Deep south checking in. His approval rating locally is probably above 90%, because the vast majority of people here are hateful, spiteful, self-defeating morons.
When you see national averages, remember things like Alabama’s healthcare, or Oklahoma’s education system, etc are there dragging everyone else down.
We don’t have the spine for a civil war. Closest thing we’ll feasibly see are a few targeted political assassinations. Things will get kinda noisy after that in a bickering kind of way, but most of us won’t even remember it by the following Monday. It’ll fizzle out.
Listening to an NCLEX review lecture as I’m scrolling… They’re talking about addiction, and gave the whole “I can quit anytime I want” example of denial… AS I was scrolling past this post.
That was uncanny.
10/10
Pure anecdote, but my personal experience suggests that reading vs listening do not activate the same part of the brain. With textbooks specifically, reading assignments never seemed to do me much good - I’d read a page, really giving it my attention, but then make it to the end of the page and realize I have no idea what it was talking about like 3 paragraphs ago.
Enter the age of digital textbooks and text-to-speech software - fucking godsend for me, even when it’s the shitty Microsoft Sam style voice. Listening to the material instead of reading increased retention quite a bit.
Taking it up another notch, doing them both simultaneously was the clear winner. If I listen to a reading assignment while following along visually reading the text, it’s like a one-and-done and ready to take the test at the end of the semester with no further studying.
I discovered this superpower near the end of highschool, and it has absolutely carried me through everything since - if you think you might be an auditory learner, give it a shot!
On one hand, yes… but on the other, I think that’s part of why they’re so successful. We constantly give Trump and people like Trump the village idiot pass - we don’t take them seriously because we wave off their malice as just stupidity.
If Trump actually behaved competently, he’d have been in prison ages ago.
…it’s the fucking Darth Jar Jar theory, but it’s happening in real time.
Oh he was trained. This shit wasn’t a fluke. We’ve reached “Nazis patrolling our streets, executing civilians on the president’s orders” stage of US collapse. This will continue until people start shooting back.
Might be more of a developmental impairment. For children, magical thinking is normal and expected. They might sincerely think they can cause something to happen by thinking about it or engaging in some kind of paranormal way. Like, if a 4 year old points at you with a finger guns gesture and yells ‘bang’, they might just be trying to be silly; but they might also be genuinely trying to kill you. You’ll know if immediately after, they look down at their finger-gun with a wtf expression cuz they’re actually surprised it didn’t work.
Again, normal. Unnerving, but normal.
They should grow out of that shit by about age 7 iirc.
Lots of people never grow out of it, they just compartmentalize that kind of thinking as religion… they know they can’t kill you with finger guns, but Jesus? His finger guns are real!!.
Those people need a fuck ton of therapy.
The disconnect is one of class, not generation. Generation draws a lot of attention, both in solidarity and in backlash, but if you’re expecting the world to suddenly become better when boomers die off, or for X/millennials/Z/etc to swoop in and save the day, you’re in for disappointment.
The ruling class will continue to make our existence as dystopian as possible until we break out the guillotines.
Heart warming story of a royal toddler who noped the fuck out after being caught up in a political murder scheme, met two stoners, became a stoner himself, and kinda just did nothing but be a stoner until his ~20s when he was finally swayed to put the blunt down after his toddler-crush just randomly shows up one day and fucks him. He then proceeds to overthrow the government.
They just don’t make wholesome movies like that anymore. <3
Shhhhhhhhhh you’re going to wake Gabe!
Working in the OR. Anesthesiologist draws up some fentanyl, and I asked him if it was enriched. He looked at me like I’m a dumbass and asked “with what?”
-_-
US deep south. The only sorting of trash I see in the hospital is sharps vs non-sharps. Outside the hospital, sorting is vitually nonexistent… there’s no recycling here, everything just goes in a landfill. It’s fucking stupid, but this is what we get for putting Nazis in charge of everything.
No idea how they dispose of it. I’ve asked my immediate management chain if I can take damaged/pitted instruments that need to be replaced to donate to the local colleges - Anatomy & Physiology classes all have a lab component to dissect something, and the school I went to had instruments that were absolute garbage.
The answer was no… We just put instruments that need to be replaced in a red bin with other sharps like needles, and the bins are shipped off somewhere, probably to be incinerated.
Bigger stuff like equipment, we send to the biomedical engineering department for outprocessing. From there, no idea. Probably land fill.
I wouldn’t dumpster dive at a hospital though. It’ll be a sea of ruptured catheter bags, linens saturated with poop, and just all manner of pathogens. And probably sharps - that stuff is supposed to go in sealed red bins, but all it takes is one lazy employee and you’ve got yourself an HIV+ needle stick.
I work in an operating room, and have been around long enough to see multiple pieces of perfectly good equipment get replaced just because it hit the manufacturer’s end-of-life date.
I’m talking things like a several-hundred-thousand dollar microscope for microsurgery.
Basically that date means if the microscope fucks up somehow, the vendor takes zero liability, and any legal expenses fall onto the hospital… so we trash it and buy another one. Rinse and repeat after another few years.
That end-of-life date is always crazy early, and is like that 100% because the manufacturer knows hospitals would rather just treat a quarter million dollar microscope as disposable than accept liability for an equipment fault.
The waste is unreal.
SW Racer Revenge remains the best racing game to date - if they can recreate the feel of that masterpiece, I’m in!
Sup, ICE. You’ve done such a good job emulating your rolemodel from the 1930s/40s with the mustache, I think you’ve all earned a fast-track in that career!! Just skip right to the end and go ahead and feed yourself that bullet! Remember not to aim perpendicular to your throat - that’ll just punch a potentially nonfatal hole: instead aim it up toward your brain!
You are a traitor not just to your country, but to all of humanity: your legacy will only ever be that of a villainous cautionary tale.
Best of luck with the go kill yourself! 💖
Ad hominem
Flagrantly false. Gaza has been leveled since Biden left. Not leveled vs leveled =/= just as bad.
pre-loaded accusations
They’re called logical fallacies. The one you just used is called a false dilemma. If you don’t like me drawing attention to them, I’d recommend refraining from using them.
YSK legal rights don’t mean shit to administrations that don’t respect the law. Compliance with ICE can be deadly - arm yourself and do whatever you need to do to stay safe.