I have the last iPhone version that even pretended to have a button, I’ve had it for 8+ years now and it meets my needs, if i could replace the battery without the phone bricking itself I’d keep using it for another 8.

I've found over the years that save for a few rarities I have zero desire to reread or rewatch something, I see it the first time and afterwards I don't find as much enjoyment retreading old steps. I absolutely love to discuss stuff and will go back to reread parts as part of a discussion, but going from cover to cover more than once is rather rare.

I think there's a variety of books on the Titanic I read a few dozen times as a kid until I was the most obnoxious 12 year old reciting weird obscure knowledge and then promptly forgot most of it by 20.

To continue on the series of "I forget" while I was locked on a psych ward with nothing to do other than study anatomy and physiology or read my English textbook/collection of short stories, I read that book cover to cover a fair few times since I had literally nothing left. While I don't particularly remember much of the contents at this point, I found far more satisfaction in the read than I ever anticipated after developing a deep hatred of reading literature through high school and the countless "this is the best book ever class, so you better like it and write pages upon pages plastering praise upon it." (Or having to read 13 Reasons Why shortly before this hospitalization) It was a chance for me to sorta rekindle an appreciation for stuff, I wasn't "forced" to read it and by just going through it, I found some stuff I surprisingly liked. While this didn't fundamentally change my relationship with reading, it did help me overcome some of that baggage from high school.

Finally there's The Hobbit, never reread LOTR, rewatched the movies a ton as a kid, but the Hobbit was just a really fun book to read as a kid. It was accessible, the story was exciting, and the only somewhat good adaptation was the Rankin Bass TV movie which while nostalgia bait for me now, really doesn't hold a candle to just how much more vibrant the book is. The first time through it was interesting seeing a far wider setting and deeper story from the movie. After that it was more just a quick run through a story I just enjoyed. Rereading it never added much to the experience for me. Nowadays I'll usually just throw on the movie in the background since the music is fun and sticks in your head far too well and I'm pretty sure my attention span has been thoroughly burned out over the years.

This is the end result of agency nursing and staffing. It got a serious shot in the arm during covid as people quit and went agency since they’d make ludicrous amounts of money. They still pay more per hour than healthcare institutions pay regular staff with the caveat that most don’t offer benefits.

Like you can see in other industries where they offer a benefits package or a higher net wage it’s a thing healthcare does by outsourcing staffing.

I make a solid amount as a nurse where I work and my benefits add another like 35% more to my paycheck if you convert their contributions. We still work regularly with agency staffing because there are shortages but those shortages are that people are agency instead.

I’ve seen the apps advertised that you pick a location and a shift and just go do it and it sounds horrifying. You don’t know the patients there, the policies, the history, the team, the work culture, you just pop in one day go to another place the next day and never do anything right while the regulars have to wipe your messes.

I get that especially if you have a day where a bunch of people call off having an outside party able to fill the gaps is good. The agency staff I work with are here regularly and know the patients and team. Someone blowing through for a day might cover us for the day someone is out but it never really solves the problem, just leaves it for the next person.

I feel like I did a 120% run of it but never actually got to the final 2 missions after doing everything in all the DLCs burning out, redoing all of it again a couple years later, burning out again, and then just kinda accepting that I already kinda spoiled the endings for myself and then fully spoiled myself.

50. Some stuff I only ever remember playing at a friend's house when I was younger. Somewhat surprised no flavor of Dynasty Warriors wasn't on the list. Half the reason I have an entry in any of this stuff is because emulation was how I was able to play games when I was in college and had no money so I just went wild with some older games.

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When I was a kid we'd watch America's Most Wanted because we had like 5 channels because cable TV was so expensive. It would make me terrified watching these "real life monsters." Then around that time we also lived sorta near where the DC Sniper was active and it just was terrifying to think about as a kid especially with the news talking nonstop about them. Then our house got burglarized and now I just have a paranoia that can get extremely intrusive. It's taken a while for me to really get control over it and know how to manage it without severe anxiety. Dumb stuff like having a set hand motion every time I lock my car so I don't question myself and return to double check.

I looked into at home soda makers a few months back, my mother thought it'd be cheaper overall for us and with Sodastream it would have, but that's because their syrups are obnoxiously cheap compared to competitors. There are other companies that make soda makers that are highly rated that don't come with the baggage of sodastream. I was going to get the drinkmate omnifizz but couldn't really find a good source of syrups that I'd want to drink.

It's been 162 days since I declared that I gave a shit again. I've lost 36 pounds total though the weight loss has started to slow down in the last month as I've been less motivated for a variety of reasons. It was nice to see the scale still going down though. Still have like 80-100 to go. My room hasn't completely degraded for a while as well, clutter is managed. If only I could apply a bit of my work self to my home self where at work I'm just super particular about stuff being clean and neat while my living space is just kinda cluttered.

A lot of medications come with air in the syringe as a “lock” to help keep the medication in once injected. You see it a lot with blood thinners and vaccines. You don’t want a ton but like 0.1mL is fine. Doing IV stuff you want to avoid bubbles but even then it’s like a solid amount of air that’d cause an issue.

The comments from the "Democratic strategist and former senior adviser to Stacey Abrams" are so out of touch. "I think a lot of people voted with a false sense of security,” said Smith. “Folks were betting that if they voted to enshrine abortion protections, Donald Trump wouldn’t actually co-sign a national abortion ban."

They don't like the candidate that they see as a continuance of the last 4 years where things have only gotten worse. They don't like the candidate that got zero delegates during the primaries. They don't want to vote for republican lite when the real thing is literally right there. Maybe if they pushed for something for once but it's pointless the even gesture towards that because they have no actual interest in making things better or even winning.

Put my votes in for Sinwar for President, Nasrallah for Senate, and PFLP for the House.

I mean, 外人差別 literally means foreigner discrimination, it's literally western racism. Like what's the difference between a Englishman hating the Polish and a Japanese man hating the Koreans? What about the Islamophobia wanting to send them all back, or the southern US border wall. It's all the same shit you just dressed it up with a bit of meaningless nuance that really isn't nuance. It just takes a different form.

One of my first experiences in Japan living with a host family was my host mother whispering to my white ass about how the tourists ahead of us were Chinese and that they were 'dirty.' I didn't get it back then as a 17 year old, but looking back I can absolutely see their biases against me as well, they just didn't openly flaunt them like they did against the Chinese. It's all racism just in different forms.

Nick Lutsko has a bunch of stuff since he normally does a song a week in October for Halloween.

Incantations

Spirit Halloween Theme (1)

Unleash Your Spirit (2)

Spirit Halloween Planet (3)

Living Dead in Washington

Pumpkin Man

Normal Man

Beans

Halloween Night 1999

Nice Weather

Cruel Experiments

For some reason my dumb brain couldn't parse that they were referring to the American Civil War and not some weird euphemism for the ongoing genocide in southern Palestine.

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The trans depiction in S3 can be a bit sketchy at best in my opinion but it is very much an early 2000s anime, has this vibe that you just can't get these days.

It's been 120 days since I started giving a shit and the last month I've really started struggling more but I've been going with it at a slower pace, gone are the weeks of 3 pound losses and now it's more like 1 pound. I did hit a new low today crossing another pound marker now at 33 pounds lost. I wanted to start doing walks in the evenings with my mother as a way to just add some exercise in but getting motivated is difficult after a full day of work. I've started only using the elevators for my way into work which isn't a ton but it's something.

Wait for a politician to enter a 2.5 minute travel time from you.

Then walk back. Round trip less than 5 minutes give or take travel conditions

Oh hey it's the dude that does some pretty good ghost video debunks. Nice to know he's extra cool.