Chetzemoka

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[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Favorable terms with no means of legal leverage are just wisps of air. They can and will be rescinded at the earliest convenience of the corporation, which is literally why we're in the current situation we are today. The strongest middle class in the US existed when unions were at their peak. That is not a coincidence.

A formal, legal union gives employees power and leverage to enforce the favorable terms that they negotiate with an employer. You can argue that unions as organizations can be subject to similar corruption as any other organization, but contrary to popular propaganda, there is nothing inherent in the existence of a union that requires or lends itself to corruption any more than any other power structure.

Employees are legally permitted to organize a formal, legal union of their own outside the existing union organizations, but then they're starting from scratch. Existing unions have been through negotiations, have experienced lawyers, know the process and all of its pitfalls. The vast majority of workers are better off joining an existing union because of this.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Can't believe no one has mentioned It's A Mad World yet:

https://youtu.be/4N3N1MlvVc4?si=-7kTHbNDPsNBHFuh

Also

Belly - Stay

Regina Spektor - Field Below

Tori Amos - Marianne, Twinkle, I'm Not In Love, Strange

Seether - Fine Again

PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

I was gonna say, whoever made this has never dealt with an invasive ladybug swarm in their house before lol

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 15 points 2 years ago

Singing lessons. I'm honestly not even kidding.

I'm an American who grew up in a part of the country called Appalachia. My native accent is often associated with being uneducated and stupid, so I learned how to change it when I was a young adult.

The thing that helped me most was voice lessons that taught me how to control the muscles in the nasopharynx, throat, tongue. The reason that's difficult is because you can't see the way those muscles move when someone else speaks or sings, so you can't just mimic what they're doing. It takes a little bit more effort to learn.

Learning how to sing classical western music (opera type stuff) allowed me to learn how to speak in that kind of just generic Midwestern American accent that has less negative social associations.

Now, that being said, I also have Indian friends who grew up in the United States who still speak with a similar Indian accent as their immigrant parents, and it's really no big deal. So you could just roll with your native accent.

(And also, I still code switch back into my native accent when I'm talking to my family or I visit my home region. Your native accent never goes away even when you learn a different way of speaking.)

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Now I need a NileRed video on combustion in a fluorine atmosphere.

(Also, props to your username. I see you, fam.)

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

As a person who has had many cats in my life, I am of the opinion that two cats is the best number of cats. If you can afford to care for and have space for a second cat, I'd say go for it.

If you're not really experienced with cats, be aware that cats almost never get along immediately. It can take weeks of them seeming to hate each other before they become friendly. It's helpful to put the new cat in a cage where the current cat can see and smell them, but can't reach them with claws. That gives them a little space to get to know each other before the current cat feels like its territory is being invaded.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yep, that's a strip mine

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

Nine Inch Nails. Why yes, I was in high school in the 90s, why do you ask?

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Ok I have no idea where you drove through, but the vast majority of the state is woodland and wetland. I spent my childhood summers just literally wandering around the woods all day with neighborhood kids while our parents were at work.

You were in a strip mining area.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago

The Framingham Heart Study has entered the chat. It's really the only way to assess a longitudinal effect of this kind.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

It's based on likelihood to succeed and remaining useful life. I've had a patient in their 70s receive a kidney transplant. Ability to attend medical appointments and adhere to prescription drug regimens play a large role in approval for transplant. And I've personally witnessed major transplant teams go out of their way to help patients overcome obstacles like transport to medical appointments, affording meds, in an effort to get them ready for transplant approval.

Honestly, I wish all medical care could be as hands on and holistic as transplant is.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is actually how it's handled in a lot of electronic medical records. There is a different indicator for sex/gender assigned at birth and current gender. I've not seen a specific indicator for intersex, but I've not encountered an intersex patient so far in my career.

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