But then I just keep thinking of the Hospital scene in Idiocracy. And the state of our “healthcare” system, and well, it all makes sense.

They get paid, big, by the hour, and we’re still waiting.

This guy is taking it way too nicely. I’d be shouting expletives from every account I owned.

I prefer Doom Metal.

Day dosing more like it.

I blurted it out in a chat one day in reference to something, and realizing it would be a clever band name or something… Well when I need a new identity to serve as a vehicle for my current creative output, here we are. I realized that it was at least somewhat clever and oddly not taken anywhere. So I am running with it.

shameless plug: doomcough.bandcamp.com :P

Shoulda seen that swerve coming. Go ahead and take it Solo.

You’re done Roman? Good , go away! :)

I think it may be time to just delete all online accounts and only use internet for streaming video and audio or shopping/banking. Doing anything social online has been grossly monetized and I hate it. If fediverse gets attacked by yet another megacorp, I’m out I have no fight or energy left. Been online since dialup bbs, ran my own, forums and personal sites too. Plenty of IRC channels and other communities. But I just don’t care anymore. I have very few IRL friends and pretty much zero online anymore as they all settled into FB and I ditched out years ago. Dropping this really isn’t more than nuking a distraction. I still have a lot of unread books. Shrug.

And in that vein. I should probably just go do the commute to work as a ride to see how it feels and how long it will take me. Not a bad idea.

I need to do a nice shake down run as it also doubles as my commuter and has racks and such. I intend to probably start trying to commute again as my commute has more than doubled and I want to give this new run a try.

And then maybe go follow it up with a nice bike ride after breakfast. I haven’t had the gravel bike out in months as it’s been prime single track season. But I figured I might change it up for the day.

It was so much more innocent when it was pineapples on mastodon a few years back… Never understood that one either.

I’ve heard variations of this going back 30 years in the automotive repair business. I often paraphrase a version of it when cutting some corners or doing things in a weird way that saves time and energy, but maybe isn’t the safest. Probably not the original intent but…

That’s not entirely true. I have twice in the last year had no other option than to install an app to use tickets I purchased. An many medical services refuse to do anything that isn’t online or via an app. It’s getting to be harder and harder to not need a mobile device. It’s getting pretty stupid. Theine has been crossed already. I lived half my life without internet, I’d survive without it. But the world isn’t headed in a direction that makes it feesible anymore unless you just completely check out.