that’s been my position several times as well unfortunately. like I said, lots of men say that’s what they’re gonna do, then they actually get there and realize domesticity is actually a legit job and they don’t really wanna do that either.

Yeah but I always thought the hobosexual was the sucker. Like I’m a hobosexual because I prefer a domestic house husband but it’s difficult to find a man who isn’t just saying he’s one as a ruse for wanting to do 0 work, domestic or otherwise.

Honestly my issue with the way the US handles these things is that if wealth was distributed more equitably and fluidly we wouldn’t need to be half as litigious.

If getting your car damaged didn’t mean your only transportation to and from work being nonfunctional in a way that would require several months worth of wages from that job to fix, you wouldn’t need to focus as much on who specifically changed lanes wrong, you’d just fix it. And if you could just go to the doctor and get care, and easily take time off work to heal, a little bit of muscle tension would be easy to catch, treat, and heal up from well before the possibility of lifelong and career ending injuries came into question.

If we were able to have the resources and time to just handle most small things, we wouldn’t have to be constantly holding every individual working class individual personally liable for which direction they sneeze in. Litigation could be saved for serious and repeat offenders. But no, squeezing every last dime out of the working class is a feature, not a bug.

Every once in a while people get caught and privileges dropped or moved to different / farther away units and their off-unit groups get moved around to distance but ultimately there’s no way to completely ensure they won’t. There was one nurse in the clinic whose job it was to give condoms to any patient who asked and not keep records of who asked because the only thing worse than two adults not considered competent to consent having sex is a baby falling out of one of them.

Honestly I find that most things that say they’re military grade are, it’s just people think that’s a good thing. Instead of essentially meaning “as cheap as possible.”

Honestly I would love to hire a statistician to do the analysis on any clinical research I do. I just wanna collect the broset scores every shift and request and assign staff to best balance them then let somebody else count how many (hopefully less) people got punched by patients vs not doing that. No way even the research hospital would’ve paid for that though.

And there’s a lot of right to repair fights. If you think a Honda trying to lock you out for not taking it to the dealership for an oil change is bad, just imagine how bad it is for somebody with a combine that costs most of that million.

This is why I opted for the keep messenger option when I deactivated my account. I have so many people even just from old jobs and while I can get a job pretty much anywhere I apply (that offers my specialty) and be working within a month, that comes with having to vet employers / weed out sketchy facilities.

So I need to be able to message old coworkers and be like “hey do you know anyone who’s worked at ___? That 10k sign on bonus is SUS” and have them be like “yeah 5 people got fired and 15 bailed after the state inspection. They were reusing paper iso gowns and billing for surgeries their sister hospital in the city was doing to get the Medicaid incentive for providing rural care.” Like WUT. Honestly me having a low social media presence is a plus for most employers especially in psychiatry, but I need to be able to get the tea on these people before I sign up for REAL shitshow instead of the lowkey kind I’m used to.

This is my gripe with tankies. One of the most salient points of 1984:

“It was now impossible for any human being to prove by documentary evidence that the war with Eurasia had ever happened.”

“Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”

All war is fake except the class war.

Those are actually completely different developmentally. There’s a reason they often count those first few years in months. There’s a buuunch of milestones the kid is supposed to be hitting and if they’re not but they’re intervened with quickly there’s often few overall deficits in the end. We had to learn the Denver 2 test in school and do a test on a friend or family members kid.

It was a kid from church and the parents were super proud that the kid had never been sick due to avoiding daycare, and the kid was fine and even ahead in most skills, except language and a few of the social skills. You could see dad’s brain cogs start turning while he watched that. Idk what they wound up doing but I know some families do send the kid to daycare like once a week just to make sure their language and social skills are still hitting milestones.

For instance if they’re not talking it might be autism or deafness and if they get the right supports quickly they can start learning to sign instead and/or the caregivers can get educated better on the kids needs, instead of them just never learning to communicate well and having trouble advocating for themselves later in life. If they’re having trouble walking or starting to feed themselves they can get treated for a musculoskeletal problem or get physical or occupational therapy to make sure their motor skills develop properly.

I’m child free and wouldn’t touch pediatrics as a specialty with a ten foot pole but even I know that.

Honestly I wonder if some of it isn’t people in super remote areas or otherwise disconnected from conventional communities. If you live on a mountain with no internet or TV and drive into town once a month for groceries or live in an underground mole people tunnel system it’s probably easier to not give a fuck. Like obviously these things will still affect you, but not in any immediate way that’s gonna slap you in the face tomorrow.

If somebody catches that guy at the grocery store at the end of the month and gets him to fill out a survey he’s probably just like “…who? Oh a coupon though!” And the mole person will do it for a $5 subway card. That’s still at least a cookie these days. And they’ll both just check “meh” for everything and hand the survey back and take their coupon. I talked to a dude at the bus stop for a while that said getting his phone stolen had actually turned out to be really great for his mental health aside from needing to ask me when the next one was coming. Like I get that this is important stuff but sometimes ignorance looks pretty damn blissful.

Or a Presbyterian church service. I gotta give it to the Pentecostals, they might be a cult but at least they know how to party.

Honestly I would settle for people just recognizing the infinite complexity of the universe but apparently that’s just my high openness in the OCEAN assessment.

Used to work with the criminally insane. I’ve also met a LOT of pedophiles. Not many because they actually were crazy but because they were trying to get declared as such to not get fucked up in prison. Most of them aren’t even actually attracted to children they just wanna victimize someone and children are smaller / weaker and less able to advocate for themselves. The one thing pretty much all of them have in common is a pitiful combination of sadism and cowardice.

I have an agendered one but I’m also legit considering changing it.

I mean yes, but not in a way that’s likely to result in significant harm, even in the long term. It’s the kind of thing that being white myself (and having IBS on top), I would feel comfortable laughing at.

Never played actually.

Apparently a hospital in my network is trialing a tool to generate assessment flowsheets based on an audio recording of a nurse talking aloud while doing a head to toe assessment. So if they say, you’ve got a little swelling in your legs it’ll mark down bilateral edema under the peripheral vascular section. You have to review before submitting but it seems nice.

Is it still made by a human if they use the stroke smoothing, clone healing, or edge detection tools in photoshop or gimp? Where’s your exact line?

Maybe I’m being pessimistic but I’m pretty sure the immigration paperwork is gonna ask “has he been convicted of a crime” and not “has he been convicted of a real crime?”