i hope i’m paranoid
100% justified. We experience paranoia for a reason. Like you said, you’ve studied history, and we’re officially in the “secret police disappearing people off the streets”, and “our own military being sent in as a hostile invading force into our own cities” phase of christofascism.
Now is the time to be assessing your options. Fight, flight, or blend in. Shit will most likely get worse before it gets better.
And only once they ping you to ask if you’re working on it.
This right here is the winner.
I’ve been told to do so much unnecessary bullshit during my combined time in the workforce… finally clicked that unnecessary bullshit also equals unmemorable bullshit, so new hypothesis: management knows it’s unnecessary bullshit and care about that task’s completion even less than I do.
After years of rigorous testing: hypothesis confirmed, management don’t give a fuck either.
New evidence based practice:
Be told to do something; agree cuz they are in fact the boss of me; find something more critical that happened in the same timeframe that you can use as an excuse if questioned; ideally that’s it, cuz management has now forgotten; if they do remember and check in on it later “Oh my bad, I spent the couple days after agreeing to do that stuck in patient care, so I never got the chance, and now it’s been so long I had completely forgotten - thanks for the reminder, I’ll get on it as soon as I can!” …repeat as many times as you think you can get away with; if management persists and they actually really do care about the unnecessary bullshit, then fine, go ahead and get it done.
Fuckin’ hate busy work. Give me something real to do, or let me go home.
For me it always reads like a pokemon battle.
🎶 battle theme 🎶
US Ranchers SLAM Argentina Beef…
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They hurt themselves in their confusion!
I use Amazon as a search engine to narrow down to a few options for a product, then go to those manufacturers’ websites and order directly from them. Been a while since I’ve ordered directly from Amazon.
Nursing student / surgical tech here. I do a lot of my studying at work when I’m not scrubbed in to a surgery. All our text books are digital, so I can whip my phone out at any time to get some reading done, especially if I can pop a headphone in and use the text-to-speech features to listen to them - I’ll do that while I’m restocking supplies / pulling the next days cases / cleaning / checking for out-dates. Surgery schedule is always feast or famine, so when we’re not occupied with patient care there are a hundred other ways to keep busy - but most of those don’t really require thinking, so time for school.
Paying me to poop is also a fantastic use of my employer’s income. There’s a crazy correlation with the amount of busy work pushed on us vs the severity of constipation that shows up out of the blue. Sometimes it just takes a half hour to drop a log, ya know?? 🤷♂️
“I require privacy not to conceal some malice in my own actions; but to protect against the malice of those seeking to abuse that authority.”
Going back to circa 1930s, there was a word for a person who supported the Nazi party not because that person was evil to the core, but because they got duped and were too stubborn to admit it; or because they thought it would bring about positive economic changes; or because they thought was the best option for Germany despite the evil stuff happening at an alarming frequency…
That word was “Nazi”. Every one of them you would have run into in the real world was a literal, straight up Nazi.
About half of my family are also Nazis. Whatever they generally are in addition to being Nazis stopped mattering when they decided to become Nazis.
IIRC, someone did the math on something like a major surgery… in the US, if you have really good insurance, and don’t run into those nasty surprises like some out-of-network doctor poking his head into your operation and asking if the main doc needs his ass scratched (which appears as roughly $13,000.00 on your bill); but if everything goes without a hitch…
…it’d still be like a quarter of the cost to just fly to Europe, have the operation done there, hang out there for two weeks in a hotel while you recover, food, gas, etc, and then fly back to the US.
🎶 and the laaaaaaand of theee feeeeeeeeeeeeee 🎶
…no, that wasn’t a typo.
I seriously doubt it was broken if you thought it was “fine”.
Not common, but that can definitely happen, especially if it’s only a partial fracture. I’ve had a few broken bones myself, and I’m with you: completely debilitating pain, zero ability to do things like hold weight.
I worked with a nurse that got fer foot rolled over by a patient gurney near the end of her shift. A few f-bombs later, and she limped her way to the locker room, changed, and went home, saying she’d surely be fine after some ibuprofen and sleep.
Next day she limped her way through an entire shift.
Then another entire shift. All the while we were joking at her about like breaking her spine then continuing to carry the groceries inside, shit like that.
…day three she shows up on one of those kneeling-scooter-things and a bulky splint on her foot/lower leg. Looks down all sheepishly “It was still hurting, so I went to urgent care. They x-rayed it… y’all were right: it’s fucking broken!” …fucker worked two shifts with a spiral fracture on her 5th metatarsal. She said it just felt sore.
Either she’s a badass or I’m a little bitch (bit of both maybe), cuz I’d have rode an office chair or something all the way to the ER immediately after that first incident if that was me.
One of many, many, many parallels:
mYsTeRiOuS wAaAayYyyYyYyssSsSsss!
Beaker. Pure chaos. 10/10
“As you bend over to pick up the fork, you slip a vertebral disc. Your health is reduced to 30%, and will stay capped there for the following three days.”
DnD in your 30s.
I see religious shit randomly littering the hospital I work at. People put fliers in waiting areas or on window sills. Couple whole-ass bibles. Lately it’s been the little plastic jesus emoji looking toys.
I put all of them in the trash.
We have a fucking chaplain, if our patients want to see that shit they can talk to him. Hitting people with religious nonsense when they’re at their lowest is predatory and should be illegal.
So this vid is regarding bacteria, not viruses like measles, but it’s an insanely good illustration of just how quickly evolution happens on a microscopic scale:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4NVIUh8
This is why finishing your entire antibiotic prescription is so important even if you feel better after it’s half way done: if there are a few remaining cells that are less susceptible to the drug, you want to really overwhelm them so they’re fully dead. Allow them to recover and multiply, and you just bred up a new strain of superbug. We don’t give them a bridge of progressively higher doses for them to adapt to, we go straight to dropping nukes.
So back to viruses. These antivax dipshits are basically offering themselves and their children up as petri dishes for the virus to not just thrive in, but to mutate in. If a single one of those microscopic fuckers mutates in a way that bypasses your immune defenses granted by a vaccine, then we’re literally one sneeze away from being back to square one with no measles vaccine, cuz the one we have just become obsolete. Fast forward a few months worth of spreading from host to host in a world full of international travel, and boom, there’s our next global pandemic.
The decision to vaccinate or not is NOT a personal choice: it’s a communal one. Even ignoring the outliers like immunocompromised people who rely on herd immunity, choosing not to vaccinate is rolling the dice for the fates of literally everyone. No needle is that scary - just fucking do it.
This antivax shit is some of the most maliciously selfish nonsense that humans are capable of.
Avatar - Smells Like a Freakshow
This one flew under my radar until a couple days ago - little more repetitive than I usually like, but the beat do be killer.
Edit - actually now that I think of it, Avatar has pretty aggressive beats across the board - might want to dig through their other stuff too.
Life’s too short to spend on grinds that aren’t fun. Cheat in a 1-shot-kill gun, and it becomes a good Star Wars movie.
Prove them wrong
Yeah! We’ll beat today’s Nazis just like we did with the Nazis in WW2 - with sit-ins and angrily worded signs and… um… wait, how we beat the Nazis in WW2? Feels like I’m forgetting something important…
Troodon. Little dudes that were thought to be smart, formed communities, had weird teeth, and have been the cause of multiple controversies over classification or existing at all. So, tiny trouble makers.