That’s pretty fucking funny actually.

Same but would be maybe better to not have it go all the way up

Hear hear!

I put together a website a while back:

https://wtdiycat.vercel.app/

I’d make more of an effort to distribute it if I was happier with it. in particular I think it needs simpler language.

my father is an engineer, government contractor, and Zionist. I wonder sometimes if the Palestinians are paying for my nursing degree right now.

Yeah but it’s a -10 to have a panic attack if I don’t wait the full cooldown period.

Travel mug full of herbal tea and a rubiks cube.

Oh for a lot of immigrants I do wind up resorting to folk music, and there’s a lot of overlap with hymns and other spiritual music.

Oh that’s actually a known phenomenon music is a different part of the brain from speech for some reason. Lemme get on the computer with a keyboard I’ve got a few more fun comments…

• Here’s a ballerina getting activated like a fucking sleeper agent to the score from Swan Lake. I’d also like to comment that the way she’s in the wheelchair and kinda slumped over to me suggests that the dementia has likely progressed enough that she’s having trouble walking (it even affects muscle memory, eventually she may even forget how to swallow) so the fact that music can activate her muscle memory anyway is pretty cool.

• If you ever have a relative with dementia that requires caregivers that are not family or friends (nurses, home health aides, etc) please put together two music playlists for me (or spiritual me 😉):

  • one set of chill music I can play if I need them to relax for bedtime and stressful events
  • one more upbeat set of songs physical or recreation therapy can play if they need to get them up and out of bed.

If I don’t know what songs they like I’ll usually try whatever was popular in their demographic when they were 15-25y/o but that’s never gonna beat knowing the exact song they danced to at their wedding.

Thnx for reading! <3

I mean a better analogy would be single / limited-use items considering it can’t really be used after it comes out of the recipient. There’s a different joke about capitalism in there somewhere but I’m getting sleepy so good night!

Fuck no they’re not doing it in my body they can have the uterus though. I specifically said I can appreciate that miracle of life shit when it’s not in MY body.

Oh it’s super high risk (that’s why it can only be done when the doctors are allowed to do what they have to to keep the mother safe) and they actually take it back out when they’re done!

But she and her husband had received a crushing diagnosis: Their baby’s brain was not developing properly, upending their wanted pregnancy. Medical experts warned moving forward would likely mean her son would know only pain and suffering. The Minnesota couple wasn’t going to take that chance.

Yeah so it turns out most people don’t get 6 months into ultrasounds and painting nurseries and making lists of names and planning showers and gender reveal parties then suddenly just decide “…nah!” It’s usually a woman you’re making carry around a dead baby that’s also probably a threat to her life by way of hemorrhage or sepsis

Weirdly enough I only had my tubes taken out instead of my whole uterus because I thought it would maybe be cool to offer it to some other woman (I can appreciate the “beauty of life” or whatever happening in somebody else’s body). But that kind of program (and those programs do exist, there have been live births from transplanted uteri!) can only exist if the doctors and their patients have full decision-making power over what happens during the process. No doctor in their right mind is going to start that kind of process if there’s a possibility that when something goes wrong (and things always go wrong) the government will just step in and tell them it’ll strip their license for saving moms life (especially since without mom, there’s almost definitely no baby anyway). So it was a nice thought, but I guess I’m keeping it unless my IUD punctures it or something (I just got cramps again tonight for the first time in months too, and preventing them is the main reason I kept the IUD!).

Yeah I knew someone born pre-2000s whose legal first name was literally “Jihad.” Similar to Isis (as in the Egyptian mother goddess), it’s a name that has since gained some negative connotations. But iirc the way this guy described it is that it means “fighting the good fight” so-to-speak and could refer to literal physical fighting but could also refer to like, researching the cure for cancer. It’s any great undertaking that is perceived to benefit the world in some way, and they wouldn’t even be the first to apply that line of thinking to violently zealous evangelism.

I don’t like the part where only their last generation gets axed while the peasants suffer through the whole thing.

Reminds me of this short by an L&D nurse.

As a side note: when an old employer switched from Cerner to Epic they started out the first set of classes explaining Epic’s billing system and showing us how nurses would now be expected to bill for supplies and services. I think they realized how many of us would have not billed for stuff or stopped documenting certain things we knew would be billed more for, because they stopped talking about that pretty quickly.

They’ll make us do every other job in the hospital instead of hiring support staff

• they’ll make us clean and turnover rooms because they don’t wanna pay for EVS,
• they’ll make us distribute food trays because they don’t wanna hire dietary aides,
• they’ll have us drawing all our own labs because they don’t want to hire phlebotomists,
• they’ll have us doing case management because they don’t want to hire social workers
• they’ll have us exercising the patients because they don’t want to hire physical therapists,
• they’ll have us doing breathing treatments because they don’t want to hire respiratory therapists,
• they’ll even have us figuring out how to entertain the patients in psych because they don’t want to hire recreational and occupational therapists.

Then they’ll get mad because we’re not doing any of those jobs as well as a specialized support staff would AND we’re not getting actual nurse shit done fast enough. But billing? Oh they don’t trust us with billing.

As a final note: other nurses also think this is hilarious. Honestly that community is most of what keeps me going back to reddit. BoRU is getting pretty stale / repetitive, but I can’t find that kind of nurse-to-nurse or even hcw-to-hcw commiseration on lemmy, and there’s a lot of reasons why but the end result is that it’s just difficult to grow that kind of community here.

It is peak abrahamic religion

I’m glad this is getting some positive interaction. I’ve tried posting Bible memes before. idk I thought this was pretty damn funny, and I’ve posted some stuff about gnosticism since learning more about it has become a my wiki rabbithole special interest. Like that one in particular isn’t even one of those tired het “marriage bad” jokes he literally starts by complimenting his own wife. Like a lot of Bible stories are just genuinely funny as fuck like the thing where it just goes on for a good couple of verses about dudes jizzing bucketfuls of cum. When you grew up with that shit sometimes it’s fun to just look back like wait …wut?

but literally any bible / Christianity comm gets downvoted to hell on lemmy and I’m just like. Y’all know the block function is a thing right? You can just let people have their community and have their own discussions. I just block all the AI porn comms because I don’t really wanna see it but I’m not gonna mess with the posts because idc what other people are into. Like seriously just look up “Bible” and “Christianity” and just go block all those comms. If it’s that upsetting for you to see them then block them. Live your best life as far from it as possible, especially if you’ve got religious trauma.

Especially those of us that grew up fundie and regardless of what we believe now it was a huge part of our childhood and we can’t even make memes about it with each other that will show up in our own feeds normally weighted with the stuff from the other comms we follow?

Not military, but a lot of nurses have been sharing advice on what to do if ICE shows up

What is fun but an evolutionary drive?