My_IFAKs___gone

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[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Cavendish or Gros Michelle?

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 37 points 5 days ago (2 children)

*Privateering (a legitimate and respectable profession)

Let's keep the standards high...and the cutlasses sharp.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

over here you get up to 7 other patiens in the same, unventilated room. Including patients who have air-transmittable infections

That's a surprisingly apt description of Hell, at least for me.

My friend was at a much nicer hospital, albeit they didn't see anything made of gold. They had their own room. It certainly wasn't paradise; I think the recovery from sepsis gave them a clarity of mind and purpose that transcended the casual discomforts. Plus they were medevac'd 400km from their home, so they were more socially isolated than normal. Sort of like a monastic experience? Thankfully they have excellent insurance, so the medical costs weren't a giant concern like they would be for most people in the US, which probably would have been mentally debilitating otherwise.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (4 children)

My best friend spent a week in the hospital with a life-threatening condition. Besides the almost dying part, it was the most relaxing and life-refocusing event of their adult life and they're grateful to have experienced it. A forced reset and some compulsory solitude can be a blessing sometimes.

Were I to ever go to prison, I think I would personally love to get some solitary confinement time.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wilding suggests sprucing up your resume and reconnecting with your professional network so that you’re ready to hit the job market if necessary.

Oh good, more work (that doesn't pay). But hey, at least you'd get to spend more time peacocking shamelessly on LinkedIn to impress that Thiel-sanctioned professional network.

Actually, this advice works pretty well for anyone who is worried about their SO suddenly leaving. Might as well keep your physique and personality in top form while casually keeping the playing field passively curious...

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (16 children)

According to Tim Urban's blog article on Tesla and Muck from 2015, one of Muck's stated goals was to jumpstart the other auto manufacturers into producing their own EVs to accelerate the trend toward a more sustainable energy future. Whether that was true then or now is irrelevant, but it is nice to see EVs of many brands being made and purchased. Obligatory Fuck Muck, existential disappointment that he will forever be.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Good ol' wank-o-clock.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure all that arrogance will keep him safe from the people he's about to disenfranchise. The people who have illnesses, diseases, injuries, and chronic pain that make their lives almost not worth living, but thank goodness they have medical care to assuage the suffering just enough. I'm sure those people won't have an axe to grind if someone decided to deride them mercilessly as unproductive societal waste as they're just trying to get through the day without treatment or medication.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 92 points 2 weeks ago

She's in the elite ruling class, so she gets to do whatever the fuck she wants with impunity while projecting false accusations onto anyone who fits in the 'other' category while her dumbass base of uneducated gerrymandered trolls eats it up.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

If only there could be any alternative sources of energy out there to discover and develop to diminish the dependence on petroleum. If only :(

Oh well, at least there's an infinite supply of crude oil along with an atmosphere fully capable of absorbing all that liberated carbon without any adverse effects.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

Holy bullets, godman!

 
 

A page from The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley

I guess it's not exactly surprising, but it seems to explain a lot of things I'm witnessing in my later adulthood. I've always felt deeply impressed by selfless heroes, but I never really pondered the profile of heroism.

 

Senate Bill 918 would allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts.

Currently, teens are prevented from working earlier than 6:30 a.m. or later than 11 p.m.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is in favor of the bill.

“Yes, we had people that left because of those rules, but you’ve also been able to hire other people,” DeSantis said at an immigration panel, according to the network. “And what’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.”

The bill, according to CNN, would also eliminate working time restrictions on 14- and 15-year-olds if they are home-schooled and end guaranteed meal breaks for teens aged 16 and 17.

It went in front of the Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee on Tuesday, where it advanced with a 5 to 4 recommendation.

FIXED IT!

 

Five Minnesota Senate Republicans are seeking to dub “Trump derangement syndrome” (TDS), a term coined to describe a form of criticism of President Donald Trump, as an official mental illness recognized under state statute.

Eric Lucero, R-St. Michael, Steve Drazkowski, R-Mazeppa, Nathan Wesenberg, R-Little Falls, Justin D. Eichorn, R-Grand Rapids, and Glenn H. Gruenhagen, R-Glencoe, are the five politicians who drafted the bill that would add the so-called “syndrome” to a lengthy list of definitions related to mental health care in Minnesota.

If passed, a section of a statute that includes definitions for terms including “diagnostic assessment” and “outpatient services” would be appended to add one for TDS. The authors describe TDS as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons” in reaction to Trump’s policies.

If something like this passed, wonder how easy it would be for the authorities to confiscate someone's weapons and/or forcibly relocate them to a 'mental asylum' for 'treatment' to cure their 'TDS.' Big 1984 vibes in this bill.

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