"This is not America,” a woman said to a small group, her voice shaking. She was crying, hysterical. “They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.” https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/capitol-trump-insurrection-explosions/
Peak Karen?
I know neon underlighting is popular among the boy-racer set, but under the eaves of your house!?!?!?
And a pretty high-end house at that, clearly architect-designed and built from scratch on the plot of an existing high-end house they leveled for it about ten years ago. The original architect is probably horrified.Just at the GP's to make an appointment, and took the chance to comment on the signage for their new 'type in your reg number or get fined £50/£85' parking scheme.
'You've got all those signs up on your chest high reception desk, but there's nothing here on the wheelchair height desk for someone like me to see'.
'Yes there is,' says the senior one, slightly butting in now she's dealt with the patient she was talking to. 'Hmm, where's it got to now, people keep moving it. Ah, there it is!' and she reaches off to the extreme opposite corner to where you're looking when facing them.
Well yes, it was there. But the first thing you did when you walked up to deal with your patient was move the big 40l samples container that sits on the desk between where I was and where the sign was!
They also commented the scheme was put in place in February and they're having to add more and more signs because people aren't seeing them. Don't think it's occurred to them that the problem isn't the number of signs, it's the sheer wall of text with the details of what you're supposed to do buried in the middle.
So I looked at their website, and tweeted back that using the phrase "paralyzed by anxiety" to describe writers who don't know how to describe and not other minorities probably wasn't the greatest idea ever (or the greatest advert for a $300 course).
Just got a response of "Care to elaborate?" from Nisi Shawl, which doesn't fill me with confidence in their general cluefulness on disability as a minority....
Eep! Just went over to my GP's to thank them for arranging long distance repeat prescriptions while I was away from home and nearly got charged £85 for the privilege. They've brought in a new parking scheme where you have to type your car's reg into a keyboard in the surgery, or face an £85 parking fine. Only that detail's buried in a wall of text on signs in the carpark, only one of which is at a convenient height to read if you're a wheelchair user, and that's off to the side if you park where I do.
Pure chance one of the signs caught my eye as I was driving out and I had to go back and get the chair out again so I could figure out what it actually said and what I was supposed to do. The keyboard itself is off to the opposite side from the reception desk, so not obvious, and awkward to use as a chair user. I suspect anyone shorter than me won't actually be able to see the button you have to press to confirm your entry.
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legionseaglefor advice) acknowledging he'd copied my work. Today I needed some time away from it, so I've spent my day buried in DWP stats. At 5:30 I spotted a message from a friend that implied he had posted something that wasn't what was expected. On checking I found he'd used the older form he'd proposed, but it still acknowledges that he used my article and presented it as his. Which he'd wrapped in about a page of text protesting that this wasn't actually plagiarism.
So I noted that this wasn't the agreed wording, pointing out what that was.
And he's been whinging constantly ever since. Apparently it was completely unreasonable of me not to be on Facebook all day, even though everything was agreed last night. (He sent a message at 04:57 saying he'd changed his mind) And it wasn't his fault. And it wasn't plagiarization. And noting what he'd agreed to say was unfair.
At this point I trust his behaviour so little I've screenshotted his statement in case he changes it later.
You would think I was dealing with a whining teenager who won't admit he was caught. He's actually a serving soldier.
TLDR: the US National Geospatial Information Agency mapped Pretoria to someone's backyard, companies that run databases that geolocate IP addresses (which turns out to be a startlingly amateur process) then mapped every Pretoria IP address (over a million) to that backyard. Any time a crime or online dispute got linked to a Pretoria IP address, the database threw out that backyard, but didn't mention the small print.. Harrassment happened, including having the house stormed by SWAT.
Saved from needing to make a phone call bollocking financial company over yesterday's "Cheque is enclosed" without a cheque being enclosed, by the receipt of an identical letter, literally word for word identical, but this time with cheque stapled to it.
Not even a "whoops, apologies"? Seriously?
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February 7, 2017 , 6:24 am | Departed | LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM | ||||
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February 6, 2017 , 5:11 pm | Departed | MIAMI, UNITED STATES | ||||
February 5, 2017 , 3:23 pm | Departed | LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM | ||||
February 5, 2017 , 10:22 am | Departed | PHILADELPHIA, UNITED STATES | ||||
February 1, 2017 , 10:58 pm | Departed | PARIS, FRANCE | ||||
January 31, 2017 , 4:17 pm | Departed | WINDSOR LOCKS, UNITED STATES | ||||
So do I stay in on the chance it's going to arrive today, or assume it's crossing the Atlantic, again.
And can I claim its frequent flier miles?
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