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STR posted:And smokes are still going apeshit, FD came in and ripped the batteries out of them AND ripped them off the ceiling (so no more AC power). GJ, GJ! Shame about all the Monet paintings and rare sports cars but I suspect you listed them on your insurance policy so it's not the end of the world.
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Dec 26, 2022 13:45
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That goes against everything I know about fire departments and fire fighters here. They’d rather you call 10 times than to risk it.
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Dec 26, 2022 16:37
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Look expecting a service you have paid for via taxes is communism ok.
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Dec 26, 2022 17:08
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What the actual gently caress? Like, did they get in the garage and find the source, or is your apartment burning to the ground right now?
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Dec 26, 2022 18:12
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Taken care of. Neighbor's chest freezer shorted out. I have a good bit of smoke damage, that's it. Renter's insurance has me in a hotel already.
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Dec 26, 2022 23:06
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STR posted:Taken care of. Neighbor's chest freezer shorted out. Have you thrown the tv off the balcony yet?
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Dec 26, 2022 23:08
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No balcony at a Studio 6, and the TV is bolted to the wall...  Gonna be a bad day for a claims adjuster though, I suspect most everything except dishes and clothing will be written off. Closet door was closed, as was the bedroom door, so stuff in the closet is fine, furniture in the bedroom may be fine with some cleaning.
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Dec 26, 2022 23:27
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 This rental should be happening on Thursday folks, I am pumped. As long as Enterprise doesn’t hand me a completely clapped out 100k mile 2017 something or other, I am expecting fun times. I'll try calling the location before to see if there's any leeway in what I might choose. Inner Light fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Dec 27, 2022 |
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Dec 27, 2022 07:54
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Sushi for Xmas eve was a good idea.
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Dec 27, 2022 10:27
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Both of us are feeling like total poo poo, even though we're 600 miles apart. She just popped hot on a COVID test. I'm testing negative, but feel like a train ran over me. And she's trying to take care of her elderly mom, who just got out of the hospital. Guessing she got it either on the flight or while at the hospital. And her return flight got cancelled (not that I would want her to fly while COVID positive). Her mom is up to date on boosters, at least. Someone bring me food 
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Dec 27, 2022 16:04
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Ok so five days post-op, I’m off the oxys completely and I was able to walk from my bathroom to my living room without the walker after washing my hair for the first time in six days. Big hip energy. My leg is still swollen and tight, which is to be expected this early, but I don’t see any redness or hotness near the incision site. I’ll take the dressing off on Thursday and peep the wound itself.
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Dec 27, 2022 16:27
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STR posted:Both of us are feeling like total poo poo, even though we're 600 miles apart. Stay safe STR - Covid just loving wrecked me for most of the last week. Finally feeling better - still testing positive (albeit a very faint line) on day...8ish I think? Cold meds did keep me feeling human-ish at least. And lots of chicken noodle soup.
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Dec 27, 2022 17:40
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STR posted:Both of us are feeling like total poo poo, even though we're 600 miles apart. If Uber eats or doordash is available where you are, it’s been pretty dope. For a $6 or $7 premium on what you might pay picking up, you can have a ton of takeout just dropped right at your doorstep after tapping a button on your phone. At the expense of underpaid delivery drivers! Feel better soon.
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Dec 27, 2022 18:01
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Diner I went to this morning was out of gyro meat so I couldn't get the Greek omelet I went there specifically to order. Had to settle for chicken and waffles.
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Dec 27, 2022 18:29
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Inner Light posted:If Uber eats or doordash is available where you are, it’s been pretty dope. For a $6 or $7 premium on what you might pay picking up, you can have a ton of takeout just dropped right at your doorstep after tapping a button on your phone. At the expense of underpaid delivery drivers! Feel better soon. Better yet, the grocery store has Meal Simple... just pull the wrapping off and throw it in the oven (or in my case at the moment, the toaster oven). And they deliver. Several meals for the cost of one meal from Uber Eats. Also it's a lot more than a $6-7 premium. Most places have a hefty markup when you order third party (since Uber, Doordash, etc take a roughly 30% cut), then you gotta pay the delivery fee, the service fee, and you need to tip the driver. I mean yeah, the grocery store is charging me $5 for delivery + I need to tip the driver, but I'm getting several day's worth of food in a couple of hours for not much more. Siochain posted:Stay safe STR - Covid just loving wrecked me for most of the last week. Finally feeling better - still testing positive (albeit a very faint line) on day...8ish I think? Cold meds did keep me feeling human-ish at least. And lots of chicken noodle soup. I'm still negative - I think we both just happened to get sick around the same time, she's been out of town since Thursday. Whatever I do have has definitely destroyed both my lungs and stomach though - it's bad enough when you're coughing so hard you puke, but then dealing with nausea and puking more, just ugh. I mean maybe it is COVID, again. She was the last person I know that had managed to avoid it entirely, but she's been gone long enough that it's very unlikely she got it from me. And I'd think I'd have tested positive by now. I wasn't coughing much when I had it though, and she's not coughing at all.
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Dec 27, 2022 19:47
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STR posted:Better yet, the grocery store has Meal Simple... just pull the wrapping off and throw it in the oven (or in my case at the moment, the toaster oven). And they deliver. Several meals for the cost of one meal from Uber Eats. Uber will do grocery pickups too. As will a bunch of other services, Amazon Prime if you have a Whole Foods near you, etc There’s also a whole spectrum of curbside, etc if you’re able to drive
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Dec 27, 2022 20:02
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My Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card gives me free doordash and instacart deliveries (still tip the driver / picker obviously). We did curbside from Ralphs (Kroger) / Vons (Safeway/Albertsons) a fair bit when we lived in LA, was great because they load everything into the car for you. Plus those pickers are union, unlike instacart.
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Dec 27, 2022 20:13
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luminalflux posted:Oh absolutely, I just got a notification that I got $5.21 for the equifax breach today Oh, hey, I got mine, too! STR posted:Don't spend it all in one place. I plan to buy several 99-cent burritos with it. Those still exist, right? Happy belated Holiday of choice to all of you, and I hope the coming new year will be better, of not great.
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Dec 27, 2022 20:35
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Yes it’s expensive but I just renewed door dash pass for $59 for the year, and they refunded the $10 I had paid for this month (I knew November and December I’d be using a lot). It’s just one of those things yes I may spend a few hundred bucks a year I could have saved but when you are hungover or depressed or both nice to get a poo poo load of food and just watch some car videos
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Dec 27, 2022 20:47
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I’ve got a huge amount of back pain so I can’t lift poo poo right now, or drive either due to meds. We generally try to avoid instacart but for holiday cooking we fell back on it. You get some very weird things, like, they don’t bag the veggies, just have them loose in the bag. It’s like they’ve never shopped before.
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Dec 27, 2022 21:00
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Or you get lazy pickers who mark something as "out of stock" if don't want to schlep it. Like, I get it, work sux and gently caress a job, but I find it highly unlikely the store is out of distilled water and a lot more likely the picker didn't want to handle six gallons of it (was batching my own coolant mix from concentrate)
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Dec 27, 2022 21:58
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NoWake posted:Or you get lazy pickers who mark something as "out of stock" if don't want to schlep it. Like, I get it, work sux and gently caress a job, but I find it highly unlikely the store is out of distilled water and a lot more likely the picker didn't want to handle six gallons of it (was batching my own coolant mix from concentrate) While I don't doubt your explanation I will say that I had such a difficult time finding distilled water around me in september or so (I tried for a couple weeks - got the same story from every store that they didn't know when it would show up next and it all disappears nearly immediately) that I ended up buying it 7 hours away form home because I happened across it in a Rochester grocery store while I was up there helping my oldest move into a new apartment for school. It was at a wegmans and that is the home of wegmans and their distribution. I think heavy and/or large low value things are simply not making the trucks when everyone is having problems with hiring (noBoDY WAnTs tO WORk) (i.e. not willing to pay enough) pickers/stockers/drivers. Motronic fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Dec 27, 2022 |
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Dec 27, 2022 22:07
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Instacart and Uber Eats deliveries on groceries have been pretty big fails on my two attempts, because the person shopping is the driver (apparently) and you get random stuff that's "kind of like" what you picked, and you don't get refunded the difference when you pay $12 for thick cut pork chops and they bring you $7 thinly sliced pork chops. Or the Instacart guy just rings up a $50 lobster lunch on your tab for himself, as was what happened on my very first patronage of Instacart, lol. Amazon Fresh is about 99.7% perfect these days - at least in LA - and they refund you for missing items/wrong items immediately instead of fighting with you for 3 hours about whether or not you should have to pay for a $50 lobster lunch you didn't order on their app and didn't get.
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Dec 27, 2022 22:08
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Have to say I would have never subscribed, but my AMEX pays for Walmart + and it’s pretty awesome. I get my meat and veg from local owned small store but I stock up on my fizzy water, bottled water, chips and snacks for the kids. Free delivery but even better you can choose shipping and it’s free with no even option for a tip and they bring it the next day I guess from the local stores no minimum charge. I haven’t been in a Walmart in 7 months now. Saves a bunch of money as they are cheaper on lots of stuff
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Dec 27, 2022 22:20
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NoWake posted:Or you get lazy pickers who mark something as "out of stock" if don't want to schlep it. Like, I get it, work sux and gently caress a job, but I find it highly unlikely the store is out of distilled water and a lot more likely the picker didn't want to handle six gallons of it (was batching my own coolant mix from concentrate) I actually literally couldn't find any when I was trying to mix coolant for my wife's car a month and a half ago. Ended up buying premixed coolant.
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Dec 27, 2022 22:28
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kastein posted:I actually literally couldn't find any when I was trying to mix coolant for my wife's car a month and a half ago. Ended up buying premixed coolant. Bizarre. I went to buy regular drinking water at the Vons near my house in SoCal about the same time, and the stocks of that were super low but they had tons of distilled haha.
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Dec 27, 2022 22:59
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Couldn't you just use Bud Light? There's plenty of that around
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Dec 27, 2022 23:00
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Looks like the water from my drinking water RO system easily meets the ASTM recommendations for use in automotive coolant, neat!
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Dec 27, 2022 23:21
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Ether Frenzy posted:Couldn't you just use Bud Light? There's plenty of that around
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Dec 27, 2022 23:26
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Ether Frenzy posted:Couldn't you just use Bud Light? There's plenty of that around Well given Bud Light is like making love in a canoe - it's loving close to water - it may work?
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Dec 27, 2022 23:36
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Ether Frenzy posted:you don't get refunded the difference when you pay $12 for thick cut pork chops and they bring you $7 thinly sliced pork chops. Or the Instacart guy just rings up a $50 lobster lunch on your tab for himself I'm sorry but, what the gently caress? wait I don't actually understand how this works. You just say: here's $200 already charged to my credit card and a list of poo poo I want? They get to pocket the difference or just order up to that limit and there's no recourse? I guess I'm spoiled just using PeaPod or order ahead with Target or whatever.
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Dec 27, 2022 23:48
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I'm sorry but, what the gently caress? Yeah, I've used some grocery services and none of this makes sense. I'm glad it's not just me scratching my head at this post. The ones we normally use have a "no substitutes" thing as well as like.......they will just call and ask. You're not getting stuck with poo poo you didn't want and lolol Lumi at the people not bagging produce. "Inventions" in service come out of the bay area because of how bad the service is there. Uber literally was created because of how bad SF cabs were and still are. It just tracks that their gig workers store produce in the footwell of their car that's too old and filthy to uber passengers. (get out!)
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Dec 28, 2022 00:26
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I've only used Instacart once (when I was COVID-positive) and the shopper made a point to write a fairly involved thank-you note. Would've been better if they'd actually brought me one of the items they rang me up for, but support automatically refunded me for it. I don't think I even had to engage a human. But, haven't done it since. My nearest grocery store has their own pickers in-house for curbside pickup. The annoying thing is they don't seem to start picking until five minutes before you show up, and their app goes to great lengths to hide when they make a substitution, some of which have been  .
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Dec 28, 2022 00:37
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My biggest issues with any grocery shopping service has been produce. I want to pick my own and I think they pick the worst or whatever happens to be closest. In any case, the produce is usually garbage. I'm not okay with that.
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Dec 28, 2022 00:40
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Yeah when I’ve used Vons or Ralph’s shoppers it’s usually someone who works there, knows the store and when they’ve called me it’s been someone who knows extremely what the gently caress. Like “ok so it looks like you’re making <x>, I think you want this substitution but im just making sure” Not overworked underpaid gig workers who can’t read cans.
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luminalflux posted:Not overworked underpaid gig workers who can’t read cans. And there we go, the root cause. Before we get to the actual root cause that actually created "gig workers". But again, SF is at the forefront of that. I've been in multiple legit cabs from the stand at SFO that could not get me to things like "the ferry building" without extra instructions or me being handed a GPS to put my destination into. It's a beautiful place but it's really loving broken. Motronic fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Dec 28, 2022 |
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Dec 28, 2022 00:47
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A part of me wonders if we would never have gone down this neoliberalism hellhole if NYC and SF had less onerous taxi regulation, which would have negated the necessity for Uber/Lyft in the first place. Uber tried to launch in Stockholm, with "You can order on the app! You can pay in the app! You can follow your taxi in real time!" and were met with "yeah you can do that already with the main taxi operators, also your drivers and cars will still need a taxi license to do this" (It did improve life a lot for my less-white less-male friends though, since taxis were notorious about not picking them up at closing time downtown)
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Dec 28, 2022 01:12
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You just click settings no substitutions for any of them not dealing with that crap. You find out fast. I don’t trust meat and veg to shoppers but I have a good small store right down the street Click no substitutions for sure
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Motronic posted:My biggest issues with any grocery shopping service has been produce. I want to pick my own and I think they pick the worst or whatever happens to be closest. I'm also very fussy with meat.
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Check out this neato tool I just found in the shop. It measures rpm using vibration to fling its thingy. Never seen one before. 
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