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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    It's a very good stamp. Satisfying chonk sound, very serious-looking, highly recommended.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Jedoc wrote: »
    For a few months now, I've been getting very important-looking letters addressed to someone who doesn't live at my house. Like, big thick envelopes from banks and the tax commission, not the usual junk mail from the folks who used to rent the place. As per usual, I've been stamping them with my handy Return to Sender - Not At This Address stamp and putting them back in the mail box.

    Except that one of the envelopes I returned to sender a few weeks ago turned up back in my mailbox, and this time it's been opened, taped back shut, and opened again, and you can clearly see that it's the title papers for a car.

    On closer inspection, it's not even the right zip code. So I poke around on Google maps for a while until I find a little 100-foot cul de sac in a townhouse complex in that zip code with almost the same name as my street. Like if I lived on South Beach Street, this is Southbeach Street. However, all the addresses on the street have one more digit than mine, so there's no exact match there.

    No luck with the county assessor's website, since it turns out the townhouses are rented rather than owned. I'm finally able to match the name on the envelope with a street address with all of the numbers in my address plus an additional digit in a consumer information database the library subscribes to. So they apparently dropped a digit while filling out a single form that then radiated out into a bunch of transactions, so now all their stuff is getting routed to me.

    So now the plan is to walk into the post office with an open envelope of important documents that weren't addressed to me and a printout proving that I successfully stalked some poor woman to her home address to see if I can get this straightened out. Wish me luck, I'll send an update as soon as I get the wifi password for whatever federal prison I end up in.

    holy crap

    also i need one of those stamps

    $7.95 on Amazon but only 10 left in stock.

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    great send me one (1) please

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    I got this giant honking stamp that stamps a number but every time you use it, the number increases by one.

    Thing is awesome and all mechanical

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  • Kane Red RobeKane Red Robe Master of Magic ArcanusRegistered User regular
    I brought leftover Christmas fudge to work and set it out on the shelf by my desk and I swear to God I will punch out the next person who walks past and goes, "Ew, too much sugar."

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    i want that fudge

    give me that fudge

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  • ThegreatcowThegreatcow Lord of All Bacons Washington State - It's Wet up here innit? Registered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Jedoc wrote: »
    For a few months now, I've been getting very important-looking letters addressed to someone who doesn't live at my house. Like, big thick envelopes from banks and the tax commission, not the usual junk mail from the folks who used to rent the place. As per usual, I've been stamping them with my handy Return to Sender - Not At This Address stamp and putting them back in the mail box.

    Except that one of the envelopes I returned to sender a few weeks ago turned up back in my mailbox, and this time it's been opened, taped back shut, and opened again, and you can clearly see that it's the title papers for a car.

    On closer inspection, it's not even the right zip code. So I poke around on Google maps for a while until I find a little 100-foot cul de sac in a townhouse complex in that zip code with almost the same name as my street. Like if I lived on South Beach Street, this is Southbeach Street. However, all the addresses on the street have one more digit than mine, so there's no exact match there.

    No luck with the county assessor's website, since it turns out the townhouses are rented rather than owned. I'm finally able to match the name on the envelope with a street address with all of the numbers in my address plus an additional digit in a consumer information database the library subscribes to. So they apparently dropped a digit while filling out a single form that then radiated out into a bunch of transactions, so now all their stuff is getting routed to me.

    So now the plan is to walk into the post office with an open envelope of important documents that weren't addressed to me and a printout proving that I successfully stalked some poor woman to her home address to see if I can get this straightened out. Wish me luck, I'll send an update as soon as I get the wifi password for whatever federal prison I end up in.

    holy crap

    also i need one of those stamps

    Worth every darn penny when you move into a new place. Plus it's super satisfying to "fwump" the response on all the envelopes you get.

    Been using this self-inking version quite a lot lately

    Jedoc
  • ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    great send me one (1) please

    I did but it got sent back

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  • Kane Red RobeKane Red Robe Master of Magic ArcanusRegistered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    i want that fudge

    give me that fudge

    Here you go:
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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    kick ass

    inject it directly in my veins

  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    For a few months now, I've been getting very important-looking letters addressed to someone who doesn't live at my house. Like, big thick envelopes from banks and the tax commission, not the usual junk mail from the folks who used to rent the place. As per usual, I've been stamping them with my handy Return to Sender - Not At This Address stamp and putting them back in the mail box.

    Except that one of the envelopes I returned to sender a few weeks ago turned up back in my mailbox, and this time it's been opened, taped back shut, and opened again, and you can clearly see that it's the title papers for a car.

    On closer inspection, it's not even the right zip code. So I poke around on Google maps for a while until I find a little 100-foot cul de sac in a townhouse complex in that zip code with almost the same name as my street. Like if I lived on South Beach Street, this is Southbeach Street. However, all the addresses on the street have one more digit than mine, so there's no exact match there.

    No luck with the county assessor's website, since it turns out the townhouses are rented rather than owned. I'm finally able to match the name on the envelope with a street address with all of the numbers in my address plus an additional digit in a consumer information database the library subscribes to. So they apparently dropped a digit while filling out a single form that then radiated out into a bunch of transactions, so now all their stuff is getting routed to me.

    So now the plan is to walk into the post office with an open envelope of important documents that weren't addressed to me and a printout proving that I successfully stalked some poor woman to her home address to see if I can get this straightened out. Wish me luck, I'll send an update as soon as I get the wifi password for whatever federal prison I end up in.

    God you're such a librarian

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    For a few months now, I've been getting very important-looking letters addressed to someone who doesn't live at my house. Like, big thick envelopes from banks and the tax commission, not the usual junk mail from the folks who used to rent the place. As per usual, I've been stamping them with my handy Return to Sender - Not At This Address stamp and putting them back in the mail box.

    Except that one of the envelopes I returned to sender a few weeks ago turned up back in my mailbox, and this time it's been opened, taped back shut, and opened again, and you can clearly see that it's the title papers for a car.

    On closer inspection, it's not even the right zip code. So I poke around on Google maps for a while until I find a little 100-foot cul de sac in a townhouse complex in that zip code with almost the same name as my street. Like if I lived on South Beach Street, this is Southbeach Street. However, all the addresses on the street have one more digit than mine, so there's no exact match there.

    No luck with the county assessor's website, since it turns out the townhouses are rented rather than owned. I'm finally able to match the name on the envelope with a street address with all of the numbers in my address plus an additional digit in a consumer information database the library subscribes to. So they apparently dropped a digit while filling out a single form that then radiated out into a bunch of transactions, so now all their stuff is getting routed to me.

    So now the plan is to walk into the post office with an open envelope of important documents that weren't addressed to me and a printout proving that I successfully stalked some poor woman to her home address to see if I can get this straightened out. Wish me luck, I'll send an update as soon as I get the wifi password for whatever federal prison I end up in.

    God you're such a librarian

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  • expendableexpendable Silly Goose Registered User regular
    edited January 5
    My library boss told me I should apply for a grant to get $30,000 for more makerspace stuff.

    Pros:
    • That would be a LOT of stuff
    Cons:
    • I'd have to make a 3 minute video submission.
    • The money comes from the CIA. Yes. That CIA.


    Edit: On the grant website I just saw this line,
    Check out the CIA’s Spy Kids website https://www.cia.gov/spy-kids/ for cool facts about CIA that could be used in your classroom!

    It's such a weird way to structure this. The program is run through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, which is under the Dept. of Energy umbrella. The website for the program is on the ORISE website and it's ORISE reps that show up to events awarding the money according to the news stories I've found. But "This program is made possible through a sponsorship from the Central Intelligence Agency." and the giant novelty checks I've seen have CIA branding on them and the name of the contest is all about the CIA.

    So the money comes from the CIA but it's managed by the Dept. of Energy.

    So I dug a bit and found this:

    https://assets.performance.gov/cx/equity-action-plans/2022/EO 13985_CIA_Equity Action Plan_2022.pdf

    So this is being driven by Executive Order 13985 "Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government" which Biden signed January 2021.
    Also Memorandum on Revitalizing America’s Foreign Policy and National Security Workforce, Institutions, and Partnerships and "Sec. 105 of the 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act, “Requirements and Authorities for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to Improve Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics.” which shows up as Sec. 311 in Senate Report 116-233

    Relevant stuff to this grant starts at the bottom of page 3: (U) Action Area 2 — Community Outreach.

    So I didn't learn anything we didn't already know. The government considers STEAM skill gaps (again, Humanities are never represented) in the US to be a national security issue, we all know the reasons they exist, so it's directing various aspects of the government to do something about it. The CIA is doing this to comply with those directives and hoping to also get some public good will out of it that might also lead to future recruiting opportunities to increase their diversity metrics.

    I still don't get why the ORISE/DoE is managing it, maybe just a personnel thing? The CIA uses the money allotted for those directives and has the DoE manage it with employees already doing stuff like that without the CIA having to have people dedicated to that.

    If I were willing to do the work for getting the money I'd probably take the money. It's unlikely there's any requirements to put stickers on the stuff you buy. There will probably be some sort of reporting/tracking requirements like number of students that used it etc. Maybe they'll want you to put a small placard up somewhere or something, and the district might wanna do some horn tooting that results in news stories like the ones I saw online, but there's nothing stopping you from being open and honest with students or community members about the shitty aspects of the CIA.

    [edit]And now I should probably get back to the report I've been dragging my feet on

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    Djiem wrote: »
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    So the servers suddenly decide to cramp up during the last six percent.
    Man, the Director will really go out of his way to be a dick to L4D players.
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  • ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    CIA giving out tons of free book money to libraries

    No strings attached!

    All they ask in return is you set up this nice, new, free mobile device charging station for patrons to use

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  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    edited January 5
    My library boss told me I should apply for a grant to get $30,000 for more makerspace stuff.

    Pros:
    • That would be a LOT of stuff
    Cons:
    • I'd have to make a 3 minute video submission.
    • The money comes from the CIA. Yes. That CIA.


    Edit: On the grant website I just saw this line,
    Check out the CIA’s Spy Kids website https://www.cia.gov/spy-kids/ for cool facts about CIA that could be used in your classroom!

    Jackson Pollack was also funded by the CIA, some times you're wants and the wants of the national propagandists line us *shrugs*

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    Just chiming in here that there probably isn't a geographer on this blue planet who doesn't use the CIA World Fact Book as a reliable quick overview of any nation state.

    CIA uh does a looooooot of stuff and if you're a US citizen you're paying for both the bad, the stupid, the evil and also for the good. There's so little you can do about how the CIA operates and what kind of side projects they run that I see no moral problem in getting that funding. It's about as amoral as consuming food/beverages from Nestlé or buying clothing produced in countries that fail key metrics on the Human Rights Index.

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    So my principal is leaving at the end of the year and he's just approving everything anyone wants. Finally getting some new book carts! My current ones are like 30 years old. The new ones have little flip out shelves on the sides to hold a laptop when doing inventory!

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  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    edited January 5
    So my principal is leaving at the end of the year and he's just approving everything anyone wants. Finally getting some new book carts! My current ones are like 30 years old. The new ones have little flip out shelves on the sides to hold a laptop when doing inventory!

    Livefeed of Librarian's Principal:
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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    Quick! Request a jet ski!

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    Quick! Request a jet ski!

    TWO jetskis....

  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    Got in my van today for the first time in a couple of weeks and it is super mouldy. It's had a bit of it on the ceiling for ages but I guess the humidity and not being opened up to circulate air made it go crazy over Christmas and now both seats and the steering wheel are covered. It's pretty rank. So I guess I should do something about that.

    Trouble is it's basically impossible to ever get the inside of my van totally dry, at least for 9 months of the year, because it's constantly got wet tools, clothes, or plant matter in there. I did get some seat covers for Christmas so once I've de-moulded the fabric they will hopefully help prevent it a bit in future.

    Might have to run an extension cord and put a dehumidifier in there to help it out.

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Ooo I’m getting my 3D printers too!

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  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    Today I got to send some fun angry emails to my apartment complex that all but outright states they were negligent (because negligence means they're liable for my shit) when something happened today. My partner is on the emails and was about to ask how I was able to churn those out so fast then remembered what my job is.

    Just a pro at professional angry emails.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    One of my coworkers always jokes about how I'm so fast to jump on tickets that were incorrectly assigned to our team and get them sent off.
    And I'm like bro I used to do this all day. This is nostalgic fun.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited January 5
    Well, I'm not in post office jail, but the conversation went just about exactly how I imagined. I had the envelope with the car title inside, the printout from the creepy customer information database, and my license with my current address on it so that I could point directly to the relevant data points every single time I mentioned them.

    Postal worker: Can I help you?
    Me: Yes. Here is somebody else's letter, a printout of an address from a creepy customer information database, and my address. This letter was delivered to me at this address, but it should have been delivered to this address.
    PW: Let me get my supervisor.
    Me: Thank you.
    Postal supervisor: What can I do for you?
    Me: This letter, addressed to this person at this zip code was delivered to me at 4269 South Beach Street. I'm pretty sure it was actually supposed to go to 42069 Southbeach Street. I've been getting a lot of these, and I've been stamping them Return to Sender and putting them back in my mailbox. This one came back to me after several weeks looking like this.
    Postal supervisor: Oh. Well, I should be able to just write in a zero and send it on, it's first class mail. But actually you'll need to do this at your post office.
    Me: What?
    PS: This isn't your post office.
    Me: Oh. I thought...
    PS: The zip code for Southbeach Street is all the way up on the north side, I'll get you the phone number for your post office.
    Me: No, I live on South Beach Street like four blocks from here. The zip code on the envelope isn't mine.
    PS: Oh. Oh! So how did this get delivered to you?
    Me: Great question. Perfect question.
    PS: Well, it looks like the computer printed your zip code on the barcode here.
    Me: It does have 4269 on the envelope instead of 42069. Could that be the issue?
    PS: It's stamped Return to Sender.
    Me: Yes, I did that. Then it went away, and then it came back like a month later. All opened up and bedraggled.
    PS: It came back? How did it come back?
    Me: A deep and a profound and a great question.

    Anyway, I walked away without the envelope and with the advice to mark out the barcode as well as stamping it Return to Sender next time I get one of these.

    Godspeed, 42069 Southbeach Street. How's your car buying experience going, pretty bad it seems like.

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    Well, I'm not in post office jail, but the conversation went just about exactly how I imagined. I had the envelope with the car title inside, the printout from the creepy customer information database, and my license with my current address on it so that I could point directly to the relevant data points every single time I mentioned them.

    Postal worker: Can I help you?
    Me: Yes. Here is somebody else's letter, a printout of an address from a creepy customer information database, and my address. This letter was delivered to me at this address, but it should have been delivered to this address.
    PW: Let me get my supervisor.
    Me: Thank you.
    Postal supervisor: What can I do for you?
    Me: This letter, addressed to this person at this zip code was delivered to me at 4269 South Beach Street. I'm pretty sure it was actually supposed to go to 42069 Southbeach Street. I've been getting a lot of these, and I've been stamping them Return to Sender and putting them back in my mailbox. This one came back to me after several weeks looking like this.
    Postal supervisor: Oh. Well, I should be able to just write in a zero and send it on, it's first class mail. But actually you'll need to do this at your post office.
    Me: What?
    PS: This isn't your post office.
    Me: Oh. I thought...
    PS: The zip code for Southbeach Street is all the way up on the north side, I'll get you the phone number for your post office.
    Me: No, I live on South Beach Street like four blocks from here. The zip code on the envelope isn't mine.
    PS: Oh. Oh! So how did this get delivered to you?
    Me: Great question. Perfect question.
    PS: Well, it looks like the computer printed your zip code on the bar code here.
    Me: It does have 4269 on the envelope instead of 42069. Could that be the issue?
    PS: It's stamped Return to Sender.
    Me: Yes, I did that. Then it went away, and then it came back like a month later. All opened up and bedraggled.
    PS: It came back? How did it come back?
    Me: A deep and a profound and a great question.

    Anyway, I walked away without the envelope and with the advice to mark out the barcode as well as stamping it Return to Sender next time I get one of these.

    Godspeed, 42069 South Beach Street. How's your car buying experience going, pretty bad it seems like.

    For literal years at this point, I've been getting emails from the New York EZ Pass system for someone who has a very similar name to my handle. I think people don't know that Gmail ignores dots in email addresses (so like [email protected] is the same as [email protected]). Never has this individual corrected this mistake, while I've seen multiple cycles of billing come and go.. including late notices, insufficient funds, new renewals, new services, etc.

    At some point I have to wonder.. has.. this individual just not noticed that they have NEVER received an email about the NY Toll Roads?

    Once I did try to call the support number listed. I sat on hold for over 30 minutes before going "You know what? this isn't hurting me and the individual doesn't seem to mind, so screw it."

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  • TynnanTynnan seldom correct, never unsure Registered User regular
    A few years back I got an email intended for someone containing tax info for a person sharing my first initial and same last name. Whoopsie!

  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    edited January 5
    I get literally a dozen+ emails a week for other people who share my name and apparently think they have their [email protected] as their email address.

    But they do not.

    I do.

    So I get all of their gas station membership emails, food delivery receipts, medical records and appointment reminders, church newsletters, disciplinary emails from their kids’ schools, and vacuum warranty information.

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  • TefTef Registered User regular
    edited January 5
    There’s multi generational trauma being inflicted in the US school system that
    Psykoma wrote: »
    I think I'd probably take the money as long as I didn't need to have any kind of "Provided by the CIA" stickers on them or any other signage saying where the funds for those things came from, or if there's a clause like "by accepting this money you also accept that you'll stock these books talking about how great the cia is"

    See I would do it if you were required to stock their approved books, but somehow those books always got stuck in processing and never made it to the shelf.

    I’d probably also have to make a poster advertising the Jakarta Method, Killing Hope and Imperialism, the Highest Form of Capitalism and just have a big banner underneath saying “this campaign bought to you by the CIA!!”

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    edited January 5
    Got in my van today for the first time in a couple of weeks and it is super mouldy. It's had a bit of it on the ceiling for ages but I guess the humidity and not being opened up to circulate air made it go crazy over Christmas and now both seats and the steering wheel are covered. It's pretty rank. So I guess I should do something about that.

    Trouble is it's basically impossible to ever get the inside of my van totally dry, at least for 9 months of the year, because it's constantly got wet tools, clothes, or plant matter in there. I did get some seat covers for Christmas so once I've de-moulded the fabric they will hopefully help prevent it a bit in future.

    I can't be sure these would work, but they're probably worth a shot?

    https://www.amazon.com/Wisedry-Rechargeable-Desiccant-Microwave-Reactivated/dp/B0781BR7V7/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=large+silica+gel+packets&qid=1672959563&sr=8-3

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  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Yeah I keep meaning to get some of those but forgetting.

    If we had a couple of days without rain I could leave the van open to air out but lol.

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    Yeah I keep meaning to get some of those but forgetting.

    If we had a couple of days without rain I could leave the van open to air out but lol.

    Yeah, not gonna get those, and that's part of the problem.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    I get literally a dozen+ emails a week for other people who share my name and apparently think they have their [email protected] as their email address.

    But they do not.

    I do.

    So I get all of their gas station membership emails, food delivery receipts, medical records and appointment reminders, church newsletters, disciplinary emails from their kids’ schools, and vacuum warranty information.

    What's been great is that lately someone signed up on a couple of sites with my email address (but not my payment info, I checked that right quick) and I have no way to close the accounts down because they require you to use "the app" or the device that the account was created on to close the account!

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  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    The Post Office is a wild system. Every time I've had a problem with delivery it seems like no one who works at the Post Office had any fucking idea how things were actually moved from place to place.

    I am in the business of saving lives.
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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    For years the post office down the street would tell EVERY SINGLE GOD DAMN PERSON that we at the public library had free tax documents. We never did and no matter how often we physically went there and told them to stop they kept doing it.

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  • PellaeonPellaeon Registered User regular
    For years the post office down the street would tell EVERY SINGLE GOD DAMN PERSON that we at the public library had free tax documents. We never did and no matter how often we physically went there and told them to stop they kept doing it.

    Why are you hoarding the free documents? Why won't you share?!

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    We, uh...we gave in and started printing free tax documents for everyone. So now that's just our life for the next five months.

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  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    Apartment sprinkler pipe burst December 24, dealt with that and sprinkler system was off since. They came today to check sprinklers, but no one was in my unit and they never checked if the pipe in my unit had burst as opposed to the one in the unit above mine (which was where they thought all the water came from) so then whey repressurized it started leaking in my apartment again. Good thing there wasn't any damage otherwise I'd be charging them with negligence and getting them to pay for any damages cause what the fuck

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  • DocshiftyDocshifty Registered User regular
    furlion wrote: »
    For the first bit of the line the cars at BMW are just sitting on a wooden sled. Nothing holding them at all. Well the bodies can be lifted up and down to make it easier for people to get access to certain parts of the cars. They also have these rolling carts that hold parts and screws and stuff. Every now and then the car will go up, the cart will go under the car, and the car will come back down. Flips the body right onto the floor. No big deal, buff it out and ship it.

    For B line, they don't use carriers for the early parts of trim shop, they're basically on pedestals. The carriers come in at the end, so work can be done underneath. Like when robots lift the engine up to be installed.

    So there's the damaged robot to inspect, the damaged car to inspect, then this gap that fucks with sequencing to correct. And also the actual cause to determine, cause it is probably some weird one off thing, but if not...

    I suppose it is possible it happened on final line. If you don't straighten the wheels, when the carriers move to deposit the car, the car will turn, cause that's how wheels work, and end up flipping.

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