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I heard those were fantastic for pet hair and bought one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
The damned brush didn't even spin. So I contacted them, and after assembling and reassembling the thing twice with them and sending video they determined it was a faulty part and sent a replacement - it also did not work, and it took them over a month to send it. I assume they take so long since most stores only allow 30 days to make a return.
Luckily I had longer to return, so I did.
Oh, it works alright, but it's a Dyson.
Also, nowadays my own cooking gives me a a runny nose
My sister in law is due with her second child in a few weeks; she was planning on getting an IUD right afterwards because she thinks she's done with having kids. But because she's in a state that has now outlawed abortion, her obstetrician informed her that IUDs are off the table because they typically prescribe mifepristone before implantation, and that's now not an option. So, instead she's getting a salpingectomy because she can't handle the risk of getting pregnant in a state that doesn't offer basic reproductive care for women... and if she changes her mind, she figures she still has two frozen embryos left.
... I told her she should probably see about moving her embryos out of state before e.g. poorly written personhood laws come into effect.
I'm just waiting before the GOP to decide IVF is abortion (fertilized eggs are discarded).
I'd never before experienced a cold/flu that actually made my skin hurt. I'd heard about it, but never had it myself. I wish that was still the case. On the plus-side, still Covid free. This infection felt different enough from others that I'd actually figured it had finally caught me, but the PCR from Sunday says no.
Congrats on getting the wrong plague! Get better soon.
Ditto.
I bought a fairly expensive (and future proofed) modem/router in December when our super old one it replaced wouldn't work with our faster internet after we moved.
As of today, it's bricked. Looks like a problem that's cropped up in the last few months with a mfg firmware update - many, many people are reporting this issue, and apparently CS is more or less nonexistent. I think I'm just going to have to grit my teeth and buy some new equipment - though not Netgear this time. Grr.
Netgear had some bad days some years ago but I have heard good things about the Nighthawk x45.
It’s a router with OpenWrt support so should be decent updates. Otherwise TP, Linksys, Asus.
So what is messing with my groove?
Election year in Sweden and it will be the same as all other years.
The social democratic alliance will win by 2-4%. Etc.
Meanwhile serious crimes increases,
several ticking economical bombs that doesn’t add upp.
My son had a vasectomy last week. He's never wanted children (but if he changes his mind there's always adoption). While I'm proud of him for taking birth control seriously and being pro-active...I think our medical industry over-uses the "30 yr old" metric for these elective procedures.
Even for women with chronic, severe, debilitating endometriosis and heavy bleeding -- and know they don't want children -- it's impossible to get a hysterectomy until they've passed that 30th birthday. In case they change their mind or something. It's sad that doctors are so afraid of potential law suits that they actually cause women to suffer, often for many years. But it's especially pathetic that right wing politicians are busy writing laws for pre-born un-born "Personhood", in a state-by-state patchwork, that birth control and Family Planning has turned into chaos. :down:
I've been activated for emergency response. 12 hour shelter shifts for the next 4 days.
The accents of the Miami Boys Choir. I mean... Am I the only one?
WHY are you listening to the Miami Boys Choir. How do you even know they exist? Talk about niche.
Thank you for your service! :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
The why can only be answered by the algorithm of tiktok. Since a couple of days ago my fyp is being flooded with them and I am being crash coursed about what they are, who they are and which 'teams' there are.Quote:
Originally Posted by wiggin
And of course being exposed to the slurry Hebrew of their songs.
Thanks. About to head in for another shift and since Ian is about to make landfall I'll be stuck there for 36 hours before I'm allowed to go back home.Quote:
Originally Posted by Being
Ah so it's the sea shanties du jour. Weird.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
And if by 'slurry' Hebrew you mean their accents not sounding like Israeli Hebrew, they come by those accents honestly.
Yeah, it doesn’t sound like Israeli hebrew at all. When I heard it for the first time I thought I was hearing a strangely poppy yiddish song. It was only after a while that I understood it was Ivrit they were singing.Quote:
Originally Posted by wiggin
I call it slurry because I can’t make out what they’re singing. I’m Not going to claim I understand Israeli songs but at least I can make out what they are singing.
There's a fascinating and complex history regarding the development of modern Israeli pronunciation of Hebrew, but one thing it is NOT is representative of any existing pronunciation of Hebrew at the time that it was created. It borrows heavily from Hebrew dialects present in portions of the Middle East (with some obvious parallels to pronunciation of Judeo Arabic dialects), but with important differences and (frequently) simplifications. It has evolved quite a bit in the century and change since then to become the Hebrew people may be accustomed to hearing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
The Hebrew dialect spoken by people from the American yeshivish world (which is where MBC pulls their singers) is an American adaptation of a mishmash of central/Eastern European Ashkenazi accents that were indeed influenced by Yiddish pronunciation along with some influence from pronunciation of American English and other European languages. It is generally mutually intelligible with Israeli Hebrew but has some rather important differences.
I should note that the American yeshivish accent is distinct from what is widely understood to be an American accent when speaking the Israeli Hebrew dialect; the former is a direct evolution from Hebrew/Yiddish dialects that came over from Europe, while the latter is the accent frequently spoken by American learners of Israeli Hebrew. They sound nothing alike.
You can often tell a lot about someone's background about how they speak Hebrew - and, at times, if their dialect for conversation is distinct from their dialect for prayer and/or study.
Finally home. Shelter is closed, no word on whats going on with work tomorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
I should have bought yacht manufacturer stock last week.
So, after getting covid, my wife developed hyposmia. That was bad enough, but, now she's preggers and the hyposmia has turned into a severe parosmia. The faintest whiff of coffee, meat products or car exhaust fumes registers as the most vile odor she's ever encountered, frequently making her want to hurl. My daughter developed a frustrating sensitivity to car smells earlier this summer, so I'm a bit worried her sense of smell may have been affected as well. Garbage diseaseQuote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
Yikes, that sounds terrible. Is this something that generally goes away by itself?
Eeep, sounds terrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
But congratulations!
Congrats on baby #2 Aimless! :D Hope all goes well! :heart:
I'm bummed about so many things in the US lately...but when I have conversations with family members they respond with "Don't worry so much!" or "Stop focusing on the negative!" or "Well, what are you going to DO about it?"
It's that last one that really gets to me. Because I don't know what to DO about The Big Lie believers, the Election Deniers, the conspiracy theorists, Q-Anon cultists, the anti-gov't anti-vaxxer neo-fascists. Some of them are my neighbors! They've infiltrated local school boards with paranoia about CRT, transgender kids, "grooming" students for pedophiles, and they're banning books from the library. They fly confederate flags in front of their house and on their cars, one guy even spray painted "Let's Go Brandon" on his car and drives it around town. People honk and give him big thumbs up. Trump signs and Stop the Steal are everywhere, along with HUGE Mastriano and Dr. Oz signs. Lots of Don't Tread on Me flags and stickers, too. There's also a huge Evangelical Christian presence that dubs itself Pro-Life and favors a national abortion ban, no exceptions.
So they've infiltrated the Republican Party, something like 65% of registered (R) voters believe Trump won, Biden is illegitimate, the election was rigged/stolen. They're all about State's Rights but don't want to consider Civil Rights. They claim to be the party of Law & Order but don't give a hoot about a grifter-in-chief or an attempted coup. They've exploited people's fears for decades, hoodwinked them into voting against their interests, don't want no SSSocialized Medicine but Hands off my Medicare! etc etc etc
Now really, what am I supposed to DO about this shit, as an individual? I vote, I write my representatives, sometimes talk to their aides on the phone. I've attended school board meetings and vote there, too. Lately the environment has been so hostile -- and potentially dangerous -- that I don't want to DO much more. School board members and Election officials are being threatened and harassed, and quitting!
And ya know, when VOTE is the pat answer, but we have a closed primary system, and gerrymandered districts that allow the crazy minority to dominate the legislature, and they're hell bent on suppressing or intimidating voters....well, what TO DO, indeed.
:(
Vote. Signal to other people that it's ok to not be a Trumpist. Attend town hall meetings and make life difficult for local politicians if you have the energy. Call the offices of any politician from the area who's remotely persuadable. All these things will have a minimal impact, but minimal is better than nothing.
Yeah, fucking VOTE. And do everything you can to make sure every other like minded person you know votes. About 35% of America (holding ~50% of Congress) is right now pushing hard for, or just fine with, hamstringing democracy in America. So vote while your vote still means as much as it does.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
And where the hell is everybody? There have been remarkably few posts lately.
Elon Musk bought the place and is charging us $20 a month to post here.
It's now $8 a month and you get access to the dark theme.
It's the war.
For my own sanity, I have to limit how much exposure I get to the perversions of justice and shameless corruption going on to support the fascists trying to end democracy.Quote:
Originally Posted by EyeKhan
I don't think the moderating here is that bad...
I'm just waiting for more people to complain so the price drops even more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steely Glint
To clarify you won't need to pay $8 to post, its just $8 for the blue checkmark + whatever additional benefits they want to roll out.
Thanks guys but I already said I VOTE plus other civic engagement and make calls to politicians. But the atmosphere has gotten so toxic with the loud mouth bullies (sometimes carrying guns) dominating and intimidating....it's scary. :(
I live in a red pocket close to the Mason-Dixon line and some of these folks would verbally harrass people wearing a mask during the height of Covid! I witnessed more than one physical fight during partial lockdowns over mask mandates. They're not rational or approachable, they're dangerous. What are we TO DO about that?
We had to trespass multiple people over the last couple of weeks for blasting trump speeches in our parking lot just outside the SOE 150FT boundary. The SOE and the sheriff didn't want to do anything unless pushed because they were so scared of these fucking morons. One lady who kept stopping traffic claimed that it's not on her if traffic back ups, it's up to the cars if they want to hit her or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
It's everywhere, huh. :( MAGA = Make America Grotesque Always
I voted. I can't help wondering if this is the 2nd to last "real" election we have in my life time. Stupid America is in the process right now of handing power at all levels to wanna-be fascists. And they'll do better with it in 2024 than they did in 2020. It's messing with my groove.
But CRT! And trans bathrooms! And socialism!