Random Thought Thread

bluemax_1 said:
Stupid people strike again.

Whether it’s stupidity in (mis)management, or stupid people on the front lines.

Tried ordering a Walmart+ delivery last week. Usually never have issues with them. This time, I got to watch the moron who was supposed to deliver my stuff drive to who knows where, then submit a “Delivered” photo that was most definitely not my house.

In the past, one of my neighbors and I would occasionally find each other’s packages on our doorstep, so we both put up BIG house numbers right by the door. Morons will take the ‘Delivered’ photo with the wrong house number clearly in the photo.

This is what happens with mouthbreathing morons who just go, “Duhhhhh… GPS says it’s around here somewhere. Good ‘nuff”, and are too stupid to be able to read house numbers (and probably street names) to compare and confirm they’re at the right location.

We lament how the commonality of GPS on phones means most younger folks can’t read a map nowadays. They apparently also never learned simple things like checking street names, and looking at house numbers (much less doing things like, “OK, even numbers are on that side, odd numbers are this side. The number I’m looking for is ####. Oh, hang on… I just passed ####, then ####, and the numbers are descending. That means the address I’m looking for is the OTHER way. Gotta turn around”.

Now, we have idiots going, “My GPS made me drive off a cliff! WAAAAAAA!!!” (Yes, that actually happened. Is the driver really that stupid? Yes. Was Darwin cheated? Also; yes).
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Recently I was out front of my building when a young lady 20 something, doing door dash asked me where 823 3rd st was & I replied, your on the even numbered side of the street.
The odd numbers are across. She said Wut?

I explained like I learned in 2-3rd grade that on any street, all odds will be on one side & even on the other!
Oh! Thanks I didn’t know that!

I feel better that I’ve done my part to edumacate the youth of Merican! 👍🇺🇸
 
RHINOKNIVES said:
Recently I was out front of my building when a young lady 20 something, doing door dash asked me where 823 3rd st was & I replied, your on the even numbered side of the street.
The odd numbers are across. She said Wut?

I explained like I learned in 2-3rd grade that on any street, all odds will be on one side & even on the other!
Oh! Thanks I didn’t know that!

I feel better that I’ve done my part to edumacate the youth of Merican! 👍🇺🇸
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Crazy thing is that this is simply one of those observational skills.

Someone shouldn’t need to be told. When they’re looking for an address, they should be able to notice, “Huh… all the numbers on this side are even. All the numbers on the other side are odd. Is this a thing everywhere?”, after paying a little more attention, “I guess it IS a thing”.

But just as the internet allows people to find information a LOT easier (I think many of us in this particular subforum are old enough to remember having to either go to a library to look something up, or try to find someone knowledgeable about a particular subject), it seems like people are getting even lazier and dumber now. I doubt AI is going to help in this respect, as people will start to rely on it more, to think for them.
 
The ping ponging between hubs is usually because one hub ran out of storage space for packages so it gets shipped to another hub that might have some room. Remember when they closed a lot of regional hubs to save money? Yeah, I guess the old timers who originally planned all those hubs knew what they were doing.
 
bluemax_1 said:
Crazy thing is that this is simply one of those observational skills.

Someone shouldn’t need to be told. When they’re looking for an address, they should be able to notice, “Huh… all the numbers on this side are even. All the numbers on the other side are odd. Is this a thing everywhere?”, after paying a little more attention, “I guess it IS a thing”.

But just as the internet allows people to find information a LOT easier (I think many of us in this particular subforum are old enough to remember having to either go to a library to look something up, or try to find someone knowledgeable about a particular subject), it seems like people are getting even lazier and dumber now. I doubt AI is going to help in this respect, as people will start to rely on it more, to think for them.
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Kids are taught to follow the steps. They are not taught to think anymore.
 
Our USPS delivery folks have been great.
Going to the actual Post Office is not so great, and my wife graciously offers to mail packages for me rather than hear me complain about sloths behind the counter. I don’t know how you can walk or move so slowly-drives me crazy.

Our local ACE Hardware had a USPS area in the store and it was fantastic. Unfortunately they closed it.
 
bluemax_1 said:
Crazy thing is that this is simply one of those observational skills.

Someone shouldn’t need to be told. When they’re looking for an address, they should be able to notice, “Huh… all the numbers on this side are even. All the numbers on the other side are odd. Is this a thing everywhere?”, after paying a little more attention, “I guess it IS a thing”.

But just as the internet allows people to find information a LOT easier (I think many of us in this particular subforum are old enough to remember having to either go to a library to look something up, or try to find someone knowledgeable about a particular subject), it seems like people are getting even lazier and dumber now. I doubt AI is going to help in this respect, as people will start to rely on it more, to think for them.
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Quite true. A case of pattern recognition in address numbering!
 
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