I thought it was wednesday all day and it’s tuesday
Fuck you calendar
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We have a big umbrella on our patio. The umbrella sits in a large plastic base with reservoirs to hold water to weigh the base down. (We also have some sandbags on top to make it more stable, but this is beside the point and I’m not sure why I’m including this level of detail.)
Anyway, it is very cold here:
A couple of weeks ago, when it was closer to freezing, my wife said, “Hey spidercrab, we should either empty the water from the reservoirs or add antifreeze so that the water doesn’t freeze and bust the plastic.”
I, feeling very smart, said, “Actually, all we need to do is remove the caps from the reservoirs. Even if the water freezes, the pressure will just force the ice out of the cap rather than breaking the plastic.”
A couple of days ago, I started second guessing myself and went to check the base. One of the two reservoirs had some ice chunks floating around, but was still mostly liquid. But the other one had a fully-frozen ice cap that I could not break with a simple screwdriver, despite lots of banging.
So now I’m in the uncomfortable position of:
- ignoring the problem, which is almost certainly going to result in the plastic base breaking and me getting an immense “I told you so” from my wife.
- doing something stupid like pouring boiling water onto the base in order to bust the ice cap
- spending like 4 hours in the snow and freezing cold trying to carefully extract the ice cap and remove some of the water, knowing that the base is probably already damaged.
Very not good set of choices.
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Big plans for the weekend?
Superbowl with vaccinated friends, round of golf for the first time in forever, and am going snowboarding monday. So yea even pre-covid that would be a lot for me.
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Oh yeah Superbowl. I’m watching with two friends who had covid already and two who are supposedly super careful. Lots of air movement. YOLO
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Tahoe has got dumped on recently my friend told me. Another friend flew from Texas to ski there and looks like he had a blast. Jealous.
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lol
sitting down and then IMMEDIATELY having to pee
fuck you bladder or the possibly enlarged prostate that may kill me one day
Facebook trying to trick me into sharing stuff to “my story”. Share to my News Feed is under More Options. FUCK MY STORY. I never ever ever want to share to my story.
They got me the first 2 or 3 times. And then it’s damn near impossible to find your story to delete it if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
And goddammit holy hell if a certain poster shows up and says he just doesn’t understand why this would annoy me, it makes perfect sense, and it’s super easy and intuitive to find your story that you never use to delete stuff - I WILL BURN THIS WHOLE MFER TO THE GROUND
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nah dude fuck facebook
I just ate a ban for the most harmless insult ever. Meanwhile they let blatantly racist and misogynistic content exist all throughout the site completely unmodded.
fuuuuuck facebook
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On the subject of annoying stuff tech companies do, how about this one from Netflix:
I got a good laugh at the farcically small “fine print.” I mean it’s like it’s a parody of “fine print” except it’s for real. (In case you can’t read it under the OK button it says See Other Choices in microscopic font).
What are your other choices?
And I guarantee you some poor fucking UI designer or something wanted to make it reasonably sized until some product manager started waving his dick around yelling about how if it’s too large it’s gonna mess with some bullshit company metric (read: $$$$$$$$$)
I am honestly so thankful that what I do (infrastructure) rarely ever comes close to the business side. I couldn’t stand that shit.
Can I now rant about people who tell me to delete Facebook when I get clear benefits from it in terms of connections and resources which would be impossible to replace?
Youtube has done at least as much damage if not more. FB is the gateway drug to radicalization. Youtube is the deal closer.
How about you delete your Youtube and I’ll delete my Facebook? Or is it different when it’s something you actually get a lot of utility out of?
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The other choices were the other plans. I think the cheaper one was “SD” streaming and one watcher, the middle one (this one) is HD and two watchers, and the expensive one was 4K and like three or four watchers.
Or if you want to bail entirely you can click on the link in the other line of micro text.
Really their plan tiers are fine but I thought the giant
OK
was comical above the tiny
See Other Choices
text.
It’s kind of how like I eat beef sometimes but know it’s actually a bad decision for the earth that I’m eating it. It’s such a marginal decision that has such little real impact either way if I stop eating it or not, but if everyone stopped, yea we’d probably be better off.
The problem is beef (facebook) is fuckin delicious.
I’m coming back to publicly apologize for my response to your post. I know from your previous posting that you do get value from Facebook, and if I had thought about my post for two seconds before firing it in I would have known that it wasn’t going to accomplish anything but pissing you off. Sorry.
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No problem. It didn’t really piss me off that much I just wanted to make my clever point about youtube that I’ve been holding onto for the right moment. :D
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So I’m driving from TN to MI. My truck is a POS, so I’m renting a car today. Enterprise won’t let me park their car there. Fine, whatever. I’ll take an Uber. Uber won’t pick me up because apparently I’m out of area. So I gotta walk 2 miles to the closest intersection and get picked up from there.
Living in rural America fucking sucks. Internet sucks. Having to drive 10 min to the nearest grocery store sucks. Not having trash pick up sucks. No wonder people out in the sticks are fucking miserable.
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