predators wait for them

They wait for a sloth? On the ground? For it to crawl down to take a dump?

That entire foodchain is all kinds of janked up.

…wait, really? I figured they’d just hang and let it plop.

For Harambe!

So… focus is now on young male sex slaves?

Out-fuckin-standing game for its time; did not age well.

Excellent choice for a remaster!

Well, no one could have seen that coming. Maybe we should try a restraining order to keep ICE a minimum distance from the civilians they would otherwise murder. It’s foolproof!!

Agreed on the vast majority of that.

Now let’s say you were employed by the USPHS, or VA, or IHS, or… there are other federal healthcare agencies, right? Anyway- you quit because Trump is a dickhead, and now what? Those supplies you’re distributing just got cut off. That doesn’t help anything.

The pitch I’d make: if you’re working for any part of the govt that’s functioning as an oppressor, then you should have quit a long time ago unless you’re actively sabotaging. Falling that, better late than never - GTFO now. But if you’re working for any other part of the govt, do your job and keep in mind who you serve - hint: it’s not your boss. Don’t be a silent pencil pusher like the ‘little guys’ in the Tuskegee experiment, speak the fuck up. But don’t just quit - use your position to actually serve the public, whether in an official capacity or akin to what you described.

So… I’m with you mostly, but I do hold that there’s a distinction between forces like the ICE Nazis and actual public servants employed by the govt.

What’s the argument, though? Defy unjust laws --> quit govt positions even if they’re an actual public service and not actually supporting the regime is quite the jump. It’s cool that he’s a great author and all, but an opinion piece is still an opinion piece - whether its good or not (and I’m assuming it is) depends on the reasoning therein.

Some absolutely horrific things have been done in the name of advancing healthcare… should I quit my job as a surgical tech because of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study? Wouldn’t it be better to stay in healthcare and blow the whistle if I see shit like that starting up again?

That’s a lot more than a word. I don’t have enough free time to spend it on a 16 page opinion article, but feel free tldr it and I’ll give my 2 cents.

Yeah, I’m not really sold on the ‘entire government’ thing. Some chemist testing soil samples for the Department of Agriculture isn’t part of the problem - that guy’s working for us.

ICE? 100% Nazis. There is no justifiable role in that organization. But we can (and should) purge that shit without crippling services that are actually benevolent.

Might be more of a developmental impairment. For children, magical thinking is normal and expected. They might sincerely think they can cause something to happen by thinking about it or engaging in some kind of paranormal way. Like, if a 4 year old points at you with a finger guns gesture and yells ‘bang’, they might just be trying to be silly; but they might also be genuinely trying to kill you. You’ll know if immediately after, they look down at their finger-gun with a wtf expression cuz they’re actually surprised it didn’t work.

Again, normal. Unnerving, but normal.

They should grow out of that shit by about age 7 iirc.

Lots of people never grow out of it, they just compartmentalize that kind of thinking as religion… they know they can’t kill you with finger guns, but Jesus? His finger guns are real!!.

Those people need a fuck ton of therapy.

The disconnect is one of class, not generation. Generation draws a lot of attention, both in solidarity and in backlash, but if you’re expecting the world to suddenly become better when boomers die off, or for X/millennials/Z/etc to swoop in and save the day, you’re in for disappointment.

The ruling class will continue to make our existence as dystopian as possible until we break out the guillotines.

Shhhhhhhhhh you’re going to wake Gabe!

Working in the OR. Anesthesiologist draws up some fentanyl, and I asked him if it was enriched. He looked at me like I’m a dumbass and asked “with what?”

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…bruh we watched proof beyond a reasonable of Trump’s traitorous crimes on live TV. Multiple times. What we don’t have is a criminal justice system.

JKR is a uniquely self-aware monster. Her fame and fortune were built on a franchise in which its own villains are just caricatures of JKR’s traits.

Most people who promote evil do it through an elaborate mental gymnastics routine to try to rationalize their awful behavior. Not JKR - she called herself out by personifying her own traits specifically as the ‘bad guys’. No effort to rationalize their fictional behavior or explain why wizard-Hitler is actually misunderstood but raises some good points in the interests of wizard-1930s-Germany. Nope. Just a very clear copy and paste of her own values onto the HP lore, and a very clear label within that lore that those values are evil and something anyone with a shed of good in them should actively fight against to their dying breath.

I can’t think of a single other person that is both that level of self aware and still absolutely evil.

US deep south. The only sorting of trash I see in the hospital is sharps vs non-sharps. Outside the hospital, sorting is vitually nonexistent… there’s no recycling here, everything just goes in a landfill. It’s fucking stupid, but this is what we get for putting Nazis in charge of everything.

No idea how they dispose of it. I’ve asked my immediate management chain if I can take damaged/pitted instruments that need to be replaced to donate to the local colleges - Anatomy & Physiology classes all have a lab component to dissect something, and the school I went to had instruments that were absolute garbage.

The answer was no… We just put instruments that need to be replaced in a red bin with other sharps like needles, and the bins are shipped off somewhere, probably to be incinerated.

Bigger stuff like equipment, we send to the biomedical engineering department for outprocessing. From there, no idea. Probably land fill.

I wouldn’t dumpster dive at a hospital though. It’ll be a sea of ruptured catheter bags, linens saturated with poop, and just all manner of pathogens. And probably sharps - that stuff is supposed to go in sealed red bins, but all it takes is one lazy employee and you’ve got yourself an HIV+ needle stick.

I work in an operating room, and have been around long enough to see multiple pieces of perfectly good equipment get replaced just because it hit the manufacturer’s end-of-life date.

I’m talking things like a several-hundred-thousand dollar microscope for microsurgery.

Basically that date means if the microscope fucks up somehow, the vendor takes zero liability, and any legal expenses fall onto the hospital… so we trash it and buy another one. Rinse and repeat after another few years.

That end-of-life date is always crazy early, and is like that 100% because the manufacturer knows hospitals would rather just treat a quarter million dollar microscope as disposable than accept liability for an equipment fault.

The waste is unreal.