I love genuine questions and people putting in the effort to love and understand each other better. If you come at me just wanting to argue I’m going to troll you back. FAFO.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • Apytele@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.ml•Big lie, starter pack
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    12 days ago

    You know this is the recommended stance when deescalating violent psych patient because it keeps your hands visible (as in, not hiding something) and in front of your body / face in case they start swinging. I’ve never really felt comfortable doing it though and this kind of explains a possible reason why. I actually had a guy the other night who asked why everyone else was scared of him and I didn’t seem to be. There were probably a couple other reasons though (I’ve dealt with waaay wilder men, and also he mostly struck me as young, dumb, and loud, and dumb in the young sense not in the cognitively not there sense). But as far as this pose idk it just always seemed really patronizing to me. I usually stand more like One of these where at least one hand is on the neck or side of the head. Usually with my hands overlapping but my fingers not intertwined so they’re easy to separate and throw up in front of my face but not overtly defensive.

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Trump cosplaying
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    13 days ago

    THANK YOU.

    It’s not gross because he’s not wearing gloves, it’s gross because he probably never washes his hands after digging in his ass all day.

    Get your reasons this man is disgusting straight people!

    I wrote a similar comment about this exact same situation on another post but from a more healthcare oriented perspective. Specifically that unless you have open cuts / sores on your hands as a healthcare worker, clean but nonsterile gloves do not protect the patient! They are an OSHA requirement in place to protect the worker from exposure to bodily fluids and caustic cleaning chemicals. And for chemo you glove twice.

    Sterile gloves, which are used to protect a patient from infection and are used for surgeries and specific types of bedside procedures like urine catheterization, are packed in sealed packages in single pairs and must be applied in a highly specific way by a trained individual, the minimum license usually being an LPN and more often an RN.

    Unless that beef patty is acidic enough to burn your hands while preparing it (and if it is I shudder to think what it would do to a stomach) gloves out of a 100-count box ain’t protecting anybody from anything and at their worst are bamboozling people out of washing their damn hands.

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•The mark
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    2 months ago

    And honestly I think I’ve gotten more out of the spiritual ritual aspect too than meditating or anything more technical / modern. It almost feels like my brain is just better geared to process information in that format and doing the technical stuff was like trying to run code through an emulator / compatibility layer. I can do it well enough, but it’s much easier, more efficient, and stable to just run the program natively.

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•The mark
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    2 months ago

    Barnum Statement.

    I’ve gotten suuuper into introspective / therapeutic tarot reading and in my related research I’ve come across a bunch of techniques used by people who use them performatively as a divinatory illusion. The funniest part is if I was going to do it therapeutically for another person I would probably do all the same things I’d just be honest that that was what I was doing. Kinda like a ritualistic / spiritually themed rorschach test.

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