The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Shadow Wolf]

Now that I've cussed a lot and accepted I got ****ed out of another job, I actually feel better being cast out of Eden. Now I have my own schedule, more money, more time, well, sort of. I'll have more time for getting my businesses going so I won't have more time, just more time for that.
And I'm excited to get a scanner and printers. I still have so much more to learn (like making consumer electronics rather than personal/home use stuff with Arduinos and Teensies), but it's fine because no one can tell me no or watch over me and sign off when it's terribly convenient for them.

 

[Revoltingest]

Nah (well, yes, actually) it's just mostly a scam. Pay them month after month, year after year and IF you need to use it for what you're paying them for--even if it's not your fault--they make you pay more. They can even cancel you for using them for the very exact reason you are paying them for.
Don't know about you, but I wouldn't trust security and safety things to a company that seems more interested in looking for excuses to screw customers over and squeezing them for more money than actually working with them and doing the things they are paid to do. Any other company that looks for excuses to not do what I pay them to do is a business I won't do business with in the future. But it's the norm for auto insurance.

It seems that you don't understand how insurance works.
Every incident adds data. If you become a greater risk,
you'll pay more. This is why I work with my insurers to
cut risks.

 

[Revoltingest]

True that. There are stories about people having trouble proving their still alive. ChatGPT found 2 for me:

Here are two stories where individuals had to convince a bureaucracy that they were still alive:

1. The Case of Jean Hutchinson (UK, 2018)
   Jean Hutchinson, an 80-year-old British woman, was declared dead by mistake by her pension provider. Her state pension payments were abruptly stopped, and her death was recorded with government agencies. Despite being very much alive, she had to go through a lengthy bureaucratic process, submitting official documents and repeatedly visiting offices to prove her existence. Even after showing up in person, she encountered numerous delays as different departments struggled to correct the error.
2. The Story of Clarence Bright (USA, 2013)
   Clarence Bright, a 92-year-old from Detroit, Michigan, was declared dead after his son mistakenly informed officials of his father's passing. The error led to the cancellation of Social Security and other benefits. Bright, who was still alive, had to battle various government offices to correct the record, facing frustrating red tape. It took months for his benefits to be restored, and the ordeal highlighted the complexity of reversing such a bureaucratic error.

Obamacare had my son listed as a smoker for some
unknown reason. It took a year to fix that error.

 

[sun rise]

Obamacare had my son listed as a smoker for some
unknown reason. It took a year to fix that error.

Just think of what happens if a business or organization fixes their problems quickly. Word spreads, people flock to them and profit is made.

I remember once wanting to buy some software for where I was working. I knew what we wanted and had an informal quote. It was almost impossible to buy the software. From my perspective I was waving money under the salesperson's nose and all they could do was stare blankly and drool. My dog does much better than that when offered a cookie for sitting or whatever. So I rank that salesperson as way way way lower on the evolutionary scale than my dog.

 

[sun rise]

That reminds me of this:

 

[Kathryn]

Obamacare had my son listed as a smoker for some
unknown reason. It took a year to fix that error.

Lordy. Well, it has only been 5 months so far for me. Maybe it will be half the time since I do have a private party involved. We'll see!

 

[sun rise]

Meanwhile, I think this applies to the insurance business and far beyond:

 

[Revoltingest]

Just think of what happens if a business or organization fixes their problems quickly. Word spreads, people flock to them and profit is made.

My software buying experience isn't
broad enuf to see that. But my property
management software was the result of
extensive searches & comparisons....in 1986.
Switching to something hasn't been compelling
enuf to endure the work.

I remember once wanting to buy some software for where I was working. I knew what we wanted and had an informal quote. It was almost impossible to buy the software. From my perspective I was waving money under the salesperson's nose and all they could do was stare blankly and drool. My dog does much better than that when offered a cookie for sitting or whatever. So I rank that salesperson as way way way lower on the evolutionary scale than my dog.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

In all realities, all universes, the everything of everything, there is no greater force than love.

To be a smart *** I would say gravity is far greater. It holds everything together and makes the Cosmos go round.
As for humans, I would say fear is the most powerful. Fear is followed by greed. History is full of examples of those two overcoming love. Few resist the call of being offered more wealth than they ever thought possible, and fear has destroyed the moral of the greedy and the most hardened soldiers and armies and conquers. Afterall, it was love that drove Vlad Dracul III to fight against the Turks, but it was raw, unbridled horror and terror that made Mehmed the Conqueror flee. Vlad's young brother? He came to love his captors and betrayed his family and country.

 

[sun rise]

I just paid some bills. Yesterday before bed my TODO list was 24 items long. Today has been a good day so far, 7 crossed off and one that I had missed added. Of course, some of what's there now is a PITA but I'll take numbers as being friendlier than effort involved

 

[Stevicus]

 

[We Never Know]

I've got five kids to feed

 

[Revoltingest]

Don't take a Johnny Cab.
They catch fire easily.

 

[Stevicus]

I've got five kids to feed

It's good thing for him that the Dominion promoted Benny to Legate. Must have gotten a pay raise for that, enough to feed his kids. Ensign Gomez appeared in this movie as well, with a little bit extra up top. Gul Dukat also made a cameo appearance but was upstaged by Lt. Rasczak, who was then bawled out by Captain Jellico. And to think the Emergency Medical Hologram started off as a Johnny Cab.

 

[sun rise]

I have another tin of TJ "gingermints". Now I have to exercise some self-control so I don't eat all of them tonight.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The way things are going it may not be long before I tell my sister to her face I wish she could have died instead of my brother, and wished that every single day since he died.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

She flies off her handle at me again over simply asking her not to feed my dog table scraps I'm likely to say that and worse, perhaps along the lines of how she ****ed up all her kids like our mom did to us.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

That's gonna be a nasty one. Just imagine me against me but a me that is insecure and less knowledgeable with a noticeably lower IQ (but not by much, it's more an issue she doesn't exercise or strengthen her mind).

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Shadow Wolf]

What's with the chairs?