17:00 I can explain this one! In some jurisdictions in the US, you can't legally sell alcohol by itself at concerts/festivals/etc; however, you can sell a "meal" that includes both food and an alcoholic beverage. This sign is not-so-subtly telling you that you're paying $6 for peanuts, which will happen to include a 'free' beer if you're over 21.
Lexi is perfect narration for such stuff because she explains why shit is how it is very often and thats not just entertainment, but education as well! Its great!
For anyone that experiences what happens at 2:00 , remember to go to your local DOT (department of transportation) for your state and talk to an inspector there. They'd be interested in hearing about mechanics shops ripping off people like this, since they can revoke that shop's license for doing so, if I remember correctly. Mileage may vary from state to state, as I only had (second) hand experience with my own state's DOT. My granny got in touch with them after a mechanic shop ripped her off like in the video, and last I heard, the mechanic that worked on her vehicle at the shop was fired, because the owner was not about to risk his business going down due to that mechanic's actions. She also only had to pay what she had actually come in for (an oil change) and not all the extra shit they had tacked on.
Needing accounts for everything is frustrating. I was in Best Buy and couldn't find a single employee for help so I looked for a help button and it showed a QR code *for help*. Then it immediately asked me to set up an account so that it could alert an employee and I was just disgusted. I also hate "Allow or 'Maybe Later'" as an option instead of no. So they can continue to harass you about the topic until you never visit them again. Why does everything have to have a shady gimmick or method to trick you?
The second paragraph is me right now with the TH-cam Shorts shelf on the homepage. I'm not interested in them, so I click the button to hide the shelf. "Shelf will be hidden for 30 days". Nah. I'll block it myself with a cosmetic filter then. Shelf will be hidden forever.
Because capitalism had one real good run from the 1950s until the 1990s...and nobody wants to try 'alternative' methods of trade. Kind of like someone who had to go to work or the same place often and the first few times they got all green lights and low traffic, so every time afterwards they always show up late and it never occurs to them to leave earlier. Leave your comfort zone...there is only so much metal and material in a closed universe...a better world is possible.
I never understood the filing taxes thing. In Finland they just give you a bill that's like "Okay, we expect you to pay this much in taxes, please pay up." and then if you paid too much or too little they send you the money or an additional bill
In Sweden it’s basically like that as well. You log into the government page that deals with it (skatteverket), sign with bankID and if you have to pay, you pay. Done. Not this whole ridiculous process the US has.
@@justapanpirate Be aware...that whenever you see something backwards or primitive and inefficient, and it never gets repaired...rest assured there is someone on a golden throne with a platinum spoon in his mouth who benefits from the system staying that way. Humanity would have been better off if Jack Sparrow sunk Christopher Columbus's ship when he had the chance. the Apaches could have had a colony on Mars by now....
in short, a bunch of US companies do a thing called lobbying, where they pay the legislators to vote and/or propose laws in their favor (it's basically bribery), to make taxes harder so people have to go to them
Time for the techy narrator! The most fabulous one, without question! Will never get tired of hearing Lexi tear into nonsense like this, heh. Thanks, EmKay and Lexi c:
4:32 That feels downright unethical & criminal. Though it does not surprise me in the slightest that companies and websites will pull this kind of psychological tactic to get people buy said product.
Kmart Australia almost went bust a while (I think about 15 yrs) ago, but their parent country here put in a lot of effort revitalising the brand, and it worked. In fact it worked so well, that target Australia, which is owned by the same company, started struggling because everyone started shopping at Kmart instead.
When visiting Australia a few years ago, I loved their Kmart! I don’t remember the U.S. one being as good. In fact I have my friend ship me clothes from there that I can’t get here. Good on them!
20:00 Can confirm. Once had to manually update a web shop with literally hundreds of different protective shells for phones. About half of them was for brands I had never heard about until then, nor have I ever heard about again. They charged about 5 euros per case and bought them for about 10 cents a piece
28:49 What next, a fortune cookie with an ad for William "Blatant Corporate Sellout" Shakespeare's MTV-ized joke book about Macbeth's reign as king of Scotland?
Kiwi here, but Kmart is a thing here (as well as in Australia apparently). A while ago, Walmart was looking at coming over here but they tried to pull the whole 'we are a multi-billion dollar company, we don't need to conform to your labour laws' thing, so we decided we didn't need them.
@@bellablue5285 Yep. There's not that many around but we've got a few. I'm also not sure that it's exactly the same as Kmart was in the US. We don't have any of the other American big box stores (except for one Costco that opened in Auckland about a year ago), so instead they compete with local versions like The Warehouse and Farmers. (None of which stock food apart from snacks & drinks at the checkout).
@Simon Teesdale ah gotcha, that would make sense. Kmart here went out about a decade ago, I'll admit in my surprise I didn't think that it may just be same name rather than related stores.
11:55 Amazon knows about this issue and they don't like it either. They attempted to stop the issue by forcing brands to have trademarks on their names, but it only caused the US patent office to get swamped with literal keyspam.
It's the only way to Make America Great Again...but Republicans don't know how to band together...whatever the liberals are doing...it's working... I say, let it all burn...
What's worse than a site not telling you a price until you sign up is a site that wants your CC info before they show you the shipping price. And worse than both is companies that want you to "request a quote" which just tells be they are going to chose what to charge based on income and/or knowledgeability. Either way it's a hard pass
12:50 that is not a recycling bin that is a compost bin (clearly labeled as such), so if the poster was trying to put recyclables into that container they are part of the reason why it is no longer easy to open
@@_lypacz They probably don't know, to be fair. Either way, though, it's very odd for people to be so needlessly pedantic...as if they were asked to "correct" someone else's "mistake" or something. Like, why do they feel that's THEIR job? It's very odd... Like, do they just not have anything better to do? I'm sure, if they tried hard enough and applied themselves, they COULD find SOMETHING better to do than to presume someone else's gender and/or disrespect and dehumanize people on a fundamental core level. I dunno...dude might not have known Lexi identifies transgender, but it's still weird to be pointlessly petty like that. :/
7:30 They could have a normal plug to a power brick like laptop PSUs do. Could be as big as they need to without sacrificing plugs. (also, they're not transformers, they're regulated electronic power supplies, essentially a scaled down version of what powers your PC.)
I was about to say the same. If it's so hard to design these damn in-plug-PSUs, then why even bother? Put on a cable and nobody cares anymore how big it is because it's not gonna interfere with anything anyway.
They could utilize a cord on a brick design, but that would add cost and go against the convention. -- Also, these bricks did almost always have actual transformers in them, things have simply changed over time. Lightweight ones utilizing switching power supply circuitry (SMPS?) and other modern designs are /actually/ a fairly new thing (last 10 years maybe? possibly 15?). -- As an aside, part of the "issue" is that these designs came into existence back when power strips/surge protectors were far less common (think 1940-1970). Most people just plugged them into a wall outlet. The vertical design can go in the bottom of a 2-plug outlet, leaving the top plug free for a light, vacuum cleaner, etc. The horizontal design accomodates the possibility for two power bricks in the same 2-plug outlet.
Lexi is amazing because not only does she entertain us by cringing at some of this stuff, but she also explains WHY it's like that, and I think that's pretty cool
my mom works at a factory making car parts, and the those parts are labeled for like 12 different brands, all for different prices the parts are identical
12:24 But ya know what IS illegal? Amazon selling ahegao hoodies featuring stolen artwork. Yes, Amazon thinks that light novels such as No Game No Life are too morally repulsive to sell on their website (which doesn't feature any explicit content), but plagiarism is perfectly fine with them.
for the keyboard price thing, it must be so that on price comparison websites they still show up as the cheapest, while not having to actually make the price that low so they also sell them for way higher prices to people who didn't come through a price comparison site. Actually genius but shady af
Actually not that rare. but usually the difference is a few cents at best. Basically like a referrer link "if you buy the x coming from site y, you'll get 0.2% off" Which isn't much, but when you buy a lot, it adds up.
Kmart still exists in Australia, it is one of the two low cost department stores (the other is Big W, and they are associated with the Big Two supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths). We also have Target, which is a marginally higher value department store, with the higher cost ones being Myers and David Jones.
22:34 This is hilarious because when I took mobile app development, we learned how to make real apple pop up notifications, and I mean actually real, not just accurate recreations, in the 1ST WEEK. In fact, it was one of the first parts we added to the first app we made. This idiots couldn't even do that LMAOO
I run into the Adobe issue constantly. Every time there's an update, and they're frequent, it puts the icon back. It's annoying, but I can't be bothered to find a programmatic way to stop it, if there is one. Since it's likely being created by the TIWorker process, there's not much I can think of that would stop it without having unintended consequences.
Fun fact about the Twitch one, Twitch will even pretend to be the streamer and send you emails/notifications on Twitch saying "hey I miss you, come join us! bla bla bla" Some of the streamers of mine are friends and frankly it's quacken disgusting...like piss off Twitch...it's one thing if you want people to "come back" to your crappy ad-ridden website where you force ads on streamers and viewers which also cut off streamers in the middle of talking, but don't you dare pretend to be the streamers themselves, can seriously piss off. >.>
9:00 it’s pretty common in the U.K. to pay car insurance annually or monthly. It normally works out to a few extra £ if you pay monthly so depends how you feel.
21:04 You know, carriage bolts are quite easy to remove. I knew some troublemakers back in grade school who found out if you had an adjustable wrench or a socket set, and a lookout for any yard supervisors, those nuts and bolts came out with relative ease.
Regarding the Uber discount thing, it's 100% normal. All vouchers from any ride-on-demand app always has a disclaimer of "X% off your ride, up to a maximum of $Y". So I believe what happened was that voucher, although it was 40% off, was up to a max of $7
7:53 I say separate the brick from the plug. Do like some laptop chargers and PC monitor bricks. Also, new houses built with fast-charging-compatible USB ports directly on the wall and in power bricks. It's not hard to think of ways to integrate these things better and have them take up less space. Just move the circuitry somewhere it actually makes a little bit more sense. And especially since the EU forced the use of the USB-PD standard, I imagine that it may not be superceded very quickly, making this kind of investment a little less risky.
and if a wall plug breaks you could just take it to the dump or to a recycling section and buy a new one, which is very easy and fast to do but if a usb wall plug thing breaks you gotta call a repair guy and have the thing swapped out, dont you? now both examples are just replacing the thing but i would think replacing the USB wall thing takes much longer
@@tylern6420 I've never had a USB charger break on me, though. And my wall plugs still all work. It's been, what, 40 years? These things are built durable AF. Idk why you're so worried. Though, that likely depends on where you live and who did the electricity work. Maybe I got lucky. And maybe they don't build them like they used to. I have no way to know.
@@3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7 I feel like that guy misunderstood, since I wonder if they are talking about the female end of the USB connector, I don't think I've ever had any USB A receptacle break, it's usually the cord (near the crimp) or the connector on the cord that breaks. [facepalm] The ports aren't built into the wall, they come with the faceplate and circuitry receptacle. I've seen this style of plug in the US myself.
18:26 I always just, inspect element and remove whats preventing me from reading, once I even went like, deleting each DIV from a page cuz I couldn't restore the scroll
Kmart is huge in Australia. In the US, there are only a few locations left. In my town, there used to be two Kmarts- one closed and became a Hobby Lobby, the other was torn down within the last few years. I used to get my cleaning supplies for home from Kmart since the cleaning aisle was really easy to find and sorted extremely well
I used to work in a lube shop (car lube, not the other kind, lmao) and checking the air filter is part of getting your oil changed. If you live rurally or do a lot of offroading, they get dirty and need to be cleaned or replaced (unless they are like mine and inaccessible). We could ask if they wanted it checked, and offer to replace if wanted, but never charge without permission. Same with doing fuel injection treatments (only actually needed about once every other year or so and only if you're having issues with a lot of trash in your fuel). My corporate overlords constantly tried to pressure me to upsell this stuff but since I didn't get commission I would just say, "I don't think you need this, but I have to ask."
21:10 im p.sure all food apps do this now to avoid scams and stuff. once the restaurant starts making your food you cant just cancel it costing the restaurant money for wasted food. this is just a series of unfortunate events, p.sure they also mention when the drivers are low and there is extra wait times for getting your food before you order, the restaurant is not the ones sending the drivers to you, they cant control that.
23:45 the salesperson that sold us my kid's new computer last summer was visibly upset with me because I insisted that we did not need McAfee "anti-virus", especially when I went into detail of why it should actually be classified as a virus. It was a good 5-10-minute exchange though, before I got my way.
the insurance one is pretty normal here in Hungary. You contract for a year and based on the payment option (monthly, quarter or yearly) you pay less in total. What is NOT normal here is that you pay more if you keep the insurance you had last year. It works the opposite way like everywhere else. You supposed to pay less every year, but no, you have to manually renew or find a new one, otherwise your price will go up by as much as 20% every year
27:27 when ordering from an online food service app, they usually send your card a hold and it's always $1.00. It reverts later, but I think they should be more transparent about it.
21:40 Poster probably didn't tip and lived far away, so no one wanted to waste gas and money driving to them because whichever service this is likely doesn't scale base pay with how long an order has sat waiting to be accepted.
almost certain the compost thing is to tell people what is compost, as i remember hearing that apparently more then half of compost bins end up in landfills because if they find plastic forks in it, the entire thing is going in a landfill, no sorting at all
Small tip regarding the extra account problem for news/magazine websites: you can inspect any website's html elements (basically website structures) by pressing ctrl-shift-I and delete any of them from your view. Unless the websites have some special integration of those popups, you should be able to just delete them (they will always come back upon reloading though). I don't know how to describe it better, if anybody knows, i'd be glad to learn
You usually have to re-enable scrolling on the html or body element as well, but yeah, a lot of those account / pay to read more pop ups can just be deleted away ^-^'. I assume it's because not having the text on the page would mess with their SEO, so this is the one and only time that pays off for people :3
note on the homeless thing but there being no room isn't the only reason a homeless person might not be able or want to go to a shelter, and the rationale of the city might be "they shouldn't be there anyway and it's illegal" evil stupid rationale, but a rationale
15:30 that app in called noteability and we used it in school and being completely honest even tho it was fully paid for it still sucked also its an apple exclusive app if i remember right
I hate streaming services that you pay tons a month for, only to get ads every 3 minutes. To also not get ads, you have to pay like $15 a month. That’s bull.
Do you wanna know an industry where the only way to get prices is to contact them and 50% of the time they won't even respond? That's the boating industry for you, I've been searching for a sailboat for the last 2 months, I've contacted over 7 different places and only 3 actually answeres me, and only 2 actually gave me prices. It's like they don't want sell stuff.
The Email Ads seem to be illegal for data privacy reasons. Like how could they get your Email, if not from third parties. But it is illegal to forward an Email adress to a third party if it isn't signed strictly by the owner.
Somehow it never occurred to me that the "12 people are viewing this item and there's only 2 in stock" thing on websites could be fake! I've probably been bamboozled several times then. I'm like, oh no, better buy it before these other people! What a dummy 🤦♀️
The same thing happened to me before 2012 with organized religion...then I got ripped off that the world didn't end...being alive sucks dog crap and there's no man in the sky to do anything about it. My video will begin in 42 years...
I've had some situations where it's somethat correct. Because the product sold out and got restocked a couple of times. And it's an extension to make an older device compatible with modern systems, so low supply is plausible.
8:10 - If you get enough of those on one grid, you can pop the breaker anyway. So sure, that surge protector isn't using all the slots... but depending on what you plug into it, you might not want to use them all anyway. The best I've seen (in person) was that we figured out all the outlets for the living room was on the same breaker as the microwave. We found out by having the TV on, 6.1 speaker system, I think like 9 phones charging, and someone turned on the microwave. We had to move all but two phones into bedrooms to stop tripping the breaker every time the microwave was turned on. He later also found out, that butting a space heater on one of the outlets and turning on the microwave would also pop the breaker.
I still remember some early winter a few years back...when my father dimmed the heater...the house is a dungeon with only 3 light fixtures, all of the rest of the house is lit with desk/table lamps on switched outlets...so you get half of the outlets that you paid for...he plugged the heater into the TOP outlet with the dimmer switch...BANG! the dimmer switch was hot and the room was now dark. This was about 30 years after the pinch roller fell off of my boombox when I was 6 years old and it started playing cassette tapes too fast...so I then plugged the boombox into the same dimmed NEMA 5-15 R socket and dimmed the boombox so I could hear the tape at nomal speed (I was 6 years old at the time).
@@brentfisher902 Interesting. But I can understand why it caused a surge and thus problems. Heaters need a lot of power... a dimmer restricts power. Not a great combo... something would have to fail. A lot of heaters have a dimmer built in, but they are properly built to deal with the amperage demand. Would be interesting to dismantle the casette player in the boombox to see what happened to it. Usually motors get fried, not speed boosted... but maybe the speed regulator for the motor got fried, the the power was shorting past to run at full speed. As for low lighting, I understand... the house I mentioned doesn't have any lights installed in the living room. And before LEDs, they couldn't use outlet lamps... again, because all wired together with the microwave.
For transient documents I have a C program that takes a bitmap file and synthesizes a WAV file of the sound of a Group 3 fax machine...then I soldered a capacitor and a telephone plug and a headphone cord...take the fax machine off the hook, play the sound file...then hit the fax receive button...and it prints it in low-res thermal paper....
I hate how toxic and transphobic comments on Lexi's narrations can be. every reply becomes full of hate and it fucking sucks. Happens any time she's in a video.
@@driftliketokyo34ftw35 Glad I opted to click to see replies, I was about to say the exact same thing. I own a Sega Genesis along with the CD and 32X add-ons, and *all* of them need to be plugged in simply to use the Genesis by itself once they're all connected. A three-way power adapter made like a laptop charger would've been a no-brainer for that setup, but Sega never made one.
Mandatory vertical orientation would be the simplest solution. There are already power boards with extra spacing between sockets that assume vertical orientation, anyway.
20:17 No. Not they do not. There's a reason why. It's called 'We are not smart enough to actually LOOK at the Content of the Attachment. Because that takes Effort."
8:48 One of the actual reasons that paying every month instead of once or twice a year is an 'Employee' must process the payment (even if that 'Employee' is a computer program) and needs to be paid for their work and/or there is a Transaction Fee involved in moving your money from your account to their account. But the MOST honest reason for the extra cost is because you wanting to pay in a non-industry-standard way is an excuse they can use to claw more money out of you... The Insurance Industry is a MASSIVELY Greedy beast that make the Pre-Christmas Ghost Scrooge look like the Universes best Philanthropist... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
17:12 oh I HATE SENECA with a PASSION it keeps on spamming me with notifications about signing my parents emails up to a mailing lis- I MEAN TELL THEM WHEN I’M DOING WELL IN MY LESSONS (how did they get my parents emails?)
I had to post this. Joined a music app, and it was a free trial, after that it would become a subscription, no prices clearly displayed. After the trial they tried deducting about 500 dollars from my card 😂
Fun fact Lexi, Kmart is a massive chain here in Australia! I used to work there until recently, and the pay is good but yeah it’s a cheap store for cheap things, like a dollar store. Still, it does well here.
17:00 I can explain this one! In some jurisdictions in the US, you can't legally sell alcohol by itself at concerts/festivals/etc; however, you can sell a "meal" that includes both food and an alcoholic beverage. This sign is not-so-subtly telling you that you're paying $6 for peanuts, which will happen to include a 'free' beer if you're over 21.
Huh interesting
I didn’t get that from the sign.
But seems posible.
Ohhh so it’s technically a beer with free peanuts, but they just have to advertise it the other way
@@p1kkuma a loophole
That’s honestly such a genius workaround. I get food AND booze? I’m sold!
Lexi is perfect narration for such stuff because she explains why shit is how it is very often and thats not just entertainment, but education as well! Its great!
There's a word for this and it's called edutainment
Really wanted to give it a like but it's at 169!! 👍👍👍👍
@@EDV8ZR1 because the comment is to good for the funny number to stay
@@EDV8ZR1 Clearly i'm not the only one, who just doesn't care enough about "Ooooh funny number eheheu!" to not like what i like =/
@@rachelphoenix1984 I don't have a problem with 269 instead of 169
For anyone that experiences what happens at 2:00 , remember to go to your local DOT (department of transportation) for your state and talk to an inspector there. They'd be interested in hearing about mechanics shops ripping off people like this, since they can revoke that shop's license for doing so, if I remember correctly. Mileage may vary from state to state, as I only had (second) hand experience with my own state's DOT.
My granny got in touch with them after a mechanic shop ripped her off like in the video, and last I heard, the mechanic that worked on her vehicle at the shop was fired, because the owner was not about to risk his business going down due to that mechanic's actions. She also only had to pay what she had actually come in for (an oil change) and not all the extra shit they had tacked on.
absolutely! That poor lady.
Needing accounts for everything is frustrating. I was in Best Buy and couldn't find a single employee for help so I looked for a help button and it showed a QR code *for help*. Then it immediately asked me to set up an account so that it could alert an employee and I was just disgusted.
I also hate "Allow or 'Maybe Later'" as an option instead of no. So they can continue to harass you about the topic until you never visit them again. Why does everything have to have a shady gimmick or method to trick you?
Capitalism.
The second paragraph is me right now with the TH-cam Shorts shelf on the homepage. I'm not interested in them, so I click the button to hide the shelf.
"Shelf will be hidden for 30 days". Nah. I'll block it myself with a cosmetic filter then. Shelf will be hidden forever.
Because capitalism had one real good run from the 1950s until the 1990s...and nobody wants to try 'alternative' methods of trade. Kind of like someone who had to go to work or the same place often and the first few times they got all green lights and low traffic, so every time afterwards they always show up late and it never occurs to them to leave earlier. Leave your comfort zone...there is only so much metal and material in a closed universe...a better world is possible.
When Lexi said Transformers my brain instantly filled in "robots in disguise" which left me really confused for a solid 5 seconds
same
“Autobots! Time to recharge” 😆
“Decepticons, charge and rise!”😂
I never understood the filing taxes thing. In Finland they just give you a bill that's like "Okay, we expect you to pay this much in taxes, please pay up." and then if you paid too much or too little they send you the money or an additional bill
The government here could do that, but the tax companies legally bribe them to keep it complicated and confusing. Because ‘Murica!!!!! 🍔🦅🇺🇸
In Sweden it’s basically like that as well. You log into the government page that deals with it (skatteverket), sign with bankID and if you have to pay, you pay. Done. Not this whole ridiculous process the US has.
@@justapanpirate Be aware...that whenever you see something backwards or primitive and inefficient, and it never gets repaired...rest assured there is someone on a golden throne with a platinum spoon in his mouth who benefits from the system staying that way. Humanity would have been better off if Jack Sparrow sunk Christopher Columbus's ship when he had the chance. the Apaches could have had a colony on Mars by now....
in short, a bunch of US companies do a thing called lobbying, where they pay the legislators to vote and/or propose laws in their favor (it's basically bribery), to make taxes harder so people have to go to them
The first time I heard someone explain this I nearly cried. I live in the US and I'd rather get a tooth pulled than file taxes.
Time for the techy narrator! The most fabulous one, without question! Will never get tired of hearing Lexi tear into nonsense like this, heh. Thanks, EmKay and Lexi c:
lexi best narrator frfr
lexi best narrator frfr
I’m sorry is your pfp a pregnant Latias
@@memegeek1237Jack, is that you? /s
@@Just_a_commenter nono, they have a point
4:32
That feels downright unethical & criminal.
Though it does not surprise me in the slightest that companies and websites will pull this kind of psychological tactic to get people buy said product.
That's because it is illegal. But because of legal loopholes, they can get away with this without any consequences. I love America, don't you? 😁
@@nevaehhamilton3493 America is my favorite dystopia
Now we just regularly have a big swampert and latias in the comments and I find this hilarious.
Cool comment but what’s that pfp you got there?
Don’t tell the others but Lexi is the ducks favourite narrator 😉
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Kmart Australia almost went bust a while (I think about 15 yrs) ago, but their parent country here put in a lot of effort revitalising the brand, and it worked. In fact it worked so well, that target Australia, which is owned by the same company, started struggling because everyone started shopping at Kmart instead.
When visiting Australia a few years ago, I loved their Kmart! I don’t remember the U.S. one being as good. In fact I have my friend ship me clothes from there that I can’t get here. Good on them!
20:00 Can confirm. Once had to manually update a web shop with literally hundreds of different protective shells for phones. About half of them was for brands I had never heard about until then, nor have I ever heard about again.
They charged about 5 euros per case and bought them for about 10 cents a piece
Stuff like this is exactly why we need truth in advertising and sales by force of law. Companies are shady as hell.
They finally gave robin a break from these subreddits
I love Lexi explaining tech stuff to us
And then they gave him one designed to piss him off today.
28:49 What next, a fortune cookie with an ad for William "Blatant Corporate Sellout" Shakespeare's MTV-ized joke book about Macbeth's reign as king of Scotland?
There's no person using he/him pronouns in this video. Who are you referring to?
Kiwi here, but Kmart is a thing here (as well as in Australia apparently).
A while ago, Walmart was looking at coming over here but they tried to pull the whole 'we are a multi-billion dollar company, we don't need to conform to your labour laws' thing, so we decided we didn't need them.
Wait y'all still have Kmart? When they merged with Sears in the US both basically disappeared in an extremely short period of time
@@bellablue5285 Yep. There's not that many around but we've got a few. I'm also not sure that it's exactly the same as Kmart was in the US.
We don't have any of the other American big box stores (except for one Costco that opened in Auckland about a year ago), so instead they compete with local versions like The Warehouse and Farmers. (None of which stock food apart from snacks & drinks at the checkout).
@Simon Teesdale ah gotcha, that would make sense. Kmart here went out about a decade ago, I'll admit in my surprise I didn't think that it may just be same name rather than related stores.
11:55 Amazon knows about this issue and they don't like it either. They attempted to stop the issue by forcing brands to have trademarks on their names, but it only caused the US patent office to get swamped with literal keyspam.
I'll give Turbotax this: Their video ad campaign on Twitch this year was gold. The slogan was "Don't do your taxes."
It's the only way to Make America Great Again...but Republicans don't know how to band together...whatever the liberals are doing...it's working... I say, let it all burn...
See the Lexi kitty do this is really interesting because she can always find a way to explain things we see
As soon as I heard your voice, I audibly said "Lexi!" Very happily
Me too!
lexi is my favorite narrator by far on the channel, half because of how relatable she is and half because I am also a tech nerd xd
Same!! I do that every time I hear her voice.
You're the best narrator Lexi
What's worse than a site not telling you a price until you sign up is a site that wants your CC info before they show you the shipping price. And worse than both is companies that want you to "request a quote" which just tells be they are going to chose what to charge based on income and/or knowledgeability. Either way it's a hard pass
12:50 that is not a recycling bin that is a compost bin (clearly labeled as such), so if the poster was trying to put recyclables into that container they are part of the reason why it is no longer easy to open
Lexi can judge if something is assholish or not. Bless her.
Him
@@anderstermansen130 - Her profile says otherwise.
@@anderstermansen130 you ever Heard about transgender people?
@@_lypacz They probably don't know, to be fair. Either way, though, it's very odd for people to be so needlessly pedantic...as if they were asked to "correct" someone else's "mistake" or something. Like, why do they feel that's THEIR job? It's very odd... Like, do they just not have anything better to do? I'm sure, if they tried hard enough and applied themselves, they COULD find SOMETHING better to do than to presume someone else's gender and/or disrespect and dehumanize people on a fundamental core level. I dunno...dude might not have known Lexi identifies transgender, but it's still weird to be pointlessly petty like that. :/
@@bluestreaker9242 K Man…
7:30 They could have a normal plug to a power brick like laptop PSUs do. Could be as big as they need to without sacrificing plugs. (also, they're not transformers, they're regulated electronic power supplies, essentially a scaled down version of what powers your PC.)
robots in disguise
I was about to say the same. If it's so hard to design these damn in-plug-PSUs, then why even bother? Put on a cable and nobody cares anymore how big it is because it's not gonna interfere with anything anyway.
Im pretty sure the actual problem on the image is that all of the plugs are plugged in 1 a lot to the right so none of them are actually getting power
They could utilize a cord on a brick design, but that would add cost and go against the convention. -- Also, these bricks did almost always have actual transformers in them, things have simply changed over time. Lightweight ones utilizing switching power supply circuitry (SMPS?) and other modern designs are /actually/ a fairly new thing (last 10 years maybe? possibly 15?). -- As an aside, part of the "issue" is that these designs came into existence back when power strips/surge protectors were far less common (think 1940-1970). Most people just plugged them into a wall outlet. The vertical design can go in the bottom of a 2-plug outlet, leaving the top plug free for a light, vacuum cleaner, etc. The horizontal design accomodates the possibility for two power bricks in the same 2-plug outlet.
Yeah, the transformer in the middle of the wire would help. And it doesn't help that US plugs are at a right angle.
Forcing people to pay money without them knowing for your shitty service when most people live paycheck to paycheck is downright evil.
And it's against the law.
The reason chinese companies use random letters for their name is that it guarantees that it won't conflict with an existing company.
Let them prove that other company is not yours then. All Asians look alike so that's going to be like finding a rice in a riceberg
It's like prescription drugs or racetrack horses...
Hey lexi , you are like, super smart.
For real as somebody who is bad at electronics , I can listen to you talk about them for hours
Lexi is amazing because not only does she entertain us by cringing at some of this stuff, but she also explains WHY it's like that, and I think that's pretty cool
my mom works at a factory making car parts, and the those parts are labeled for like 12 different brands, all for different prices
the parts are identical
Another way to stop getting emails from things you don't like is to simply block them.
i’ve tried that but they keep making new emails to contact me again :(
If it's for any commercial purpose and I didn't explicitly request it, it's flagged as spam, full stop.
Also they may use an alias to get around the blocking, just send them straight to junk mail or trash folder.
Works great...until you realize it's like playing Whack-A-Mole...and that base-36 (A-Z plus 0-9) or more factorial numbers are a thing....
12:24 But ya know what IS illegal? Amazon selling ahegao hoodies featuring stolen artwork. Yes, Amazon thinks that light novels such as No Game No Life are too morally repulsive to sell on their website (which doesn't feature any explicit content), but plagiarism is perfectly fine with them.
for the keyboard price thing, it must be so that on price comparison websites they still show up as the cheapest, while not having to actually make the price that low so they also sell them for way higher prices to people who didn't come through a price comparison site. Actually genius but shady af
Actually not that rare. but usually the difference is a few cents at best. Basically like a referrer link "if you buy the x coming from site y, you'll get 0.2% off"
Which isn't much, but when you buy a lot, it adds up.
Kmart still exists in Australia, it is one of the two low cost department stores (the other is Big W, and they are associated with the Big Two supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths). We also have Target, which is a marginally higher value department store, with the higher cost ones being Myers and David Jones.
22:34 This is hilarious because when I took mobile app development, we learned how to make real apple pop up notifications, and I mean actually real, not just accurate recreations, in the 1ST WEEK. In fact, it was one of the first parts we added to the first app we made. This idiots couldn't even do that LMAOO
I run into the Adobe issue constantly. Every time there's an update, and they're frequent, it puts the icon back. It's annoying, but I can't be bothered to find a programmatic way to stop it, if there is one. Since it's likely being created by the TIWorker process, there's not much I can think of that would stop it without having unintended consequences.
Computers are like air conditioners...they stop working when you open Windows.
Fun fact about the Twitch one, Twitch will even pretend to be the streamer and send you emails/notifications on Twitch saying "hey I miss you, come join us! bla bla bla" Some of the streamers of mine are friends and frankly it's quacken disgusting...like piss off Twitch...it's one thing if you want people to "come back" to your crappy ad-ridden website where you force ads on streamers and viewers which also cut off streamers in the middle of talking, but don't you dare pretend to be the streamers themselves, can seriously piss off. >.>
Sounds like a crappy dating site. (They won't tell you how 'likes' you without a fee; but paying a fee to see who 'likes' you is kind of creepy.)
19:43 That's harsh thinking considering that you're my favorite Emkay Narrator
Her narration is the best for this sort of stuff! It's so fun to hear Lexi explaining tech stuff! Go queen!!!
6:20 Thank you very very much for including my post!!
I love the advice that Lexi gives in these videos! And she’s awesome af😊💞💖
Wait... This doesn't sound like a she
Isnt he a guy?
she’s trans :)
@@nicoledoubleyou she does to me.
@@nicoledoubleyouShe's still a girl even if she "doesn't sound like it" :p
9:00 it’s pretty common in the U.K. to pay car insurance annually or monthly. It normally works out to a few extra £ if you pay monthly so depends how you feel.
21:04 You know, carriage bolts are quite easy to remove. I knew some troublemakers back in grade school who found out if you had an adjustable wrench or a socket set, and a lookout for any yard supervisors, those nuts and bolts came out with relative ease.
The US should pass a law that legally requires all mechanics to explicitly ask for permission to perform anything beyond what the customer asks for
Regarding the Uber discount thing, it's 100% normal. All vouchers from any ride-on-demand app always has a disclaimer of "X% off your ride, up to a maximum of $Y". So I believe what happened was that voucher, although it was 40% off, was up to a max of $7
18:11 Hell, "Dr." Phil barely knows about psychology, let alone health
7:53 I say separate the brick from the plug. Do like some laptop chargers and PC monitor bricks.
Also, new houses built with fast-charging-compatible USB ports directly on the wall and in power bricks. It's not hard to think of ways to integrate these things better and have them take up less space. Just move the circuitry somewhere it actually makes a little bit more sense. And especially since the EU forced the use of the USB-PD standard, I imagine that it may not be superceded very quickly, making this kind of investment a little less risky.
does a wall plug even exist to them?
it just makes maintenance harder if you build USB ports into the wall itself
and if a wall plug breaks you could just take it to the dump or to a recycling section and buy a new one, which is very easy and fast to do
but if a usb wall plug thing breaks you gotta call a repair guy and have the thing swapped out, dont you?
now both examples are just replacing the thing but i would think replacing the USB wall thing takes much longer
@@tylern6420 I've never had a USB charger break on me, though.
And my wall plugs still all work. It's been, what, 40 years?
These things are built durable AF. Idk why you're so worried. Though, that likely depends on where you live and who did the electricity work. Maybe I got lucky. And maybe they don't build them like they used to. I have no way to know.
@@3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7 eh who knows
@@3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7 I feel like that guy misunderstood, since I wonder if they are talking about the female end of the USB connector, I don't think I've ever had any USB A receptacle break, it's usually the cord (near the crimp) or the connector on the cord that breaks. [facepalm] The ports aren't built into the wall, they come with the faceplate and circuitry receptacle. I've seen this style of plug in the US myself.
9:09 Lexi please never apologize for "all the stories" I watch this shit for your stories specifically.
23:33 the term for this is betteridge's law and that's usually for polar questions.
18:26 I always just, inspect element and remove whats preventing me from reading, once I even went like, deleting each DIV from a page cuz I couldn't restore the scroll
Kmart is huge in Australia. In the US, there are only a few locations left. In my town, there used to be two Kmarts- one closed and became a Hobby Lobby, the other was torn down within the last few years. I used to get my cleaning supplies for home from Kmart since the cleaning aisle was really easy to find and sorted extremely well
I used to work in a lube shop (car lube, not the other kind, lmao) and checking the air filter is part of getting your oil changed. If you live rurally or do a lot of offroading, they get dirty and need to be cleaned or replaced (unless they are like mine and inaccessible). We could ask if they wanted it checked, and offer to replace if wanted, but never charge without permission. Same with doing fuel injection treatments (only actually needed about once every other year or so and only if you're having issues with a lot of trash in your fuel). My corporate overlords constantly tried to pressure me to upsell this stuff but since I didn't get commission I would just say, "I don't think you need this, but I have to ask."
Those stop to cancel texts are getting trickier now sometimes you have to reply “stop to cancel” instead of just stop
21:10 im p.sure all food apps do this now to avoid scams and stuff. once the restaurant starts making your food you cant just cancel it costing the restaurant money for wasted food.
this is just a series of unfortunate events, p.sure they also mention when the drivers are low and there is extra wait times for getting your food before you order, the restaurant is not the ones sending the drivers to you, they cant control that.
23:45 the salesperson that sold us my kid's new computer last summer was visibly upset with me because I insisted that we did not need McAfee "anti-virus", especially when I went into detail of why it should actually be classified as a virus. It was a good 5-10-minute exchange though, before I got my way.
Malware disguising as anti-virus software should be illegal.
This is why I always say learn how to fix your car with a minor things because they will rip you off at the mechanic 1:38
10:57 it's like paying for cable all over again, but with more invasive ads😊
the insurance one is pretty normal here in Hungary. You contract for a year and based on the payment option (monthly, quarter or yearly) you pay less in total. What is NOT normal here is that you pay more if you keep the insurance you had last year. It works the opposite way like everywhere else. You supposed to pay less every year, but no, you have to manually renew or find a new one, otherwise your price will go up by as much as 20% every year
27:27 when ordering from an online food service app, they usually send your card a hold and it's always $1.00. It reverts later, but I think they should be more transparent about it.
I don't want to know their banking fees if they pull money back and firth every time someone even plans to order.
21:40 Poster probably didn't tip and lived far away, so no one wanted to waste gas and money driving to them because whichever service this is likely doesn't scale base pay with how long an order has sat waiting to be accepted.
11:25 Printers sure want to go extinct even faster than they already are.
"We noticed you're using an ad blocker. Please disable it to continue reading." You mean "Exit this page and never come back?"
19:16 Spotify doesn’t tell you their prices on the mobile app, which seems really dumb
4:50
If I remember correctly
Math.Random() will always give a number between 0 and 1
Meaning the multiplication by 12 makes it REAAAALLY scummy
almost certain the compost thing is to tell people what is compost, as i remember hearing that apparently more then half of compost bins end up in landfills because if they find plastic forks in it, the entire thing is going in a landfill, no sorting at all
ABS is supposed to be compostable with appropriate facilities.
or to stop bears / raccoons.
2:56 they didnt even spell continue right, thats definitely a scam.
Small tip regarding the extra account problem for news/magazine websites: you can inspect any website's html elements (basically website structures) by pressing ctrl-shift-I and delete any of them from your view. Unless the websites have some special integration of those popups, you should be able to just delete them (they will always come back upon reloading though).
I don't know how to describe it better, if anybody knows, i'd be glad to learn
You usually have to re-enable scrolling on the html or body element as well, but yeah, a lot of those account / pay to read more pop ups can just be deleted away ^-^'. I assume it's because not having the text on the page would mess with their SEO, so this is the one and only time that pays off for people :3
I think the power bricks are deliberately designed that way so you can't over-pack them. They *do* require cooling.
note on the homeless thing but there being no room isn't the only reason a homeless person might not be able or want to go to a shelter, and the rationale of the city might be "they shouldn't be there anyway and it's illegal" evil stupid rationale, but a rationale
I love when people rant about tech, I have no clue what Lexi is talking about but it's very fun to watch
15:29 - Why Notability... You were just fine without it...
15:30 that app in called noteability and we used it in school and being completely honest even tho it was fully paid for it still sucked also its an apple exclusive app if i remember right
I hate streaming services that you pay tons a month for, only to get ads every 3 minutes. To also not get ads, you have to pay like $15 a month. That’s bull.
My question about the plugs is: why not make them modular so you can put the plug in the direction you need? I'd pay extra for that
29:05 thats an app store widget, it changes and is an ad 100% of the time, its just an ad for whats new on the app store
I love Lexi as as a sibling
4:07 I personally use Mozilla Thunderbird, which contains no bullshit.
Do you wanna know an industry where the only way to get prices is to contact them and 50% of the time they won't even respond? That's the boating industry for you, I've been searching for a sailboat for the last 2 months, I've contacted over 7 different places and only 3 actually answeres me, and only 2 actually gave me prices. It's like they don't want sell stuff.
I like it when lexi narrates the subreddits with tech stuff in it. I have no idea what they’re talking about but it’s still interesting
Paper straws are pointless they can't be even recycled, get a plastic reusable one.
I remember when I got the icloud storage for my phone, it was half full and it was constantly telling me that 'the storage is completely full'! >:(
Lexi literally knows everything about everything
The Email Ads seem to be illegal for data privacy reasons. Like how could they get your Email, if not from third parties. But it is illegal to forward an Email adress to a third party if it isn't signed strictly by the owner.
Somehow it never occurred to me that the "12 people are viewing this item and there's only 2 in stock" thing on websites could be fake! I've probably been bamboozled several times then. I'm like, oh no, better buy it before these other people! What a dummy 🤦♀️
LOL i always check just in case
The same thing happened to me before 2012 with organized religion...then I got ripped off that the world didn't end...being alive sucks dog crap and there's no man in the sky to do anything about it. My video will begin in 42 years...
I've had some situations where it's somethat correct. Because the product sold out and got restocked a couple of times. And it's an extension to make an older device compatible with modern systems, so low supply is plausible.
I don't understand how that's legal. Companies are just allowed to lie??
8:10 - If you get enough of those on one grid, you can pop the breaker anyway. So sure, that surge protector isn't using all the slots... but depending on what you plug into it, you might not want to use them all anyway.
The best I've seen (in person) was that we figured out all the outlets for the living room was on the same breaker as the microwave. We found out by having the TV on, 6.1 speaker system, I think like 9 phones charging, and someone turned on the microwave. We had to move all but two phones into bedrooms to stop tripping the breaker every time the microwave was turned on.
He later also found out, that butting a space heater on one of the outlets and turning on the microwave would also pop the breaker.
I still remember some early winter a few years back...when my father dimmed the heater...the house is a dungeon with only 3 light fixtures, all of the rest of the house is lit with desk/table lamps on switched outlets...so you get half of the outlets that you paid for...he plugged the heater into the TOP outlet with the dimmer switch...BANG! the dimmer switch was hot and the room was now dark. This was about 30 years after the pinch roller fell off of my boombox when I was 6 years old and it started playing cassette tapes too fast...so I then plugged the boombox into the same dimmed NEMA 5-15 R socket and dimmed the boombox so I could hear the tape at nomal speed (I was 6 years old at the time).
@@brentfisher902 Interesting. But I can understand why it caused a surge and thus problems. Heaters need a lot of power... a dimmer restricts power. Not a great combo... something would have to fail. A lot of heaters have a dimmer built in, but they are properly built to deal with the amperage demand.
Would be interesting to dismantle the casette player in the boombox to see what happened to it. Usually motors get fried, not speed boosted... but maybe the speed regulator for the motor got fried, the the power was shorting past to run at full speed.
As for low lighting, I understand... the house I mentioned doesn't have any lights installed in the living room. And before LEDs, they couldn't use outlet lamps... again, because all wired together with the microwave.
The issue with the printer at 11:25 is why I use an IBM PPS II Dot Matrix printer from the 1990s with a parallel to USB adapter.
For transient documents I have a C program that takes a bitmap file and synthesizes a WAV file of the sound of a Group 3 fax machine...then I soldered a capacitor and a telephone plug and a headphone cord...take the fax machine off the hook, play the sound file...then hit the fax receive button...and it prints it in low-res thermal paper....
@@brentfisher902that's awesome
I hate how toxic and transphobic comments on Lexi's narrations can be. every reply becomes full of hate and it fucking sucks. Happens any time she's in a video.
Lexi is the best narrator for tech and cars, Robin just cars and consoles
what about Jack?
@@crazybird199 memes
@@haselay9828 fair enough
@@crazybird199 Jack, Maybe cars but not really
1:58 the fuel injector repairs weren’t even necessary or would even affect anything, so that just makes those mechanics even worse
Each plug extension should have space for sideways plugs to fit in, or make all plugs vertical
Or they should do what laptop chargers do and move the guts away from the plug.
@@driftliketokyo34ftw35 Glad I opted to click to see replies, I was about to say the exact same thing. I own a Sega Genesis along with the CD and 32X add-ons, and *all* of them need to be plugged in simply to use the Genesis by itself once they're all connected. A three-way power adapter made like a laptop charger would've been a no-brainer for that setup, but Sega never made one.
Mandatory vertical orientation would be the simplest solution. There are already power boards with extra spacing between sockets that assume vertical orientation, anyway.
20:17
No. Not they do not. There's a reason why. It's called 'We are not smart enough to actually LOOK at the Content of the Attachment. Because that takes Effort."
8:48 One of the actual reasons that paying every month instead of once or twice a year is an 'Employee' must process the payment (even if that 'Employee' is a computer program) and needs to be paid for their work and/or there is a Transaction Fee involved in moving your money from your account to their account.
But the MOST honest reason for the extra cost is because you wanting to pay in a non-industry-standard way is an excuse they can use to claw more money out of you...
The Insurance Industry is a MASSIVELY Greedy beast that make the Pre-Christmas Ghost Scrooge look like the Universes best Philanthropist...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
17:12
oh I HATE SENECA with a PASSION
it keeps on spamming me with notifications about signing my parents emails up to a mailing lis- I MEAN TELL THEM WHEN I’M DOING WELL IN MY LESSONS (how did they get my parents emails?)
If they won't tell you the price up front it's because they know you won't pay it if you knew what it was.
They also hope you forget to cancel your trial
The broken record in my head makes my mouth say "Silence is guilt." wherever I drop the needle.
I had to post this. Joined a music app, and it was a free trial, after that it would become a subscription, no prices clearly displayed. After the trial they tried deducting about 500 dollars from my card 😂
Fun fact Lexi, Kmart is a massive chain here in Australia! I used to work there until recently, and the pay is good but yeah it’s a cheap store for cheap things, like a dollar store. Still, it does well here.
I have the eclipse curtains at about 3:30 and yea, they don't work well
I can't understand companies hiding the pricing of their products from public. It tends to rather discourage me from getting anything from them.
One of my favourites. My fav is robin narrating antiwork tho
6:00 I think, logic here is to feed lower price for price COMPARISON services to come out on top there.
🎉 Companies! Congrats! You've made all of us leave you darn website!🎉
For the mail a letter one. Just sent the guy spam. Make him regret his actions.
wow, we are seeing Lexi in more and more videos!