Random Rants 76: Argh! Augh! Ahhh!

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In the UK we get out of the car, pump the petrol, then pay.

I assume that there would be a problem with the till splitting the purchase of the gas (or the jerky) as it would not be programmed to accept two payments and so would come up with an underpayment. I have split bills in restaurants but they expect that especially with groups of friends, and so the tills are programmed for it. You will have to find a place with an old dumb till.
 
In the UK we get out of the car, pump the petrol, then pay.

Yeah but in certain high crime places we have the pay first before pumping
I dont get America, as most people will fill there tanks completely and the amount we pump varies thus the pump then pay system in place.
 
follows ransonware post of Wednesday ...

and people on the street once again . You can even imagine family connections , with these -shall we say- European lines and features . You know , so that ı would never doubt who was like busy with it . The 3 USB drives cost about a quarter of my pocket money for a month . The losses now amounting to 20 - as ı keep them all in a plastic bag , me being the fifty year old loser that stills needs his mother for money . 11 are rated straight , for ı remember seeing those lovely locked files in them , while 9 were used on the days ı lost stuff to ransomware , and might be contaminated . Extremely typical too , watching everyday and waits for USB drives to get loaded to their capacity so that the damage will be higher and ı had divided this 32GB one into an A and B sections , double loading everything so that he might miss deleting select files , you know , his thing in early January .

the change lies in the fact the city is talking it . Apparently this guy was told it was not her older sister , meaning he possibly blames me for wronging her sister . Don't know , it's maybe this "amateur" videos you Westerners might call it . Didn't , and trust me , filming it would be the last of my concerns , but then ı was also said to be running the global drug trade . Cocaine or heroine . Even saw some girl on the street , she said she would go to the Police as ı walked by ; my response was a CFC post that ı didn't and wouldn't have a Fecebook account and one of these days , speaking as if me would end up in consequences and nobody was expected to pay protection money to me , or even against me . Amazes me how the world regularly understands r16 and not at the same time . Anyone ı have wronged is free to go the Police , especially those who were dishonoured in any way as we would understand the word here . Now that they also know ı couldn't anyhow ...

so , why again ? That ı got 100 likes in CFC ? Certainly not . That ı talk about reflecting radio waves from some object 0.79 lightyears away ? Come on , even the smartest in this forum do not believe it either . That some women were seen discussing how ı spoiled the Disgrace of July 15th ? According to the theory , the thing of "You will crack and run" was some sage thing that led the Congregation to rush it , because obviously my global drug running scheme had figured it out and with moving 5 hours early they couldn't catch the party leaders asleep in their beds . Which is not the case at all , as had America ordered them so , those thousands would turn out right on time and they could carry the country in broad daylight , too . Imagine my "interest" at this bus covered with the pictures of the dead of that night , as ı had never seen it before the same day . Nothing to worry about naturally , it's a Party PR vehicle afterall . Are they even angry about me failing to make a trophy wife out of the Stuntwoman in three years ? Can not be that either .

ı am out at webcafes 3 days a week , makes 150 days a year , after losing some to illness or religious holidays and the like . Was on the web first in 2014 , been a regular since 2015 , but web was slow in those days and in 10 years since me joining , ı would have 1500 webdays and let's suppose he has been accusing me of wronging her sister at least for a 1000 ? Why , he could have stopped me anyday , each single day ? Is "belirsiz bir ablanın namusu" , family honour in this case , optional ? I wouldn't think so , but it creates the option , that some guy he will pick up from a bunch and this some guy will one of these days , be mad about me dishonouring girls of his neighbourhood and stab me , ı don't know , possibly if this money-flow he imagines ends , or he forgets his password and his ransomware explodes in his face and everyone will be in standing ovation or applause or whatever . The guy picked from a bunch must feel he will serve just half the prison term , if ı die , as he did the Right Thing ! ı have already seen 4 or 5 people on the streets ready to be the one . Additional bonus rant , 'ing stupid Americans have corrected them , and am apparently an airframe manufacturer now , instead of running drugs . It's really the time for a wall . What's he doing , buying football players for the local team ?

oh my , ı have even forgotten the current chief editor of the former pinnacle of yellow journalism in the country ! My niece is not the most knowledgeable mountain person around and she won't be offended by this statement and after ı asked her about it , she said she hadn't heard a "python screw" , apparently a name climbers give to the safety measures . That they secure themselves while climbing , you know , so that they wouldn't fall down . Indeed , the next day's editorial was about how democratic institutions can not catch hackers and how heart broken ı was to see that he had failed to enlighten the country on Thursday with his great wisdom !
 
uhm no , it's part of the stuff that has gone for a decade ; ı have also been commander death squads so that seperatists would come and get me , coup plotter so that Congregation would get me , Congregation member so that the Party would get me , Boeing sales bot so that an aviation forum would ban me and frankly ı would need to check a notebook to see what ı have been during these years . Yet still can not forget that ı have also been accused of producing Disney's Star Wars . And , wow as Americans would say , people in the streets are amazed that them hacking and ruining my USBs will not bring justice and get me kicked out , ı don't know , maybe out of some airlock . And no , Civ Fanatics follows US Federal Laws and yet there has been like remarkably little interference to make me learn my place and shut up and roll over and die . And no , my English should be good enough to make it clear that ı really do not accuse CFC , apart from changing to Xenforo .
 
Yeah but in certain high crime places we have the pay first before pumping
I dont get America, as most people will fill there tanks completely and the amount we pump varies thus the pump then pay system in place.


When paying by card, it's easy, as you just pump as much as you want, and are billed. When paying by cash, you hand the clerk money, pump, and then go back for change, if you pumped less than you paid. Or the machine just stops pumping if you paid less than the tank will hold.
 
I am at the podiatrist office with my mother.

My dad thought that her foot was looking better since starting an antibiotic and that this visit was a complete waste of time.

The doctor disagreed. She took an x-ray of the sore foot and was surprised to see what she said she is 99% sure is a bone infection. Without an earlier X-ray for comparison it us not conclusive, but it does appear the bone near a joint is degenerating in a way that is certainly not arthritis.

She also saw that the nearest artery is quite calcified.

She is arranging an MRI for early tomorrow morning to confirm the diagnosis. That is less accurate but much less invasive than a surgical bone biopsy.

She prescribed mom a stronger antibiotic that penetrates bone better, but that is only intended to slow the spread of the infection up her leg.


She will not be able to get cataract surgery until after this infection is eliminated. That will probably require surgery.

She will still probably need to have her big tie amputated. Fortunately there are prosthetic shoe inserts that would help her walk.


This is not the best way to begin my birthday.
 
My mother's stopped the silent treatment and is now whining about how I never tell her anything. Gee, I wonder why.
 
Rant: I was testing out a Joomla! extension to replace the outdated one. I installed it and managed to kill the website. HTTP status 522.

Luckily I was able to fix it pretty quickly (I had a downtime of literally three minutes) but it's weird because I've used other extensions by the same developer and they were pretty well-made.
 
Survived waiting for the bus in -48F, though the worst part wasn't the cold but the fact my glasses iced up (not fogged, iced) so I couldn't see anything.
Unfortunately, the battery on my car gave up the ghost and refused to work even after trying to jump it. I'm installing a new battery tomorrow when we have one of Minnesota's patented temperature freak-outs and it hits 40F.
 
Survived waiting for the bus in -48F, though the worst part wasn't the cold but the fact my glasses iced up (not fogged, iced) so I couldn't see anything.

I've heard shaving cream on glasses can keep them from fogging (though for obvious reasons I've never been able to test). I wonder if it would work for the icing.

Rant: I installed a caching plugin to see if that would improve the site performance a bit more. For some reason I'm having a really hard time trying to follow its documentation.
 
I started working on a cyberpunk project last month that I've since dropped due to time constraints. I'd never read anything cyberpunk, or really watched anything cyberpunk except for Altered Carbon last year, so I asked a friend for cyberpunk book recommendations. He suggested Snow Crash.

Truly a horrible work. Awful. Terrible writing style and the premise is just absurd. You can execute the person delivering your pizza if it takes longer than a half hour, and then you can sue the company. There's a university for delivering pizza. Sword fetishes.

It was bad enough that it's worthy of a dedicated rant. Complete trash. By far one of the worst books I've ever read.
 
I don't remember if I finished Snow Crash, because it's just as terrible as Syn says.

It was implied in its recommendation that the opening pizza chapter(s) are a joke, but the rest of the book is just as absurd, if not more so.
 
Got an order of interesting-looking books coming in after finding $50 in unspent gift cards, and a tentative casual date this weekend.

Ooooooh please let us know how your date goes!! :love:
Aaand she canceled at the last minute, as expected and as is custom.
 
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