Dear Twitter: You realize that since you switched to the “20% ads all the time” format that everybody is blocking every “Promoted” tweet source, right? You are going to run out of suckers who pay to promote before too long, but by then everybody will have migrated to other media. Assholes!
All right you climate-change denying motherfuckers–you know who you are: “Oh, it’s snowing! Global warming is a myth!” You gonna poke your heads out of your air conditioned domiciles and acknowledge that the Earth is heating up? Or are you just going to sweat your asses off and claim it was hotter when you were a young’un, then go back to denying the truth right before your eyes?
Fuck you, fuck your scientific ignorance, fuck your party-line parroting, and the horse you rode in on. Twice.
Cake-pops are vile.
That’s all.
I disagree with “almost everyone”. I don’t, because I’ve had it with Twitter, and I’m outta there! Just don’t use the “new, iPad-and Hipster-friendly format”.
Go do something else. Maybe something analog…
See, this is where businesses get so full of themselves that they assume all their “loyal customers” will put up with any abuse. And any stupid changes [see above]. I’ve worked with some of these companies, and they honestly think we will ALWAYS use their product/software.
Guess again, jerkwads. I can close my account, or just close my laptop and go “tweet” in real-life to actual people.
Oh, man.
First, I’m in traffic yesterday behind someone who has a bumper sticker that reads:
FLUORIDE
THERE IS POISON IN THE TAP WATER
(It turns out to be an infowars sticker. Figures.)
I am fuming at this driver, because not only is s/he entirely devoid of brains, but his or her compatriots succeeded several years ago in getting our municipality to remove fluoride from the drinking water. This requires my grandson to take little fluoride tablets, which his mother generally forgets to give him, thus impacting his health when it doesn;t need to be impacted at all because fluorine is NOT POISON YOU COMPLETE AND TOTAL IDIOT–
and then I see a small plume of smoke rising from the open window on the river’s side and realize
THE DRIVER IS SMOKING A CIGARETTE.
Talk about poison!
AAAAAARGH
They are a way to take about a penny’s worth of cake, 5 cents worth of glaze, a penny paper stick… and charge 2.00 apiece.
And you’re thus paying 2.00 for one bite of cake, where a real slice of cake might cost twice that.
Pretty good deal for the vendor. Not so much for the consumer.
And yeah, they are NEVER as good as the original cake would have been, even if it’s just a Duncan Hines mix.
Well, she’s saved you a fair bit of expense (unemployment insurance) albeit at the cost of the hassle of prosecuting.
If you had let her go, and she had managed to collect unemployment, your rates would have gone up quite a bit. Which I think is why a lot of employers routinely protest such claims even though it’s a dick move. My brother was fired for misusing company resources: without going into all the details, the company had used shop A for certain things, switched to shop B, and DID NOT TELL THE EMPLOYEES. So when he used shop A for something, they canned him - and tried to argue his unemployment claim (he appealed, and won). FWIW, this was also in Pennsylvania (though not western).
In this employee’s case, I hope you had her quitting well documented, and also had her screwups documented somewhere. It’ll help you if she files for unemployment and you want to deny it, and also help with her assertion to the police that she had no business being there after hours.
After a few years with my iPad Pro, I decided to upgrade. I really wanted the new Apple Pencil 2, which will allow me to double-tap the side to swap to eraser and back.
The most important thing I do with my iPad is marking up sheet music, so this is a feature that I rely on and want to be as fluid as possible. The new iPad Pro does this in spades.
But…there are a few quibbles…
Apple sells a 64GB version and a 256GB version. Nothing in between. My old one was 128, so now I have to go to the much more expensive one to not downgrade memory. I’m sure this was a carefully planned decision.
There is no headphone jack (Ugh!)
They changed from Lightning connectors to USB C, meaning my existing chargers and cables don’t work.
There is no Home button. That’s going to take a while to get used to.
The cost!
Update:
On Thursday I got a call at work. A receptionist told me “Bill Smith” wanted to talk to me and sounded like he knew me. I assured her I knew no Bill Smith. She returned a few minutes later and told me Mr Smith was a lawyer. I asked her to tell Mr Smith I had an attorney and was happy with his services to date. I then took my dogs outside to pee. When I returned she told me that Mr Smith was representing an acquaintance of mine and he really needed to speak with me.
So, I got on the phone and he told me who he was. He said that my exemployee regretted her action (quitting) and was willing to return to work. I told him that she had quit without notice in the middle of her shift and as such was ineligible for rehire. He wanted to discuss things further, but I told him I had nothing more to say and hung up.
The police called the next day, Friday, and I assured them I was gung-ho ready to help with prosecution. They told me there will likely be a plea bargain met but they would stay in touch.
As far as Unemployment Compensation, I keep excellent records. I’ve never fired anyone, and previous people who have quit and applied for UC have lost their cases every time so far.
ETA: Actually, the call on Friday was not “the police” (I don’t think) but rather someone from the DA’s office.
They also are given expiration dates (coming from the freezer) about a month out, so that cake pop was made, frozen, shipped to a store and then sat on the warm shelf waiting to be purchased for up to a month. More if the store people don’t check the expiration dates very often.
Mild anti rant, my N-400 application has progressed and has resulted in a recommendation for approval on form N-652.
All being well, shortly after August 21st I’ll be right on filling out Texs form VR17. 11EI3
I’ll be trading in one long term Lizzy hopefully for another.
(hopefully I have the right Texas form number and that’s not for some awkward agricultural process)
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Excuse me, does anyone here speak Texas Bureaucracy?
I’m thinking Precambrianmolusc is applying for US citizenship?
This thread reminds me I went on a road trip two weeks ago with my sister and my two nieces and out of the 5 public restrooms we had use only 1 would be what I consider clean. A lot of unflushed toilets for one thing. Is that hard to flush a toilet?
Some people seem loathe to touch the flushing mechanism of a public toilet. Hell, even in the AF, I had to send several building-wide emails telling men (since that’s all I saw) to flush the damn urinal so there wouldn’t be piss-smell from unflushed urine emanating from the bathrooms.
Fricken bloodily hell who who thought moving in July is a good idea? I plied the movers with ice water, Gatorade, bought them lunch, told them not to hurry. Still felt badly, one of the guys was 63 yo.
Seems so.
N-400 Application is for Naturalization (as a US Citizen)
Form N-652 - Naturalization Interview
Texas form VR17 - Texas Voter Registration.
Stop at McDonalds. I do it all the time driving cross-country. Their restrooms tend to be a lot cleaner than those in wayside rests.
Just, you know, buy a small cone or something once in a while so they don’t get upset about non-customers flooding in just to use the restroom.
That’s correct, just did the interview today and I should be seeing a person in a robe with a flag within a month. Then Texas voter registration time.
I have been filling out a lot of forms, and the immigration person interviewing me had a 5in thick slab of paper work which was everything from my L1a application through green card and then naturalization. It would have been thicker but most of the naturalization stuff was on line. I have a new found respect for a system that can track all thet stuff around for years.
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Welcome aboard, fellow (soon to be) citizen.