Also people tend to enjoy things more when they get injured less doing them.

“Is it true, is it kind, is it necessary?” Shoot for two but make sure it’s at least one. And if you ever by chance come across a trifecta, don’t let it escape unsaid!

I also notice working in mental healthcare that a lot of my coworkers have realized some of the patients really do need “tough love” but they don’t realize that the Love part is critical. And it’s obviously not romantic love but also not even love in any personal sense. It’s love in the better version of the Bible sense where you should love your fellow human beings. When you say something that someone isn’t going to like hearing for their own good, you need to start with a practical statement of why you’re saying it out of love.

So I’ll say “I don’t just want to give you ice cream today; I want you to know how to ask other people when you leave here. I’m going to give you about fifteen minutes to go to your room and breathe, then you can come back and get in line and ask again.” While some of my coworkers will just say “no I’m not gonna let you talk to me like that” which isn’t wrong, but also isn’t actually tough love because they forgot the love.

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I am super interested in this, do you know if it can track versions and support regular backups? I was actually just trying to find out if there’s a way for my phone to sync / backup my documents, pictures, and possibly even calendars and contacts with our home computer while I’m home, especially right when I get home, and maybe on a scheduled basis right before I usually leave for work. I’ve been looking into de-googling and honestly I’m wondering why a lot of my info needs to be stored in the cloud at all? Maybe one monthly or quarterly backup to an encrypted service like tresorit but for the most part I think it’ll be fine to just let my devices back themselves up with each other on my home network?

I get what you’re saying in terms of “anyone can do this if they’re willing to devote enough time to a specific / niche subject matter” but I think you’re stating it somewhat reductively (and your tone seems questionable but that could just be a textual communication issue).

I find that I have poor rote memorization skills but that I’m very good at conceptual reasoning using lots of different information from very tangentially related subject matters. So I don’t know too much about chemistry, metalworking, and sewing on their own, but I know enough to pick out the right fabric, thread, jewelry findings, and dye, and what order to use them in to get a pretty cool result.

I think that ability actually somewhat necessarily comes at the expense of my rote memorization capabilities. To put that in plainer language, I think a lot of people can be in love with the world as a whole or deeply in love with just a few parts of it (me being the former). And while the important thing in the end is that you find something out there in the world to love and accept yourself for loving it, it’s also not maladaptive to see someone else do something cool and think,“I might not have time in my life to pick up that skill, but I bet it feels good to be able to do it.” And who knows? Maybe if they’re envious enough they’ll make time in their life to learn how to do the cool thing.

You’re not wrong. Should it be different? Absolutely. Will it be different? Maybe someday in the distant future.

But ultimately what’s most likely to happen is that the average person is going to keep pressing the dopamine buttons on their pocket rectangles and telling the world about every fart that exits their buttcheeks and if you don’t do that you’re going to get slowly pushed out of society in a similar way to the Amish or Mennonites.

It weirdly reminds me of the mark of the beast from the book of revelation. Apocalyptic literature does so well not because it predicts the future but because it follows the repeating patterns of the past. The world as humans know it has ended and been replaced by something new and utterly bizarre more times than history has recorded and will probably continue to do so more times than we can comprehend.

Each new version of humanity has people that get left behind, or alternatively, who refuse to submit to something horrible no matter how much bigger than them it is. It’s a completely valid stance to take and one I will probably take myself but you do have to make peace with the fact that the rest of society is almost definitely going to pick the dopamine buttons over you.

If you can accept being disconnected, then by all means, live your best life. I’m certainly planning to (although it’s also important to recognize that this is not a purely binary decision).

As a scientist I am keenly aware both that the placebo effect is known to be effective even when the subject is aware that the stimulus is a placebo, and that connection to my cultural community has a profound effect on my mental health. I’ll be keeping my evil eye ward and birth sign charms, tysm.

I need to make a list of hymns that are better for that period of the liturgical year to spam corporations with to create a bipartisan stand with the secular community against early initiation of Christmas. Even if you want to claim you’re a cHrIsTiAn oRgAnIzAtIoN it’s still inappropriate to begin Christmas festivities before advent.

unpopular opinion: it should be a human right (once it’s determined you don’t have a mental illness severe enough to prevent you from seeing other obvious solutions to your suffering) and a society that keeps people alive by force is authoritarian in and of itself.

Here’s my rec from AliExpress. Modern shape and color but a lot of classic imagery still. This one sort of as well. You could then pair either with a more traditional RWS deck for her to compare the imagery too. I wouldn’t fuss too much on getting a guide book. The internet has a wide range of interpretations to draw from. Wikipedia even has a pretty good set of pages on all things metaphysical and I find that it approaches them from a pretty grounded place as spiritual traditions without placing a lot of weight on them as truly divinatory or anything.

My rec was gonna be the biddy tarot since it’s a modern / inclusive version of the rws which is some of the most common imagery used in themed decks so if she decides to get a Pokémon themed deck or whatever later the imagery will translate well (I have a cat meme deck and an emoji deck in addition to my traditional rws deck). Comparing the imagery across themed interpretations of the RWS is FASCINATING and has taken up a significant part of my last two years. The biddy is about 2x what you’re asking though so let me see what else I can find…

Haven’t figured out the best plan. After a quick therapy sesh with the hobos at the bus stop I’m thinking I’m just gonna study the subject matter and see if I can test out of the relevant courses at a testing center (instead of a course with multiple smaller tests).

I can’t take AI proctored exams because I have a lazy eye and it tracks whether or not you’re looking at the screen. It’s the main thing keeping me from getting a bachelor’s because most associates to bachelor’s RN programs are entirely online.

I’ve seen a lone cat take a black bear before but I think most toddlers could handle a black bear as long as it’s not a mother with children. One time on here I joked that high alcohol consumption for a few years is probably worse for you than a light mauling from a black bear and somebody got pissy enough to comment / report saying I was spreading misinformation and a) that’s clearly a joke but also b) tell me you didn’t grow up rural LOL because everybody knows if you see a black bear you can usually just puff up and yell at it. I’ve seen cats tree black bears.

Well if it’s a prompt injection to fuck with llms you don’t want any users having to read it anyway, vision impaired or no.

“Part 6” 🤣

Except for Wednesday at 11pm when I have 36

I’ll use it to fill in background details sometimes like hey I need a name with similar demographics / vibes to “Karen” but less obvious that that’s the character I’m making. Or I need to fill in 3 people for this characters friend group like their names, talk and dress styles, and how they met give me 7 options for each to pick from.

There’s a lot of features I like about mychart and this is not one of them. I’ve personally seen enough lab values that the little red arrow next to a non-fasting glucose of 136 means nothing to me but I imagine it’s much more stressful for people who don’t know what any of those words mean. I also don’t like that patients can read what I wrote about their temper tantrums that may have contributed to their legal hold right when they get their phone as they’re walking off the unit. I feel like you should have to take some time making a medical records request to really think about whether or not you wanna hang around until my shift is over and shank me in the parking lot.

I answered one about hospital socks semi recently but I may have deleted it in my most recent bout of muddying my post history.

Obvs bodily autonomy is the core issue but personally:

I like to shorten all my body hair with clippers especially my underarms and genitals because I find anything more than an inch or so pulls at my skin or traps things that are difficult to clean out.