Tmobile's Tuesday Gas Rewards no longer stack for family accounts. i was getting ~$1.50 off per gallon each week they offered gas rewards since I have 6 phones. Not anymore
Tmobile's Tuesday Gas Rewards no longer stack for family accounts. i was getting ~$1.50 off per gallon each week they offered gas rewards since I have 6 phones. Not anymore
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Finally had to replace the AC unit. It was 12 years old and heavily abused by renters. the condenser fins looked like they were wrapped in cardboard when we bought the place. That means years of running it without a filter or proper maintenance. I picked at it and scrubbed it and threw whatever chemicals I could at it to make it limp through the summer, once I got to the fins I discovered how badly they were chewed and bent. Unit finally broke down last week.
Whole new thing is gonna cost me $7500 installed. Franklin model. Interesting enough thats almost 2 grand under the cheapest Carrier option.
Installer hates Trane just as much as I do too, the horror stories that came out when I asked about those models
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Over-booked at work today. Discovered that the Swedish immigration authority has become much more restrictive with granting asylum to youths from Afghanistan and two of the guys I've been treating and who were making great progress have had their applications rejected. Waiting for a verdict on their appeals but unlikely to go through. Over a year of hoping and slowly learning how this new country works, making friends, processing all the shit they've been through and poof, over, back you go. Shortly thereafter I discovered that one man with a debilitating progressive illness has spent half a year being bounced around the healthcare system and getting no help with excruciating and eminently treatable pain and other symptoms that are getting in the way of his integration in addition to just being frickin' inhumane. Why? Because no-one could be bothered to take a proper interview and do a proper exam or go through his charts in order to identify the blatant administrative error that left him without a treatment plan.
The past couple of weeks have been full of this kind of thing. Kind, decent and somehow still dignified people trying to keep their heads above water and regain some semblance of normalcy while being poorly served or outright abused by people who just don't g a f.
The vast, overwhelming majority of people I work with are good people. The majority of people in my community are decent. The intuitively appreciate the inherent wrongness of judging ordinary people without having been in their shoes. But I am once again going through one of those periods when I notice the fuckwits more than the good people. How does a normal human being get to the point where he makes light of actual torture? Where the fuck does some soft, spoiled middle class mofo who's never known true hardship get off disrespecting people who've sacrificed nearly everything and risked their lives to save the lives of their families and safeguard their childrens' future?
This post no doubt echoes other posts I've made in this thread on this subject. There's just been too much of it lately, and, after this weekend's circus, today's disappointments just made the cup run over.
A lot of them are doing surprisingly well though, all things considered. Fuck the haters.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Even being in their shoes doesn't help some people grasp the underlying concepts and dilemmas.
I recently read this article about a group of four priests and pastors who had various problems due to the refugee crisis. One of them was a black Catholic priest who knew a young Russian immigrant from his school days - the guy, as a foreigner, was a regular target of Nazis on the schoolgrounds, being held to the ground by a boot while the others trampled his food. Some years later, this Russian then turned racist towards the priest and threatened to kill him.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
For the 7th straight month Frontier has gotten my internet/cable bill incorrect. While its usually off by only a few bucks (promo rates that vanished in the hand over), last month and this month it was off by ~25%. Last month I was told everything was fixed, but this month includes a carry over undoing everything they claimed to have fixed last month. Sent a break down of everything over to the AG. Not expecting much, but when Frontier took over Verizon's services the AG did want the customers to report major issues. I'll give it a few days, then i'll try the even more useless BBB before I call frontier to cancel the cable outright.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Got an email from Florida's AG telling me they were passing my complaint along to Frontier.
Got a phone call then email from someone inside the Frontier Escalation team. Seemed rather open for why I was experiencing the troubles I was experiencing. Frontier royally screwed up the absorption of the Verizon customers and anytime an account is modified all the grandfathered billing and credit codes stop working. So when I moved I lost one tied to my account number (which is tied to an address) and when I cancelled HBO that screwed up all of my cable credits. She also promised a great number of fixes to my account, including a bump in my TV package and a lower monthly bill for the rest of the year. Gave me a direct line to her escalation team and needed recorded permission to close the AG case.
Now I wait to see if any of those promises materialize.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
As we speak a Syrian I know from Istanbul is crossing the Turkish-Syrian border on the summons of the Syrian Goverment. They said that if he comes back and enters the army they will release his father from prison.
To me, and pretty anybody I know in the Syrian community, it's as if the mouse got an invitation to come play with the cat. Nobody believes he'll be alive after 3 months, several people think he may not even last that long. The alternative routes to that fate are chilling. He thinks he owes it to his father, we think he's just adding another number to the body count.
Congratulations America
That's just heartbreaking. Is his father even alive?
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
After more than a month in a Syrian prison? Your guess is as good as mine.Originally Posted by Aimless
Congratulations America
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
My niece and nephew's school was evacuated today because of a bomb threat.Before this it had just been friends' kids across the country, but I guess it was just a matter of time.
"When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." - Werner Heisenberg (maybe)
Sorry to hear that wiggin. I hope that this is just a very small number of sick individuals and not anything more widespread.My niece and nephew's school was evacuated today because of a bomb threat.
In high school we had a bomb scare damn near every week. It was so predictable, we just figured it was an excuse for the admin to raid lockers and book bags. We used to joke that putting everyone in the open air bleachers, on the corner of an intersection, was possibly the most insecure location they could have picked.
My son's high school has only been put on lock down once this year, student brought a gun. My girls haven't mentioned anything, and I haven't got anything from their school about evacuations or lock downs so far.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
If someone tried to pull that shit here, it would get on national news, lol.
Tomorrow is like an empty canvas that extends endlessly, what should I sketch on it?
My wife was telling me last night that the high end preschool she worked at before we moved has been on the receiving end of a few incidents since she has left. A couple of bomb threats and anti-Semitic messages written on the flag. Which even made the news.
No employee is allowed to enter the building without a name badge and parents are escorted to all rooms during school hours now. All the recent troubles combined with the penny-pinching hardass that runs the place has caused a lot of the teachers to leave.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
My schools growing up had armed guards and badging requirements as well; a necessary precaution given the very real threat. Every year there were a few antisemitic incidents of note in the neighborhood (including the famous shooting spree by Benjamin Smith) but the schools managed to escape with no more than the occasional graffiti.
On the one hand, I guess it's frustrating and somewhat surreal that kids in this community are growing up with the understanding that the threats to their lives just because of who they are - even in a relatively tolerant society like the United States - are very real. I was recently struck by the odd nature of some of the children's songs I was singing to my daughter - a bubbly New Year's song has a stanza providing holiday greetings to the uncle on guard duty, or a song about an angel promising a 'blessing of peace' in a dream that is unfulfilled upon awaking (almost as jarring as the wildly socialist songs we sing to her). My wife's young cousins have a song they sing when going into shelters against rocket fire. I guess it's just a fact of life; unfortunate, perhaps, but you just accept it and move on.
"When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." - Werner Heisenberg (maybe)
Sad news today, our September baby couldn't stick the landing. Everyone at the ER was very sweet and the ginger is doing all right under the circumstances. We'll be spending the weekend cooped up at home in front of the TV bingeing on Friends. So many of our friends and acquaintances have had miscarriages that it's been very much on our minds right from the beginning but still. These coming days are going to be the worst because of how these things work. Even so, we have each other and the future little one has our coordinates so all we have to do is wait for them to figure out the time-travel/teleportation technology, which we always knew they'd have trouble with given their parents' difficulties with maths.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
My commiserations. A friend of mine waited four months during her last pregnancy to tell everyone else due to this very reason.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
I'm so sorry to hear that Minx. It's always hard even when you know it can be a possibility. It can be hard for both parties, but I know it can be especially difficult for mom. For what it's worth, our hearts are heavy for you and your family.
So sad to hear that
Last edited by Loki; 03-12-2017 at 08:16 PM.
Very sorry, Minx.
When the sky above us fell
We descended into hell
Into kingdom come
Sorry to hear
Mass Effect stuff is already streaming/leaking. After being spoiled with The Witcher 3's animations and facial work people are not happy with Bioware's recent attempt.
Last edited by Ominous Gamer; 03-16-2017 at 03:49 PM.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
That reminds me of the horrid face animations we used to see on the original Xbox.
Seems like our cleanroom is cursed or something. Within a week we've had soap that didn't fit in the dispenser, and the sensor of the water tap had a flat battery - some weird model I've never encountered before and we didn't have a spare of. Now a not working tap and soap dispenser sounds like small things, but if you can't wash your hands (without touching anything) nobody can enter the cleanroom.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Breakup.
Minor issue compared to other things mentioned in this thread, but it does hurt.
Carthāgō dēlenda est
Sorry to hear that bro
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
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