I’m referring to the disturbing images on packaging.

Nah do it like they do in Europe. Pictures of what it looks like to be held to the bed screaming by a 19y/o who had no idea what they signed up for while an ICU nurse shoves a tube up your ass so that the diarrhea they induced to rebalance your ammonia doesn’t dissolve your anus as quickly except she can’t get the tube to stay in because your anus has already been slightly dissolved so she keeps shoving the tube back in and you’re still screaming because you’re in acute alcohol withdrawal and the terrified child they’re paying $12 an hour to help the ICU nurse restrain you seems to have snakes crawling out of their dinner-plate sized eyes.

Endometriosis is uterine tissue forming outside of the uterus and can be associated with a number of side effects (some of which can be dangerous) including mood swings. We’ve officially come full circle on diagnosing hysteria.

This was like two years ago and I’ve never had an issue. Have some faith in humans.

I just taught my coworkers how to pirate shit. Fuck Disney.

My lab partner in school was a memnonite. I’m sure she doesn’t speak for everyone, but her comment on the topic was something to the effect of,“we don’t hate technology, we just wait to see if you guys can work out all the kinks first.”

Cool, but people can do this right now on the toilet while shitting. They can start working on that other stuff when they actually have time. Baby steps here. Also you need third parties running things before you can get that done anyway because democrats won’t do that for the exact same reason they’ll never actually get rid of the Republicans.

I said local. I would encourage you to vote democratic at the state and national level but that’s not what this is about. Everyone pretty much already knows who they’re voting for in that part of the election. It’s the mayors and school board people we need to flip now too though if we ever want to get out of this. A pause button only helps you if you do something with the time you bought. The fact that you still had to make this conversation about the national race IS the psyop.

My favorite was the parent who told their kids their eyes change color when they lie. Now the kid closes their eyes real tight every time they lie.

Deep down I know you’re not wrong but I poke little crescents in my palms every time I see an abusive person describe their victim as a narcissist. Especially when they’re twice as old.

Oh those terms making it into the public consciousness is such a fucking plague. You know how they say magic is just science you can’t understand and that say wizards have secret knowledge? Maybe they’re not hoarding the knowledge, maybe they just hate watching people beat each other half to death with the spine of their favorite spellbook. And I say this as someone who didn’t change my oil for a few years until it lit on fire. I still don’t change my oil, but I do remember to bring it back to the car wizard occasionally. He does it for like $30 because “bitch how the fuck do you still not know how???”

Tbh I wouldn’t mind it if it wasn’t purely combat focused, one of very few paths out of poverty, and if most of that budget wasn’t going straight to Boeing Lockheed and Northrup.

Having an option for young adults to live in a structured environment, maybe learn some trade skills, and most importantly have to learn to deal with other humans would give a lot of people a much needed leg up on their psychosocial development during that early adulthood. I also think it would do it better than the current college experience (especially for little shit rich kids but I’ll get to that).

I say this because I firmly believe a lot of people need a terrible first job as a young adult to finish calibrating their sense of adversity and problem solving. Something that’s not going to injure them or abuse them, but that’s juuust vaguely unpleasant enough to teach some distress tolerance without major physical or psychological trauma.

My first real adult job was awful (unfortunately also extremely unsafe, so not good for these purposes) but it really taught me a LOT about… a lot of things really. Conflict management. Situational awareness. Teamwork. How to lead other people in unsafe/crisis situations. Probably more I’m not thinking of. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone but I can’t deny that the job made me who I am in a lot of ways that I’m actually really proud of. I still just about piss myself when talking to HR but a little wariness there isn’t exactly unwarranted. It also really hammered home how little management types care about your safety. That translated nicely into the teamwork- I learned quickly that admin can’t be trusted any farther than their lazy asses can walk and at 2:30 AM it’s you and your coworkers and that’s it so you better figure out how to get along with them.

The other thing about it is that it’s not really the poor kids who need it! They’ve probably been working some shit job since they were old enough to legally (and maybe a little before that)! I didn’t really grow up “rich” (especially since the wealth my parents enjoy now is due to them being hella stingy) but I definitely grew up sheltered, and that job definitely fixed my stupid ass.

I seem to remember cohagen being the antagonist of total recall where Arnold Schwarzenegger gets his memory wiped at a couple different points and goes to mars and meets a prostitute with three tiddies but IM too lazy to look any of that up.

Guess who’s also tanking the Healthcare system and who’s letting them.

You can also buy tylenol for cheap in america, that’s why it’s a ridiculous example of how health costs have to be inflated to account for the way insurance reimburses which leaves uninsured people SOL but also occasionally leaves insured people SOL if they find some silly little reason not to cover something like they used the brand name instead of the generic or they used injectable vs pill or whatever the fuck else.

Nursing school is less intense in that sense, but it is absolutely mean girl boot camp I shit you not literal cliques form and I stg they’re literally adults and they do it anyway it is WILD to watch.

That’s fascinating I would’ve thought most of it is in stars and the rest is a miniscule amount by comparison like 98% or more was in stars or something.

I appreciate you answering the question genuinely as I was genuinely curious!

Ooc how do we know it’s young? We haven’t exactly witnessed the lifespans of any other universes to compare it to!

When we have to reference one of my psych patients in another patients chart, we can’t use names or any other identifiable information, so we refer to them as “a peer.” So for instance “pt observed interacting appropriately with their peers this shift” (a reassuring sign of good mental health) or “pt had a physical altercation with a peer in which they were struck on the head and chest” (bad, obvs).