we're all still alive, never did me any harm etc etc.

the current toprunner at our house - the trainline app one. "you loved going to Worthing!" yes mate I live there

Got a "Month in review" from Uber:

"2 Airport trips!" - Nope, only one, cancelled the first booking because there's no way to edit a future reservation to move it 30 minutes earlier.

Also particularly liked being reminded of the trips to the Crematorium and the one to the Endodontist (for a root canal). "Rebook?" No thanks.

Recommendation algorithms. "You watched 'Tickling Giants', so we think you'd love to watch 'The Alamo'". Why yes, an interest in the brief history of satirical comedy in Egypt surely makes me somebody who would want to watch a hagiographic account of how a bunch of slave owners carved a chunk out of Mexico to avoid slavery being abolished.

While you're at it, Amazon, I know you've discontinued the Dash button, but I'm sure you have some spares. Could I have one that will kill a person who worked on this algorithm every time I press it? I don't care if Bezos is at the end of a very long list; I'll get to him.

Semi-related, I get these fuckers from Uber every week.

Not like "it's been a while, here's a discount", just "why haven't you ordered something you prick"

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I solved a shitload of semi-spam from my Inbox by simply searching for "Unsubscribe" in my Inbox and slowly picking off stuff I didn't want to hear from ever again.

These are generally places that I've ordered from at some point in the past, but use that "existing business relationship" as an excuse to send endless offers. People like Uber, Saucony, Up & Running, Planet X, etc.

The Monzo one is particularly shit. A reminder of the films I've watched or books I've read is far more interesting than a reminder of many times I've been to Sainsbury's.

Yeah, I do sometimes get a 40% discount or whatever though which I am fine with. I just find the chastising tone of these ones funny/annoying.

"why haven't you ordered something you prick"

Quite a strong marketing angle there
Might work for some

I just decided one day I was annoyed by the emails so following that I have made an active effort to unsubscribe whenever a new email came in. Barely get any now and haven’t had to unsubscribe from something for ages.

thats enough about rim brakes now

I think I hate Belief Coding(TM) because it appears to be monetised, ponzi scheme Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. And nothing more.

instantly heals the subconscious program

....aaaannd I'm out.

This is about to become even easier. Later this year, Google (and Apple and Yahoo) will be mandating one click unsubscribe links (rather than being taken to a website and made to log in/fill out a form to unsubscribe) on bulk email. I imagine features within those mailboxes will appear that will allow you to "unsubscribe from all bulk mail", or something similar. Click a button and Gmail will find all those links in your inbox and click them for you, sort of thing.

one click unsubscribe links

How do you implement those? Many years ago I ran a list which had a one click unsubscribe link and some people kept unsubscribing. It turned out they had some anti-malware service which was opening all links in the email to see if they were malicious, including the unsubscribe link.