Someone created a system with the acronym ASIA here at work, and every time someone says it, I hear “It was the heat of the moment…” in my head.
Someone created a system with the acronym ASIA here at work, and every time someone says it, I hear “It was the heat of the moment…” in my head.
Isn’t it about time to fire up your space laser?
Okay, thanks.
A recent experience here has made me think of the phrase “conveyor-belt health care”. I think I made that up, but I may have heard it somewhere and forgot.
In my case: I had major pain in my neck that was leading to numbness in my arm and hand. I didn’t even bother with my primary care physician, I just scheduled an appointment with a back pain specialist. The back pain place is extremely efficient and has been very good about treating the pain…but not once have they raised the topic of, “What caused this and is there anything we can do to prevent it in the future?”
And, I don’t want to detract from them, they are absolutely excellent at that treatment. But it’s get in, get in the OR or exam room, chat for a minute, see you in 5 weeks. My appointments generally take 10 minutes or less when the doctor is in the room.
Years ago I had issues with my neck - which turned out to have the same root cause, but the symptoms were very different, so I didn’t connect them - and multiple primary care physicians told me to take advil, even after I told them this was a recurring issue. Irritating experience, to say the least. “Hey, I’m stuck on the couch and can only move in agony for a few days two or three times per year.” “Take Advil.” Conveyor belt moves on.
I know we hate chiropractors here, with good reason, but it was chiropractors (who are also physical therapists, which might be the difference) who actually looked at the X-ray or MRI, found the underlying problem, and came up with treatment plans involving various exercises to attempt to solve the underlying problem. The MRI was ordered by the back pain specialist, so they had the imagery and could have found the issue. Why is there no room for that kind of analysis in our “legitimate” health care system?
Conveyor-belt health care.
I’ve never heard this before, so that’s interesting. Is the public option worse health care in some way?
The worst part is that many of these people would help you if you needed it - if you were, say, in a car crash, most of these people probably would help you out. But…for some reason…extending that help to a more general sense just causes them to start frothing at the mouth.
I ride bicycles, and when I ride on Sunday mornings, I’m always amused by the thought that some drivers are probably on their way to or from church when they decide to pass me dangerously close, just for fun or to teach me a lesson or whatever the hell their justification is.
Yeah, you’re probably right. I was dumbfounded.
I run it on my Debian server that uses my 15 TB RAID5 array as storage. (When I built it, 15 TB drives were a dream…now I have a 12 TB drive in my desktop computer that serves as backup to the array.)
I mainly serve it out to the client on our DirectTV streaming device. Works fine, other than I wish the intro skip plugin would be able to give me the option to skip on that client (the only way it works on the Android client is to have it skip automatically).
I have an old S9 right here on my desk. I cracked the screen, and took it to one of those screen replacement places, and he asked if I had insurance. I told him I didn’t, and he said, wellllllll it’s going to be a lot more expensive than you think to replace this screen.
That wraparound screen they had was basically also the frame of the phone - you’re not so much replacing the screen as you are moving the rest of the components to a new phone body. I wasn’t sold on value of that wraparound screen in the first place; this didn’t improve my opinion of it.
We put a plastic screen protector on it and a new case, and I used it for a few months until we were ready to upgrade phones.
Even Go Fund Me came out and said, uh, wait, funding health care isn’t what we really intended for the platform.
I recall one of the coaches of a major league baseball team had some major illness and had set up a GoFundMe for it…the team decided to cover it, fortunately, but…come on.
I don’t know how anyone can seriously claim there’s nothing wrong with our system, but they do.
One guy said, in earnest, that it’s a good thing that our medical system is so expensive - because that means it’s a good system. (This was in response to me saying that I think our technology and care are pretty good; it’s how we pay for it that’s the main issue.)
How do you even respond to that? I just ignored him. Does he think Europe has cut-rate health care? Canada?
Some kind of miracle, I know. Actually I got more messages, but many of them were either spam or never even made it to a date.
Welcome to the Dull Side.
Back when I was in online dating (I got married in 2010, so it has been a very long time), this is how it seemed to work in the hetero arena:
So, both could be true in relation to the image.
I remember a guy once telling me that basically you have to respond to EVERY AD and hope something sticks. I never did that, and I felt bad for what the women must have had to deal with when I heard that. I had very limited success - dates with, at most, two or three women, and none of those really went anywhere. I ended up marrying someone from work instead.
Anyone else remember having to set interleave on an RLL hard drive? “First you have to low-level format…”
How I imagine that would go:
Most cars I’ve used with it won’t lock until you put it in drive or start moving at a certain speed; I assume that’s because of incidents like this one.
Yeah, this isn’t an ADHD meme, this is a “normal human behavior” meme.
Is there a perception that arts are more likely to have gay and lesbian people? Dumbass would do anything to hurt them.
I can’t find the exact quote right now, but I saw in another article he said something like, “If they don’t pay for advertisements, X will be gone. How sad!”
It seems Musk thinks he’s tending another Mona Lisa or some other world cultural artifact that society would hate to lose. Not some website that’s fairly easily recreated by, say, a bunch of hobbyists.
This was already asked and answered. Maybe read before replying.
I have no idea why I remember mine, 520009. Haven’t used ICQ in many years; I didn’t know it was still up.