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I once saw a guys breathing rate shoot to 36 while in ambulatories after about a week in the chair. Don't get me wrong he needed that amount of restraint he was so manic he was screaming incomprehensibly and trying to ram his head into walls so hard it shook the unit 24/7 despite getting sedatives that should have taken down a horse but the entire night shift staff had been telling dayshift he needed a chest xray for almost that entire time (standalone psych hospital, radiology wasn't there overnight). Every once in a while his breathing just sounded... chunky. We didn't like it but the lead psychiatrist dgaf.

Anyway he lived without any long term complications but only because we caught it the second it happened and we got him on oxygen and airlifted to the university right away (this was up in the mountains). And I shit you not afterwards a coworker said they still thought he was exaggerating like the University would have admitted an extremely violent psych patient to ICU without radiologic confirmation. Somebody said something similar about a patient who stroked out on me and that personally I watched them give tpa to right there on the CT table after confirmation of ischemia when I briefly worked a COVID psych unit.

And this was psych where people at least slightly care about the patients. I get so many correctional offers (that first one was actually a forensic psych unit) and I love love LOVE that patient population but I could barely handle how the psych unit treated those people I don't think I could handle corrections. Even just that one guy my hair almost started falling out watching him breathe for a week straight. I was still a technician at the time so I was just there sitting 1:1 with him for hours at a time retaking his respiratory rate every 15 minutes and also every time it sounded chunky again and again and again (when you do care, they burn you out).

Globulation

It's not even a superiority thing either; they're just the games I grew up with because my family was cheap AF and I wish people were willing to play them with me. :(

Oh I just talk people into playing it with me on the couch, but a lot of the time they try to talk me into non-FOSS games :(

I actually always really enjoyed supertuxkart but I've never actually played much of mariokart so idk how well they actually compare.

It's not often but just recently a post on c/CuratedTumblr got people fucking HOT for a second there I finally just locked it because these people can't behave.

Ok so this is the post: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/25280106

And I've got a couple thoughts:

1. Most of the conversation was actually pretty civil and a pretty insightful discussion on social norms vs personal comfort and the boundaries people set.✅️
2. Not sure how I feel about the top comment's use of the word cunt. On one hand OP nor anyone else seems to have taken offense (no one reported it) which implies to me that it's usage is pretty low on the... slur-o-meter? (which is also the vibe I got from it personally) but I did also say I won't tolerate people actually calling each other slurs... my decision on that has been that the first report I get I'll remove it.
3. The person calling the other person a retard was an obvious removal. However in retrospect I should have banned that person immediately since in the same comment they also told the other person to kill themselves, especially since they went on to tell another person to kill themselves in the same thread the next day. That person is now permanently banned.
4. The whole DragonRider thing has been ongoing and taken me a while to piece my thoughts together but I guess the best way I can sum it up is that pretty much every online community has trolls and at least that one is almost impeccably polite for being that devoted to the bit. At that point it's barely even trolling and more of just a little bit of flavor. Certainly haven't ever gotten a report on a comment from that account telling people to kill themselves. It's one of those "I may as well vaguely piss everyone off equally with this decision kinda things," especially since there's arguments to be made for transphobia four both blocking and not blocking that account when I'm pretty sure causing that argument in the first place is the point of the bit. Everybody wants me to ban each other over dumb shit when "don't feed the trolls" is basically part of aesops fables at that point and block buttons have been around almost just a long and make it super easy to just not interact with accounts you personally dislike or find annoying. A few months back people started reporting each other because they were arguing over whether or not tumblr prose was scientifically accurate. Just... why?

I almost wish I could block accounts for other people. Like putting kids in different playpens at the daycare.

When your trade war results in having to keep your own garbage 😬

My favorite part is that if you actually read this story it's not even about masturbation, it's about how shitty it is to try and rules-lawyer your way out of doing the right thing.

Onan's brother died and left a childless widow. In Jewish culture at that time, as a widow, she would've needed a son to collect the inheritance / be taken care of, etc. The workaround (in lieu of not being misogynists given that these were ye olden times) was that your brother in law would knock you up and that kid would legally count as your dead husband's for the purposes of inheritance.

But Onan thinks he's reeeaaaal clever and figures if she just magically can't get pregnant, he could just keep all that land, tents, horses, and whatever else. So he just keeps pulling out, she never gets pregnant and figures he's home free and puts his brother's widow out on the street to become a prostitute. There's some specific symbolic way that he gets his divine comeuppance for all this but I can never remember that part.

This was just the example my childhood pastor used to like using when he explained the problems with just letting someone else tell you what the Bible means instead of reading it for yourself. The man was very educated and gave a lot of sermons on the historical cultural context of a lot of the texts. In fact I'm pretty sure all of my childhood pastors had Master's degrees.

This is also the same guy that founded the interfaith community in my city to promote cultural exchange and coordinated charity efforts. Basically Fred Rogers' spiritual twin was my childhood pastor; if they weren't alive at the same time it would have me believing in reincarnation (they even looked similar and were even both Presbyterian).

The man had a congregation in the hundreds and he knew the name of every person in every family, what their jobs were, what their kids were studying in college, and if they had any sick relatives, and would stand by the gate at the end of every service shaking every single persons hand and chatting about that stuff for a minute or two each. When my brother died he was on our doorstep within an hour of the cops notifying us. Regardless of how my personal spiritual beliefs have waxed or waned at various points it took me a looong time to understand how someone in that position could hurt people through either malice or incompetence.

I don't have the original I wrote in college but it kinda makes me want to redraft A Modest Proposal: for Men's Anatomical Responsibility to Their Offspring. The key point is that men should be required to provide anatomical gifts to their offspring until the children become adults. These anatomical gifts include any transplantable organ from kidneys, livers, and lungs, to blood, skin, corneas, and possibly even limbs as that becomes a viable surgical procedure. The increased time and gravity of the gift is balanced by the decreased likelihood, and by only taking organs and tissues not essential to life (while a pregnancy can in some cases cause heart failure). All exceptions (rape, incest, etc) are welcome to be made to whatever extent they are also made for women. Any additional thoughts?

Hot for Linux I can work with.