faythofdragons
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- Comment on Absolute peak 6 hours ago:
Just think of all the fun stuff you can do with the paper ribbons you tear off! That absolutely makes up for any and all pain and suffering endured in the process!
- Comment on My mom an old school nurse will stop at traffic accidents and try to help if no one is around, my new school sister nurse won't. Saying everyone is sue happy thesedays. Who is right? 1 week ago:
If a nurse won’t give CPR to somebody because they’re afraid of getting sued for a broken rib, then they shouldn’t be a nurse.
I’ve been CPR trained, and we were taught that broken ribs are a normal outcome, and we shouldn’t let that worry slow us down, because the alternative is the person dying. I’ve done CPR on somebody that overdosed in the parking lot until someone showed up with narcan, and I’d do it again.
- Comment on Was there ever a well-documented, widely accepted to be *false*, accusation of genocide? 2 weeks ago:
TIL saying the great replacement theory is racist makes me fascist
- Comment on Was there ever a well-documented, widely accepted to be *false*, accusation of genocide? 2 weeks ago:
Fuck off with that racist nonsense
- Comment on Was there ever a well-documented, widely accepted to be *false*, accusation of genocide? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Socialization of child care (economics and affect on women's wages) by Paul Cockshott 2 weeks ago:
In addition to this, I would also argue that socialized child care is essential for a society to overcome it’s biases. We have ample evidence that early-life contact with people outside their immediate community reduces bigotry later in life.
The current structure of for-profit childcare groups kids into what is essentially a class based stratification, where you pay more for the “good” childcare, and I firmly believe this only breeds bias.
- Comment on Keep them secret 3 weeks ago:
I’ll save you the trouble, here’s the recipe for Tiral’s grandmother’s stuffed peppers.
Take the peppers
Stuff with tasty things
Cook them if you want
Eat - Comment on There are solutions to our problems... 5 weeks ago:
Why can’t we have a short term fix while we work on the long term solution? Why do we have to let people suffer because there are others who it may not work for?
- Comment on There are solutions to our problems... 5 weeks ago:
Because “youth crisis center” is a polite term for juvie rehab. They work with kids that committed nonviolent crimes. The NIMBYs and business owners swore up and down that it’d lead to prowling youth gangs and shit, but it hasn’t.
- Comment on There are solutions to our problems... 5 weeks ago:
Fuck NIMBYs, I don’t listen them. We recently had a youth crisis center go up in town, and despite the dire warnings, there was zero increase in crime.
As for the discards, I’ve found that depends almost entirely on policy. In areas where they just give you a tray with little consideration for dietary needs, or on days where the food is straight scop, yeah, there’s a lot more discarded food.
But that’s not happening because it’s free.
The hoarding is similarly not happening because it’s free, it happens because it’s free this time, and there are no guarantees that it will be there when you need more. Even if they swear up and down it’ll be there when you need it, you’ve been let down so many times you can’t trust it.
- Comment on There are solutions to our problems... 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but that’s about perverse incentives to hurt those around you. Currently, there is an economic incentive to let food go to waste to keep prices high, rather than distributing it freely.
How would freely distributing food result in more waste, due to tragedy of the commons?
- Comment on There are solutions to our problems... 5 weeks ago:
Iran’s free gasoline
I am entirely unfamiliar.
help in most soup kitchens or volunteer at a food bank
I have, there was very little waste?
- Comment on There are solutions to our problems... 5 weeks ago:
People tend to waste what is given freely
Do they though? I grew up below the poverty line, and nobody wasted the free food from the food bank.
I posit that people waste what they don’t need, monetary value has little to do with it.
- Comment on There are solutions to our problems... 5 weeks ago:
People want perfect solutions, and that’s what makes it complicated. Ending homelessness is easy, but people also want to end hunger, and sickness, and poverty, and… so proven solutions for homelessness get branded (by the affluent, as you mentioned) as “half measures” and nobody supports it.
And I’ve seen this play out IRL in casual intoxicated philosophical conversations with friends too, so I don’t think it’s a good faith/bad faith thing. I feel like they get bogged down with it as an optimization problem, where I don’t see a problem with knocking together good enough and improving later.
- Comment on Third Time's the Charm 5 weeks ago:
He got Frank Beard last week too
- Comment on You can do it 👍 1 month ago:
Insufflation /ĭn″sə-flā′shən/ noun
- A ritual act of breathing on baptismal water or on the one being baptized.
- Comment on He got caught and did not resist. He complied. 1 month ago:
What a marvelous bird, the pelican
His mouth can hold more than his belly can!
He can hold in his beak,
Enough fish for a week,
But damned if I know how the hell he can - Comment on How bad were the asylums that Reagan closed in his tenure? Were they really that bad? Did no one take a look at the staff and bed side manner? Or was it really like Born On The Fourth of July? 2 months ago:
I used to do care for developmentally disabled people, and one of the clients my agency worked with was in a surviving mental institute in the late 90s. In some aspects, it was better than some of the stories might suggest. They got her on the right meds at the right dose, which let her regain independence with minimal support.
However, they did pull all her teeth upon admission because it was cheaper than fixing them. They issued her one pair of dentures, and failed to replace them when another patient broke them. One of the first things she did after getting out was to get new dentures, and she cried when she finally had teeth again and didn’t need to be on a blended food diet any more.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 months ago:
The only reason I got my driver’s license is because the bus was over an hour late and I missed an interview. The transit agency had the gall to tell me that I should have taken the 6am bus for a noon appointment if it was so important the 9am bus was on time.
- Comment on the worlds first trillionaire is a pro-israeli jewish fascist from SA, and youre mad at me? 3 months ago:
Hey, SA can also stand for Sexual Assault
- Comment on How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference? 3 months ago:
Is beating up a guy baddery?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
In a factory, downtown?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Depends on how you do it, really. Most of the candy color dyes these days are semi-permanent or temporary colors, so they don’t have the same harsh chemicals that permanent dye used to have. The most dangerous chemical in the process is the peroxide bleach, and you can get really gentle formulations of that now for bleaching your mustache.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I love how you knew exactly what I’m talking about
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Saw a DJ once that dyed her underarm hair in rainbow colors.
- Comment on Banning from social media 5 months ago:
My parents were involved in a cult, and I never would have made it out if I didn’t have normies on the internet telling me that being in a mass marriage ceremony to Jesus at 17 was fucked up.
- Comment on You wouldn’t download Hot Wheels in real life 5 months ago:
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- Comment on Live fearlessly 5 months ago:
Swear to god, if I unwrap a tampon that says “help, I’m trapped in a fortune cookie factory”…
- Comment on Cats are wise 5 months ago:
I used one of those guitar tuner apps, and it says it’s F6
- Comment on Cats are wise 5 months ago:
10/10 do recommend