Friday Ephemera (802)
The machine uprising, day 11. || How to catch a human. || Fully automated to save time and effort. || “I love me,” says she. || When you have a CT scanner and a whole bunch of animals. || I think there may be something under the house. || Incoming. || Suboptimal scenario. || Big thing bring green. || Moral support, I’m guessing. || It takes a lot of spray. || I believe some physics occurred. || Rise of the Vegetarians, 1972. || New Orleans jollity, 1962. || The Chinese earthquake-detecting seismoscope. || On the making of Jaws. Oddly, the trained shark idea didn’t pan out. || Determined to make things worse, a possible series. || The progressive retail experience, parts 695, 696, 697, and 698. || Question asked. || But could be thinner. || And finally, for those who missed it in the comments.
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My eldest is an RN … she deliberately chose to work night shift (ICU for 7 years) to avoid the drama queens and snotty doctors. She’s happier as a CCT RN working on an ambulance.
Those “archetypes” were once associated with heroes. Not just in 20th century John Wayne cowboy sense, but going back throughout literature. The association was changed by generations of brainwashing. Not just in the media but in academia and “medical” sciences, etc. And all the smart people, the leaders of our modern society, went along with it.
I don’t blame her but the rest of us don’t have that option. WTF is the medical world going to acknowledge that they have seriously screwed the pooch here? It’s been going on long before covid, yet covid was six years ago now. Not to mention the previously referenced transy thing. They will slow walk that lawsuit and any follow ons in the media. Play the HIPPA card on anyone who steps out of line. Ultimately the insurance companies will pass the costs of those settlements on to the rest of us anyway. It’s where “insurance industry” solvency meets financial solvency which plays into, essentially, effectively, ultimately socialism. But don’t say that. You good Republican insurance agent friends will get very upset with you.
HIPPA was the direct result of the AIDS crisis, when nobody wanted anyone to know they had HIV, because you could be outed and canceled.
Prior to that, there was no imaginable reason why you’d care if people knew you had a particular diagnosis.
Always watched it as a young child. Enjoyed it a lot.
IMHO … it comes down to the cultural change in how female rage is viewed and encouraged/rewarded. Every child at some point throws a tantrum, and I’m not talking about normal hissy fit or whining because he or she didn’t get their way. Parental boundaries are something all kids test and it is also a test of a parent’s own skills in raising the little barbarian.
But some tantrums are out-of-control rage fests. Knockdown screaming, pitching stuff, trying to hurt others or themself. Those are the ones in which a sharp swat on the tuchas followed by isolation until they calm down is usually effective.
Somewhere in the GrrrlPower era, that kind of irrational meltdown was now looked at as ‘justifiable’ — she is a victim of injustice, don’t you know, so Hear Woman Roar! and understand it’s your fault she’s upset.
Do that long enough there’s a good percentage of females who not only never learned self-control, but who realize how this rage is a good tool in manipulating others.
Jim engaged the wounded mother leopard while Marlon stayed in the Jeep. lol
Lovely cat. Can we send it to Minneapolis? Or Congress perhaps?
Some bangers on This Week in Pictures.
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I love this one
Unless it was, say, gonorrhea, syphilis, or some other venereal disease.
For those who don’t recognize the background music, it’s the old theme from Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, a hugely popular nature show from the 70s. We all got our nature documentary nourishment from just this one show.
I immediately started flapping my arms in slow motion like a v-formation of Canada geese.
We got six inches of snow in Knoxville last night and Bronx is quite happy. I’m not, I hate the stuff, but so long as my dog is happy . . .
This. My first professional job, my boss’s wife worked in HR. Everyone hated her, mostly for being a gossipy biotch but other reasons as well. Rumor came out of our local HQ that she was blabbing about someone’s health insurance claim along the lines of an STD. This was mid-80’s so…But to dicentra’s point, people do now make great drama about anything about their healthcare slipping out. Which is kinda opposed to the general female behavior of the past. Kinda, yet the same.
Safest place to live.
They would occasionally show those videos in science class in school. Forgive my transliteration but in the
Da-dat-da-daa-duh, Duh-dat-da-da-da-dada-duh, BOOM BOOM.
At the BOOM-BOOM part, every boy in the class would pound their desk. It was a toxic masculinity thing. Eventually we were…socialized…to give it up. Except for one guy. Surfer dude. Some things just can’t be helped.
The excuse making on this thread is amazing. Especially from one datadrivenemo. SMDH.