Random Rants #88: [incoherent screaming]

[Birdjaguar]

The WSJ is discontinuing delivery of their print edition to Albuquerque next month. Reading the paper in the morning as been part of my life for decades. I will switch to reading the print edition on line. Printed papers have a nice logical layout that makes reading them enjoyable and not the rather disorganized mess and visually unappealing look of most news websites.

 

[amadeus]

The WSJ is discontinuing delivery of their print edition to Albuquerque next month. Reading the paper in the morning as been part of my life for decades. I will switch to reading the print edition on line. Printed papers have a nice logical layout that makes reading them enjoyable and not the rather disorganized mess and visually unappealing look of most news websites.

Sorry to hear that. I was just actually thinking (literally had the browser open) about how stocks used to be priced in fractions.

I want my stocks priced at 5/8ths! How you want to get me that $.005, that's up to you.

 

[The_J]

Seems the charger of the notebook is fried. Need to take it to work tomorrow to check it with the docking station, hopefully it's not the notebook itself.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

And so, if it's easier for people to get medical assistance in dying than it is for them to get adequate supports to live...

And...I just found this.

 

[MaryKB]

And...I just found this.

Ugh, that's horrible! So if you're disabled, you only get that one benefit? You don't also get something like SNAP for your food costs?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

If you were able to work at some point, you can get CPP-D, but a lot of provincial disability supports claw it back. I think there's also specific benefits for those injured at workplaces and veterans but they're not so great either. Most (if not all) of the provincial disability support programs also force you to exhaust any savings you might have before you can apply too.

There's also the Disability Tax Credit but as I've mentioned before it's difficult to get and pointless for those with low income as it's a non-refundable credit.

ODSP is specific to those in Ontario. Here in Nova Scotia we have the Disability Support Program, which gives you $850 for everything (and if you rent a room instead of an apartment, they claw back the rent portion). @Valka D'Ur is on AISH (Alberta...something something) which is slightly better but still below the poverty line.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: I messed up a command prompt and ended up opening 100 instances of an application....

 

[Takhisis]

Which means it got along like a house on fire.

 

[MaryKB]

I have to go back to worm tomorrow, after having 11 days off. I've had a (mostly!) restful week at least.

I only have 2 and a half weeks of vacation (plus 3 and a half sick days, and 4 holudays) left this year.

UGH I wish I had more time off. 42 days a year just isn't enough.

 

[thecrazyscot]

I have to go back to worm tomorrow, after having 11 days off. I've had a (mostly!) restful week at least.

I only have 2 and a half weeks of vacation (plus 3 and a half sick days, and 4 holudays) left this year.

UGH I wish I had more time off. 42 days a year just isn't enough.

I get 18 days of PTO and sick days, combined. I think I get 9 holidays in addition, so maybe 27 days off total.

42 days off a year sounds amazing.

I also did not get a single day off for paternity leave, as America cares not a whit for fathers.

 

[MaryKB]

I get 18 days of PTO and sick days, combined. I think I get 9 holidays in addition, so maybe 27 days off total.

42 days off a year sounds amazing.

I also did not get a single day off for paternity leave, as America cares not a whit for fathers.

My company gives fathers/domestic partners 6 weeks of paid time for paternity leave (birth mothers get 16 weeks)

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

(cue everybody asking what company you work for)

 

[thecrazyscot]

My company gives fathers/domestic partners 6 weeks of paid time for paternity leave (birth mothers get 16 weeks)

Your company has a pretty generous leave policy (assuming you are in the USA)!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: My feet like to randomly get cold even when the rest of me is warm. It's not very nice.

 

[Takhisis]

I have to go back to worm

Freudian slip!

 

[Farm Boy]

I get 18 days of PTO and sick days, combined. I think I get 9 holidays in addition, so maybe 27 days off total.

42 days off a year sounds amazing.

I also did not get a single day off for paternity leave, as America cares not a whit for fathers.

No they care, who else would be the "actually deserves it" punchline in every sitcom? Now get back to work so nobody has to put up with you, or something.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

A bit of a general rant: I hate it when I'm redirected to "please call us on the phone!!!!" because my phone plan has limited minutes so it's a bit of Russian roulette of whether I'll be left on hold long enough for them to run out.

 

[The_J]

I spent 2h debugging a typo .

 

[EgonSpengler]

On the next episode of Tales of People Without Two Braincells to Rub Together,

The Washington Post, 8 Sept 2020 - "A gender-reveal stunt sparked a California wildfire that has forced 21,000 people to evacuate"

A couple expecting a baby set out Saturday morning to share the news of the child’s sex by setting off a smoke bomb that would send plumes of pink or blue smoke rising into the arid Southern California air.

As the pyrotechnic device ignited, so did the dry wild grasses that had grown as tall as four feet in the meadow at El Dorado Ranch Park, about 80 miles east of Los Angeles, Cal Fire said in a statement Sunday.

As of Monday night, the barely contained fire had grown into a monster that has already burned through nearly 10,000 acres and forced more than 20,000 people to evacuate.

Also, that wedding in Maine in early August is now linked to 147 cases of covid-19 and 3 deaths. Mazel tov, you dimwits.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It's not the first time it happened either. A few years ago somebody was fined 8 million for setting a wildfire while setting off gender-party fireworks.

Why are you setting off fireworks to reveal what genitals an unborn baby has anyways? That's just weird.