What first world problem did you have today?

[waffleironhead]

CDS strikes again.

 

[IronWing]

Not sure finding a free cat is really a problem, some days I wish a random cat would welcome itself into my home.

We can't even say those words without a cat popping out of our air conditioner. The first thing my wife plans to do when she gets to heaven is kick St. Francis right in the Peter.

 

[IronWing]

Pretty sure it found it's people. That's how the system works. No point in complaining or fighting it. You just accept the cat that was distributed to you.

A couple kids were going door to door with a picture of their cat so the cat is back with its people.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Kessler might have been on to something.

Starlink satellites, 20 second exposure, Inner Mongolia, composited onto sunrise.
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Source:

APOD: 2025 December 30 – An Artificial Comet

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

apod.nasa.gov

Woah that's a cool pic though, I assume this is shortly after a launch? Otherwise I don't know why there would be so many that close together in a cluster like that. Or is there actually that many everywhere and those are the only ones reflecting due to the specific position of the photographer.

 

[QueBert]

Forgot I signed up for a free trial of Google Gemini AI, I went on my account to cancel it before I get charged

HOLY
FUCKING
SHIT

Google has made the process of canceling it nearly impossible, I googled this and there are so many people on Reddit complaining about this. There's literally no option anywhere for me to cancel it, it's not even showing up under my subscriptions, I see a $10.29 subscription but it doesn't tell me what it is, or have any option to remove it from my account. The convolutedness of this is really something else. Google's own docs on how to end the scription don't work for me, and a whole lot of people on Reddit either. They clearly made this nearly impossible to cancel on purpose, I'm guessing so some people will just give up and pay the $10 a month.

I've never seen anything like this before, kudos to Google for making something that should be a 1 on the complexity scale a 10. You can't even call them, and I'm sure an email to their CS will take weeks to get a reply, if ever. And hilariously, their uber advanced Gemini AI is completly fucking useless here for helping me end this subscription.

Fuck you Google, forever.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I hate when companies make it hard to cancel a service. I remember having to jump through hoops to cancel my Paypal. I would get an error if I tried to delete my bank account from it, and I would also get an error if I tried to cancel because it said you had to remove your bank account first. Their support chat is just an AI bot so that went nowhere. I actually ended up finding a phone number to call them and managed to actually get through to a person. I told them I switched banks and I needed help removing my old bank info. They did it for me, and as soon as they said the account was gone I was able to delete the Paypal account. I had heard stories of people calling to ask them to delete the account and they would refuse, so didn't want to do that in case they would flag may account in some way where it can't be deleted at all.

 

[Chaotic42]

Might have to fly somewhere for work in 2026. My goal was to avoid it for the rest of my career. Hopefully it gets cancelled.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm glad my job doesn't involve travel. Although at some point they did send 4 employees for training and they had to drive there 8+ hours. So glad I was not involved in that.

 

[AMD64Blondie]

$213 for my Portland General Electric bill (December,which I just paid.)

Ouch..my debit card hurts.

(It's normally around $175 to $180.)