SARGE

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck it I'm buying it now.

Half life 2 was my first "I can't wait to get home and play" game, despite having played so many games from basically 97 onward.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It seems like every time it goes on sale, I am either between contracts or just not able to justify the unnecessary expense.

Now that I have more stable employment it hasn't gone on sale.

Honestly this by itself might be enough to make me pay full price.

I wonder how long it took, considering they wrote a script to convert the original transcription into PZ usable stuff.

10/10 mod, no pattern buffer for you.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Having worked in quite a few fields in the last 15 years or so, it's the same active shooter training they give everyone. Even in stores that sell guns.

I'll let the reader decide how fucked up it is that there's basically a countrywide accepted "standard response"

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So they’ll have to give her a job again. But then she won’t be homeless anymore.

I can confirm, having a job (or 3) does not provide a home.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 49 points 1 week ago

you can only do that so many times before you run out of money, materials, water, or places to build

That's someone else's problem. Hopefully someone after they're dead, but as long as they have their golden parachute, who cares?

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 23 points 1 week ago

As an American, what the fuck are you talking about?

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good to see the police openly lying

..... Have they ever done anything else?

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's right up there with calling Epsteins victims "underage women" instead of CHILDREN

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 25 points 2 weeks ago

I read them, UN.

So there's at least one more!

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There was on one that I've been in, not sure about this one.

From my understanding, when an MRI is emergency stopped it doesn't stop immediately, and it causes a lot of damage, so staff are less likely to use it in an emergency. Stupid, yes. But when you're worried about getting fired for hitting a button, you're less likely to think of a situation as an emergency. You would think "chain strangling a man" constitutes an emergency though...

As for the staff not stopping the guy making a beeline for the door with more than just words, I'm not sure. I would prefer staff tackle me to the floor rather than let me blithely walk to my doom. Of course I'm only in my 30s...

The hospital is absolutely partly to blame, especially if they didn't properly convey the danger beforehand. All 3 hospitals I've recieved an MRI from have been pretty insistent about making sure I have no metal on or around me before I go in the doors though.

I'd say it's about 60/40 on the hospital.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 50 points 3 weeks ago

Tldr for safety

To actually answer your question instead of piling on, it's a hospital, not a prison. In case of emergencies, the door absolutely cannot ever be potentially locked, even while the machine is on.

With how easily something can go wrong in an MRI, they need quick access without the addition of special keya/badges to get inside or relying on people inside to hit some lock release.

In cases like this it makes perfect sense to have a lock because an idiot was outside and ignored all the warnings. A lock would have prevented everything that followed him entering.

Buuuuuuut unfortunately we can't cater the entire world to the biggest idiots, if only for the safety of the less idiotic who might have a heart attack in the MRI and need to be quickly pulled out, or a piece of metal that snuck into their food and is now ripping out their insides.

In most situations where an emergency happens inside, quick reactions save lives, and locks slow reactions down to the slowest mechanism, which might be "I don't have the right RFID badge, go find another person who has one or the guy inside dies"

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 101 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

how did it not throw up red flags all around letting this guy wear it around that machine.

He wasn't allowed in the room.

His wife panicked in the MRI, he charged into the room he was told not to go Into.

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