That sounds Horrible! By me, the issue is Facebook. I constantly get friend requests from Celebrity Names on Zuckerberg’s Turd. Yes, it’s a shitty platform but I have elderly relatives who use it. Anyway, these GRIFTERS keep trying to ask me for money ( or to unsolicited suck my dick ) and I’m tired of their Bull Shit. Today, the new account Dick Gobbler was Mel Gibson.
Sorry, Mel. No Dick for You.
So, I went through the process of trying to report the account of this rude ‘Dick Gobbler’ only to find Mel Gibson isn’t on FB. Because he is not, I can’t report that “Electrolux Gotta Dick? I Sux” Saucy Aussie to FB and have their disgusting account removed. Worse, if I curse back at that “Dick Vaxx ( and your sacks )” I can get suspended. So, are these Signs? To the Max? I’m a guy, but I’m pretty sure that this isn’t what women want.
If you want to run a platform, Zuckerberg, then do better because I don’t want you or any of your people trying to suck my dick.
This probably qualifies as a bit more than a mini rant but I am too tired to start a thread.
My county government job claims health insurance costs are going up too much to keep an employer health plan. Everyone under 65 will have to get care through the PA marketplace and everyone over 65 has to sign up for Medicare.
So now I have a very limited time to look at Medicare options while I continue to be employed.
They are saying we will be reimbursed but I have no idea how all of that will work with everything especially RX coverage.
I am really in a funk about it all. All my life I’ve had great health care employer coverage and now things are in chaos.
That’s not a “mini” rant, that’s a major rant and beyond ridiculous. It’s much worse than the EU edict that now requires almost every new web site I access to tell me how awfully much they care about my privacy but they use cookies and what cookies would I consent to. It pisses me off so much that sometimes I just exit and don’t bother looking at the site. This is all because of some bullshit EU regulation. But threatening to fine Imgur, which is a noble and beneficial small brother-and-sister business, and necessitating them, out of fear of government persecution, to block access to all of the UK is just Orwellian bullshit. Imgur is probably the preferred image hosting platform that we use here on the SDMB because it’s free and very easy to use.
Imgur is still freely available everywhere else and I don’t think any of our children are in peril!
I’m sorry to hear that. But the whole US health care system is such a giant clusterfuck that I get tired of commenting about it. It’s literally hard to imagine any system that could possibly be worse, except maybe one with no Medicare at all, which I’ll remind everyone that Republicans strongly opposed on the grounds that it would be the creeping intrusion of Communism and the anti-Medicare campaign was strongly championed by one Ronald Reagan, who warned that it would mark The End of Freedom in America™.
In the realm of unprovable mini-conspiracies, I believe major e-mail hosting services have instituted software to make it harder for us to delete unwanted e-mails.
I used to be able to easily delete accumulated e-mails en masse from a gmail account, but now get a message saying they’ll be deleted “later”, which they aren’t, so I have to delete in small batches.
Then Yahoo e-mail, where I somehow accumulated over 462,000 messages (don’t ask*), wouldn’t let me do a mass delete (it kept stalling and deleting nothing), so I would have to delete 100 at a time, running into weeks of work to first get all 462,000+ into the trash and then do 100 deletes at a time from there.
Fortunately, I thought of switching to the “old” Yahoo e-mail format, which let me dispose of all the emails in under a half dozen tries.
I think the email providers are making mass deletion harder, in order to get you to pay for more space.
I’m extremely lucky in that the company will pay it, at no cost to the employees. My adult daughters, on the other hand, are going to be severely struggling. At least my state has the Medicaid expansion.
Good news: I just had an ice cream bar out of the new fridge, and it’s solid and cold and just as it should be.
Bad news: All the crap I threw out from the old fridge is starting to stink in the outdoor bin. Garbage pickup isn’t until later in the week. It will be such a relief when all that stuff is gone. Aside from a few miscellaneous garbage bags, there are two huge full-size ones that I could barely lift. Thank Og the garbage bin has wheels!
A new car may be in the offing. Another hand-me-down from my son, but I’m a Retired Old Fart™ and don’t mind hand-me-downs. It will be a boring but very reliable Toyota Camry. The previous hand-me-down, a Chrysler Sebring, has been remarkably reliable but damn, the thing is starting to rust something awful. Which is a shame because mechanically almost everything works.
Follow-up visit with my PCP today, which was mostly discussing how my body is responding to the recent changes in my medication and what else we can try. He decided I should start taking Jardiance, with a follow-up already scheduled with my cardiologist.
And of course there were the usual blood tests. Which leads to my mini-rant. I’m used to running into occasional problems with blood draws and stents; sometimes they have trouble finding a usable vein, and sometimes even when they find one they have trouble getting blood. But today was the capper. After the nurse gave up I had two phlebotomists try, then they sent me to the blood lab, where the technician finally managed to fill the necessary vials. (At one point I had suggested that we just slash my arm and catch the blood as it dripped out, but apparently that would have contaminated the blood.)
I have no idea why, but the last couple of times I’ve used my Kitchenaid stand mixer for bread dough, I wound up having serious difficulty getting the bowl out for cleaning afterward. Anyone have any idea why this happens, or better yet how to prevent/mitigate the problem?
My Kitchenaid ice-cream bowl has a similar problem, I assume due to the bowl freezing itself to the base.
I lightly apply olive oil (hey, I don’t have engine oil) before mixing to the base of the mixer. That solves the problem.
I don’t often get the same with bread, unless it is a particulary stiff dough. (I make sour-dough, mostly, and to my shame… I don’t go full on hipster and knead by hand!)
I have long hated Gmail for not letting me use the {Delete} key on my keyboard after reading an email. No, I need to move my mouse up to the top of the screen & click on the {Trash can icon}.
On a related note, I hope (but have no expectation) that Win 12 will bring back the shortcut keys that they’ve totally removed in Win 11. Takes me longer when working thru photos because I amwas a keyboard-centric user.
Substitute 10W-40 for vegetable oil in your recipes to really get your motor running!
My rant - Last night was the full moon, & the city was lit up special, & the forecast was for clear skies, & I looked at the planning app & knew just wear to stand to get good shots & we didn't have normal FD training. Yeah, I *can* go get cool shots!
…except the big, important normally-Wed evening meeting got moved to Mon & while I could listen I wouldn’t be able to get all of the information iffn I was in the car. As it turned out, they didn’t even read the info that they normally do, only displayed it on screen; which is damn near impossible to see on a phone because they insist on using teams, & having the presenter on the side, which means the displayed info isn’t even all of the phone screen, which means it’s hard to see when I’m sitting there concentrating on it; forget about if I was in a car.
I’m glad I got the info but that moonrise, with the city being lit up like that may not happen again for years.
