Yeah that tip really only works for hardcopies, and handwritten ones at that.

This was like two years ago and I’ve never had an issue. Have some faith in humans.

I just taught my coworkers how to pirate shit. Fuck Disney.

As a nurse I can do pretty much everything a chiropractor can that’s not horribly unsafe and unproven. I can advise on diet, exercise and herbal supplements, I can massage muscles and help someone stretch through range of motion. I even know how to use a fucking TENS/EMS device, and I could probably get certified in acupuncture if I wanted. The only thing I don’t do that a chiropractor does is sever spines and snap necks, and if that’s all they managed to learn with all that extra school they can keep it, lol.

TLDR; all the “doctor” shit they do is actually nurse shit and everything else is assault and battery.

Yes and no. I’ve had to insert a LOT of meaning to get a story worth any substance, and I’ve had to do a lot of editing to get good images. It’s really good at giving me a figure that’s 90% done, but that last 10% touching up still often takes me a day or so of work.

Yeah if half my patients just went out and found constructive hobbies that they can do with other people I would actually be really hyped. I especially like seeing young men stop fixating on women and just go develop things about themselves that are likeable and interesting to other people in general.

The craziest part is that I’d actually kind of prefer that they do this in most cases. Half the time this will be like 75% of what the therapist will tell them to do anyway and the other 25% is stuff like “stop getting most of your hydration from diet coke” and “yeah your dad was just kind of an asshole boomer; that happens a lot actually.”

And I’ll probably get shit for it again (but maybe I’ll explain it better this time?) but it’s actually really concerning how many people are leaning on therapy right now. I’m not saying it’s their fault, but saying more people need to go to therapy isn’t actually going to fix the issue. It would be like if were constantly maiming and injuring people and saying the problem was not enough people going to physical therapy. Therapists absolutely need to be a thing, but most people wouldn’t be having these problems in the first place if we hadn’t commoditized human interaction and largely eliminated publically / benefactor hosted social spaces.

And by commoditized I mean we’ve created this culture where we have all these rules for who gets to be mad or sad in each interaction and who is supposed to support who, often with the exchange of money involved. And I’m actually mostly talking about the service industry even more than I am about the mental health one, it’s just that their bullshit is seeping over to us and making the mental health (and general healthcare) industry a toxic sludgepile too. The only therapist I could get to call me back is part of a large online franchise that basically pimps them out like onlyfans models except my insurance pays and there’s no flirting or tiddy pics. I haven’t had the heart to pry into how much they’re actually making but I doubt it’s a lot.

TLDR: I don’t like modern “just go to therapy” culture because I think it’s completely missing the point. Even if we were properly staffed, the healthcare industry can’t conceivably fix the rest of society on it’s own. Also just fix housing already ffs. It will literally just put a cap on the mental health crisis. Like if we just took blackrock’s real estate and put homeless people in it the mental health crisis would just be like 80% solved. I’m not even kidding.

yes, screw the quadriplegics so you can feel good about staying on your moral high ground. Your hill to live and die on takes much higher priority than people who can’t shift their own body weight developing holes in their ass I can fit my fist in but still not be able to see the bone because it’s covered in maggots. Yeah there need to be guardrails in place to keep him from doing silly shit with it and make sure it’s affordable for the people who need it, but a) the technology is still in it’s infancy b) how about you put all this piss and vinegar towards political action to beef up the FDA (who are already regulating this situation per the linked article?). While you’re at it the CDC could use a little more money and public backing too. How about you go out into the world and encourage people to trust scientific institutions more? There are about a thousand different ways you could be expressing these morals in a way that actually helps people instead of just making you feel better about yourself.

For a technology that could someday help a quadriplegic interact with the world fully and independently again I’m willing to tolerate some hitches. There’s a reason they didn’t pick some full on walkie talkie for their first human trial, and there’s a reason that kid looked motherucking hyped to have brand new technology that he’s the first human to even try installed directly into his fucking brain. The problem is abled people thinking this is fundamentally for them. Bby no, they’re trying to help people walk again, even if the legs are robots. You’re looking at the wrong risk-benefit profile.

Oh god I was worried they killed him horribly this is actually probably fine and almost an expected setback.

No but it’s a beatiful picture and I encourage you to keep enjoying your friend’s company!

They’ll have to reverse the results soon: “we know you’re a bot because no human would ever be able to make sense of that!”

Right like this is a mixed bag. I feel like my YouTube shorts addiction is fucking my attention span and I need to get back to watching long form stuff but like also a) fedi isn’t going to have server space for much else and b) it’ll bring the user base fedi will need to grow and maybe have the server space someday.

My other thought is that maybe things like peertube need more communities around streaming where the video isn’t saved, at least by default. This could also be a better direction for the internet as a whole; moving away from this idea that every single moment of everything must be recorded for posterity. The internet really does need more liminal spaces. I really liked the aether model but that guy abandoned the project and lemmy is here now anyway. It would be cool maybe to have a lemmy instance where everything is auto-deleted after 6 months and at least puts out requests to also delete on other servers.

I might have looked it up. Even when I’m 99% sure something is a scam I often want to push a little further to understand more about how the scam operates but I don’t think I have enough skill or dedication to scambait properly.

I mean maybe I try not to use my credit cards all that often but like. You’d think there would be an email or something to let me know. I guess I could mark the date on a calendar but it’s not like they tell you their password turnover expectations at signup. You’d also think the person on the phone could help fix it in less than an hour. I swear that lady had to send me like 20 password reset codes because none of them would work. And you’d also expect that that password would continue working for more than a week. Honestly the experience was so frustrating I literally just canceled the card. I know it’s a credit ding but I have no use for a card I can’t pay off without going on an epic quest.

I use one and have still had the same issue with multiple credit card sites. The password kept in the manager just stops working.

Yeah that sucks but also OMG JDatE! Sorry it’s just my favorite series :)

It is genuinely bad for your sleep hygiene to do alert and awake things in the sleepy place. It weakens the sensory cues of the sleepy place and leads to significant decreases in sleep quality. You have to create a separate awakeness place to do the awake things. But all this takes is a standing divider/curtain and a $20 desk from goodwill or habitat for humanity. Also open your curtains and play different music/white noise. Problem solved, no commute needed and still cheaper.

Takes nutrients to both digest things and make more blood and you won’t be able to use all of it the second time around so no you’d be netting negative calories.