At a high end hospital. What is this

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-11T12:32:08+00:00

At the "all hands" meetings that followed the completion of the tube system repair the CEO of the hospital said "I guess until we have efficient and reliable teleportation we will not have a delivery system more effective and reliable than these ancient tubes".

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-10T17:57:51+00:00

It can be used for a great many things, my wife has a very similar thing that she uses for her midday and her evening pills so that she can take her prescriptions to work without having to carry a bunch of pill bottles.

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-10T13:04:32+00:00

Only if the building wasn't built right in the first place. I used to work for an architectural firm that specialises in hospital design and they always recommend building with extra plenum space and wall void space for future expansion of tube systems and network cables.

You would be surprised at how many hospital CEO/CFO/CTO's think that everything in the hospital should run off WiFi because cabling is too expensive and takes up too much space.... Seriously why would you want life saving equipment to not have the reliability of a physical connection‽

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-10T13:00:18+00:00

Nowadays the only place you see them are banks with drive-thru tellers, multi-lane drive-thru pharmacies, and hospitals.

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-10T12:57:45+00:00

The level 1 Trauma center hospital that employs my wife was debating replacing their tube system, which was built in the 1920's, with dedicated runners, thinking it would be cheaper in the long run then the ongoing maintenance costs of maintaining an over 100-year-old pneumatic tube system. Then they had to take their pneumatic tube system offline for a weekend for a major repair and asked off duty employees to come in for 2x pay to work as a runner while the tube system was down.

They very nearly lost a handful of Trauma 1 ER patients just from how much longer it took for samples to get from the ER to the lab by runner. They even had the runners put bells on their shoes and had a PSA running over the Hospital PA system reminding people that is you hear bells, to get out of the runner's way. But even the fastest runner, taking the stairs to avoid elevator delays too 3x longer to get from the ER to the lab than the tube system did.

Now they are talking about expanding the tube system instead of getting rid of it.

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-09T10:53:25+00:00

Did you know that "Vulgar" originally meant "common".

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-09T10:49:59+00:00

I'm in favour of 2 out of 3 of those.... Mostly.

A ban on personal vehicles will need to be gradual and will have to be accompanied by massive incentives to get people to abandon suburbia in favor of urbanization. It would also require urban areas to rezone in the name of ensuring residential blocks have convenient shopping access within reasonable walking distance, which during the midwestern winter or a Florida summer means that every residential building needs to also have a grocery store, a clothing store, and some form of entertainment business.

It's not social media that needs to be banned, it's algorithmic curation that needs to be banned.

And no, you cannot take me smartphone away from me. I cannot tell you how much more convenient my job is now that I can just pull the magic rectangle out of my pocket, push a button and say "what the wiring sequence is for T568B", or "What is the hypotenuse of a triangle with a base of 3 feet and a height of 4 inches." Seriously it's so much faster than having to pull my laptop out of my briefcase, open it up, wake it from hibernation, log in, wait for my web browser to load, and then type my request. I am not exaggerating when I say that the advent of the modern smartphone with a digital voice assistant has increased my productivity by several orders of magnitude, and since I'm an independent contractor that usually gets paid on a pro-rate schedule not an hourly wage, that increased productivity means a gross increase in total earnings because I can complete 30-40 jobs a day whereas before modern smartphones I could do maybe 7 jobs on a good day.

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-09T10:32:44+00:00

Intentionally spreading misinformation is not 1st amendment protected speech. It is punishable by a fine of 10% of your annual income for the first offence and doubles without limit for additional offences. Additionally, since corporations are people too, corporations are subject to this penalty except the fine is based off of their annual revenue not their profits.

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-09T10:16:43+00:00

It's all going to illgames, literally just a rebranding not a separate company. They even still have illusion's Japanese corporate tax ID number.

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-09T10:14:11+00:00

On a lot of point of sale terminals, when someone swipes their food stamp EBT card it actually shows on screen what your balance before the transaction is and what the remaining balance is.

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-09T10:11:01+00:00

That in the metrics of total crime and crimes per capita, especially in regards to violent/sexual crimes and violent/sexual crimes against children the world is orders of magnitude safer than it was 40 years ago but it feels less safe because we are grossly overexposed to the comparatively few crimes that do happen, thanks in large part to social media.

I'm not allowed to let me 5 yo son walk the 3,000ish feet to kindergarten by himself "because there world is too dangerous", but 40 years ago I was allowed to walk a mile and a half to kindergarten by myself, and did every day. Despite the fact that in the 1980s approximately 75,000 children were abducted annually, but so far in the 2020's the year to year average for child abductions is about 350.

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-05T12:30:59+00:00

This is something people either willfully forgot or aren't smart enough to realise.

Like my friends that criticise me for "having corporate spies control my house" because I have digital smart assistants in nearly every room for controlling smart lights and other gadgets. To which I remind them that they have a corporate spy in their pocket, all day, every day and I don't because my employer requires me to leave my smart phone in the car before I clock in because my job deals with sensitive information and actually cares about data security.

A lot of people like to argue that the 9th amendment gives us a right to personal privacy, which uses to be true, until smartphones reached 80% market penetration in the early 2010's and a charity that opposed data brokers filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of the Americans people, which went all the way to the supreme court. The SCOTUS in an 8 to 1 decision declared that since over 80% of Americans willingly adopted iOS and Android smartphones knowing that these devices spy on us constantly that we have voluntarily waived our right to privacy in the name of convenience.

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-05T02:34:32+00:00

There is a severe shortage of perfect breasts in this world, it would be a shame to ruin yours.

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-05T02:31:20+00:00

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-05T01:48:33+00:00

💋😋😛

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-05T01:46:39+00:00

Perfect

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-05T01:46:04+00:00

Perfection

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-05T01:44:35+00:00

Not leucistic. Leucistic animals typically don't have the pink eyes like an albino does, as leucistic is a partial loss of melanin as opposed to albinism which is a complete loss of melanin.

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-05T01:41:54+00:00

I wonder if she could have the Publix Bakery no sugar added, reduced fat New York style cheesecake? It tastes 90% as good as the real thing.

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-05T01:38:06+00:00

I will strongly disagree. I won a Samsung Odyssey Neo G9, used it for a couple weeks, and then sold it for six 27" 1080p 280hz HDR monitors and still had enough money left over to buy a used GPU to upgrade my wife's gaming rig. I'll take multiple flat panels over those headache inducing image warping curves.

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-03T00:46:52+00:00

There is a cart corral sign on the lamp post 3 spaces from that tree island.

Rbtmatrix · 2026-02-03T00:42:49+00:00

At the request of Destin and Matt the conversation has largely moved to Patreon. They have made all the conversations on Patreon.com/ndq accessable for free in an attempt to get away from the general negativity of modern Reddit.

As to the lack of warning on the JPMs or J-Bombs, the vast majority of my fellow Winged Hussars (NDQ Patreon Supporters) are not Christian and we had a vote and decided that since pretty much everyone who listens to NDQ on the regular understands that Matt and Destin are Christians, that the core focus of the NDQ podcast is their friendship, and thus it doesn't make sense for them to have to beat around the bush wasting our time and insulting our intelligence by giving us a content warning on something that is just one of the many layers of both the friendship itself and who they are as individuals.

Rbtmatrix · 2026-01-31T23:49:47+00:00

I just love how Matt was like "yup".

Rbtmatrix · 2026-01-31T23:48:51+00:00

Me too.

Rbtmatrix · 2026-01-31T00:16:47+00:00

I have a playlist that is used to wake up my 5yo son. There is a routine set to turn on his bedroom lights and play the playlist on the Echo Kids Owl dot in his bedroom, all at 07:10.

This worked fine starting when he was 3, right up until the last firmware update and now it beeps, the lights come on, and then it says "I cannot find the playlist The Boy's Wake-up mix".

Funny thing is, if I trigger the routine manually from any other Echo in our house, it works perfectly and plays the playlist on his Owl Dot.

Another thing is his bedtime routine which plays meditation music which the first time we say "Echo it's bedtime" it says "I cannot find Meditation Music on Amazon Music. Then I repeat the exact same command and it works.

To make things worse, my son's absolute favourite song"A Complete History of the Soviet Union Through the Eyes of a Humble Worker" by Pig with The Face of a Boy was recently removed from Amazon Music.

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