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3 hours ago, Superfluous J said:

The staircase in my house has 12 steps. For some reason as I was coming down the stairs my brain thought there were only 11 steps. Lo and behold, I put my foot where I thought there was floor only to find air, and I was way past being able to stop myself from going forward.

Well I DID stop myself, about 10 inches lower where the floor actually was. you'd think falling 10 inches wouldn't be a big deal, but my big toe - which took the entire brunt of my forward momentum sped by gravity - would disagree with you.

I don't seem to have broken anything but man it hurts.

ive done that twice and both times ended up limping for a week. 

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4 hours ago, Superfluous J said:

The staircase in my house has 12 steps. For some reason as I was coming down the stairs my brain thought there were only 11 steps. Lo and behold, I put my foot where I thought there was floor only to find air, and I was way past being able to stop myself from going forward.

Well I DID stop myself, about 10 inches lower where the floor actually was. you'd think falling 10 inches wouldn't be a big deal, but my big toe - which took the entire brunt of my forward momentum sped by gravity - would disagree with you.

I don't seem to have broken anything but man it hurts.

50 minutes ago, Nuke said:

ive done that twice and both times ended up limping for a week. 

Age 12: Crashed my bike at full speed, went flying into a thorn bush. Brushed it off, then rode four miles home.

Age 50: Got up off the couch the wrong way, tweaked my back, laid out flat for three days.

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11 hours ago, Nuke said:

healthcare is stupid. so stupid i would rather die of something preventable than put myself in their care. whats more, healthcare is evil. it likes to cast patients to the four winds for the myriads of diagnostic tests, book flights on monopolistic airlines that skimp on the legspace, put them and their mandatory escorts in shadey hotels, grant them food coupons that can only be claimed in a hospital cafeteria, rip off cab drivers with their voucher system so much that they refuse to service them, pump funds into some of the most opulent architecture i have ever seen, all so they can do a 20 minute test that comes up inconclusive. granted this wasnt my diagnostic, i was the escort. but it seriously has me questioning whether its a good idea to go to extreme measures to enable humans to live to ages > 50.

also our town wants to spend 200 million on a new hospital when they cant even afford to put doctors and equipment into the hospital we got which are capable of doing basic 20 minute tests.

Ah, healthcare stories.

My mom got bitten by a tick. So, first she had to walk half a mile to the nearest round-the-clock 'trauma post' where a sleepy guy almost seven feet tall proceeded to remove the tick with care and precision that had probably been suitable for surgeon school. She also had to bring her own jar for her newfound friend.

Then she had to show up in the morning for a general physician to issue an antibiotic prescription.

And then, glass jar in hand, she had to decide on final disposition. You see, one agency in the entirety of Moscow tests for tick-borne encephalitis, and another for Lime disease. They don't cooperate, and they'll only accept a live tick. Not half a tick.

While I decided to trust official data that there wasn't any TBE around this season, my mother was treated to the surreal sight of an entire queue of people with jars doing the rounds between desks and offices in the usual bureaucratic nightmare of contradicatory instructions and boorish officials - a sharp contrast between actual hospitals, which may look pretty unchanged from when Brezhnev was still breathing, but at least the staff don't treat you like an intrusive annoyance. Fortunately, the tick test was the only part of the saga that involved payment.

Test came clean, but she has a fever.

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1 hour ago, DDE said:

They don't cooperate, and they'll only accept a live tick. Not half a tick.

Who needs a half of tick? You can't even interrogate it to know where are others.

1 hour ago, DDE said:

the surreal sight of an entire queue of people with jars doing the rounds between desks and offices

Imagine, what are the ticks in these jars thinking about this

"Why can't they just kill me? I'm just a tick!"

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DWIfTM9.jpg

Well, you sure don't see that every day... :0.0:

Apartment lost half it's power... one of the two phases of the split phase feed went out. In the US, residential power is generally delivered as 240 volts with a center neutral. Higher power devices such as ovens, clothes dryers, etc. will get the full 240 volts. Common wall outlets and lighting are fed from one phase or the other phase, to neutral, providing 120 volts. The city was pretty quick to fix it.

Problem is, when the power failed, it also killed my computer. :mad:

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My only guess is time and deterioration... And maybe that downspout behind it caused erosion over time? Who knows.

Now I need to find some kind of old obsolete Mac, so I can make the installer for the new computer...  To make a new Hackintosh, you need a working Mac OS machine to create the installer. If I can find something like an old MacBook or iMac or an ancient Mac Mini, that'd be perfect.

Of course... Being broke, thanks to parts shortages and shipping delays... and no work, I'm just up a creek with no paddle... :/

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StrandedonEarth

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5 hours ago, DDE said:

Back to our regularly scheduled fuel crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/greek-state-tv-broadcasts-advice-on-how-to-siphon-gasoline

Well, I suppose it’s better to have thieves siphon your tank, instead of drilling holes in the tank and letting the excess drain into the ground…

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The local classic rock radio station 89.5 the Drive just changed to 89.5 JR Country. Bad move IMO. #LongLiveRock!

Major blowback on social media around here….

Now we’re stuck trying to pull in KISM from Wa state for our rock fix. Reception isn’t great…

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On 6/15/2022 at 2:23 PM, kerbiloid said:

2023 newspapers! "The global warming slows. The carbon dioxide emission is considered overestimated, the quotas will be revised. Poland is allowed by EU to reopen the coal mines"

https://www.latestly.com/socially/world/just-in-eu-parliament-declares-nuclear-power-and-gas-as-green-energy-latest-tweet-by-disclose-tv-3915453.html

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European Parliament Declares Nuclear Power and Gas As 'Green' Energy

"And for me alone it became Thursday..." (c)

***

Still insisting that coal is green energy, too.
It's just algae, but packed.

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Rogers, one of the largest cell/internet providers in Canada is down. Completely out. No cell or internet service. Most debit machines (point-of-sale “Interac” payment machines) are down because of it too: Cash only. Many ATMs are also down. Interac e-transfers are unavailable.

And we finally got rid of our landline earlier this year  At least we have a different ISP so we’re not completely incommunicado  

It’s like a warm-up for the next Carrington Event, except that will probably take out the power grids too… 

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4 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said:

It’s like a warm-up for the next Carrington Event, except that will probably take out the power grids too… 

Yeah, at least when that happens you'll have communication as telegraphs carry over the air....

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9 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said:

It’s like a warm-up for the next Carrington Event, except that will probably take out the power grids too… 

Mmm, the reasons behind this one are probably a lot closer to home - whether through internal incompetence or outside malice.

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Nuke

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moms birthday was a few days ago and she freaked out when i made her a french vanilla cake instead of a white cake. frankly i cant tell the two apart and its certainly not worth a 68 year old acting like a 8 year old. 

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