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I'm not clinical, but I worked in medical IT off and on.

The shit I would hear from clinical staff.

Had a senior surgeon call me because his application was frozen. Cool, cool, lets get that going - wait - you're what - palpating a child's heart to keep it beating in rhythm? There are back ups upon back ups for anything IT related in that scenario. Don't call your overnight helpdesk with that shit, have your nurse write it down on paper. Fuck.

Most traumatic IT call I've ever had. Didn't even care to solve his IT issue, just focused on patient care. My 20 something ass with a few years behind the desk told him to focus on the patient's LIFE first and foremost, we can talk later.

Always great for an interview question though - how do you respond under stress? Well, lol...

I came in to say I don't tend to follow news on republicans who aren't directly fucking up my life, but this sounds about par for the course for the dipshit-elect.

Age was never a factor to me.

Bernie is, for America, VERY left of status quo democrats. I'd like to see that, even for four years.

One phrase rings through my head when I read shit like this, from my days at a Children's hospital.

"Non-accidental trauma." Still sends shivers down my soul.

I was tier one help desk, overnight, in a children's hospital.

I had a doctor call me, who expressly made it clear he didn't want a run around, while manually palpating a child's heart to keep it in rhythm and thus, the child alive.

I told him there are back ups upon back ups that can be implemented, and I am happy to talk about his computer problem when the patient is SAFE. Not a little, "we got this," safe, but SAFE.

Tier one help desk, overnight, no support, and I had to tell a person who turned out to be a board member that he could go fuck himself on his computer problem until the child patient was safe.

My first job was customer service, and I've been in IT for a dozen years. Its still customer service. You just have to realize who the customer is - in the case of a children's hospital, it is always the child.

I would have fought tooth and nail to vote for Bernie Sanders.

As it stood, we moved during the voting period. The wife and I were registered neither in our home state or our new state and couldn't vote. Where we moved was deep red and it wouldn't have mattered, but I would have liked to give a formal middle finger to the dipshit-elect.

I remember a friend's first child's birthday.

Me and the mom killed a pony keg because no one else had the balls too.

I'm about that friend's age now..... man, she went hard. Gonna miss her. I couldn't keep up now.

Edit: She's alive and well, married with a gaggle of kids, we grew apart. Just miss those late summer nights where the only place we had to be was a shit retail job, and we could get stoned for that.

Hurting the right people is such a hateful phrase... like, you want to hurt EVERYONE, but you have to be reigned in by bigoted masters...

I grew up and lived most of my life until recently in the DFW metroplex. From Fort Worth to Dallas, I've lived there and worked there, often not at the same time (commutes always suck there) but my experience with making Hispanic friends is that when I went to a Mexican restaurant in Gardiner, Montana , that me and my other Texan friends waited for months to open, and I ordered Mole.

I've had mole. I've had mi amigo's abuela's mole straight from her cocina. What I was served was a plate of brown shit - somehow flavorless, and offensive to all tastes at the same time.

I don't ask for refunds, buyer beware and all. We got fully refunded, and shit ALL over their restaurant to everyone we talked to, and I was at the front desk of a hotel in Yellowstone, 5 miles from their doorstep.

Bowling for Soup was right, the Mexican food sucks north of there anyway.

I don't disagree. My last job was using winget to update some things. I raised the concept of trusting otherwise unknown updates, but I was pushed aside for the quick utility.

I'm only a student of cybersecurity, but I harshly judge my former "security expert" on far more than that.

Like fuck, the help desk has to install every patch, to every machine, through a spreadsheet?

No, deploy that shit from a server. Fuck.

In a way, I'm glad I left. In another way, I would really like a pay check again... and I moved to a well, tech illiterate state. Fuck me.

I don't think consciousness objections will be enough anymore. I'm not sure we will ever see a peaceful exchange of power in this country again. Stochastic terrorism has been on the rise, and I don't see it getting any better.

I Just moved and am still looking for employment, but I live in a red state.

I'm not scared of someone breaking in and taking... stuff. Stuff can be replaced.

I'm scared of political violence. I'm a fucking American. Freedom of Religion is sacrosanct to me. I'm just not Christian. Neither is my wife, and she has a bigger mouth than me.

One of my first purchases when I'm working again (its been a week, I'm not resting on my laurels) will be a firearm for home defense - Ostensibly, to fend off any dipshit neighbors.

My mistake, thank you for the correction.

I picked up Veilguard because I enjoyed Origins and Inquisition. The second game... at this point, I don't think I took it right and its my problem and I need to give it another chance.

I'm still very early into the game, but the only "woke" thing I've seen so far is variable gender identity during character creation.

You want to play a "woman" who looks masculine, with atypical male traits, even a penis, and a deep voice? You know what, I'm glad the option is open to people. It doesn't vibe with me personally, but I'm glad that people I care about can make a character that is "them," because who hasn't made themselves in an RPG at some point in their life, best they were able.

Again, I'm early to it, but that is all of the "woke" shit I've seen.

For the record, I have friends and family in the LGTBQ+(whatever, doesn't matter) that I support.

I don't want hate in my heart, and I've worked very hard to overcome some biases that came from my more "southern" upbringing. Hell, one of those biased views from the past is now openly trans, and I was the only family member they talked to because they couldn't talk to anyone else.

I'm imperfect, as all humans are, but it isn't hard to fucking TRY, just a little, to realize that someone else's self image and happiness doesn't affect mine other than what pronouns I use to refer to them. Fuck, its not hard. Just don't be a dick.