Duranie

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[–] Duranie@literature.cafe 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fuzzy duck. Ducky fuzz. Does he fuck? Fuck he does!

Thank you for reminding me of that lol.

[–] Duranie@literature.cafe 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of a job I had years ago. As a massage therapist at a health club, we had a CD player in the room to play various kinds of music. The CD player died, maintenance decided to replace it with a DVD player. Mind you, DVD players do play CDs, and they were able to hook it up to the sound system in the room. The problem is that with no screen it was impossible to navigate system settings. Most CDs being less than an hour long and most massages being an hour meant we had to stop what we were doing when the music ended during the last 5-10 minutes of the massage and hit play again.

In one magic moment I managed to blindly hit the right combo of buttons on the remote to get it to loop playback, but as the player shuts off after a period of not being used, overnight the setting was forever lost.

[–] Duranie@literature.cafe 4 points 11 months ago

As a Midwestern American with a fondness for music from the UK, I both blindly accept your answer as 100% believable and complete bullshit at the same time lol.

Nice work! 👍

[–] Duranie@literature.cafe 10 points 11 months ago

I like your thinking.

[–] Duranie@literature.cafe 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Back in the early 80's my sister was planning to travel with her infant son to get some time away from her husband (abusive addict when he'd relapse - real life Jekyll/Hyde.) She was waiting to board a plane in Chicago when several police pulled her, stating they'd gotten a call that she was carrying a bomb. All she had was a diaper bag with baby things, her purse, and saltines as she'd developed an ulcer.

They let her go once they realized what the situation was, but manipulative people can really create nightmares.

[–] Duranie@literature.cafe 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Fwiw, many places charge extra for cremation over 300lbs.

I had to look it up. Apparently it is possible to cremate people significantly larger than that, but it gets tricky and thus costs extra.

[–] Duranie@literature.cafe 9 points 11 months ago

I'm wondering if the evidence that was not turned over was something that proved it couldn't have been him. If it's something that exonerated him, then I could see him being declared innocent. Usually the ruling is "not guilty" which I would take as "unable to prove it was him," but still leaves room that he could have done it.

To me this sounds like someone intentionally fucked the wrong man, hiding what would prove his innocence just to get the conviction.

[–] Duranie@literature.cafe 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A while back I had a cousin living in Oklahoma. He had some troubles and was hanging out with some not great people. An acquaintance's gf/wife ended up dead and the guy pointed his finger at my cousin. He was held in jail charged with murder, but all his hearings kept getting kicked down the road. After a year they released him and told him to GTFO of the state and never return.

[–] Duranie@literature.cafe 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's actually a nifty little trick your brain plays on you to help keep you away from danger. Problem is, some people settings are off and that "feature" becomes a bug.

[–] Duranie@literature.cafe 9 points 11 months ago

They self banned books

[–] Duranie@literature.cafe 5 points 11 months ago

Careful. With those proportions might need a wider base.

[–] Duranie@literature.cafe 3 points 11 months ago

Well, there is a "solution" in the works. It's currently not required for my position and will only initially apply to Medicare (or Medicaid - don't recall which) patients.

The hospital provides field staff with cell phones. There's an app we're just getting training on that will time stamp our visits, travel, and mileage, as well as track GPS for verification of visits. It will also flag and ask for clarification if travel time exceeds expectation.

Currently we self report, so if I stop at McDonald's because I have to pee, it's nobodies business. Many of my coworkers are less than thrilled with the new app (honestly most aren't that fond of tech or changes to begin with) even though management is attempting to reassure that they're really not intending to track us, it's just for patient verification (for the very small percentage of patients it applies to.)

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