The disconnect is one of class, not generation. Generation draws a lot of attention, both in solidarity and in backlash, but if you’re expecting the world to suddenly become better when boomers die off, or for X/millennials/Z/etc to swoop in and save the day, you’re in for disappointment.
The ruling class will continue to make our existence as dystopian as possible until we break out the guillotines.
I work in an operating room, and have been around long enough to see multiple pieces of perfectly good equipment get replaced just because it hit the manufacturer’s end-of-life date.
I’m talking things like a several-hundred-thousand dollar microscope for microsurgery.
Basically that date means if the microscope fucks up somehow, the vendor takes zero liability, and any legal expenses fall onto the hospital… so we trash it and buy another one. Rinse and repeat after another few years.
That end-of-life date is always crazy early, and is like that 100% because the manufacturer knows hospitals would rather just treat a quarter million dollar microscope as disposable than accept liability for an equipment fault.
The waste is unreal.
How does this whole haunting thing work? Cuz I got a few heart attacks to dish out.
The general state of the world / our collective inability to learn from history.
Millennial here. I cook most of my own food. Have never and will never use services like door dash, cuz I don’t want to pay extra to give some stranger unmonitored access to my food. I will tip when I eat out, even though I hate it - for fuck’s sake just factor the tip into the price of the food… my whim as a customer shouldn’t determine if someone else’s employee gets a fair wage.
Anywho, I don’t think that’s horribly uncommon for my generation - most of us can’t afford to eat out more than once or twice a month, if that.
I’m not sure the US administration thought this one through properly.
Considering that the US administration is an enemy of the US, vulnerabilities like this are either an intended part of their plan, or a happy accident.
They don’t give a fuck about things like national security - that’s only ever a front for some other flavor of evil.
If that’s not an instance yet, it needs to be.
There’s still Templar and Dragon!
All you need to do now is inhale a bee and trash your apartment with the superpowers it gives you.
Fortified short grain white rice… hit up Costco or Sam’s, or your local Asian market, and you can score a 20 lb bag for like $15 which comes out to literally a few cents per meal. (well… pre-tariffs at least… nowadays idk)
From there, add beans, or eggs, or chicken broth, or literally almost anything else: shit off the clearance wrack, from the food pantry, w/e. If it’s a meat or veggie, it’ll go with rice. In the case of the pantry, if you’re not actually sure what it is, it’ll still probably go with rice. Got a bag of spicy cheetos you forgot to close and now it’s all stale? Don’t throw that shit away, smash it up and throw it in with your next batch of rice - now it’s spicy! (I’ve done it - texture’s a little weird, but otherwise came out better than expected). Rice is ridiculously versatile.
Disregard the hate for white rice being nutritionless junkfood - it is, but when money’s that tight, you don’t give a fuck. The fortified rice mitigates that a bit, and in my experience is usually cheaper. It’s a starting point: add what you can to make it less shit; and even if it’s a meal of just straight rice, that’s still better than an empty stomach.
And only once they ping you to ask if you’re working on it.
This right here is the winner.
I’ve been told to do so much unnecessary bullshit during my combined time in the workforce… finally clicked that unnecessary bullshit also equals unmemorable bullshit, so new hypothesis: management knows it’s unnecessary bullshit and care about that task’s completion even less than I do.
After years of rigorous testing: hypothesis confirmed, management don’t give a fuck either.
New evidence based practice:
Be told to do something; agree cuz they are in fact the boss of me; find something more critical that happened in the same timeframe that you can use as an excuse if questioned; ideally that’s it, cuz management has now forgotten; if they do remember and check in on it later “Oh my bad, I spent the couple days after agreeing to do that stuck in patient care, so I never got the chance, and now it’s been so long I had completely forgotten - thanks for the reminder, I’ll get on it as soon as I can!” …repeat as many times as you think you can get away with; if management persists and they actually really do care about the unnecessary bullshit, then fine, go ahead and get it done.
Fuckin’ hate busy work. Give me something real to do, or let me go home.
I use Amazon as a search engine to narrow down to a few options for a product, then go to those manufacturers’ websites and order directly from them. Been a while since I’ve ordered directly from Amazon.
“I require privacy not to conceal some malice in my own actions; but to protect against the malice of those seeking to abuse that authority.”
Life’s too short to spend on grinds that aren’t fun. Cheat in a 1-shot-kill gun, and it becomes a good Star Wars movie.
assorted Pokemon trading cards worth more than $30,000 in total
That’s like, a single shiny Charizard according according to some kid I went to elementary school with like 3 decades ago…
New vandalism idea: smear some strawberry jam into the nooks and crannies of a swasticar, then let nature take it from there.
IIRC the line that gets people worked up about sex before marriage is just something like “Keep the wedding bed pure” …kinda vague, and to me personally it reads a lot more as “don’t cheat on your SO” than anything to do with timing of sex.
Definitely not a theologist though, so grain of salt.
By telling his base to eat shit and pretend it’s chocolate, to which his base will enthusiastically eat and pretend it’s chocolate.
This is MAGA we’re talking about - their orange god can do no wrong.
how do you play music on your phone if you’re scrubbed in? Like, can you touch your phone?
Mohs are way less involved than most surgeries - typically the setup starts well in advance of the patient arriving, to include scrubbing in (surgical hand wash, sterile gown/glove) at which point you’re right: I can touch ONLY my sterile field, so no phone. Unless the phone is set up to use voice commands - my last phone was, but I only ever used it like twice, so I never bothered on my current one.
Mohs procedures use like 4 instruments and only a handful of supplies, so I didn’t even start opening anything until the patient is in the room - they do all the preop consent and stuff in the room for Mohs, which takes way longer than my setup - so I have a couple minutes to help with things like taking vitals, which is when I get talking to the patient, and when this one mentioned how extremely anxious he was. Music preference was asked then, and I got it started playing immediately after. Then the gloves went on, at which point the phone is off limits.
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.