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  • There's always a catch, huh ...

  • Kuru brand shoes. I'm on my feet for 12 hours shifts and I actually have zero foot pain, they're amazing. Also I have extremely high arches, and the Kuru Quantums are the first shoes I've ever owned in my entire life that I don't have to add orthotic arch supports.

    I buy a new pair twice a year.

  • I'll second this one, and I mostly only use mine for sleep. You can get some that you mold yourself, so there's less fear of losing them. I use Radians brand.

  • Avoiding 5am starvation yowls is exactly why I free feed, and I'm sure it's going to bite me in the ass when my two are older and stop maintaining their weight easily. But for now, they're active and healthy weight even with the free feeding. So we'll see

  • Why would you ever remove twat? Twat is a great word, which I can only hear in Con O'Neill's voice from Our Flag Means Death.

  • Problem is people don't have a lot of control over their subconscious perceptions. The subtle ways that they'll remember two things being side by side and associating the two. This is why brands are careful about what content their ads are shown on.

  • See also: premature babies and adults with COPD. Oxygen toxicity is a thing.

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong is gonna be perfect.

    (Actually, knowing those devs, it might.)

  • If you worked in healthcare, there was a pretty clear delineation. We got vaccines and people stopped fucking dying so much.

    I opened 2021 to one of our chronic dialysis patients getting admitted for Covid, so severely short of breath they needed to go to the critical care stepdown unit, and I thought "this is it " By the time I was able to arrive at the hospital to run their dialysis, this person was already off oxygen and up walking around their room.

    Come to find out, they had been vaccinated. I'm told that was one of the first people in the State of Massachusetts who got Covid after being vaccinated, and the difference in severity was so dramatic I'll never forget it.

    That and movie theaters reopening are the only reasons I remember 2021. It was just a lot less scary even though I was still working like crazy.

  • I'm happy to accept a juice box to the face as part of my end of life nursing duties. To Valhalla with you all!!!

  • The 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution affirms citizens' right not to talk to investigating authorities. It's what they're referring to when you see cops in movies tell people "you have the right to remain silent"

  • Scrubs is well known to be the only really accurate depiction of American hospitals. Mostly because it's the only show where nurses even exist.

  • Today's high temp and humidity in Rio gives them a Wet Bulb Globe Temperature of 77⁰F, which is not great. WBGT of 80⁰-90⁰F is the danger zone, and recent research has suggested that WBGT 85⁰ is probably a more realistic upper limit of human safety.

    Sources if you would like to do some doom math yourself:

    https://www.wunderground.com/weather/br/rio-de-janeiro

    https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/wet-bulb

    https://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/project/heat-policy-innovation-hub/what-is-wet-bulb-globe-temperature-wbgt#:~:text=Typically%2C%20any%20WBGT%20above%2090,to%20protect%20against%20heat%20stress.

    https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00738.2021

  • Not gonna lie, being a nurse during a pandemic with that jackass as president broke something in me

  • The secret ingredient is 🌈⭐ misogyny⭐🌈

  • The grand irony is how literal a violation of the third commandment this is. This shit right here is what taking the Lord's name in vain really means.

  • TNG photo bombing a team of Martian Marines from The Expanse. We're doing Expanse crossovers now.

    (I highly recommend watching The Expanse. It's great.)

  • I chose a deeper cut Expanse reference, but in truth I'm Avasarala in public, Naomi in my heart

  • I dunno, I still run into an awful lot of people who seem to sincerely believe that "both sides" just randomly call people they don't like "Nazis" for kicks. Things like this make it harder to bury the fact that no, no really, Republicans are fucking Nazis.