The song The Piano Man fucking sucks.

The living room is red herring.

I lived here the whole time and that person is correct.

However my anecdotal experience is most people are refusing to test. Can’t get positive if you don’t test. 😩

Nutty Putty Cave is his Nutty Putty Grave sounds better for whatever reason.

Looks like it’s pronounced “yuh-all.” Ick.

I’ve been on Lemmy talking about this for ages. Listen. I’m in healthcare. I work under the Deparment of Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities in a 501c3 doing residential care.

The health care system in America is absolutely fucked from top down.

I’m working constantly. We do not have enough people. In my particular field, we are vastly underpaid for the work we do, so no one wants to do it. The jobs are there, the labor isn’t. And listen, no one in this job can blame them!

We’re so burned out that every time yet another person quits we all nod and say, “Good for them” and soldier on, because if we stop showing up, these people will die.

That’s just residential care. People living communally with disabilities wind up in every facet of health care (urgent care, hospitals, physicians) at an insane rate, so I see different facilities almost every day, and everywhere I go the story is the same!

Something has to give. You can’t order us to work and eventually the rising cost of living will force people like me to give up on these marginalized populations. Every LPN and CNA I know has quit healthcare altogether because it’s not worth it. The only one I know who still works is a PRN contractor who charges over $30/hour to work in nursing homes. We have to do something or there won’t be anyone left to treat anyone!

Oh my God it’s really gone.

I am but dust, now. Dust wearing a wizard hat, but still.

In fact, I would much rather live in a community where a wholesome, humming orb would be a welcome sight. If people report every single ominous orb that they see, why, there would be less majesty in this world. That sounds like the kind of austere, silent community that Desert Bluffs wants to be, and do we really want that to be the place we call home, dear listener?

What a fantastic resource!

Wow. Nice to meet you, Cecil. Big fan. Please don’t ask me to work as an intern.

Something one might propose to build in Night Vale.

Hey. Put that shit away. I’m not experiencing a “bias” because I tried to confirm something I saw in an image macro before I got into a diatribe.

Are you okay? I’ve never seen you be this pissy on the fediverse before.

E: And because apparently it bears saying, even though I never indicated otherwise, fuck Peta. Seriously don’t know how “please make sure the thing you’re arguing about is worth arguing about” made me a Peta apologist. I’ve literally never met anyone, even online, who liked that organization.

What I find shocking is you assumed the “before” image wasn’t shopped!

I went looking for evidence it was real and just found a bunch of people claiming it was from 2008, no snopes article (which shocked me) and a bunch of people on reddit saying it was teal but very outdated and to argue about something recent.

But both of y’all saw a post that was edited and treated the “before” as real. Remarkable

“Programmed to respond to over 700 questions, none of which include chicken fingers.” - Sergeant Vatred

I understand why this is frustrating and am not trying to take that from you, but thought you’d enjoy knowing that the last old lady who I confronted about calling my girlfriend as my girlfriend (in the platonic sense) was genuinely confused about my irritation, since “isn’t that the best part of having a girlfriend instead of a boyfriend? That they’re also your best friend? I always thought you two really got that part right.”

It’s some arethestraightsokay stuff (and happened in like 2004) but I thought it might give you a smile.

“Started?” Here in Tennessee we never stopped calling each other girlfriend.

But as others said, “Partner.” I use it to talk about my boyfriend (since I’m a well-known demi person locally and the sex of whoever I’m with can be a massive question mark.)

Did you just try to explain sarcasm to me? Hahaha!

I agree of course but he did prefer his Congress to have experience.

This is sugoidesu. Which translates to “Amazing.”

I can’t say I find it amazing. I don’t wanna eat step-on-balls flavored Doritos!

Only if there are GILFs on Tinder.