God I wish he had written 1000 more novels. Every single one of his stories is phenomenal, even the non culture stuff. The Wasp Factory was the first of his novels I read. Imagine my surprise and elation in finding that most of his other works were absolute top tier sci-fi.

And then I sat in the nurses station until the doctor finally took time to listen. They threatened to get security, but I just kept my head and kept pointing at the things the doctor himself wrote.

I didn't try to interpret anything, I didn't do any diagnosing myself and I didn't try to act like he didn't know what he was doing. I just kept saying that it was more serious and we needed a second opinion.

Does that help?

People can't ignore you as effectively if you're in their physical space. When it comes to your health or the health of your family, do not back down. Doctors are used to nuts who googled the symptoms or joined a Facebook group and have all the answers already. Make it clear you have NO answers but NEED them asap.

I'm calling it now, Qatar will be the place that allows these treatments once they're a real thing.

I have to imagine the Uber wealthy are pouring money into youthful longevity science.

Source: England.

I was in a Wal-Mart last week and the front end lead I was talking to looked at her company phone and said that she had to come right back.

The store system cameras spotted something on the floor and messaged her, as the closest employee to the thing, to go pick it up.

I was astounded.

My example comes from maintenance in machine shops. My dad's siblings were almost all employed in machining in some fashion. One uncle was maintenance for a local large company. They decided they could move maintenance from in-house specialists and contract that work to a multi-state massive company; anyone can follow a maintenance manual right? All you need are the proper certifications and everything is cool, right? The cost was less, and the number of maintenance staff on site actually went up. Great for the owners.

But what they lost was consistency and understanding in the process that eventually led to closing the company. My uncle was there every day all year long for decades and could hear and feel in his feet when something was going wrong with a machine regardless of the maintenance schedule approved by the company that manufactured the machines. The new outside company didn't pay as well, and didn't have great benefits, which meant that they cycled through staff very regularly. No one was there consistently for more than a year or two. Even though they were technically following the manufacturers recommended maintenance schedule, machines went down. Machines then stayed down for days or weeks longer than they should've, because the expertise to repair either wasn't there, or the person leading the job would quit and they would have to cycle in a new maintenance person. They lost jobs, customers took work other places. 8 years later the company closed.

There are lessons in this kind of thing, but nobody learns them.

Now that the unbelievable damage is done to families, towns, and cultures of entire regions of the US, they can swoop in and fix it for white collar workers.

Amazing.

For your second paragraph: I'm not looking for a job on here and I'm not writing technically. I'm posting on an Internet forum and using repetition to emphasize a point. Sort of like changing the voice I use for the forum or audience. That sort of thing is very, very common.

Now, just click and buy. Done. No fun, no excitement. And the games are all focused on achievements and completion of inane fetch quests.

If I'm terminal with cancer, I'll inject whatever if it can cure that.

It was not great to watch, but it was great to let my parents know who exactly they should stop associating with.

But also yes, I did enjoy Myst. It's also what I enjoyed about Minecraft when it first came out. You just had to figure your shit out or get killed by zombies.