My mini-rant is that there are too many major things in the mini-rants thread. Seriously, though, from health issues to dog issues, I hope everything gets better.
(Also, if your dog ATTACKED A CHILD, why would you just dump the dog somewhere, knowing it might find its way to a household with other children? What kind of person does this?)
I was going to post about my dead battery the other night, but it pales in comparison to the rest of y’alls troubles.
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Last month a friend of mine saw a car slow down then toss a chihuahua out. She didn’t see the license number, but managed to scoop the dog into a box and bring it into her home.The dog was vicious, but she understood how a geriatric abused dog could wind up problematic.
Over the course of several weeks the dog gradually allowed her to pet it. She gave it plenty of space, but soon it was climbing into her arms to be cuddled. She took a week off of work and spent all her time holding and talking to the dog.
Yesterday she took the dog for a veterinary exam. They couldn’t get anywhere near the dog, so they eventually offered to anesthetize the dog for an exam. Turns out the geriatric abused chihuahua is 4 months old but has suffered a lifetime of abuse already.
That woman’s ire was deserved but directed the wrong way. She and her mommy warriors or whatever should go after the guy who dumped off the dog without explaining what it did.
You have a way of picking the strangest of the strange. I’ll give you that.
That’s literally unbelievable and incredibly irresponsible all around, both the waste management firm and the uncooperative residents. Around here recycling has long been a huge deal and has seen improvements over the years. Instead of paper and cardboard in one bin and plastic, cans, and glass in another, we were recently supplied with a gigantic wheeled bin about the size of an SUV in which all recycling could be combined. It’s about 50% bigger than the corresponding garbage bin, reflecting the amount of each that they expect, and indeed, my volume of recycling is always quite a bit larger than the volume of garbage.
“How many Jewish mothers does it take to change a light bulb?”
“Never mind. I’ll just sit here in the dark. I don’t want I should be a bother.”
Today, my Mom told me her doctor was worried (over nothing of course) and had her wearing a heart monitor. If the doctor doesn’t see everything is fine, Mom may need to have a pacemaker put in.
Our city completely stopped all recycling about 4 years ago, after a decade or more of trying to make it work. Every household had a big wheeled recycling bin. Into which many people put lots of trash, stuff they hoped might be recyclable, and some stuff that actually was recylable as long as it wasn’t contaminated by the first two kinds of stuff.
The cost to hand-separate the good stuff from the trash exceeded to cost to land-fill it all. But the excess cost wasn’t too bad, so the city & county kept it up in the name of responsible greenery. Then when China decided they’d no longer accept international shipments of plastic for recycling, the market for everything except maybe copper and aluminum simply evaporated. The demand for recycled-quality paper had cratered a decade before.
So they reluctantly shut the whole system down and now everything goes into the landfill.
Moving to the global scale, not the local scale …
If the public won’t reduce, and won’t reuse, and the stuff they try to recycle is mostly not recyclable at all, much less economically so, the whole thing is a house of soggy cards.
The fact that large swaths of what we do use paper and cardboard and plastic for require that only virgin materials be used doesn’t help. These regs are all about keeping traces of unknown unknowable bad stuff out of e.g. food packaging. But they have the effect of greatly restricting the use of post-consumer waste.
I don’t know what the answer is. And frankly, I have no first-hand knowledge of how effective our local recycling program is, but it certainly seems to be getting lots of cooperation in the neighbourhood. The apparent failures of recycling in relatively affluent areas of the US where it should be doing well is depressing.
Hey, on a different and happier note, on the Stouffer’s fiasco, as the cancellation is still months away, the corner of my freezer where I keep the Stouffer’s is currently full to overflowing after today’s shopping spree. I will continue to savour it for as long as I can. Seriously, it’s a poor choice for consistent meals, but it’s a great backup when in a hurry or just feeling peckish and hankering for an airline-style small convenient dinner.
My husband had one put in 9.5 years ago. We’re here at the hospital today getting his battery changed. My rant is that nobody is communicating with me at all. I have no idea where he is or when he’ll be out of surgery.
I only have a tiny little rant, but I’ll put it out here among the much larger rants. I’m trying to watch the first season of Great British Bake Off on the Roku App, and about halfway through, it gets stuck on a commercial, and I can’t watch the end of the show. I’ve tried everything, and there’s no way to get past the ad. And their support people have not been helpful. They’re blaming Samsung, but I haven’t had any problems with any other apps on my tv. 
When you say “everything”, that includes rebooting the device, or possibly doing an uninstall/reinstall of the app, right? 
(Yes, I’ve done tech support.)
The Paramount+ app did that to me while watching Tough as Nails. Turning everything off at the powerstrip eventually worked.
I am an IT professional and give the same advice to people constantly because it works much of the time.
Also remember that many devices don’t actually turn “off” from the power button, but rather go into a deep sleep. This is very common with entertainment devices. For example, my Xbox console doesn’t actually turn off when I ask it to power off; I have to hold down the power button for a number of seconds before it fully turns off. When I power it back on it goes through an extended boot sequence rather than the quick restoration it normally does.
Completely unplugging a device is a good way to ensure it is powered all the way off, at least if it doesn’t have a rechargeable battery built in. That’s what I do with, say, a modem or router that is malfunctioning.
I made the mistake of mailing some important documents to the government just using the pre-paid envelope instead of going to the post office and sending it so it required a signature. It appears the packet never reached its destination. As a result, my food stamps are cancelled. I will re apply tomorrow.
Seanette, Atamasama, and Stretch—Thanks for those suggestions. I have disconnected power to the tv and deleted and reinstalled the app. I was hoping this was a temporary glitch, and I’ve tried playing the show several times over a few days, but it’s still stubbornly refusing to play.
I’ve contacted Roku support in a couple of different ways, and both times they have misunderstood the problem and asked questions that were answered in my first message. 
I tried going to the website and re applying. I get error messages. This is very frustrating.
What you do now is eat your Stouffer’s stash for every breakfast, lunch and dinner until you can no longer look at them without feeling queasy. Problem solved!
I have had that sort of issue on streaming services before and usually it works itself out eventually. There is something wrong with the actual title as it’s being hosted.
I do remember one time, when Netflix was very young and its streaming service was new, I was trying to watch the TV show American Gothic (the 90s show). I had seen the first few episodes just fine, but then they wouldn’t load anymore with a “temporary problem”. I would check back periodically because I really wanted to finish the series, but kept having the same problem. After a few months the show disappeared from their library completely.
Checking on it now, I would have to pay for each episode or subscribe to something called “The Criterion Channel” (whatever that is) if I wanted to watch it. Ugh. Even a decade later it’s a pain!
“Some one’s at the door”