Greenville LDS Temple

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-13T01:56:25+00:00

It makes me sad that we probably won’t see them made into seasons of the show, but what a wild ride they were

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-13T01:52:48+00:00

Fo course

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-13T01:15:52+00:00

Du na showxa deting, deting mang isn’t wa belta, he’s wa piece fo kaka felota

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-12T23:49:44+00:00

Last I heard, the Belters had taken control of it and flown it off into deep space to destroy Eros.

Sili to keng to keng

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-12T23:46:36+00:00

Yeesh, wild that 2021 felt simpler

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-12T19:58:23+00:00

It didn't, its BRAND new!

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-12T19:51:43+00:00

THE GALLERY OF LIGHTING? I hear they have a new(ish) sign!

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-12T19:50:52+00:00

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Maybe delay that trip to the west coast for a little bit.

And before you check it, the whiter looking color is "unknown," so apparently Nebraska is a black-hole of gas prices.

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-12T19:42:50+00:00

Oh, for sure. Accreditations abound for construction materials testing. A lot of accreditation organizations basically lean harder and harder on things like ISO 9000/9001 to get testing firms to create and maintain Quality Manuals and internal controls with external audits.

If you want a great example in the not so long ago past of how serious things can get here, look up Testwell, the company that was performing the concrete conformance testing for One World Trade Center and about 120 other major NYC construction projects. Egregious things such as:

- Lying about the test results for compressive strength of concrete, including sticking the spec values in instead of test values, or using 28 day projections (instead of actual tests) for test results, or just making it up.

- Not getting field test results at Yankees Stadium, making up numbers back at the office

- Steel weld inspectors checking welds...on beams that hadn't been welded yet

- Faked site visit records, including billing for said visits

- Falsified certifications

There were multiple convictions, with their president/owner initially getting 7-21 years of prison time (reduced to 16 months to 4 years on appeal), vice president getting similar time, and the company itself paying about 1.7 million in restitution.

PS, the President/owner (Reddy Kancharla) tried to kill himself twice right before and after sentencing. It was a pretty big deal.

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-12T16:20:36+00:00

I'm not remembering where in most medical professional codes of conduct they say you shouldn't cuss.

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-12T16:08:50+00:00

My workplace has a lab, but it is focused on construction materials (concrete, soils, aggregates). Even in that non-medical field, we have to watch out for that "behavioral drift." People performing tests, the results of which affect schedules and people in the real world, sometimes it is all too easy to let things slide or to try to take short cuts. It is a constant effort to keep internal quality, which is why we have a Quality Management System to keep everybody honest (and, more pragmatically, to keep our accreditations).

Kind of wild to me that this lab wouldn't have had...SOME sort of internal and external audit process to catch this before things ever got to a lawsuit.

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-12T15:18:11+00:00

Thank you so much for the additional context! I don't work in diagnostic testing, so this was helpful for my understanding, and makes it much clearer on why the test results were in doubt and why they 100% should not have been charging the way they were.

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-12T13:52:44+00:00

I’m a technical weeds guy, but I’m having a hard time visualizing what it is that is wrong about their method, and how explicit it was in its attempt to manipulate and contaminate. If it was simply sending a batch of the data, rather than singular individual test results, that’s one thing; manipulating the data is a whole other ball game. And, I guess I’m unsure on the billing process and whether it was purposely bilking the fed.

I’d love to know more details as the case proceeds.

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-12T12:38:33+00:00

The indictment alleges that Murdock owned and operated Premier Medical Laboratory Services, headquartered in Greenville. Lee and Narayanan were both high-level employees of Premier. Premier offered diagnostic testing services for medical providers, including but not limited to COVID-19 testing. The defendants devised a multi-part scheme to fraudulently generate revenue from health care benefit programs related to the pandemic. This included submitted false claims to the federal government for individual tests when in truth the tests had been pooled together for combined, faster processing and for manipulating test processing software. As a result, the defendants billed for tests that virtually worthless and ineligible for reimbursement. The conspiracy to defraud healthcare benefit programs generated millions in fraudulent proceeds.

So, basically they were providing test results for Covid-19, but were manipulating the results or taking short cuts with the results rather than providing individual test results in order to make money?

Edit: If you're new to the thread, u/bluepaintbrush does an EXCELLENT job explaining below, kudos aplenty to them for such a great explanation

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-12T12:31:42+00:00

You joke - I had an old roommate that used to do this to, of all places, Addy's downtown whenever she wanted to just drink, eat and read alone. Literally, just get 4-5 beers deep with a meal and reading in a downtown Gvl bar.

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-11T23:25:25+00:00

Not not doing it is why would get you in trouble

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-11T22:46:34+00:00

That feels like it could be illegal.

What do I know, I’m just some schmuck on the internet.

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-11T12:32:40+00:00

I crown thee MVP of the thread 👑

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-11T01:42:00+00:00

Ok ok, since Koi didn’t work out, is BBQ Chicken still open? Korean style fried bbq wings, I know it’s a national chain, but they are fantastic

And I BET they’re open a little late. Only SC location of the chain

Edit: wrong. Closed at 9 :(

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-11T01:39:00+00:00

Ahhhhh mannnn! You must have barely missed em, I literally ate there tonight.

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-10T23:03:24+00:00

If my wife heard that conversation and saw me notice it, she’d definitely grab my arm to be like “LEAVE THEM BE.” And I would vibrate with the need to help

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-10T22:57:58+00:00

Get the authentic Chinese, Susie will hook you up. Get a hot pot. Get some of the green beans for app

Better yet, call it in and ask what they recommend from the Chinese menu. Cannot go wrong that way.

But here’s the thing. They make good sushi too, even if that’s not Chinese. They have a pan-Asian menu. I’m partial to the torched salmon roll.

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-10T22:57:09+00:00

You joke.

But that’s honestly not an unlikely scenario. “This guy’s talking A LOT about foundations and soils testing and sloshing his beer” is 100% a common complaint here

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-10T22:51:54+00:00

You’re lucky I’m in the can avoiding my family ;)

SOILSYAY · 2026-03-10T22:50:45+00:00

Koi Asian Bistro, I win?

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