Posts by janisf@mstdn.social
(DIR) Post #Apj83bqfJLJlSPpoxs by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-01-04T04:12:06Z
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@futurebird @dr.andrealove I've been thinking about this exact question for too long. The only conclusion-y thing I can arrive at is that a whole lot of doctors are just kind of bad, at making not-obvious connections, listening, kindness, staying current, being a healthy co-worker.... Patients can detect this. GP's are science's front-end. The good ones go to better work environments (incl pay), and to *really* needy places e.g. Doctors Without Borders.US rural medicine is the bottom.
(DIR) Post #ApmMmybTXL6ptW8WWW by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-01-05T17:34:57Z
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@pezmico But if we take away the window to the shitstorm world, our kids can stay in our windowless McMansion enjoying the same wealth-supported ignorance we do.What. We turned out OK. We're good parents. We worked hard to provide. Their C-PTSD *can't* be us.(/s)
(DIR) Post #ApmVOiZCPNyYnLZyIS by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-01-05T19:17:47Z
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@futurebird Earth itself may be the weirdest thing in the universe.
(DIR) Post #AqKIs24lmBscSRSTui by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-01-22T02:37:35Z
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@futurebird They don't understand what happens at polling places (or want to), so no, they probably don't. The ones who do benefit from the others being snowed.The other bit is that these folks don't use words to mean a cognitive thing, they use them to convey a feeling (usually fear) to persuade. They hyperbolize, but billions is over-the-top, "hundreds of thousands" is too many syllables and too serious so it rouses suspicion. It's mush. They mean "lots," but that sounds pansy.
(DIR) Post #AqKJnvf1mmP7MD1cCu by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-01-22T02:48:04Z
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@futurebird None if it is about actual information, though. It's the right wings recognition that how people feel steers what they believe, on a loop.Think grandma's change bowl. As soon as she forgot she pulled ten quarters over to her new special spot for the slot machines, she thinks someone's stealing *all* her money. Brains actually do work this way. When concepts are tied to core, calcified beliefs, you can't get people to rethink anything.How many doesn't matter. One is enough.
(DIR) Post #Arx9V5vASSXKz7woVs by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-03-11T18:18:25Z
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@futurebird I don't think they reasoned at all. They let the algorithms and the system (digital and human) decide how investments could be maximized. Privilege and ignorance go hand-in-hand. They wash their hands of the problem of homelessness by blaming "free markets." While mothers are proud of their sons who, "do well," without bothering to look into the mechanics of how that came to be. (It wasn't because they actually built anything.)
(DIR) Post #AswB7fi8hNw1EHmRZA by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-04-10T04:49:28Z
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@gkmizuno Poor as dirt, and still waiting for my medal....But hey, the Salvation Army hates me, at least.
(DIR) Post #AtNESJM38zlDdZLnmq by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-04-23T06:08:36Z
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@Nonilex I think the birthright citizenship thing helped with the actual US birthrate....You know what would help white women want to have kids? Not having fucknuts trying to intimidate them into being enslaved punching bags (nurses and teachers, I mean, really), and not having worse fucknuts trying and failing to run the economy.This is not that complex an issue. Clearly someone's having some difficulty with it.
(DIR) Post #AtNFKyYIBmEp2w8vse by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-04-23T06:18:30Z
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@Nonilex $5K only pays about 20% of the average hospital bill.And I'm sorry, I've been fans of a couple of Fulbright moms. Literally two, and I've had my eye out. There is no f*ing way that's a sane life plan, or working career path. Both of them had brilliant ideas and made it via what is effectively entertainment talent (after their kids were older teens) which the Fulbright doesn't really recognize.Period training? Really? They gonna strap thermometers on 'em & deliver notifications?
(DIR) Post #AuHGE6uA6jQob6PcC8 by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-05-20T06:52:15Z
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@Nonilex OK, so did he, perchance, just steal the poshest aircraft on the planet? And then is he gonna get and army of top expert aerospace engineers working their asses of 24/7 for god knows how long to get it just the way he likes it?And, wait, wait. Are there still people who think the planet's most brazen and prolific thief... has their backs?
(DIR) Post #Aw4e8kOSajt1p2rJOC by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-07-13T00:33:06Z
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@strypey #purepropaganda
(DIR) Post #AxbCGqqmb5sVOzIgDo by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-08-27T01:31:53Z
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@mjd There needs to be a better way to document code. Half of the effort spent maintaining could be saved, not just with docs you can drill down on, but by getting coders focused on the human environment in which their code is supposed to work. It's this that a reviewer is for--to gatekeep the sloppy crap, that just happens to work, out.
(DIR) Post #AxwGNOtvOGeCskJ4pE by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-09-06T19:13:25Z
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@detondev It's great art, but it's not my experience of lesbianism at all. It'd be great if folks could propagate the pro-human, optimistic side of female coalitions. They've had the misfortune of being, well, witchified, defunded, disempowered... for centuries with just a few rare exceptions.
(DIR) Post #AyLEvEDER8puqxBvma by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-09-17T05:44:09Z
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@tofugolem @Susan60 I hang with some. Yes, they work hard, but many of them are f*ing idiot bigots who won't listen to a therapist who tells them what boundaries are, which is why they can't pull their heads out long enough to unionize. It's why their voting cohort thinks the mental health care provided by Medicaid doesn't work.They are not defenseless. Democrats have been fighting for them behind their backs, including public ed, but they are mired in bitterness.Harder, not smarter.
(DIR) Post #AyLEvHs6pcJiCbL7Pk by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-09-17T17:57:24Z
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@tofugolem @cy I'm not sure you can always split those motives. In the middle of that spectrum, they may feel a twinge that a statement is maybe racist, or cruel, or but the goal is to sell more product, so they let it slide.I'm a big believer in Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to malice what can be explained with ignorance. But it's true that a whole bunch of this is absolutely retributive, mostly for made up s*.
(DIR) Post #AyLEvJr7SGiIM6tM9I by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-09-17T22:58:36Z
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@cy I'm coming to believe you are one of the most embittered people I've encountered. I'm guessing it's because you're effectively smarter than most of the people you've met. I hope someday you're able to connect.It's an M.O. for asking questions before you assume someone is operating with evil intent... in order to prevent treating someone like an absolute enemy instead of an idiot. it's exactly what these evil fucks /don't/ do.My preference is to not be an evill fuck. That's it.
(DIR) Post #AyLEvLeml62HwR8XCa by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-09-17T23:46:10Z
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@cy If you're applying Hanlon's Razor, the deed is already done. Approaching the perpetrator without adopting a stance of accusation is going to get better results regardless of their motives. A combative stance will be met with the same. Genuinely asking for assistance in understanding is a whole lot more likely to get that explanation, with the added bonus of possible actual contrition.It's not about being naively vulnerable. It's protective: easier to leave stupid alone than evil.
(DIR) Post #AyLEvMhertvbBdULJo by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-09-18T01:16:17Z
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@cy Uh. OK. I was thinking more of a plumber charging for something he didn't t say he was gonna do, or negotiating to get credit for something work-related, like regular day-to-day captialism. But yeah, there are a zillion YouTube videos about narcissists and the like.
(DIR) Post #AyLEvO7Zb2FfaIcYLo by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-09-18T03:06:48Z
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@cy You've got me beat. My mom would tell me the mold was invisible, and then tell me a second opinion wasn't necessary.
(DIR) Post #AyTZiwF74eyjwqjQyu by janisf@mstdn.social
2025-09-22T18:53:17Z
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@GreenRoc Every time I hear talking heads say The Market will self-correct, I yell at the TeeVee, "Yeah, but you don't, and the rest of us are fucked!" The Market, as they say, has nothing to do with who's buying what, Jimmy Kimmel or otherwise. It's a lame ass excuse for traders, economists, and politicians to manipulate as they pleased. Free Market, my ass.