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  • if you're into that kind of thing

    Chimney sweeps, podcasts, cancer, or open eyes?

  • The annual lie: Next year isn't going to be as easy as this year!

    Middle School will be harder than Elementary School.

    Junior High will be harder than Middle School.

    Senior High will be harder than Junior High.

    College will be harder than Senior High.

    Working a real job will be harder than School.

  • When I was little, my dad would bring home a nasty cut of raw beef to give to the dog. The dog would love it. He'd prance (doberman) around the back yard happier than a pig in shit. At the end of the day, he'd bury it. Then he'd proceed to dig it up every few days and prance around chewing on it for a day, then re-bury it. He'd repeat that until it had rotted to the point that he couldn't differentiate the rotten meat from the dirt it was buried in.

  • I went looking for corroboration, but this is the closest I could find.

  • I hum "America" from West Side Story.

    I read somewhere years ago that it kicks out earworms without becoming one, and I found that it works for me.

  • Repair used to be affordable. It isn’t, now.

    Almost every person we've hired to fix anything on our house has ended up screwing it up.

    My goal now is to keep it holding together until I can retire and then fix it myself.

    I've found that with time, patience, and a willingness to learn, I can get better results than most "professionals".

    With any luck it will be in good, sellable shape by the time I die, so the kids can get some money from it.

  • I never had any interest in hanging out with anyone from high school except my wife. I never saw the point of going to a reunion.

    The 5th year reunion happened on the same day as my wedding. Haven't heard anything about any others since then.

    40th will be in a couple years. I won't go.

  • I love Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas.

    Aside from still being amazing for what they were able to do, it was also the test that established that they were able to make full length feature films.

  • I have also heard it as a stopped clock.

  • I think it would be if the hospital did nothing and just let someone walk in with a camera and take pictures of a patient. They have a responsibility to control access to information because of HIPAA.

    However, if someone does it and the hospital tries and fails to stop it, it wouldn't be a HIPAA violation.

  • What we're talking about is someone going into a patient's room in which the patient presumably doesn't want them there. The hospital would definitely have a responsibility to prevent that.

  • Well, shitty hospitals exist. That doesn't mean that what they're doing is right.

  • In the U.S. the difference is whether or not the hospital has permission from the patient.

    If the patient has not given permission for the information to be released, then the hospital isn't allowed to release it. There's no gray area there.

    I'm not sticking up for special treatment for criminals and traitors. I'm saying that everyone gets to say what information is released about their healthcare. As it should be.

    For actual criminals, the police can get a warrant to get information.

    And yes, a journalist can try to get information, and the hospital has a responsibility to do everything they can to prevent that.

    The question was:

    What is stopping him or a democratic senator from going to the hospital with a camera and finding out for themselves.

    And my answer was the hospital. Because the hospital has a responsibility to protect the privacy of all their patients.

  • That's all fine, but none of that relates to what I was responding to.

    I was responding to this:

    What is stopping him or a democratic senator from going to the hospital with a camera and finding out for themselves.

    HIPAA would definitely require the hospital to prevent a democratic senator from going into the hospital with a camera.

    Even if they got to the lobby with the camera, they damn sure shouldn't be permitted to point the camera at any patient regardless of whether he was a traitorous scumbag senator or just a regular person.

  • That's pretty pathetic.

  • I'd guess it's primarily the same thing that prevents normal people from changing jobs: losing money, losing healthcare, not being able to pay your mortgage, not being able to take care of your family.

  • You must have had different HIPAA training than I did.

    We were told we couldn't even acknowledge whether or not a person was a patient without permission from the patient.

    Walking around a hospital is one thing. Walking into a patient's room to confront them is something completely different. A hospital would have a responsibility to prevent that from happening.

  • “The corporate media system and the political establishment got to act as judge, jury, and executioner,” Platner said in an 11 minute, 15 second campaign video. “We live in a political system that is not built for normal people.”

    Ok, I'm disappointed, but seriously? Is he trying to suggest that it's all a lie, or is he trying to suggest that all normal people have a couple sexual assaults in their background?

    Does he think his history counts as "normal people"?