Depends on who you’re seeing, what time, etc. for a GP you’re waiting as long as the ones in front of you take. I actually don’t mind that so much, in my case it’s because my regular gp hates metrics and doesn’t give a fat shit what the clinic wants. He takes as long as is needed with each patient (and bills them all as standard consults) Unfortunately he also sees a lot of little old ladies, so sometimes it blows out.

Recently found out we were inadvertently exposed to a shitton of lead dust. Monday we decided to get tested, yesterday (Tuesday) morning i got the consult, gp wrote me up the paperwork, I scooted the while four meters to the phlebotomist, they took blood and urine, should hear back today /tomorrow, already received my medicare refund. Same with hubs, although he tacked on getting his flu/rsv and latest covid vaccinations done at the same time. Australia here for the record.

Not even piracy. Accusations thereof.

Got a a pair of sennheisers old enough to vote

It’s the same thing apple’s Find My runs on. Devices bounce off each other like the fires of gondor

You do realise that the behaviour you’re describing is largely programmed, yes?

Apart from the urge to blow loads everywhere

This is what happens when you take a gender, destroy their ability to develop emotional regulation and meaningful connections outside of the sexual and then dump them online in a slow rolling apocalypse.

The ones who haven’t found a way out have killed themselves or gravitated to mad idolatry of shysters and fools to fill the dopamine void.

We have failed our men.

So your line is at “feels pain on a level identifiable to something in the animal kingdom”

This…plants feel pain. Mushrooms may actually be sentient. Everyone draws their own lines, it doesn’t make them better or worse.

air raid sirens

Do you want morlocks? 'Cos that’s how you get morlocks

I’d believe it. I tripped over a cat, stepped on a food bowl correcting myself, staggered closeau-like across the room and slammed into the back of a kitchen chair.

5mm rotator cuff tear.

They do get they’re not dealing with a generation used to ad breaks any more, right?

I gave chatgpt a burl writing a batch file, the stupid thing was putting REM on the same line as active code and then not understanding why it didn’t work

Hard agree, BOTW in particular was spectacular. The Great Plateau.

Bite each others dicks off

See, there’s still a niche for the internal combustion engine over electric. Good luck driving your tesla in a blackout!

Pulp, twice, but they’ve only been in my country twice. 17 years apart.

Nah. Been working in tech for nearly 30 years, “tech bro” is a delineation. Keeps the fuckers from smearing the rest of us

Mate, i did 12 hours overtime last week and still got my game on.

…My UPS kicks in.