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#Alertan sobre #enfermedades en #ElSalvador https://boletinaldia.sld.cu/aldia/2024/05/23/alertan-sobre-enfermedades-en-el-salvador/
El Colegio Médico de El Salvador alertó hoy sobre el incremento de los casos de #gripes graves y fiebre #tifoideas en el país.
In years past, I've had really good luck giving stuff away on the "Free" section of Craigslist.
But in 2024, if your phone number shows up on Craigslist, you get a call from CBP phone scammers within a couple of hours.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-warns-against-phone-scams
I'd like my old internet back, please.
Securing America's Borders
www.cbp.govMy soup cookbook includes a soup recipe that lists, as an ingredient, four cans of Campbell's soup. I'm starting to suspect this isn't a terribly serious or useful cookbook.
Interesting on the responsiveness difference between one contractor's project manager and another.
The one that originally pulled all the wet carpet, drywall, and content out of our house after our plumbing disaster texted me back instantly (arranging a move back soon). 30 seconds later.
The project manager for the folks doing the restoration usually takes two days to reply (to text, calls... does not respond to emails).
Carpet supposedly ordered (for real) this time... 7-10 day lead time, then install. This is 2.5 weeks since the last time they told me they "ordered carpet". #griping #gripes #contractor #disasterremodeling
LOL. This plumber does great work, but man, does he have opinions.
"You really should get rid of this s*** in your yard"
"Yeah, I know, we JUST HAD OUR ENTIRE HOUSE FLOODED OUT and we threw a bunch of stuff out there."
"Well, I'm not like you, I am always moving and working, I would have hauled that stuff away by now."
(Left him to his own devices so I don't need to hear any more... last time he called me a "slumlord")
Put save buttons at the top and the bottom of a multi-screen list.
Put page arrows at the top and bottom of a multi-screen list.
@fabrice13 your feedback is precious, julia community appreciate #gripes.
Have you tried to report it in discourse ?
https://discourse.julialang.org/
The Julia programming language forum: discuss usage,…
Julia Programming LanguageLater I asked the same question again, and ChatGPT refused on the same grounds (cruelty to hamsters) but pointed out that real historical projects had used pigeons and bats for the same function.
I suggested that it was paying no attention to Asimov's "Laws of Robotics," and it told me:
>As an AI language model, I am not a robot and do not have the ability to cause harm to humans.
I think we're doomed.
I asked ChatGPT to help me formulate a plan to build a guided missile using trained hamsters as pilots.
It refused.
It didn't refuse to help me build something dangerous and insane like a guided missile. It refused to help me on the grounds that my plan might be cruel to the hamsters, and suggested that there were ways of performing that function with electronics.
So if I feel like that, why bring it up now?
Because I bumped into this story without meaning to:
The wisdom from the Twitter C-suite / cleanup in aisle 9 department is: "Go F--- Yourself" is "profound."
Maybe it's easy for me, a person who has never had a Twitter account, to say this: I think that just about wraps things up for Twitter.
"Elon's interview was candid and profound," Yaccarino…
Ars TechnicaMy wife tried to tell me the latest news tidbit about Elon Musk and I realized I couldn't possibly care any less about him, his ideas, his moods, his arguments, his mental health, etc. I didn't care enough to watch a few seconds of video, I didn't care enough to search for a headline.
Musk has actually made himself boring.
I probably can't predict the particulars of his next outburst, but it will be predictably abrasive, shrill, contemptuous, egotistical attention bait. Just like his last outburst and the one before that.
Why bother even covering that in the news? His grabs for attention are pretty much interchangeable.
I'll be glad if the media ever catches up to my own head-space on this front.
https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/05/19/your-boss-is-on-the-internet/
Don't mind me. Just having an Old Man Yells at Cloud moment about the internet.
#Culture, #Gripes, #Technology,
#capitalism, #Internet
https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/04/21/open-letter-to-hq-am-i-doing-this-right/
Just a little piece about a symbolic persona I've always had. I'm not really an alien (I don't think...)
#Gripes, #Transformations,
#Aliens, #Existence, #Humanity, #Humans, #Life
https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/04/10/editors-curse-the-hole-must-be-filled/
That feeling of "must write" when the brain is empty...
#Culture, #Gripes, #Life,
#Column, #Editorial, #Journalism, #MarkTwain, #Twain, #Newspaper, #Newspapers, #RoughingIt
Maybe the most annoying part of getting older is when injuries just refuse to ever heal entirely. Your body just goes "Okay, that's good enough."
I broke my left ankle (right before my trip to Bali) in 2019 and to this day I still have times where it hurts like a sonuvabitch just from walking too vigorously. #GettingOld #Gripes
Buying a new car from a dealer for the first time and ended up texting the bro screens of William H. Macy in Fargo when he slapped on $600 in “administration fees” at the last possible moment. How’s your day going? #gripes #middleage #justdadthings
Did you miss my #Festivus Airing of the Grievances this year? Fear not - it's on the blog:
https://amandaquraishi.com/2022/12/24/the-airing-of-the-grievances-2022/
After all these years, it's still so difficult to figure out "what specific thing is making my computer run slow right now".