EgonSpengler
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He called himself a "broker", but tomayto, tomahto.
It was today, yeah. It went almost an hour. There were no fatalities.
Random Rants 94 I rant at the thread title and shake my fist menacingly.
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Gori the Grey
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I myself had a fifty-minute meeting to settle on two points I'd proposed by e-mail a week before. There was maybe five minutes of valuable information at the start of it. I'll be generous and say 10. The 40 minutes resolving to do two things I'd proposed a week before.
So... you were successful... and correct... and it took less than an hour to sort it out.
Gori the Grey
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You're suggesting that I should be happy because I was right. So I clearly haven't conveyed the event in its full Kafkesque nightmarishness:
Gori's e-mail to M and D: Before we can proceed, we need to ask J to answer question A and B
Reply e-mail: Let's meet to consider how to proceed.
Meeting: <D gives 10 minutes of background information, that is interesting, but doesn't change the core fact>
Gori: We need to ask J to answer A and B
M: So let me write this down. We need to ask J to answer A and B.
[Gori thinking: Great, meeting can end now]
5 minutes of further conversation
M: So we should ask J to answer A and B.
Gori: Yep. [Gori thinking: Great, meeting can end now]
5 minutes of further conversation.
M: So I guess we'll ask J to answer A and B.
Gori: Yes, let's ask J to answer A and B. [Gori thinking: Great, meeting can end now]
5 minutes of further conversation.
M: So I'll send J an e-mail asking him to answer A and B.
Gori: Yeah, I think we can't really move forward till we hear back J's answer to A and B.
5 minutes of further conversation.
M: Ok, so I'll be asking J to answer A and B.
Gori: That's what I think we really need here: J's answer to A and B.
5 more minutes of further conversation . . .
[I. AM. A. BUSY. MAN. An entire internet discussion forum materially depends on my incisive-yet-droll posting. GET. ME. OUT. OF. HERE.]
Gori's e-mail to M and D: Before we can proceed, we need to ask J to answer question A and B
Reply e-mail: Let's meet to consider how to proceed.
Meeting: <D gives 10 minutes of background information, that is interesting, but doesn't change the core fact>
Gori: We need to ask J to answer A and B
M: So let me write this down. We need to ask J to answer A and B.
[Gori thinking: Great, meeting can end now]
5 minutes of further conversation
M: So we should ask J to answer A and B.
Gori: Yep. [Gori thinking: Great, meeting can end now]
5 minutes of further conversation.
M: So I guess we'll ask J to answer A and B.
Gori: Yes, let's ask J to answer A and B. [Gori thinking: Great, meeting can end now]
5 minutes of further conversation.
M: So I'll send J an e-mail asking him to answer A and B.
Gori: Yeah, I think we can't really move forward till we hear back J's answer to A and B.
5 minutes of further conversation.
M: Ok, so I'll be asking J to answer A and B.
Gori: That's what I think we really need here: J's answer to A and B.
5 more minutes of further conversation . . .
[I. AM. A. BUSY. MAN. An entire internet discussion forum materially depends on my incisive-yet-droll posting. GET. ME. OUT. OF. HERE.]
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So your might wasn't properly tested.
Ajidica
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Something broke in my dishwasher, almost certainly the pump. I opened it up this afternoon after running it before I went to bed and saw a lot of standing water in the bottom. Cleaned out the filter and connection to the sink as best I could, and ran it again. Nothing. I got the hiss of water being added but right when it was time for a pump to click on, quiet as the grave. Quite a departure from the norm when it usually sounds like a diesel engine idling away.
Put in a maintenance request, god knows how long that will take to be acted on. Last time I put in a maintenance request it only got fixed when I called head office to tell them fix it this weekend or I'm putting my rent in escrow until it is fixed. That got them to pay attention. Hopefully it doesn't take that long time time!
Put in a maintenance request, god knows how long that will take to be acted on. Last time I put in a maintenance request it only got fixed when I called head office to tell them fix it this weekend or I'm putting my rent in escrow until it is fixed. That got them to pay attention. Hopefully it doesn't take that long time time!
I'm afraid I didn't get any email from you
.I misread something in a recipe earlier, and dumped 5 packs of baking powder into a cake instead of 0.5.
After wondering why it tasted weird, and having tried some cake, this I have to report:
- my stomach does not feel well, but not that really bad either. But annoying
- there is a lot of sodium in it
- google says if you eat a half kilogram of backing powder, you'll get brain bleeding. Not tremendously relevant, but at least the answer isn't cancer
- google says before you reach the half kilogram you will probably be puking, have diarrhea and will be very thirsty
- 1 pack is 16 grams
- I ate roughly 20% or somewhat less of the cake (that felt less), so roughly 16 grams. Some of that should have been used up in the cake though
- 1 tea spoon is roughly 5 gram
- 1 tea spoon of baking powder can be used against heart burn
- If you swallow more than 3.5 tea spoons of baking powder... so... 17.5 grams, then you have a chance of a heart attack, but the source for this isn't good and I guess not reliable
- I have not had a heart attack, nor anything else, besides the mentioned stomach issues
- there are questions which google really cannot answer
EDIT: Wait, I'll see what ChatGPT says.
EDIT2:
Spoiler :
Yeah, well, so far I've already been.
Guess the answer is that I'll sleep through it.
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Gori the Grey
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Just a J, not The J.I'm afraid I didn't get any email from you
Oh, and you'll all be happy to know that my J (not The J), has answered questions A and B.
(Rather as I had suggested a week before the pointless meeting.)
How do proper organisations get away with such rubbish referencing? The grundiad is reporting on a Tony Blair institute report. I am not debating the general point, but the numbers seems questionable. The grundiad refer to it as being "analysis", looking at the report the only mention of methodology is a few lines at the end. "New estimates of the costs of overweight (a BMI of 25 to 29.9)" caught my eye, as the recent work I posted about in July seemed to bear directly on this, and in a different direction to what they are reporting. They give not details, but say "Read the full analysis from Frontier Economics." Trying to google it to find the source just goes round in circles.
The "full report" link goes to an eight page presentation style pdf with NO REFERENCES!!! It has one page on "Estimating losses from economic inactivity". That says "We reviewed various academic papers" and "We identified two that work well to calculate overall economic cost figures" but does not provide them. They then say "We have therefore used an upper and lower bound approach" and describes two approaches, but then there is always only a point estimate given, rather than a range. How are these two things consistent?
There is a bigger question of how they arrive at their QALY for obesity and overweightness, which they do not even try and give a veneer of "we looked at some papers, honest" to.
When an organisation is flush with blood soaked oil money how can they not even reach the standards I would have to in the lowest ranked journals?
[EDIT]Also, how does this work? Search google scholar for the title and subtitle, order by date gives no hits, but order by relevance does?
The "full report" link goes to an eight page presentation style pdf with NO REFERENCES!!! It has one page on "Estimating losses from economic inactivity". That says "We reviewed various academic papers" and "We identified two that work well to calculate overall economic cost figures" but does not provide them. They then say "We have therefore used an upper and lower bound approach" and describes two approaches, but then there is always only a point estimate given, rather than a range. How are these two things consistent?
There is a bigger question of how they arrive at their QALY for obesity and overweightness, which they do not even try and give a veneer of "we looked at some papers, honest" to.
When an organisation is flush with blood soaked oil money how can they not even reach the standards I would have to in the lowest ranked journals?
[EDIT]Also, how does this work? Search google scholar for the title and subtitle, order by date gives no hits, but order by relevance does?
Spoiler Sceenshots to prove it :
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My response... enjoy:
(you can stop at 0:47 and start over at 0:19 if you need clarification
)EDIT: I'm actually, right now, doing exactly that, listening to the music, as I read through your posted dialogue. It's uncanny how well it fits... We need to do a YouTube short
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Look on my works Ye mighty... and despair!:
BTW I also installed a new impeller pump on my dishwasher this year, but I forgot to post it on the raves thread apparently. It was a real Pain ITA, that involved multiple wild goose chases, but the damn thing is working now... my kids were washing dishes by hand for months before I finally got around to fixing it. As a side benefit, even though the dishwasher is working again, all my kids are now seasoned dishwashers... so I guess they will at least be able to find work in a kitchen somewhere if college doesn't pan outFixed my fancy dishwasher that was giving an error code that turned out to mean that water was leaking out into the bottom and triggering a leak sensor float under the machine. Had to take the door apart including a bunch of star drive screws, but amazingly I was able to get the water out, seal the leak (I think) and put everything back together(ish). Working perfectly again... at least for now.
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I'm afraid I didn't get any email from you
I misread something in a recipe earlier, and dumped 5 packs of baking powder into a cake instead of 0.5.
After wondering why it tasted weird, and having tried some cake, this I have to report:
- my stomach does not feel well, but not that really bad either. But annoying
- there is a lot of sodium in it
- google says if you eat a half kilogram of backing powder, you'll get brain bleeding. Not tremendously relevant, but at least the answer isn't cancer
- google says before you reach the half kilogram you will probably be puking, have diarrhea and will be very thirsty
- 1 pack is 16 grams
- I ate roughly 20% or somewhat less of the cake (that felt less), so roughly 16 grams. Some of that should have been used up in the cake though
- 1 tea spoon is roughly 5 gram
- 1 tea spoon of baking powder can be used against heart burn
- If you swallow more than 3.5 tea spoons of baking powder... so... 17.5 grams, then you have a chance of a heart attack, but the source for this isn't good and I guess not reliable
- I have not had a heart attack, nor anything else, besides the mentioned stomach issues
- there are questions which google really cannot answer
EDIT: Wait, I'll see what ChatGPT says.
EDIT2:
Spoiler :
Yeah, well, so far I've already been.
Guess the answer is that I'll sleep through it.
So you ate less than 18g and brain bleeding can occur at 500g. I think you're safe from that, at least.
That said... I'm hopeless in a kitchen, but even I know that you're not supposed to use that much!
Watching your sodium levels is good advice, though. I had to give up clamato juice after my diabetes diagnosis - not because of the sugar, since there isn't really that much in clamato juice - but because there's a lot of sodium in it.
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More and more, I'm getting less and less satisfaction from eating. In one way, that's good, because it gives less of an incentive to binge. But the mental break that causes the binging is still there, and it's just deeply unsatisfying to have that urge and not even get the short-term reward when it wins.
It also means I'm supplementing too many calories with liquid calories that offer nothing since I can't afford to drop weight too quickly anymore.
It doesn't help either that my MCAS messes with me every time I eat. It happens almost every meal now that I'm coughing and sniffling, and lately also a sore tongue. I need to find an antihistamine that (A) works and (B) doesn't contraindicate with my other meds. Gravol was great for this, but it gives me horrifying vertigo ever since I started LDN.
Anyway, eating just isn't fun anymore. It's a total pain and actively makes my days worse. Meal replacement shakes are still usually out of stock here, and the cost has hilariously exploded to something absurd like $3.49 a bottle now for something that offers ~200 calories and no satiety. The dairy in them, also, is iffy on the system.
It also means I'm supplementing too many calories with liquid calories that offer nothing since I can't afford to drop weight too quickly anymore.
It doesn't help either that my MCAS messes with me every time I eat. It happens almost every meal now that I'm coughing and sniffling, and lately also a sore tongue. I need to find an antihistamine that (A) works and (B) doesn't contraindicate with my other meds. Gravol was great for this, but it gives me horrifying vertigo ever since I started LDN.
Anyway, eating just isn't fun anymore. It's a total pain and actively makes my days worse. Meal replacement shakes are still usually out of stock here, and the cost has hilariously exploded to something absurd like $3.49 a bottle now for something that offers ~200 calories and no satiety. The dairy in them, also, is iffy on the system.
Klaus Hergersheimer
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Gas tank door got stuck today (!). Stuck a knife in there and jimmied around a bit until it opened.
It did get below freezing, but I don't know if I have to grease that little latch or not.
It did get below freezing, but I don't know if I have to grease that little latch or not.
Gori the Grey
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Auto stores sell de-icers. Usually used for keyholes, I think.
Friends of mine are trying to buy a house, and thought the found one.
Today the realtor let them know via a cryptic message that the muslim owners apparently don't want to sell to them, because they're lesbians. Took the realtor apparently more than 1h to cool them down.
Normally I'd say money solves most things, but these guys are selling their house because their specific subniche of Islam apparently prohibits that they pay interest, so they'll rather sell and rent. Guess this then overall makes sense to them
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I hope they get it fixed. The house looked nice.
I also hurt my back while deadlifting on Monday
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Today the realtor let them know via a cryptic message that the muslim owners apparently don't want to sell to them, because they're lesbians. Took the realtor apparently more than 1h to cool them down.
Normally I'd say money solves most things, but these guys are selling their house because their specific subniche of Islam apparently prohibits that they pay interest, so they'll rather sell and rent. Guess this then overall makes sense to them
.I hope they get it fixed. The house looked nice.
I also hurt my back while deadlifting on Monday
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Apologies for the inbound vaguebooking.
Today I finally disposed of everything from a chapter of my life that I very much did not want to only be a chapter. It took a month and a half to save up for it, since my business has overall collapsed and Canada Post seems to think $65 for a 2-pound package is a fair price. But, to be honest, if I had had the money sooner, it probably would have still taken me this long. It's literally last second. If I waited any longer, it would not have arrived at the intended destination. It still might not.
It's one part finally, one part regretfully. I don't want to be in this position, and I also don't think it was necessary to be put in this position. But it was not up to me, and so I deal with what is and not what it should be.
I have a tendency and bias toward hoarding sentimentality. Disposing of it brings years-long regret. The method I elected for this time helps, a little, but it's still regret, and it'll still echo.
Today I finally disposed of everything from a chapter of my life that I very much did not want to only be a chapter. It took a month and a half to save up for it, since my business has overall collapsed and Canada Post seems to think $65 for a 2-pound package is a fair price. But, to be honest, if I had had the money sooner, it probably would have still taken me this long. It's literally last second. If I waited any longer, it would not have arrived at the intended destination. It still might not.
It's one part finally, one part regretfully. I don't want to be in this position, and I also don't think it was necessary to be put in this position. But it was not up to me, and so I deal with what is and not what it should be.
I have a tendency and bias toward hoarding sentimentality. Disposing of it brings years-long regret. The method I elected for this time helps, a little, but it's still regret, and it'll still echo.
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