In your Harris-Walz 2024 t-shirt.
… and my Bob Casey for US Senate ball cap…
Are you one of my co-workers? We’re also going through open enrollment and I’ve heard similar stories. I’m not in any way shape or form anything to do with HR or benefits and people are asking ME what to do. People who have worked for the company for years and this isn’t their first open enrollment. They also skipped the “mandatory” explanation meeting and don’t read their emails so that might also have something to do with it.
I forgot to say, good job on the thread name.
Thanks! 
On the subject of MAGA types being anti-fun, part of my family’s been working polls and the other part’s been canvassing. So I’ve been watching hordes of college-age voters leaving the polls. I swear I could spot the Trump voters (even without their paraphernalia) because they were depressed.
Others came bouncing out of the voting booths and couldn’t wait to share their excitement with us about how this is the most important election EV-errr and all their friends are voting, some for the first time and it’s so exciting and what can they do to help?
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eta: Just found the “Stop Panicking!” thread; I might post this (and maybe more) there.
My utility bill started going up this evening. It was 61° inside when I got home…& that’s before it gets down to 35° outside overnight so now the heater is on for the next x months.
I abandoned that thread back in June, but re-opened it a couple of days ago. Some of the predictions people were making then were more entertaining than others (with the benefit of hindsight; all of them turned out to be wrong, though).
Nice to see the ascent of people’s expectations after President Biden announced his withdrawal, though.
61° greatly exceeds the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth – 56.7° in the Furnace Creek area of Death Valley, California in July, 1913! 
Oh, wait, you probably mean 61° 'Murrican, a temperature scale no one else in the world uses except sometimes for oven temperatures and measuring the doneness of meat!
In any case, I don’t closely track my utility bills, but if I did, I’d probably find that overall, peak summer costs are higher than peak winter costs. That’s because, in my capacity as an Old Fart who bursts into perspiration like a Roman fountain with hardly any provocation, I tend to keep the house cool in winter – and natural gas is cheap anyway, whereas in the summer I throw “environmental responsibility” to the winds and run the A/C with reckless abandon.
In fact, even in the depths of winter, when I’ve been doing something strenuous like bringing in a bag of groceries from the car, I like to fling open the windows to cool off. When this sort of strenuous activity happens in the summer heat, rather than turning the thermostat down even further (normally set to about the temperature of a beer fridge) I’m in the habit of just blowing on it to tell it to quit lazing around with its stupid hysteresis cycle and just turn on already!
Have I mentioned that I’d have a hard time living in a hot climate? But then, I’m biologically evolved as a Canuck, we who don our T-shirts and shorts and declare it summer at the first sign of melting snow. I believe Canucks are related to penguins. 
Wondering where Peta is to complain about a man’s pet being confiscated and killed.
Sorry, I should have done the simple math to convert °F to °C for you. It’s a simple formula:
Two guys showed up to work early Sat morn in shorts, it was in the 40s & wind gusts were into the 20s (with a forecast of 9-10 
- I wanna be a weatherman; what other job can I be wrong 50% of the time & not get fired!) & we were in a wide open area
One quickly went to his car for an extra layer, both top & bottom. I think the other guy would’ve if he had pants in his car.
I had a junior high teacher who told me that yeah was pronounced like yea and what we pronounce as yeah was not a real word. more than 60 years i still think she is an idiot.
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Every time I try to insert a quote it deletes it when I post. So I have to go in and edit my reply and post a second time.
So I have decided not to post quotes anymore unless it seems necessary.
When I am in Europe I use the Celsius temperature measurement system. When I am home in the USA I use the Fahrenheit system. I adapt to wherever I am. It’s not a hard adjustment and I don’t complain.
I have a lovely little iphone app called Franz which gives me the temperature in both. I “speak” both Fahrenheit and Celsius, and I understand the conversion math, but I just find it much easier to see both at once, because I just have a different relationship with each.
Right now, it’s 48°F / 9°C here. For some reason, in this range, I find 9 a lot easier to understand, but once it gets above 20 I’m much happier in Fahrenheit.
There’s a fix for this but it can be relatively obscure. As a new poster I had to learn it.
This ‘trick’ is to change one thing, one character from what you are quoting, like leave off the period at the end of the quote or drop off an inconsequential word like ‘the’ at the beginning. If you try to quote an entire post verbatim, the software seems to drop it. Just modify it ever so slightly (without changing the meaning, of course) and nanny discourse will be happy.
Hopefully someone more tech savvy will come along and explain this better or point you to the Dope guidelines with specifics. This is my duct tape/WD-40 tech peasant hack for that problem.
Yeah… When you pronounce something in a way different from everyone else, they’re not the ones pronouncing it incorrectly.
We have a similar problem with a few posters here who insist everyone is using the wrong term for something and insist everyone else needs to adopt something they made up.
This will only happen if you try to quote the entire post. For example, I only quoted one sentence of your post and it worked fine.
It’s one of the annoying nanny systems of the Discourse software that runs this board. It will also not provide a reply notification if you are replying to the post just before yours. Those are just a couple of examples of things we have to live with here.
If you haven’t, it might be useful to browse the Site Feedback forum here that discusses some of the quirks of the board software and work-arounds for them.
I love a good duct tape solution! Thank you.
It works!
There is a fix for it outlined in this thread…
but no one seems to want it !