Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The death penalty (Was: AI Swallows Them Up Even Faster Than Systemd) Date: 11 Oct 2026 17:21:19 GMT Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <18db5db26a2692d1$5056$2296832$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <11aaefn$m1ol$1@dont-email.me> <11abgl7$3g94e$1@news.xmission.com> <11acu39$1if1i$1@dont-email.me> <11afjf5$2f5dd$16@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net EenTeOSwqo4TD/VFppJgdQu2H6MgknogzYAi2pxfdo6j+R+bNz Cancel-Lock: sha1:4F0Egyhuxq+WnbxNElRagEAVq5o= sha256:Lw8GVMYv56RCUWv9QIcoe5r1spegu2JBxjZZqqZH19E= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:93417 On Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:04:37 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 10/10/2026 20:05, rbowman wrote: >> On Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:47:37 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> >>> On 10/10/2026 02:17, rbowman wrote: >>>> The report I read is she had difficult veins and asked the >>>> technician to try higher up in her shoulder. It's possible he missed >>>> the vein altogether. >>> >>> An incompetent nurse failed 5 times to get a catheter into my vein >>> till her boss took over... >>> I would mention her ethnicity, except the best catheter insertion ever >>> was perfomed by a student nurse from the same (ethnic) background >> >> No ethnics were involved but three OR nurses were unsuccessful. The >> fourth had no problem. When I complimented her she said she had started >> as a phlebotomist before moving up to the OR. My veins look good but >> they're shy. I wouldn't make a good junkie. > > I was always afraid I *would*, so I steered clear of opiates. My preference back in the day was on the other side of the fence, rather than stupor producing substances. Years ago my dentist would prescribe oxycontin or similar stuff after an extraction or root canal. I still have them, saved for a very rainy day. Those days are over. The day after hip surgery they offered Tylenol. That never did much for me so I passed.