schipelblorp

@schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do wake up in a bathtub filled with ice and stitches over where a kidney used to be?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did mention brain drain in my comment. The US is giving up a huge economic advantage being hostile to immigration. Raising & educating children is hugely expensive and having young educated people come to work a life time (and have more children) is an enormous boon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thinking of going abroad for dental implants. An oral surgeon said it used to be an issue with poor-quality knock off parts, but that the manufacturing has gotten really good.

  Countries keep cost low by subsidizing doctors’ education, by the way, which is even more expensive for them when those doctors cash out to come to the US where doctors graduate with a debt of $250,000 from schools where graduation class size hasn’t changed in decades.

  By the by, intensive and indiscrimnate care by specialists–where doctors want to end up instead of low-paid primary care–is definitely more expensive without necessarily leading to better outcomes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Argues Big Tobacco Had Secret Role In Shaping The Ultraprocessed Foods Fed To American Children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t done this yet since it’s still an open question if I want to survive the apocalypse (just have a few extra bags of dried beans), but you probably want special food grade plastic with rubber gaskets, neither of which I think Home Depot offers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Argues Big Tobacco Had Secret Role In Shaping The Ultraprocessed Foods Fed To American Children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. If you’re extra paraoid, get some air-txght buckets, fill them with beans and don’t tell anyone you have them until you have a gun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be The Sunshine ☀️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One scenario is a speeding car is coming up behind the car trailing. You can’t see it and it can’t see you. You merge into the lane just as the speeder enters it to pass and you get rear-ended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be The Sunshine ☀️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a slow driver, at or slightly below the speed limit. My tips for not pissing people off:

  1. Use your cruise control/maintain speed. People can get used to whatever speed you’re at, but if you keep changing your speed, they’ll keep accelerating into it and slamming on the brakes.

  2. When the road opens up nice and straight with clear visibility, for fucks sake, DO NOT SPEED UP (see: 1), even though it feels natural to do so. There’s a line of cars behind you that have been waiting for the dotted yellow line to pass you–and where you feel like it’s safe to go faster is usually where they put those dotted lines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be The Sunshine ☀️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You just eliminated a traffic hazard

  … by creating a traffic hazard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be The Sunshine ☀️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been taking the bus to work some days and the emotional difference between riding bumpers for 30 minutes and being on the bus listening to tunes and reading for 50 is noticeable. I miss days when I take the car in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be The Sunshine ☀️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Insurance actuaries agree: men are worse drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a no⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Take all that “Driving Drunk is Bad, guys” advertising space and use it for something that people don’t already know…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s 33,181 H-1B certifications spark backlash after 30,000 layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, are you saying a fascist movement would spout populist rhetoric yet deliver policies beneficial to the ruling class?? How dare you, sir!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn straight!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember all the conversations I’ve had that started with the other person saying, “Can you believe so-and-so gets paid $x million dollars for playing [sport]?!?” and ended quickly with me asking, “Can you believe the owner makes $X million dollars for doing NOTHING”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streamline it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  *Virtoislico

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado Governor Jared Polis once again vetoes bill that would make it easier for unions to organize⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  United N**** College Fund

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is married⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having a good family and social circle is basically the most important part of being ready to have kids

  Well, bad news for you there, too: since we’re all busy working and commuting and moving states for jobs and our third places are disappearing for various reasons, because our connections have moved globally online instead of locally offline, we are all further away from our families of origin and have smaller social circles to help support our physical lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads horror⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents.

  Surprised nobody’s volunteered to write the English caption yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn, if only I could guide Rome through thousands of years of history...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sutton Hoo mecha made with Ulfbehrt steel. Unstoppable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn, if only I could guide Rome through thousands of years of history...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you counting the Eastern Empire? There’s an argument that our view of “Rome” is obnoxiously Eurocentric. The economic lifeblood of the Empire was mostly outside of Europe, and lots of wheat from Egypt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches redditors talk about bodycount⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called “the husband stitch” becase because it was done for the husbands pleasure, not for the wife’s medical needs, often without the wife’s consent. It also might cause sex to be more painful for the woman, even as it was more pleasurable for the man; which is too bad for the woman, because her husband had a legal right to rape her in the United States until the 1970s.