First World Problems...

They fixed it!

I know I sound like a lunatic, but it is these sorts of lazy problems, caused no doubt by warped priorities (DEI anyone?) and an obvious lack of a work ethic, that is the dividing line between the First World and everyone else.

Even MAGA is going to have a tough time fixing this sort of stuff, even though it is absolutely the correct way to approach the problem.

But this is a lighthearted post, so... who has the best screw-up story? Clerks who can't ring up a box of cereal... auto mechanics who forgot to replace the oil they drained... Landscapers who mowed down all of the freshly planted flowers... ~~political parties that chose a mean, molesting, senile fool, and then replaced him with a drunken retard~~... bank tellers who can't count... etc!

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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1 Being first

Posted by: Skip i at March 16, 2025 02:01 PM (fwDg9)

2 Nice

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 16, 2025 02:01 PM (AvNuR)

3
Excuse my ignorance, but fixed what, exactly?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 16, 2025 02:02 PM (xG4kz)

4 Fixed what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 16, 2025 02:02 PM (63Dwl)

5 Tiny asian women who carry golf umbrellas in 25mph winds.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 16, 2025 02:03 PM (mT+6a)

6 Screw-up story? Microsoft Windows 11. I rest my case.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 16, 2025 02:03 PM (CHHv1)

7 Sounds like who is on First, Whats on Second and Idont Know is the Short Stop

Posted by: Skip i at March 16, 2025 02:04 PM (fwDg9)

8 If that's your car's navigation system, you're screwed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2025 02:04 PM (Q4IgG)

9 I don't get it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 16, 2025 02:04 PM (TcVeV)

10 here's a FWP I discovered the other day

I have a Dell laptop with WIN11

there is no option to display the time in 24 hour format

Posted by: Don Black at March 16, 2025 02:04 PM (AOsQT)

11 8 If that's your car's navigation system, you're screwed.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Mebbe CBD has a flying car.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 02:05 PM (ctrM5)

12 Like many people, I do not understand the FWP illustrated above

Posted by: Don Black at March 16, 2025 02:05 PM (AOsQT)

13 Fixed what?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 16, 2025 02:02 PM (63Dwl)

Forget it. He's incoherent when he's full of falafel.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 16, 2025 02:06 PM (TcVeV)

14 Fixed what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 16, 2025 02:02 PM (63Dwl)

Last week (?) FWP was an airline passenger display that had the compass going the wrong direction.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 16, 2025 02:06 PM (pNOu5)

15 1 Being first

Posted by: Skip i at March 16, 2025 02:01 PM (fwDg9)
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Skip, I read that as 'Boeing first' and said 'O no, Skip is doomed!'

Posted by: Ciampino - No basements in flood zones at March 16, 2025 02:06 PM (KjLnc)

16 One annoying problem is the substitution of voice mail with callbacks for people that answer the phone.

Seems to be quite the customer no service in fields like financial, computers/tech, government, and medical.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 02:06 PM (ctrM5)

17 I wonder if this is one of those features that can be controlled from the cockpit and it was accidentally left off last time?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 16, 2025 02:07 PM (l3YAf)

18 If that's your car's navigation system, you're screwed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2025 02:04 PM (Q4IgG)

Check the sidebar.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 16, 2025 02:07 PM (L5An7)

19 Got a check for $129.53. Give the teller the check, and 47 cents. Confusion reigns.

How can you work at a bank and not get this?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2025 02:07 PM (Q4IgG)

20 But what's the ground speed? That's what really counts!

Posted by: FINGERS at March 16, 2025 02:07 PM (C8ve7)

21 Screw-up story? Microsoft Windows 11. I rest my case.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 16, 2025 02:03 PM (CHHv1)

Miss me yet, motherf*ckers?

Posted by: Clippy at March 16, 2025 02:08 PM (l3YAf)

22
I have a Dell laptop with WIN11

there is no option to display the time in 24 hour format
Posted by: Don Black

This doesn't work?

https://t.ly/rk5tB

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 16, 2025 02:08 PM (63Dwl)

23 3
Excuse my ignorance, but fixed what, exactly?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 16, 2025 02:02 PM (xG4kz)

A little while ago on a First World Problems thread, he highlighted the compass shown to the passengers as having the plane heading east on a Europe to US flight. The compass is now showing the correct bearing.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 16, 2025 02:08 PM (k7hZK)

24 One annoying problem is the substitution of voice mail with callbacks for people that answer the phone.

Seems to be quite the customer no service in fields like financial, computers/tech, government, and medical.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 02:06 PM (ctrM5)

Then the person who calls back only gets a voicemail saying they will call back...

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 16, 2025 02:08 PM (pNOu5)

25 Screw-up story? Microsoft Windows 11. I rest my case.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 16, 2025 02:03 PM (CHHv1)

Miss me yet, motherf*ckers?
Posted by: Clippy at March 16, 2025 02:08 PM (l3YAf)

Microsoft Bob to the rescue!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 02:08 PM (VNX3d)

26
Landscapers who moved down all of the freshly planted flowers...

===============

Cob-loggers who type "moved" instead of "mowed"!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 16, 2025 02:09 PM (lCaJd)

27 You keep on flying around there on the edge of space itself, you'll soon smell like stranded astrogirl.

Posted by: LumeStarterPack.com at March 16, 2025 02:09 PM (G5+As)

28 A little while ago on a First World Problems thread, he highlighted the compass shown to the passengers as having the plane heading east on a Europe to US flight.

Ever consider that maybe the pilot was just taking the long way?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 16, 2025 02:09 PM (TcVeV)

29 A little while ago on a First World Problems thread, he highlighted the compass shown to the passengers as having the plane heading east on a Europe to US flight.

Ever consider that maybe the pilot was just taking the long way?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 16, 2025 02:09 PM (TcVeV)

The pilot was probably a former taxi driver, and wanted to run up the meter.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 02:10 PM (VNX3d)

30 We can put tree trimmings -- branches, sectioned trunks, etc. -- on the curb down here and the local waste authority trucks will stop and pick them up and take them to the landfill.

Two rules:

The pile can be no bigger than 6' x 6' and no more than two piles per resident per week.

Had a pile sitting on the curb for several weeks that they somehow missed. Finally called the authority and told them.

Person on the phone: How big is the pile?
Me: About four feet by four feet.
Person on the phone: Is it less than six feet by six feet?

*slaps forehead*

Posted by: one hour sober at March 16, 2025 02:11 PM (Y1sOo)

31 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 16, 2025 02:09 PM (lCaJd)

Oops!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 16, 2025 02:11 PM (L5An7)

32
Rocky IV is 40 years old?

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 16, 2025 02:12 PM (1CV6+)

33 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 16, 2025 02:12 PM (jJXsH)

34 26
Cob-loggers who type "moved" instead of "mowed"!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 16, 2025 02:09 PM (lCaJd)

Cob-loggers? Are we talking about corn lumberjack?

I always blame my copy editor for the myriad errors that litter my comments. That's why I go through so many thumbscrews.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 16, 2025 02:12 PM (k7hZK)

35 Taking the bipolar route.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 16, 2025 02:12 PM (63Dwl)

36 You keep on flying around there on the edge of space itself, you'll soon smell like stranded astrogirl.
Posted by: LumeStarterPack.com at March 16, 2025 02:09 PM (G5+As)

Keep laughing.. I’ve been holding this fart in for 9 months..

Posted by: Sunita Williams at March 16, 2025 02:13 PM (l3YAf)

37 Maybe plane was tacking with the current air flow

Posted by: Skip i at March 16, 2025 02:14 PM (fwDg9)

38 Then the person who calls back only gets a voicemail saying they will call back...
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Yes, that is true because few people wait for a call back within a long indeterminate period.

An elderly friend of my wife's was trying to decipher how to send hospitalization records via Mychart/Epic to her non affiliated doc. The process online was so onerous, I advised her to go in person to the hospital medical records and request them to fax the records to the provider.

The only fly in the ointment is that you had to have some way of contacting the medical records department to hand over the paper copy of the records request. That was only via contacting them via phone and thus calls go to voicemail with callback.

Hospital is a chain with all record access being handled by a central records request handling unit that one cannot literally go to in person.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 02:14 PM (ctrM5)

39 36 Keep laughing.. I’ve been holding this fart in for 9 months..
Posted by: Sunita Williams at March 16, 2025 02:13 PM (l3YAf)

Are you saving ot for somebody in a dinosaur suit?

Posted by: tankdemon at March 16, 2025 02:15 PM (k7hZK)

40 25 Screw-up story? Microsoft Windows 11. I rest my case.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 16, 2025 02:03 PM (CHHv1)

Miss me yet, motherf*ckers?
Posted by: Clippy at March 16, 2025 02:08 PM (l3YAf)

Microsoft Bob to the rescue!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Windows 11 makes Vista look good.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 02:15 PM (ctrM5)

41 A new Musk scandal: he's a Holocaust denier!

Elon Musk Shares Post Saying Hitler 'Didn't Murder Millions Of People'

The Thursday repost on Musk’s X account read: “Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.”

https://shorturl.at/Nqd8R

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 16, 2025 02:15 PM (L/fGl)

42
Maybe plane was tacking with the current air flow
Posted by: Skip i at March 16, 2025 02:14 PM (fwDg9)

What's with the name, Skippy?

iSkip?

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 16, 2025 02:16 PM (1CV6+)

43 Musk didn't make cars or rockets. His employees did.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 16, 2025 02:17 PM (63Dwl)

44 Hospital is a chain with all record access being handled by a central records request handling unit that one cannot literally go to in person.
Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 02:14 PM (ctrM5)

Remember when the promise of electronic medical records was that you’d have instantaneous access to all of your data and it would be easily shared with any other doctor or facility? Lol.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 16, 2025 02:17 PM (l3YAf)

45 >there is no option to display the time in 24 hour format
Posted by: Don Black

This doesn't work?

https://t.ly/rk5tB

Posted by: Bertram Cabot,
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heh, I misspoke
I meant 'I can't find the option to display the time in 24 hour format'

but thanks
I didn't drill down far enough

Posted by: Don Black at March 16, 2025 02:17 PM (AOsQT)

46 Went to Publix pharmacy the other day to pick up a script.

Person behind the counter: Can I help you?
Me: I have one script ready, (gives person my name and date of birth)
Person behind the counter: Okay, date of birth?

*slaps forehead*

Posted by: one hour sober at March 16, 2025 02:17 PM (Y1sOo)

47 The snow-banks in my neck of the woods are finally starting to melt....revealing several months worth of litter left in the snowbanks! In about a quarter mile, I found 6 discarded shooter-bottles of Bacardi. Fortunately, there were trash cans on either end of that quarter mile.

Few things annoy me more than litter. Litter and graffiti. I am so much a product of upscale suburbia...

Posted by: Castle Guy at March 16, 2025 02:17 PM (Lhaco)

48 > there is no option to display the time in 24 hour format
Posted by: Don Black

This doesn't work?

https://t.ly/rk5tB
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
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Yea... you'd have thought the 12/24 HR option would be, you know, with the fucking clock settings.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2025 02:17 PM (Q4IgG)

49
Some twenty years back we ordered a truckload of mulch from a gardening store, with delivery to occur the next day.

Next day passes. No mulch. The missus calls the store, "Where's our mulch?" "It was delivered today."

Later that evening and out walking the dog, we see a large pile of mulch that had been delivered to a house two doors down from us and then unoccupied.

The next morning missus calls the store. "You delivered the mulch to the wrong address -- #34, not #38 -- KvC Lane. "Oh, sorry! We'll send a crew and truck up today to reload it and bring it to you."

Later that evening, again walking the dog and again still not having gotten the mulch, we look at the pile at the wrong address and see that the crew had taken a few desultory shovelfuls of it and ... left.

The missus again calls the store. "Not only had the crew they sent to correct the problem not delivered the mulch, but they had done next to nothing even to reload it on a truck. We want our money back."

Guy from the store hems and haws before offering, "We'll reverse the charge to you and let you have it for free if you'll transport the mulch to your home."

Guess what I did over the next three evenings?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 16, 2025 02:19 PM (xG4kz)

50 Got a check for $129.53. Give the teller the check, and 47 cents. Confusion reigns.
How can you work at a bank and not get this?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2025 02:07 PM (Q4IgG)

Ever consider how tight the control is over a teller's till? (Say that fast ten times.)

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 16, 2025 02:20 PM (pNOu5)

51 Is this about the house settling and stuck doors?

Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2025 02:20 PM (b++6H)

52 The Thursday repost on Musk’s X account read: “Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.”

More true than most realize.

I don't know if any of the liquidators were regular military. They were more in line with civil LEO and prison guards.... Except part or primary part of the job was killing defenseless people.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 16, 2025 02:20 PM (/lPRQ)

53 My FWP is that a jelly jar stuck to the glass shelf of the refrigerator, and while trying to yank it free, the tempered glass shattered. Tempered glass is strong in some situations, and incredibly weak in others. Guess what? There aren't parts for refrigerators that are more than about seven years old, because nobody makes them to last that long anymore.

I ended up ordering a piece of clear polycarbonate cut to size to fit in place.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 16, 2025 02:21 PM (Y+C+W)

54 Is there a useful, reliable, and local-only way to make an iPhone work with Linux?

I'm getting more and more frustrated with Microsoft Windows and Office, and my mind doesn't mesh with how Apple makes Macs.

I don't have the free money to get an unlocked Android phone at this time.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 02:21 PM (VNX3d)

55
A little while ago on a First World Problems thread, he highlighted the compass shown to the passengers as having the plane heading east on a Europe to US flight. The compass is now showing the correct bearing.
Posted by: tankdemon

And how were we to deduce that from what was given?

That's a FWP in itself.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 16, 2025 02:21 PM (xG4kz)

56 We are hereby designating Sunita Williams’ swamp ass as a protected ecosystem. Many unique lifeforms have taken up residence on Ms. Williams. We have gotten a preliminary injunction to prevent her from taking a shower when she returns to Earth, in the interests of protecting biodiversity.

Posted by: EPA at March 16, 2025 02:22 PM (l3YAf)

57 Remember when the promise of electronic medical records was that you’d have instantaneous access to all of your data and it would be easily shared with any other doctor or facility? Lol.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

At least my one of my provider care networks has a way to download the entire record from the beginning of the system into one very large machine readable pdf file. I do so on a regular basis (about once per year or so). Includes test results, doctors' notes, everything.

Which is fortunate because about all the large provider networks now use Epic across the country. That company, which was created by a former Obammy aide, had the 'good luck' that Obamacare incentivized and demanded docs switch to a system using e records and this guy made big bank from it. Curious that these statutory and regulatory med records specifications fit a certain software company's product.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 02:22 PM (ctrM5)

58 36 You keep on flying around there on the edge of space itself, you'll soon smell like stranded astrogirl.
Posted by: LumeStarterPack.com at March 16, 2025 02:09 PM (G5+As)

Keep laughing.. I’ve been holding this fart in for 9 months..

Posted by: Sunita Williams at March 16, 2025 02:13 PM (l3YAf)
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If she's been drinking that rocket fuel then she could get to Houston without SpaceX - if she farts.

Posted by: Ciampino - No basements in flood zones at March 16, 2025 02:22 PM (KjLnc)

59 We are hereby designating Sunita Williams’ swamp ass as a protected ecosystem. Many unique lifeforms have taken up residence on Ms. Williams. We have gotten a preliminary injunction to prevent her from taking a shower when she returns to Earth, in the interests of protecting biodiversity.
Posted by: EPA at March 16, 2025 02:22 PM (l3YAf)

We don't know how much of the new biosphere is unique to the weightlessness of space, so she must stay in space until our investigation has been completed.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 02:23 PM (VNX3d)

60
You keep on flying around there on the edge of space itself, you'll soon smell like stranded astrogirl.

That sounds like the beginnings of a song.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 16, 2025 02:24 PM (63Dwl)

61 Know what pisses me the hell off? When you order something online and get an email after a few days saying the item has shipped, only to find out the seller has merely created a label and doesn't take the item to UPS or wherever for another week.

Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2025 02:24 PM (b++6H)

62 If that's your car's navigation system, you're screwed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

Several months ago, when a major cell network went down, we joked that it was providential that the outage started before 7 am.

If it had been in the afternoon, virtually no gen z employees would have been able to navigate back to their homes without Wayz.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 16, 2025 02:25 PM (Y+C+W)

63 First World problem: the Maytag washer here at Osprey's house in NC won't fill with cold water at all, and when filled with hot, keeps filling to overflow. Took hoses off washer, cleaned a metric fuckton of sandy sediment out of cold water inlet, but valve remains stuck, apparently.

It would seem the water level sensor is kaput, and the machine won't enter wash cycle without getting a "level reached" signal from the level sensor.

Advance the timer to 'Spin", and it does spin and pump out the water.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2025 02:25 PM (MqtqS)

64 About every five times Android Auto doesn't automatically connect to my phone.
I have to manually turn Bluetooth off and back on and then wait for it to connect.
I want that map and that music now!!!
Not 45 seconds from now!!!
Jeez. The stuff I have to put up with...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 16, 2025 02:26 PM (dg+HA)

65 >This doesn't work?

https://t.ly/rk5tB

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it works, sure
but f***ing Microsoft buries it 6 floors down in Settings, when it could be 3

Posted by: Don Black at March 16, 2025 02:26 PM (AOsQT)

66 Several months ago, when a major cell network went down, we joked that it was providential that the outage started before 7 am.

If it had been in the afternoon, virtually no gen z employees would have been able to navigate back to their homes without Wayz.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 16, 2025 02:25 PM (Y+C+W)

It could have been worse. If it had happened mid-morning, they might have starved at work without their DoorDash and navigation apps.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 02:26 PM (VNX3d)

67 And speaking of the Sunita astronaut woman, if I were in space with her she sure as shit would have her nasty hair under control. Disgusting. Hair all over the space station.

Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2025 02:27 PM (b++6H)

68 only to find out the seller has merely created a label and doesn't take the item to UPS or wherever for another week.

Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2025 02:24 PM (b++6H)

And the company says "it's in transit!"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 16, 2025 02:27 PM (L5An7)

69 54 Is there a useful, reliable, and local-only way to make an iPhone work with Linux?

I'm getting more and more frustrated with Microsoft Windows and Office, and my mind doesn't mesh with how Apple makes Macs.

I don't have the free money to get an unlocked Android phone at this time.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Not sure what you mean, IoS can interchange somewhat with linux usually via a USB cable connection to a computer. Trying to put Linux on an Apple Phone might technically be possible but I have never heard of someone that actually did it.

The Asahi Linux project has tried mightily to open up no longer supported Apple Macs, etc. by using a similar variant of BSD but a lot of stuff does not work right because Apple integrates its proprietary hardware drivers into the operating system itself. Basically Asahi is having to reverse engineer hardware drivers and having a very tough go of it.

Easier for Androids if you want an open source variant (Lineage was one, there is another) as because they used GPL Linux as the basis, they cannot lock up the hardware/software as easily as Apple does. Even there, Lineage etc work best with past generations of Google's pixel phones.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 02:28 PM (ctrM5)

70 And the company says "it's in transit!"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 16, 2025 02:27 PM (L5An7)
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Yeah! Bastards.

Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2025 02:28 PM (b++6H)

71 >> Is there a useful, reliable, and local-only way to make an iPhone work with Linux?

What do you need it to do? There are third-party apps to sync photos between an iPhone and a local computer or NAS.

Also, if you just directly connect an iPhone to a Linux computer with a physical cable you can mount it as an external drive and read files off of it, including photos.

Posted by: EPA at March 16, 2025 02:28 PM (l3YAf)

72 But have no fear. Someplace somewhere a label has been created and it has YOUR address on it...

Posted by: The package delivery service at March 16, 2025 02:29 PM (dg+HA)

73 "i"got in there somehow

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2025 02:30 PM (fwDg9)

74 60
You keep on flying around there on the edge of space itself, you'll soon smell like stranded astrogirl.

That sounds like the beginnings of a song.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Easily enough done with current AI with relatively few prompts. AI is consuming the music business aside from live shows and a few big solo artists. Vintage bands still do alright because of fans appreciate those band's past but the economics of band music are putting them on the path of extinction except as nostalgia acts or tribute bands.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 02:31 PM (ctrM5)

75 Easier for Androids if you want an open source variant (Lineage was one, there is another) as because they used GPL Linux as the basis, they cannot lock up the hardware/software as easily as Apple does. Even there, Lineage etc work best with past generations of Google's pixel phones.
Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 02:28 PM (ctrM5)

Right now, I sync music and videos with iTunes, photos with Photos, and the calendar, tasks, contacts, and notes with Outlook using a third party app.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 02:31 PM (VNX3d)

76 We can put tree trimmings -- branches, sectioned trunks, etc. -- on the curb down here and the local waste authority trucks will stop and pick them up and take them to the landfill.
====

We can put a pile as big as you want. I had one size of three Cadillac Escalades... They used to just pick them up. Now you have to call it in.
Except after the hurricanes blow by, then they make runs picking up everything.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 16, 2025 02:31 PM (/lPRQ)

77 FWP

My expensive cigar humidor isn't properly keeping the prescribed humidity anymore. My expensive cigar collection is suffering.

So am I.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2025 02:31 PM (Q4IgG)

78 And speaking of the Sunita astronaut woman, if I were in space with her she sure as shit would have her nasty hair under control. Disgusting. Hair all over the space station.

We have thoughts.

https://is.gd/UFLS7W

Posted by: Post-war French at March 16, 2025 02:31 PM (xCA6C)

79 55
And how were we to deduce that from what was given?

That's a FWP in itself.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 16, 2025 02:21 PM (xG4kz)
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So you played truant on the important weekly CBD 'burn the house down' thread that teaches us all important sarcasm. I'm putting you on the Truancy record. Don't do it again.

Posted by: Ciampino - No basements in flood zones at March 16, 2025 02:32 PM (KjLnc)

80 Keep laughing.. I’ve been holding this fart in for 9 months..
Posted by: Sunita Williams

Those come out as belches.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 16, 2025 02:33 PM (/lPRQ)

81 Stranded Astrogirl was the name of an episode of Lost In Space.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 16, 2025 02:33 PM (dg+HA)

82 Self inflicted FWP.
I replaced the clutch in my old washing machine, which required removing and replacing the motor. Got washer back in its nook, tossed a huge load of clothes in, set it on "high" level and walked away.
An hour later I come back. Washer is filled with water and wet clothes. I realize that I that forgotten to reconnect the electrical wiring to the motor.
Fortunately, I had a five gallon bucket and a bathroom nearby. Much bailing ensued.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at March 16, 2025 02:33 PM (pNOu5)

83 Uh oh!

What humidification system are you employing? I use a combination of the little gel beads and BOVEDA packs. One the level is stabilized it should be easy to maintain.

Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2025 02:34 PM (b++6H)

84 Going to work early yesterday saw a road duel between a car and a pick-up truck, it was getting so wreckless I was watching this for a mile waiting for the crack up. Ended seeing the truck cross 2 lanes into a Wawa on the left, thinking now the car disappeared as well so wonder if car pulled into it first and didn't see it.

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2025 02:37 PM (fwDg9)

85 Right now, I sync music and videos with iTunes, photos with Photos, and the calendar, tasks, contacts, and notes with Outlook using a third party app.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

I would install WINE on the linux machine and use then install your third party windows software for the iTunes. Photos, I Cloud might be the easier way but a direct USB cable connection to the linux computer 'should' be able to talk and transfer photo files from your phone. Outlook, you have to rely on WINE again using a Windows version that is supported by WINE.

Apple creates a closed walled garden deliberately for its products because it wants people tied to only their products (and at one time their software). So, they make it difficult and obscure how to make other OS/Software/Hardware difficult to use with their products.

All of what you want 'can' be done but it is going to take going to forum discussion boards and reading technogeeks squabbling about the bestest way to do it.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 02:38 PM (ctrM5)

86 Easier for Androids if you want an open source variant (Lineage was one, there is another) as because they used GPL Linux as the basis, they cannot lock up the hardware/software as easily as Apple does. Even there, Lineage etc work best with past generations of Google's pixel phones.
Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 02:28 PM (ctrM5)

I have a Titan Pocket, that cost under $200. It was loaded with Android 11, with all the Gurgle Shite, of course. I found an online provider who was able to unlock the phone, and then I used my computer to go into the phone and delete a "gurgel.asf" file. That stops the phone from calling Gurgle. I still get on-screen nags to set up Gurgle, but the annoying bleats have ceased.

This phone has huge battery, and will go 4 days or more on a charge, and it has a physical keyboard.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2025 02:38 PM (MqtqS)

87 >>Except after the hurricanes blow by, then they make runs picking up everything.

The pile of ruined crap we put on the curb after Sally -- carpet, drywall, furniture, etc. -- sat there for about eight weeks, but the contractor hired by the county finally got around to it.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 16, 2025 02:38 PM (Y1sOo)

88 One of my favorite screwups is how movies are categorized on streaming sites. Pretty sure the categorization either isn’t performed by humans, or they are performed by humans who do not read the descriptions of the movie.

Neither version of the movie Lolita is a Romance.

Only vaguely related, a few days ago I was reading an article in Italian, headlined “Gli ampi allagamenti causati dalla pioggia in Toscana”. I understood every word in it except allagamenti but was pretty sure I knew that word too, from context. It almost had to mean “floods”. So I used the built-in translation in my browser and it came back “stoods”. It’s like they used cheap OCR to digitize an Italian-English dictionary.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 16, 2025 02:38 PM (EXyHK)

89 > Uh oh!

What humidification system are you employing? I use a combination of the little gel beads and BOVEDA packs. One the level is stabilized it should be easy to maintain.
Posted by: Weasel
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It's an Audew "wine fridge" humidor with Boveda packs. About 6 - 8 of the 60g 65% ones. I checked the packs and they're fine. I have some replacements, but I'm thinking the really, really dry spell we had last week before the storms affected it. The house RH was around 20% with the windows open.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2025 02:40 PM (Q4IgG)

90 I have a Titan Pocket, that cost under $200. It was loaded with Android 11, with all the Gurgle Shite, of course. I found an online provider who was able to unlock the phone, and then I used my computer to go into the phone and delete a "gurgel.asf" file. That stops the phone from calling Gurgle. I still get on-screen nags to set up Gurgle, but the annoying bleats have ceased.

This phone has huge battery, and will go 4 days or more on a charge, and it has a physical keyboard.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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One way to do it. There was a guy here that regularly moved older Pixel phone models over to open source Android to de Google it. Forget the guy's name but haven't seen his nic in several years now.

I don't use my Android phone for anything important so simply do not care about Googul knowing a fair amount about me. I address the supply end by killing resale of my information via databrokers. Use a service to continuously deleted and remove data from those assholes. Cuts down on calls. Magic Jack for a home phone and they have a neat call screening to prevent auto calls from going thru. Requires the person/computer phoning to input a number before allowing the call

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 02:42 PM (ctrM5)

91 water level sensor is kaput, and the machine won't enter wash cycle without getting a "level reached" signal from the level sensor.

Advance the timer to 'Spin", and it does spin and pump out the water.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

did you clear the tube to the sensor?

Posted by: DaveA at March 16, 2025 02:43 PM (FhXTo)

92 88
stoods? what's that?

Posted by: Ciampino - No basements in flood zones at March 16, 2025 02:43 PM (KjLnc)

93 Right now, I sync music and videos with iTunes, photos with Photos, and the calendar, tasks, contacts, and notes with Outlook using a third party app.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 02:31 PM (VNX3d)

I use the phone as a phone, and for the occasional text. Sometimes use the camera, but I have never gotten to the point of thinking of the phone as a camera. I don't have a data plan, so any web browsing I might do with it, I have to be on wifi.

Music, videos, games on phone? Simply unthinkable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2025 02:43 PM (MqtqS)

94 Capitalism sucks!

Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson
They’re selling Kamala ‘Miss Me Yet?’ t-shirts at the airport in DC.
I asked the sales lady how many they’ve sold.
Sales lady: “Zero”

-
Damn law of supply and demand!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 16, 2025 02:43 PM (L/fGl)

95 put a piece of celery or apple in the humidor

Posted by: Don Black at March 16, 2025 02:43 PM (AOsQT)

96 put a piece of celery or apple in the humidor

Ouch!

Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at March 16, 2025 02:47 PM (xCA6C)

97 did you clear the tube to the sensor?
Posted by: DaveA at March 16, 2025 02:43 PM (FhXTo)

No. I have no idea of how to take the machine apart. Back is not removable. I don't know if I have go in from the top, or the bottom. Can the solenoid valve assembly be disassembled and cleaned?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2025 02:47 PM (MqtqS)

98 Our family's screw up story involves a young man who has come to be known as "Burger King Boy". I am too tired to tell the story today (side effect of the cancer meds), but suffice it to say that 25 years later we still tell the tale to much laughter by our audience.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 16, 2025 02:49 PM (SRRAx)

99 But The Wizard of Oz is a murder mystery.

Posted by: IMDB at March 16, 2025 02:49 PM (dg+HA)

100 They’re selling Kamala ‘Miss Me Yet?’ t-shirts at the airport in DC.
I asked the sales lady how many they’ve sold.
Sales lady: “Zero”

-
Damn law of supply and demand!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 16, 2025 02:43 PM (L/fGl)

Buy up the whole lot, stencil "Nope!" on them all, and re-sell.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2025 02:49 PM (MqtqS)

101 who has the best screw-up story?

CPAs who run out of fingers and toes to count on.

So I've heard.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 16, 2025 02:49 PM (Aqu9a)

102 >> I would install WINE on the linux machine and use then install your third party windows software for the iTunes. Photos, I Cloud might be the easier way but a direct USB cable connection to the linux computer 'should' be able to talk and transfer photo files from your phone. Outlook, you have to rely on WINE again using a Windows version that is supported by WINE.

I don’t think iTunes will sync under wine. You’d have to run iTunes on a Windows VM.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 16, 2025 02:51 PM (l3YAf)

103 Damn Trump is killing women and children again!

The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: The Houthi rebel-run Health Ministry says the death toll from U.S. strikes on Yemen has climbed to 31, including women and children.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 16, 2025 02:51 PM (L/fGl)

104 Germany is now advising people to stock up on cheese and sausages.

This is called the Wurst Käse scenario.

Posted by: Ciampino - umlauted at March 16, 2025 02:52 PM (KjLnc)

105 They’re selling Kamala ‘Miss Me Yet?’ t-shirts at the airport in DC.
I asked the sales lady how many they’ve sold.
Sales lady: “Zero”

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Damn law of supply and demand!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 16, 2025 02:43 PM (L/fGl)

See? Just more proof that people can't afford to buy clothing in the horrible Trump economy!

Buyer's remorse! Buyer's remorse!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 16, 2025 02:52 PM (TcVeV)

106 Not sure what you mean, IoS can interchange somewhat with linux usually via a USB cable connection to a computer.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 02:28 PM (ctrM5)

Install KDEConnect on the phone (android or iPhone).

Install Gnome-Shell-Connect on linux (if running gnome) or on KDE use the native (have not tried).

I did this with XFCE and it worked fine but I am going to switch to Gnome (which I hate --- or run in VM) because Gnome has a lot more UI for the connection.

I use Debian. This should work on Ubuntu. RedHat defaults to Gnome. Don't know about the other million linux variants.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at March 16, 2025 02:53 PM (jcQqy)

107 AW - I bet they say %97 were women and children

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2025 02:53 PM (fwDg9)

108 Dealing with iPhones and Windows are my second and third First World Problems.

My main FWP is finding a new job. It's frustrating, and certainly not enjoyable, but definitely necessary!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 02:54 PM (VNX3d)

109 Paid $2.75 a gallon for gas earlier today.

This Trump guy is building back better.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 16, 2025 02:54 PM (dg+HA)

110 The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: The Houthi rebel-run Health Ministry says the death toll from U.S. strikes on Yemen has climbed to 31, including women and children.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 16, 2025 02:51 PM (L/fGl)

So AP is reporting on deaths of women and children again? Do tell.

Posted by: October 7 Victims at March 16, 2025 02:54 PM (TcVeV)

111 I have no idea of how to take the machine apart.

youtube search?

2 hours of cat videos later is a FWP

Posted by: DaveA at March 16, 2025 02:55 PM (FhXTo)

112 Germany is now advising people to stock up on cheese and sausages.

This is called the Wurst Käse scenario.
Posted by: Ciampino - umlauted at March 16, 2025 02:52 PM (KjLnc)

No orders to stock up on Pumpernickel and Dachshunds?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 02:55 PM (VNX3d)

113 Repairclinic dot com.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 16, 2025 02:56 PM (dg+HA)

114 Paid $2.75 a gallon for gas earlier today.

Went shopping a few days ago. Eggs were done to $3.99 for the large, and even less for the new, cheap medium eggs the grocery store started buying after the prices skyrocketed.

Not a great price, but about half what it was the last time I went shopping three weeks ago.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 16, 2025 02:56 PM (EXyHK)

115 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 16, 2025 02:51 PM

"Yemen's Houthi terrorists claim to have attacked the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier - as well as several American warships - in the Red Sea."

I mean, maybe they tried, but I'm going to go with 'sure, Jan.'

Posted by: one hour sober at March 16, 2025 02:57 PM (Y1sOo)

116 Paid $2.75 a gallon for gas earlier today.

I paid $ 4.49 today.... CA.

Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2025 02:57 PM (VE6XX)

117 Didn't see any general cheaper egg prices today, yet wife found some higher quality eggs for same price almost as regular.

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2025 02:58 PM (fwDg9)

118 Can the solenoid valve assembly be disassembled and cleaned?
Posted by: Alberta
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Can you get at the cold water solenoid? If so, and you have a meter, or can cob together something to check it, is voltage reaching the valve?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 16, 2025 02:58 PM (XeU6L)

119 I paid $ 4.49 today.... CA.
Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2025 02:57 PM (VE6XX)

See? Newsom said he would "Trump-proof" CA. Promise kept!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 16, 2025 02:59 PM (TcVeV)

120 Gas is still above $3 here in se Pa, Delaware just under $2.90

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2025 02:59 PM (fwDg9)

121 I read horrific things Denmark did to the people in Greenland over the years? I found one of the articles I read

https://tinyurl.com/53at2kcp

Posted by: Ciampino - umlauted purple at March 16, 2025 02:59 PM (KjLnc)

122 Paid $2.75 a gallon for gas earlier today.
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$2.69 at Weaverville, NC.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 16, 2025 03:00 PM (XeU6L)

123 First World problem: went to fridge for a Shiner Bock. All gone! Had to open a Lochiel Wee Heavy instead. Oh, the pain!!!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2025 03:00 PM (MqtqS)

124 I guess the judiciary doesn't command the laws of time and space after all.

Nayib Bukele@nayibbukele
Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 16, 2025 03:00 PM (L/fGl)

125 Our basic cable increased to $100/month. Wifey went in to ask for a reduction or she'd cut the service. They said no, and added they planned another rate hike next month because so many subscribers were cutting off service.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 16, 2025 03:00 PM (wBaIH)

126 If you can't trust the Houthi Health Agency, who can you trust?

Posted by: Fountain of Misinformation at March 16, 2025 03:00 PM (G5+As)

127 Paid $2.75 a gallon for gas earlier today.
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$2.69 at Weaverville, NC.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 16, 2025 03:00 PM (XeU6L)

$2.68 in [redacted]

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 16, 2025 03:01 PM (l3YAf)

128 Know what pisses me the hell off? When you order something online and get an email after a few days saying the item has shipped, only to find out the seller has merely created a label and doesn't take the item to UPS or wherever for another week.
Posted by: Weasel

Working to meet the spec, as opposed to working to meet the desired result.

"The package was shipped on time," because "printing the label" to get it into the shipping system counts as "shipped."

Same as "your flight departed on time," because "the door is closed and the jetway is retracted" counts as "departed." The 45 minutes sitting on the tarmac waiting for a runway to use don't count.

Posted by: mikeski at March 16, 2025 03:02 PM (DgGvY)

129 126 If you can't trust the Houthi Health Agency, who can you trust?
Posted by: Fountain of Misinformation at March 16, 2025 03:00 PM (G5+As)

Correct

Posted by: Hamas Health Agency at March 16, 2025 03:02 PM (VE6XX)

130 They said no, and added they planned another rate hike next month because so many subscribers were cutting off service.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
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A curious brand of economics at work there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 16, 2025 03:02 PM (XeU6L)

131 This isn't lighthearted, but it's definitely uplifting.

Here's video of 261 Tren de Aragua and MS13 thugs arriving at their new home at CECOT in El Salvador.

https://tinyurl.com/22uypr3u

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 16, 2025 03:02 PM (paSBy)

132 Secretary of agriculture "reached out" to a number of Europeans to see if the can sell us chix eggs. Finland refused ! Kick them out of NATO !

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2025 03:02 PM (g47mK)

133 Yea... you'd have thought the 12/24 HR option would be, you know, with the fucking clock settings.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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How would you rate your Windows 11 Experience(tm)?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 16, 2025 03:02 PM (/lPRQ)

134 Our basic cable increased to $100/month. Wifey went in to ask for a reduction or she'd cut the service. They said no, and added they planned another rate hike next month because so many subscribers were cutting off service.

It's simple law of supply and demand. When demand dies, you raise prices! GENIUS!

Wait. I might have that wrong.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 16, 2025 03:02 PM (TcVeV)

135 >>>So AP is reporting on deaths of women and children again? Do tell.

It's true.

Posted by: Green Helmet Guy who moved from Lebanon to Yemen last week at March 16, 2025 03:02 PM (Y1sOo)

136 Can you get at the cold water solenoid? If so, and you have a meter, or can cob together something to check it, is voltage reaching the valve?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 16, 2025 02:58 PM (XeU6L)

There is a multimeter here. We powered up the washer, and cycled the hot/cold buttons, and a hum can be felt on both solenoids (in a common body). I suspect the cold plunger is simply stuck.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2025 03:04 PM (MqtqS)

137 "Yemen's Houthi terrorists claim to have attacked the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier - as well as several American warships - in the Red Sea."

I mean, maybe they tried, but I'm going to go with 'sure, Jan.'
Posted by: one hour sober

And if they do not leave, we shall taunt them a se-cond time.

Posted by: a Houthi kuh-niggit at March 16, 2025 03:04 PM (DgGvY)

138 First World problem: went to fridge for a Shiner Bock. All gone! Had to open a Lochiel Wee Heavy instead. Oh, the pain!!!
Posted by: Alberta
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I'm still intimidated by that beer menu we had the other night.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 16, 2025 03:04 PM (XeU6L)

139 Jeep dealer forgot to put the oil plug back in after servicing my 2024 Jeep Wrangler Sahara (Earl color). Yes, all the oil came out, the alarm lights and buzzers went off, the engine was ruined, and ... THE DEALER HAD TO PUT IN A NEW ENGINE FOR FREE, provide a loaner car for two weeks while they got that done. They did not fire the guy.

Posted by: Deborah Hamilton at March 16, 2025 03:04 PM (vPplw)

140 Secretary of agriculture "reached out" to a number of Europeans to see if the can sell us chix eggs. Finland refused ! Kick them out of NATO !
Posted by: runner at March 16, 2025 03:02 PM (g47mK)

Pull out of NATO. Pull out of UN. Autarky now.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 16, 2025 03:04 PM (l3YAf)

141 100s dead, all women and children !

--Houthi News Service

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2025 03:04 PM (g47mK)

142 116 Paid $2.75 a gallon for gas earlier today.

I paid $ 4.49 today.... CA.

Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2025 02:57 PM (VE6XX)
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I wonder if SpaceX pays more for kerosene in California than in Florida or Texas?
Does he have to use Summer/Winter blends too?

Posted by: Ciampino - umlauted purple at March 16, 2025 03:05 PM (KjLnc)

143 Didn't see any general cheaper egg prices today, yet wife found some higher quality eggs for same price almost as regular.

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2025 02:58 PM

I have been finding that "quality" egg prices have generally stayed the same during the recent price spike for eggs. Egglands best extra large eggs have stayed consistently around $5.00 a dozen for the last year or so. They never really went up in price like every other egg company did.

Walmart great value egg prices have fluctuated up and down and were a bit over $6.00 a dozen last month. They are dropping again and just went below $4.00 a dozen the other day.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 16, 2025 03:06 PM (e5NfL)

144 There is a multimeter here. We powered up the washer, and cycled the hot/cold buttons, and a hum can be felt on both solenoids (in a common body). I suspect the cold plunger is simply stuck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Light taps with a tool...any tool, while power applied. You might want to keep your other hand in your pocket while doing this.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 16, 2025 03:06 PM (XeU6L)

145 "In a post on X, the site where the Houthis often announce their alleged attacks, spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Sare’e claimed the Iran-backed group used 18 ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as one drone, to attack the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group in the northern Red Sea. Central Command did not immediately respond to a request for comment from USNI News."

https://tinyurl.com/2fez6tc7

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 16, 2025 03:06 PM (dg+HA)

146 100s dead, all women and children !

--Houthi News Service
Posted by: runner at March 16, 2025 03:04 PM (g47mK)

Waiting for those teddy bear-posed-in-the-rubble shots...

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 16, 2025 03:06 PM (TcVeV)

147 On the other hand, callback systems are infinitely preferable to waiting on hold. I hate to imagine how much of my life I've spent with a phone glued to my ear listening to shite music, waiting for someone to answer my oh-so-important-to-them call.

It's not as bad nowadays when I have a speakerphone in my pocket, but I still prefer the callback. No shitty music, for one thing.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 16, 2025 03:06 PM (W5ArC)

148 Houthi women and children killed in the US air strike were sex workers for the rebel command. No word on goat casualties.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 16, 2025 03:07 PM (wBaIH)

149 My FWP is that a jelly jar stuck to the glass shelf of the refrigerator, and while trying to yank it free, the tempered glass shattered. Tempered glass is strong in some situations, and incredibly weak in others. Guess what? There aren't parts for refrigerators that are more than about seven years old, because nobody makes them to last that long anymore.

I ended up ordering a piece of clear polycarbonate cut to size to fit in place.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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There are these places that sell glass.

They do tempered glass sized to order. In the old days there would be these books with yellow pages that list all the businesses in your area...

Bring in your old frame for accurate measurement.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 16, 2025 03:07 PM (/lPRQ)

150 US bombed hospitals and schools! Innocent civilians dead!

--Houthi News Service

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2025 03:08 PM (g47mK)

151 148 Houthi women and children killed in the US air strike were sex workers for the rebel command. No word on goat casualties.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 16, 2025 03:07 PM (wBaIH)

Looks like mutton's back on the menu, boys!

Posted by: Someone, probably at March 16, 2025 03:09 PM (bss/y)

152 108 Dealing with iPhones and Windows are my second and third First World Problems.

My main FWP is finding a new job. It's frustrating, and certainly not enjoyable, but definitely necessary!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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I can understand. WINE is a free windows emulator to allow programs written for Windows to work on Linux. Depending on where you got Outlook and its licensing, you might be able to install outlook via WINE (it creates a fake windows folder on your unit to confuse the Windows program and linux accesses that program and vice versa via Windows API specs.) Works best when the Windows program is several years older because WINE is constantly upgraded to address new issues with compatibility."

WINE also shines when you no longer have that version of Windows like Windows 7 but you have a good program and/or games that do what you want or you need to access data from that program.

Virtualization is another way to do that but to get decent performance often requires a pretty well specced machine. Dual booting is the third way but due to Microsoft screwing up security certificates, I would avoid using Grub nowadays--either use the ugly UEFI boot menu/systemd

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:09 PM (ctrM5)

153 'Madness swirls': Ex-GOP insider says 'Trump’s presidency is already in state of collapse'

https://tinyurl.com/2jskhkfk

*SNORT*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 16, 2025 03:09 PM (TcVeV)

154 the economics of band music are putting them on the path of extinction except as nostalgia acts or tribute bands.
Posted by: whig

Elvis impersonators should do just fine.

Posted by: Miklos is Everywhere at March 16, 2025 03:10 PM (I8gAO)

155 151 148 Houthi women and children killed in the US air strike were sex workers for the rebel command. No word on goat casualties.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 16, 2025 03:07 PM (wBaIH)

Looks like mutton's back on the menu, boys!
Posted by: Someone, probably at March 16, 2025 03:09 PM (bss/y)

The next strike will be lard-filled balloons.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 03:10 PM (VNX3d)

156 Jeep dealer forgot to put the oil plug back in after servicing my 2024 Jeep Wrangler Sahara (Earl color). Yes, all the oil came out, the alarm lights and buzzers went off, the engine was ruined, and ... THE DEALER HAD TO PUT IN A NEW ENGINE FOR FREE, provide a loaner car for two weeks while they got that done. They did not fire the guy.
Posted by: Deborah
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Heh. At least you were not on an airplane
http://tiny.cc/vckd001

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 16, 2025 03:10 PM (XeU6L)

157 The Christian Nationalists are trying to tell what to say again! Thank Sky God there is pushback!

https://shorturl.at/0A3cC

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 16, 2025 03:11 PM (L/fGl)

158 147 On the other hand, callback systems are infinitely preferable to waiting on hold. I hate to imagine how much of my life I've spent with a phone glued to my ear listening to shite music, waiting for someone to answer my oh-so-important-to-them call.

It's not as bad nowadays when I have a speakerphone in my pocket, but I still prefer the callback. No shitty music, for one thing.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Eh, I simply put the phone aside and let the crappy muzak play at a reduced volume. Then again, I have gotten used to Muzak in MRI tubes lately so what do I know.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:11 PM (ctrM5)

159 Ex-GOP insider says 'Trump’s presidency is already in state of collapse'

*caugh
William Kristol

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2025 03:12 PM (g47mK)

160 Houthi's been getting a lot of press recently, but what about the rest of the Blowfish?

Posted by: Oh, The Huge Manatee! at March 16, 2025 03:12 PM (G5+As)

161 144 There is a multimeter here. We powered up the washer, and cycled the hot/cold buttons, and a hum can be felt on both solenoids (in a common body). I suspect the cold plunger is simply stuck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I'm sure it is within AOP's skillset to set up a rudimentary lathe ....

Posted by: Ciampino - umlauted purple at March 16, 2025 03:12 PM (KjLnc)

162 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 16, 2025 03:09 PM (TcVeV)

Steve Schmidt ? GOP insider ? Hahahahahahahaha

Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2025 03:13 PM (VE6XX)

163 So...30 Seconds Over Shelburne?

Posted by: Diogenes at March 16, 2025 03:14 PM (W/lyH)

164 I know I sound like a lunatic,...
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That is how you know you are on the path to recovering sanity.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2025 03:14 PM (RIvkX)

165 My FWP is a distinct shortage of James Carville sound bites.
Great entertainment value these days.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 16, 2025 03:15 PM (dg+HA)

166 >>Waiting for those teddy bear-posed-in-the-rubble shots...

I knew I forgot to pack something.

Posted by: Green Helmet Guy who moved from Lebanon to Yemen last week at March 16, 2025 03:15 PM (Y1sOo)

167 Elvis impersonators should do just fine.
Posted by: Miklos

That market is shrinking as the number of people who care about Elvis die off. Surveys of people that use spotify etc for their music literally treat it as a commodity rather than an experience. That is driving a lot of really crappy social media personalities to the forefront rather than musicians. Dua Lipa is a perfect example of current music company product. Rick Beato, has been hammering this, that AI and the commodification of music has music companies requiring massive social media presences before signing an artist. Even then, they use AI/Backing tracks/and/or studio musicians plus tweaking in post production to minimize costs and maximize revenue. Taking the person outta the music biz.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:15 PM (ctrM5)

168 >> 'Madness swirls': Ex-GOP insider says 'Trump’s presidency is already in state of collapse'

“Madness swirls” is Donny Two Scoops favorite flavor of ice cream.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 16, 2025 03:16 PM (l3YAf)

169 So...30 Seconds Over Shelburne?
Posted by: Diogenes

The Bridges at Koto Shelburn-ri

Posted by: Miklos is almost over Macho Grande at March 16, 2025 03:16 PM (I8gAO)

170 The lady at the Farmer's market gave me an extra $ because she can't math but I gave it back.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 16, 2025 03:16 PM (RIvkX)

171
"the Iran-backed group used 18 ballistic and cruise missiles..."

To borrow a phrase from Pixy, that used to be a lot.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 16, 2025 03:18 PM (dg+HA)

172
That market is shrinking as the number of people who care about Elvis die off.
Posted by: whig

Bummer

I just invested in a new wig and rhinestones

Posted by: Miklos practices the "Elvis lip" at March 16, 2025 03:18 PM (I8gAO)

173 'Madness swirls': Ex-GOP insider says 'Trump’s presidency is already in state of collapse'

https://tinyurl.com/2jskhkfk

*SNORT*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 16, 2025 03:09 PM (TcVeV)

Mike Pence? That candidate whose claim to fame was that their dad was a mailman?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 03:18 PM (VNX3d)

174 How about the NYT finally admitting today that the virus came from the Wuhan lab?

They just opps'ed that for the last 5 years.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2025 03:19 PM (LkLld)

175 It's simple law of supply and demand. When demand dies, you raise prices! GENIUS!

Wait. I might have that wrong.
Posted by: Cicero

Common strategy when the core company literally sees its customers flaking off. Phone companies did that to the poor people using landlines--Verizon ATT etc simply quit maintaining the old lines and switches leading to long outages, etc.

I think the old term from GE under Welch and his underlings was a mature market is a cash cow to be milked for every buck you can until it is a shell. Then discard.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:19 PM (ctrM5)

176 And a little Hogg shall lead them.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 16, 2025 03:20 PM (dg+HA)

177 Mike Pence? That candidate whose claim to fame was that their dad was a mailman?

Worse. It was that towering giant of GOP politics Steve Schmidt.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 16, 2025 03:20 PM (TcVeV)

178 Bummer

I just invested in a new wig and rhinestones
Posted by: Miklos
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Learn jazz and become a celebrity musician at Preservation Hall in Nawlins. You can recycle your Elvis stuff for kid's parties as a scary Elvis clown.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:21 PM (ctrM5)

179 Worse. It was that towering giant of GOP politics Steve Schmidt.
Posted by: Cicero
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Hasn't he got interns to molest or generational wealth to gather by grifting from leftwing Dems?

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:21 PM (ctrM5)

180 first world problems: pluto.tv started playing my favorite soap opera again, but it's during church time so i can't watch. tried crunchyroll, but they insist on showing me ads because i'm too cheap to pay them money, but they keep showing groups of six copies of the same ad. so i have to wander off and watch something else.

Posted by: anachronda at March 16, 2025 03:21 PM (edU/H)

181 Got a check for $129.53. Give the teller the check, and 47 cents. Confusion reigns.
How can you work at a bank and not get this?

As an enterprise architect for a national bank, let me tell you that it isn't because the teller doesn't understand what you want, it is because the software systems are not set up to handle that kind of transaction. The check is scanned and made part of transaction event that is tied to an account and possibly a G/L account. That check is run into several different systems that may or may not use a combination of natural and PII friendly account and event IDs. [ enter other technical flow detail ].

Think about how that would be unwrapped, (technically it should be two transactions, cash and check) with you depositing and then immediately withdrawing your 47¢ which in itself is its own transaction.

Fortunately Burger King doesn't operate this way, but you are creating separate transactions rather than asking for change.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 16, 2025 03:21 PM (a4flb)

182 Eh, I simply put the phone aside and let the crappy muzak play at a reduced volume. Then again, I have gotten used to Muzak in MRI tubes lately so what do I know.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:11 PM (ctrM5)
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You're lucky. While getting PET imaging I was treated to NPR. Grrrr.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 16, 2025 03:22 PM (YqDXo)

183 165 My FWP is a distinct shortage of James Carville sound bites.
Great entertainment value these days.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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Easy enough to get your fix. Simply ask an AI engine to generation fake quotes from Ole Snake Head's Magic Eight Ball on events.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:24 PM (ctrM5)

184 >>>@61 Know what pisses me the hell off? When you order something online and get an email after a few days saying the item has shipped, only to find out the seller has merely created a label and doesn't take the item to UPS or wherever for another week. Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2025 02:24 PM (b++6H)
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Greetings, Weasel ... Oftentimes when this happens to me, I discover the item I ordered is being shipped from China or a non-USA country ... Consequently, the ship date shown is when the item leaves an overseas warehouse ... Next, the package usually visits an international departure port in (for example) China before making its long-distance journey ... And even if the journey is by air, it could take several days for the package to reach an international receiving port before being handed over and logged into to a USA-based delivery service such as UPS or the U.S. Postal System .. Hope this helps.

Posted by: Kathy at March 16, 2025 03:24 PM (qpw89)

185 Houthi's been getting a lot of press recently, but what about the rest of the Blowfish?
Posted by: Oh, The Huge Manatee! at March 16, 2025 03:12 PM (G5+As)

He was a good boy. He was getting his life together after Imperfect Circle. Released a new country music album and everything.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 16, 2025 03:24 PM (l3YAf)

186 It's astounding
Time is fleeting
Madness swirls so
But listen closely
Not for very much longer
I've got to keep control

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 16, 2025 03:25 PM (L/fGl)

187 Eh, I simply put the phone aside and let the crappy muzak play at a reduced volume. Then again, I have gotten used to Muzak in MRI tubes lately so what do I know.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:11 PM (ctrM5)
_________________

You're lucky. While getting PET imaging I was treated to NPR. Grrrr.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 16, 2025 03:22 PM (YqDXo)

Rats. All I got was whatever the magnetic fields generated in my head.

I would have preferred In the Hall of the Mountain King, by Edvard Greig. It would have been more relaxing.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 03:25 PM (VNX3d)

188 It's simple law of supply and demand. When demand dies, you raise prices! GENIUS!

Wait. I might have that wrong.
Posted by: Cicero
_______________

Democrat politicians do that all the time. Drive away the people shouldering most of the tax burden? Tax revenues going down? Then ... raise the tax rate to keep revenue steady. That won't cause still more people to leave.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 16, 2025 03:25 PM (YqDXo)

189 You're lucky. While getting PET imaging I was treated to NPR. Grrrr.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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PET imaging is banned by the 8th Amendment for cruel and unusual punishment.

Only MRI scan up to that standard is the heart stress test in an MRI. Takes about an hour and they inject you with something to purposefully raise your heart rate for measurement.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:25 PM (ctrM5)

190 Well, I finally found a ewetoob showing how to get top off the machine. ewetoob's search engine sucks donkey dick. If I am searching a specific model number, I do NOT want to see vids of service for unrelated models.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2025 03:26 PM (MqtqS)

191 >>> 41 A new Musk scandal: he's a Holocaust denier!

Elon Musk Shares Post Saying Hitler 'Didn't Murder Millions Of People'

The Thursday repost on Musk’s X account read: “Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.”

https://shorturl.at/Nqd8R
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 16, 2025 02:15 PM (L/fGl)

Stupid presstitutes.

He's not 'denying the Holocaust'... he's saying the meme about H1t[er not being able to do it all himself, not to mention he's calling the feralgov employees 'little Eichmanns'.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 16, 2025 03:26 PM (Vqx30)

192 You're lucky. While getting PET imaging I was treated to NPR. Grrrr.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 16, 2025 03:22 PM (YqDXo)

Rats. All I got was whatever the magnetic fields generated in my head.

I would have preferred In the Hall of the Mountain King, by Edvard Greig. It would have been more relaxing.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 03:25 PM (VNX3d)
________________

They were checking heart function. "Sir, your blood pressure seems to be spiking."

"Yeah, no shit. Turn off the radio and it'll go down again."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 16, 2025 03:27 PM (YqDXo)

193 it is because the software systems are not set up to handle that kind of transaction

Reminds me of a first world problem shopping at H-E-B. I deliberately go to a store that supports H-E-B Go because I can scan items directly on taking them from the shelf, pop them in the bag, and (a) know I’m getting the right price from the get-go and (b) check out that much quicker.

Every time I check out, using the special terminal only used by H-E-B- Go, it concludes the transaction by telling me to make sure to take my change and my receipt.

The terminal has no means of providing change and does not accept cash anyway; it has no means of providing a receipt. I wish it did; I like to have a receipt for purposes of remembering that I spent the money.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 16, 2025 03:27 PM (EXyHK)

194 157

Maybe they could change the chess piece name to
"Non religious chess piece in a funny hat? " or bishop spelled backwards which the freaking phone refuses to type.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2025 03:27 PM (na0Rw)

195 Got a check for $129.53. Give the teller the check, and 47 cents. Confusion reigns.

Well. 47 cents is a pretty shitty tip for cashing a check.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 16, 2025 03:27 PM (W/lyH)

196 184 >>>@61 Know what pisses me the hell off? When you order something online and get an email after a few days saying the item has shipped, only to find out the seller has merely created a label and doesn't take the item to UPS or wherever for another week. Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2025 02:24 PM (b++6H)
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Greetings, Weasel ... Oftentimes when this happens to me, I discover the item I ordered is being shipped from China or a non-USA country ... Consequently, the ship date shown is when the item leaves an overseas warehouse ... Next, the package usually visits an international departure port in (for example) China before making its long-distance journey ... And even if the journey is by air, it could take several days for the package to reach an international receiving port before being handed over and logged into to a USA-based delivery service such as UPS or the U.S. Postal System .. Hope this helps.
Posted by: Kathy
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For more fun, add in final delivery to be done by USPS aka Smart Post etc. Tracking becomes pretty useless from UPS or FedEx when they rely on that for final delivery.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:27 PM (ctrM5)

197 > Got a check for $129.53. Give the teller the check, and 47 cents. Confusion reigns.
How can you work at a bank and not get this?
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I'm cashing the check.

I should get $130

The teller's balance is good. It's one transaction. It's not that hard to figure out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2025 03:28 PM (Q4IgG)

198 Learn jazz and become a celebrity musician at Preservation Hall in Nawlins. You can recycle your Elvis stuff for kid's parties as a scary Elvis clown.
Posted by: whig

Well, OK.

But in the past, when I asked for the Full Trombone, I had to pay moneys.

Posted by: Miklos reconsiders certain Life Choices at March 16, 2025 03:28 PM (I8gAO)

199 189 You're lucky. While getting PET imaging I was treated to NPR. Grrrr.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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PET imaging is banned by the 8th Amendment for cruel and unusual punishment.

Only MRI scan up to that standard is the heart stress test in an MRI. Takes about an hour and they inject you with something to purposefully raise your heart rate for measurement.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:25 PM (ctrM5)
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Adenosine. They did that for my PET imaging as well. Kinda made me panicky to be short of breath and in an enclosed space.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 16, 2025 03:29 PM (YqDXo)

200 they inject you with something to purposefully raise your heart rate for measurement.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:25 PM (ctrM5)

That is cruel, when they could just show videos of Sydney Sweeney naked.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 16, 2025 03:29 PM (l3YAf)

201 I like to have a receipt for purposes of remembering that I spent the money.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

Spent what?

Posted by: ex-Preznit Joey at March 16, 2025 03:30 PM (I8gAO)

202 White collar middle managers fouling the works between the owner of our company and everyone downstream.

And those "mishaps" cost far more to repair than a seized car engine.

Posted by: 13times at March 16, 2025 03:30 PM (BwKtg)

203 >>> 153 'Madness swirls': Ex-GOP insider says 'Trump’s presidency is already in state of collapse'

https://tinyurl.com/2jskhkfk

*SNORT*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 16, 2025 03:09 PM (TcVeV)

"Ex-GOP insider" Billy Kristol or Liz Cheney?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 16, 2025 03:30 PM (Vqx30)

204 You're lucky. While getting PET imaging I was treated to NPR. Grrrr.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Cutting corners by getting diagnosed at a veterinarian could come back to bite you on the ass.

Posted by: Up With People at March 16, 2025 03:31 PM (G5+As)

205 That is cruel, when they could just show videos of Sydney Sweeney naked.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 16, 2025 03:29 PM (l3YAf)

Exposure to pictures of naked Sydney Sweeney is considered prophylactic care for all kinds of nasty conditions, or so I read on the internet.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 16, 2025 03:31 PM (TcVeV)

206 Adenosine. They did that for my PET imaging as well. Kinda made me panicky to be short of breath and in an enclosed space.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Nasty. I used to never be claustrophobic but frequent MRIs to document inflammatory arthritis effects have started to do that. My heart scan was due to deteriorating thoracic discs causing tightness and pain around my heart--peripheral nerve compression was involved.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:31 PM (ctrM5)

207 That is cruel, when they could just show videos of Sydney Sweeney naked.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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Might not be able to get male patients out the tube.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:32 PM (ctrM5)

208 Jeep dealer forgot to put the oil plug back in after servicing my 2024 Jeep Wrangler Sahara (Earl color). Yes, all the oil came out, the alarm lights and buzzers went off, the engine was ruined, and ... THE DEALER HAD TO PUT IN A NEW ENGINE FOR FREE, provide a loaner car for two weeks while they got that done. They did not fire the guy.
Posted by: Deborah Hamilton at March 16, 2025 03:04 PM (vPplw)

Most likely smoking weed in the service bays. Too busy passing the joint around instead of doing final safety checks. Drug tests all around.

Don't bogart that joint my friend,
Pass it over to me!
Don't bogart that joint my friend,
Pass it over to me!

Posted by: Fraternity Of Man at March 16, 2025 03:32 PM (R/m4+)

209 Maybe they could change the chess piece name to
"Non religious chess piece in a funny hat? " or bishop spelled backwards which the freaking phone refuses to type.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Non Denominational Unitarian Spiritualist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 16, 2025 03:32 PM (L/fGl)

210 That is cruel, when they could just show videos of Sydney Sweeney naked.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 16, 2025 03:29 PM (l3YAf)

Exposure to pictures of naked Sydney Sweeney is considered prophylactic care for all kinds of nasty conditions, or so I read on the internet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 16, 2025 03:31 PM (TcVeV)

Don't those have to be used selectively, for fear they may cause priapism lasting for multiple days?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 03:33 PM (VNX3d)

211 Cutting corners by getting diagnosed at a veterinarian could come back to bite you on the ass.
Posted by: Up With People
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Hell, vet care is as expensive nowadays if not more so than human.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:33 PM (ctrM5)

212 Adenosine. They did that for my PET imaging as well. Kinda made me panicky to be short of breath and in an enclosed space.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Nasty. I used to never be claustrophobic but frequent MRIs to document inflammatory arthritis effects have started to do that. My heart scan was due to deteriorating thoracic discs causing tightness and pain around my heart--peripheral nerve compression was involved.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:31 PM (ctrM5)
_________________

I'm not frankly claustrophobic, but just ... uneasy ... at being in a tightly enclosed space, and very glad to get out again. I was OK until the adenosine was administered, which causes shortness of breath, at which point my anxiety spiked. Fortunately the adenosine wore off in a minute or two, and I was OK again.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 16, 2025 03:34 PM (YqDXo)

213 @199 The only way I made it through a chemical stress test was by watching the image of my heart on the screen. It was kind of cool, and kept me from a full blown panic attack.

Thankfully, I was on a table, and not an MRI machine.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 03:36 PM (VNX3d)

214 Maybe they could change the chess piece name to
"Non religious chess piece in a funny hat? " or bishop spelled backwards which the freaking phone refuses to type.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Non Denominational Unitarian Spiritualist.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 16, 2025 03:32 PM (L/fGl)
_________________

Social worker moves to Patriarchal square 3.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 16, 2025 03:36 PM (YqDXo)

215
Ever consider how tight the control is over a teller's till? (Say that fast ten times.)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

What? There are teller till drones now?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 16, 2025 03:37 PM (xG4kz)

216 Don't those have to be used selectively, for fear they may cause priapism lasting for multiple days?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 03:33 PM (VNX3d)

This is why we have the “Stacey Abrams on a trampoline” video. If a patient has priapism after 10 seconds of watching that, it’s procedure to just put them down.

Posted by: Dr. Medical Doctor, M.D. at March 16, 2025 03:38 PM (l3YAf)

217 Not necessarily a First World Problem, more an "I've seen this movie before" problem.

Just finished assembling an exercise machine for my bride. Two pins that are a basic part of the machine's function get relocated when folding the machine up.

The instruction sheet shows the holes where the pins would be stowed. The actual 3D reality, backed by mumble mumble years of being alive, lead me to conclude Third World quality control is still a buyer beware situation. They didn't drill the holes.

Machine works, bride is happy, we'll figure out a work-around.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 16, 2025 03:38 PM (8AONa)

218 This is why we have the “Stacey Abrams on a trampoline” video. If a patient has priapism after 10 seconds of watching that, it’s procedure to just put them down.

Posted by: Dr. Medical Doctor, M.D. at March 16, 2025 03:38 PM (l3YAf)
______________

In an emergency, a photo of Hillary Clinton in a thong can bring the patient back down.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 16, 2025 03:39 PM (YqDXo)

219 When we moved into our house in IL, there was a wood swing set with slide for sale at the local Hardware Big Box Store. I ordered one for delivery. We had an unfinished walk out basement, and I wanted to put the set up in the spring after the lawn was put in, so I had them drive around back and deliver it. As they are unloading, I not that there seemed to be a lot of wood and hardware to it, but said no attention. I get a call a few days later, after a storm turned the yard into a sea of deep oozing mud that they delivered the wrong order, that I got a fort and a tower, etc. I said, oh, now it makes sense why I thought it looked like a lot of stuff. They told me it needed to be returned. I told them no problem, come get it. They said no, I have to take it back. NOT GONNA' HAPPEN. You come get it, and by the way, you won't be able to get to the back until the yard dries. I never hear from them again. I built the fort set that spring and was still there when we moved 22 years later.

Posted by: JML at March 16, 2025 03:40 PM (6solg)

220 In an emergency, a photo of Hillary Clinton in a thong can bring the patient back down.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

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Don't be hacking my cloud storage, bud

Posted by: Huma at March 16, 2025 03:41 PM (8AONa)

221 I'm not frankly claustrophobic, but just ... uneasy ... at being in a tightly enclosed space, and very glad to get out again. I was OK until the adenosine was administered, which causes shortness of breath, at which point my anxiety spiked. Fortunately the adenosine wore off in a minute or two, and I was OK again.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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I have the problem of broad shoulders and it leads to compressing my arms, elbows, etc. in the tube. My whole left arm went from tingling to numbness, to burning pain during the stress test. Tube was putting direct pressure on my median nerve in elbow which already had bone spurs around the cubital tunnel at the time.

Had a bad experience with a nasty MRI tech who was angry I was upsetting the schedule. I simply could not hold my shoulder over my head during the shoulder mri. Went to another place with a wide bore for that. Easy peasy.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:42 PM (ctrM5)

222 My FWP:
The Geezers On Tuesday still play Covid Golf. That is when it comes to putting, they leave the flag in the hole. WTF???
Was told this is the new way now. Bullsh*t says I!
I want to hear the sweet sound of the ball falling into the cup, not some cheap metallic "thunk* of the ball hitting the flag pole.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 16, 2025 03:42 PM (W/lyH)

223 Germany is now advising people to stock up on cheese and sausages.

This is called the Wurst Käse scenario.
Posted by: Ciampino - umlauted at March 16, 2025 02:52 PM (KjLnc)

Anyone not prepared should get Das Boot.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 16, 2025 03:42 PM (xCA6C)

224 218 This is why we have the “Stacey Abrams on a trampoline” video. If a patient has priapism after 10 seconds of watching that, it’s procedure to just put them down.

Posted by: Dr. Medical Doctor, M.D. at March 16, 2025 03:38 PM (l3YAf)
______________

In an emergency, a photo of Hillary Clinton in a thong can bring the patient back down.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Things MRI techs probably say, I ain't cleaning the tube from vomit from showing that shit. They can stay in the tube for all I care.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:43 PM (ctrM5)

225 Paid $2.75 a gallon for gas earlier today.

I paid $ 4.49 today.... CA.
Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2025 02:57 PM (VE6XX)

$2.45 in my area.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 16, 2025 03:44 PM (ExV1e)

226 222 My FWP:
The Geezers On Tuesday still play Covid Golf. That is when it comes to putting, they leave the flag in the hole. WTF???
Was told this is the new way now. Bullsh*t says I!
I want to hear the sweet sound of the ball falling into the cup, not some cheap metallic "thunk* of the ball hitting the flag pole.

Posted by: Diogenes
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The problems of a golf hustler are seldom discussed in our uncaring society.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2025 03:44 PM (ctrM5)

227 My FWP:
The Geezers On Tuesday still play Covid Golf. That is when it comes to putting, they leave the flag in the hole. WTF???
Was told this is the new way now. Bullsh*t says I!
I want to hear the sweet sound of the ball falling into the cup, not some cheap metallic "thunk* of the ball hitting the flag pole.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 16, 2025 03:42 PM (W/lyH)

Time to treat the flagpoles with Flubber. Instead of a metallic ting, your 3 foot putt ends up with the ball about 90 feet away.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 03:44 PM (VNX3d)

228 I had separate ins from dad but the company listed him as the primary driver raising my bill way up. So I switched to his company. He is now a year dead. I took vehicles off the policy and they sent a rebate check with both my name and his on it and a little notice that both parties have to sign the check for any transaction. I was too angry to call about it; I would have been nasty rude to the poor hapless worker who picked up the phone.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 16, 2025 03:45 PM (83y/e)

229 My FWP is that I'm regretting putting in "Smart Outlets" that are Alexa compatible.

So I have an automated way of turning off the light. Now my spouse doesn't want to have to yell out some command and get the name of the lamp right in order for the switch to come on, she would rather do with what we used to do with the 30 year old X10 switches, is to just toggle the lamp's own switch off, then on, which the X10 wall wart would understand that action to mean to override the wart's "off" mode and restore power to the outlet allowing the light to work.

These modern wall controllers don't seem to understand that and its bark out some orders in the correct order and sequence or just ignore the whole damned thing and operate the lights like a human being.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 16, 2025 03:46 PM (a4flb)

230
So you played truant on the important weekly CBD 'burn the house down' thread that teaches us all important sarcasm. I'm putting you on the Truancy record. Don't do it again.
Posted by: Ciampino - No basements in flood zone

It was nice outside and it was Senior Skip Day!

I was tired from all that skipping!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 16, 2025 03:47 PM (xG4kz)

231 Extra aggravating was that Dad had stopped driving 1.5 years before he died (got an non driver ID on that bday) , but they still hadn't removed him as the driver on his vehicles that I did not get rid of right away and I had to wrangle to get that done after he actually died. I have considered just living dangerously and canceling the farm policy altogether, it is a PITA and a ripoff.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 16, 2025 03:48 PM (83y/e)

232 to get top off the machine.

IIRC from the 1 I've seen the pressure sensor is on the back of the water level switch which just rotates pre-load on a diaphragm.

Posted by: DaveA at March 16, 2025 03:48 PM (FhXTo)

233 Seemed like a good idea at the time......

Posted by: Napoleon at March 16, 2025 03:49 PM (tT6L1)

234 Another FWP here;

The trim and soffit on my front porch had come loose in one particular spot and birds had gotten into it. I got a bird to fly out. Screwed and nailed trim back together but it's up high on a ladder. Difficult work position.

Didn't realize there was a second bird in there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2025 03:49 PM (Q4IgG)

235 The other FWP continues on with these alleged "smart switches".

So I thought I would be clever and exchange all of the outdoor halogen flood lights with commercial grade 350W equivalent dimmable LED floods. Max power is 47W per bulb, fine. Four bulbs and I'm under the 300W max ability of the Smart Dimmer wall controller to handle for dimming (1500W max for no dimmer capability)

What happens when a person who is not me, decides to replace the bulbs with a regular outdoor flood light and smokes the switch in the wall? They get to make an entry for FWP about some doofus who installed an underpowered dimmer switch to control outdoor security lamps?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 16, 2025 03:50 PM (a4flb)

236 CBD is probably only paying $2.49........per litre of gasoline.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 16, 2025 03:50 PM (tT6L1)

237 Well, at least they're letting the parents instead of just getting the government to do it.

New Jersey Hospitals to Ask Parents to Identify Baby's Pronouns and Sexual Orientations

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 16, 2025 03:51 PM (L/fGl)

238
Maybe they could change the chess piece name to
"Non religious chess piece in a funny hat? " or bishop spelled backwards which the freaking phone refuses to type.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Shaman. Or Televangelist. Which ever floats one's boat.

pohsib!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 16, 2025 03:51 PM (xG4kz)

239 In Spain, December 1977, Bing Crosby had just "fleeced" his fellow golfers having bested them. His words in the clubhouse, "Now that was a good round of golf!", were his last.

Posted by: Memento Mori at March 16, 2025 03:52 PM (G5+As)

240 It's not as bad nowadays when I have a speakerphone in my pocket, but I still prefer the callback. No shitty music, for one thing.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 16, 2025 03:06 PM (W5ArC)

I'd have to turn off my "don't tell me when people I don't know call" setting. /shudder

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 16, 2025 03:52 PM (ExV1e)

241
Our basic cable increased to $100/month. Wifey went in to ask for a reduction or she'd cut the service. They said no, and added they planned another rate hike next month because so many subscribers were cutting off service.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

Discerning trends is not our area of competence!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 16, 2025 03:53 PM (xG4kz)

242 Maybe they could change the chess piece name to
"Non religious chess piece in a funny hat? " or bishop spelled backwards which the freaking phone refuses to type.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Shaman. Or Televangelist. Which ever floats one's boat.

pohsib!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 16, 2025 03:51 PM (xG4kz)

NGO? Pervert? Cannibal? Imam?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 16, 2025 03:54 PM (VNX3d)

243 'Madness swirls': Ex-GOP insider says 'Trump’s presidency is already in state of collapse'

... an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 16, 2025 03:54 PM (ExV1e)

244
Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence

I do hope that the Salvadorans got a security deposit from each one of them.

I am looking forward to the idiot judge demanding that President Trump send in the military to El Salvador and claw back those "sparks of divinity".

What's yet another war to the globalists other than a way to continue the grift?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 16, 2025 03:56 PM (xG4kz)

245 .. an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 16, 2025 03:54 PM (ExV1e)

Ex Republican strategists are the QAnon of the Left.

"It's about to happen! You'll see! IT'S ALL COMING DOWN AROUND HIM! SOON!"

Posted by: Vanya at March 16, 2025 03:57 PM (g1h/9)

246 243 'Madness swirls': Ex-GOP insider says 'Trump’s presidency is already in state of collapse'

... an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
.....................................
LoL! Still running the same old op. Bless this retards heart.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 16, 2025 03:58 PM (sAmhv)

247 In Spain, December 1977, Bing Crosby had just "fleeced" his fellow golfers having bested them. His words in the clubhouse, "Now that was a good round of golf!", were his last.
Posted by: Memento Mori at March 16, 2025 03:52 PM (G5+As)

The Old Man swung a mean 3 iron.

Posted by: Zombie Gary Crosby at March 16, 2025 03:59 PM (R/m4+)

248 >> I do hope that the Salvadorans got a security deposit from each one of them.

They have a Zero Idleness program that employs the prisoners in productive work to make the prison system sustainable. And they’re getting paid by the US to take the prisoners. Pretty good deal all around! Make prisons profitable again!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 16, 2025 04:00 PM (l3YAf)

249 Chuck Schumer Tells CNN's Jake Tapper His Shutdown Vote Was "A Vote of Strength"

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And a dessert topping!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 16, 2025 04:01 PM (L/fGl)

250 Nood boners

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 16, 2025 04:01 PM (l3YAf)

251 …an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 16, 2025 03:54 PM (ExV1e)

LOL of course it’s Steve Schmidt - he’s the one who ran McCain’s campaign, made sure Obama won, and led the effort to destroy Sarah Palin completely.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2025 04:01 PM (T+ixL)

252 FOODIE NOODIE TIME

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2025 04:01 PM (fwDg9)

253 Heh, sending illegal alien criminals to El Salvador for their sentences is win/win. Apparently they have some extra cells, and I'm sure we are paying them per inmate. But I'm also sure it is way way cheaper than the costs to incarcerate in the U.S.

I always thought the U.S. should insist than the countries of origin should jail their criminals if we convicted them and that even if we paid them to do it, which we should not have to if we had a state dept working for us, it would save money over jailing the thugs here.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 16, 2025 04:03 PM (83y/e)

254 They have a Zero Idleness program that employs the prisoners in productive work to make the prison system sustainable.

In 2017, El Salvador was the first country to ban all forms of mining in the name of Environmental and Health concerns.

In 2024, that has been reversed citing economic and civil benefits. I lay odds that the Zero Idleness Program could certainly provide young males to work deep inside those mountain mineshafts. El Salvador could also save huge money by cutting back on mine safety and cave-in mitigation.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 16, 2025 04:05 PM (a4flb)

255 FWP--

Last weekend I went all around the house, resetting all the damned clocks, like a good little subject.

And then... next morning, noticed the cordless phone still on Standard Time. (Thought-- iirc-- it would change itself automatically?) Ok. Reset.

Next morning, phone's back on Standard Time. Ok. Reset again.

Next morning, same thing. So I let it go until last night & then reset AGAIN.

Now it's staying on Daylight Time so far, but WTH?

Posted by: JQ at March 16, 2025 04:07 PM (rdVOm)

256
This isn't lighthearted, but it's definitely uplifting.

Here's video of 261 Tren de Aragua and MS13 thugs arriving at their new home at CECOT in El Salvador.

https://tinyurl.com/22uypr3u
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis

===============

WOW. Think of it this way, chico: No tienes problemas del Mundo Primero.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 16, 2025 04:08 PM (lCaJd)

257
Don't be hacking my cloud storage, bud
Posted by: Huma

Hey dude, get offa my cloud.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 16, 2025 04:16 PM (63Dwl)

258 Woot! Success. Took the control panel off the Maytag. Pressure switch right there. Pulled hose off it, blew into hose. Plugged. Blew a little harder, and some clog blew out down below, and air flowed freely. Put hose back on sensor.

Took hoses off water solenoids. Cold inlet again clogged with fine sand. Flushed both hoses into a bucket. Took water solenoid off, tested with death cord, took it apart, and cleaned thoroughly. Put it back in. Cold works, hot works. Tub filled to "low" level, level sensor did its job, and wash cycle commenced. Will let it run through cycle; if all is well, will try a real load.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2025 04:54 PM (MqtqS)

259 Today I paid a $6.19 tab at a convenience store with $21.25. The clerk was quite perplexed until I explained to him that he would save time by not counting out dollar bills and returning only six cents in change. Idiot was surly about it. Where DO they get these people?

Posted by: beisbol been berry berry good to me at March 16, 2025 06:18 PM (kvDvI)

260 18 If that's your car's navigation system, you're screwed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2025 02:04 PM (Q4IgG)

Check the sidebar.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 16, 2025 02:07 PM (L5An7)

Nuh-uh.

Posted by: m at March 16, 2025 06:46 PM (CQE5S)

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