Random Rants 94 I rant at the thread title and shake my fist menacingly.

[Synobun]

The government removed coverage of a bunch of medications without informing anyone and without updating their formulary database. I found out at the pick-up counter, and it confused the pharmacist as much as it confused me. Two days later, he finally gets through to the insurer and we find out that the government simply revoked coverage without telling anyone. No pharmacies, no doctors, no patients, nada. Just flipped a switch and gave themselves a pat on the back.

Great.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Anything that would kill the low-income patient if they can't afford it? Sometimes it seems as though every premier in the country wants to get rid of the low-income disabled population.


A couple of striking postal workers are upset that because they're not working, their prescription coverage was stopped. They have 2 kids with Type 1 diabetes and they can't afford the insulin and other stuff.

On the one hand, I have a great deal of sympathy for the kids. On the other hand, their parents should have looked into this before voting to strike.

 

[choxorn]

Or maybe people should always have access to necessary medication and going on strike shouldn't change that? Just a thought

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Or maybe people should always have access to necessary medication and going on strike shouldn't change that? Just a thought

Ideally, this should be the case. I'd love it if they'd delivered this month's statement and health care card, and I'm hoping I don't get into a situation where I'd need to show that to prove that I'm entitled to certain medical benefits. However, this couple voted to strike, which is causing problems for a lot of other people as well - some of whom are at risk of eviction because they can't pay their rent and utilities without the cheques that aren't being delivered.

If they agreed to deliver the federal benefit cheques, they should also deliver the provincial benefit cheques.


There are some private citizens who have decided to become independent delivery people, delivering Christmas cards and parcels, letters, and various other things. Of course the strikers are angry about that, and disingenuously carrying on about "what if they get hurt? What training do they have? Oh, this is so horrible!"

As someone pointed out in the comment section of some social media/news site I read a few days ago (have been quite a few, so I don't recall offhand where it was), if a 13-year-old can deliver flyers, newspapers, and Christmas catalogues without special training, an adult should be able to slip a letter into a mailbox.

They do have a point about the safety issues. Canada Post won't deliver to an address where the sidewalk/porch are covered in ice or snow, but on the flip side, some of them demand that the sidewalk have no one speck of snow on it. Of course this is residential.

Uh-huh. Why don't they refuse to deliver to business and government addresses downtown, where there are whole blocks where NOBODY shovels the snow or chips the ice?

 

[GenMarshall]

In the past few days, I feel like I need a freeking drink more often.

 

[warpus]

Drinking is never the answer. Unless you are thirsty or dehydrated and are thinking of drinking some water

 

[Ordnael]

One should try and drink only as a complement for pleasure and never to drown any pain.

 

[warpus]

I have some sort of a post-trip air of negativity around me. I am not exactly sure what I'm longing for.. Is it the routine I was in when I was travelling, always exploring something new? Is it some of the cool people I met? Is it the emotional connections I have made? Is it the country itself and how it lends itself so much more to a more active and mentally healthy lifestyle?

It feels like it's all of those things but also none of those things. I feel like I should be doing something, but don't know what.

This is different from the post-trip emotions I usually feel.. or at least it feels different. Maybe it's that I haven't been on a trip quite like this in a while? I guess it's probably the emotional and other connections I've made in Taiwan.. but.. I don't know, I feel like I'm missing some piece of the puzzle too.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Coming home to "normal" can feel like a bummer.

 

[Birdjaguar]

How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

 

[r16]

those who travelled by air tended to have servants in the 1950s and could tip generously in the 60s . Luggage is never a problem when somebody else carries it . Boeing 747 ov 1969 is your problem here , letting everybody fly .

 

[Ordnael]

Porn is way easier for a child to access than it his for an adult to access a restricted video on you tube. (someone on reddit wrote it)
...
I hate, I don't want to login to YT! F YT and F Alphabet!.
So last saturday while enjoying watching some delightful live performances (mostly Stevie Nicks)...I then got reminded of the awesome Welcome to The machine from Pink Floyd and I wanted to watch a live performance but then I saw glimpses for the original animation video and now I wanted to watch that instead...
...so I couldn't watch for the life of me the official music video for Welcome to the Machine through the official Pink Floyd Channel (better quality) and so during half an hour of trying to watch that video by somehow bypassing Youtube login wall i stumbled on that thought on reddit (I literally wrote with full letters on duck browser search F YouTube and F Age restriction (or smth) and a reddit page poped in the recommendation pages to look at for that topic where I found this precious notion above...
eventually found out a reasonable quality posted by someone on YT...but still...age restriction for an animation video why? because it had skeletons and blood all animated...you can watch women in nearly invisible or skin tightened minimal clothing with no restriction whatsoever in YT...bunch of

 

[Valka D'Ur]

For the past few days my CBC feed has included something about the Geminid meteor shower. This happens every year in December, and was supposed to be extra spectacular this year.

I really wish they'd shut up about it. It was so foggy and snowy last night that not only could I not see the sky, but I couldn't even see the communications tower across the street, with it red, blinking lights that flash all the time. It's like it wasn't even there.

So I'm very unlikely to be able to see the Geminids!

 

[Sarin]

My chronic alttabbing behavior has become so bad that I absent-mindedly attempted to alttab during computer bootup.

Also, flat tire today.

 

[Synobun]

My landlord gave me an enormous 39-inch-long box of chocolates for Christmas. I have it sprawled on top of my stove and the counter because I have literally nowhere else to put it.

The true rant about this though is that every single chocolate I've had so far has been gross. It's kind of impressive. I'm not a fancy chocolate person in general, but even just the plain chocolate shell is abysmal. Those 10-cent holiday chocolates from the bulk bin are better than anything in this box.

I was curious how much this cost him, so I just looked it up. $20. Now the quality makes sense.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

So a 39-inch long box of Kinder-quality chocolate? That stuff is like chocolate-flavored plastic.

 

[Synobun]

So a 39-inch long box of Kinder-quality chocolate? That stuff is like chocolate-flavored plastic.

Kinder Bueno is my favourite chocolate.

 

[Voidwalkin]

Crunch.

I think the rice adds something.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Kinder Bueno is my favourite chocolate.

I've never had that. I'm going by the Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs. The "chocolate" in those isn't what I'd call good chocolate. And I don't consider myself half the chocolate connoisseur that I do when it comes to potato chips.

 

[Ordnael]

Kinder Bueno is the only not dark chocolate I still crave from time to time...I ate a lot of those as a kid.
I avoid individually wrapped chocolate (santas, bunnys, coins...you know the sort) shaking my fist menacingly