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It’s a padded room

That’s just what I received on my receiver. I’m not affiliated with the hospital at all, so no clue why they were doing it that way.

I was seeing patient names, room numbers, and reason for admission. Not always, but often enough.

Most pager systems are actually huge privacy violations. $20 for a software defined radio dongle and a few minutes will give you plaintext pager notifications for hospitals across your state.

Did a project on it when I was breaking into cybersecurity.

There are encrypted paging setups, but there’s a lot of places still running legacy.

I left my job over moral objections coming up on a year ago. Hundreds of interviews later, still unemployed. I don’t regret my decision, but I’m lucky enough to have a support system. Otherwise, I’d be out of luck.

I had a realization lately that the last season didn’t just ruin GoT for me. I think it subconsciously ruined TV. I’ve not gotten invested in a non-comedy series since then.

They’re not always the smartest in a pinch, but I’ve personally dealt with horses clever enough to repeatedly open latched gates, figure out how to slide barn doors off of their track, and in one case, steal and attempt to hide the pool noodle another horse had been using to smack him all day.

That’s to say nothing for emotional intelligence.

Prey animals don’t have time to stop and think in a panic, but give them time and space to be bored and they figure stuff out.

The Noodler also had a favorite pointy stick that perfectly fit in his mouth. He would poke the others with it.

I’m not sure I buy that. Just because the comment is the same doesn’t mean the information it’s made of didn’t move through time the same as the rest of us.