Random Rants Eighty-Four: Rants Gone Wild!!!!

[hobbsyoyo]

It should be illegal to leave your house while you are sick...

I feel you about people coming to work sick. My last job lumped sick time in with vacation time (and gave less overall than industry standard to begin with) so everyone came to work sick. It got worse when they eliminated work from home for most people. Pretty counterproductive and honestly it's an abusive practice to incentivize people like that in ways that negatively affect their health and by extension their work. But capitalists going to capitalize.

But also what @choxorn said

 

[cardgame]

I'm pretty sure a slight majority of employers don't even offer sick days.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Disgusting

 

[cardgame]

Having done zero research on the matter*

rant: no visits to/from bf in like two weeks, or whenever I last posted about it. Needs remedied soon. And it was bad weather today, couldn't drive it.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The Godzilla marathon from Monday is repeating tomorrow. My new antenna hasn't come so I fiddled with the one I have and got excited when I got PBS back. Unfortunately, it was no dice on Comet TV.

Hopefully they'll repeat them or other ones soon. And I can stream them again, it's just that I wanted to record them on the DVR so I could add them to my small collection of Godzilla movies.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I thought I'd try out DocFetcher as it's one of the only search tools I've found that really supports ePub. But it runs on Java. And constantly runs out of memory during indexing, no matter how much I raise the limit.

I'll keep looking, but Google is being as $&#&#@*#*($&# useless as ever.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

If you have a cold or the flu, you can take a day or two off. There is nothing at work that is so urgent that you absolutely MUST be there and risk infecting everyone around you, thus impacting productivity a hell of a lot more than you taking the day off would have.

Surely that is rather situational depending on your employment situation.

 

[cardgame]

Tired enough to doze off in my desk chair around midnight, so I go to bed and discover I forgot my blanket in the washing machine like 10 hours ago. No blanket. Put it in thedryer, stay up for it to finish, not tired, stay up 4 more hours. 3 hours sleep.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I thought I'd try out DocFetcher as it's one of the only search tools I've found that really supports ePub. But it runs on Java. And constantly runs out of memory during indexing, no matter how much I raise the limit.

I'll keep looking, but Google is being as $&#&#@*#*($&# useless as ever.

I found one other program that seems to support both PDF and ePub. Except only in the paid version. (There's a "lite" version, but it's so stripped down that it's essentially crippleware.)

EDIT: I was able to try out a trial of the full version. It does...exactly what I need. And it doesn't crash. But it costs money.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

My city passed a ban on smoking and vaping in all outdoor places in the entire city.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

They did that in Halifax, too. I don't know if it had any effect though. Maybe @Lemon Merchant knows?

 

[Synobun]

Good.

 

[Arakhor]

How do they define an outdoor place? In the UK, it's up to a specific distance from a building, including bus shelters.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I think it goes to far. You are not even allowed to smoke or vape at the side of the road away from buildings and people.

How do they define an outdoor place? In the UK, it's up to a specific distance from a building, including bus shelters.

They define it as everything that is not privately owned.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Small rant: I wish software installers wouldn't create unnecessary subfolders in the Start Menu (except for suites like LibreOffice or whatever).

 

[Arakhor]

I'm not sure something so wide-ranging is enforceable, but hey.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I'm not sure something so wide-ranging is enforceable, but hey.

They state on the city's web site that they don't intend to heavily enforce it and hope people self-enforce. But I'm not generally a fan of giving more power over people to the police and I think this ban goes too far and infringes on people's rights.

Fines are $100-500 and of course a lot of people step outside to smoke or vape without ID which would likely mean an automatic trip to jail. In the US, if you don't have ID and are caught doing any kind of infraction, police have the option to take you to the station and hold you while they positively identify you, which they frequently do.

I vape on my way to the dog park and I don't usually have ID on me which now puts me at risk of going to the station.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

They define it as everything that is not privately owned. Fines are $100-500 and of course a lot of people step outside to smoke or vape without ID which would likely mean an automatic trip to jail. In the US, if you don't have ID and are caught doing any kind of infraction, police have the option to take you to the station and hold you while they positively identify you, which they frequently do.

I vape on my way to the dog park and I don't usually have ID on me which now puts me at risk of going to the station.

There's also probably more than a few smokers who live in smoke-free apartments and go outside to do it. I guess they're just SOL.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

There's also probably more than a few smokers who live in smoke-free apartments and go outside to do it. I guess they're just SOL.

Yup, they are now effectively being forced to quit or commit a misdemeanor.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Or break the terms of their lease and possibly end up evicted.