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?”

Honestly the research on exactly why this happens is sparse enough as it is. It’s basically impossible to do truly conclusive studies with tobacco because of how dangerous it is. We can’t even technically conclusively say that tobacco causes cancer because to truly scientifically assert that you’d have to do a randomized controlled trial.

To have a truly randomized controlled trial you would have to randomly select people from the overall sample and tell them to start smoking for the purposes of the study (otherwise you can’t technically rule out there being some third thing that both causes the cancer and causes people to want to smoke). And because we know tobacco is insanely addictive and are all but that one millimeter short of proving that it causes cancer, no medical ethics oversight body would ever allow a study that requires participants to start smoking.

Hubs wanted to sell some used household goods but everybody is on Facebook marketplace and using venmo and cashapp and shit these days and I’m just like :| And now his friend says he wants to use zelle for me to go halvsies with him on hubs Christmas present. Fucking marks of the beast!

They’ll happily take my nursing degree but I’m not leaving without hubs and he has an old weed-related charge that would probably impair immigration to another country.

could be SSRIs

Honestly an AI use I’m kinda OK with is that it’s making audio transcription services good enough that nurses can start using them and they auto generate a flowsheet for the qualitative data from spoken word (you’d review before submitting) and tbh if I could get back to providing actual patient care instead of filling in spreadsheets that would be cool.

It also paralyzes your cilia so it’s not improbable (cilia are the little hairs that line your breathey tubes and rhythmically beat to push gunk up and out). It’s actually why the smokers cough usually gets worse a few days after quitting then stays worse until you’re finished hacking up all the built up tar. Your cilia wake up to your respiratory tract fucking trashed like WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS.

My first thought when I saw this was damn this is freaky and they haven’t even brought in the third sister yet…