Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

Post by **93henfan** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 9:04 am

dbackjon wrote:
CAA Flagship wrote:Do we really want people like that voting?
We let enough people dumb enough to vote for Trump, so there's that

Derp.

Post by **AZGrizFan** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 9:05 am

∞∞∞ wrote:
Gil Dobie wrote:
My hobby is buying and selling merchandise and shipping thru the USPS. They do have sticky labels you can print your postage on. Most modern post office's have a shipping station, that weighs items and prints sticky labels if you don't do that at home. It's not all old people at the post office(s) I go to in the suburbs, and there is lots of parking at both. Basically lots of parking at any post office I go to in the metro area, inner city and suburbs. I go several times a week to drop off items to ship. It's nice to be able to circumvent the lines and just go to the drop-off. It's not that difficult.
Or alternatively, as soon as someone becomes eligible to vote, they're automatically registered in a national database and sent a free voter ID card. On election week, people go to their polling station, get the ID scanned, and vote. If you're in college, travelling, living overseas, or have other circumstances, there's a secure online-method to change your polling station...or even vote online.

Sounds so simple, even a caveman could do it.

∞∞∞ · Post by **∞∞∞** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 9:07 am

AZGrizFan wrote:
∞∞∞ wrote: Or alternatively, as soon as someone becomes eligible to vote, they're automatically registered in a national database and sent a free voter ID card. On election week, people go to their polling station, get the ID scanned, and vote. If you're in college, travelling, living overseas, or have other circumstances, there's a secure online-method to change your polling station...or even vote online.
Sounds so simple, even a caveman could do it.

Probably. Like anything else, it just takes some will and vision.

Gil Dobie · Post by **Gil Dobie** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 9:29 am

∞∞∞ wrote:
AZGrizFan wrote:
Sounds so simple, even a caveman could do it.
Probably. Like anything else, it just takes some will and vision.

There are some logistics that would have to be considered, per location and election workers. Wonder if the school I vote at, would mind giving up their lunch room for a week?

Post by **kalm** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 9:56 am

GannonFan wrote:
∞∞∞ wrote:This backs up what stats show about Gen Z. My neighbor's daughter thinks the same.

They've grown with instant communication and have generally built parallel lives around virtual communities, so there's no particular necessity for real-life interactions unless it's an outing or something. And when travel is necessary, ride-sharing is easily available.
And they don't have jobs.

More qualified and older workers are taking the minimum wage/entry level jobs due to outsourcing and reaganomics.

And the fact those entry jobs pay more due to increased minimum wage in some places.

Post by **kalm** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 9:58 am

Gil Dobie wrote:
∞∞∞ wrote: Probably. Like anything else, it just takes some will and vision.
There are some logistics that would have to be considered, per location and election workers. Wonder if the school I vote at, would mind giving up their lunch room for a week?

Or you backwards midwestern prairie-billies could switch to mail in voting like Washington and Oregon.

Of course that would require stamps so the millenials would be left out.

GannonFan · Post by **GannonFan** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:28 am

Gil Dobie wrote:
∞∞∞ wrote: Probably. Like anything else, it just takes some will and vision.
There are some logistics that would have to be considered, per location and election workers. Wonder if the school I vote at, would mind giving up their lunch room for a week?

Schools here typically close on election day, especially if they're a polling place. In this day and age, having a bunch of non-school folks traipse into a school where there are children is a no-go - Sandy Hook weighs heavily on most people's minds.

Post by **HI54UNI** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:33 am

I can go to the courthouse and vote early 4-6 weeks (can't remember how long for sure) before the election. They also have some Saturday hours for early voting a beginning a few weeks before. And absentee ballots come pre-stamped so no postage is required.

Post by **Ibanez** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:40 am

Ivytalk wrote:
Col Hogan wrote:Millennials don’t send in absentee ballots because they can’t figure out how to get a stamp...

Let that sink in for a moment...for the lack of a stamp, they don’t vote... not my words, it’s theirs...

https://wtop.com/local/2018/09/why-coll ... age-stamp/
The David Hogg Generation! Tech-savvy, but they can’t wipe their own asses.

Seriously...lots of spoiled children who think they know what’s best for the country yet don’t know where to buy stamps. We don’t need this people involved in big decisions.

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Post by **Ibanez** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:42 am

Col Hogan wrote:
mainejeff wrote:Enjoy the last years of "stamps" old farts! Are you really denegrating an entire generation that is about a decade away from controlling this country for the next 30 or 40 years after that just because they don't "go to the post office"? I fvckin hate going to the post office.....always a cluster fvck of old people. It takes 30 minutes just to get a parking space.
Man, talk about an angry white man...I’m a lot older than you and I buy my stamps on-line...which is why I’m not angry...

93 even posted a link...try it, your blood pressure will come down...

I bought a couple of rolls of Forever stamps..3-4 years ago? I haven’t run out yet. Lol.

But I’m fortunate to have grown up pre-Internet and smartphone AND if I want to mail something, I walk 5 minutes from my house to the Post Office.

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Post by **Ibanez** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:42 am

∞∞∞ wrote:What the hell is a "stamp?"

Lol. Fishing and hunting licenses used to be stamps. Not anymore.

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Post by **Ibanez** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:44 am

∞∞∞ wrote:
Gil Dobie wrote:
My hobby is buying and selling merchandise and shipping thru the USPS. They do have sticky labels you can print your postage on. Most modern post office's have a shipping station, that weighs items and prints sticky labels if you don't do that at home. It's not all old people at the post office(s) I go to in the suburbs, and there is lots of parking at both. Basically lots of parking at any post office I go to in the metro area, inner city and suburbs. I go several times a week to drop off items to ship. It's nice to be able to circumvent the lines and just go to the drop-off. It's not that difficult.
Or alternatively, as soon as someone becomes eligible to vote, they're automatically registered in a national database and sent a free voter ID card. On election week, people go to their polling station, get the ID scanned, and vote. If you're in college, travelling, living overseas, or have other circumstances, there's a secure online-method to change your polling station...or even vote online.

I thought voter id cards disenfranchised people.

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Post by **Ibanez** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:48 am

kalm wrote:
93henfan wrote:I had to mail (only option allowed) a request for doc fee credit to DMV for a recent car sale and purchase.

There was no stamp involved, though I did have to go to the post office. I paid 50 cents and they postmarked it.

How a millennial can’t navigate that is pretty humorous to me. Trip defending it is hilarious. He has to be trolling just a little.
They don’t like driving. I have nieces and nephews in their mid to late 20’s who don’t own a car and/or don’t like driving. WITAF? That was a huge rite of passage and instant liberty when I got my first license.

That said, not all electronic methods are the cats meow either. I had a choice yesterday to either mail my summer Dunngeness catch record card to the WDFW offices or do it “on the line”.

I chose the latter for time and simplicity’s sake and spent the next 20 minutes navigating the states stupid website...that was probably built and is maintained by a millennial.

Me and some friends were discussing this last week. Someone mentioned that a 25 yr old employee doesn’t know how to drive. Her rationale was there’s Uber, Lyft, etc...plus Amtrak and the airlines that get her to where she needs to go.

And if she did get a DL, then she can use a Zip Car or some other rideshare (you can ride share through Waze)

I used one of those electric scooters this morning. I had a 9am meeting and I was 10 minutes away. The scooter for me there in 2 minutes, cost $1.30 and I was on time. I’ll definitely use those when I’m in a hurry

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Post by **AZGrizFan** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:55 am

∞∞∞ wrote:
AZGrizFan wrote:
Sounds so simple, even a caveman could do it.
Probably. Like anything else, it just takes some will and vision.

Some minor little issues like ensuring a "secure connection"...but yeah, other than things like that, no big deal, right?

GannonFan · Post by **GannonFan** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 11:20 am

Ibanez wrote:
Col Hogan wrote:
Man, talk about an angry white man...I’m a lot older than you and I buy my stamps on-line...which is why I’m not angry...

93 even posted a link...try it, your blood pressure will come down...

I bought a couple of rolls of Forever stamps..3-4 years ago? I haven’t run out yet. Lol.

But I’m fortunate to have grown up pre-Internet and smartphone AND if I want to mail something, I walk 5 minutes from my house to the Post Office.

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We still send out a lot of Christmas cards so that's where the bulk of our stamp buying happens. I'm still using Christmas themed ones from last year - makes the Holidays seem like they last longer!

css75 · Post by **css75** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 11:59 am

Good grief, Trip, do you know what a rotary phone is.

My son won’t use a hone but ok, he looks them up online, which is slower than a phonebook

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Post by **Ibanez** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:10 pm

css75 wrote:Good grief, Trip, do you know what a rotary phone is.

My son won’t use a hone but ok, he looks them up online, which is slower than a phonebook

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What’s a “hone”?

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Post by **CAA Flagship** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:15 pm

Ibanez wrote: I bought a couple of rolls of Forever stamps..3-4 years ago? I haven’t run out yet. Lol.

But I’m fortunate to have grown up pre-Internet and smartphone AND if I want to mail something, I walk 5 minutes from my house to the Post Office.

1 minute by car.

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Post by **CAA Flagship** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:17 pm

Ibanez wrote:
css75 wrote:Good grief, Trip, do you know what a rotary phone is.

My son won’t use a hone but ok, he looks them up online, which is slower than a phonebook

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What’s a “hone”?

It's the thing you can take hotos with.

Post by **Col Hogan** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:20 pm

Ibanez wrote:
css75 wrote:Good grief, Trip, do you know what a rotary phone is.

My son won’t use a hone but ok, he looks them up online, which is slower than a phonebook

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What’s a “hone”?

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hone
hōn/Submit
verb
1.
sharpen (a blade).
"he was carefully honing the curved blade"
synonyms: sharpen, whet, strop, grind, file; More
2.
refine or perfect (something) over a period of time.
"she has taken numerous workshops to hone her skills over the years"

Post by **Ibanez** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 5:14 pm

CAA Flagship wrote:
Ibanez wrote: What’s a “hone”?

It's the thing you can take hotos with.

Ahh. Hotos. While that makes more sense

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css75 · Post by **css75** » Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:48 pm

I got it, the grammar and typo Sheriff departments have busted me.

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∞∞∞ · Post by **∞∞∞** » Thu Sep 20, 2018 5:04 am

css75 wrote:Good grief, Trip, do you know what a rotary phone is.

My son won’t use a hone but ok, he looks them up online, which is slower than a phonebook

What the hell is a "phone book?"

edit: I seriously doubt a phone book is quicker than "Hey Google, call Trader Joe's in Boise."

Post by **CAA Flagship** » Thu Sep 20, 2018 5:25 am

∞∞∞ wrote:
css75 wrote:Good grief, Trip, do you know what a rotary phone is.

My son won’t use a hone but ok, he looks them up online, which is slower than a phonebook
What the hell is a "phone book?"

edit: I seriously doubt a phone book is quicker than "Hey Google, call Trader Joe's in Boise."

You: "Hey Google, call Trader Joe's in Boise."
Google: "Which one?"
You: "The one on Potato Avenue."
Google: "There are 4 locations on Potato Avenue. Which one?"
You: "The one closest to me."
Google: "Do you also want the location of Dominos?"
You: "No. Just the Trader Joes."
Google: "Which one?"
You: "The one in Boise on Potato Avenue."
Google: "There are 4 locations on Potato Avenue. Which one?"
You: "The one closest to the Palouse."
Google: "Do you want to buy Geodicks?"

Gil Dobie · Post by **Gil Dobie** » Thu Sep 20, 2018 5:29 am

CAA Flagship wrote:
∞∞∞ wrote: What the hell is a "phone book?"

edit: I seriously doubt a phone book is quicker than "Hey Google, call Trader Joe's in Boise."
You: "Hey Google, call Trader Joe's in Boise."
Google: "Which one?"
You: "The one on Potato Avenue."
Google: "There are 4 locations on Potato Avenue. Which one?"
You: "The one closest to me."
Google: "Do you also want the location of Dominos?"
You: "No. Just the Trader Joes."
Google: "Which one?"
You: "The one in Boise on Potato Avenue."
Google: "There are 4 locations on Potato Avenue. Which one?"
You: "The one closest to the Palouse."
Google: "Do you want to buy Geodicks?"

Is there more than one in Boise?

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