charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them] @ charly4994 @hexbear.net

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Kindred Spirits

It's one of my favorite stories to talk about, that even after the Trail of Tears and being so utterly crushed under the American boot, they still stood in solidarity and gave what they could. It's the best of humanity on display juxtaposed on the worst atrocities committed by humanity.

It was a bit of a running joke at my previous place that since they didn't require people to stay after getting their CNA that once they completed the program they just immediately bounced because the conditions were god awful.

My first nursing job at a hospital had us do a "nurse residency" program, they didn't make us pay for it, but they were lobbying to make it required for all nurses to "graduate" a program like it to practice in the state, I got fired 3 days before "graduation." The program was also tooled for 7a-3p when basically every nurse in the program worked 7p to 7:30a so it was just a day once a month that everyone suffered through severe sleep deprivation to listen to a bunch of managers talk about what kinds of farts they were huffing that month. They also non-explicitly expected you to do your project on your own time.

I've been too brain poisoned by our

I last played like 2 months ago but I think I got the Soviet union in the early 1900s like 1903. It was my first run not cheating at all so I felt super accomplished fighting off like 12 revolutions over the game from land reform to ending the monarchy, to like 4 revolutions back to back after we became communists with Rosa Luxembourg as the leader.

I had a similar experience back when OkCupid was not the tinder model, chatted up quite a few people, it never really got too far because I just didn't pick up on anvil sized hints, but now with modern dating apps, I've basically accepted that I'll be alone because wading into them is just psychological torture.

There was a moment like halfway in where I was like "well there was a complication with the birth" and then it was like "wait, why not just do an emergency c-section at that point?" to then realize they did eventually do the c-section but only after snapping the baby's neck. It's almost instinct to try to see the other side for these medical horror stories considering I work in healthcare, but then I remember the cases where the hospital I worked at for my first year covered up my coworker's neglect leading to a man lying dead on the floor for >6 hours or an ICU nurse attempting to get blood from a corpse while I got shitcanned for telling someone to fuck off after they called me a slur. They seem to insist that it was a postmortem detachment but how does the head just come off? You had to really apply some serious force to decapitate a baby. The cover-up is even worse, that they think just wrapping the baby up and pretending it's all good. How many people were in on this? I get that you don't necessarily rock the boat in fear of losing your job/getting blackballed, but this seems rather clear cut.

Like that one case of the nurse pulling the wrong drug that got charged, I can see it being human error but paired with poor procedure. I also can imagine that she was overworked and the hospital's systems requiring an override for every pull destroying the few safeguards that should've been in place. The nurse made an error and that error caused direct harm, but that hospital also tried to cover it up and threw her under the bus downplaying their own significant flaws in favor of the nurse being the sole person responsible.

In this situation it's beyond overlooking the name of a drug on a bottle and not doing the right procedure because you've just gotten used to shortcuts, this is making a bad decision, running with it, continuing to run with it, realizing you fucked up horribly, attempting to salvage it, realizing you fucked up even worse, covering it up, covering it up more, getting found out, and then just walking away because there's no justice in this world.

Honestly I'm a fan of living at home. My mother and I bring in about the same each month and rather than having to then blow a solid percentage of each paycheck paying for shelter, food, heating separate places, etc, a smaller percentage leaves the communal pot to cover these same costs, alone we'd both probably get by meagerly, but together we have enough to not really struggle.

I know that in comparison to business professional attire it's sorta simple, but I really do think it's fucked that for my first hospital job I had to go get a set of scrubs that had the company embroidered onto it and pay for that embroidering while having strict requirements of what tops were acceptable. Like you had to get a relatively recent release of a Cherokee scrub top of specific cut. Going to a nursing home position then required me to then buy a whole new set because I can't use embroidered shit, but also they had their own colors that were part of the uniform. At least I can reuse them I suppose, but like 70 dollars for a single outfit starting from unemployment is rough not accounting for the like 200+ I spend on shoes in a year so my feet aren't destroyed. I recently upgraded from a set of 3 scrubs rotating to a set of 4 and it's almost like I can go a bit without doing laundry.

Reminds me how when I was on unemployment before they stopped the job search requirements one of the things you had to agree to was taking a job no matter what the job was rather than it being a relevant job.

Besides the blue, everything's grey. Maybe use more than 2 colors

I feel like I’ve been left in the past with that Yen to USD conversion, like I swear back in 2009 when I lived there it was 1 dollar to 100 yen or even in the 90s. Then again game prices in Japan were always absurd at like 10k for a new AAA title.

Like the cynical cash grab of getting the news out that they cancelled it to then slash the prices on all the previous games to get a quick buck.

While I know probably a lot of terrible people get fucked over in such a way, I feel like most of my experiences involve relatively nice people just sorta fucked by a terrible set of circumstances.

Like when I still worked in a hospital setting, we had the sweetest woman with ALS, she brightened everyone's day in just interacting with her despite her disease being super advanced and being dependent. The entire unit got depressed when we found out she died a few weeks later in the ICU. Also had a poor woman with a giant Kennedy ulcer that developed that for weeks just held on and also got revived by her defibrillator, despite being in agony almost all the time.

If there was a truly just and good God, monsters like Fetterman would be the ones locked in their bodies stuck in a terrible nursing home where they spend half the day sitting in their own shit until their skin dissolves leaving a giant pressure injury in its wake.

When I was young I had a random username generator give me 4994 as the suffix to my username to avoid duping, I got so lucky that when I forgot my passwords I'd shift the outer numbers going 5995 rather than the inner going 4884.

Their strategy for the last several decades is "we'll try to implement something and then something will stop us and oh darn we can't do anything about it." "Oh no the Parlimentarian won't let us do it" "Oh no Manchin and Sinema won't let us do it" "Oh no we don't want to breach decorum"

There's no meaningful change, anything they do actually pass is obnoxiously means tested. They were bragging about cutting overdraft fees in half, about a 16 cent less Fourth of July cookout. Affordable housing is nonexistent, it's all a speculation market and owned by property management corps these days. The debt forgiveness is such an easy win that they intentionally let die and never did anything else just being happy to kinda sorta let a tiny section of the population see some relief.

When you look at China and their significant advances in renewables and reducing their carbon footprint, it's quite obvious that when a nation actually gives a shit and pushes for something better, you could have more than some paltry tax credit system that gets abused by fuckos like Musk where they'll remain profitable because they're selling the credits.

I’d like to point out that I’ve seen the same commercial featuring bad luck Brian over a dozen times today at work. Marketing people are still stuck in the early 2010s