Whats rustling your jimmies?

Work forces me to do software updates on my computer as soon as they are released. I did one for dell Friday afternoon. This morning when I get to work my laptop gets a fatal error and has to be rebooted every 35 minutes. I've timed the last 3 and it's right around 35 minutes.

It's one I've never seen before. A black screen that just says
your device ran into a problem and needs to restart.
100% complete
stop code: CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED (0xEF)

IT won't let me just roll that update back. Instead I have to use a loaner while they figure it out. Motherfucker it will take me a week to load the programs I need to use daily.

Burren said:

Well of course not. But there are hundreds of thousands of videos not like that which are probably interesting.

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Work will randomly reset the Youtube algorithm. "Search to get started with Youtube!" I have no idea what to type lol.

This isn't so much a rustle of my jimmies, since it didn't happen to me, but a completely computer illiterate coworker's wife had her laptop fall prey to the Windows Bitlocker update fiasco. Try explaining to two people that barely know how to get to Facebook that their laptop is just a big paperweight unless they can figure out what email they used as their Microsoft account when they got the computer. I even offered to help them sit at a computer and try multiple different emails but apparently they are going to "figure it out" somehow. I hope they take it to Best Buy and get charged for the same advice.

Still, that is complete and utter horseshit that it even happened, and I'd be super pissed if it happened to me. I always set mine up without Microsoft accounts, and lately I've made sure Bitlocker is off, but can you even have that active without a MS account? That would mean it was literally unfixable if you didn't write it down somewhere.

RobXIII said:

Work will randomly reset the Youtube algorithm. "Search to get started with Youtube!" I have no idea what to type lol.

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Boobs is always a good start.

Void said:

Boobs is always a good start.

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instructional cleaning videos
try on haul

Booooo

Actually it doesnt really affect me. I always hated YouTube so i never watched those unless they were linked on this board.

TBT-TheBigToe said:

Several things rolled into one thing;

1. Trump, on a social media platform almost nobody uses, threatening to use Weapons of Mass Destruction in a war being fought on behalf of a country and people committing a genocide on my skin colour through engineered attrition.
2. A country and people I used to not have any issue with are so out of control that I am actually embracing, for the first time in my life, racism and a genuine dislike for them, their ways, their practices, and their hubristic arrogance.
3. That everyone in power is just going along with that group's activities, crimes, and their sheer perversion of language, law, right, morality, and global order.
4. That in spite of that I still believe "Not all <whatever except pedophiles>" but my patience is wearing thin
5. And, of course, the sheer powerless in the face of it that I exist in, we exist in. We can't do anything about me, me less so for being Canadian. It's just going to happen because we bred out the killer/animal instinct in favour of being Civilized.
6. The whole world feels out of control and insane, we are all lead by some combination of inept, stupid, corrupt, evil, useless, narcissistic, pieces of shit and there is nothing we can do about it. Whole world is going fucking topsy turvy and we just get to ride the coaster and wait for the whole thing to derail. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
7. That any of the above rustles my jimmies at all. I used to be unplugged, I miss that ignorance, I miss when my family, video games, and our dogs were all I cared about.

Not impressed with the world right now.

Also, it is really starting to seem like the diamond polishing compounds I am using have all had a contamination issue at the diamond powder, pre-compound, stage and it's making polishing a fucking chore and that just makes everything worse.
I am mostly rustled over the compound thing because it's fucking with my zen.

Global fucking epidemic of incompetence.

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The whole thing seems like a controlled demolition, like they're screwing people over as much as humanly possible with bad policies and out of control capitalism, just to get as much money and power as possible before it all collapses and ushers in the new thing where they have even more power (a commie dystopia, one world government, whatever).

Reminds me of the controlled demolition of the Republicans in the 2000 where it really felt like they got used to get rid of Israel's enemies, bail out banks, and just generally sacrifice their own electability and standing in the service of enriching a select few. Cannibalizing one group so that the other group will then have way more power for a while, which they then use to serve the same entity that cannibalized the first group. I'd hate to think the same thing is happening now, with Trump and MAGA essentially being cannibalized to remake the world and further the cause of fleecing people as much as fucking possible just so that a collapse follows and the other side can regain full power for a while and continue serving the same interests that cannibalized their opposition.

There's probably a good analogy for this that would sum up what I'm trying to say in a sentence or two, but it's escaping me right now. I guess...you're a landlord who owns two properties. One is really nice and has high potential for people to raise families in, while one is a shitty tenement that has hidden cameras in every room and nothing works right, but it's way more profitable for you to run. Most people only want to rent places from the really nice property. So you burn down the really nice one to make bank from the insurance on it, then only rent out the shitty house with all the surveillance in it so everyone has to live there. Now you have way more control/oversight plus you made bank by destroying the thing that actually would have served people. That's what the last two R administrations felt like (Not counting 2017-2019, which was actually really good, and chronically lied about in the media... they don't need to lie anymore because the current admin actually does stupid shit on their own)

RobXIII said:

Dating.....the dating world right now kinda blows lol.

I've been seeing someone for about 2 months, but she lives 2 hours away, so mostly just weekends. It started off well, we are both active and in good shape, but her mask has come off and time to say it isn't working. I knew the dating pool was preety broken, but holy hell I wasn't prepared (married for almost 20 years, widowed for 1.5)

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I don't even go out on dates anymore, because quite frankly almost every woman I even spend any real time talking with proceeds to find a way to completely turn me off. Like I started to really hit it off with a woman in my complex last year, a cute one, only to quickly discover she's batshit fucking whacko (she's in some sort of mental health facility now, so...)

The tip-off was when the police were called on an unrelated issue in the complex and I watched her just interject herself into what was going on, as if it had anything to do with her, then realized she knew the officers by name already, then realized they knew HER by name already and had a generally exasperated tone towards her. Sure enough, a couple days later she got into some kind of argument with an old guy from the neighborhood (a really nice guy who frazzles easily, basically an easy target), and started belittling him and shit, to the point that I went over like "the fuck is going on here? why don't you leave this guy alone and go have a cigarette or something"

What a turd.

More recently I started to like the niece of one of my neighbors, but when I got to know her a little bit, she turned out to completely not have any of her shit together. Like she's driving on an expired license with zero reason not to go fix it. She got a flat tire and I went to help her out, only to find that she doesn't have a working tire jack, just a rusted piece of shit years ago that immediately broke when I used it. She couldn't deal with any of this because of her chronic headaches. I said she needs to see a doctor about that and she said she doesn't have health insurance. Why doesn't she have health insurance, when she's in the income bracket where she could get free health insurance? Because she "doesn't have time to make the phone calls". Kinda like how she doesn't have time to stop by the DMV and renew her license.

Literally every fucking problem she had, when I proposed the incredibly simple solution, she had some lame as fuck excuse for why she didn't do it yet. I lost interest incredibly fast. At least she's nice and not a whacko, but geez.

Then there was a woman at my local library who I hit it off with and thought I might have something with, but next thing I know she was on vacation every time I stopped by, for like an entire month, and by the time I saw her again we didn't have any of the initial chemistry. Matter of fact she is awkward as hell around me, the way you are with either someone you have a crush on or someone you're wary of. Like I try to carry on convos with her and there's nothing remotely relaxed about it, she literally acts like she's a high schooler in a teen movie who has a crush and is terrified of saying the wrong thing. She's like 27 years old.

There have been a few other women I met/liked in recent times who all turned out to be either taken or a raging leftist (usually, the two don't cross over, interestingly enough).

I'm interested though, how has your woman's "mask come off"? I've had several women in the past who were super great at first and then after 1-3 months of dating (it's always after 30 days and before 90 days) they "fall off" and suddenly I start seeing their alcoholism, stupid behaviors, they start being more bossy or negative, etc. Had one girl who I thought was basically perfect, like I was legit in love with her, and after a month I discovered what a spaz she was when she cancelled a date so she could cross state lines to buy a carton of cigarettes tax-free and save $15 or something. After a while with these kinds of women I start to wonder if they have a working brain.

Rajaah said:

I'm interested though, how has your woman's "mask come off"? I've had several women in the past who were super great at first and then after 1-3 months of dating (it's always after 30 days and before 90 days) they "fall off" and suddenly I start seeing their alcoholism, stupid behaviors, they start being more bossy or negative, etc. Had one girl who I thought was basically perfect, like I was legit in love with her, and after a month I discovered what a spaz she was when she cancelled a date so she could cross state lines to buy a carton of cigarettes tax-free and save $15 or something. After a while with these kinds of women I start to wonder if they have a working brain.

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27 eh? How old are ya? lol

So I was glad I dated her, she was a personal trainer and as I was married for 20 years with kids, hadn't been with someone in better shape than me in decades. That part was fun. Buuuut, the best way to describe it was that dialogue with her was like an RPG, where there were 6 or so options I could respond with, and if I didn't pick the absolute best one, she would react super negatively. Even something simple like "I can't wait to take you on vacation this summer!" became "WELL, I would think you like to spend normal time with me too an not just vacation with me!"

The last straw was after a run, we were in a park, some guy hit a tennis ball over the fence and asked her to throw it back. She straight up ignored him after looking at him. Just crazy. She said all the right things early on though. I invited a friend of the late wife's to my nieces wedding, I'll see how that goes. I've known her for a quarter century, she's a good one, as far as I can tell.