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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people who have bad relationship with their parents care about "insults" like "I fucked your mom last night"? Or do you just not care?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I care that some one wants to insult me. My go to response for anything related to my mom is “sorry you had to find that out”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It improves the morale of the future worker.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  abused by both their patients who lack the mental faculties to know what they’re doing and their workplaces

  Oh theres a number of patients who are of fully aware of what they are doing who are happy to have a chance to abuse someone they see as below them (either because of classism or racism or sexism).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Five years feels like an excessively long time especially if someone had a one off due to illness, or a condition that is well managed medically. I wonder if there is an appeals process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on the very realistic visualization end of these and I wouldn’t say that I see anything with my eyes when I’m visualizing. It’s more like I have a viewing room in my mind that I can expand, or push away as I need, in a similar way that I can change the volume of the voices in my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a 5 on this scale (maybe a 4 if I’m distracted, processing other stuff) and I have a big component of kinesthetic sense and some emotional tone comes into play. It actually often takes work for me to turn ideas into words. This gets harder if I’m tired or sick or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “end up staying awake staring at the ceiling all night anyway.”

  This is still better for you than not resting. There’s been a tumblr meme going around that the MythBusters and Deadliest Catch crossover episode showed that just laying down and closing your eyes even if you do not fall asleep resulted in huge gains in cognitive function over not resting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I call it apartment gravity. The gravity in my apartment is just way way higher than the rest of the world. What can I do but sit or lay around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets his life in order⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then he leaves her for someone “who doesn’t nag” and is more exciting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly lots of them grew up and realized that what they were doing wasn’t healthy for anyone including themselves. Neil Strauss wrote a second book detailing how PUA exacerbated his trauma and poor mental heath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to ease getting back in shape after years of little to no exercise?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My life was changed when I stopped going to the gym for a long hard work out and switched to what I call “strength snacks”. I do two circuits of three exercises twice a day.

  I think that walking can be a great start. But also doing some sort of resistance exercise is also important and useful. You can start with a body weight routine and move up to weights once you are solidly into the routine.

  www.nshealth.ca/sites/default/files/…/1563.pdf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I finally get a long term career and become financially independent?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean , a minimum competence is the bar. I’m not recommending someone who is going to make me look bad if they get hired. But if you’re ok and my friend, I’ll recommend you and it’s more likely you’ll be hired over someone really good, but who doesn’t know anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would a company force you to use a rental car instead of your own for a drive to the office/Christmas party?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if someone tried claiming damage to their personal car?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got out easy, I'm assuming⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to take a slightly different track than talking about how awful the US healthcare system system is (and I can and do rant at length about it since I’m a former healthcare worker). One rare but significant outcome of fractures is that because bone shards are really sharp, they can sometimes nick or sever your veins or arteries. Part of keeping you “under observation” was to make sure you were in a place to get care at the speed you would need in the case this happened to you. Doctors (especially EM doctors) are trained to consider the worst case possible outcome and mitigate that.