ethaver
@ethaver@kbin.earth
- Comment on Word. 4 days ago:
I straight up used draw.io to create a paper form. I needed high information density so I can't waste space formatting stuff the normal way, I need something more graphical and publisher got axed.
- Comment on big tobacco stopped paying 1 week ago:
here's a markdown formatted quit plan for your notes app (based on this) with bullets for common answers to the questions that you can delete if they don't apply / keep or add ones that do.
# Quit Plan --- ## Quit Date _Choose a date within the next two weeks._ **Quit Date:** [YYYY-MM-DD] **What to expect** - **1 week:** Nicotine is out of your system - **2 weeks:** Physical withdrawal symptoms fade - **1 month:** Habit- and emotion-driven cravings may continue --- ## Reasons for Quitting - Feel healthier / Live longer - Save Money - See my kids grow up / set a better example - Look healthier / smell better - Reduce stress between uses --- ## Triggers _Knowing your triggers helps you plan around them._ ### Emotional - Feeling stressed - Feeling anxious - Feeling down - Feeling lonely - Feeling bored - After conflict ### Situational - Talking on the phone - Drinking alcohol - Watching TV - Driving - Finishing a meal - Drinking coffee - Work breaks - After sex ### Social / Environmental - Bars or parties - Social events - Seeing someone else smoke --- ## Coping Strategies ### If your hands or mouth need something to do - Hold a straw or pen and focus on breathing - Fidget with a coin or paperclip ### If you use tobacco to manage stress or mood - Slow breathing or short bursts of exercise - Talk it out with someone you trust ### If boredom or restlessness is the problem _Keep a short “craving list”:_ - [TASK] - [TASK] - [TASK] ### If you feel irritable or anxious without nicotine - Consider nicotine replacement (patch, gum, lozenge) ### If you used tobacco for energy - Light exercise - Regular meals and healthy snacks - Adequate sleep ### If you used tobacco for pleasure or relaxation _Substitute another reward:_ - Music - Movies - Saving money for something specific --- ## Remove Reminders _(Before Quit Day)_ - Wash clothes that smell like smoke - Clean your car - Discard tobacco, lighters, ashtrays - Place coping tools where tobacco used to be --- ## Support (Optional) _Quitting is easier with backup._ - [NAME / ROLE] - [NAME / ROLE] --- ## Personal Notes...and if you're a transgirl I'd like to add to your reasons list that estrogen + smoking significantly increases the coagulability of your blood. I've had several transgirl patients with DVTs / PEs / strokes even who did not know that can happen!
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 1 week ago:
better than 66
- Comment on My Religion 2 weeks ago:
idk I think people shouldn't be able to sell their children into marriages at 14 years old just because they don't share my beliefs that that's horrible. Meanwhile they think that an abortion harms a child in a way that outweighs b the mother's right to decide whether or not her body gets used as life support and I don't. I think whether or not it's important to meddle in other's private and family lives is actually a fairly complicated question.
- Comment on Reddit global rank is going down 2 weeks ago:
I'm also shocked to see that pornhub, xhamster, and xvideos are all 20+ entries down. Maybe the internet isn't for porn, at least anymore. What is this world coming to? LITERALLY???
- Comment on Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years? 3 weeks ago:
I think there'll be one sinorussolatinglish trade language and 5k highly localized dialects of our current languages.
- Comment on Radon 4 weeks ago:
Refreshments and Narcotics
(an old joke about registered nurses)
- Comment on WHAT IF WHAT IF 5 weeks ago:
which is such a shame because there really should be more evidence for what is and isn't placebos
- Comment on what is the equivalent of somatic exercises for the mind? 1 month ago:
psych nurse here: somatic exercises are also for your mind. your mind is part of your body. the idea that they're separate things or that the brain is "in charge of" the body as opposed to a neat accessory that can do helpful things for it is silly. That concept in and of itself causes a lot of psychological dysfunction that somatic therapies exist to rectify by reunifying the two.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 month ago:
I mean we've already accepted that we don't know how big the universe is. The way physics has been going lately the universe might actually be bigger than reality.
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 month ago:
if there's higher dimensions they're still part of the universe as I know it, they're just not in the parts I can perceive. There's very little useful speculation I can do in relation to the parts I can't perceive. Apparently this is called "existence monism," so this would be one of the other things in the Wikipedia theology tree. personally I would classify it as a type of Monolatry.
- Comment on New small business owner had a great idea to have word of mouth build his business. 1 month ago:
fun fact! the complimentary term to "phallic" is "yonic" !
- Comment on #environmentalist 1 month ago:
I mean it would actually impact my ability to hydrate certain patients under certain circumstances if there really ever 0 plastic straws anywhere ever.
- Comment on Is it possible to be a leftist, but still really enjoy capitalism? 1 month ago:
chatgpt aside this is a much more realistic way to look at it than left / right.
- Comment on Get off the computer and go to sleep 1 month ago:
I hate it when patients come in having had that be their attempt. Like no you only thought you didn't want to be alive before, but now you've unlocked a whole new level of living hell.
- Comment on i enjoy using drugs and that will never change 1 month ago:
well honestly it's the creation of high attention / judgment tasks with high risk to human health and safety then making many of them either a part of daily life or making them jobs you have to do 8-12h straight 3-5 days a week. if we really valued human health and safety we'd keep those tasks much more specialized and make sure the people who do them have way more downtime to decompress but alas the capitalist wheel must keep turning.
- Comment on Internet Users 1 month ago:
beat me to it
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 2 months ago:
PSSSST
...ezekiel 23
- Comment on The fact that users are encouraged to include text descriptions with media content makes it perfect training data for AI. 2 months ago:
and I actually like that one particular use-case of llms and image analyzing ai because less required human interaction gives the blind user more independence. The remaining issue of corporatization and private ownership of something that should be a publicly owned resource (as with many other assistive technologies) is a society-wide issue and framing it as a futurist vs Luddite discussion is a powerful misdirection.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 2 months ago:
...and that's how I converted to Gnosticism.
- Comment on Oppa oppa 2 months ago:
It was a fucking banger you tasteless, joyless, spork sharpener.
- Comment on utter failure 2 months ago:
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 2 months ago:
Yeah I lurk around r/conservative and hubs still lurks on the remains of Twitter just because we both a) can't look away and b) think it's important to understand what's going on over there.
I usually see stuff said like "they're not actually antifascists that's just a misdirection to cover their real fascist ideologies." Which is a genuine strategy in political propaganda. People use all kinds of labels to cover up all kinds of awful shit.
Really the only way around that is to focus less on labels overall and focus more on individuals and either thoughts on or even more importantly actual specific real world actions. I don't know what political label people would put me under.
A lot of my local politicians last year were listed independent. I picked the one that wanted to expand the bus lines. I think a fetus is a human being but that it doesn't have a right to use a woman's body without her continuous consent. I think the rich have broken a bunch of the social contracts they made to avoid bloodshed and that something bloody is inevitable more than it even is desirable. I'm thinking that next time there's political unrest in my area I should just sit on an out of the way street corner with a sign that says "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES."Dunno what any of that makes me but I'd like to find more of us if possible. Sometimes labels help that, sometimes they don't. Wish I had a better or cleaner answer fire you.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 2 months ago:
That's not what freeze drying is.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 2 months ago:
idk but I love freeze dried marshmallows and can never find them anywhere.
- Comment on Update 2 months ago:
this is why I converted to Gnosticism. Mainstream Christianity never sat well with me, atheists are pretentiously #intellectual, and agnosticism just wasn't loud enough. Now I'm following in the footsteps of Jesus by vibing with the homeless dudes at the bus stop, whipping out a tarot deck when I need to be alone with my feelings, and drawing weird sacred geometry shit that makes people uncomfortable. 10/10 highly recommend.
- Comment on This is Larry. 2 months ago:
Hubs recently put the box next to the toilet and our cat has since taken every chance she can to co-poop with us.
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 2 months ago:
Yeah 16 pounds is a large cat like a Maine Coon cat or a small corgi / beagle. There are flighted birds that big but they're not common.
- Comment on It's about time we showed concern for the men 2 months ago:
interestingly there is a (rare) phenomenon where the male partner gets some or all of the menstrual or pregnancy symptoms. Apparently my grandmother could tell she was pregnant (she had 10 total not including miscarriages) because my grand_father_ would get morning sickness! Partially explains how she managed to have 10 if she wasn't having to deal with all the symptoms herself. As an aside, apparently the local doctor told her it was a shame she'd already had her appendix out because otherwise he could do a prophylactic appendectomy and "accidentally" cut her tubes while he was in there.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 2 months ago:
if my mother hadn't forced me out early to intentionally lower my birth weight (I'm the last child and size tends to increase with subsequent births, my next oldest sibling complicated delivery by size alone) I might've succeeded too.