doephin @Doephin@awoo.space

Update: said doctor has now decided to retire. now I really feel like an asshole

Seattle has a (much smaller) local one that's open again. Time for a visit I think.

Looks like a big pinball museum in CA is closing, combination of COVID and that sort of thing being niche and kind of expensive to run :/

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/07/a-look-back-at-the-museum-of-pinballs-huge-collection-of-games/?comments=1&start=80

...probably for the best that I'd be outbid for any of them 2-3 machines I'd want to go for >.>

So I've been kind of iffy on my doctor for a while. He doesn't understand the concept of "acceptable side effects"- every time I mention I can tell the asthmamedicine is working because it does funky things he freaks out. He doesn't seem to consult or make notes at all, so he'll mention wanting to do tests then drop it unless I bring it up, cover the same stuff over and over. Oh and he's very reluctant to do any sort of pain management, gets very hand wringy about the potential side effects.

He's moving to a new practice soon, so I had decided to stay with the alternative doctor they offered, problem "solved".

A week ago my hip went VERY BAD and I was in the ER for eleven hours. X-ray, CT, MRI, all not very conclusive.

On the follow up visit, the new doctor wasn't available so I got the old one once more. When I mentioned the pain was less he said "So what do you want to talk about?" and I did a ???

eventually he came up with a list of several possibilities and after dithering referred me to a rheumatologist.

Then he outed me to the provider IN THE REFERRAL EMAIL.

I wrote to ask WTF and he profusely, over-reactedly apologized, and then I felt like I had to explain that wasn't the only reason I wasn't going to seek follow up care with him anymore for the reasons above and now *I* feel like the asshole for some reason?

Cursed discovery of the day: Gmail allows sending attachments not as attachments but as GDrive *links*. Naturally there are no indications which is which until you open the email

Result is I now have a bunch of emails with "attachments" that don't exist. I almost certainly have the files- I am a compulsive data hoarder- but it's still annoying as hell

So you might recall that WD Mybook Live mass wipe from ~last week. It gets weirder!

It turns out:
-The devs commented put the password check in their factory reset code
-The drives had been hit by another exploit that had them running a bot net
-User data was probably just collateral damage in a rival botnet taking that one out!

Internet of Shit everyone!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/hackers-exploited-0-day-not-2018-bug-to-mass-wipe-my-book-live-devices/?comments=1

And just when Seattle cools off a bit...the air quality drops to orange because fuck you.

(it's not wildfire smoke, the heat is from a high pressure dome meaning the pollution just will...not...leave..)

Hrm. They no longer make filters for my older portable AC. They're carbon filters, so I doubt DIY is a thing? Hopefully running sans filter works ok.

Did the math on a $75/ton carbon tax, because a group of Senators actually proposed a (much lower) one for once.

For my car it ended up being about a cent per mile. For a the US average light vehicle (cars through SUVs) about 3.5 cents a mile. Or $470 a year for the average driver. Very backbreaking, totally worth the huge conservative freakouts over this shit. /s

( and most of that would come back, because carbon taxes are designed to rebate. Also do the math in the other direction and it ends up being quite a lot more, but the "more" is in the future so GO TEAM RECENCY BIAS")

Story that popped to mind on reading some deeply stupid COVID conspiracy theories:

You know the "we got x to get rid of y to get rid of z" joke? That, but with zombies.

"Oh god zombie apocalypse!"
"Wait zombies eat brains, right? Engineer a prion!"
"Wait prions are infectious to normal people and impossible to sterilize, invent a bacteria to eat them!"
"fuck the bacteria is a problem invent a virus to eat it!"

Hah. So the restrictions from COVID *may* have had a nice side effect: we appear to have wiped out two subtypes of flu viruses. https://statnews.com/2021/06/02/pandemic-upside-flu-virus-became-less-diverse-simplifying-task-of-making-flu-shots/ . At least they're not showing in samples. It'll be a while til we can confirm, fingers crossed.

@anthracite (got in, but only because I had the link to the auth page saved in my browser history. Less than ideal :D)

@anthracite Quick question- I'm trying to log my other account back into dragon.style on the web, and the current page doesn't seem to have a login prompt anywhere?

Today at the dog park: a bald eagle! Circling around in the distance. Wasn't sure what bird I was seeing at first, then a flash of white tail feathers made me quite sure...

...and then the crows showing up to mob it away confirmed it for us. 😄

Memory is a weird thing. Someone mentioned the Star Wars hip hop video last night and even though I hadn't thought about the silly thing in 19+ years the first chorus still popped right into my head. :P

(and then Luke's whining because Luke)

And then Parker was silly and got his claws stuck in his collar while scratching.

Seattle sno update: this morning we had another round of snow. Except this time it was warm heavy wet snow. Result: Seattle is now a dirty slushy.

That was one heck of a workout walking through. @.@ The areas where we still had deep snow weren't so bad but the high travel areas are an ice/snow/slush mix that's horrid to move in.

Especially as I just had running shoes on

6 inches of snow. Plus side it's pretty, and it's light and fluffy instead of the wet heavy stuff we usually get. My (not waterproof) shoes + thick socks kept me warm and dry the entire walk.

Since this area doesn't get salted or plowed the roads are covered, lots of people sledding. And less ice under the sno.

Sno.

The dog was very confused this morning as instead of letting him out for a pee in back, we took him for a walk. And then there was this cold chest deep white stuff?!

*shove shove bound trot bound bound PLOW*

Also half the stairs disappeared..the snow is so thick we only needed to take every other step o.O

So last night a Republican proposed a bill amendment about "not hiking the minimum wage to $15 during a pandemic". It passed 100-0.

to a predictable reaction about the Dems "abandoning" people.

Except the amendment doesn't do shit. Sanders minimum wage plan doesn't raise to 15 til 2024 after which the pandemic will be over.

please, please restrain the knee jerk urges and THINK about things before you react. Especially when dealing with literally conservative propaganda ops!