Arlen Walker @Arlen

Declared by Twitter to be a hazard to the mental health of the World Chess Federation (FIDE). Yes, really. theodicius.net Milwaukee Joined July 2007

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Arlen Walker @Arlen

7 days ago

@wolf_vukovic I’m always amused by the skepticism of Government run programs like this. The govt has almost a century of experience running discount grocery stores, and keeping them solvent. At hundreds of locations all across the country.

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7 days ago

Interesting conundrum, @Humana: with the proliferation of all the scam calls and ID theft calls, how can you get info from cold-calling customers without training them to give away their info to any competent fraudster? Of course I’m paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

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2 weeks ago

It’s been like pulling teeth to get @amazon / @Chase to recognize that my daughter died. They steadfastly refused to deal with the estate rep, and have declined to file a claim against the estate, so we’ve given up on them.

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2 weeks ago

@TMobileHelp Did it, but may have got your Artificial unintelligent bot handling it confused. It started out by requesting something that is probably not helpful.

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2 weeks ago

@TMobile gotta say the merger with USCellular is the worst-handled merger I’ve ever seen. Been trying to pay my bill for two months, you keep telling me my phone doesn’t exist.

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2 months ago

@LISUNCHASER @CanonUSA When it tells me it just needs limited access to add a photo, and when I grant that it essentially replies with, “I want it all,” it shouts “I’m sloppy work” and makes it hard to trust it won’t delete everything, whether deliberately or because of a bug. Unreliable, ergo unusable

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2 months ago

Trying out @canonusa CameraConect software; it tells me limited access will allow it to add photos, so I grant it, and select the photo to transfer. “NO, gimme full access.” Give you full access, when you’ve already lied to me? Like that’s gonna happen.

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2 months ago

@CanonUSA Transferring photos doesn’t require full access. Further, its job doesn’t require it to lie to me about the access it wants. When I ran it, the dialog said it needed limited access, which I granted. Then it claimed to need full access. Untrustworthy behavior.

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2 months ago

@SandyofCthulhu Lee Child talked about this. With Cruise you lost Reacher’s 1st impact. A bad guy’s IQ/ego could be shown by how he responded to “first look.” So the movies lost that avenue for characterization, but Cruise could act big enough to carry the rest of the storyline.

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2 months ago

@mornings0da @MountainGenera True, if it’s a job you like, or at least tolerate, but if the conditions are bad enough for you to bring it up to your boss in the first place, it’s time to find another job, anyway.

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2 months ago

@mornings0da @MountainGenera If you’re not wanting to use AI the way your boss wants, then being ”got rid of” would be a plus, not a minus. Your response seems to indicate the boss was doing you a favor by employing you, quite often it’s the other way round.

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3 months ago

@donalan9 Heh. I just ran across mine, digging through my Old game closet. Bought it when first released, back in the day.

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3 months ago

Interestingly, @dominos appears to think the attached is a large ultimate pepperoni. Also interestingly, their delivery insurance requires they call a phone line that currently is out of order, and I can’t change that.

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3 months ago

@drmoore listening to the bulletin, I’m curious: seeing Hegseth’s prayer, my mind went first to Mark Twain — The War Prayer. Am I the only one?

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3 months ago

@rawtheology — for Dr Cohick or Dr Hughes (I’m sorry but my memory refuses to remind me which requested the citation): I think “The past is a foreign country…” is from L. P. Hartley’s “The Go-Between.” Good podcast.

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3 months ago

What‘s going on @dominos? Can’t order a pizza!

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4 months ago

I don’t know if anyone on the planet could have a more useless chatbot on their customer service line than @we_energies . It just switched to Spanish in the middle of the conversation. Not that it mattered much; it wasn’t answering my question in English, anyway.

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5 months ago

And another round battling the broken US healthcare system: @cigna has been billing both my wife and I for her dental coverage. For quite a while. The Whole system is badly designed and inefficiently run.

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5 months ago

@SandyofCthulhu Does it still allow players and DMs to be lazy? Of course. Takes away friction from starting to play. Is that the game’s fault, the DM’s, or the player’s? Could make a good argument for any, but I’d blame the DM‘s crap world building, myself.

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5 months ago

I swear @turbotax UI gets worse every year. Between the eleventy-seven pleas for me to switch to online, and the doomsday loop when trying to transfer data from last year’s return, I’m thinking it’ll be easier to get out my pen and file by hand this year!