any new power structure can be good for the time it takes a generation to pass. after that people forget why they designed something a certain way and lose engagement with the political process. the only political and economic system that will ever be functional is one that is fundamentally founded on educating the populace on both their right and their responsibility to be involved in their own governance. the right to bear arms was a prototypical move to ensure people would always be able to enforce their right to self governance but without education in the importance of actually doing so it has ultimately failed to fulfill that purpose.

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Almost every other animal dies pretty quickly after having their last round of children / losing fertility, but humans live almost twice as long. Elders have a literal hardcoded purpose in human evolution.

I told my boss if she doesn’t stress me out by making me be charge nurse she can take credit for my weird hyperfocus side projects.

It’s working great so far, I just get left alone in my corner at night and every once in a while they send me a student or new grad to use as a lackey while I keep working on hyperfocused side projects. And when I’m not in hyperfocus I hole up in a suicide watch room with tea and a book.

And she doesn’t even actually take credit for anything the boss above her keeps sending me little acknowledgement pings on the recognition system and I get my raise every year (it’s not great but it’s not any worse than anyone else’s). And then the nurses fresh out of their new grad year that they manage to sucker into being charge nurse still come ask me for advice so I still have enough influence to get things done properly I just don’t have to do any bullshit tasks or get in trouble for dumb shit other people do like if I was charge.

I was kinda worried about working for the city community hospital and everybody said the patients were so much worse but like. HA. The university hospital had to shut a whole wing down for one dude who was punching at least one person a day and all the residents were too scared to either just discharge him to jail or drug the shit out of him and we didn’t even have the right kind of restraints for that level of violence. the worst it gets where I am now is somebody screaming in my face for an hour until their oral meds hit.

I miss the giant cafeteria and the employee only chapel and pharmacy and stuff and getting security to let me into the doctors lounge at 2am but everything else is way better.

I think there’ll be one sinorussolatinglish trade language and 5k highly localized dialects of our current languages.

another relevant comparison is why it’s OK for you to get irradiated by the xray machine but the technician goes and hides behind the wall. you’re getting it done once today, the technician is doing it 50 times a day 3-5 days a week (or more depending on cost of living in the area 😉). You’ll notice a lot of those nail techs and dental professionals are also wearing respirators while applying product to their clients and patients. wear your ppe.

psych nurse here: somatic exercises are also for your mind. your mind is part of your body. the idea that they’re separate things or that the brain is “in charge of” the body as opposed to a neat accessory that can do helpful things for it is silly. That concept in and of itself causes a lot of psychological dysfunction that somatic therapies exist to rectify by reunifying the two.

a few weeks ago the cat jumped up on the couch behind me to start gagging right over my head. it was a whole new level of Audacity that I never even knew existed.

I mean we’ve already accepted that we don’t know how big the universe is. The way physics has been going lately the universe might actually be bigger than reality.

if there’s higher dimensions they’re still part of the universe as I know it, they’re just not in the parts I can perceive. There’s very little useful speculation I can do in relation to the parts I can’t perceive. Apparently this is called “existence monism,” so this would be one of the other things in the Wikipedia theology tree. personally I would classify it as a type of Monolatry.

the beanie tho

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The worst part is that it’s not just that it’s a position of power, it’s that there’s also very little else about it that’s desirable. Your entire job is to show up places and tell people to stop doing things they want or feel that they need to be doing, and often that they’re willing to physically attack you for interfering with. The pay is also pretty mediocre overall. So if you want overall pleasant interpersonal interactions or a decent wage, you’d have to go elsewhere. If all you want is power over other human beings, that job will be a great fit for you.

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and in the ways that’s it’s not customer service focused it’s so focused on flowsheets and tracking metrics that you have to constantly consciously remind yourself that the human in front of you isn’t just an object that you’re doing things to. It gets to a point that you’re wiping people’s genitals with the same efficiency as you’ll wipe down the bed when they’re done with it and some patients can tolerate that well enough but then every once in a while you get someone with sexual trauma. And that’s just one example.

well clearly all used products must go to the landfill after the original purchaser is done with them, regardless of how much or little they were used since purchase.

entering the workforce as a young millennial I had a lot of older coworkers talk shit about the young kids wearing their unprofessionally fashionable jogger scrubs but they certainly don’t drag through spilled bodily fluids like flared ones do!

chatgpt aside this is a much more realistic way to look at it than left / right.

well honestly it’s the creation of high attention / judgment tasks with high risk to human health and safety then making many of them either a part of daily life (driving) or making them jobs you have to do 8-12h straight 3-5 days a week (health, public safety, public transportation, etc). Train companies in particular are basically famous for making their conductors functionally unable to use sick hours, and medical residency is famous for 48h+ straight shifts. Personally I’m finding I have to do about 4-5x12h shifts (48-60h weeks) to stay solidly in the black, but me and hubs are considering how we want to cut back for a little more wiggle room. If we really valued human health and safety we’d keep those tasks much more specialized and make sure the people who do them have way more downtime to decompress but alas the capitalist wheel must keep turning.

I’ve been on an extended tolerance break from substances myself. In January I’ll have two years off alcohol and I’m August I’ll also have two years off THC (I used it to quit the alcohol but wound up with CHS). Supposedly at the two year mark a bunch of your neurochemistry has mostly reset itself so once I’ve done that AND have a sober-only hobby I think I’ll be safe to reapproach occasional drinking. And I’ll also know that I have the coping skills to take another tolerance break if I need to. I too find the self flagellation of addict culture to be both highly performative and ultimately counterproductive.

and I actually really like that one particular use-case of ai because less required human interaction gives the blind user more independence. The remaining issue of corporatization and private ownership of something that should be a publicly owned resource (as with many other assistive technologies) is a society-wide issue and framing it as a futurist vs Luddite discussion is a powerful misdirection.

Yeah I lurk around r/conservative and hubs still lurks on the remains of Twitter just because we both a) can’t look away and b) think it’s important to understand what’s going on over there.

I usually see stuff said like “they’re not actually antifascists that’s just a misdirection to cover their real fascist ideologies.” Which is a genuine strategy in political propaganda. People use all kinds of labels to cover up all kinds of awful shit.

Really the only way around that is to focus less on labels overall and focus more on individuals and either thoughts on or even more importantly actual specific real world actions. I don’t know what political label people would put me under.

A lot of my local politicians last year were listed independent. I picked the one that wanted to expand the bus lines. I think a fetus is a human being but that it doesn’t have a right to use a woman’s body without her continuous consent. I think the rich have broken a bunch of the social contracts they made to avoid bloodshed and that something bloody is inevitable more than it even is desirable. I’m thinking that next time there’s political unrest in my area I should just sit on an out of the way street corner with a sign that says “RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.”

Dunno what any of that makes me but I’d like to find more of us if possible. Sometimes labels help that, sometimes they don’t. Wish I had a better or cleaner answer fire you.

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