Oh, I think both you and @Dung_Beetle have plenty of company. I know I won’t ever look at the world the way I used to before 2016.
I recently had a potentially serious health problem pop up and was thinking to myself that I wasn’t ready to die quite yet, and then wondered … why? Yes, the world is still full of wonderful things but I am having a lot harder time seeing that.
The movie theatre chain near us got rid of their ticket counter. You have to buy your tickets at a kiosk. Or online, but there’s a surcharge if you do that.
If you need to buy in person (like with prepaid passes), you have to wait in the concessions line. Yes, you have to wait behind everyone else buying overpriced popcorn. And you’re the one delaying the line while you figure things out.
If you’re buying tickets for a later show then you now have to wait in line twice (assuming you want snacks later).
I am getting so firetruckin’ tired of “In the Air Tonight” by Phil Collins being used as a theme for Monday Night Football and Thursday Night Football on TV. Yeah, Collins is a drummer, and it’s got a great drum solo, and it’s supposed to get us primed for the game, but it has been so overused that I’m now at the point where I mute the sound.
Hell, if “In the Air Tonight” comes on the satellite radio in my car, I change the channel.
It’s not a bad song, nothing wrong with it, but its overuse by the NFL has turned me off it. Mute the sound, get a beer from the fridge, and hope that it is over by the time the game starts.
That’s … moronic.
I feel likewise. I just tell everyone it’s lingering anhedonia from long covid but that’s only part of the truth. The other part is the emotional upheaval from the election.
Godspeed everyone.
More Flickr Problems
When Flickr first sent me the warning ‘Pay up, delete the restricted content your account will be closed’, I thought they were serious. As I said, I found a better host and uploaded my photos there. Wanting the link in the thread to keep working, I replaced the photo it led to with an image of text saying ‘My new gallery can be found at-’ and giving the web address. I also included a clickable link to the new gallery in a comment. Now, as I said, anybody following the link in the thread just gets a screen saying that they must be signed in to Flickr to see my content. If they are not discouraged enough to give up at this point, create an account and sign in- they will see a message with a non clickable web address. At that point, even more people will be discouraged and give up. So, I tried to replace the message image with the original photograoh. Flickr will not let me do that. The message will not explain why.
This is a very minor issue in my life. However, when I am feeling down certain things can always be counted on to cheer me up- Fox Sunday night cartoons, petting dogs, and my thread. Now, when I really need cheering up- the cartoons have been pre-empted by football. The dog is snarling and snapping at me. And the link goes to a sign in page, and a non-clickable address.
that is just stunning news. may his memory be eternal.
i haven’t been able to watch the news since early in the morning of nov. 6th. it is going to be a nauseating 2-4 years.
It would be great if we had a couple of teams that refused to throw a pass and instead, run on every down in protest.
“It’s not going to be in the air tonight!!!”
Companies love being socially responsible when it saves them money.
It’s like how all the big hotel chains jumped on the environmental responsibility bandwagon once they realized it could get them out of changing your sheets every day.
Now, if you want clean sheets you just have to take this little card that says “I’m a planet-hating asshole and I’m very selfish, change my sheets” and put it on your pillow before you leave your room for the day.
Here’s my rant:
Went to an optometrist to get new glasses.
My new vision insurance says I get one free eye exam, one free set of lenses, and $200 off frames.
The receipt I got shows 30% off on the eye exam, 50% off on the lenses, and nothing for the frames.
And you discussed this with them at the time of ordering? Or at time of delivery? Or not at all?
Frankly I’m perfectly fine with this. Yes, I want clean sheets when I go to bed, but why wouldn’t they already be clean without needing to be changed? Are you an alien who emits slime during the night as you sleep?
There’s a pretty significant ecological cost to excessive sheet-washing, both energy use and water pollution. I definitely want them changed after a previous guest, but otherwise I think the new hotel policy is a happy confluence of business interests with environmental interests.
No, I’m not a slime emitting alien but ……did you ever hear of this thing called
“the wet spot”? 
Truth is, I’m fine with the hotels not changing my sheets, and I agree it’s overkill when done daily.
But that wasn’t my point, my point is that the hotels couldn’t care less about the ecological impact of their policies, but when they coincide with the their bottom line they pretend to be “all in”. It’s the hypocrisy that was the point of my post.
I used to work in the lighting industry, so I’m no stranger to companies faking ecological responsibility in order to help their bottom line. Behind closed doors they were pretty open about it, I once received an B2B sales brochure on the subject……the title was People, Planet, Profits and the cover art was a mash up of pictures of jungle plants and hundred dollar bills.
Eureeka! Bah!
I figured out why I cannot use the ‘replace’ function on Flickr. The poorly worded instructions mean that this function can only be used once on an image. As I had already used the replace function to switch from a photograph to the text image, I cannot replace that image again. If I want to leave the link working, it will go to ‘you need to sign in to see this content’. If people sign in, they will be treated to the sight of black text on a yellow background telling them to go to a non-clickable web address.
I experimented with the website field in my profile. Any website entered must be valid and clickable. You cannot add any extra text describing the site or warning people. So, while leaving a link to the new gallery in that field would work- but it would violate board rules.
While typing this I had an idea. I have plenty of room there. I am going to post this and then try entering a description, warning and a link that can easily be copied and pasted-but cannot be clicked into my biography. I’ll let you know how it goes.
ETA
Success! The web address was still clickable in my description. I changed the .com to DOTcom. Then, I added a warning and instructions on how to make the link work.
I feel accomplished.
It’s such a good feeling isn’t it?!
It is. It really is. At least twice a poster has tried using that thread in an argument. “DocCathode started and posted in that thread! He is a pervert! He should be ashamed!”
Okay, by the defintion used by most Dopers, I am a pervert. We can argue that I should feel ashamed. I am not ashamed. As you may have guessed, I consider it perhaps my greatest accomplishment on the board. I am quite proud.
I think I’ve solved the problem of carrying food things up to my computer room on the second floor that require both hands to carry, and thus no hand or paw available for holding on to the banister. I no longer trust myself to climb the stairs clutching a hot cup of coffee in one hand and a plate of toast in the other.
The solution is an attractive wooden serving tray I got from Amazon a few weeks ago. I can hold it perfectly stable in one hand while climbing the stairs. Coffee and toast, sandwich and soup – no threat of anything ever spilling. I should have thought of this years ago!
Ha! You got me smiling with that one—thanks!
Same. (._. ) It doesn’t help that the revelation that the country is chock-full of awful people came right alongside being passed over for a promotion at work that I had thought was a sure thing. (As an added slap in the face, the guy they hired for the position lost his job here years ago after failing a drug test.) I’m just done. I hate what my country has become, I hate my job, and I’m dangerously close to hating people in general.
The only remotely positive thing is that my workplace is in such disarray right now that no one has a clue what anyone else is working on, so I haven’t really had people on my back. It’s nice being able to work at my own pace. And between streaming services and podcasts, I don’t have to listen to the news if I don’t want to.
I don’t hate my job. I, as you may remember, help people apply for foodstamps, or state medical assistance over the phone. Some callers are abrasive and annoying. Many are polite but very nervous. It can be very rewarding.
I am worried that funding to foodstamps and medicaid will be drastically cut and my position elminated.