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#3419052 26-Sep-2025 20:20

Found the fail: there’s a thin plastic sheath that stayed behind in the test portion preventing the medium from making contact with the test strips. Looks like that was supposed to have come out when it was separated.

So, she’s RSV positive.

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#3419084 27-Sep-2025 07:24

MadEngineer:

So, she’s RSV positive.

That sucks. Hopefully not extremely young or old, as it's worse for them.

An RSV vaccine is now available for pregnant women in the USA, to protect their infants once they are born. Hopefully it gets approval and funding here.

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#3419106 27-Sep-2025 09:29

cddt:

An RSV vaccine is now available for pregnant women in the USA, to protect their infants once they are born.

Maybe only until the President and RFK Jnr get their teeth into it.

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#3419255 27-Sep-2025 16:21

eracode:

cddt:

An RSV vaccine is now available for pregnant women in the USA, to protect their infants once they are born.

Maybe only until the President and RFK Jnr get their teeth into it.

Does the vaccine have dental benefits as well?

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#3419265 27-Sep-2025 17:44

MadEngineer:
Found the fail: there’s a thin plastic sheath that stayed behind in the test portion preventing the medium from making contact with the test strips. Looks like that was supposed to have come out when it was separated.

So, she’s RSV positive.

Do you recall the name of the kit?

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#3419705 29-Sep-2025 10:20

School holidays.

My wife is home (she's in the education sector) and because she's home, she expects that my job somewhow becomes part-time.

Apparently it's rude that I can't just get up and take the dog for a walk at the beach or go do some shopping during the day, despite the fact that I am in and out of online meetings and doing my job all day.

Then when I get a break, I am not busy. The fact that I am now not working proves this, apparently.

Oh well...only one more week to go. I might go into the office.

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#3419708 29-Sep-2025 10:41

Handsomedan:

School holidays.

My wife is home (she's in the education sector) and because she's home, she expects that my job somewhow becomes part-time.

Wait till you ask her to stop talking and then get even more talking as a result.

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#3419709 29-Sep-2025 10:44

I wonder whether there's ever been a study of daylight saving's impact on productivity. So far I've had three encounters:

Number 1:
Me: Is this figure always going to be 5, or does it need to be changeable?
Response: Yes.

Number 2:
Request: Can you please do blah with record RT71-5838?
Me: I'll need the LS number for that one.
Response: RT71-5838-LS.
Me: That's just the RT number again, with LS on the end [for reference, the LS numbers are completely different things - the joy of legacy systems].

Number 3:
The paraphrased email: I'm about to send you an email.
Me: Right, thanks...

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#3419715 29-Sep-2025 10:58

On my morning walk earlier this morning, watched someone pop out in their dressing gown and popped a bag of rubbish in their yellow recycle bin. I was to far away to yell at them.

Lazy useless. You get a red bin for your rubbish, so why? It costs us that pay ever increasing rates.

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#3419748 29-Sep-2025 12:17

Handsomedan:

Apparently it's rude that I can't just get up and take the dog for a walk at the beach or go do some shopping during the day, despite the fact that I am in and out of online meetings and doing my job all day.

I had this when WFH too. I explained to her that when I was in my office, she should forget that I was at home and think of me as being at work. I would go down to the kitchen for my breaks.

This mostly worked for me, although there were still "Can you get the washing in please" situations.

You could reinforce this by closing the office door when you're "at work".

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#3419749 29-Sep-2025 12:22

frankv:

I had this when WFH too. I explained to her that when I was in my office, she should forget that I was at home and think of me as being at work. I would go down to the kitchen for my breaks.

This mostly worked for me, although there were still "Can you get the washing in please" situations.

You could reinforce this by closing the office door when you're "at work".

Friend was trying to WFH over plague times with stoner flatmates who just gamed all day loudly. That worked out well on their teams meetings.

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#3419757 29-Sep-2025 13:01

outdoorsnz:

On my morning walk earlier this morning, watched someone pop out in their dressing gown and popped a bag of rubbish in their yellow recycle bin. I was to far away to yell at them.

Lazy useless. You get a red bin for your rubbish, so why? It costs us that pay ever increasing rates.

Maybe a tenant who doesn’t need to think about rates. Still a poor show anyway.

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#3419890 30-Sep-2025 03:13

The trend of anything someone doesn’t like or disagrees is exceptional value being described as a scam.

Scam has a meaning and it’s not the way it is used by many people.

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#3419916 30-Sep-2025 09:09

Went to make some deposits at a BNZ Smart ATM yesterday via Deposit card, and got the third degree from the machine asking for me to identify myself.

please enter your name
please enter your phone number
please identify yourself with one of
- Birthday
- Drivers License
- Passport
Accept the terms and conditions that say you are depositing money from legal sources.

Ok, we can take your money now.

I had 3 deposits to make, and had to enter this information every single time. That effectively doubled the time required.

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#3419962 30-Sep-2025 09:18

"Smart" ATM.

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