Chetzemoka

No, dracaena species in particular are sensitive to minerals and fluoride in tap water. I water my dracaena with bleach sterilized rainwater (after a livingroom-wide leaf spot outbreak a couple years ago). They're just fussy.

As a critical care nurse, the miraculous CPR recoveries are such a horrible disservice to our patients and their families. CPR is not two minutes of some light exercise and then the person wakes up and is ok forever.

It's 20-30 mins of intense, brutal, scary, undignified activity followed by best case scenario, we put you in the ICU, deliberately make you hypothermic for a day or two, and hope you wake up. That increases your chances of surviving the incident to a whopping 64%.

Surviving to discharge and having a meaningful recovery is a whole other ballgame, and depends a lot on the condition you were in when you had cardiac arrest in the first place. Your elderly grandpa with cancer, sepsis, bad kidneys, etc. is probably not going to go home. Your middle-aged wife who came in because she was having a heart attack actually stands a good chance.

Movies like to show people shocking a flatlined patient who just pops up and walks away when in reality presenting fully flatlined means you're 2-3 times less likely to be resuscitated at all.

I'm happy to leave some leeway in fictionalized depictions of medical care for the sake of story progression. But the complete ignorance currently common in fictional resuscitation scenarios feeds a really malignant sort of magical thinking that keeps us torturing elderly people. I'd really appreciate less of that in my job.

I moved here because this is what exists lol. I didn't design this place. It's what's here.

I'm obviously not forcing my opinion on anyone because we live in a democracy. I'm allowed to have a different opinion from my neighbors. I hope you realize that. Maybe ask why you're allowed to force your preferences on ME even though I have actual data and evidence that it's nicer on my side of things and you'll be happier here even though you've been taught to believe otherwise.

Let me introduce you to some great resources on just how modern and terrible an anomaly American suburbs are. Really, they're terrible. Terrible for your health, terrible for the environment, terrible for society and the economy. Ugly, soulless, fragile, useless Ponzi scheme that needs to end.

https://youtu.be/Q1G_bda3o1o?si=Nt2WWZpqGfjSTZ3A

https://youtu.be/QP5UCwMTjFk?si=GP092K-VW74fpVFp

https://youtube.com/@strongtowns?si=vlCWBssaVY8BM1U2

https://youtu.be/AOc8ASeHYNw?si=tyxnioOvfVsvhKXD

https://youtu.be/oHlpmxLTxpw?si=AoSvXUh70FlKjgEU

Lol, I'm not young. I'm pushing 50.

If it quacks like a....wait

Multi use land developments increase property values, and I would love to have some shops that I can walk to. Fuck suburbs. Fuck excluding people. I want housing density and actually walkable neighborhoods. YIMBY. Thanks.

https://masslandlords.net/gentle-density-increases-nearby-property-values-evidence-shows-contrary-to-popular-belief/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-02/does-affordable-housing-lower-property-values

Mixed use land developments increase property values. My neighbors believe urban myths and lies, so I'm not particularly inclined to be any more fair to them than I would be to someone who believes that vaccines cause autism.

https://masslandlords.net/gentle-density-increases-nearby-property-values-evidence-shows-contrary-to-popular-belief/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-02/does-affordable-housing-lower-property-values

I own a house here too, ya know. I don't share their misguided concerns. Yes there will be traffic. I believe we have reasonable options to mitigate that.

But it looks like the rich, old NIMBYs are going to win this fight, and keep people locked out as always.

To me, it's all about rational return on investment providing economic incentives to achieve what we want to achieve.

My favorite example to explain what I mean is my own personal health insurance. I have a chronic medical condition that requires constant medication, frequent visits to specialists, and expensive medical tests and procedures. There is simply zero chance that I will ever pay enough in a monthly premium to cover what I cost. Meaning I am always a net financial loss for a private, for-profit insurance company.

This gives a private company every incentive in the world to obstruct and deny my care in hopes that I'll get frustrated and give up, or maybe even die and get off their books forever.

The government, on the other hand, has a positive financial incentive to keep me healthy. If I am healthy, I am working, paying taxes, buying goods and services that contribute to the economy, and hopefully contributing something beneficial to my community. Only the government (acting as a proxy for "society") naturally profits from insuring my healthcare.

This is why I believe we should have fully socialized medical care. Because there are some specific things that only the government has natural positive economic incentives that align with what is beneficial for the general public.

Whatever those things are, they should be socialized. And generally those things are basic life sustaining things like food, housing, medicine, education, utilities.

I'm fine with privatized capitalism in a very restricted, heavily regulated niche form. But all the basic necessities should be socialized.

I'm the only person on my street actually in favor of the proposed multi-use housing/shopping complex a developer wants to build a block over from us. I can't change the minds of all these old people. I'm pretty sure we're just fucked until they all move out or pass on.

The power of healing could be used to infinitely torture someone without killing them. Definitely has a dark side.

All power must be applied ethically

How do you downvote this face! What a dork, I love him.

What you are seeing in public is a phenomenon of Evangelical Christianity being amplified for political gain. There are religious puritans who genuinely and sincerely believe that the mere exposure to the existence of non-cis hetero people will cause actual cis hetero people to "become sexual deviants."

Which, in their world, it probably looks like that. Oh your perfect totally-and-completely-straight child "suddenly became" gay after learning online that gay people exist? To these ignorant puritans, it really seems like a magic transformation when in reality it's just standard-issue coming out of the closet. They have zero understanding that, if you wouldn't repress people in the first place, this wouldn't happen because there wouldn't be a closet to come out of.

But back in the 90s, they fully lost the crusade against cis gay people. Cis gay people are normalized to the point that my very evangelical aunt now happily accepts her lesbian daughter.

The politicians who used to leverage this bigotry against gay people to drum up votes know this, so they moved on to the new bogeyman of the day: trans people. I see the exact same verbiage used now against trans people that was used against gay people (and especially gay men) in the 90s. "They're really pedophiles, they're a cult that's recruiting and corrupting your children, they'll turn cis people into something they're not, it's not safe for children to be exposed to this ideology."

Those exact same things were said about gay people in the 90s, literally word for word. Even the "trans agenda." In 1992, it was the "gay agenda" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_agenda

This is why I have a patch on my bag that reads "Evil is boring." Because these bigots can't even come up with a new script. It's the same old thing over and over and over, just with new targets.

It's obvious to anyone who isn't completely terrified of sexuality that the existence of trans people is not a threat to anyone anywhere ever. What you're seeing is nothing but bigotry being leveraged for political gain.