They know it’s not abuse, they have a high horse they wanna ride on someone else’s post.

I guess the elevator pitch is 10y experience inpatient psychiatry including forensics (“criminally insane”), now I teach restraint classes 1x a month and other units in the hospital have a special version of a code they can use to summon me (kinda like a code blue except the patient is still, and literally kicking).

My husband just woke up and said the exact same thing unprompted. Literally this exchange almost word-for-word.

“That’s a rat though.”

“HOW CAN YOU TELL?” - more emphasis on my part due to hearing this for the second time today

“Just how it is. That’s a rat.”

After additional discussion and googling, the actual answer is, my dear people, mostly size, but also more subtly the proportions of the ear and tail to the rest of the body.

I’ve had to handle dogs and cats and when I was younger occasionally livestock. As an employed adult though I’ve mostly had to handle other humans, but many of the same concepts of how to be nice when you have to do something objectively uncomfortable still apply (namely, do it as fast as you possibly can without causing more damage). Restraints are actually kind of not just my specialty but also one of my subspecialties, but that’s a whole different conversation. To this conversation the answer is “usually velcro and plastic buckles, on cotton fabric for the little old ladies and neoprene for people with actual muscle.”

There’s a lot of reasons a lot of things happen and the history and ethics of animal experimentation is a particularly long winded subject of which I will not be getting into any more of a debate than I have somehow gotten sucked into already.

idk ask a vet most of the animals I’ve worked with are larger than that

Please also enjoy these images of a hedgehog and a human baby getting an x-ray and a bird being weighed:

ooc how can you tell?

IT’S MY FUCKING MBTI TYPE AGAIN WHAT DID I TELL YOU PEOPLE. Sorry I recently got fascinated by the connections between esoteric spirituality and Jungian psychology but when I did my mbti then looked up fictional characters they’re all either trickersters or just literally Lucifer.

I’ve heard that too. Whatever it is needs to stop.

what happened to the fireflies

I have no idea how to take this comment.

I mean (many of) the earliest Bibles were in Coptic (which is still used liturgically by some of the oldest Orthodox churches). Christianity also really inherited that form of dualism more from the Zoroastrians so Avestan is another great option. But if you want to come from the Judaic roots yeah babylon was the origin of the major opposing deities in Judaism’s early monolatrist perspective so especially if you’re fighting the Abrahamic God with Baal that would be your main pick.

Side Rant: It really cannot be overstated how much the Catholic church really fucked up Christianity. It was originally a syncretistic anti imperialist death cult (in that you would martyr yourself by publicly accepting death over imperialism). If I ever got a time machine Athanasius of Alexandria is much higher on my list than Hitler. It’s not even that I’m specifically opposed to trinitarianism—the number three does seem significant to some universal truth across numerous cultures (Plato’s chariot, Taoist three elements of destiny, even Freud to name a few)—but killing people en masse over it is unspeakable. And to have subsequent traditions who were supposedly otherwise anti-catholic in any other respect still specifically follow in the tradition of murder for some reason is ridiculous.

ADHD brains require more dopamine and norepi to point the neurons in the right direction at the right times. You can add those in a number of ways that all have different side effect profiles and different likelihoods of worsening the root problem / causing dependence, or even ultimately destabilizing the disorder in the long run entirely.

Stimulants in general (caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, amphetamines) will all boost the chemicals an ADHD brain needs to focus right the hell now. They also have to be used super carefully because they can cause hypertension, heart problems, dependence, and psychosis. Cocaine and nicotine in particular also cause extra heart problems and in the case of nicotine Cancer.

A lot of people also take them too close to bedtime because it’s the only way they know how to hold still long enough to fall asleep, but because they’re still stimulants they fuck up the rest of the circadian rhythm once the person is asleep and greatly worsen the underlying ADHD (if you have this problem ask your doctor what OTHER / nonstimulant medications you can take for ADHD at night because there are better options).

Personally I don’t even take my non stimulant SNRI Strattera at night because while it’s not acting directly on norepi it IS acting on the reuptake inhibitor, so I take clonidine at night.

Still fundamentally linked to the estimate of Christ’s birth by Dionysius Exiguus, just with an added +10000. To fully unlink that you’d have to find a date that far back or father to link year 0 to that you’re sure about and the farther back you go the harder that is.

oh, no. so when you have a limb that’s difficult to dress you do it first on last off so that you can use your better / more dexterous limb during the most tangly / fiddly part. So you would take your head and arms out such that it’s just hanging off the wings, then bring the hole up and over the tops and down off the flight feathers. Am nurse, this is how you dress someone who’s had a stroke, just replacing the weak half with the wings.

I mean it’s pretty obvious what they meant especially if you have a pretty basic cultural background.

I mean I just strapped on crampons and walked a mile on the ice but like. I’m an inpatient RN. idk why y’all are doin all that. Tbh I’d rather the road be clear because there were points I had to walk on it because it was safer than the sidewalk.

I feel like you shouldn’t have more than 1, maybe 2 properties you don’t live in that are tax free and no corporations should ever own property; they should only be allowed to rent unless the business owner owns the property. So if you’re super wealthy you can have like one maybe two and or one each vacation house / business location. And if you are renting out your second / third property, you have a LOT of competition just by design. Anything more than that should be legal, but get taxed at an exponential scale. Honestly if we left all assets where they are and just portioned all business assets to their owners then taxed like that they’d have to sell to not be taxed to death and it would all equalize pretty quickly. What counts as “one property” should be in terms of population over acreage in suburban and rural areas, and population over square footage in urban areas. HOAs should only exist as shared governance of buildings that are physically attached to each other.

No it would be one of the several socially inappropriate nicknames patients have given me and which I will not be repeating here due to the extent that they correlate with my many physical deformities and are thus personally identifiable.