You’ve probably tried this approach already, but just in case: “You don’t play videogames to make progress, and you don’t make progress by playing videogames. You play videogames to have fun and pass time, and those are driven by the experience brought on by the game’s content, not by the name of the game’s host. Also, fuck Blizzard.”

most suggestions on here involve running unauthorized software or visiting sketchy websites

Agreed, which I won’t be touching. That’s why I opened with the example of the Bing trick to scrub ads off of YouTube: fully compliant with company policy. HR, IT, and Legal could be watching over my shoulder, and I’d be inclined to show off that trick just so they could go back to their own workstations and use it. Zero risk to my career, zero risk to my patients, and zero risk to the company. Win win win. Looking for more tricks like that.

I’ve actually played on a private server alongside an anesthesiologist! We both grew up on Vanilla WoW and the earlier expansions, and both developed the same animosity to Blizzard for the finger they gave to that original target audience. The WoW itch is still real; but Blizzard won’t get another cent from me.

I mean, I could afford a YouTube subscription just fine; nursing isn’t exactly a path to some Scrooge McDuck mountain of gold or anything, but we’re not living paycheck to paycheck either. My refusal to pay YouTube isn’t because I can’t, it’s because they’re Google, and fuck Google. If there was a playlist generator/streamer made by an ethical company who’s product is actually worth using, then fuck yeah point me to their subscription page! Unfortunately, the only options I’m aware of are either shit products or shit companies, so I’ll continue to be a stingy asshole until I find something worth supporting.

…and although it’s not really on topic for this thread, feel free to drop some recommendations - I’m most familiar with music.youtube, spotify, and pandora, but youtube is youtube, and the other two leave a lot to be wanted for the playlists they provide. Or they did at least, it’s been probably over 5 years since trying pandora or spotify… maybe they’re better now? /shrug

Probably better than trying to fuck with HIPAA.

Not sure you understand the goal - I’m not trying to pull anything shady with patient data; but to find better ways to use those comps. There are functions protected by HIPAA, and functions that Microsoft/Google/etc have enshittified that I’m trying to make a bit more user friendly - the only overlap in the venn diagram here is that they happen on the same computer.

Fortunately our charting software isn’t loaded with unskippable ads (…give it a few years…), so even if there are ways to fuck with that software, there’s no need to.

Can you install user apps (which don’t require admin elevation) or is it truly nothing?

It’s truly nothing - healthcare setting, so it’s pretty strict. Absolutely no installing anything, or plugging in an external drive to run shit from that. We’re allowed to use the work comps for personal stuff so long as it’s not getting in the way of our actual duties. For me this usually means putting some music on while I’m charting, but nowadays it’s more ad than music without an ad blocker.

The bing trick was great - pull up a 2+ hour long full-playlist-in-one-video, and just let it run in the background… but that loophole got closed. But from the hospital’s perspective, they didn’t care if we did shit like that - they couldn’t give a rat’s ass if we slurped up all of Googles ads or not; they just don’t want any liability from a security or privacy standpoint.

In my case, not an option. Healthcare setting, patient info is all over by our work stations, so having personal devices out will get you accused of a HIPAA violation in a hurry - even if it doesn’t have a camera, people get paranoid.

People do still use personal devices at work, but I see em get burned for that semi-regularly.

This makes me realize I have no idea what poppyseed actually tastes like. I’ve had lemon poppyseed muffins/bread, which are delicious, but just taste like lemon - the poppyseed gives it a nice fine crunchy texture, but doesn’t make any detectable impact on the taste.

…and now I’m second-hand annoyed at OP’s situation of finding a product that promises to highlight that taste, but turns out to be more false fucking advertising.

I want the thing pictured in the wrapper!

Then again… random piss tests… probably not worth it.

Quietly

The developer made this change from a personal laptop at their local public library.

Shhhhhh.

33% of the US are traitors. Not just to the US, but all of humanity.

Trump (like Reagan) was literally an actor, before becoming President. It is not that surprising that Trump can “act” when given an opportunity which arises.

Well yeah… it looked like acting.

Ear wounds bleed like crazy. It could be just a little nick.

Little nicks still produce a scab. His ear was back to 100% in like 2 days. A fucking zit takes longer to heal than that.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

That rule absolutely does not apply to world leaders. He has mastered getting away with evil shit by playing the village idiot so people just brush it off as stupid.

It would also require the shooter to more-or-less agree to be murdered.

It would require him to agree to make an assassination attempt, fully expecting to take the shot and probably some elaborate escape plan – all without knowing his real instruction is to sit pretty while responding agents proceed to kill him. Again, outlandish and probably not how it actually went down, just an example of the kind of shit that’s less implausible than the official story, which is in direct conflict with what we saw plainly on national TV. ‘Ignore your eyes and ears’ and such.

We’ll see. Gen Z males showed up in force to vote for Trump in the 2024 election. Some of the younger ones are alright, but others are doing the whole Hitler Youth thing. Overall I couldn’t tell you if they’re any more or less shitty than any other generation, but their voting record isn’t off to a great start.

Few reasons:

• It played out like a cheesey action movie. Gunshot goes off, everyone dives down behind the podium for a sec where the cameras aren’t pointed, just long enough to pull a fake blood packet out of a pocket and also it onto his face. They emerge immediately after, everyone sporting an over-the-top expression of panic, except for stone cold badass Mr prez, who just pops up with a triumphant fist pump. (reminder, this is the same guy whose life flashed before his eyes as he was recoiling away from a bird on his desk that pecked in his direction)

• We never saw damage to the ear tissue, just blood streaked on the skin.

• Dude just casually climbs up to an extremely obvious vantage point with a long gun a stone’s throw away from someone under Secret Service protection, during an extremely public showing of an extremely controversial figure, and is allowed time to set up the shot.

• Days later the bandages came off to reveal there wasn’t so much as a scab, it was just magically healed up completely.

• So how would you make something like that look semi plausible? Kill someone in the audience. Trump doesn’t give a shit about his supporters or anyone else under his power. Firefighter? People fucking love firefighters - they’ll be real mad about that.

So… It smells enough like bullshit that I’m calling it bullshit. Could have been something like the gunman was an impressionable dipshit that they knew could be easily radicalized, convinced him to take the shot, and sent him up with a fake bullet. An actual sniper nearby, possibly inside that same building, had his gun trained square onto the firefighter from an angle that didn’t put Trump at any risk, and assassinated the pawn. Cheesey action movie scene plays out, dude on the roof gets killed by responding agents, and bam: Trump is a living martyr. Would only take a few key people to be in on it.

Outlandish? Absolutely, but less so than the official bullshit we were fed, and way more in character for Trump.

Never eat meat that looks like an oil slick

Beef and probably other red meats can get an oil-slick appearance pretty quickly from certain packaging. My very first job was grocery, part of which in the meat dept. This was always something that struck as odd: we’d get fresh (like bright red, truly fresh beef) that I’d personally cut and load it into those foam trays and plastic-wrap them. Come back the next day, and the trays I assembled would have this weird chromatic glisten like an oil slick, like they were starting to rot despite being on the shelf (refrigerated) for a single night. Dude in charge of the meat dept said it was something to do with it being sealed off from oxygen - it’d go away when cooked, and is totally fine to eat. (this could be total bullshit - but taking his word at face value. Grain of salt)

Actual rot has a similar chromatic glisten, but kinda permeates deeper into the tissue. When in doubt, the smell test will tell you everything you need to know.

Edit - getting downvotes, so just to clarify: I’m talking about mostly normal looking meat, but with that kind of multi-colored oily looking sheen. In NO WAY am I defending that strip of fucking road tar on the tray in OP’s photo.

No one said there wasn’t a shooter or bullet - would you put Trump above sacrificing a pawn for a photo op?

No of course not, gunshot wounds to the ear heal up completely with no scar tissue in like 48 hours all the time. One of the ER techs asked Grok.

I think those might have been bulls.

He should paint the walls red.

I think JD Vance should stay out of US affairs.

Any ideas on ways we can convince Amazon to pay its workers enough to survive?