Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I’ve spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.

Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.

Just don’t ask who what’s in the pattern buffer.

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  • 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.


  • 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”





  • I stopped being “Proud to be an American” when I started learning more than my Christian republican parents or Bible belt education system taught me.

    While nothing that came before I was born was my fault, it’s certainly nothing to be proud of, and nothing that has been happening since has been much better.

    Sure, we haven’t directly been carrying out genocide, but we sure support it! With the very arms used to carry it out, and intelligence support, and so on.

    We haven’t been enslaving huge swatches of people for arbitrary traits, but we sure do enslave imprisoned people which also due to socioeconomic reasons and good old fashioned racism also happen to be a large percentage of people with aforementioned arbitrary trait.

    We may not have been openly declaring war on everyone, but we sure do like to interfere with special military operations and sabotage. Yesterday’s supported insurgencies are tomorrow’s enemies who have every reason to hate us.

    Saying you’re “Proud to be an American” today is a flashing neon sign that says “I’m a racist piece of shit who hates everyone who isn’t exactly like me”


  • That’s actually a common misconception.

    It’s not because Japanese ninjas are bad at being ninjas, it’s just that other countries ninjas are completely invisible to the naked eye.

    Obviously we all know we can see our own country’s ninjas, but other countries are invisible.

    Thanks to years of cultural import/export, most humans can naturally see Japanese ninjas.

    So congrats, if you can see a Japanese ninja, you’re actually just close to being a weeb.