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[–] agertudici@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Oh my algorithm is FUCKED because I'm so insanely curious.

So first of all I'm always googling stuff from medical procedures to culture and liguistics. That's part of how I found out that apparently black Americans will sometimes get a nose job to confirm better to western beauty standards.

Second of all, I will click on everything that I can't identify, which often turn out to be kitchen implements or specialized hobby equipment. One time I clicked on some weird looking shoes, shortly followed by some bizarre looking amorphous plastic things which turned out to be special climbing shoes and screw-in footholds, respectively.

So anyway, that's the story of how Google adsense thinks I'm an African American woman who hates her nose but is also extremely passionate about indoor climbing (none of this is even remotely true).

[–] agertudici@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also scribus can be extremely clunky if you need to make flyers inkscape may be easier.

[–] agertudici@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Right like. I'm looking forward to AI to fill out the edges of things. I feel like an artist can make more and more beautiful art if they can focus wholeheartedly on a subject then just be like... "oh and put some grass over there. No a little shorter. A little less lush. Perf" or a video game designer can fine tune everything the main npcs say but then auto-generate the side npc responses except like "eeeeh. Make him a little removedier." I think it could be a great tool for filling in gaps, but not a complete replacement for human writing, at least not for a looong looong time.

[–] agertudici@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Honestly it's just fascinating to me that incel culture has such a huge fixation on chins yet their messiah doesn't even have one.

I've been following incel culture for a while now (and honestly mostly because so many try to kill themselves after being exposed to poison from men like this). And most of the time I just wind up roping any male staff member I can find (everybody from security to chaplains) to talk to these young men because I know I have no business womansplaining healthy masculinity to these young men.

But go ahead and get mad about one comment then read through my comment history for dirt like we're still on reddit even though lemmy said it would be different.

[–] agertudici@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So I work 12 but because I'm a night nurse a lot of the time it's just being there and monitoring, then occasionally doing something if the monitoring indicates the need. And particularly in psychiatry, a lot of the monitoring is passive. Sure I'll go personally check on people every few hours (the techs do 15 minute checks) but a lot of my monitoring is poking my head out of the nursing station to whisper-yell "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT NOISE" or jumping up when the floorstaff move too fast (some of our security who know me well will actually frantically gesture at me to sit the fuck back down they're just showing their buddy a meme they got excited about).

[–] agertudici@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Honestly I'd settle for making sure the doctors hand off q12h. They often work 48 hour shifts with even more disastrous possibilities.

[–] agertudici@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

12s do make sense in Healthcare where every handoff is an opportunity to miss important information. For instance if you forget to mention all the specifics of all your patients injuries after a car wreck, the next nurse might not realize their sinuses are cracked and just go ahead and insert that nasogastric feeding tube into their brain.

3 handoffs a day instead of 2 is 1.5 as many chances to make an error like that.

That said, 2x12s a week instead of 3 sounds lovely.

[–] agertudici@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How is his chin that small even WITH a beard? Is that the real reason incels idolize him? I know they've got lots of weird chin issues is he like their Helen Keller? Chinless success story?

[–] agertudici@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I'm a nurse and we were taught to educate patients at the fifth grade level as well. Believe it or not, the sex ed level is even lower! The average American seems to struggle with such topics as "it's bad to touch or be touched when the person being touched doesn't like it" and "don't put random household objects in your butthole."

[–] agertudici@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I "ejacutooted."

[–] agertudici@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

90 degrees outside the car? The inside of that car is gonna BAKE. And 2 hours before and after high noon ain't shit. cook those hoes.

[–] agertudici@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

apparently it's practically impossible for me to catch bedbugs from a patient as a nurse. I can't do my shoes in the dryer like that. I also couldn't have done my leather jacket like that when my roomates caught me some fleas. Hot car is a fab solution in certain specific situations.

 

People don't wanna talk about it at all because it's too close to trans-ness being a mental illness but imma come at this from entirely the opposite direction:

The NO.1 predictor of a cluster B personality disorder is a consistently invalidating childhood environment.

What's more invalidating than spending your whole childhood saying "hey I think I'm actually a-" and every single person around you cutting you off right there and saying "no you ain't." Psychiatry ain't shit without social context but psychiatry is also coming to accept that being constantly invalidated as a child gonna do your brain the fucky-wucky.

It's ok to accept that trans ppl are at an increased risk of personality disorders due to our completely fucked societal norms. Accepting that we're at increased risk of mental disorders due to societal bullshit =/= saying being trans is a mental illness. If anything, it's an indictment of the society we live in.

TLDR; trans ppl are at increased risk of mental illness =/= transness IS a mental illness and we still deserve to acknowledge the trauma society done did to us.

 

Basically, whatever you were using done fucked your brain.

Think about what used to make you happy before whatever you were using. Think about it. Did you like Sports? Did you like Music? Did you like writing? ANYTHING. What did you used to love?

I'll bet you can get through withdrawal easy. That's just two days twitching and sweating. Withdrawing is EASY once you've done it enough.

But what're you gonna do after? How are you gonna cope with the next SIX OR MORE MONTHS of ANHEDONIA??? How are you gonna cope with the fact that for months at a time nothing you used to love will bring you joy without the substance you've been abusing?

Let's talk about PAWS, ok?

 
 
 

The still appears to be from "the land before time," so conservatively assuming average age of first memory at around 4 years old (and it's unlikely that this would be your, particular, FIRST memory), you need to start thinking about colorectal screenings sometime in the next decade.

Stay safe, friends.

 

Showerthought: A vanilla-soy latte is a type of 3-bean soup.

[picture of Gordon Ramsey looking exhaustedly perturbed.]

 
 
 

An image in the style of a childrens book cover, with the same title as above and picturing a young, anthropomorphized rabbit with the sub-title "...do my prayers mean nothing to him?"

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Left: A kitten pictured next to two fast-food sauce packets for scale

Right: the adult cat is now 7 sauce packets long!

 

My mom: at the end of a rainbow you will find your true meaning in life.

(The pictured rainbow terminates in a dumpster)

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