At time. …but really, this shit is pure gold from start to finish!

https://youtu.be/e1VGzGcSqhA?t=478

On a long hike, pushed the whole ‘stop and set up camp’ thing way too late, so it’s already dark as I’m starting to pitch the tent. Start feeling really uneasy like I’m being watched, so I do a quick sweep of my surroundings with my flashlight - and sure as shit two reflective eyes become visible for half a second before the critter that owns them gets spooked by light and runs off. Couldn’t see the actual animal, just the eyes, but now I’m borderline shitting myself with fear, so I get in the semi-pitched-but-fuck-it tent and lay down listening for footsteps or something.

Never did hear footsteps, but about 20 mins later that little shit let out an incredibly loud and absolutely blood curdling scream… like, women getting actively murdered whilst screaming into a megaphone, kind of scream… right outside the tent.

Then nothing for the remainder of the night.

I get home and start searching the web for what the actual fuck that was: 99% sure I was being stalked by a cougar.

and you will pay for your part in it.

I mean, here’s hoping, but real accountability is a fucking unicorn nowadays.

Pure anecdote, but my personal experience suggests that reading vs listening do not activate the same part of the brain. With textbooks specifically, reading assignments never seemed to do me much good - I’d read a page, really giving it my attention, but then make it to the end of the page and realize I have no idea what it was talking about like 3 paragraphs ago.

Enter the age of digital textbooks and text-to-speech software - fucking godsend for me, even when it’s the shitty Microsoft Sam style voice. Listening to the material instead of reading increased retention quite a bit.

Taking it up another notch, doing them both simultaneously was the clear winner. If I listen to a reading assignment while following along visually reading the text, it’s like a one-and-done and ready to take the test at the end of the semester with no further studying.

I discovered this superpower near the end of highschool, and it has absolutely carried me through everything since - if you think you might be an auditory learner, give it a shot!

By all means, behaving like a Nazi should be a major mortal liability. ICE agents are enemies not just to the United States, but to humanity as a whole. They should live in fear; and may that fear be actualized sooner than later.

At the last hospital I worked at, a nurse was badly injured on the job for something totally out of her control. Probably shouldn’t give more details than that so I don’t dox her or myself.

Instead of giving her worker’s comp and helping her recover, the hospital fired her over some completely unrelated frivolous bullshit (along the lines of "a patient overheard you using profanity while talking to a co-worker). This was also like a couple months away from her becoming vested in their retirement program.

I’m just a tech, but it was abundantly clear that giving my time to that company would be an incredibly risky move - fuuuuck that. I put my notice in the next day.

I hope she sued the absolute fuck out of them.

The animosity between generations is a lot like the animosity between races or most other us-vs-them bullshit in that it’s manufactured to keep potential allies fighting against each other.

This is ultimately a class war - everything else is a distraction.

Order of operations:

• Start new email

• Add desired attachments

• Add title

• Write the actual message in the body

• Select recipients

• Double check above in the same order

• Send

Feels backwards, but you’ll never fuck it up again.

On one hand, yes… but on the other, I think that’s part of why they’re so successful. We constantly give Trump and people like Trump the village idiot pass - we don’t take them seriously because we wave off their malice as just stupidity.

If Trump actually behaved competently, he’d have been in prison ages ago.

…it’s the fucking Darth Jar Jar theory, but it’s happening in real time.

Oh he was trained. This shit wasn’t a fluke. We’ve reached “Nazis patrolling our streets, executing civilians on the president’s orders” stage of US collapse. This will continue until people start shooting back.

The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

• George Orwell, 1984

May the public reciprocate his actions in kind.

Agreed on the vast majority of that.

Now let’s say you were employed by the USPHS, or VA, or IHS, or… there are other federal healthcare agencies, right? Anyway- you quit because Trump is a dickhead, and now what? Those supplies you’re distributing just got cut off. That doesn’t help anything.

The pitch I’d make: if you’re working for any part of the govt that’s functioning as an oppressor, then you should have quit a long time ago unless you’re actively sabotaging. Falling that, better late than never - GTFO now. But if you’re working for any other part of the govt, do your job and keep in mind who you serve - hint: it’s not your boss. Don’t be a silent pencil pusher like the ‘little guys’ in the Tuskegee experiment, speak the fuck up. But don’t just quit - use your position to actually serve the public, whether in an official capacity or akin to what you described.

So… I’m with you mostly, but I do hold that there’s a distinction between forces like the ICE Nazis and actual public servants employed by the govt.

What’s the argument, though? Defy unjust laws --> quit govt positions even if they’re an actual public service and not actually supporting the regime is quite the jump. It’s cool that he’s a great author and all, but an opinion piece is still an opinion piece - whether its good or not (and I’m assuming it is) depends on the reasoning therein.

Some absolutely horrific things have been done in the name of advancing healthcare… should I quit my job as a surgical tech because of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study? Wouldn’t it be better to stay in healthcare and blow the whistle if I see shit like that starting up again?

That’s a lot more than a word. I don’t have enough free time to spend it on a 16 page opinion article, but feel free tldr it and I’ll give my 2 cents.

Yeah, I’m not really sold on the ‘entire government’ thing. Some chemist testing soil samples for the Department of Agriculture isn’t part of the problem - that guy’s working for us.

ICE? 100% Nazis. There is no justifiable role in that organization. But we can (and should) purge that shit without crippling services that are actually benevolent.

Might be more of a developmental impairment. For children, magical thinking is normal and expected. They might sincerely think they can cause something to happen by thinking about it or engaging in some kind of paranormal way. Like, if a 4 year old points at you with a finger guns gesture and yells ‘bang’, they might just be trying to be silly; but they might also be genuinely trying to kill you. You’ll know if immediately after, they look down at their finger-gun with a wtf expression cuz they’re actually surprised it didn’t work.

Again, normal. Unnerving, but normal.

They should grow out of that shit by about age 7 iirc.

Lots of people never grow out of it, they just compartmentalize that kind of thinking as religion… they know they can’t kill you with finger guns, but Jesus? His finger guns are real!!.

Those people need a fuck ton of therapy.

This always cracks me up in the OR - in C sections, the mom is usually awake, so the staff in the room need to watch what they say. Baby comes out like a fucking chest-burster from Alien, covered in blood, that vernix gunk that looks like rancid cheese, and sometimes literal shit. Nasty goo aside, babies pretty much universally look like a hairless pug when the first come out.

Invariably, 2 or 3 nurses start doing the whole “Oooh she’s so cuuuute!” thing. I still can’t tell if they legit think it’s cute, or if they’re just really good at putting a show on for mom… cuz they look like something from a bad scifi-horror movie.

Even before it was official, none of his crimes saw any enforcement.

Even if they prosecute him, Trump has repeatedly proven to be above the law… nothing will come of it.

Legal justice is not a realistic outcome. Our options are vigilante justice, or no justice. So far we’ve chosen the latter.