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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.

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 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 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.

My second job was as a "Sandwich Artist."

I'm aware, more so than some others.

Also, if you like tuna fish sandwiches there has been a long standing question of whether or not there is actual tuna in their cans. But what I can say, with certainty, at least when I worked there, that the recipe was 90% shitty mayo and very little anything else.

Yeah, TNO is absolutely an individual character you happen to be in the shoes of.

Without spoiling anything, the game IS TNO's story.

If that doesn't interest you, best of luck in your refund request.

That being said, I've only gotten around to getting one tattoo in my life - The rune of torment.

Yeah, my first thought was the advertisement probably didn't include anything that was actually food.

Of course, the definition of food seems to keep changing as the decades pass by.

Donated and became a member for legal protection in a very red state.

I've grown differently from Satanism into other areas, but being able to produce a membership card for a legally recognized religion that isn't Christian has its perks in some work places.

Mainly, the group is LITIGIOUS as fuck. They will go to court for a person's employee rights. It wouldn't be the first time.

As a born US citizen, yeah, our shit is fucked. Especially if the GOP stays in power. Back to the puritan days of Plymouth.

If my wife didn't have such a fear of flying, we'd leave the country.

I use proton pass currently.

My life is changing in less than two weeks.

I have an enterprise grade server that I can't run for a variety of home reasons.

When me and the wife... for lack of a better term, escape, our situation, I'll be able to self host. I know its gonna be a struggle, I have things to learn, and that is why I'm so excited.