Dave
Staff member
I'm going to register with reCAPTCHA and see if that's easy, hard, or even worth it.
Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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"9 to 5? But isn't that just a normal.... oooooohhhhhh!"
Dave
Staff member
Not sure when it happened but lately all calls that come in to my phone are marked as "Canada" for caller ID. Yesterday, for example, my landlord, my plumber, and the freaking IRS all called (or in the case of the IRS returned a call) and the caller ID said Canada. I missed most of those calls but now I have to look at the caller ID to see if I might need to pick it up. I looked online and I'm not the only one with this issue. Seems to be happening in a lot of places.
Good news: our house is covid free
bad news: the kids have shared some god awful plague with me.
I am vile. But I really do need to work today. Thanks for sharing kids!
bad news: the kids have shared some god awful plague with me.
I am vile. But I really do need to work today. Thanks for sharing kids!
I'm convinced one of the worst things we teach our kids is to share. They never share the good stuff like cookies or ice cream, anyway!
From now on, whenever you mention your son, I'm just going to assume he looks like this...
That’s not far off sometimes…
Suddenly falling into a hard depression. Probably a combination of the world still going to Hell, the fact that I gained even more weight recently, and that my birthday is coming up and I just feel like I've wasted all 43 years of my life.
Hey look! It's still just as bad, if not worse! I had to submit claims this week to 2 200+ year old tunes! this is so stupid!!!
GasBandit
Staff member
Youtube has been making a concerted effort for quite a while now to "discourage" any content creators who aren't real-world celebrities. If you're not Jimmy Fallon or Ellen Degeneres, you're not "safe to monetize," so they've been making a series of changes to the platform over the last couple years to disincentivize regular people more and more.
The golden age of Youtube is long since over. Any homegrown content creators still on the platform are usually getting supported via Patreon or some other similar mechanism.
How about 300+ years?
She ultimately prevailed, so I suppose there’s some hope.
But enough about your whine, let’s talk about mine: off work today, so took car in for service this morning at 8a.
…it needs about $1700 worth of work and should be done by end of day. I’m about 40mi/65km from home, so I guess I’m stuck here until 5p. I’m actually only about a mile and a half (2km) from work right now, so I suppose I could go chill there (and charge my phone), but again…it’s my day off!
Argh.
—Patrick
I wish I could just put a setting on my channel that says "do not monetize" or "nonprofit account" or something! And the algorithm for claiming copyright on tunes is so fucking broken.
GasBandit
Staff member
If you're not monetizable, they don't want you posting videos at all, tbh.
So they make it as much a hassle as they can.
YouTube is no longer the place where YouGo to post YourOwn content (for free) so others can see it and then recover their hosting costs with a few ads. Now they also want the content itself to generate revenue. They basically want to be their own de facto cable network, but without all the restrictive FCC baggage that would entail.
—Patrick
So I want some lunch, but because of COVID all the restaurants here are drive-thru only, but you can’t go through a drive-thru on foot and my car is on a lift three miles away. I’m literally in a situation where the Wendy’s will refuse service if you can’t show you have a car.
So hungry…
(eventually found an Olga’s that let me eat in - crisis averted!)
—Patrick
Ok so it ended up being only $1300 and done 2hrs earlier, but still WAAAAHHHHH
--Patrick
Called in to work because I'm having a bad mental health day. I just feel like such a waste and a failure.
At this point, I pretty much only call in for mental health days, and you know what? That's fine. I don't really get sick enough not to work, but I definitely get too exhausted/stressed/depressed to deal with it sometimes. I suspect there are a lot of us like that, and I think it should be encouraged.
One of my teachers couldn't figure out how to use Presenter notes in Google Slides on two screens. All you have to do is hit the drop-down arrow next to Present and then drag the Chrome Tab with the presentation over to the second screen, which is the display TV in the room. 2 steps.
"Oh, this is so confusing!" "Why did they make it so hard?" "Do we have written instructions on how to do this?" "This is soo confusing!"
Bitch, it is literally TWO STEPS! You are a teacher, are you incapable of learning? Why are you teaching FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTING if you can't understand two simple steps??
She also didn't want to bother me with this at first, so she emailed the Director of IT for the district.
It'd be similar to a kid in her class having a question and emailing the principal about it. Completely skips multiple levels of direct help to go to someone who can't and will only question why this person came to them at all.
"Oh, this is so confusing!" "Why did they make it so hard?" "Do we have written instructions on how to do this?" "This is soo confusing!"
Bitch, it is literally TWO STEPS! You are a teacher, are you incapable of learning? Why are you teaching FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTING if you can't understand two simple steps??
She also didn't want to bother me with this at first, so she emailed the Director of IT for the district.
It'd be similar to a kid in her class having a question and emailing the principal about it. Completely skips multiple levels of direct help to go to someone who can't and will only question why this person came to them at all.
May 20th was actually designated as "Mental Health Action Day," so if you need it, by all means take it.
Sorry it didn't go better for you, I know you were hoping for something a little more special.
--Patrick
I have a brutal flare in my left shoulder. It’s swollen, red and hot. Gross.
You're not making money for the Dolmansaxlil Shoe Corporation? TO THE PENNY LOAFER MINES WITH YOU!!
And they will put in as many ads as they can.