That only happens to me when I’m using the whole post AND my post is the very next post. Then, yes I look for an uppercase i or a lowercase L that I can swap out.
Yes! I tried this out and it works! I thought it was just me…
Y’all made my day!
Ranting about the ever deteriorating communication within the medical systems I use.
Tried to schedule a colonoscopy a few weeks ago since my last on was in January 2020 and I remembered that the doctor stopped by my post procedure bed to advise I should come back in 3 years. At least I thought he did.
I go to an appointment with my new primary care physician (PCP) and ask for a colonoscopy referral all the while intending to go over the symptomatic details of the last several years with the medical specialist established to hear all of this information.
No call from the colonoscopy site. I call and they say I am not due back until 2030! Huh?
I relate that I have been having some issues and they tell me I need to see my PCP and go over my concerns and then he can forward a revised referral.
I call the PCP and ask if they can forward a new referral but they hesitate because I did not go over all of the recent symptoms at my October 2024 appointment. I am waiting to see if they will send a new referral or make me schedule another PCP appointment just to talk about the stuff I had anticipated discussing with the colonoscopy office.
I have no immediate family left and rely on a couple cousins.
I really wanted to get this scheduled while I am still working as I have a few coworkers who can accompany me to this procedure if one of my cousins is unavailable. The coworker option will disappear once I retire. I doubt any of them will remember me in 5 years (2030).
Frustrated and will probably just wait until my next PCP appointment in April and go from there.
It is even more frustrating because I am now in a position of advocating for a procedure which I am loathe to schedule to begin with lol.
Really glad to burp out this frustration somewhere. I am a licensed social worker and I understand systems and how they function but dear gawd.
In addition I am still struggling with all of enjoyable symptoms of long covid which probably exacerbates my frustration.
It’s all good. I have lots of immodium.
Gotta say, it seems more dramatic in Celsius.
I mean, “Brrr, it’s down in the single digits!” sounds worse than “It’s less than or equal to 49.982º American!”
Oh, Babe, if it was legal to push a button and to delete all of the hairy MAGA chimps and their droplings in my neighborhood, I’d have a much safer place to live.
On a larger scale, America wouldn’t have such an important election tomorrow either.
But it is, and America does, and honest to God I wouldn’t even know which hole in their bodies I should use to shove a conscience or a soul into or up.
It’d probably make a really great pinball game though.
Yes, it’s a good idea to quote only a relevant portion of a post instead of all 5 or so paragraphs.
Strangely, Europe, Canada, and virtually the whole of the world uses Celsius, and feels no need to “convert” anything.
For some of us, complaining is our main form of entertainment! 
A better trick is to leave the full quote intact and just add to the end of the quote. This is HTML code for “non-breaking space”; it’s invisible, but keeps Nanny Discourse happy.
Yeah but they are so stupid with their dumb scale that makes no sense.
A sensible scale starts with 32 degrees at freezing, and has 212 degrees at the boiling point. It’s so natural and easy to remember!
Celcius is so dumb.
I agree, but we outside the US are stuck with it. Just like we’re stuck with having to remember that there are 1000 meters in a kilometer, whereas all Real Americans know instinctively that there are 8 furlongs in a mile, a furlong being a natural unit of measurement corresponding to the length of a furrow in a 100-acre field and equal to 220 yards, yielding 1760 yards or 5280 feet in a statute mile, and 6076.12 feet (9.20624 furlongs) in a nautical mile. Easy peasy! 
I feel so bad for the rest of you poor folks.
It’s so cute that you think I could remember that.
My method is so simple it is almost elegant. No HTML code needed. If it ain’t broke don’t unnecessarily complicate it.
Hey! This Canadian horseplayer knows all that too.
(Canadian horse racing is so integrated with American horse racing, that it never went metric. If you don’t know Imperial distances, you’ll never know what “1⅛ mile” means as a distance in the Racing Form.)
I believe horse racing also introduced the Imperial small measure of distance known as “a nose”. I don’t know the exact definition of “a nose” but I believe it’s quite a bit larger than “a whisker”.
These can be useful units of measure. I believe that some aspects of tomorrow’s political horse race will be defined in terms of noses and whiskers.
Yes, the Imperial “nose” is used as a measure in the Racing Form. No mention of “whiskers,” but at my local race book, we call a very small “win by a nose,” as “a win by a snot bubble.”
This is mindbogglingly nerdy, but I want to apply for a .NET job. .NET is a framework originally made by Microsoft to work on Windows, but fairly recently there is a version called .NET Core which runs on Macs as well.
I have a Mac, but I do not have an IDE that supports .NET (VS Code has been discontinued) so I look to the excellent Jetbrains IDEs. They have one called “Rider” that does cross platform .NET dev.
But I just cannot download it! I usually use Homebrew, but even a direct download is not working. I mean, it is most likely MY fault, but all the network debugging, firewall rules and shit I can think of is not working. It starts to download… and then kind of hangs. I have a few fragments of the files on my laptop, I know it can start… but cannot finish.
Impotent anger, I guess. I’ll try another WiFi network later, this one I do not control, so it could be their firewall or settings or something. No one technically knowledgeable to ask, unfortunately.
“We shall have two different unrelated scales of temperature. One o fthem will make sense to the entire world, and the other will be super random. Our great nation will use the random one.”
-George Washington
Actually, I do think the Fahrenheit scale is better suited to reporting outdoor temperatures, for which the boiling point of water is irrelevant.
Fahrenheit’s main advantage, IMHO, is its greater precision. One degree C is almost two degrees F. A lot of people, including me, can tell the difference between 70 and 71 F.
Both are 21 C.
I think that’s because we’re (Americans) are used to thinking in Fahrenheit. I grew up with Fahrenheit and miles - I know instinctively how warm 70ºF is and how long a mile is. I have no idea how warm 21ºC is or when I’ve walked 1.6 KM, but I think I could learn relatively quickly.
No, they’re not.
70°F is almost exactly 21°C.
71°F rounds up to 22° and would always be reported as such.
Yes, Celsius units are larger, but we users of Celsius are familiar with a novel mathematical concept known as decimal points. My thermostat is adjustable in whole numbers when set to the Fahrenheit scale, but in half-degrees when set to Celsius. Weather reports are issued with actual temperatures reported to an accuracy of one decimal point, and predicted temperatures in whole numbers because that’s well within the limits of their accuracy.
I grew up during the transition to metric here, and yes, it takes a while, but one definitely gets used to it. I’m pretty much accustomed to thinking of an outdoor temperature of 26°C or higher as meaning “the A/C had better be turned on” and anything over 30°C as “hotter than hell”.
You get used to it equally quickly in terms of distances if you pay attention to your car’s odometer when driving familiar routes. “So point A and point B are 4 kilometers away, and I drive that every single day” is a pretty good introduction to what a “kilometer” is.
I have a rant.
As Mrs. Homie and I have aged, we’ve slowed down quite a bit, to the point that daily housework is getting away from us. There’s a local teen who’s always looking for odd jobs, and I’d love to hire her to come straighten up every Tuesday and Friday after school for an hour, at $20 per. That is damn good money for an hour’s work in this part of the country, and teens love their pocket money. Anway, Mrs. H steadfastly refuses to even consider it. All discussion of it is off the table. Period. Why? Because, and I swear I’m not making this up, she doesn’t want someone to see our messy house.
For whatever it’s worth, our mess consists entirely of routine wear & tear. A few dirty dishes here and there, dirty laundry to toss down the chute, vacuuming, etc. We’re not filthy, we’re not hoarders, and truthfully, we have probably the prettiest house in our town because it’s covered floor-to-ceiling with art. It just needs cleaned up, FFS.