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[#] Mon Nov 12 2018 11:02:19 EST from nonservator

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"Trump should cheer Ruth up by visiting her in the hospital and telling some jokes."



[#] Thu Nov 15 2018 10:40:26 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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Apparently she's "working from home" ... I didn't know they could do that.

Setting aside my extreme distaste for judicial activists such as RBG ... if I live to be 85 (and I hope I don't) I'd like to be able to keep working at that age if I want to. My grandfather retired at 65 and then basically just spent 20 years waiting to die. That's an entire season of life that I don't want to experience.

I may have said this before: I want to die at 52, but I want to have unlimited 5-year extensions.

[#] Wed May 01 2019 06:04:33 EDT from fleeb

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Checkup this morning... but nowhere near early enough for me.

I want to drink some coffee right now, but I feel I should wait until after the checkup. Similarly, breakfast.

The checkup, however, isn't until 8am.

I woke up at 2am (not unusual for me). I'm already at work, trying to bend my mind to focus on this work, and not really wanting any of it right now.

[#] Wed May 01 2019 15:54:52 EDT from Ragnar Danneskjold

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I had shoulder surgery last week. Went very well. Back to the doctor today who had me chuck the sling already. I can't really lift any weight, but my movements are only limited by pain. PT 3 times a week. Should be good as new this summer.


I had dislocated it badly as a teenager. Time caught up.

The way the doctor described things in there, there was tons of damaged tissue which was removed and they did a repair to small tear. Also shaved two bones that had calcium growths.

I've had shoulder issues since I was 16, so if this repair is as good as they say, I may be pain free for the first time in nearly 35 years.

[#] Wed May 01 2019 23:07:39 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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If memory serves, you said you didn't do the PT when you were 16 because you thought you felt fine at the time. PT is a nuisance but it sure does work.
Glad to hear the repair went well. Soon you'll be able to bench press a jumbo jet again.

[#] Thu May 02 2019 07:41:51 EDT from wizard of aahz

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Dang.. That explains it.. I've been having shoulder issues starting the past week or so.. I think someone sent me Ragnar's shoulder.

[#] Thu May 02 2019 10:18:47 EDT from Ragnar Danneskjold

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Yeah, they had to cut out a lot of old dead tissue, which was probably from the earlier dislocation.

And Aahz - feel my pain!

[#] Thu May 02 2019 11:09:11 EDT from wizard of aahz

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Sharing is caring?

[#] Mon Jun 10 2019 13:44:21 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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I suppose there's a black market for dead tissue somewhere. Maybe in the zombie dark web or something.

[#] Wed Nov 13 2019 16:06:57 EST from zooer

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I am beginning to think that every patient portal is a fucking useless nightmare. 



[#] Thu Nov 14 2019 00:57:43 EST from wizard of aahz

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Oh they're friggen disasters. I've seen three of four and have hated every one of them.

[#] Thu Nov 14 2019 20:12:50 EST from zooer

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The local hospital switched to a new system.

The data from the old system was never carried over, or added in anyway to the new system.  The new system thinks you are a new patient, all my records are gone.
I can't believe they didn't plan for this.

One system I use with three different doctors, I have to have a separate username for each doctor.  You log into one portal domain, they don't have separate domains or separate practice ID numbers for each practice.

Every time I use this system I manage to get locked out.  You can not simply reset your password, you have to call the office and they will postal mail you an activation code.
The new activation code arrives with instructions as if you are a new user to the portal. If you follow the instructions the system locks you out again because you are trying to register an existing account.  



[#] Fri Jan 31 2020 14:17:15 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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So ... how about that Kung Flu?

Two airlines have already suspended flights between China and USA. This probably should have been mandated for all airlines a week ago.

Fringe reports are coming in that China is going to great lengths to hide the actual death toll, including mass cremation of bodies. Supposedly there are literally bodies lying in the streets at this point (kind of like San Francisco except they don't smell quite as bad).

[#] Sun Feb 02 2020 09:34:14 EST from darknetuser

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That means, nothing, Chinesse are known to be sociopathic bastards that care but nothing but themselves.

Hence all those cases of kids that are ran over and nobody helps them, people who falls from stairs and nobody helps them... You'd think having dead people on the streets is not an uncommon envent in such place.

[#] Sun Feb 02 2020 12:09:24 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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Perhaps it's not chauvinistic to suggest that different cultures have different levels of respect for the sanctity of human life. <shrug>

[#] Wed Feb 12 2020 05:55:10 EST from triLcat

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My understanding is that if you run someone over and they need medical help, you're obligated for life, but if you kill them, you're only obligated for the funeral... so if you run them down and they look injured, kill 'em, for your family's financial future... Apparently, it's not really a big thing.. just once in a while. 

My parents say it's lovely there, but they won't be traveling there again anytime soon, I guess. (they guide tours and have been to China at least a dozen times, to a bunch of different cities and out in the boonies.) 

I've heard everything from "it's not any worse than the common cold" to "it's a secret lab-grown bioweapon that was accidentally released and they're lying about everything" 

Usually the truth lies somewhere in the middle. I'm hoping closer to the "It's not any worse than the common cold" side...

Somewhere I heard 2% death rate, which is a lot worse than the common cold, but not quite as bad as Captain Tripps....

 

Sun Feb 02 2020 09:34:14 EST from darknetuser
That means, nothing, Chinesse are known to be sociopathic bastards that care but nothing but themselves.

Hence all those cases of kids that are ran over and nobody helps them, people who falls from stairs and nobody helps them... You'd think having dead people on the streets is not an uncommon envent in such place.

 



[#] Wed Feb 12 2020 13:26:09 EST from zooer

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Wed Feb 12 2020 05:55:10 AM EST from triLcat

My understanding is that if you run someone over and they need medical help, you're obligated for life, but if you kill them, you're only obligated for the funeral... 

 

I read that when the government executes prisoners the government charges the family for the bullet. 



[#] Wed Feb 12 2020 13:26:35 EST from zooer

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My source is the internet so I know it must be true.



[#] Wed Feb 12 2020 19:11:22 EST from darknetuser

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I read that when the government executes prisoners the government
charges the family for the bullet. 


So have I. I have also heard that if they really hate the prisoner, they use a bullet made of a more expensive material (say, silver or gold alloy) so they can charge the family even more.

[#] Wed Feb 12 2020 19:14:37 EST from darknetuser

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I've heard everything from "it's not any worse than the common cold"

to "it's a secret lab-grown bioweapon that was accidentally released

and they're lying about everything" 


Fun fact, the epidemic has caused Plague Inc. downloads to peak. Plague Inc. is a videogame in which your objective is to evolve and deploy a biological agent (bio-weapon, virus, bacteria, whatever) able to terminate the whole human population on the planet. Before scientists find a cure for it.

It talks lots about the nature of human being. There is an outbreak, and people starts playing vieogames about causing everybody to die of it.

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