[-] Azal@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago

Strange that politics who call for deregulation never deregulate useful things.

Funny that right? Those that call for deregulation would probably call for deregulating the legal time frame that a company has to support their devices.

And as to what we did with ours, effectively trash. We have a medical junk guy who comes through yearly and picks up the stuff thats getting thrown out, he parts pieces out he can sell, sells scrap otherwise, etc. Also sells a lot of equipment to smaller hospitals out in rural that will make do, and a lot of stuff we have goes to Project Cure which sends medical devices out of country to places in need. The funny part about the rural hospitals and Project Cure is... neither of those can happen because, as I said earlier, can't verify their accuracy anymore so for my hospital, about 30 units of trash in one day.

[-] Azal@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

Yea, I read this as a biomed and was like "We're definitely not getting this."

[-] Azal@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

Oh no, instead she has step-children so was referred to as a "Childless cat lady" by checks notes the running mate of the opposing party.

The only place to the conservative crowd for a woman to be in is in a single relationship with her own kids. Though I'm sure they'd have a way to gripe about it too.

[-] Azal@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

He can live out his remaining time in Russia as a wanna-be oligarch, and Putin will treat him like a leader-in-exile.

Honestly think he'd be safer in North Korea. Kim Jong Un could at least see him as an ally of "the world is against us."

Putin already views Trump as a puppy that makes messes on the carpet... while running a dog fighting ring.

[-] Azal@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago

US Here, I'd like to but not having the skill sets right now makes for difficult to move to another country.

Which leads to another problem, if I do I leave my entire social network behind to a culture that I don't know and trying to live there. While I'm not against that, I realize that can be VERY isolating so not sure where the place I'd want to go right now.

[-] Azal@pawb.social 2 points 9 months ago
[-] Azal@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago

Clinging to my S9+ so hard.

[-] Azal@pawb.social 2 points 11 months ago

Former Christian here... I'll give the religion credit it allows for a lot of openness and exactly what the pope is talking about. The main icon of Christianity was all about accepting people, legit the time where Jesus got angry with whips and table flipping was because money changers and vendors were cheating the poor (long story: You had pilgrims that would come bringing currency that would not be accepted by the temple so the money changers would do exactly what was on the tin... for a fee, and then the temple was selling animals to be sacrificed, the doves being brought up specifically because they were sold to the poorest that couldn't afford the bigger sacrifices.) This is the idealogical head of the religion who is said to have sat and dined with those considered sinners while shunning the so called "faithful"

Honestly even as parable the stories in the bible are perfect reflections of the way most Christians would react. It's said regularly that the Christians would kill Jesus as a heretic if he came back... ignoring the fact that it was those that had power within the church that crucified Jesus in the Bible.

I got lucky in being raised to go to a church with a preacher that was big on critical thinking. Another fitting example of Christianity ignoring its own teachings, post 9/11 said preacher gave a sermon talking about a religious extremist with a middle eastern background that spoke out against the prevailing government at the time, explaining that was exactly who Jesus was, the sermon on not hating from statements just made by assumptions, had the magazine that on the cover that had the 'real face of Jesus' to show not your white long haired man but the middle eastern face as a part of the sermon... naturally said preacher was politely "let go" from the church.

[-] Azal@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

In Kansas City there's a little shack called Town Topic. 8 people get in that place and it's packed tight. Been around forever. I first noticed it when I moved here and late night Friday and Saturday when the bar crowd was looking for food a line would be wrapped around the building.

It is a type of smash burger that's cooked on an old griddle, greasy in all the right ways a drunk man could want at 2am without being a problem during the more sober times. To me it's the best burger I can get hold of.

[-] Azal@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

Your complaints are valid, but I'm going to counterpoint US healthcare for those that reads this and is "Ah hah!"

The US is getting hit by the same med shortage, I'm not as strongly linked but I know a couple friends being bounced from one anti-depressant to another because one after another went short.

But our for profit system is literally shuttering hospitals across the country. What you'll get is private investment firms that buy up hospitals, bleed them for capital until the hospital is unable to run and it closes. Kansas right now is one of the worst states for hospitals in rural places where they're closing up left and right. One of my hospitals I traveled to that I was shocked didn't close was because a doctor committed suicide and had evidence on his phone that he molested patients while they were under sedation. This brought JACO and every other hospital regulatory commission on this hospital where it was found the hospital was bought up by one private capital firm after another, their debt dumped on the hospital and sold off. Literally the commissions coming in is all that saved the hospital because the current firm is now being forced to modernize the hospital and get it back to standards.

And in the case of the abortions being criminalized, states that have it criminalized are now having OBGYN doctors leaving the state than have to be put into a struggle against their ethics and the draconian law, leaving birthing centers closed up in hospitals and leaving it to the ERs that are already over capacity from being the only safety net left to those that can't afford insurance and all the hospital closures pushing more to those individual places.

[-] Azal@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

Enough cooking and adding spices, and they can add a lot to a meal

Lets be honest, Indian butter chicken is why I don't just outright say I'm allergic to them because that is delicious and apparently tomatoes are a main ingredient with the sauce.

The texture is a high part, I'll always remember "horror fleshy grenade" about them now, but my dad who hates tomatoes as well found heirloom grape tomatoes and eats them just straight. Okay, I'll try them. Nope... that I don't know how to describe other than tomato taste just was there and awful.

I can eat marinara and tomato sauce, but if I can have an alternative 10/10 I'll pick something else, ketchup I don't really like, and if it's spicy enough I enjoy salsa as long as it's not chunky, but that's because I find salsa is like butter chicken, the tomato taste isn't there, just a vehicle for the spices.

But seriously, I'm the guy when everyone is ordering a pizza I know I'll be able to eat it but I'll be "meh" unless there's a white sauce pizza.

[-] Azal@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

There's in the part in the middle, but I swear when programming stuff comes up it's always like reading fucking madlibs done by dice roll.

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