Email informing me I’m eligible for a class action settlement of $0.04. Boy I’d better jump on that one before it’s too late.
Just had a science lab moment. I had an unfinished cold cup of coffee left from this morning, so I put it in the microwave thinking I’d add a little milk and finish drinking it. Apparently I left in in the microwave too long and let it get just exactly to the boiling point. When I reached in, the moment I touched the cup the coffee just EXPLODED all over me, the inside of the microwave, the floor, etc.
“If you don’t go to somebody’s funeral, they won’t come to yours.” - Yogi Berra, quoted in Robert D. Putnam: Bowling Alone
It sounds absurd to say it, but President Gore would have fixed the climate crisis. Not that we’d be all the way back to a 19th century climate yet, but we’d be far down a sustainable path to carbon neutrality.
So sick of dealing with companies that will nickel and dime you and drop gotcha fees on you when their own systems don’t do what they say they’re for and count on the sheer inconvenience of switching for you to pay up. Why are so many American businesses just so fundamentally customer-hostile?
By now someone has to have developed an AI-powered browser extension that solves CAPTCHAs and auto-checks the “not a robot” box, right?
Still getting emails telling me to activate my Skype credit even though the service was shut down months ago.