Honestly I wonder if some of it isn’t people in super remote areas or otherwise disconnected from conventional communities. If you live on a mountain with no internet or TV and drive into town once a month for groceries or live in an underground mole people tunnel system it’s probably easier to not give a fuck. Like obviously these things will still affect you, but not in any immediate way that’s gonna slap you in the face tomorrow.

If somebody catches that guy at the grocery store at the end of the month and gets him to fill out a survey he’s probably just like “…who? Oh a coupon though!” And the mole person will do it for a $5 subway card. That’s still at least a cookie these days. And they’ll both just check “meh” for everything and hand the survey back and take their coupon. I talked to a dude at the bus stop for a while that said getting his phone stolen had actually turned out to be really great for his mental health aside from needing to ask me when the next one was coming. Like I get that this is important stuff but sometimes ignorance looks pretty damn blissful.

Or a Presbyterian church service. I gotta give it to the Pentecostals, they might be a cult but at least they know how to party.

Honestly I would settle for people just recognizing the infinite complexity of the universe but apparently that’s just my high openness in the OCEAN assessment.

Used to work with the criminally insane. I’ve also met a LOT of pedophiles. Not many because they actually were crazy but because they were trying to get declared as such to not get fucked up in prison. Most of them aren’t even actually attracted to children they just wanna victimize someone and children are smaller / weaker and less able to advocate for themselves. The one thing pretty much all of them have in common is a pitiful combination of sadism and cowardice.

And also interestingly, most mammals have the same electrolyte needs as humans. Some need more or less water (esp desert animals), but the balance of the electrolytes themselves (sodium vs potassium vs magnesium etc) are a lot more similar than you would think. The safe water ratio for oral intake is pretty wide too because the 90% of the kidneys job is to rebalance that, so as long as the electrolytes are balanced in relation to each other you’re fine. So for Gatorade the optimal electrolyte level is actually about half (I usually dilute it 1:1 with water) but most healthy humans can easily tolerate it as-is (but it’s still only better than water if you’re losing a lot of water to illness or exercise).

When I looked up the normal range for the metabolic panel of a dog, the electrolytes were almost identical to a humans. I remember there being a theory that it relates strongly to when in the evolutionary chain we left the oceans, which is pretty similar for most mammals. Assuming this is true of horses, I wouldn’t think this would be any more harmful than Gatorade or pedialyte, and even beneficial in some cases (significant fluid loss to illness or exercise).

I have an agendered one but I’m also legit considering changing it.

I mean yes, but not in a way that’s likely to result in significant harm, even in the long term. It’s the kind of thing that being white myself (and having IBS on top), I would feel comfortable laughing at.

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Still not tired of the term “rainbow herring!”

I think you need a line break after the second spoiler and I think you are missing a space after the :::

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Apparently a hospital in my network is trialing a tool to generate assessment flowsheets based on an audio recording of a nurse talking aloud while doing a head to toe assessment. So if they say, you’ve got a little swelling in your legs it’ll mark down bilateral edema under the peripheral vascular section. You have to review before submitting but it seems nice.

Is it still made by a human if they use the stroke smoothing, clone healing, or edge detection tools in photoshop or gimp? Where’s your exact line?

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Maybe I’m being pessimistic but I’m pretty sure the immigration paperwork is gonna ask “has he been convicted of a crime” and not “has he been convicted of a real crime?”

Honestly the research on exactly why this happens is sparse enough as it is. It’s basically impossible to do truly conclusive studies with tobacco because of how dangerous it is. We can’t even technically conclusively say that tobacco causes cancer because to truly scientifically assert that you’d have to do a randomized controlled trial.

To have a truly randomized controlled trial you would have to randomly select people from the overall sample and tell them to start smoking for the purposes of the study (otherwise you can’t technically rule out there being some third thing that both causes the cancer and causes people to want to smoke). And because we know tobacco is insanely addictive and are all but that one millimeter short of proving that it causes cancer, no medical ethics oversight body would ever allow a study that requires participants to start smoking.

Hubs wanted to sell some used household goods but everybody is on Facebook marketplace and using venmo and cashapp and shit these days and I’m just like :| And now his friend says he wants to use zelle for me to go halvsies with him on hubs Christmas present. Fucking marks of the beast!

I won’t say my grammar is perfect, but I do try not to misspell things and insult other people’s intelligence at the same time.

Eh I’m a borderline in a relationship with a bipolar. We could never bring kids into this but tbh neither of us should probably be having kids even with other partners and it’s nice to have somebody who gets it.

They’ll happily take my nursing degree but I’m not leaving without hubs and he has an old weed-related charge that would probably impair immigration to another country.