[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 29 points 10 months ago

Correct. This is the real takeaway here. It's terrifying that Antarctica is so warm.

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 28 points 10 months ago

Bullshit

I'm born and raised in Appalachia, my daddy worked in the coal mines and drove an 18 wheeler. Certified redneck enough that I confuse the shit out of my New England neighbors.

I went out and marched with striking nurses when Bernie put out the call, and I've never voted Republican in my entire fucking life.

OP, you need to learn what a redneck is.

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Dark healthcare provider humor incoming: When considering these kinds of questions regarding CPR, we actually say, "Well, they ain't getting any deader."

CPR actually reverses death. That's why it only works sometimes and only if provided in a very short window of time after you've died. Nothing that is done during CPR is going to make that worse. So yeah, the reality is that it's a little bit of a controlled free-for-all. It's called "heroic measures" for a reason.

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 28 points 1 year ago

free speech and government oversight

That's not what I read into this at all, but something far more sinister that I see happening in the world right now. Certain power players using "government oversight" as a disingenuous excuse to attack the means for regular people around the world to speak directly to one another without the filters that favor narratives that the power players prefer, and for regular people to coordinate with one another.

The Arab Spring and BLM protests scared some people and it's showing.

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 29 points 1 year ago

No, he has 2% of that 4.6% and people are just bad at understanding how percentages work.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/08/11/millennials-are-the-largest-workforce-and-the-least-wealthy-why-politics/#:~:text=Millennials%20today%20own%20just%204.6,2%25%20of%20all%20Millennial%20wealth.

Not that one individual having a full 2% of the wealth of an entire generation is a great thing.

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 29 points 1 year ago

Those people have such a lust for violence and don't care that the poor people they claim to be fighting for will be the ones who suffer most

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This right here has been my experience with VC. I was working for an online retail startup when 9/11 happened. Within days, we were all called into the office to be told we were shutting down because the VCs pulled our funding. This despite the fact that we were only two months away from projected profitability and beating our sales projections every single month. But we weren't the biggest paying bet in the casino, so they dumped us when the cash flow got tight.

That would have been a successful company, but it wasn't good enough for the VC class.

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 28 points 1 year ago

Every day is Shut The Fuck Up Friday

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Healthcare strikes are complicated. It's weird because it's not like a retail business that can safely shut down. If we shut down a hospital, it could endanger people's lives, and that's the exact opposite of what we're trying to accomplish.

So we strike with compromises. A three day strike is like a warning shot. It gets public attention and it can be extended into an indefinite strike, if needed. Just a couple years ago here in Massachusetts, there was a nursing strike that lasted almost an entire year. That was accomplished by forcing them to staff the hospital with expensive travel nurses.

It's a controversial tactic. It can prolong the strike, but it maintains the trust and support of the public, which is more intrinsic to healthcare than other businesses.

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 28 points 1 year ago

Yep, I very distinctly remember watching this speech on the TV in the breakroom at work, thinking, "Hold up, what the fuck do WMDs in Iraq have anything at all to do with the people who crashed those planes?" But the general vibe of people actually cheering as they listened to the beat of the war drums was terrifying. There were a lot of us who never bought that bs

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