The way I’ve heard hospital staff is pushed to the limit for 18 hours plus at a time (in america), 3 string cheeses in a quiet elevator sounds like a luxury. The medical complex is held together by threads, specifically strings (of cheese).
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I have 2 nurse friends and can confirm, this tracks.
don’t think an employee would just throw the wrappers on the floor though I suspect it was a visitor
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The other day I rewatched an episode of the old Ewoks cartoon and I realize now every time I think of the theme song, it automatically goes like this in my mind:
We are the E-E-E-E-E-E-Ewoks
We’re the Killers of the Flower Moon
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My partner works at a high school and she said the custodian, who’s like a 60 year old lady, told her she couldn’t wait for Titanic 2 to come out. She had seen the trailer on facebook and was excited. My partner then explained that it was a fake trailer and the movie wasn’t real. The custodian was disappointed but said oh well, at least the trailer for Twilight 6 I just saw on facebook was real
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To add a log to the techno fire:
My partner works at a garden center. She has told me about something similar, in that older people have been asking for plants that do not exist because they saw an AI generated image on Facebook.
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I encounter this while supervising my kid’s YouTube consumption all the time. “So this video is showing Playstations after the Playstation 5. Someone has made them up. They don’t exist. They’re not real.” “Herobrine is a myth. It’s a fun idea, but it doesn’t exist in the game.” “That’s not the Sonic 4 movie trailer.” Sometimes I feel like a killjoy, but I try to turn it back to the fun of creativity (what would your Playstation 6 be?) rather than (at least sometimes) the despair of people using AI to shovel crud for views.
When I was his age, I debated someone on the bus about whether a black and white show (I think The Three Stooges) was happening live as we saw it on TV. Now it feels like we get to have a lot of conversations about what is real again.
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At work got a call from a patient upset because she went to see her doctor and said the doctor was wearing shorts. That doesn’t sound right and also not connected to my role at all
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Isn’t the point of Chicago that you never have to wear shorts
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I’m visiting my parents for a week and today a jury duty summons for me was delivered to their address. I haven’t lived in this house since 2020 and haven’t lived in this state since 2022.
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I had a similar thing happen to me! When I was helping my sister go through my parents’ stuff when my dad died we found not one but two jury duty notices for me, one from 2004 and the other from 2021! And I hadn’t lived in the same city as them since 2006, or in the same country as them since 2019! Kinda glad neither resulted in something wild like an arrest warrant like they always warn you it will!
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I’ve had this family computer box lid since 2008 when I imported my first console. Since then, the styrofoam underside has been tossed, and this lid had been been to death. I’ve been using it to top a wooden wine box under my bed in my van for seven years. What should I even do with it now?
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i’ve had the lines “ribet, ribet, i can not hold it,
the last toilet that i had i’ve already sold it.
in the rain and in the snow, i got that flunky flow,
but now, i really gotta go-ooo”
stuck in my head on and off for the past few hours at work.
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So…
We used two lunch boxes to store some left over cooked ham.
My wife wrote on both, with permanent marker:
- Pets’ Ham
- Family Ham
to distinguish who got what.
We lost the Pets’ Ham container, so we live with a superfluous Family Ham adjective.
“Family Ham” has sort of become our family motto, like that you’d put under the family coat of arms.
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I lost my day journal and it has deeply unsettled my sense of daily rhythm and sense of grounding.
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that does not sound very goofy 
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