There was once a man who chopped logs for his village. Day in and out he would carry the firewood on his back, but as time went on he grew weaker and more frail. One day he grew tired and threw down the wood and called out for death to come to him. When death arrived he asked what the old man wanted and after pondering for a while he asked death to help him put the logs on his back. When faced with death he had realized he wasn’t ready to die.

In some ways I think it’s what makes working with dementia patients the easiest, as long as you don’t know what kind of person they were beforehand, you just sorta see the disease more than them which makes it easier when they go off the rails and start screaming at you. What I wouldn’t give to see Biden get worked up on the debate stage, walk over to Trump and start hitting him because all of a sudden he forgot where he was and this man is yelling at him, extra points if he grabs a finger and bends it backwards, a favorite of confused old ladies in the hospital.

My mother signed me up for so many of those when I was younger because they offered immediate employment and then when I was placed on the call it was the shadiest sounding shit, then there were the non-scam but also scam sales rep things where they called you a manager, offered intense executive training to fast track you to the top of the org but you were just going door to door trying to sell some shitty product.

How do people remember which white car is theirs?

I’m always taken a bit aback when people at work just go wild with slurs. You have the r-slur getting used just kinda flippantly for so much stuff where they could easily just pick another word, only had one person at my previous job really say it so this new job with like 4 people that use it is kinda disheartening. Also had a coworker use the f-slur when talking to me, they were quoting one of their children saying something along the lines of “X is for …” but I’m kinda visibly queer so the sheer gall to just go with it anyway was something new.

Then the conversations I overhear about politics every so often make me just never want to hear them since I’d rather just not know how terrible everyone I work with is, it’s easier to just maintain that professional friendliness when I don’t have the back of my mind screaming ‘THEY’RE HOGS BRAYING FOR THEIR TREATS OVER ALL ELSE’

The Case of Who Shit my Pants

This sounds like a fucking parody

I remember looking it up online and I believe the actual capsaicin levels were like 8000 for the regular but that there was just some funky chemistry that made them feel more spicy. Though I do feel like I might have made them spicier by forgoing making any broth and treating them more like an instant yakisoba.

Oh hey it’s that company that protected abusers for years.

I have very little hope for this actually being any good. Studios are made of people that make games and the people that were around to make the previous titles really aren’t around any more. The spotlight of Inquisition for me was the excellent weaving of previous world building into the current plot in a way that felt organic and exciting. Now after going through the nightmare of Anthem and then clearly some development hell with this game I have to wonder how many people ended up sticking around and how that will reflect on the final product.

The stories I’ve read on how Arkane lost a lot of talent often line up with how Bioware has gone. Making a game in a genre the team wasn’t interested in with an overall goal to just make more money jumping in on a live service which led to major staff departures means that even should they try again, the studio isn’t made of the same people anymore and that expecting another great game is shaky at best and should be approached with at least some realism.

I want it to be good because I’ve enjoyed the series but it’s been 9 years since the last game and the people that made that game good did it despite everything. When they put out cinematic trailers and in-engine screenshots not even 6 months before the announced release, I’m left wondering why they can’t show actual stuff from the game. They should be done with the most major systems by now, environments should be made. I’ve seen this song and dance one too many times in the games industry and until I see people actually playing it I’ll temper my expectations.

The nursing home I used to work in had cameras everywhere and I always thought it was standard for the industry for monitoring potential elder abuse. Nope. They used it to micromanage, get a call randomly one day “the door can’t be propped open with a chair” on a day when the AC wasn’t working and it was ungodly hot inside and that was the only moving air in the place. Or the time they tracked people going into the kitchen to accuse them of stealing food and fire people that had been there over a decade. Or now from what I’ve heard from people still there, using it to monitor people on their phones and a single time you’re caught it’s termination on the spot.

Healthcare sucks but it can always be worse.

I hate those N95s, the straps are uncovered and they tangle and rip your hair out, and you’ll be swapping masks frequently these days since you’re gonna go from COVID+ to COVID- and back and forth. The ones at my current workplace are better except for the fact that they press hard on the bridge of your nose and gradually breaking the skin down. And before anyone says, yes I’ve been fit tested, it’s the most comfortable one they offer at my workplace, the circular ones are even worse.

Saw the original and thought how much it sucked since the guy probably had medical shit to deal with. Having that on top of some shitty court stuff leading to him just making a crappy choice in the face of only crappy choices to where he got humiliated. This just makes it even worse that they just went public humiliation mode on this dude when they couldn’t even do their own jobs correctly.

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The pick 5 today seems very interesting today

After waiting almost 2 weeks for all the various parts to arrive for my new keyboard, I’m now stuck having to learn how to use QMK and create custom RGB coding if I want more than rainbow circle RGB and I hate coding. Doesn’t help that this model isn’t available on the QMK default list so everything is just that much more frustrating through it’s all sorta starting to click I guess.

Skibidi toilet is a gmod shitpost that blew up with gen alpha by being a mix of power fantasy and continuously increasing power levels, a catchy song, and a head sticking out from a toilet singing. If you have an hour I’d say it’s worth checking the whole thing out as it currently exists since it’s rather decent and if you have any exposure to gmod shitposts it feels familiar.

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Place I worked last year didn’t do anything for nurse’s week, but during nursing home week they gave us an empty cardboard box. It was like 4x6x3cm and they had a paper inside saying that the box held all their gratitude for us. Nobody took it well.

I vaguely remember people mentioning that it was through literature like Uncle Tom’s Cabin that set the war off which seemed silly on its face. There’s even a story of Lincoln meeting the author and going “So this is the little lady who started this great war.” Then again US history in schools is just an absolute joke compared to the material reality of history so when people have no real frame of understanding the blowback from history, it starts in school stories like books setting it off rather than the South being terrified of further slave revolts akin to Haiti and John Brown’s uprising showed just how easily it might actually happen amongst a lot more.