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[Sofista]

Is there a building landlord or manager that you can complain to?

It'd be awkward: I otherwise get along with my neighbors splendidly - even gave them a copy of my keys just in case. Pre-virus we even met with the third family on our floor to have dinner before owners' meetings.
The manager over the years, whatever the issue, has never gone beyond offering sympathy. Nice chap, the merry, what-can-we-do-about-it *pats shoulder* type.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Have you ever tried growling back at the dog?

 

[Cutlass]

It'd be awkward: I otherwise get along with my neighbors splendidly - even gave them a copy of my keys just in case. Pre-virus we even met with the third family on our floor to have dinner before owners' meetings.
The manager over the years, whatever the issue, has never gone beyond offering sympathy. Nice chap, the merry, what-can-we-do-about-it *pats shoulder* type.

Can you speak to the people directly about the problem as ask them if they could work on training the dog better?

 

[Sofista]

Have you ever tried growling back at the dog?

I thought about getting a dog whistle. Maybe it could work. Pavlov for the win!

Can you speak to the people directly about the problem as ask them if they could work on training the dog better?

They asked me if the dog was heard. I expressed my hope it would improve over time.
I used to be more confrontational. I lost my edge with age.

 

[Cutlass]

I thought about getting a dog whistle. Maybe it could work. Pavlov for the win!



They asked me if the dog was heard. I expressed my hope it would improve over time.
I used to be more confrontational. I lost my edge with age.

Sometimes it's not about confrontation, but rather negotiation.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I just got off a video call with my sister and her kids. They seem to be doing ok. Before taking the phone downstairs to let mom and dad talk with them, my sister wanted to address why I had kept some information from her husband when she was at the hospital.

I explained that I had kept her location secret from her husband for a few hours and her patient ID secret for most of a single day on the advise of the ER doctor who said they had already suspected psychological abuse before speaking to me. That was mostly before I'd had my first chance to speak to her, but I did wait a few hours after she asked me to share it with him in order to get advise from an abuse hotline (who agreed that he seemed like an abuser but that the longer I keep a secret from him that he knows that I know the harder is is likely to try to isolate her from me).

My sister did not want to talk about any of the red flags that had made us suspect possible abuse, saying that talking about the subject just makes her nervous and is and is the opposite of helpful.

Her husband is still very upset with me and says I can never visit their home again.

Mom and dad are welcome only if they can get there on their own or find another ride.

My sister said that she has spoken to her regular psychiatrist once but not discussed anything about abuse suspicions or my conflicts with her husband yet. She said the medicines seem to have kept her stable, but that she started seeing another doctor closer to her who recommends changing to alternatives with fewer side effects.


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My best friend is moving to California tomorrow.

I worry that your sister is in both in denial and in peril from a husband who is trying to isolate her.

 

[The_J]

I'm trying a very simple thing, but apparently my external HD is just...too... slow.
This processing should be easy, now it'll take 3h to do that.

 

[The_J]

The re-analysis of my messed up data is done for me, mostly.
It's 2:30 AM, and I'm mad.
Because
a) the collaboration partners failed to give me the full data, a part is missing. Again. Seems you really need to check every time every tiny thing, everything, you can't trust that anyone is doing their stuff correctly. (yes, I notice the irony) EDIT: Luckily, I just forgot we had some QC failures, so everything's fine there
b) the PhD student who analyzed the data further didn't blink an eye on this, despite that suspicious patient cases must have been in front of her eyes. She must have literally seen these people. And she didn't notice that that they didn't show up in the data. We would also have underestimated the real occurence rate by 700%. I don't know the clinical data for this, but she really didn't see anything suspicious before, nothing?

I'm mad .

 

[Ajidica]

When working on a plastic model, why is it always the smallest and curviest pieces that always have the most flash or deepest mold lines?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Um, all you dog experts... do you have any suggestion for the noisy dog owner's neighbor?

Since my next-door neighbors, separated from me by just a partition wall, have gotten themselves a new dog that, unlike their previous one (the Lord bless her, she was the perfect dog, absolutely silent yet happy to be petted whenever encountered), barks at the smallest noise (when the stairs are being cleaned you can expect a veritable concert), I've been entertaining especially anti-dog feelings.

Do you have enough neighbors that it could be plausible for somebody else to have called whatever local authorities people call about noisy dogs?

We have bylaws for that here.


Alternative solution: Whenever we got a new neighbor with a dog, I would ask the owner what the dog's name was. Then when it started barking, I could say "_____, STFU!" and sometimes the dog would obey (I phrased it a bit more politely in RL, omitting the middle two letters).

 

[Sofista]

Do you have enough neighbors that it could be plausible for somebody else to have called whatever local authorities people call about noisy dogs?

We have bylaws for that here.

Alternative solution: Whenever we got a new neighbor with a dog, I would ask the owner what the dog's name was. Then when it started barking, I could say "_____, STFU!" and sometimes the dog would obey (I phrased it a bit more politely in RL, omitting the middle two letters).

We're a building with 21 apartments, 3 per floor, 7 floors. But then calling the authorities would go against a personal rule of mine: between 8 am and 12 pm your home is your castle. And the dog does not disturb my sleep, it would not be much of a bother if I wasn't at home all day because of the virus.
Over the years I've gladly put up with different noises: neighbor close to my bedroom having a baby, now the neighbor on the right. I just know the lil' ones will outgrow it quickly, and obviously, it's not like babies have a volume setting. But a noisy dog could go on for over a decade, and as long as I'm spending my daytime at home (I leave twice a week to buy groceries) I feel I should do something about it. But as long it's during the day it just goes against my personal code.

I have grumbled threats in response to the dog until days ago. But with the schools closed for the time being, I had to stop - would not want their 8-year-old to hear me cursing at her dog.

 

[Kyriakos]

We're a building with 21 apartments, 3 per floor, 7 floors. But then calling the authorities would go against a personal rule of mine: between 8 am and 12 pm your home is your castle. And the dog does not disturb my sleep, it would not be much of a bother if I wasn't at home all day because of the virus.
Over the years I've gladly put up with different noises: neighbor close to my bedroom having a baby, now the neighbor on the right. I just know the lil' ones will outgrow it quickly, and obviously, it's not like babies have a volume setting. But a noisy dog could go on for over a decade, and as long as I'm spending my daytime at home (I leave twice a week to buy groceries) I feel I should do something about it. But as long it's during the day it just goes against my personal code.

I have grumbled threats in response to the dog until days ago. But with the schools closed for the time being, I had to stop - would not want their 8-year-old to hear me cursing at her dog.

You could buy a (not audible to humans) dog whistle, and then cause the dog to bark at night while you aren't asleep but its owners are.
Sooner or later, they will have to get rid of it.
And it can't tell them what was happening.
The weakest link is the most exposed.

 

[Sofista]

Here's a big . As a countryman of Niccolò M. I actually always appreciate a well-crafted scheme.

I think I'm going to stick to my original plan (use the dog whistle while the dog's barking) as a way to train her into doing that whenever actual, concrete threats are around.
Should not that work, it's going to be the ®Kyr plan! It's 3am here - reckon it would be a good time to hear a dog go nuts? (Hypothetically; I don't have the whistle yet).

 

[Sarin]

Deja vu, because I feel like repeating the rant I made here year ago about same owner...do not let your bit....female dog in heat run around without a leash, especially when she's fond of running loose after her friends. Next time, you might meet someone either unable or unwilling to control their dog and you'll end up with really interesting looking puppies.

 

[Zkribbler]

Louisiana is kept poor by MASSSIVE corporate subsidies.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I'm trying to buy a new phone through my service provider's website and evidently they need to make it as painful and inconvenient as possible. After putting the new phone into the website's 'cart' it asks if I want to use an existing phone number. I do. I enter the phone number and my account number. It says "This is an existing account." No [duh], Sherlock. I open a chat window to talk to customer service and they tell me I have to call. MY [FLIPPING] PHONE IS BROKEN, YOU [DIMBULB], THAT'S WHY I'M TRYING TO BUY A NEW ONE.

 

[Cutlass]

Bad misstep on the stairs last night messed up my foot pretty bad.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I'm trying to buy a new phone through my service provider's website and evidently they need to make it as painful and inconvenient as possible. After putting the new phone into the website's 'cart' it asks if I want to use an existing phone number. I do. I enter the phone number and my account number. It says "This is an existing account." No [duh], Sherlock. I open a chat window to talk to customer service and they tell me I have to call. MY [FLIPPING] PHONE IS BROKEN, YOU [DIMBULB], THAT'S WHY I'M TRYING TO BUY A NEW ONE.

My sympathies. It's like when I have to call the tech support agents at my telecom. The automated menu keeps blathering at me to follow the self-help steps on the website.

Well, if I actually had access to the website, I could do that, right? I guess it never occurs to them that people call because their internet service isn't working...

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Bad misstep on the stairs last night messed up my foot pretty bad.

That sucks dude, I hope you heal fast.

 

[Cutlass]

That sucks dude, I hope you heal fast.

I'll take tomorrow off from work, and see if I want Tuesday as well.