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USPS: "There was a problem submitting your service request. Please try again later."

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Worst error ever. Completely vague and useless.  Thankfully, Reddit comes to the rescue.  Worked for me. Am I actually going to get my package, though? Hahahaha, nope, I highly doubt that. 

old mission song: Mandela effect, misremembering, or just a cover?

I listened to this song on my mission, though I can't remember which transfer.  link However, I distinctly remember it being of much higher quality, and it sounded like a Polynesian dude singing it, not the white guy in the picture. The ukulele was definitely there, though.  Memories are often unreliable, though I doubt they're as unreliable as some people seem to think (i.e. I can remember pretty obscure details of movies, books, etc. and fact check them).  It could be a cover, or the version I heard could be a cover of it. It's good, so I'll keep listening to it, but I'm still going to be wondering if that's actually the original or not. Who knows, maybe it always sounded like that. 

Bad UX: No Facebook, I don't have "most relevant" comments selected

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Nobody ever asked for the "most relevant" comments feature on Facebook. All it does it makes threads more difficult to read, because the comment is there but you can't see it, so you have to scroll all the way back up, change the filter, and find the comment you were originally at.  And even more than that, nobody asked for this pointless feature to be enabled by default either. It does nothing useful. Whatever criteria they are using for "most relevant" is utter garbage.  But now I'm getting that warning EVEN when I have "All Comments" selected instead of just "Most Relevant". Do better, Zucky boy. 

How can I see blacked out Reddit threads?

Ever since the pointless blackout began, it's been difficult when you're Googling something and there's a Reddit thread from a subreddit that's gone private -- you can see  the replies in a preview, you know  the answer is there...and then you get the notice that it's a "private community" and can't see anything. This is very annoying and shows that the blackout isn't really doing anything at this point other than making things extremely difficult for normal users. Wayback Machine doesn't seem to save comments in old snapshots, either.  Thankfully, there's still a workaround with Google Cache. But, the "Cached" button is gone! So instead you need to access their servers directly, like so:  https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.reddit.com/r/AskProgramming/comments/qvdn6t/how_feasible_is_it_to_create_your_own_programming/  Specifically, after the cache: portion, paste the Reddit URL. 

Some June it's been.

59 degrees and cloudy with rain at lunchtime.  This is not June. This is May weather. I hate this. I debated for a long time but I'm gonna have to move. I cannot psychologically handle this. Waiting all winter for it to warm up and then it doesn't. 

Reddit going dark = very annoying.

So far, this is the crappiest summer I've had in a long time.  It's been cloudy and cold. It doesn't feel like June at all. I've had to work most Saturdays. And when I actually have time to ride coasters or water slides, I don't feel like doing it, because the weather is so consistently awful. I usually try to tone down the amount of sad music I listen to when the summer arrives, but the weather has been so gloomy that I need music to match it. So I haven't.  And in addition to that, Reddit is currently a ghost town, due to the blackouts over the API changes.  Personally, I didn't really see the point in protesting at first. I didn't think that Apollo was that good, and I just wanted as few interruptions to my normal life -- and internet activity -- as possible. I almost exclusively browse Reddit using Chrome, Safari, and the official mobile app.  However, the fact that Reddit didn't care about accessibility for blind people is what pushed me over --