alternategait
@alternategait@lemmy.world
- Comment on Was starting to run low on the essentials 4 days ago:
But have you tried Malort?
- Comment on Buzz off 1 week ago:
Also, I like figs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You clearly don’t work in my office.
- Comment on Damn straight! 2 weeks ago:
Honestly I thought it was a rhetorical device used cunningly.
- Comment on Damn straight! 2 weeks ago:
I just said something along these lines in a different comment, but … I have been both a barista (1 week of training-ish) and a physical therapist (4 year bachelor’s and 3 year clinical doctorate). At times, I really enjoyed both. However, doing either full time either bored me or burned me out. I would love to swip-swap between those positions (and others) just because I could because my ability to stay in my home would not be dependent on having a “high skill” job.
- Comment on Damn straight! 2 weeks ago:
I think if you decouple capital and earning from skill this “more or less valuable” thing sorts itself out. If I’m hungry, I’d rather have a farmer and a chef around. If I sprain my ankle, I’d rather have a doctor and a PT around. My needs of the moment are not what I always need. My abilities at this moment, are not what my abilities always will be. for example, if I sprain my ankle, I probably can’t help the farmer bring in the cattle, but I could help the doctor by setting up the autoclave for surgical tools.
I also feel like if my ability have a home and live in a community and not starve were separated from how my time is spent, I would get to choose both less specialized things and I would probably get to cycle through different things (and prevent burnout). I would adore a schedule that lets me do significant physical labor for 2-4 hours in the morning, child care 2 days a week, geriatric health care 2 days a week, barista another day or two, and creative endeavors the rest of the time. That’s not really a job that can or does exist these days and if I tried to cobble it together from part time work, lean staffing would never let it be regular enough to manage all of them without flaking out on someone.
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 3 weeks ago:
There’s a comment elsewhere that they were arrested in their youth but not charged for a crime and that record is the first thing found when searching their name.
- Comment on Why do I constantly see testostorone being put into evreything from pills to candy bars but its illegal for trans men to get it? 4 weeks ago:
So I don’t know where you are or what your healthcare system is like, but I suspect it’s somewhere with a public system. Do you think it’s good for your system to treat depression and suicidal ideation/attempts? Because transition is the best prevention of suicide attempts for people who are transgender. Full stop. If there was any treatment that came close to the improvement for depressed cis people, it would be considered a god damn miracle.
- Comment on How plausible is a medical tricorder? 1 month ago:
Honestly the way they used it, I always thought the tricorder was just the reading part of other diagnostic implements. Kind of an all in one CGM, implanted pacemaker, etc.
- Comment on Unappreciated in my own lifetime 1 month ago:
