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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.catoScience Memes@mander.xyzSteady
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    2 days ago

    class 5- obviously dead people. They can’t get any deader, so no real rush.

    Okay, but who am I supposed to call if someone just died in my home? Does the coroner have a non-emergency number for me to call “Hey, my mom just died. If you could send someone out to confirm whenever you have time that would be great.”



  • “Planet X (Planet 9) exists and explains gravitational pull”

    Weird conspiracy theories were not taught at my school.

    Also:

    In 2017, a photograph appeared to prove that Amelia Earhart survived her plane crash and was taken prisoner by the Japanese. However, it was later proven that the photo was taken two years before her disappearance, leaving the mystery unsolved.

    Updated understanding emerged around 2010

    The updated understanding emerged 7 years before the photo appeared?

    This is why websites need downvotes.









  • Anyone using a phone hates clankers.

    There’s one automated system I need to call regularly at work that does not give me the option of dialing numbers and forces me to speak to it. It lists the options it can understand, but I can’t just press a number to move on. Then it asks me to say and spell my first name, then say my last name (which it guesses the spelling of incorrectly) and pretends to type while it’s processing. Why are we doing this?




  • Funeral Homes hate the Government.

    They are incredibly rude to the families receiving financial assistance, it takes 3 months for them to pay us, and did you know that if you don’t have a will they cut your step-children out of the process entirely?

    We had one gentleman in our care whose only living family was his step-daughter. Because there were no blood relatives and no will the Public Guardian took control of his disposition and the step-daughter had no say in anything that happened with him. Wasn’t allowed to keep a portion of the ashes, the Funeral Director had to fight just to allow the step-daughter a brief final visitation.

    This is also true for children under 18. Your 17 year old child has no say in your disposition if you have no other living relatives.

    Have a will people, if for no other reason than to allow your loved ones to decide how they will grieve rather than some indifferent bureaucrat.



  • Todays computer illiterate workforce is doomed to be incompetent because they don’t understand how their main tool works. Nobody bothered to train them.

    There also so many things restricting the usage of the tool. Every week my scanner tells me it has a new software update and I cannot install a simple update without admin access, so I have to call help desk and have them remote into my computer so they can click the “ok” botton.

    Everything is so walled off there’s no reason to learn how any of it works because you have no access. When the security bios update (forget what it was called) fucked everyone’s computers last year I found a fix online and could have easily went to several locations and got them up and running, but no one on site has the access to boot into safe mode and instead we all just sat on hold with help desk for 2 days waiting for IT to do the thing I already knew how to do.