

Disturbed Disappointing
Disturbed Disappointing
Always on the lookout for a streaming service that can actually distinguish between different subsets of metal.
Spotify and all the popular alternatives, I’ll seed a playlist with some symphonic metal, and within like 5 songs it sounds like a troop of howler monkeys having an orgy ontop of a pile of guitars and drums. Not quite my cup of tea. I want it to sound like band and orchestra nerds having an orgy ontop of a pile of guitars and drums… is that too much to ask?!
That accounts for a good chunk of the blocks as well.
This is one of those one-bite-at-a-time projects - just hit a few on each visit, it adds up.
I hardly ever block individual posters, but communities, I’ve blocked 936 of them at the time of making this post. Sports, porn, anime, or furry shit are all block on sight. Plus a handful of randoms that I’m just not interested in.
I’ve finally got All where it’s pleasant to browse. Takes some doing, but worth the effort if you want to customize your feed reductively vs actively seeking out and subscribing to communities.
OC, baby!
…but feel free to steal it / change it / use it as a copypasta, idgaf
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I wish I were even half. She is an absolute badass, and frankly puts most of us to shame.
This world would be pretty amazing if the average Joe thought and acted the way she does.
Given Isreal’s track record lately, I’m kinda amazed they didn’t kill her.
EVERYBODY LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEE!
If I ever happen upon one of these, it’s at the very least getting a swastika stamped into the forehead.
Iirc, the law specifies exposure of the female nipple and areola as the things that are indecent…
So… get some titty tassels with a large enough sticker plate to completely cover your areola, and you’re 100% legal!
You may consider also carrying a taser.
Taco Bell has always been a particular case of “how the fuck are they still in business??” …on top of way over priced, subpar quality, and subpar taste, they sell a product in a saturated market, and nearly all of their competitors are better.
Even if we’re talking shitty fast food, there are dozens of Taco Bell like chains, and almost all of them are better than or at least equal to Taco Bell.
And outside of shitty fast food, actual Mexican food is all over the place. To include more authentic taquarias that usually sell tacos and burritos for like half of what Taco Bell does and their product is fucking delicious. We have one of those near were I live - right across the street from a Taco Bell… and every day Taco Bell has a line around the fucking building, while the cheaper, better, and ready-to-take-your-order place is right fucking there! Drives me insane.
…it’s always the OR. And I don’t understand how, cuz in the OR there’s always a full team of people working in tandem, so opportunities to just disappear without being noticed while fucking a coworker or patient are pretty much nonexistent.
Actually maybe that’s why it’s always the OR lol: folks fucking each other in other units just aren’t getting caught.
That or we’re just the Florida of the hospital. /shrug.
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I mean… I could name a few…
the next Fallout game.
Next one might not be a game.
Oh, right on! I’ve only worked at a few different hospitals, so the sample size of my anecdote is pretty tiny, but I’ve noticed two trends that seem to contribute:
With newer surgeons, women are quicker to recognize when shit’s getting out of their experience level, and ask for help from their seniors before an emergency unfolds. Men tend to dig themselves into a hole first, then call a senior for a rescue as an absolute last resort.
With seasoned surgeons, women tend to be nicer to their team; men tend to be assholes. This is problematic if someone on the team is more timid - there have been instances where someone notices something like a hole in the surgeon’s glove, but didn’t say anything about it because they were afraid of inciting the surgeon’s anger… and then the patient ends up with an infection. As the tech or nurse in the OR, you need to bold as fuck sometimes. I.e., when I was a couple years into this job, we were wrapping up a big open-belly case, surgeon starts closing while the nurse and I were doing our counts. Counts were no good - one of our lap sponges was unaccounted for. “Doc, stop closing, we’re missing a sponge” …he ignored me and kept closing… so I reach over with a pair of scissors and cut the needle off the suture he was using. He proceeds to lose his shit, we do a sweep of the abdomen, and sure as shit there’s the missing lap. Then he doubles down and starts snapping about how lucky I was that it was in there. Both the nurse and I start chewing him out - literally doesn’t matter if it’s not in there, if your surg tech says there might be a retained sponge, you stop what you’re doing and start looking for that sponge. Were I less blunt with that dude, he’d have finished that stitch and closed the cavity, so now the nurse has to chart that a cavity was closed with a wrong count, then legal gets involved. I literally saved that dude from some serious trouble, but he was too butthurt to be anything other than pissed.
Anyway, women tend not to pull shut like that. Every time I’ve needed to call the room to a halt with a female surgeon, she’s just been on board with addressing the problem. Men feel like I’m challenging them personally that they need to contest; women see it as a challenge to the entire team that we all collectively need to resolve.
To be clear, most surgeons male or female just want what’s best for the patient and don’t put up a fight when I raise a concern… but when there is pushback, it’s generally from a man.
so the ones that make it are more skilled on average than men who don’t have to overcome those challenges?
Hadn’t considered that, but you’re probably right. Female doctors get a lot more stupid pushback. A year or so ago, I was in a thyroid case, doc was one of the younger women on the ENT crew. Also super small. …and people treat her like a fucking child. Anyway, we had recently had issues with pathology following her orders, so once she was done taking specimens, she ran them down to pathology herself to make sure everything went smoothly… the lab tech who received them literally told her to ‘go back to the OR and ask the surgeon to clarify the order’ lol. She would have been 100% justified in exploding at that tech, but she didn’t cuz she’s actually a decent person. That kind of shit never happens to men. I’ve been called ‘doctor’ more times than I can count, despite the giant green “TECH” label hanging below my name tag. “Quite the promotion, sir, but if you’re not trying to kill the patient you should probably bounce that question off of someone who knows what they’re doing.”
My take on feminism is that it just means equal rights and equal treatment, so fuck yeah I’m a feminist.
I once had a physical therapist tell me she wasn’t a feminist because she thought women couldn’t be as physically capable as men when serving as soldiers
That argument has always seemed like a cop-out to me. The division there is with physical ability, not gender. Establish the physical requirements and call it a day. There are weak-ass men who have no business getting near fields like that; and strong-ass women who blow the physical requirements out of the water.
Overall, men will pull ahead in jobs that emphasize physical labor - that’s fine. The flip side is also true, with other jobs favoring the anatomy and physiology of women. Aviation comes to mind. Especially if we’re still in the context of military, size and weight both need to be LOW. So same spiel - establish the requirements as the job demands and call it a day; weight and size limits will tend to favor women.
In either case, marking it as men-only or women-only is fucking stupid; but the demands of a specific career field leaning into anatomical and psychologic advantages of one sex vs the other is fine so long as the numbers reflect the actual demands.
*This does come with the need for and oversight, though, as the potential for abusing a system like that is high in order to accomplish sexist goals.
There’s something to be said for the mental side as well. Speaking as a surgical tech, the best techs I’ve worked with have consistently been women. I couldn’t begin to tell you why, and I’m backing this on the tiny field of view I’ve had into this field, but anecdotally, women are just better. I get a similar impression looking to the nurses and doctors, but I don’t have the expertise to really judge either of those.
Tldr, utilize people’s strengths, but don’t be a sexist asshole about it.
Murder is fucked up, human or not.
Couple issues with that. Murder is just illegal homicide. The homicide bit means it’s definitively only dealing with humans, and the legal bit is only as fucked up (or not) as the law itself, and history is littered with examples of legality clashing with morality.
We have some really evil folks in this world and they’re protected by the same laws as everyone else. Some of those evil people are doing things like running countries or mega-corporations or engaging in some other means of causing a massive scope of death and/or suffering. You find yourself in a position in which you could feasibly take their life - do you? It’s illegal: very much murder. But allowing them to persist allows whatever evil they’re inflicting on everyone else to also persist.
I know none of this is what you’re talking about, but I see the word ‘murder’ pop up a lot in conversations like this, and it’s just not the correct word for what you’re trying to describe. You can make a solid case for the morality of veganism without relying on the connotation of buzzwords that aren’t actually relevant.
That’s like, a single shiny Charizard according according to some kid I went to elementary school with like 3 decades ago…