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.

When I actually looked at what was sucking up a third off my paycheck taxes was actually a fairly small portion. Most of it was paying united Healthcare to make me switch psychiatrists which I had to do twice because the first one (who I had to try first) was a telepsychiatrist who could immediately tell that I can’t be managed that way. Whoever is going to claim responsibility for this clusterfuck needs to see me in person at least once a year plus a few times more I look particularly shitty. I could have told them that without having to risk somebody who doesn’t know me getting me committed… twice in under a month!

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?

I mean you’re not… literally wrong. There’s a lot about the use of the US military that is fucked. But there’s a lot else they currently do or even could be doing if some reforms happened that would be more helpful than the shitty things they do. But most importantly, your bringing it up here only serves to derail a different discussion that is important in its own right, and that this thread was created to discuss. The most important thing is that you’re not helping.

One of the cooks downstairs went on a rant the other day about how they’re willing to risk their lives to defend their country why can’t everybody just shut up and let them do it. Hyped up the whole damn cafeteria talking about their lgbt loved ones and how if you can’t even bring yourself to love someone how they are you at least need to mind your business. t’s nice hearing some ranting in that direction for once.

Tricks monkey into providing food and shelter like a boss

…by murdering any creature it sees that’s less than half is size for fun, even if it ultimately decides not to eat the guts after ripping them out.

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I’m pretty sure it’s because my whole body has anxiety not just my brain. My body sees a few antigens and just:

Totally gonna get it anyway but I’m not looking forward to my body throwing a 24h shitfit over it - I usually get what they call a VIGOROUS immune response from either one alone (not every year though, this last year’s flu shot was actually 100% fine for some reason). One time I was an hour late on my Motrin-Tylenol rotation and the symptoms peaked 15 minutes or so after I got that delayed dose down and I just remember laying on my husband’s lap and being so tired and fatigued and my bones were aching everywhere and I couldn’t stop shivering and I must have just passed out because I remember suddenly waking up and feeling completely fine again. It’s completely benign and controllable with over the counter medication (and undoubtedly better than catching the actual flu / COVID) but it suuucks.

Especially if I get sent back to the psych ward (jk the straps are too long I would NOT let me keep them if I was my nurse)

He looks like a half wiped ass (and I’m a nurse so I actually know exactly what that looks like).

Not until the marination is complete, anyway.

You can actually get them on temu / aliexpress / other cheap sites. Usually they’re called some variation of “Ballet / yoga slipper socks.” I did order some special variety that fits my 10-11 feet (I’m quite tall for AFAB) but that listing goes in and out of existence on Amazon and I haven’t seen them anywhere else.

Oh yeah those are exactly like the kind that gave me pressure / friction sores. The toe socks provide exactly the right amount of separation to prevent over / underlapping without causing sores.

They’re also hard to get into shoes, I don’t so much mind the bumps (weirdly enough with all my sensory issues) but I have to flip them inside out to get them into my shoes.