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[Fire and Glory]

I'm pretty sick of computers and online services these days as well. Bugs and crashes, mandatory updates often containing needless UI redesigns, the constant need for bloody everything to call home on the internet instead of just working. It seems like it's a constant uphill struggle to keep things functioning and familiar.

The latest annoyance being that I keep most of my uninstalled Steam games on a portable drive to save on space. I've tried to reinstall one of these games and Steam acknowledged that the files are present and then decided to download most of the thing anyways. I cannot be positive but I'm pretty sure it has not been updated in the time it was uninstalled and even if it has I don't want any updates. Being in New Zealand any download takes hours. Hrh, computers. I prefer the days when I was a wee child and games came on discs that did not talk to the internet.

[Yoink]

Could be worse though. Were I facing similar conditions in Australia I might have had to add the risk of getting kicked by a kangaroo to the list of inconveniences.

Trust me, attack by wandering kangaroos is probably the least of our worries. It's the humans you gotta watch out for!   
...Though admittedly, one time when I was walking along a rural road at night a kangaroo just about gave me a friggin' heart attack. Something moved in the field to my left (I couldn't see shit) and at first I assumed it was a cow or something, then suddenly there's this series of strange, very loud thumps moving at great speed through the darkness - towards me? Away from me? - I couldn't tell.
Can't remember exactly what my reaction was but I just about collapsed in a gibbering heap before either a glimmer of light illuminated the retreating creature or I figured out what it must have been on my own. Either way, pretty sure it took me a while to calm down. Must have been a bloody big kangaroo, though then again maybe it just seemed louder and more terrifying due to how quiet and dark the scene was.   

[Naturegirl1999]

And that kangaroo now tells its children and friends about that time it scared a human

[Fire and Glory]

Could be worse though. Were I facing similar conditions in Australia I might have had to add the risk of getting kicked by a kangaroo to the list of inconveniences.

Nighttime kangroos

Yeahup. Glad we don't have any of those over here, or emus, or cassowaries, or dingoes......

It's always good to count your blessings I suppose!

[Kagus]

So, I ordered a package from a small business in Washington, and was expecting some amount of delays due to the usual 'rona fuckery. 14-20 days for it to get here was perfectly reasonable, given the circumstances.

A month goes by... I check the tracking number, and the package has apparently gone interdimensional The sequence of events:

• [perfectly reasonable bouncing around from smaller dist. centers to larger]
• Arrives in LA
• Departs LA
• Departs Oslo, Norway
• Departs New York
• Departs Oslo, Norway

Note that while it's departed four times, it hasn't arrived anywhere since LA. Also it last departed Oslo on June 1st, and considering Oslo is about an hour's drive away from here I'm not sure how they've managed to take so long.

...or at least, I wasn't.


After some investigation, it turns out that Norway has put a block on all outgoing packages to disadvantaged countries that are seen as a significant COVID-19 infection risk. The block goes both ways, and also puts a stop to any packages coming from said countries.

The USA is, of course, on that list.


So basically my $400 package is (presumably) stuck in parcel limbo until such a time as the US is no longer deemed to be a threatening infection vector... Which I'm pretty sure we can agree won't be any time soon.

[Naturegirl1999]

Would sterilization be possible without damaging whatever’s inside the package?

[ChairmanPoo]

Would sterilization be possible without damaging whatever’s inside the package?

Sure, if you are careful while severing the vas deferens

[Iduno]

Would sterilization be possible without damaging whatever’s inside the package?

Sure, if you are careful while severing the vas deferens

Very good.

[McTraveller]

Frikin' ads. Youtube has now figured out how to bypass whatever was previously preventing any ads with my adblocker. Now i get a weird overlay that says "watch this ad" with a timer. On the plus side I can't actually see the ad, but the placeholder is there.

[Iduno]

https://twitter.com/skullmandible/status/1272286727495749633

Apparently Chuck Tingle sucks, too?

[TamerVirus]

So the faceless twitter mob thinks Chuck Tingle is all...an act?
That he's faking it his condition?
What?

[nenjin]

Friend leans all their weight on the arm rest in the passenger side door of my car today. Entire thing cracks and it splits down the middle.

His first instinct is to play it off rather than apologize.

Going to have to replace the entire door panel if I want to fix it probably, easily a few hundred dollars in parts and labor because of everything that attaches to said door panel if that's the case.

Just fucking apologize like a normal goddamn human being, that's all I really want. I like my friend but sometimes his need to say something smarmy and deflecting for his own ego's sake makes me want to punch him in the face. Christ, you're overweight and used the arm rest as a support mechanism when trying to get up instead of your legs or your ass or anything else. Just cop to it.

[MaximumZero]

Depending on the car, the interior door panels are pretty easy to replace. Usually just a handful of screws. Hopefully that's the case for you.

[nenjin]

There's a lining over the whole thing up to where it flows in to the power window area, but it looks and feels like one piece. We'll see. Car was already going in Thursday for this, that and the other thing. So I guess we'll add this to the list!

[MrRoboto75]

So the faceless twitter mob thinks Chuck Tingle is all...an act?
That he's faking it his condition?
What?

Pounded in the butt by cancel culture