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  • The hospitals you know must be pretty bad.

    Where I work you can go to the lobby or the gift shop, but you can't get into a patient area without permission. The doors won't open for you.

    Same goes for hospitals where I've visited family. I have to call in from the panel at the door to get someone from the nurse's station to let me in.

  • Too old.

  • HIPAA. Apart from anything else, the hospital would stop them. You don't get to visit someone in the hospital unless the patient wants you to.

  • Yeah, I believe life has survived worse. The pandemic showed that things recover surprisingly quickly once you eliminate people.

    It may even be more possible than science believes for us to recover if we really put effort into it. However, it is far less possible that we'll put any real effort into it before irreversibly catastrophic consequences start happening.

  • The thing that scares me the most is a clean windshield on my car.

    Don't get me wrong. I hate having dirt on the windshield. However, I remember a time when in summer I was in a constant battle to clean spattered insects off my windshield. Now I almost never hit an insect.

    I haven't moved. I still drive on the same roads I used to drive on. Either the insects have evolved to avoid roads, or they just aren't there anymore.

    Life on this planet is dying out, and we're using all our technology and all our resources to allow us to pretend it isn't. Eventually, the extinction will outpace our ability to compensate, and we'll all start dying along with everything else.

    I don't actually believe life will cease completely. I think when enough people have died, they planet will recover. However, the millennia between the crash and the recovery will be unpleasant for anyone who manages to survive long enough to experience it. And the deaths of those who don't survive long enough will be horrifying.

  • Probably? It's obviously what all the bathroom bills and ID stuff is all about.

  • Well, this is where I saw it.

  • Primarily because if I didn't reach out, my manager would have. Except he wouldn't have stopped with a teams chat message. He would have started calling her cell phone, personal phone, etc.

    When I said I'd reach out to her, I circumvented that. It gave us time for him to move onto the next thing.

    He's getting better, but when he panics he falls back into bad behavior.

  • invent your own Internet

    Seriously, please. The one we have now sucks.

  • "We went to bed one night, and when we woke the next morning, they were there! Someone must have bolted them on."

  • We're having a major go-live this month. Management wanted someone to visit on the third (when we observe the holiday). I volunteered because: I'm close, my kids are all grown, and I'm technically part of the management team.

    While I was there, there was an issue. I dutifully reached out to one of the people managing some processes to see if her processes could be causing the issue. She didn't reply.

    I told one of the managers on site that day that I was proud of her for ignoring me, that she was doing exactly what I told her she should do, and I'd be upset if she had responded.

    It turns out she never got the message until today. I told her if she had actually replied I would have yelled at her for reading work messages on the holiday.

    It's a weird kind of psychosis. I had to ask her, but I was happier not getting the response than I would have been if she had replied.

  • Mistreating and abandoning veterans is more American than Apple pie.

  • Well, I guess you can be glad more than half got it right.

  • To avoid losing fingers, hold the fireworks in your mouth while you light them.

  • While I have read the Declaration of Independence, it was well before President Pedo's first term, and I don't have it memorized.

    I was making breakfast a few days ago and listening to the History That Doesn't Suck podcast. For the lead up to the 4th, they read the Declaration of Independence.

    Given the opportunity to listen and think about it just then, it was shocking just how many of the offenses the Founding Fathers listed this administration is engaging in.

  • Loose!

  • I'd argue that allowing people to self-select for extinction isn't eugenics, particularly if all they have to do to avoid it is accept they don't know everything and listen to the advice of experts.

    It is unfortunate that they take others with them.

  • I don't know you, and I certainly don't know your aunt and uncle, but I would generally assume in Nazi situations that "even after" probably means "particularly after" even if they don't admit it.