Minor victory thread
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figmentPez
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Why was there a sugar cube shortage?
Short answer, covid. Long answer, lower selling items had a lower priority as supply lines got stretched thinner and thinner.
Look, if we have to choose between stuffing our plane full of sugar cubes and making $$, stuffing it full of covid vaccine and making $$$$, or stuffing it with iPhones and making $$$$$$, there's really only so much we can do. We have a social and entrepreneurial duty and responsibility to society and humanity, and sugar cubes will just have to wait. After all, those iPhones won't deliver themselves.
Bold of you to assume there was enough sugar to go around to make cubes in the first place. Production is way way down.
And who ships sugar by air?
Since the beginning of Covid, there've been restrictions on economy shipments to and from the US (all of America, in fact) by...My employer. Express shipments still get flown there and back, economy only limited amounts and at higher than normal cost. Yet still people use it like crazy because a lot of our competitors don't have (enough of) their own planes and thus couldn't get goods across the Atlantic with so many airlines shut down. Anyway, some people started using boats or switched to Express services, and of course we got a whole lot of complaints from angry customers. Which, ok, fine, But shipping stuff EU>US was never especially cheap, and people complaining they now have to pay $250+ to get their package to the US I totally get...Until you start looking at what people are shipping.And who ships sugar by air?
I'm sad to say that "a big box full of sugar cubes" would be far from the most ridiculous thing shipped to the US by air. "I have to pay that much to get these stuffed toys over?!" Err, yes? It's a full pallet. "Yes, but my niece moved and she only took two suitcases of stuffed toys with her and she now wants to give the rest away to her friends" OK, that's great. But yes, shipping something of that size as a small customer is going to cost you more than those stuffed animals are worth. "Why is it so expensive? It's a small package!" Yes, but we weighed it at 100kgs. "Yes, sure, but why does that matter? It's lead figurines!" Ugh.
But anyway, obviously I was joking, and failed
I have some pet peeves and one of them is that online forms require titles. Men are Mr. or Master depending on age. Women are Miss, Ms. or Mrs. depending on their relationship to a man. Not cool. I especially don’t like seeing this in relation to my professional organization. I can love my husband very much and be a person in my own right.
Renewed my dues today and I could choose to just be me.
Renewed my dues today and I could choose to just be me.
The ms/mrs/mz/whatever thing is pretty weird, yeah. I mean, we all grew up in mostly patriarchal society, it makes sense that our culture and language are influenced by that, for good or for bad. Some things I think are less relevant or important, others are.
Having three different titles for women based on their marital status made sense in society as it was, say, a hundred years ago. But in most other languages, by now, the difference has faded of disappeared.
In French, madame or mademoiselle is just about age - younger than you, go with mademoiselle, older, go with madam, when in doubt, choose another language
In Dutch, the corresponding word (juffrouw) has all but disappeared, and is never used in trade or official language. It's mostly around in some dialects or expressions.
In English, it's still very active and important and isn't really ruled by age at all - really just marital status alone, which is just... Weird? Just call all young ones miss, all the older ones misses, or find a way to pronounce ms already.
Not to say porker languages don't also have a whole bunch of built-in sexism, they must certainly do - just not do much this specific one.
The German equivalent "Fräulein" has also disappeared. Used in the past for young and unmarried women.
I was finally able to order my air purifier (ps5 for those not in the know) off Gamestop today!
Dave
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Interesting. What do they use now?
GoG used to have a ridiculous list of genders and pronoun choices - yes, including Attack Helicopter - but apparently they rolled it back to standard m/v/x a while ago
because some complained that it made fun of people requesting their own pronouns.GoG made it pretty clear they were just joking, and (most of). The most common ones were all included too, but apparently it wasn't good enough?
figmentPez
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Are you really allowed to have that title when you hang out here?
Compared to some of her fellow forumites, she's positively angelic.
Spoken like someone who has never interacted with forum game nights.
"Frau" is used. The women rights movement in the 70s was the reason the "Fräulein" vanished as a title for unmarried women. It's still in use for movie or book titles, names etc. though.
British politicians call themselves "The Honourable [X]" when in Parliament. It's not really a title deserving of much respect.
Sorry @Celt Z
Found out I'm actually getting a bonus this year, and while it's smaller that planned and will almost entirely go to continued house improvement (again), I did use it as an excuse to finally buy the kind of desk chair I've wanted for years. As such, I'm now sitting in a SecretLabs Titan.
You know that thing where you lay down in bed at the end of the day, and your spine goes through this transition where you realize it's been aching and you just don't notice it anymore? I'm doing that at my desk now.
You know that thing where you lay down in bed at the end of the day, and your spine goes through this transition where you realize it's been aching and you just don't notice it anymore? I'm doing that at my desk now.
Well, technically, Lucifer Morningstar the Lightbringer is an angel too.
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My friend from NS hates that brand. Especially when she sees eastern folk out here wearing it. Her exact quote "You're living in Alberta, how is that east coast lifestyle?"
More referring to how our tater tot recipe is spreading
Isn't living in Alberta the very definition of an East Coast lifestyle these days?
Got my second dose of the vaccine today! My arm is sore as hell and I'll likely get the usual chills/low-grade fever/aches that many others get as side effects... but it still feels like a huge win! I was anxious as all hell about getting COVID and dying, so this feels like a major step back towards normalcy.
My local medical group has a payment portal, and I was paying some bill for some medical service last month and saw my wife owed $1200 from when she had the ovarian cyst emergency room visit in December. So I paid it. I hadn't seen the bill, but chalked it up to the USPS being all fucked up lately.
I hadn't seen the bill because it hadn't gone through the insurance process completely yet. My wife got a check for $941 today...Minor victory, because she had to give it back to me, since I'm the one who paid the original bill in the first place. She sure didn't want to, though
2nd Minor victory of the day: A friend of mine that I've known for 30 years has been going to WGU for a CS degree for the last 3.5 years. I only found out about it when I started posting on facebook about my own college. He was stuck and burned out, and had already taken a 6 month sabbatical. I began cheerleading his efforts, and today he finalized his capstone and has earned his BS. So proud of him.
I hadn't seen the bill because it hadn't gone through the insurance process completely yet. My wife got a check for $941 today...Minor victory, because she had to give it back to me, since I'm the one who paid the original bill in the first place. She sure didn't want to, though
2nd Minor victory of the day: A friend of mine that I've known for 30 years has been going to WGU for a CS degree for the last 3.5 years. I only found out about it when I started posting on facebook about my own college. He was stuck and burned out, and had already taken a 6 month sabbatical. I began cheerleading his efforts, and today he finalized his capstone and has earned his BS. So proud of him.
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