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  • Leaving food on the counter - the absolute survey

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  • I think context is also important. At home I eat all kinds of things that have been all kinds of places for various amounts of time. I grew up eating fruit straight off the vine after a quick shine with my shirt (and nectar in the case of honeysuckle).

    When I'm handling food for my patients I take no chances. Even the ones without specific immune disorders are under high bodily stress while being exposed to shit that's basically been bred for resistance to antimicrobials. My husband has only had one hospital job but has been working in bulk production kitchens longer than my entire career in healthcare. If one item does go bad it can spread to the others pretty quickly. Another issue is that while I wash my hands plenty at home and also so compulsively at work that I have to use dimethicone lotion to keep my skin together, I can't actually guarantee that my coworkers do. Wish I could, but I'm not pressing my ears to the bathroom door in the breakroom to do it. I know I washed my hands before touching the patients' breakfasts but I'm too busy focusing on my own job to tell you for certain that anybody else did so yeah there really might be something growing on those trays an hour or two later.

    So at home, no I don't really care. But in high volume kitchens and institutional environments it's important enough that my husband actually knows all the specific times and temperatures off the top of his head.

  • I just found out my fiancee wants to switch to linux, lets start a distro war, what should be her first? + other questions

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  • Ubuntu was really good when I was a kid. when I went to school like 10 years ago I had to have a windows computer for a while to run my school's proprietary virtual clinical lab software and I was too busy studying and going to irl clinicals to worry about getting a dual boot running. I tried to go back once a few semesters in but it seemed really bloated compared to the Ubuntu I grew up with and I did mint for a bit but that computer kicked the bucket iirc and I didn't have the time to set up another dual boot. Hubs is thinking we're gonna have to switch soon and I've honestly been ready for a bit and think I'll probably try mint again, but distrowatch says a lot of people are super into cachy so I was considering that. Will Probably still try mint first.

  • Stay vigilant

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  • Feeding the geese at the pond just outside the school cafeteria was one of the few offenses I actually agreed with being as seriously punishable as it was. Those things would occasionally injure students when they thought they were gonna get more food out of it.

  • Seeking a residential program.. wish me luck! (90-days of treatment)

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  • nah, just have worked inpatient psychiatry for 10 years in a licensed professional role and have done 300h of therapy personally + specific training in peer recovery. Also note that they responded to "you're still making their pain about you" with "I don't like that you said that." I'm not actually diagnosing anything; I'm literally just pointing out the complete lack of genuine accountability OP is showing. That's not even a professional thing necessarily, it's just a "met enough people who don't take responsibility for their actions" thing.

  • (Don't be mean)

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  • that is a BIG boi

  • The core problem with A.I.

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  • eh. Sometimes I let it put in platitudes if I'm emailing someone I know that's important to. Otherwise my "hi I want you to do x thing in exchange I will y here is the information you need to do it or make me a quote" sometimes ruffles feathers. I understand that some people need the little fluff words to feel respected and it's important to me that they feel respected but man do I suck at it.

  • Seeking a residential program.. wish me luck! (90-days of treatment)

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  • The true signs that you've actually changed will be:

    a) do you actually make it 90 days

    b) do you actually do the things they tell you to when you get out (they'll likely walk you through creating a structured daily, weekly, and monthly routine including everything from drinking water to attending appropriate therapies and if nothing else free support groups).

    c) do you free yourself of expectations regarding his actions ex: "I got better now you have to get back together with me."

    You're still very self-focused right now, exemplified by engaging in paragraphs worth of public self-flagellation to ease your guilt. I had an ex who would constantly engage in self flagellation as a way to cause others to reassure them instead of holding them accountable to actually work on themselves and make real lifestyle changes. I've done it myself at various points age for various reasons but pretty much all of them selfish. That's still somewhat normal (or at least unavoidable) at this phase for a lot of people and I'm hopeful that you'll be able to move forward from that base into some real and tangible changes.

    Best of luck.

  • Slightly biased

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  • 5pm. But you know what? I go to bed way earlier than all those fuckers.

  • utter failure

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  • Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad?

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  • Yeah I lurk around r/conservative and hubs still lurks on the remains of Twitter just because we both a) can't look away and b) think it's important to understand what's going on over there.

    I usually see stuff said like "they're not actually antifascists that's just a misdirection to cover their real fascist ideologies." Which is a genuine strategy in political propaganda. People use all kinds of labels to cover up all kinds of awful shit.

    Really the only way around that is to focus less on labels overall and focus more on individuals and either thoughts on or even more importantly actual specific real world actions. I don't know what political label people would put me under.

    A lot of my local politicians last year were listed independent. I picked the one that wanted to expand the bus lines. I think a fetus is a human being but that it doesn't have a right to use a woman's body without her continuous consent. I think the rich have broken a bunch of the social contracts they made to avoid bloodshed and that something bloody is inevitable more than it even is desirable. I'm thinking that next time there's political unrest in my area I should just sit on an out of the way street corner with a sign that says "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES."

    Dunno what any of that makes me but I'd like to find more of us if possible. Sometimes labels help that, sometimes they don't. Wish I had a better or cleaner answer fire you.

  • What movie did you love that had a stupid plot but the execution was excellent?

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  • Jupiter Ascending

  • What flavor are marshmallows?

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  • That's not what freeze drying is.

  • What flavor are marshmallows?

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  • idk but I love freeze dried marshmallows and can never find them anywhere.

  • Update

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  • this is exactly why I converted to Gnosticism. Mainstream Christianity never sat well with me, atheists are pretentiously #intellectual, and agnosticism just wasn't loud enough. Now I'm following in the footsteps of Jesus by vibing with the homeless dudes at the bus stop, whipping out a tarot deck when I need to be alone with my feelings, and drawing weird sacred geometry that makes people uncomfortable even though it's shit they learned in middle school. 10/10 highly recommend.

  • What technology would you give to ancient people just to fuck with them?

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  • Imma come out and say it: they're old timey versions of copper coils or orgonite pyramids. Gnosticism got kinda big for a while and people were buying curses and prayers and stuff from people to write on little bits of broken pottery like little curses you'd write on scraps of paper in middle school. Somebody out there figured out how to weld little metal sacred geometry figurines and people were buying them because they look cool and some of them probably thought they'd resonate with the vibrations of the universe to cure dysentery or whatever.

  • This is Larry.

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  • Hubs recently put the box next to the toilet and our cat has since taken every chance she can to co-poop with us.

  • Can someone fact check this

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  • Yeah 16 pounds is a large cat like a Maine Coon cat or a small corgi / beagle. There are flighted birds that big but they're not common.

  • It's about time we showed concern for the men

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  • interestingly there is a (rare) phenomenon where the male partner gets some or all of the menstrual or pregnancy symptoms. Apparently my grandmother could tell she was pregnant (she had 10 total not including miscarriages) because my grandfather would get morning sickness! Partially explains how she managed to have 10 if she wasn't having to deal with all the symptoms herself.

    It's called "Couvade Syndrome." Obviously a lot of it is likely somatic but apparently there are measurable changes in hormone levels in the partner. Humans did evolve to co-parent offspring so it makes sense that there would be physiological changes to support that.

    As an aside, apparently the local doctor told her it was a shame she'd already had her appendix out because otherwise he could do a prophylactic appendectomy and "accidentally" cut her tubes while he was in there.

  • Are you CPR/First Aid certified? If so, do you carry around a "rescue breath mouth shield" with you everywhere you go?

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  • I got (lovingly) hollered at in the last mock code for pausing to let the respiratory therapist ventilate. things have evolved so much these days. After my round I went back to my true calling and walked the demented guy back to his room.

    Honestly even in the event of a code on my unit with my own patient 90% of my job after the first round of compressions is just providing history to the intensivist anyway. My last stroke code I mostly just stood in the corner repeating that the patient didn't typically exaggerate or present somatically so this had to be real.

    Honestly most of my job in a code not on my patient is probably going to turn out being environmental and crowd control as well, making sure the real code team has what they need where they need it and everybody else is out of the way and all the background safety stuff is still happening.

    That said even with modern evidence demoting respirations this picture still goes hard asf:

  • What's a good song choice for a nurse pinning/graduation ceremony?

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  • A little pessimistic, donchya think?