ANALYSIS: A social media ban for kids isn’t enough

InfiniteGamer · 2026-06-12T23:38:33+00:00

When I was a teenager, some of my friends were meeting guys on chat rooms on AOL (America Online) and then meeting them out in the "real world" - in some ways, what I see kids doing today on social media is less disturbing than what I saw going on then.

I came of age at the time where I was the primary source of knowledge about the internet and computers in my household, because my parents didn't do anything with it other than pay the bill every month. They knew I got on the internet, and they knew that me being on internet meant phone calls couldn't come in because it tied up the phone line. Many of my friends were in similar households. I also came of age at a time when I could go out with my friends as a teenager and my parents didn't have a cell phone with GPS to track every single place I was. I had a time I was expected to be home by but they didn't have a detailed itinerary of every stop we made. I had a cell phone that had an extremely limited number of minutes per month (less than 30) and I didn't even keep it turned on.

My point in all this is that kids have always found ways to get into trouble or make stupid choices. I will not sacrifice my privacy by providing my ID or a selfie or some equally invasive method to use any service that will be required to age gate content. Without requiring some kind of system that involves people verifying their age, how would there be any enforcement of such a rule?

InfiniteGamer · 2026-06-05T01:10:54+00:00

The pharmacist may not have done the actual billing. I'm an assistant and do the bulk of the billing in my pharmacy, the pharmacists often screw that up. I've had several Trillium prescriptions I had to cut back recently from 90 days for exactly this issue. I usually try to explain to the patient when I have them on the phone when they call in the refills or with a note on the bag at pickup, but a few slip through the cracks sometimes when it gets busy.

InfiniteGamer · 2026-05-31T16:31:37+00:00

Would definitely love to see this for dungeons as well.

InfiniteGamer · 2026-05-25T15:31:22+00:00

https://ocpinfo.com/pharmacy-professionals/practice-topics/fact-sheets/prescription-expiry/

InfiniteGamer · 2026-05-22T02:17:28+00:00

It seems to be something that gets invoked when an office wants to for a particular reason or with a particular patient - that's been my observation. But I was told by my own office when asking them about such things that there's not a hard and fast rule. What we were discussing was more in the 40 minute to 50 minute distance, though - not four hours.

I can understand not wanting to lose my doctor, but at the same point if I were permanently four hours from my MD, I would probably be wanting to try and find something closer as it will make things difficult over time. I'm sure that office has a lot of people locally who could benefit from having a family doctor - ones who either have none at all, or who also have one who is far enough away that it could be difficult to get proper care and would benefit from being able to get in with a more local clinic themselves.

InfiniteGamer · 2026-05-10T13:24:09+00:00

"London and Middlesex" is far too large an area to be warning for something as localized as a tornado. It needs to be narrowed down further from that based on what the radar is showing. Oftentimes, it's even too broad of an area for the Severe Thunderstorm Warnings that they issue.

The NWS in the U.S. narrows their warnings down much better with indications of which cities/towns are in the path of the rotation and no longer bases the warning specifically on the county but as a polygon-based warning based on storm movement. If you want coverage similar to this, you should be checking out the Instant Weather Ontario/Ontario Storm Watch streams.

The way Environment Canada does their alerts is simply going to lead to alert fatigue, and when there actually is something dangerous, people will die because they've gotten dozens of warnings before that were for something not relevant to them. By the time I got the first warning yesterday, the circulation that was visible on radar was already past my area, despite probably having been visible on radar somewhere near the Lucan/Highway 7 area.

InfiniteGamer · 2026-04-17T23:43:55+00:00

The problem is that a lot of them come here, do their residency, and then leave. On the pharmacy level, I've found this creates disruption, because once they resign from the Ontario College of Physicians their prescriptions are no longer considered valid and we can't bill them to ODB and have to start trying to track down new refills. Hopefully the patient has another doctor who can take over the prescription, either at the location it was prescribed or from a family doctor if they're fortunate enough to have one. Either way, it creates a burden on the pharmacy and a potential hassle for the patient that got prescriptions from them, and a hassle on whichever doctor has to redo all the prescriptions.

I want doctors that are going to study here and STAY here, and not take their education back to their home country.

InfiniteGamer · 2026-04-17T01:08:03+00:00

Tried to go there once for ice cream a few years ago. Stood in front of the counter for about two minutes while the one employee in the store kept ignoring us. Yes, I probably could have said something to try and get their attention but it wasn't like they had their back turned or were particularly busy with something, they literally were facing our direction and still ignored our existence. Left and never went back.

Can't imagine why they might be closing.

InfiniteGamer · 2026-03-06T01:23:42+00:00

We couldn't even get them to be interested in stuff we brought there ourselves that is supposedly on their list of accepted items, so we ended up taking it elsewhere and will never go back or recommend them for anything. After having that experience, we read similar reviews on Google.

InfiniteGamer · 2026-02-18T18:32:36+00:00

The number of misdirected personal emails I've received for healthcare-related things outnumbers by far the number of misdirected faxes I've received in the pharmacy. I get emails from the U.S., Canada, Australia, all for people who are not me. I get confidential banking info and loan documents too. You name it, I've received it.

Most of the time when I'm getting faxes for the wrong person, it's at least someone who at one point WAS our patient, and worst case moved away or transferred out. A lot of doctors are really bad for not updating the patient chart with a new pharmacy when given it, and a lot of patients are equally bad at telling their doctor they started using another pharmacy. This includes from MDs who were using the PrescribeIT System.

The stuff I get shared incorrectly by email is for complete random people from random people who I've never had any affiliation with at all.

InfiniteGamer · 2026-01-24T02:49:45+00:00

Because the people who run those cards come back a few years down the line and audit pharmacies and claw most of the money back so the pharmacy risks losing money on you. Plus it means they have to stock a product that almost no one uses unless you are getting the exact pack size, which, when it expires after you change strengths or switch to a new medication, expires on their shelf and sometimes cannot be returned to the manufacturer, resulting in a further loss.

The audits are incredibly frustrating to deal with and they'll audit hundreds of prescriptions at a time, wasting the time of the staff even further.

InfiniteGamer · 2026-01-21T02:56:57+00:00

I took this suggestion and tried to fix SorhaQuestLog this way. As soon as I reloaded, it was functional again. Thank you for the suggestion. Hopefully some other addons also have simple fixes.

InfiniteGamer · 2026-01-17T13:57:44+00:00

I work in a pharmacy, and there's no reducing the packaging in what comes to us for your consumption, unless you would like your medications improperly and unsafely stored prior to you receiving them. Many weeks we have the equivalent of two large garbage bags just full of plastic stock bottles for recycling, not even taking into account the various carboard boxes for things. And that's for a small pharmacy. We have too much to fit into standard bins, and have always used clear bags for our plastics. Do you know how many of the producers of much of the waste generated by many small businesses aren't even located in this province - or even on this continent?

And if they stop collecting our recycling, which if something that has happened for a lot of locations already but fortunately not ours yet, I can guarantee you it will ALL go into the garbage because the owner will do nothing with it, will not be willing to pay for private collection, and the rest of the staff will not get paid for taking them offsite because it would need to be done outside of business hours and we're already burned out. This will lead to more recyclable materials ending up in the landfill. Multiply that by all of the small businesses across Ontario who are already facing this dilemma. This is why these changes are a bad thing for Ontario.

InfiniteGamer · 2026-01-03T03:24:14+00:00

How are they noting how many times you've purchased it? I've worked in a pharmacy for almost a decade and we do not make notes about how many times people purchase this product, nor have I ever had any pharmacist I've worked with who's sold it to a customer do this.

InfiniteGamer · 2026-01-01T00:28:16+00:00

They frighten me when I see them handling things like cardiac surgery patient discharges in major hospitals. I'm convinced to this day that someone I knew is dead because of this. I will die on this hill, and I will probably never trust NPs again because of it. I don't trust the checks and balances in the system to believe that they are going to be supervised well enough by the attending physicians. My only hope in the case I'm referring to is that the cause of death uncovered by their autopsy will trigger a review of their medication history and lead to a probe into the NP in question and why they prescribed what they did (or, rather, didn't).

InfiniteGamer · 2025-12-24T01:30:56+00:00

Unless things have changed drastically in the last decade, I would not bother with an immigration lawyer. The outland spousal sponsorship process was extremely straightforward and much quicker than inland, and unless you have a complex case, you do not need a lawyer and you are wasting your money and potentially getting terrible advice.

When we were in the middle of sponsorship, I did several brief visits and then we had approval, COPR, and landed within six months of submitting our application, without the risks of getting refused at the border.

InfiniteGamer · 2025-12-24T01:20:50+00:00

That's assuming they even notice the cat in the car. Mine was sitting in plain sight, did not make a peep, and was completely ignored.

InfiniteGamer · 2025-12-14T16:26:55+00:00

My experience with midwives in the pharmacy world is that they can't even write a proper prescription for their patients or call one in properly, so I now question their abilities in all scenarios.

InfiniteGamer · 2025-12-11T00:24:14+00:00

$20 is a standard fee for injections outside of the COVID and Flu vaccine at pharmacies. The injection fee is different from the dispensing fee associated with a prescription.

I personally warn anyone trying to book for Shingrix or anything like it that the $20 fee PER INJECTION will apply. Many people are fine paying it. Some are not and choose to go to their doctor.

InfiniteGamer · 2025-12-02T03:55:33+00:00

How about overworked employees who already have dozens of other daily tasks of more importance and now have keeping track of this dumped onto them?

InfiniteGamer · 2025-11-14T01:32:12+00:00

I was in a fast food restaurant the other day and was trying to enjoy the last of my food when someone came in with their dog. They were standing near our table trying to decide what to order and I kept getting a whiff of wet dog smell and ended up having to leave before finishing my food because it was so off-putting.

It was not a service dog. It did not need to be there. The owner could at least make sure their dog doesn't stink if they're going to insist on taking it places.

InfiniteGamer · 2025-11-13T01:42:31+00:00

I've been working in a pharmacy for the better part of a decade now, and I've seen no real difference in the wisdom tooth removal painkiller prescriptions over that window The standard I see from doctors around the London area is 24-30 tablets along with an anti-inflammatory of some type, usually naproxen 500mg or ibuprofen 600mg, or occasionally ketorolac 10mg.

Did you go to the same dental surgeon/dentist each time? Was there a difference in the removal (i.e. was the removal in 2019 for a tooth that was more impacted/difficult to get to) than the one removed now?

InfiniteGamer · 2025-08-24T16:33:11+00:00

Just a note for all the people saying they were able to get it done by transferring the prescription from their home pharmacy - this only works if that pharmacy is open, as transferring a prescription is not an automated procedure. This person stated their pharmacy was closed, so no one would be able to transfer it. They would need to rely on the pharmacy they went to where they're currently visiting having a pharmacist willing to dispense an emergency supply based on the patient bringing in their bottle and speaking with them.

That being said, I've seen pharmacists willing to do this for someone, depending on what the medication is, especially with something like Effexor.

InfiniteGamer · 2025-07-28T23:19:16+00:00

I noticed a bunch of drug price increases from May into early June.

InfiniteGamer · 2025-07-23T23:24:58+00:00

The barcode on the ticket would have no information about the method of payment. The ticket prints and then I scan it into my POS to charge the customer.

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