Apytele
@Apytele@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on It's called traditional medicine sweety, look it up 2 days ago:
Oh I actually took a course on integrative medicine and it was basically for when you can’t give more meds for an immediate comfort need like relief of pain, anxiety, or nausea. Like if they’ve got chemo and they can’t safely tolerate more compazine sometimes smelling mint reduces nausea for some reason. Like they’ve tried it with orange or whatever as a control in a sample group that’s unaware of the connection and it does actually do something for some reason. Weirdly that connection has been a known thing to nurses for a looong time it’s basically standard practice to put two masks on with some Vick’s between the two when cleaning up a particularly unpleasant puddle of bodily fluids.
- Comment on How open are you about yourself to others online in general? 3 days ago:
I had a BSN program where an ongoing assignment was blog posts although it was an option to set the privacy to your instructor / fellow students only. I think it was good practice in maintaining patient privacy while still expressing your lived experience for the purposes of self-care venting AND advocating for societal reform. Like yeah I’m not going to tell you enough details about the patients who have done some sketchy shit to us or had sketchy shit done to them, but I do think it’s important that the rest of you understand how things actually work / happen. Some things are entirely unavoidable, but there’s also a lot of things that should be unavoidable but currently aren’t due to some social ill.
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 3 days ago:
My mother told me the murder of the intelligentsia is one of the first steps of a fascist regime and that the Mensa roster is a hit list. Then ten years later she voted for trump.
- Comment on Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior. 6 days ago:
My mother has become, in her later years, a “well idk if they definitely cause autism but I did vaccinate all of you and I do have a kid with autism…” which like. whatever. I’ve been over talking to them for a while now anyway.
But when I was younger and getting vaccinated she always said,“you’re gonna look at the wall in the other direction, it’s gonna hurt for a few seconds then it’ll be over and there’s an ice cream place next door.” And I have almost 0 medical anxiety, like I’ll let new grads I’m precepting practice on me before I let them stick a real patient.
vs I remember when I was a swimming instructor in my early 20s sometimes a kid would start crying and their parent would come over to scream at them to behave and then it would take waaay longer to get their body to relax enough to float.
So while I’m sure it doesn’t make or break every fear of needles or medical anxiety, I do think a LOT of it comes down to how the parent handles and ideally normalizes routine medical care.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 6 days ago:
…that phrasing is not helpful to this argument…
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 6 days ago:
To be clear, if I did have a dog in this fight, it would be the supertux games.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 6 days ago:
From the perspective of not having a dog in this fight that is an unhinged level of fucks to give about this and in the context of this thread I love that for you.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
obviously
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
Honestly I like the slow reveal that the Ellimist was also a massive dick. It’s like realizing the Vorlons aren’t actually “good.”
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
lol blakes 7 is actually the fic I’m returning to work on right now.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
especially when it was giving southern us more than other types of wars for independence
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
yeah I’m slowly working my way through it while doing other stuff on my days off
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
oh got now I’m thinking about the whole disintegrating thing again
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
I’m so glad none of those things meant what I thought they meant when I put them into ddg
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
I do not know, but thank you for sharing.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
OK so like. Yes that is literally the question here. Are you gonna give us the slightly cooled by the passage of time B5 hot take or…?
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
No that’s valid tbh. Genres are 100% a part of fandom. I always admired the steampunk aesthetic but never had the resources to get into it. I’ve loved the bits that overlap with stuff like stardust though!
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- Comment on What are some common *unforced errors* to be wary of? 1 week ago:
I get what you mean but I suppose we both at least know what we’re getting into and respect the consequences of talking shit.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately actually; I think I’m just naturally someone who needs spicy relationships. I’ve had people call me toxic but tbh my husband now that I’ve been with for five years total doesn’t feel that way because he gives just as good as he gets. You can’t go into the restaurant and order the 5 alarm chili then get mad at the cook. You ordered it; either eat the damn thing or admit you were wrong and if that was hard for you maybe order mild next bout.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 1 week ago:
I’m sorry you OP. It’s an IBS nightmare. I’ll have it popped but that’s just because it’s so convenient.
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 1 week ago:
Honestly my issue with the way the US handles these things is that if wealth was distributed more equitably and fluidly we wouldn’t need to be half as litigious.
If getting your car damaged didn’t mean your only transportation to and from work being nonfunctional in a way that would require several months worth of wages from that job to fix, you wouldn’t need to focus as much on who specifically changed lanes wrong, you’d just fix it. And if you could just go to the doctor and get care, and easily take time off work to heal, a little bit of muscle tension would be easy to catch, treat, and heal up from well before the possibility of lifelong career ending injuries came into question.
If we were able to have the resources and time to just handle most small things, we wouldn’t have to be constantly holding every individual working class individual personally liable for which direction they sneeze in. Litigation could be saved for serious and repeat offenders. But no, squeezing every last time out of the working class is a feature, not a bug.
- Comment on Fair's fair. 2 weeks ago:
And there’s a lot of right to repair fights. If you think a Honda trying to lock you out for not taking it to the dealership for an oil change is bad, just imagine how bad it is for somebody with a combine that costs most of that million.
- Comment on YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness 2 weeks ago:
This is why I opted for the keep messenger option when I deactivated my account. I have so many people even just from old jobs and while I can get a job pretty much anywhere I apply (that offers my specialty) and be working within a month, that comes with having to vet employers / weed out sketchy facilities. So I need to be able to message old coworkers and be like “hey do you know anyone who’s worked at <place>? That 10k sign on bonus is SUS” and have them be like “yeah 20 got fired after the state inspection, they were reusing paper iso gowns and billing for surgeries their sister hospital in the city was doing to get the Medicaid incentive for providing rural care.”
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 2 weeks ago:
This is my gripe with tankies. One of the most salient points of 1984:
“It was now impossible for any human being to prove by documentary evidence that the war with Eurasia had ever happened.”
“Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”
All war is fake except the class war.
- Comment on 102% 2 weeks ago:
Honestly I wonder if some of it isn’t people in super remote areas or otherwise disconnected from conventional communities. If you live on a mountain with no internet or TV and drive into town once a month for groceries or live in an underground mole people tunnel system it’s probably easier to not give a fuck. Like obviously these things will still affect you, but not in any immediate way that’s gonna slap you in the face tomorrow.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
Or a Presbyterian church service.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 2 weeks ago:
Used to work with the criminally insane. I’ve also met a LOT of pedophiles. Not many because they actually were crazy but because they were trying to get declared as such to not get fucked up in prison. Most of them aren’t even actually attracted to children they just wanna victimize someone and children are smaller / weaker and less able to advocate for themselves. The one thing pretty much all of them have in common is both sadism and cowardice.
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, what countries are going to be on which side? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m being pessimistic but I feel like the immigration paperwork is gonna ask “has he been convicted of a crime” and not “has he been convicted of a real crime?”
- Comment on American exceptionalism 3 weeks ago:
Honestly the research on exactly why this happens is sparse enough as it is. It’s basically impossible to do truly conclusive studies with tobacco because of how dangerous it is. We can’t even technically conclusively say that tobacco causes cancer because to truly scientifically assert that you’d have to do a randomized controlled trial. To have a truly randomized controlled trial you would have to randomly select people from the overall sample and tell them to start smoking for the purposes of the study (otherwise you can’t rule out there being some third thing that both causes the cancer and causes people to want to smoke). And because we know tobacco is insanely addictive and are all but that one millimeter short of proving that it causes cancer, no medical ethics oversight body would ever allow a study that requires participants to start smoking.
- Comment on idk abbout this one discord 3 weeks ago:
Hubs wanted to sell some used household goods but everybody is on Facebook marketplace and using venmo and cashapp and shit these days and I’m just like. And now his friend says he wants to use zelle for me to go halvsies with him on hubs Christmas present. Fucking marks of the beast!