MisterBastahrd

None of the gospel writers were the people whose names are attributed to them.

Here's my answer to on-call requests: no. And if you ask me to clarify my statement, I will answer: no. Because no is good enough, and it's what I negotiated when I took the job.

I don't work for employers who can't manage their staff properly. If you're on-call at a company with any sort of scale, you aren't being managed properly. One of the things I tell hiring managers is that I don't mind working later if we're reaching the end of a project and a late afternoon or two might get the product pushed out of the door sooner, or if I've gotten into the zone and am making reat progress. But these are my choices to make. There will never ever be a time when I will subject myself to being tied to a phone for the purposes of waking up in the middle of the night and messing with servers or software. My time is MY time. I only ever have reciprocal relationships with employers and refuse to upset that balance.

The entirety of what she did was record keeping. Palliative care is a broad term, but she did not (a) do any diagnosis, (b) prescribe or change any meds, or (c) treat me in any way. She was basically an extension of the case manager. Our most impactful meeting was when she recorded the names, phone numbers, and associations of my emergency contacts, which had already been done a few days prior. Had she never shown up at all, nothing about my stay or outcome would have changed.

I didn't pay $250 an hour. I paid a thousand an hour. You don't get to arbitrarily eliminate money because it didn't go directly to her. It still got paid.

It's not exactly the same, but I'm Creole / Cajun and have been living in Texas for almost 9 years now. When I encounter other people of a similar background, I sort of ease back into the way we talk back home, which is to say not entirely Cajun French but we use a lot of those words to describe specific things and there is a different manner in which we speak.

For example, back home we will double up on adjectives to emphasize how strong they are. Something is REALLY hot? It's hot hot. If your kid is mischevious, we call that "canille." (kan-eye). If they're REALLY mischevious, they're canille canille.

You tend to lose that if you only ever encounter people from other ethnic groups. We even have words that are hyperlocal to certain areas. You won't find "chenise" in a Cajun or Creole dictionary, but the word is used in the river parishes of Louisiana to describe the thorn from these tiny plants that if, you're bare footed, will sometimes embed themselves in the soles of your feet. So if I go to Lafayette and use the word, people usually have no idea what I mean, but my friend from Thibodaux does.

Some of these website-in-apps drive me fucking nuts. They will switch you to the app, ask for validation through email, and then when you go to check the email, it loses your place in its internal browser, sending it back to the login screen, and so the number you've retrieved is worthless unless you know how to specifically minimize the app on the screen, which it will not tell you beforehand how to do. The bouncing back and forth is annoying and idiotic.

I went into the hospital for shortness of breath but my main issue was fluid accumulation. I had 3 paracenthesis procedures and was hooked up to a drip of Lasic and a catheter bag for 20 days. I didn't even recognize that I was in the ICU until I got the bill.

They charged $194,000. Insurance claims they paid $193,781. Of that, it was $7300 a day for staying in the ICU. My ambulance ride was $2500 for an 11 minute trip where one guy listened to my lungs and took my blood pressure. I had a palliative care doctor who met with me for 1.5 hours during my entire stay. She charged me $1K per hour.

Corporations are just groups of people, and the Constitution says that people have the right to associate. Restricting corporations from donating to campaigns just shifts the donations to wealthy individuals.

A proper constitutional amendment would ban corporations from political speech and donations and ban individuals from using more than X dollars towards a political campaign or PAC or commercial, dollar adjusted by year. That way, corporations are out of the picture altogether and the rich can't just self-fund political campaigns and ads.

Of course, that'll never get past Congress much less a bunch of state houses.

I rode in an Uber home from a rehab hospital recently after a long stay in the ICU. The guy was driving a Land Rover. I was a bit confused to say the least. The wear and tear and depreciation of that vehicle has to be crazy.

I can relate. I am a stubborn person, but I also have childhood trauma that sank its way deep into me. I had a gigantic fear of relaying any negative information to my family because they would often turn it back against me regardless of whether I was at fault or not. So I just didn't respond, even when things were pretty bad.

About a month ago, I checked myself into a local hospital. I had severe ascites. My CO2 levels were 70%. My heart ejection fraction was 20%. I could barely walk much less breathe. I weighed 340 pounds. I had severe edema to the point that not only could I not put on socks, but flip flops barely fit on my feet. I could sit, tilt backward, and the edema in my back would act as a kickstand. Drinking a cup of coffee or eating anything more than half a burger would put me into a bout of physical pain that would last 2+ hours, and the only way to get past it was to lay down.

The hospital staff did paracentesis on me. They extracted 6, 10, 17, and 4 liters from me via a tube shoved into my abdomen. They put me on an around the clock Lasix drip and put a catheter in me. I urinated 2 gallons a day for 2 weeks. I entertained myself by watching the tube running from my junk to the catheter drainage bag, watching as I would periodically have bloody urine because I was passing kidney stones with so much force that they didn't have time to hurt due to the sheer amount of fluid coming off of me. After those 2 weeks, I weighed 215 pounds. My heart's ejection fraction improved to 50%.

Turns out my right lung did not have a connection to my right artery. And I have an unknown mass in my right kidney that they suspect is cancer. I had basically been operating my entire life with half an oxygen supply. As a teen, I had big time CFB athletic talent but didn't have the stamina and it was frustrating. And now I knew why. My right heart had started to weaken. They did ultrasounds and CT scans and angiographs. The cardiologist said that my heart had no signs of damage and my arteries were completely fine, so at least I had that going for me.

So after not having seen a doctor since 1992, I was stuck in a hospital for a month getting around the clock medication and daily blood work and weekly paracentesis (which will be happening forever). All my blood work is normal. I also have AFib, which is the main thing they need to treat and might even help to fix some of the backflow which causes my abdomen to fill with fluid. My blood pressure is normal for the first time since I was 6 years old. When I entered the hospital, it was 187/114. Now it's 105/80.

So in the course of a month, I went from having no doctor and no time in a hospital to a month long hospital stay accompanied with short term disability and a prognosis of needing weekly drainings forever along with 4 specialists and a primary care physician and about 8 prescriptions. I also saw a psychiatrist for the first time ever after having struck out multiple times with Betterhealth goons who wouldn't listen and kept trying to make me meditate.

I am a fundamentally different person than I was when I went in. I refuse to be that person ever again. I will prioritize my own needs over other people's feelings. I will be active because I want to be. I've got a plan to take my life back from the depression that hung over it for years. I have 3 or 4 product ideas that would make a hospital stay better and make the staff's lives easier without dealing with HIPAA. So yes, it sucked, yes, it was expensive, but it helped me gain perspective and while I wish I wasn't sick, otherwise it was totally worth it.

The only enforcement arm is in the executive branch, and we've already got the VP and Republican senators complaining that judges are ruling against Elon's team and suggesting that he just do what he wants to do anyway. Pam Bondi won't stand in his way and neither will whoever eventually becomes head of the FBI.

Totally. One of the two generations (along with the Silent Generation) who got their pensions and cheap houses and pulled that ladder up after them because it would inconvenience them for the companies they invested in to pay for pensions for the next generation. Also, the vast majority of them were rabid racists. That was bigtime integrity.

A guy I worked for 20 years ago goes on rants on LinkedIn about how he can't find a job as a recruiting manager because of his age and DEI. Maybe if he wasn't such an overt racist crybaby, then he'd have more success at finding a job.

In the US? Not a chance in hell. Especially in rural areas.

The only place you'll find tofu even in most suburban areas are at asian restaurants in their soups.

The documents were found in a safe owned by de Gaulle's son. I'd imagine his heirs have something to say about the matter.

Sometimes the $130 thing is not better.

Take barbecue gloves. Yes, you can buy all sorts of varieties. Pitt Boss, Crate and Barrel, and others sell gloves in the $30 range. These gloves have enough heat resistance that you can pull a steel handled pan right out of the oven.

Know what works even better and is more durable for half the cost? Welding gloves. You can buy gloves rated to over 1K Fahrenheit for less than $20. Now you've cut your cost but also have the added ability if you wish to rearrange burning coals BY HAND.

I think that one of the things we do in this consumerist society is to buy things that look good instead of things that are functional. You aren't going to find much tupperware in a professional kitchen. What you WILL find are Cambro containers, heating dishes, and a variety of generic food storage containers. They are cooking their food in heavy walled pots and stainless steel pans with metal implements. Most people could throw out about 80% of their cooking pots and pans and never miss any of them. At least baking vessels are far more task-dependent.

Is a Le Creuset dutch oven pretty? Sure. Is it functionally better than a generic cast iron dutch oven? No. And of the two, the cast iron dutch oven is the one where you can buy once and have your great-great grandkids fight about who gets to keep it, because the Le Creuset will almost certainly have developed defects in the ceramic by then. On the flip side, a $300 refurbished Vitamix will beat the pants off of any off-the-shelf blender and last longer, too. But then, that's a professional product.

Well, that's a terrible way to market a product. Not only do I not speak Hindi, but I also don't sound like I speak Hindi.

Ask anyone in New Orleans and they'll tell you that Mondays are for red beans. This is because it was laundry day, and one of the easiest, heartiest, and least labor intensive things that you could cook for a long time with minimal supervision is a pot of beans that only got better the longer it cooked.

The laws of physics disagree with you. In what reality does driving 124 miles necessitate the creation of 110 pounds of CO2?

Wonder what the economic benefit of giving away 20K median priced homes would be for the economy versus giving Intel's stockholders an incentive to build the bare minimum in the US.

What'd be funny is to take a bunch of teens who have never attended a church service and have them sit through the different denominations' services to get their reaction.

The only thing funnier than witnessing a Catholic mass while having no idea of what it's like beforehand is the idea that some people still fervently argue for the masses to be exclusively in Latin. Because if there's one thing better than medieval LARPing, it's medieval LARPing in a dead language.

Here's my on call schedule: never, and don't ask. It's my responsibility to do my job when I am scheduled, and it's management's responsibility to staff properly. If we can't agree, then we can't have a business relationship.

I never crawled. My parents were worried, they went to doctors who assured them that I was mostly alright, and then one day, I got up and started walking.

I saw the exact same behavior with my ex-gf's sister's son, who we took in after he was in foster care from birth. The child had clearly not been engaged with properly... the back of his head was bald because he was always on his back in a cramped bassinette and at 11 months he hadn't even learned to turn over. Within 3 months of being with us, he was walking.

Why would they build? They're losing members year over year in droves. My parents are at that unfortunate age where a lot of friends and family are starting to die, and one constant refrain in the area is "when can the funeral service be? will a priest even be available at the church that day?" My grandmother died recently and they had to wait for a day for a priest to be available at that particular church because he holds Mass at three different physical locations in the area due to a lack of faithful. And this is Southeastern Louisiana, which is about as Catholic as it gets.

Because America is a place where people have been indoctrinated to believe that misery is the cost of freedom. It's a place where half the population would rather read your obituary or donate to your fundraiser than simply have a healthcare system that people can use in a timely manner without worrying about cost.

There's a Discover tab. If you want to discover things, use it. Tiktok follows a similar approach for their secondary feeds.

I don't want to discover anything on my personal feed unless it comes from one of the sources that I have chosen to follow, and I want information relayed to me in the order in which it is posted. For Discover, I couldn't care less.

The WWE is moving their programming to Netflix next year. If I were them, I'd be horrified at what I saw.

Yes, that's why people go to Usenet for their discussions and not Reddit.

BASIC was my gateway to missing over two weeks of classes because I cobbled together a fishing game during my freshman year of high school that apparently was worthy of winning at the regional and state science fairs for 4 consecutive years without changes.

Mission Accomplished.

Thank you, Dr. Kurtz.

Everyone who has an Instagram account is technically a Threads user as far as I can tell.

Your ignorance of how the legal system actually works does not make you immune from the consequences of defying the legal system. You've gotten accurate explanations multiple times and yet you continue to throw a pedantic tantrum in the comments. Calm down, conspiracy guy.