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.

I was waiting for someone else to comment because I was hoping they would know and I just wanted to say that you really let me down, man.

Healthcare CEOs and Insurance companies are in an ever-escalating competition to squeeze as much money and labor as possible out of their workers and patients. My recent comment history actually has several related rants.

I’ve never had too bad of a problem, I’ve gotten in habits of drinking too much (up to an 8-pack every night off) but I’ve always been able to cut back or stop if I needed to. That said, I stopped talking to my fundie parents about 6 months ago and it’s somehow 10x easier to not drink and I’m feeling a lot better physically than I was around this time last year.

Why wouldn’t you choose to accentuate the rich color of this absolute citrus FRUIT of a boi.

Oh that’s been my general approach for some time now. I also work with an underserved population (that’s how this cropped up in my social circles) but damn that’s dark.

Yes and no. I’ve had to insert a LOT of meaning to get a story worth any substance, and I’ve had to do a lot of editing to get good images. It’s really good at giving me a figure that’s 90% done, but that last 10% touching up still often takes me a day or so of work.

yes, screw the quadriplegics so you can feel good about staying on your moral high ground. Your hill to live and die on takes much higher priority than people who can’t shift their own body weight developing holes in their ass I can fit my fist in but still not be able to see the bone because it’s covered in maggots. Yeah there need to be guardrails in place to keep him from doing silly shit with it and make sure it’s affordable for the people who need it, but a) the technology is still in it’s infancy b) how about you put all this piss and vinegar towards political action to beef up the FDA (who are already regulating this situation per the linked article?). While you’re at it the CDC could use a little more money and public backing too. How about you go out into the world and encourage people to trust scientific institutions more? There are about a thousand different ways you could be expressing these morals in a way that actually helps people instead of just making you feel better about yourself.

For a technology that could someday help a quadriplegic interact with the world fully and independently again I’m willing to tolerate some hitches. There’s a reason they didn’t pick some full on walkie talkie for their first human trial, and there’s a reason that kid looked motherucking hyped to have brand new technology that he’s the first human to even try installed directly into his fucking brain. The problem is abled people thinking this is fundamentally for them. Bby no, they’re trying to help people walk again, even if the legs are robots. You’re looking at the wrong risk-benefit profile.

Oh god I was worried they killed him horribly this is actually probably fine and almost an expected setback.

No but it’s a beatiful picture and I encourage you to keep enjoying your friend’s company!

I was hoping this was what I thought it was and was NOT disappointed. Randall Munroe has been my celebrity crush for years.

Maybe he’s got a sore tum tum and needs the fiber, lol.

Right like this is a mixed bag. I feel like my YouTube shorts addiction is fucking my attention span and I need to get back to watching long form stuff but like also a) fedi isn’t going to have server space for much else and b) it’ll bring the user base fedi will need to grow and maybe have the server space someday.

My other thought is that maybe things like peertube need more communities around streaming where the video isn’t saved, at least by default. This could also be a better direction for the internet as a whole; moving away from this idea that every single moment of everything must be recorded for posterity. The internet really does need more liminal spaces. I really liked the aether model but that guy abandoned the project and lemmy is here now anyway. It would be cool maybe to have a lemmy instance where everything is auto-deleted after 6 months and at least puts out requests to also delete on other servers.

Healthcare professionals, whether for humans or animals, are universally delighted to be wrong in such circumstances. I know I tend to get wrapped up in people’s odds of recovery and how quickly I expect to see changes because it helps me plan their care, but when somebody recovers in a way I wasn’t expecting or much quicker than expected I get HYPED.

Sometimes our cat will be nonchalantly licking her paw as the fog approaches and we joke that she’s “readyin’ her bitch-slappin’ paw.”

That bastard.

Honest question because I know people often lack the patience for one reason or another but you know they have to be trained to use a scratching post or other designated scratching object right? No shame or pressure but I can give you tips.

Part of loving your cat for who they are is understanding his wants and needs and how his cognitive level factors into him meeting them. It also sounds like you need to better understand the type of stimulation he needs to be happy. Cats are often food motivated, but they also need to chase and murder things (even if they’re not actually alive) and scratch and feel their tendons in their arms stretch (serves multiple functions ultimately but that’s the stimulation they need). They need those things the same way people need to sing and dance and make and view art and tell and listen to stories. They don’t do it to be good at it they just kinda… gotta. If they don’t get to do enough of that they will go a little stir crazy.

Personally I prefer a cat OR dog to jump away from something if I tell them to, and I will move them somewhere less stimulating or even spray the cat with water if they don’t. From my perspective it’s my job to keep them safe and if they’re trying to get at something that’s going to hurt them like chewing on an electrical wire or trying to eat something toxic I need them to stop right away, not five seconds later when I make it across the room and they’re already hurt or going to be very sick. And I need to be able to teach them not to do it even when I’m not looking (but like I said the biggest trick to that is making sure there’s other stimulating things that are WAY BETTER anyway).