Sep 8, 2016, 12:48 AM
RL Anger
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@Insomnia She probably still thinks that 45 seconds was about as troublesome as sneezing.
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I'm alone in the new place until the roommate moves in on the 15th.
I haven't seen or spoken to anyone since Saturday (save for a brief bit on teamspeak Sunday night). Maybe I'm just not used to being alone (it's been 9 years since I lived alone). Maybe I'm a bad introvert.
But I'm feeling really lonely today.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice Foster a pet for a couple of weeks.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@Auspice: I wouldn't normally make this kind of suggestion, but I would actually encourage you to do something along the lines of a GoFundMe or YouCare to help with this.
Do you have any documentation saying you need an Emotional Support Animal? That would potentially relieve you of your pet deposit requirement, and possibly additional fees on the airline ticket. Most doctors are pretty good about providing this kind of documentation, my own psychiatrist didn't hesitate when I asked for one for my dog.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
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@Auspice: I wouldn't normally make this kind of suggestion, but I would actually encourage you to do something along the lines of a GoFundMe or YouCare to help with this.
Do you have any documentation saying you need an Emotional Support Animal? That would potentially relieve you of your pet deposit requirement, and possibly additional fees on the airline ticket. Most doctors are pretty good about providing this kind of documentation, my own psychiatrist didn't hesitate when I asked for one for my dog.
I'd thought about it, but I guess- I guess I thought there was a lot more involved with getting such a document? And a year ago, I may not have thought I needed it, but I've found my depression/anxiety is a lot worse without an animal around. So it may be worth asking.
I don't have an actual psychiatrist at the moment (finding one with good ratings that's also covered by my insurance was frustrating me last time I went looking), but one of my other doctors may be willing...
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I do think it has to be an MD in some form or fashion, and it's basically just a form letter they can fill out. But I pretty much just emailed my psych doc with the request and I had the physical copy about three days later.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
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I do think it has to be an MD in some form or fashion, and it's basically just a form letter they can fill out. But I pretty much just emailed my psych doc with the request and I had the physical copy about three days later.
I see my rheumatologist next week. I may ask her. If that's a no-go, I'll see what my therapist recommends. I didn't realize it was that simple, or I may have tried much sooner. 'Cause, yeah, I could get at least the pet deposit waived. Possibly the add-on for the plane ticket discounted. And I just... really need my cat.
(I swear anyone who can't appreciate animal companionship.... ;.; )
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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There is a very important legal distinction between a "service animal" (which is very narrowly defined--it must be trained for a very specific list of tasks to be included under the ADA, as well as being a dog, under those guidelines) and a "therapy animal" or the broader "assistance animal" that applies to housing. So even if a doctor okays a pet as a comfort/therapy animal, if it isn't a service animal it is still allowed to be barred from businesses and the like. I only know about this because of an issue we had at my 2nd job with someone insisting they could bring their ill trained, unhousebroken, stinky matted elderly mini poodle into an indoor playspace for children under 6 under the ADA (including getting in my face about it when I insisted that the dog needed to be back behind the gate after it growled at a baby even before they made it into the play area properly. So I looked it up, called around for confirmation (and printed out all that shit in case I needed it again--which I did, when someone tried to bring in a parrot like 3 weeks later).
I am not sure what the housing authority defines as "assistance animal" (I know it's broader than "service animal" as defined by the ADA but for all I know that might just mean it can be something other than a dog but still require it to be trained) but before you count on not having to pay for a pet deposit or whatever it's probably worth researching first. Just so you know if you can push your rental company hard or not (I'd say it never hurts to ask to not pay the deposit if you can get something from a doctor).
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Also, due to high risk of allergy in the general population and the relative severity of that allergy, support cats are problematic, at best.
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@mietze You know what I don't understand? People who'd want to bring their potentially aggressive-to-kids dog into an area full of kids. Are they that stupid? It's a rhetorical question but basically to get their kicks for 15 minutes they're risking their dogs' life after it bites some little boy, that little boy's life, and quite possibly their own well-being after they get sued to oblivion.
Why? Just... why? That's not loving your pet, that's just plain being a moron.
Hell, in the process they even make it that much harder for all other pet owners to get away with anything ('sorry, you can't bring your well behaved dog into the library for 15 minutes, you know how that kid got bitten the other day at that place? It's our policy now').
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There is a very important legal distinction between a "service animal" (which is very narrowly defined--it must be trained for a very specific list of tasks to be included under the ADA, as well as being a dog, under those guidelines) and a "therapy animal" or the broader "assistance animal" that applies to housing. So even if a doctor okays a pet as a comfort/therapy animal, if it isn't a service animal it is still allowed to be barred from businesses and the like. I only know about this because of an issue we had at my 2nd job with someone insisting they could bring their ill trained, unhousebroken, stinky matted elderly mini poodle into an indoor playspace for children under 6 under the ADA (including getting in my face about it when I insisted that the dog needed to be back behind the gate after it growled at a baby even before they made it into the play area properly. So I looked it up, called around for confirmation (and printed out all that shit in case I needed it again--which I did, when someone tried to bring in a parrot like 3 weeks later).
I am not sure what the housing authority defines as "assistance animal" (I know it's broader than "service animal" as defined by the ADA but for all I know that might just mean it can be something other than a dog but still require it to be trained) but before you count on not having to pay for a pet deposit or whatever it's probably worth researching first. Just so you know if you can push your rental company hard or not (I'd say it never hurts to ask to not pay the deposit if you can get something from a doctor).
Per the WA State Tenants Union.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
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People who grade books they've not read because they aren't out yet on Goodreads. Sure, some of them may have preview copies but I doubt the 300 folks for Brent Week's Blood Mirror have all gotten them in advance... and it currently has the best rating in my entire to-read shelf.
Fanboys are destroying the rating system by making it untrustworthy.
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Yes, well disinformation is the goal of many many actions, and attitudes.
I doubt Goodreads has a policy stating that you cannot rate a book you have not read, nor are you required to review only once, have one account, and so on. So your review mill social media workers maintain their stables of 50+ identities with with to sway ratings systems etc.
Been around for a long time.
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Fanboys are destroying the rating system by making it untrustworthy.
You make it sound like Internet rating systems were ever trustworthy.
What colour is the sky on your planet?
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Fanboys are destroying the rating system by making it untrustworthy.
You make it sound like Internet rating systems were ever trustworthy.
What colour is the sky on your planet?
This is why I like Rotten Tomatoes. They're not a rating system, certainly not a fan rating system, they're an aggregate rating system that while may not be as accurate as you'd like, it is clear about what it is.
Fans are fickle as fuck.
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Yep. Rotten Tomatoes is far harder to game than, say, Yelp or Amazon's reviews or…
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It baffles me how many times I hear business suing over Yelp reviews. Do that many people trust it? Because when I first heard about it, I thought: Well this is going to be a cluster of nonsense. How can they have any reputation?
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There is this bizarre idea out there called "the wisdom of the crowd". It is taken very seriously. It's the ludicrous assumption that somehow, when you put a large number of people together, you get more wisdom and brains.
Of course observed reality is that the average IQ of people is divided by the number of people that are acting as a group (de facto or deliberately).
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@Thenomain I find it vaguely useful if traveling, because they have a simple way of ordering takeout, and I am lazy.