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9:20 AM
My first trip to the ER was in my mid 20's, but was all around stupid. I was adjusting how I was sitting in the back seat of a car, and my foot slipped on a plastic bag. As a result I basically kicked the underside of the seat in front of me. Hit something metal and sharp and sliced open my little toe. I tried the ER and they told me it would be an 8 hour wait, so I just went home. Went to an urgent care center the next day and they somehow squeezed 8 stitches into the toe.
Oh wait, no! I'm a moron. My first trip to the ER was as a freshman in college. I was trying to jump from a first floor landing onto a wall, slipped, and dove 8 feet headfirst into the concrete. I don't recommend it. We were headed out to dinner and as I'm sitting there very injured and my vision goes back and forth between clear and blurry, I suggest that maybe I should go to the doctor.
ER doctor looks at my head for 2 seconds, says I'm fine (I clearly wasn't), took an x-ray of my wrist (which was only sprained), and then missed the fact that I cracked knee cap. 0 for 3. Basically, in my experience anyway, ERs are useless...
 
 
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10:36 AM
My only visit to the ER so far was a couple of years ago. I came down with labyrinthitis suddenly while driving. Just managed to park up but was convinced I was having a stroke as I couldn't do anything, I kept falling over, couldn't stand. Eventually managed to call my wife and an ambulance came and got me
Many drugs and a week later was eventually fine
very scary - look up labyrinthitis. Sounds innocuous, but utterly messes your perceptions up such that you are immobilised and vomiting on any movement
I did manage to snap a couple of ribs once (cleaning the car!), but my wife is a nurse and pointed out the ER wouldn't do anything about it I just took ibuprofen
Surprising I never had to go to ER when young, I mean I started a cliff diving club, practiced urban parkour, climbed (and fell) in quarries without any gear, sailed in force 8 gales, hiked across mountains and round minefields...
 
11:19 AM
@ConorMancone For me it was like this. Keep in mind you have an unreliable narrator, since, well, the narrator was under the influence of psychedelics.
My ex wanted to try mushrooms with me, so I bought two packs, I took one for me, and half a pack or so for her. And retard me ate one and a half packs.
So about an hour after eating them, where you usually don't feel anything yet, my ex has a panic attack, saying she's scared and she's certain she's going to die.
Great. Really great mood.
So I try to comfort her, offer her some sugar (sugar works wonders when people have a bad trip), but she just refused and started to cry
So I called my mom and told her what's going on, since she seems to believe my mom more than me, even if told the same things.
So then she finally calms down and says she wants to talk to her friends on discord
So she's on discord talking to people, and I decide to go for a walk with my mom (I know, big brain time)
There, I notice that I'm fucking losing it, since I keep asking my mom "...and? How's things going for you?" like for the 5th time or so
Then I fucking zone out, think I'm stuck in a forest, but don't panic.
Then I have no idea what happened. The next thing I know was that I was in the car, regaining consciousness, on my way to Burger King
My mom opens the door, I throw up out of the car (mostly out of the car)
And my mom notices I'm not really fine. She calls an ambulance and I have no fucking clue who I am, where I am, what I am or when I am.
Someone gave me a bottle of water and I held it to my face, and just squeeze it as hard as I can. It must have looked hilarious
So after that, the paramedics finally came, and they asked me if I can get in on my own. I just...nosedived into the ambulance car, much to the entertainment of the paramedics
One of them asked me a few things, which I don't remember, but I was clearly conscious. I remember thinking "God, I hope I don't start ranting about the Jews now. That'd be fucking embarrassing"
Once we were in the hospital, they put me in a wheelchair, and brought me to the first doctor. I recall one of the paramedics saying "He must have taken something" and the doctor replying "Yeah...I can see that"
So they brought me upstairs, where they drew some blood. The nurse was really nice, comforted me, saying everything will be alright. Big plus, 10 / 10 nurse!
The doctor asked me if I wanted to kill myself, and it scared the shit out of me. I said no, no of course not. I'd never want to kill myself. That seemed to have pleased him. The blood test seemed to have revealed I was full of psilocybin.
The doctor asked me "Aren't you a bit too old for that?" and I replied "I lost my virginity at 25, I'm just slow with stuff" and he chuckled.
At like 10 or so I was out of the ER at one of the stations, and the doctor there asked me what had happened, why, etc...
Basically "Took too much by accident" - "You know you shouldn't take anything at all" - "I know, won't happen anymore"
Next morning, 8 am, doctor comes back, asks me how I am, I say I'm as fine as one can be. He does some quick check to see if I really am, and then says I'm ready to go home.
I get dressed, get into the tram, head straight to the office and work normally :D
 
11:46 AM
lol - no doubt scary at the time, but glad you sorted out okay :-)
 
12:02 PM
@RoryAlsop Yeah, since I had most of it out of my system when I threw up, I would have been just fine just going home and going to bed
But you never know that before, so calling an ambulance definitely was the right choice.
And I absolutely love that we here in Austria have the policy that if you go to an ER with drug-related issues that the police are not to be informed.
Why? So that situations like in Pulp Fiction don't arise where people have a medical emergency and don't want to go to hospital so they don't get arrested
 
12:31 PM
>_>
 
@JourneymanGeek What? :D
 
Your story makes me glad I avoided drugs :) Although a lot of that is because I have no self control, and would have ended up ODing eventually...
 
@MechMK1 the funny thing is the only problem I see there is the ranting at jews when you're out of it :D
 
@JourneymanGeek To my knowledge, I didn't. At least nobody has brought it up.
 
protip. Whining works. Also confuses people
 
12:32 PM
@ConorMancone Yeah, it was pretty silly :D
 
I once avoided school by whining at mom, then hiding under a blanket, I'm told :D
 
I just said I had stomach ache
Like, prove to me that I don't
 
Well I was apparently actually sick.
I don't remember anything, apparently i slept for a whole day.
 
"I once avoided school by being sick" - Journeyman Geek, 2020
 
12:34 PM
@MechMK1 At the midwife's office they had a sign that said something like, "We reserve the right to perform drug testing at anytime." It genuinely made me angry, because what do you think will happen if a pregnant woman comes in and has a drug problem? She will walk right back out the door, never come back, and never see another doctor. That's the worst possible outcome, and it will absolutely happen
 
yes, I am probably the most boring of all of you ;D
 
Now granted, a doctor's office legitimately needs to know if a pregnant woman has a drug issue because it's going to make a big difference in the baby's life, but that is not the way to approach that problem.
 
If anyone drug tests me, I'd ask "so... anything interesting?"
 
I'm guessing... no?
 
though the last time I had a blood test was in the army
 
12:36 PM
Reminds me of this:
 
Guy's like gets everything read for the draw, starts... and starts swearing...
 
> There are three people you never lie to: Your Mother, Your Pastor and Your Paramedic.
 
I'm freaking out and go "uh, Everything ok?" Cause there's a teenager with a needle in my vein...
 
I think I've had to be drug tested once and have random fears of "What if something comes up???" which is the same issue I had when I needed to be background checked for my current job. I've never done a drug in my life nor have anything that could possibly come up on a background check, but that doesn't stop me from panicking about it!!!
 
turns out he forgot one of the vials :D
 
12:37 PM
lol
 
ouch
I once had to comfort a nurse trying to draw my blood
I was in the hospital for an ear infection
And they took some blood
 
I had never been drug tested, and never did anything resembling a drug, so no worries...
 
The doctor "Look, now you can draw some blood", the nurse "Uhm...okay, I guess I can do it"
 
@ThoriumBR not even urine tests?
 
Me: "No worries, you got this."
 
12:39 PM
granted my dog gets more piss tests than all of us combined :D
 
not even urine tests... in Brazil drug testing is not common at all
 
@MechMK1 That is not what I would be saying in my head
 
unless you work on airlines, some high security places...
 
I just discovered that you can easily have your computer simulate you typing your clipboard contents:
 
@ConorMancone I was prepared to say "No worries, I'll do it myself if you can't"
 
12:41 PM
Naturally there is only one proper use of this: when screen sharing on a call make it look like you can "type" out complicated code and solutions from memory at a rapid pace
Just don't forget to fill in keyboard noises, if applicable
I need to find an opportunity to take advantage of this :)
 
@ConorMancone I got into an argument like this with our typing teacher
 
VDI environment where copy from your pc and pasting remote is forbidden
 
She said "If you can't use the 10 finger system and don't have the required words per minute, you will never be hired as a programmer" to which I replied "if the only thing that is holding me back is how fast I can type, then I am clearly not thinking or automating enough"
 
I know programmers with less than 10 fingers
 
12:59 PM
As a programmer you spend most of your time reading code and not writing code anyways
 
Being a fast typist definitely does help my productivity, but typing slower wouldn't ruin my productivity
 
1:16 PM
My biggest limiter to productivity is not feeling like it
 
 
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4:25 PM
Almost every job I've had in the last 20 years has a clause in the contract saying they have te right to perform drug testing at any time. None ever have, so I'm assuming it's there to let them do something about folks who obviously have a problem
I think the only times I have ever had my blood checked for anything have been when donating blood, and when my wife was pregnant - just to confirm whether anti-d was required. It was, every time :-)
As I'm A+ and she is A-
 
4:53 PM
Does anyone know how to configure a host with a password, but just not enabled to get access to the filesystem?
Or is this a well known feature in Windows?
My goal is more to get rid of remote peers.
 
5:45 PM
@RoryAlsop Interesting. btw I'm currently in preparation to help a small non-profit organization that's financed and subsidized by local government. Facts are that the way they organize themselves is really a problem and my task is setup a security program that merely exists of a security policy affecting their IT infrastructure and administrative. Can you give me some hints to make a kickstart and things where I should pay extra attention to?
oh and I'm doing this with other students..
Thanks
 
@CriticalSYS Couple of good sources, for the US and UK:
 
Thanks, will read them.
 
we have a number of posts here on security policy and standards, but those ones have been hammered on by industry and consultants, and are a really good start for small businesses
 

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