/c/café daily chat thread for 23 June 2023

I almost forgot that I promised my colleagues I'm going to get them karipap for breakfast.

Good news is, there are lots of karipap.

Bad news, they're out of karipap sardine 😢

Hi this is your colleague, I dont mind other types of karipap la thank you hahahahahah
- We've finished the karipap kentang that inbought. Still good.
- I love karipap oksigen. Energises the body, reinvigorates the soul and revitalises the member.

Just F.Y.I, we have Mandarin communities set up. Do participate if you would like to converse in Mandarin for a bit.

English is my main language tbh, I only use Chinese when I'm with friends who mainly speak Chinese.

Lost my wired earphones, gonna need to buy new earphones now. Cheek feeling hot talking on the phone for almost 50 mins. I miss the old sony 30 ringgit earphones. Think theyve discontinued it uhuk

I wasted my entire blood donation because I didn't eat enough beforehand and the nurse had to stop the donation halfway through. Felt like a total idiot and embarrassment in front of everyone who donated without a hitch

Damn, I couldn't imagine if I were you

I would have cried on the spot
- Oh, I would have if someone told me right away the entire donation was useless
@DerpyPoint
Don't worry, there's always next time!
( ･_･)ﾉ(._.`)

It's fine, my dude, can always go back and try again next time. But the thought of you trying to help is better than anyone so keep it up👍

Man, I watered the grass in Klang, but KL is getting all the rain.

Poor Klang
the circllllleeeeee of lifeeeeeee~~

TGIF... need to survive one last day this week 🥹

Update: lots of shit happened. so not TGIF 😭
- ( ･_･)ﾉ(._.`)
  
  Well at least tomorrow is wiken, can relax
- Hidup di dunia ini penuh dengan dugaan dan cabaran

Stephen King's "The Shining"

I'm only 40% through, and man it's such an uncomfortable read at certain parts. His stories have some expected horror stuff, but the most scary horrors are the problems in ourselves.

Alcholism, bad temper, accidentally hurting the child and immediately regretting, regrets for bad life choices, uncertainty in the future, job insecurity...

It's like many problems you read hits a bit personally because there's everyone has a bit these problems. And the fear in the reading is not "oh shit a severed head" but it's a really personal reflection "shit am I like that; will I be like that?"

@unhedged ah yes, and famously written during his addiction years too - it feels so personal because it was :(

@imaginelizard
- Damn, no wonder he can articulate these dark thoughts so well.

Quite today...

Quiet everyday huhu
- It's time to post more content 👀
Sleepy :<
- Same bro, same.
- Same... But I don't want to sleep anyway :(

My butt and back hurt ( ಥ_ಥ)

Dem you, job

Hihi. Not using my Leddit username here but going back and forth for now.

Welcome to monyet.cc!
- Thanks! Interesting to see stats on just about everything, but not user cumulative upvotes since it's less relevant here. Or I haven't found it yet.
Damn, back and forth huh? 👀
- Playing both sides, as they say 😏
Hey, welcome! Do take a tour around this place!

Double-checking for you guys on Lemmy: you can also see who upvoted right? It federates into a like on the microblog side.

I don't think we can see who upvote and downvote tho, else i'd love to see who's the serial downvoter lol if it happened here
Would love to know if this is true! I'd be surprised if they chose to expose this data vs just sending a feed of anonymised vote deltas.
- @dcx @Annoyed_Crabby lol i think because kbin was written as being both link aggregation like Lemmy but also microblogging like Mastodon, Calckey, Akkoma etc. And before Reddit, the expectation must be because the main audience will be bloggers who'll be visiting from federated spaces (chewah cam star trek). So upvote maps to likes; boosts is reblogs; downvotes go nowhere (since blogging platforms don't have these).
  
  It's memang quite interpretative dance la - Calckey (and all the *keys) can give emoji reacts but it just shows up as likes on my Masto fork.
  
  That's why I thought i better bring it up. It semi looks like Reddit but backend lain sikit.
  
  Anyway.... I can see... But idk if adding a photo will add load so here's the direct link of this comm on kbin.social: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/77005/c-cafe-daily-chat-thread-for-23-June-2023#entry-comment-342733
  
  Each comment has a More - then select Activity ok kesian runs away like Discord before the Trojan War
  
  @imaginelizard
- Very nice to expose serial downvoter and expel them. Ohh btw, is there any way you can check what's up with the huge discrepancy between registered user vs user-per-month? There's like 1533 inactive user for no apparent reason. Bot? Sleeper?

Morning folks.

Taylor Swift Eras Tour (Singapore) tickets sale registration opens today at noon till 28/6.

This is not the ticket sale; this is registration so you can log in to buy tickets on 7/7 noon.

Purchasing itself is another problem for another day.

I read in r/SG somewhere that someone called their credit card concierge services to buy the tickets for them and apparently it worked? At retail too.
- Ohhh I've heard of concierge services long ago, including specifically concert and sports tickets, but i thought it was the stupidest thing ever.
  
  Well maybe not then haha

Queueing up to REGISTER to buy Taylor Swift concert tickets. This is just a taste of what's to come.

The bar is 350 pixels long. In 14 minutes, my progress was 18 minutes. Assuming linear progress on the bar, I expect to do it in...

350 px / 18px * 14 minutes = 272 minutes = 4.5 hours...

Lul, just as i thought it will happen. Meme incoming 🙈
- Ok it's not as bad, the bar progress is non-linear lol. I think i finished the registration by 12.45 or so. So definitely not 4.5 hours.
  
  Maybe the non-linearity is because at noon a bunch of people were all waiting with their index fingers hovering over the mouse button waiting to go. So there was a HUGE surge of traffic at noon, but once that cleared then it went quite smoothly.
  
  If you try to register now the wait is only 30 seconds. So confirmed the wait is because of kiasu people like me.