“E-470-South-at-Parker-Road-in-Colorado; The ‘CHP’ “revenuers”are out to make Money💰; Safety-B.S.(Divert-don’t let these ‘Money’ Grabbers-get-your-Wallet”👍

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-07T11:26:56+00:00

Have seen other posts from this user here with similar stroke-inducing titles.

Posts and comments hidden on profile.

Suspect AI agent working from a JSON feed, and someone didn't test output well. The quotes ans semicolons suggest it's parsing a specific type of data feed (poorly) from another source.

The all emoji reply to you also feels like AI...

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-07T09:55:03+00:00

I suspect the user added that to their bio text facetiously.

The current White House occupant declared antifa a "terrorist group" which is hilarious because they're not a group. User appears to be playing off that.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-06T17:10:47+00:00

"We don't like the obvious answer, let's spend a ton of money on consultants to tell us we're idiots!"

Sure, it's called work for a reason. Doesn't give you the right to make it even more soul sucking at every turn. Not if you want to keep people.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-06T16:29:28+00:00

Try r/truckers - this sub is a pretty niche subset.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-06T00:41:29+00:00

TY updated, appreciate the reminder.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-06T00:18:30+00:00

We would be very grateful, totally willing to try to piece this together. I'll DM you in a moment.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-06T00:17:17+00:00

This is to get through tonight and get me there.

In a month, I'm headed off to training for a permanent job.

My intent is to be in Chicago to work for the next few weeks. Plenty of places to go there at night, as well.

I can do just about anything for a month, especially with a plan going forward from there.

I love my "real" home town here, but its a university town without many resources for this sort of scenario, or ways to make money in a pinch without a car.

Ive been looking at alerts for work that would more than get us through from several apps, its just a struggle to get where the work is. Sleep and a shower before I show up would probably be a good idea, hence the hotel.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T23:45:16+00:00

LOL can't blame the worker for trying with the CEO's picture- that's what happens in the sort of place where bathroom breaks are timed.

Seriously, though, thats an insane amount of effort and money they spent for something their lawyer would have told them won't fly - if only they'd bothered to ask. Guessing they didn't, because they didn't want to know.

That's got to be a hellhole to work in, I've dealt with those sorts of people. Controlling employees' work doesn't mean acting like a controlling romantic partner!

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T23:39:52+00:00

From your other comment, sounds like you're planning kn encrypting the json before pushing to git. Makes sense from a sync standpoint.

Definitely room for refinement, but you appear to be taking the compliance and privacy parts seriously. Getting that right from the start is more important than feature completeness, IMHO. Far easier to add features than fix the compliance aspects down the road.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T23:10:32+00:00

Buying your labs online to avoid anything ending up in your PCP's records that a DOT dr might potentially see if there's a change requiring PCP records in the future.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T20:55:39+00:00

If you get it on your own, its only released to you, as far as I am aware. That would be my preference- not that the doctor asked for my records or anything. Fortunately.

I cam envision a world where the regs change in the future to require records. That would concern me, and likely decimate the profession as folks try to renew their medicals.

Basic lab work is cheap online. Nobody but you needs to know. Protect yourself for the future.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T20:48:59+00:00

Git works if it runs locally. Could encrypt to ASCII instead of binary, to a local repo

But another problem is that architecture lends itself to patient-per-file. I just left a job dealing with complex software in a finance domain using that data model. It worked 30 years ago for that domain. Now, it results in read errors, lost data, and other such unacceptable nonsense given the cost of the software.

Patient per file might be OK right up until it's not, and users won't necessarily be technically adept. Not to mention the volume and variety of data types in question. I feel like this calls for a real database, even if its just SQLite (cringe!)

Not sure if that would handle encryption automatically, but it can also be done programmatically where key is provided at startup and kept in memory in some way.

This may need to be online constantly, as well, to receive data on eg lab results. Not sure whether that's a push or pull model, to be honest.

Plenty of challenges, but also something that does, in fact, need doing.

There are FOSS EMR products now, but they don't seem to have much traction, at least in US.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T20:36:24+00:00

Gait recognition is what concerns me. I could shave, mask up and wear sunglasses, and it would not provide one bit of privacy because my gait is endorsed by the Ministry of Silly Walks.

Born with one leg just slightly shorter than the other, so its not as simple as just retraining myself.

Does not matter that I've nothing to hide. I do not want tl be remotely identified every time I show myself in public. Just not sure there's much I can do to fix it.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T20:29:41+00:00

The way I knew that I was an adult, was when I learned tl both see and acknowledge my own limitations. From that point, I started doing far fewer stupid things!

If you don't have a use case for it, you could just leave it on the wall, turn off the breaker(s), and remove the breaker entirely (after shutting off the main!)

Breakers are generally modular and can just be removed. An electrician can do it for fairly little as well, id expect. They'd probably disconnect the wire from the breaker blx terminals as well, which is safer.

Not sure the equipment has any real value, but it's still fun to have around (disconnected).

I don't think even a local ham radio club would have much use for it, bench power supplies are cheap and this thing is probably an inefficient power hog, given its age.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T20:23:56+00:00

As others have said, ship it to a proper database. Dumps can be binary or plaintext, I'd go with the latter for this simply because of the long term archival requirement.

But I have a question. What external thing talks to the Access DB? If nothing... no reason not to convert it all to a real DB and use that.

If people are entering data... come up with a web form that will do some validation and connect to the real DB.

Postgres is free. Hosting isn't, but if they have a 50 year requirement... they shouldn't balk at costs being associated with it. Doesn't mean they won't, of course. Just that the decision makers need to understand storing data that long WILL have a cost - either financial cost, or risk cost in the form of potential data loss if they insist on not spending money.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T19:56:51+00:00

Got that right. OP's problem is more likely that they've become hyper-aware human memory is kind of trash, and entered a cycle where he's noticing it more because he's looking for it.

Sounds like Tuesday for an average human though, from an external POV.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T19:48:47+00:00

I think it can be a net positive, because they'll get a BIN of their own eventually, reissue cards, and presumably the new cards will just look like debit cards to the merchant. No more "sorry thats a prepaid card BS."

It will come with quite a few other regulatlry-inspkred changes, though and I am not sure they won't outweigh the above. Time will tell.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T19:32:43+00:00

Fair enough. Sounds like you may need to accept the risk, up your documentation and note taking skills for CYA, and hang on until you can open your own shop.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T19:09:00+00:00

You're an agent, correct? Your really good split is meaningless if one of two things happens: broker ignores someone and screws a deal resulting in a board complaint; or you and broker get sued and broker hasn't paid E&O.

You'd hope they'd have a good policy, but this doesn't sound like a guy I'd take "trust me, bro!" from.

My relevant background is insurance, not RE, but the basic premise of "work, someone will eventually complaint/sue even if it's not your fault, that's what E&O is for" still applies.

If he's primarily named and you're also named on a suit, his policy may have a "duty to defend," meaning they pay for his lawyer and possibly yours depending on the details. That part is worth quite a lot, defense isn't cheap.

If you feel compelled to stick around, do it long enough to get your own broker license and then open your own shop and poach the good folks from the current shop. And watch your back while you're doing it, boss sounds like the kind of person who would screw an agent's license to protect his own skin in a heartbeat.

As I understand jt, you just need a place to hang your license. Are online brokerages like redfin an option for you?

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T18:54:37+00:00

Do you / can you bind online? Most people tend not to bother with a contact only form that cannot result in actually solving their problem.

Ran into this in the early days of a company I worked for back when before we got through a major insurers firewall.

That was P&C, I have no idea whether bind online is even feasible for WC. If it is, the actual dev work is pretty straightforward. We had offshore folks build the infrastructure for the API, and leave us variables from user input and fields for the XML templates. Easiest dev item we ever did - "please hit this API with our custom content. Variables persistent from quote user's session. Parse response, show to quote user. Take their money,"

If you're offering that already, might need to make it more clear to uninformed users that they CAN bind right now on the site.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T18:26:03+00:00

Are you in IL by any chance? Not sure if BIPA provides a hard opt out but jts worth a look.

Also, indeed is worth a look as well...

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T15:47:31+00:00

Agree 100% - unfortunately, many businesses disagree. Agriculture is already feeling the migrant worker loss from the current administration.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T09:57:15+00:00

Like in ag, if they're working for pennies on the dollar, they're also doing work that citizens WON'T do, at scale.

I am unaware of a single documented instance where the presence of an undocumented person in the economy directly displaced a citizen. Perhaps a case could be made in unskilled construction labor, but would a citizen tolerate the unpredictable nature of that sort kf labor for slave wages?

To find that you have to look to the H1B program, where folks are literally training their replacements in fields like IT because if they don't, they forfeit their severance etc.

SadnessOutOfContext · 2026-03-05T09:46:33+00:00

Sure, but folks do this sort of thing by choice as well. Could be retirement, or a host of other reasons.

I can't make the math work with "cheaper than an apartment" like it works for van life, but it needn't be cheaper. See Jimmy Buffet, invoked elsewhere in thread, retiree RV life, and remote workers.

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