Whats rustling your jimmies?

Palum · Nov 13, 2023

Doctors are the worst, confirmed.

When your few accreditation bodies have strict preference to certain methodologies and beliefs, those doctors go and repeat that shit and then join the association or teach. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. And that's nothing to say about the death grip insurance creates by ensuring conformity to consensus is the safest way to practice, or how drug dealers incentivize treatments using their pharma products, or how Medicare and Medicaid and insurance standards mean you make more money going through wasteful processes to test and try everything rather than actually diagnose.

I mean I don't have that many opinions on this subject but it is something I'm generally concerned about.

Fucker · Nov 13, 2023

Cad said:
I know you think you're being funny, but you're not. Doctors are taught from day 1 to observe medical authority, not question, etc etc. They don't do a lot of questioning as to "why." Sometime when you are at your doctor's office, try asking them why something is happening, why your body does this or that. They'll either make something up on the spot to appease you or they'll just look at you like you got horns coming out of your head. They follow the book without question, which is why they're overwhelmingly liberal. It's been ingrained in them from the start. They see MSNPC, they obey it.

Lawyers are predominantly liberal, more so as you climb the echelon. I've known a handful of top lawyers who were liberals, but the important distinction was that they placed law well above their politics.

The reason why doctors are trained at the start not to question what they are doing is because they don't know what they are doing yet, and stepping out of bounds will get someone killed. Internship > long residency exists for a reason, and only after they pop out of residency do they have enough experience to know what they are doing. As a lawyer, step out of bounds and you get appointed to the 9th circuit.

As we all know, quality of each runs the gamut, but the smartest of each profession tend to be the smartest/wisest people around, and often by a lot.

Rajaah · Nov 14, 2023

Terminator is getting a Netflix series. I love Terminator so I was immediately interested. It's animated so this is a perfect opportunity to FINALLY flesh out the Future War, tell some JC and Kyle Reese stories, etc, that the movies have whiffed on.

.......NOOOOPE. No JC or Kyle, just this new female protagonist nobody has ever heard of, and they decided to have it take place in the present day and rehash the usual Terminator chase formula that everyone goddamn does. So basically it's just more of the same, only Castlevania'd up.

Siliconemelons · Nov 14, 2023

Boss*: "Hey Employee 4's email is not operational"
*click click*
Me: "Here is a screenshot of all the stuff in his inbox...it is operational"
Employee 4: "No like, someone changed my password and I do not know it."
Me: www.firesofheaven.org rustlejimminity thread

*not my boss, boss of Employee 4

Control · Nov 14, 2023

Siliconemelons said:
Boss*: "Hey Employee 4's email is not operational"
*click click*
Me: "Here is a screenshot of all the stuff in his inbox...it is operational"
Employee 4: "No like, someone changed my password and I do not know it."
Me: www.firesofheaven.org rustlejimminity thread

*not my boss, boss of Employee 4

Rajaah · Nov 15, 2023

Kirun said:
And there you have it folks..

They literally have "government gibs" gamed so well, they've broken it down into a gibs/hour formula and determined how to maximize free shit from the government while actually working as little as possible.

Just remember that the next time you come home from a hard day at the office, exercising your knuckles all day, slaving over a crusty keyboard. 20% of your labor that day went to pay people like this guy. 'MERICA!

TBH I'll cut a lot of slack for people who got wrecked by cancer (like the guy in question

pharmakos ) or got broken in half in an accident or crushed under a forklift.

The other 90% of people getting government assistance for stupid reasons, on the other hand, piss me off. I've met a bunch of people who were getting all kinds of free stuff because they were some combination of A) Had kids, B) Were drug addicts, C) Were alcoholics, D) Were black? as in I seriously don't know why they were on it, E) Moved here from Mexico or South America and didn't speak English, F) Were just plain fuckin' fat.

My mom drove a taxi for like one week in the 90's and all of the passengers the company gave her were fat methodone women on disability. There was absolutely nothing wrong with any of them that would keep them from doing normal people things, but they had their rent and everything paid for while they got a literal free ride to a clinic, year after year. All because they decided to shoot up. My mom got so annoyed at this bullshit that she took off from the job almost right away. Told me stories about how these tubs of goo would get their methodone hit and then want to stop at the supermarket on the way back so they could spend food stamps on junk food before they went home to do whatever the fuck it was they did all day.

Putting this in the Rustle thread rather than the source thread 'cause that thread's pretty done.

Haus · Nov 15, 2023

Haus said:
Follow up car rant....

Take my car (mentioned previously) to the dealership to get the "experts" to determine what is causing the whirr sound. Drop it off a week and a half ago. They bounce it between different "specialist" groups. Finally today they let me know. Oh, we can tell there's some form of wear or damage in the transmission coolant pump, you'll have to replace the transmission, that will be $15k please."

I tell them "well, button her back up, I'll come and get the car and then think over what direction I want to go".

They're best counter was "Well, that's almost what the car is worth, would you like us to put you through to the certified pre-owned group to get an offer for a trade in?"

"No, I'll just pick it up. thanks."

Call a reputable Transmission place (multiple friends with CTS's and CTS Vsport/V's recommended him). He immediately says "Yeah, they're trying to sell you a new transmission, chances are you need the pump replaced, or at most a rebuild of your existing transmission, probably $3k tops for a rebuild, bring it by".

So I'm MINORLY unrustled driving the car home. I get home and look in the trunk and see this :
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They didn't put EITHER of the debris/spash/whatever guards back on the bottom of the car.

Go back to check the front of the car, becuase there's a flexible rubber flap which is part of the front end which directs air into the coolers and see.....

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Now ripped up because they didn't put the debris guard (hard plastic) back on under it...

Hoss said:
So what will you do first? Make the dealership fix that fuckup, or get the transmission fixed?

Make the dealership fix the fuckup of course...

But I had to do a 2 day work trip to Houston, so it sat in my garage (as it was in theory drivable, but missing some panels on the underbody) in case

Mrs. Haus had to leave the house when I was in Houston. (picked it in her fucked up state up on Monday, Tues/Wed in Houston, back on Thursday to take it back in)

These two days allowed time for Amazon to deliver me a copy of the owners book. So when I took it in on Thursday I left it in the front seat with a post it note saying "If he's around, can you get his autograph??" They had her buttoned up and ready to roll by the next morning (had to order a replacement for the soft rubber sheet part), but apparently the founder wasn't around to sign my book.

The part which makes me SLIGHTLY less rustled about this? Whatever they did in their disassembly/analysis/troubleshooting, when they put it back together.... it ACTUALLY FIXED THE PROBLEM and the noise was gone. Even before I took it back for them to put the panels back on, the noise was completely gone. As a precaution I still took it to the newly discovered transmission shop and they went over it themselves, and couldn't find a single thing wrong. But there was a noise.. I know I wasn't crazy... the wife and brother in law both heard it... but now it's gone and my beautiful mechanical steed is once again at my beck and call.

Sludig · Nov 17, 2023

Expensive Blauer police pants zipper fails to zip closed after barely more than a year and if course mid shift.

Koushirou · Nov 19, 2023

Took the whole week off next week. Haven’t had a nice long set of PTO in a long time. Friday night, surprise flu! Saturday night, surprise tachycardia and ER visit! Been waiting all week for Sunday where one of the food trucks that visits our distillery nearby is having a tasty looking turkey sandwich with sriracha cranberry sauce, stuffing and crispy fried onions with turkey gravy dip. Hauled over there despite feeling like shit and it was already sold out. Fuuuck.

Control · Nov 20, 2023

Siliconemelons said:
Boss*: "Hey Employee 4's email is not operational"
*click click*
Me: "Here is a screenshot of all the stuff in his inbox...it is operational"
Employee 4: "No like, someone changed my password and I do not know it."
Me: www.firesofheaven.org rustlejimminity thread

*not my boss, boss of Employee 4

Similarly this morning (and probably once a month at least):
"When will reporting be back up!?"
"Everything looks ok now. Are you still having issues?"
"This specific field on this specific report (one of hundreds) isn't working!"

Hoss · Nov 20, 2023

Koushirou said:
Took the whole week off next week. Haven’t had a nice long set of PTO in a long time. Friday night, surprise flu! Saturday night, surprise tachycardia and ER visit! Been waiting all week for Sunday where one of the food trucks that visits our distillery nearby is having a tasty looking turkey sandwich with sriracha cranberry sauce, stuffing and crispy fried onions with turkey gravy dip. Hauled over there despite feeling like shit and it was already sold out. Fuuuck.

I had this week off too. Until an emergency came up and now I have to work thursday and friday. Well, in fairness, I might have to work. We're waiting on another company to do something so it might slip. But in the meantime I'm in limbo. Good thing I wasn't going out of town for thanksgiving.

Bandwagon · Nov 21, 2023

Fucker · Nov 21, 2023

Price has doubled, too. $5 for two cents worth of wheat and salt. 4 cents worth of box and packaging.

Have a chocolate chip cookie. It'll make your day better.

Palum · Nov 21, 2023

Fucker said:
Price has doubled, too. $5 for two cents worth of wheat and salt. 4 cents worth of box and packaging.

Have a chocolate chip cookie. It'll make your day better.

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Well it's not called a chocolate chips cookie now is it?

popsicledeath · Nov 24, 2023

So sick of dealing with retards in every store. Had to return a cam shaft seal that the rubber started to peel when I was installing it. Was right after daylight savings and the open sign wasn't on, confusing but door was unlocked. The dumb chick was on her phone and had to finish up before helping me, of course.

She barely figured out how to return the obviously damaged item I said I was returning because it was damaged. She dumb, but finally get it returned, not exchanged, because they don't have another in stock.

Week later I'm at a different store, they don't have one in stock, but the original store I went to across town has one in stock again. Called to confirm and everything. They'll save it behind the counter for me! ...and the guy brings out the same fucking very obviously damaged seal I had returned the week before.

Edit. And only reminded of that shit after trying to get discounted gift cards from Dollar General tonight and the stupid fucks there that never know a thing and always have some new, made up "policy" on hand written signs to discourage purchases of the only thing of value they ever sell.

Fucker trying to tell me the "system" can't process credit or debit for gift cards and points to the "cash only for gift cards" sign but says that's always been the policy at all stores.

Except for some reason the two other stores in the area had completely different policies, one took credit no problem on Monday and another would take debit but I didn't have it with me. So the dumb fuck tells me they have completely different payment system at each store and says I need to leave if I have a problem with the store policy.

All the things we gave up as a society to have low IQ fucktards make shit up and treat everyone like criminals because that store is in the Hispanic part of town and has high rates of fraud. Bitch, I'm a hard working Caucasian American, sell me my fucking Lowe's gift cards!

Hoss · Nov 24, 2023

popsicledeath said:
Edit. And only reminded of that shit after trying to get discounted gift cards from Dollar General tonight and the stupid fucks there that never know a thing and always have some new, made up "policy" on hand written signs to discourage purchases of the only thing of value they ever sell.

Fucker trying to tell me the "system" can't process credit or debit for gift cards and points to the "cash only for gift cards" sign but says that's always been the policy at all stores.

Except for some reason the two other stores in the area had completely different policies, one took credit no problem on Monday and another would take debit but I didn't have it with me. So the dumb fuck tells me they have completely different payment system at each store and says I need to leave if I have a problem with the store policy.

Reminds me of the chevron gas cards. You'd get like 10 cents off per gallon if using them, so I'd buy myself the gas gift cards and refill them when needed. Ran into lots of tards who didn't know how to do that with credit cards or even how to refill cards. It got so bad that by the end, I was showing the fucktards how to do it. The manager at the place I usually went had to come out of the back so often to teach the idiots how to do it that I eventually picked it up and was able to teach cashiers at other stores.

But I actually didn't complain. Because not only was the manager hot, she hired nothing but hot cashiers for a long time.

Rajaah · Nov 28, 2023

popsicledeath said:
So sick of dealing with retards in every store. Had to return a cam shaft seal that the rubber started to peel when I was installing it. Was right after daylight savings and the open sign wasn't on, confusing but door was unlocked. The dumb chick was on her phone and had to finish up before helping me, of course.

She barely figured out how to return the obviously damaged item I said I was returning because it was damaged. She dumb, but finally get it returned, not exchanged, because they don't have another in stock.

Week later I'm at a different store, they don't have one in stock, but the original store I went to across town has one in stock again. Called to confirm and everything. They'll save it behind the counter for me! ...and the guy brings out the same fucking very obviously damaged seal I had returned the week before.

Edit. And only reminded of that shit after trying to get discounted gift cards from Dollar General tonight and the stupid fucks there that never know a thing and always have some new, made up "policy" on hand written signs to discourage purchases of the only thing of value they ever sell.

Fucker trying to tell me the "system" can't process credit or debit for gift cards and points to the "cash only for gift cards" sign but says that's always been the policy at all stores.

Except for some reason the two other stores in the area had completely different policies, one took credit no problem on Monday and another would take debit but I didn't have it with me. So the dumb fuck tells me they have completely different payment system at each store and says I need to leave if I have a problem with the store policy.

All the things we gave up as a society to have low IQ fucktards make shit up and treat everyone like criminals because that store is in the Hispanic part of town and has high rates of fraud. Bitch, I'm a hard working Caucasian American, sell me my fucking Lowe's gift cards!

Nearly every time I go to this one supermarket, they make some huge mistake.

-One time I took my mom shopping and she bought $30 worth of cat food. She put it all in a plastic bag (one of the see-through ones from the produce section) and put it on the conveyor along with other groceries. Guy at the register picked up the bag and just sort of looked at it for a second confusedly and then sent it through...without even ringing it up once. Saved her $30. I didn't bother saying anything. (Edit: I thought he rang it once but now that I think about it he didn't even ring it up at all)

-Another time I went through the self check-out and the machine had an issue reading my card. Guy who worked there came over and tapped something and said it was all paid, I could go. I was like "you sure?" and he was like "yeh" and went back to playing on his phone. I said okay and left. Saved like $10 on that one.

-Another time I asked to split a bill between two cards. Said "put 20 on this card and the rest on this other card". Cashier was like "okay". I ran the first card and it tried to charge the full amount. I repeated that I wanted just 20 on this card. Cashier was like "okay" and cancelled it and punched in $20 cash. Said I was all set and could do the second card. Was a little confused. Ran the second card to pay for the rest. Left. Looked at the receipt later and sure enough the cashier just put in that I gave $20 cash. Wasn't paying attention AT ALL. Saved $20 on that one.

-Another time I got a whole bunch of meat. Like a lot, for a BBQ. Put everything in plastic bags from the meat section to keep them separated from other groceries. Get to the checkout, guy rings up each bag once. Not just that, he TAKES OUT ONE THING and rings it up then PUTS IT BACK IN WITH OTHER THINGS and rolls it through. Each bag had like 3 items in it and there were 4 bags so I essentially got 8 cuts of meat for free. Going to guess I saved around $100 that time.

Why don't I correct these people, you ask? Why should I? Most of them were on their phones anyway. There was a time when I'd always do the honest thing but I don't care anymore.

Rajaah · Nov 28, 2023

Not rustled so much as...perplexed. Was sitting next to a bunch of foreign tourists on a plane. They were talking in a language I didn't recognize. Could have been literally anything. They kept alternating into English briefly so I got the jist that they were excited to go to the next town they were visiting. What perplexes me is that they were talking a mile a minute and they all kept saying "Disney", "Universal", and "Fastpass" (whatever that is) a lot. It got to the point where it was almost every other word. "Disney (foreign gobbledygook) Universal (FG) (FG) Disney Universal (FG) Fastpass (FG) Disney (FG) Fastpass (FG) Fastpass Disney (FG)" Like every other goddamn word was either Disney, Universal, or Fastpass. It was like listening to internet bots in human form.

Sanrith Descartes · Nov 28, 2023

Rajaah said:
Not rustled so much as...perplexed. Was sitting next to a bunch of foreign tourists on a plane. They were talking in a language I didn't recognize. Could have been literally anything. They kept alternating into English briefly so I got the jist that they were excited to go to the next town they were visiting. What perplexes me is that they were talking a mile a minute and they all kept saying "Disney", "Universal", and "Fastpass" (whatever that is) a lot. It got to the point where it was almost every other word. "Disney (foreign gobbledygook) Universal (FG) (FG) Disney Universal (FG) Fastpass (FG) Disney (FG) Fastpass (FG) Fastpass Disney (FG)" Like every other goddamn word was either Disney, Universal, or Fastpass. It was like listening to internet bots in human form.

They are going to Orlando (or coming from Orlando).

Sludig · Nov 28, 2023

My emu is retarded

Whats rustling your jimmies?

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