Random Rants ΠΕ': You're standing on my neck.

[Farm Boy]

Everything is more subtle now. Big Data is everywhere. It's at least as much what you don't see as what you do. Tik Tok quietly removes videos that might show poverty, the fat, ugly people, and apparently agriculture from distribution. Gotta get and create the right type of upstanding people. It's a brave new world, a lot like the old one.

 

[Synobun]

Tik Tok quietly removes videos that might show poverty, the fat, ugly people, and apparently agriculture from distribution.

??? I see videos of all these on my For You page every night, and they each have hundreds of thousands of views.

 

[Farm Boy]

New User feeds and Firehose. Like Youtube feeds, or trending, or however each platform pushes content. That which people do see, not necessarily that which they can see. Asimov Foundation-time lite.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

My office manager is a big Trump fan and libertarian - aka an idiot - and she is trying to get together an office party for our location next Monday since the national convention for our company was cancelled. She sent out the email to everyone a day after our company manager sent out an email cancelling all meetings and telling people 70 and older to strongly consider not coming in at all. I am absolutely beside myself. I'm practicing my huge complaint/speech to the company manager. We don't need 15-20 people here drinking and socializing in the same freaking room. Unbelievable.

The party is cancelled, I and another person got through to her. Shouldn't have gotten this far but hey.

 

[Takhisis]

The party is cancelled, I and another person got through to her. Shouldn't have gotten this far but hey.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: My blood pressure dropped.

Also I don't know if I'm quietly going nuts here or if posts are randomly getting shuffled around in the threads. A post that was on the end of the page is suddenly in the middle and vice-versa.

EDIT: Posts are disappearing. I just saw the number go down. I don't think it's the moderators though.

 

[Takhisis]

Yeah, what the hell? This thread had 960+ posts a couple of hours ago -when I made that post above in fact-, which had me wondering who'd steal it now that I'm not in the running (this is the kind of thing I get up to when penned up and no civ) and now it has 20 posts fewer.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I'll PM you

EDIT: Anybody else who wants to know, PM me

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Have you been pressed into service in the ER/general care? Or is it normal for you to pick up shifts like that? I thought you were in mental health.

I am in mental health, but I am still a registered nurse and I have kept up my license.

I actually knew this but I wanted @Lemon Merchant to share her story of getting 'drafted' and what it's been like.

There was a memo that went around looking for volunteers, so I volunteered to help out so that some of the ER nurses that are better trained than I am can help out with the Covid patients. It's been about 5 years since I had any active duty in the ER. I used to do a two week stint every year for training when I was an active duty nurse. I stopped all of that when I became a doctor (psychologist, not M.D.) and practiced psychology full time. One thing that is good is that I am able to use my mental health training and my nursing skills sometimes at the same time.

Not much of an exciting story, but there you have it.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

....So, just how do you get someone's hand out of a pickle jar? My curiosity beckons!

 

[Lemon Merchant]

You break the jar. The trick is to do it without the patient needing stitches.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I guess smashing it with a giant hammer won't exactly work then.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Nope.

 

[Zardnaar]

Nope.

Put hand towards the top of the jar and tap lid edge on the bottom?

 

[Broken_Erika]

Also I don't know if I'm quietly going nuts here or if posts are randomly getting shuffled around in the threads. A post that was on the end of the page is suddenly in the middle and vice-versa.

EDIT: Posts are disappearing. I just saw the number go down. I don't think it's the moderators though.

Yeah, what the hell? This thread had 960+ posts a couple of hours ago -when I made that post above in fact-, which had me wondering who'd steal it now that I'm not in the running (this is the kind of thing I get up to when penned up and no civ) and now it has 20 posts fewer.

Sounds like the posts got eaten by a database error.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Not a database error. I'll PM you

 

[H4run]

My back went messed up again, I called my Director who happened to studied medicine also, she recommend me to go have a roentgen, but I don't think it is a good idea to go to hospital at this time so I called my usual massager again, he is not answering, hence I used my wife massager and she able to fixed my back in a way I can sit down and do something without feeling constant pain.

How we human are so fragile, a little bit muscle tense on my back and I already 80 percent shut down reduced from being an able human to a wood plank like dummy who only good for laying down on a carpet. I think this is related with my boxing training, doing boobing and weaving, practicing slips and over-do it killed my back. Kind a amazing, not doing exercise is wrong and doing it is another wrong. I wish I like aerobic so I can practice that instead a sport high risk of injury

 

[Morty]

Progress bars - that get all the way to the top......and then go all the way back to the bottom and start again!!

Just use one $£!!%& progress bars!! Who needs multiple progress bars anyway!?!?!?

 

[Synobun]

Sunny D is weird. The first time you drink it, it's nectar from the Gods. The second time, it's a'ight. The third time, it starts tasting like aged ground beef.

I then stop drinking it, until a year or so goes by and I suddenly go, "Hey, Sunny D! Let's have some of that!" Then I go through this same process all over again.

 

[H4run]

I'm at home, but this is the darkest holiday I ever experienced in my life. Combination between staying at home having fun playing my game but at the same time worrying about the future of me and my family, what a feeling.