Oh shit I’m sorry, that’s the kind of pain that’s practically inescapable.
Even wrenching your back hurts like crazy. I hope that you can lie down and find that one position that doesn’t make you scream in pain.
Then, don’t move a muscle.
The following rant is a supplementary rant to my previous rant about Kids These Days and their needlessly over-complicated technology and its almost-immediate obsolescence.
As discussed in another thread, my ISP unfortunately outsources their email to Yahoo, with their own branding and restrictions. One of the consequences was that my beloved Outlook email client stopped working because they made OAuth 2.0 mandatory.
This caused me incredible hassles and I eventually was forced to switch to Thunderbird, and with the help of fellow Dopers learned how to configure it to my preferences. I still hated the situation but things had more or less settled down. Until tonight.
Tonight I got some stupid popup screen about adding a “security phone number” to my account in case I wanted “added security”. I didn’t, so I closed the popup. I soon realized that this popup was popping every single time Thunderbird tried an auto-login – i.e.- now even Thunderbird was no longer working! 
And the popup contained a link to the ISP website on which I could establish this “added security”, which was apparently now mandatory and not at all optional. The link didn’t work!
So I logged in directly to my ISP webmail, and got the same popup. Now I could enter the required phone number and get an SMS message with the super-sekret 2FA code that I had to enter. (BTW, kiddies, how about if you don’t even have a cell phone? I guess you can no longer receive email anywhere. Sucks to be you, I guess.)
So after jumping through all the required hoops, I try to get Thunderbird to check for new emails. This time, no popup. This time, it just hangs on “sending login information”.
I close Thunderbird and restart it. Now I get a brand new popup. Something like:
Some criminal somewhere is trying to use Thunderbird to access your email. You must panic! However, in the unlikely event that this is actually you and you want to allow access, click “Yes”.
I must stress that all of this was precipitated out of nowhere for no reason whatsoever!
Jesus H. Christ, will you kids who love playing around with stuff just leave me the fuck alone!!! 
I’ve gone from never having heard of Caitlin Clark to being sick to death of her in very short order. Sure, she has a good shot. Sure, she got a lot of points, but she wouldn’t have gotten as many had she faced men playing defense. The men’s and women’s games are different and I don’t believe the scoring records are equivalent.
But at last she’s gone from the NCAA and will enter the WNBA, never to be seen again.
And Michael Jordan wouldn’t have gotten so many points if he’d been facing hockey players with sticks, or NFL linemen on defense.
I’d explain how they’re different sports, but I don’t think that’s the problem with your logic…
Yes, yes it is.
Right now, I’m to lie facedown on the floor for three minutes every hour. It seems to be helping, but getting down there and back up again is… not fun.
I think the men’s and women’s games are indeed different sports, so I object to people saying she broke the all time record held by a male. In the WNBA, she’ll probably score more points than Kareem Abdul Jabbar, but she’s not going to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 58 minutes.
I also am not sure that we can directly compare men and women basketball records at this point.
But I do love the attention that women’s basketball is getting, to the extent that March Madness on the women’s side got more attention than on the men’s side. I wasn’t sure if I’d see that in my lifetime.
Given the attention these athletes are getting now, and the anticipation that they’re driving for the WNBA draft, we might see a turning point where the WNBA starts getting more attention itself. I haven’t watched NBA games in decades (I was huge into basketball in the mid 90s but haven’t cared much since) but I might try to catch some WNBA games now. I think it’s cool.
So, my American Credit Union sold the credit cards to a third party. Fine, not ideal, but whatever. I do, however, need to pay them, so I attempted to set up online access.
Two hours later…
This is impossible, because they need to send a verification text to my phone—which is a Canadian number (same format as American, but I’m guessing rejected for having a prefix that isn’t in the system).
Possible workaround: a verification with my ZIP code. Which I don’t have, being in Canada. Fine: they have assigned me 00000 as a code, which… doesn’t work, I’m guessing because somewhere in their programming it’s matched against the complete list of actual ZIP codes.
After speaking to about eight different people, sharing screens, etc., their fallback was “well, you can always pay us by phone.”
Really? There is no way to set up a profile for someone without a US address? And no way to escalate that issue to someone who can solve the problem?
I closed the account, of course, but don’t know how I’ll deal with the balance. This seems like it ought to have an easy solution.
That sounds similar to my rants this month about the stupidities of much of modern technology, though my special ire was directed at Kids These Days and their lack of perspective on the technology that they design and develop. The problem you’re having seems to be caused by simple incompetence.
Brought home another foster. A very skinny, very pregnant, very friendly cat. You can guess at the story: no room at the shelter because it’s kitten season and she’s all spindly legs and big belly and she flopped over and begged for belly rubs, so…
Anyway, she’s absolutely lovely. No idea when the kids will arrive or how they’ll fare. Doesn’t look like it’s her first litter (she’s got used-up nipples), but she obviously hasn’t, like, had excellent prenatal care.
The only problem is, she likes to trash her hotel room. I rearranged it this morning because she had dumped so much of her food into her water bowl that there was basically no liquid water left- just a bowl full of soggy kitten food with her blankets thrown over/in the bowl. Just popped in to check on her (I cleaned her cage like 10 minutes ago) and she was lying next to her bed, having shoved her bed into her litterbox. She’s in an XL dog crate (set up as a cat palace, of course) to keep her quarantined and contained and keep the other animals from pestering her, so space is limited. I’m debating on whether to try adding a shelf or not- on one hand, more space. On the other, I’m afraid her babies would fall off once they arrive.
She’s in the human kid’s room right now and said kid is with me this week. Once she goes back home, I’ll reevaluate and see about letting li’l mama (who is currently named Europa, but might become Juniper or something else.) just have the run of the room.
Everyone keep all fingers crossed for an uncomplicated delivery, healthy kittens, and an attentive mama. And for this wild woman to settle down and learn to keep her space tidy.
I do t know who I want to throttle more, the lawn cleanup guys or my fucking roommate who was supposed to supervise.
Instead of pulling up the fucking privet they pulled out the witch hazel treesthat I nurtured from bare rootstock. They bloomed beautifully in the fall for the first time. I’m so fucking pissed and sad so very fucking sad and mad I’m very fucking angry right now.
I know how you feel.
Stupid bastards.
A similar level of protection is in place in the U.S. (up to mailing the secret PIN). However they will take cash payments at the local tax office even if you can’t get into the electronic portal. So at least the priorities are in order.
Phone tapping isn’t a huge concern. If someone has the resources and will to tap your phone, sending the PIN by mail won’t stop them. The reason PINs aren’t given over the phone is because it is easy to spoof phone numbers compared to intercepting snail mail. Basically the CSR isn’t supposed to believe you’re you.
~Max
BTDT. I am sorry you are there now too. It sucks.
My rant: I’m sure you’ve heard the mantra of reduce, reuse, recycle. In that spirit, we went to a great deal of effort to refurbish our patio furniture when years of being outside in all weather was getting to it.
After several years, the arms of the chairs are starting to look worn again - they’re metal and I’d found a spray paint that was almost exactly the same color as the original paint on them. I still have a little left and fixed up the arms. But I’m going to need more. Guess which shade of paint isn’t being made anymore? Can’t find it anywhere.
Luckily, the newest style trend in 2024 for outdoor living is two-tone patio furniture. And if it’s not, it will be in your neighborhood.
Damn! I’m sorry for your loss.
I just got a call from Kingston, Jamaica on my machine telling me that I just won a car and a large check from Publisher’s Clearing House. And All I have to do is call them back at +1 876-797-8773.
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I don’t think so, pal…
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As a Retired Old Fart, I don’t put a lot of miles on the car, especially with most of the goods and services I need very close by. So I don’t pay a lot of attention to oil changes. I’m sitting in the car the other day and happened to notice the oil change reminder sticker. IIRC I may or may not have been over the mileage limit but if so it wasn’t by much, but Holy Hannah, the date! In terms of calendar time I was almost exactly one year overdue for an oil change – meaning about two years since the last one!
Fortunately I use synthetic oil which is pretty durable and I think it should be OK. Just got it changed this afternoon. My car is about as elderly as I am in car years but it’s been a good old girl and I baby it and keep it in the garage out of bad weather, and it keeps on tickin’. Everything on it still works, including non-essential power stuff. Anything that does break (and not much has) I replace. It may eventually become the Car of Theseus, but I don’t care. I don’t want a new car.
About 12 years ago, my primary care doc went concierge (where you pay an annual fee of 1800 bucks or so to remain on their rolls, in addition to whatever insurance reimbursement / copays apply; the doc limits his/her patient load, so appointments can be longer, and you can get in faster.
I went with another practice - two brothers. I went with A, my husband went with B.
They announced they were going concierge, 8ish years back.
Then they backed off. A went concierge, B did not. I could likely have switched to B, but was pissed.
I found a new primary care doc - employed by a large medical group, so (in theory) less likely to make that switch.
She moved out of state. I started claiming that I was beginning to take this personally.
I was inherited by another doc in the same practice, not quite 6 years ago.
She’s leaving the practice.
OK, in her case, I could follow her, but her new location is 45 minutes away in good traffic (this is DC, when is traffic “good”???). Urgh.