# I'm ranting at you, July! (July mini-rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2024, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552 "2024-07-01T04:24:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/41 "2024-07-05T18:51:23Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > This sort of shyte is happening way too much… and mostly because employers get away with it. Fines and damages need to be increased against employers. That’s one of the things my agency responds to and can fine employers for. But you’re probably right that they don’t get fined enough. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/42 "2024-07-05T19:03:28Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > That’s one of the things my agency responds to and can fine employers for. You make me wish I worked for your agency ( as long as the check clears ). I know that’s not actually funny given the Bozos in The House today. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/43 "2024-07-05T19:03:39Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > Fines and damages need to be increased against employers. Right after “they” apply enough priority to funding and staffing the enforcement agency(ies) so more than a token pittance of cases ever even gets noticed. A very standard form of eyewash “get tough” is to greatly expand the paper penalties for doing [whatever] while also gutting the agency responsible for detecting and prosecuting [whatever]. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/44 "2024-07-05T19:07:55Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > You make me wish I worked for your agency ( as long as the check clears ). I do like what we do. 🙂 Well I just fix their computers, they do all the real work. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/45 "2024-07-05T19:56:15Z")
Fuck people who start group texts without identifying everyone. A friend just sent out a message to me and a few others, but the others just appear as phone numbers in the texts. Do I just ignore the entire conversation, or bluntly ask “Who the fuck is everyone”? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/46 "2024-07-05T20:17:45Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > or bluntly ask “Who the fuck is everyone”? I do the latter. But it’s > Hey [person who started this], who are all these other random somebodies I’m suddenly talking to? And why would I want to? Make sure to publicly point the blame directly at the thoughtless turd who deserves it. Most people utterly suck (witness SDMB) at writing anything with the varied contexts of their entire audience in mind, rather than unwittingly assuming 100% of the context in their own mind is obvious to everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/47 "2024-07-05T20:18:51Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I talked to people at both organizations I was referred to by my last therapist. Neither can help me. I’m running low on meds. I need a psychiatrist very badly Plug your city into this search feature of Psychology Today: > **[Find a Therapist, Psychologist, Counselor - Psychology Today](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists)** > > Browse our extensive directory of the best Therapists, Psychologists and Counselors near you. Toggle ‘psychiatrists’. There will be 10 psychiatric nurse practitioners or PAs for every MD psychiatrist but that how it is now. Psych NPs and PAs can prescribe virtually every medication out there (unless you’re needing Rx treatment for substance abuse that won’t be in your way). Most will offer telehealth or virtual appts. You can plug in your insurance to sort out which prescribers accept new patients with that insurance. One of my kids is a psychiatrist and Psychology Today is what he tells everyone who asks him for a referral for a prescriber or a therapist. Shoot, it’s what he tells family to do when they ask him. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/48 "2024-07-05T20:33:36Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I do like what we do. 🙂 > > Well I just fix their computers, they do all the real work. Somehow, I think we’re all on the same team. Keep Up The Good Work…! ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/49 "2024-07-05T20:55:44Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > Keep Up The Good Work…! Thank you. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/50 "2024-07-06T15:37:45Z")
At work, they seem to have adopted the practice of copying any query about a job to everyone, including the ‘thank you’ right at the end, so now I have even more emails to skim over or not read at all. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/51 "2024-07-06T22:35:48Z")
I’m going to rant about Facebook (for all the good it’s going to do). So I’m on FB, and I see something I want to comment on. I type in my comment, and as far as I can remember, I hit the “Enter” key to post it. This is AFTER I have successfully posted several comments on other items. So I go on scrolling, then I see a bit of clickbait that catches my eye (DON’T JUDGE ME! Anyway, it’s usually a set of Reels from The Big Bang Theory or Family Guy) and I click on it. At once, a message pops up: _You haven’t finished your message. Return to it, or leave the page?_ And it gives me buttons to click to make my choice. BUT IT NEVER DOES WHAT I TELL IT MY CHOICE IS! If I tell it to return to the message it thinks I was writing, it just sits there where it was when it told me I had navigated away. If I tell it to leave the page, yes, it lets me go where I clicked, but the next time I click on a link, IT DOES IT AGAIN! _You haven’t finished your message. Return to it, or leave the page?_ WTF, Zuckerberg? I told your stoopit robot that I was LEAVING THE PAGE! That implies that I’m okay with not coming back to it! And even if I wanted to come back to it, it wouldn’t go there! FUCK YOU! If you WANT to drive away the eyeballs that are the actual product that you’re selling to your actual customers, then, MORE POWER TO YOU! And FUCK YOU! ETA: Huh. I decided to post the above to FB (where it prompts “What’s on your mind?”) and now I inexplicably feel a lot better. That’s never happened before. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/52 "2024-07-07T00:20:16Z")
Well, the crisis caused by the liquor store workers’ strike reached a new state of emergency last night when I had great difficulty with the online ordering system, which for hard liquor like vodka is now the only option. No hard liquor of any kind was on offer – it wasn’t out of stock (that’s plainly indicated if it is), it just said “not available for delivery” for absolutely everything except some oddball products and wines. Today it was a little better, but I had to settle for alternatives to my favourite brands. I have two bottles of vodka coming (the maximum allowed) and a bottle of rum, and I feel slightly less panicked! 😁 I still have adequate supplies but I need emergency reserves! I suspect that “not available for delivery” must have something to do with not being able to fulfill orders even if the main warehouse has lots of it, due to very high demand. Absolut vodka is unavailable, but Smirnoff is. Bacardi Gold rum is unavailable, but Appleton Estates and some others are. Tanqueray gin is unavailable, but some other brands are. I suspect that if I check later on, those brands will likely be back. They’re probably just getting geared up for home deliveries and faced a sudden deluge of orders from ~~alcoholics~~ panicked customers who didn’t know the strike was coming! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/53 "2024-07-07T08:42:42Z")
This liquor store strike might actually turn out to be fun! The random appearance and disappearance of stuff available for online ordering, coming and going like moths in the night, makes it a kind of game! Beat your neighbour – get it first while you can! 😃 Plus, I get to discover neat new stuff … in my desperation to find an amber rum – **any** amber rum – that was actually orderable online in this crisis, in addition to the standard vodka essential, the one I happened to stumble across appears to actually be quite interesting. It’s a limited release Jamaican double cask rum, meaning it was aged in one cask and then transferred to another for the remaining aging, the second cask in this case was one used for a single malt scotch. The rum wasn’t especially expensive and promises to be quite tasty, though unfortunately it’s now completely out of stock – I think the whole warehouse had just 6 left when I ordered this. [![](https://aem.lcbo.com/content/dam/lcbo/products/0/3/8/5/038559.jpg.thumb.1280.1280.jpg) ](https://aem.lcbo.com/content/dam/lcbo/products/0/3/8/5/038559.jpg.thumb.1280.1280.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/54 "2024-07-07T11:21:03Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I type in my comment, and as far as I can remember, I hit the “Enter” key to post it. I hate that about FB. I’ve always used “Enter” to insert a new line. The number of times i’ve accidentally sent half of a message … ! Bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/55 "2024-07-07T14:04:58Z")
Appleton Estate is good rum. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/56 "2024-07-07T18:48:15Z")
I made zucchini bread today, or tried to. For some mystifying reason, it did not rise, even though I know I put in the correct amounts of baking powder and soda. It tastes OK but the texture is weird and dense. A waste of good ingredients ::Sigh:: ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/57 "2024-07-07T19:48:47Z")
My girlfriend suggested I call my pharmacy to see if they could help. It turns out that my psychiatrist ad left me about a months worth of refills, BUT NOBODY THOUGHT TO TELL ME! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/58 "2024-07-07T20:07:19Z")
Ouch! A modern computerized pharmacy will include things on the bottle label like “3 refills remaining”, “2 refills remaining”, etc. Likewise their website will show that info too and usually actively remind you to order your available refills. They know when you’re expected to run out of each drug you take based on what they’ve dispensed when. If you’re forced to deal with some antiquated Mom’n’Pop that’s a darn shame. Sorry you’re getting drug (heh) through the wringer about the meds. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/59 "2024-07-07T23:17:48Z")
Fucking google. My uncle was in a serious accident. I am searching for news coverage, so I set the filter to “last 24 hours” and search “Town name” and “accident.” Google helpfully says the results have been limited based on my location, so I’m getting only things pertaining to Town name, California—1300 miles to the south, whereas I want 2500 miles ESE. It says for different results to be more precise in the search box, but that doesn’t actually bring more precise results. In incognito mode, it suggests “choose an area,” but the only options are places nearby in California. Removing Google’s permission to see my location doesn’t change it—it still bases it on my IP address. Am I missing something, or have internet searches been dumbed down to the point that you can no longer actually use them? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552/60 "2024-07-08T02:14:04Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Am I missing something, or have internet searches been dumbed down to the point that you can no longer actually use them? I have no idea what you’re doing, but I tried a test myself. I did a Google search for “Columbus Ohio vehicle accident” (because I love nowhere near there) and it says at the top, “Results for Columbus, OH” and a link to “Choose area”. But results seem to be limited to that city. I then click the News tab, and then at the top click the “time frame” filter and switch to “last 24 hours”. It looks like it’s doing exactly what it should and seems pretty intuitive. I only get one legitimate result which is this one: > **[Police: 1 dead after motorcycle hits parked vehicle in Springfield Township...](https://www.wlwt.com/article/springfield-township-ohio-motorcycle-fatal-zodiac-drive/61524511)** > > One person has died after a motorcycle struck a parked car in Springfield Township Saturday night, according to Springfield Township police. Again, I live in the Seattle area but Google doesn’t seem to care about that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-ranting-at-you-july-july-mini-rants/1003552.md?page=4)