I saw the aftermath of a bad accident today near my house that I believe resulted in a fatality. Looked like a vehicle t-boned a large delivery truck in a major intersection. Pretty sure it was a Tesla model 3 but it was pretty badly mangled. It was definitely an EV as I could see it had a frunk rather than an engine. Made me wonder if they had self driving enabled.
was driving yesterday, saw someone in the driverās seat calmly two-handing a salad: holding the clamshell container with left hand, right hand stabbing with a plastic fork. i sincerely hope he was using autopilot rather than the old tried-and-true knee on the bottom of the steering wheel.
Dear parents of kids who graduated high school in 1990: ENOUGH OF THIS DYING SHIT IN 2025, KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF ALREADY.
I know. Youāre tired, you donāt feel good, you just donāt want to do anything. Tough. You got pissed when your kids didnāt listen? Well, turnabout is fair play. Your kids tried saying that stuff years ago, and you didnāt put up with it then; you donāt get to use that excuse now just because youāre āold and feeble.ā
Itās mid-April, and overnight will be at least the 6th person I know from the Class of 1990 whoās losing a parent. Thereās a 7th getting close, and I know at least two others who had close calls. Iāve had enough. Just because other parents are dropping like flies doesnāt mean you get to do it too. Itās definitely not cool, and youāre not just hurting yourself, youāre hurting everyone else around you.
I know, everyone eventually goes. (Except for me, Iām living forever.) It does not mean you all need to go off on a joyride in a hearse and take a stroll dropping each other off in a local cemetery. Iām done with your dying bullshit, Iām done with reaching out to friends to console them because you decided to be selfish and take the final deep six, and Iām really done with showing up at services to see you off one final time.
Get your shit together, parents.
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I was an early adopter of Gmail. Since my last name is not very common, i was able to get a first initial + last name account.
Over the years, Iāve recieved many accidental wrong emails. Many of them are from others with the same first initial last name comboā¦some are certainly spam, but several from doctors offices and other businesses where an employee probably just typed in Gmail rather than Hotmail or some other service. Iāll sometimes spend a bit of effort trying to track down the right person. With a given first name, Iām usually looking at single digit hits on Facebook, and can usually find the person if i have any location info.
Some of the more interesting highlights:
- was on a group message for a table tennis team in europe
- family wedding email where they were all planning on getting together ahead of the event. This was in California
- some scuba diving shop in Ohio, i was getting invoices for a while.
The latest is a woman signed up for the rocket money app and i guess put in my email by mistake. I keep getting notifications for her activities trying to cancel subscriptions. It also sends her spending habits to cut back on, like the $552 at the tik tok store. Through my email, i could send in a password reset request, but that sent a text to get phone with a reset link. So i have the last 4 of a phone number, and name. I think she might be in Philadelphia according to Google. The nearest hit on social media is in Ohio. I have a maybe correct phone number? Itās trivial enough that its not worth trying to contact her, although i have on some of the earlier occasions. Like the scuba shop was sending out their schedule and i thought it would be crappy if the dude got fired for not showing upā¦ could be my distant cousin and all.
Anyone else have this situation?
Yup.
I had First initial + Last Name in an old email address a bunch of years ago. Somebody tried to send an email to First initial + A +Last Name to the same domain but forgot the A. I was wondering why I was getting electrical schematics. Of course, I forwarded it to the correct party.
Did you crash the wedding? You could be a long-lost cousin.
I definitely had enough to go from in the email. Sounded like a pretty wealthy group.
My gmail is just my last name, no initial. I donāt get much mistake mail, but my name is pretty unusual. The mistake mail has been mainly in two bunches. Iāve gotten a bunch of emails over the past year related to a job search in Idaho. Plus Iāve gotten some emails from AA that were supposed to go to a fairly close relative that I didnāt know needed AA.
so much for that second āAā
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I have a Hotmail address thatās first name last name. However, I think there are only a few dozen people in the US who share my first name, and nobody in the world (far as I know) shares first and last names with me.
So Iāve literally never had anyone do this.
ask chatgpt and see what it says
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You are missing out! Maybe you should change your name and enjoy!
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Which company is using the Walmart logo?
Yeah i own mortgageinsurance.ca and i.occassionally get email related to peoples insurance. But i just ignore them.
I found out today that our gas dryer was installed incorrectly.
The gas company upgraded our meter and as part of that did an inspection of all our gas appliances. He told me i needed to bring the gas dryer connection up to code. I mentioned that the requirement seemed odd, normally stuff like that gets grandfathered in, right? He said, it was never to code lol. And sort of followed that up with the install method i had was used by lazy backwoods redneck installers. Ok, yeah so the local company i used lol.
What they did was just coil a bunch of extra copper gas line as a buffer so i can pull the dryer out. What it should have is an official flex hose. You can imagine that a coil of copper line works, but is prone to failure eventually.
Itās probably a good thing that the packages of Peeps are half the size they used to be.
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The Belgians have the right idea for an Easter hunt.
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Update on the neighborās house: it sold last week. Listed at $499K, sale price is $450K.
Buyer is the mom of the guy across the street, so in-law of his wife. MIL had permission from DIL to move that close; sheād been here before, liked the neighborhood, liked the house. Went in, noticed a couple things, offered -50K and the woman there immediately took it.
Buyer is having ā¦ well, not second thoughts about buying - she had a lot elsewhere, but to grade it and build a house and all that would have been over 450K. Second thoughts about what she offered. I think to do it all over again, sheād have crammed the seller down toward 350K or less - which, IMO, is what the value of that house was in its condition, because I knew āmeticulously maintained houseā was pure puffery.
Itās mouse-infested, the attic has to be gutted because of that + birds roosting in there, and the roof has to come off. There are bird nests in a bunch of nooks and crannies around the house, and there were at least half a dozen wasp nests. [Explains why we kept seeing so many wasps.] Itās going to be at least $75K to fix things, could easily run north of $100K before itās all done.
Probably not something sheās going to be able to go back at the buyer on, but reinforces that the prior owner was the problem, not me.
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