Sterile_Technique

Sterile_Technique, 8 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7b5da8ec-1bf5-42e3-98fa-ba3de107bac4.jpeg

Edit - actually I think I owe both Heath Ledger and the fictional character he was playing an apology now… feels dirty.

Sterile_Technique, 8 days ago

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Sterile_Technique, 8 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

He’s gone this far trying to be the best little Hitler he can; kinda hoping for another parallel with the closing act.

Sterile_Technique, 8 days ago

It took a long time for me to realize “the economy” meant something completely unrelated to the purchasing power of our labor.

Sterile_Technique, 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

They’re engineered to be as obnoxious and often deceptive as possible.

I don’t mind adverts that show what a product is and what it costs, but those ones apparently underperform compared to the flashy/loud/clickbaity shit that’s infested the internet and any other space that gives them a route to invade your field of view.

Ad blockers are a must now-a-days; any video that shoves that “and now a word from our sponsors!” shit in the middle of it gets a thumbs-down; and I’ll actively avoid products I see on billboards / physical adverts.

Sterile_Technique, 8 days ago

Saw a post a long time ago about someone using gummy worms and bears etc as their minis, and players get to eat the ones they kill.

Food for thought. Literally.

Sterile_Technique, 8 days ago

I like presidents who weren’t convicted.

Sterile_Technique, 9 days ago

Holy shit, something with some actual weight to it actually happening??

This is one of those times I’m very happy to have been wrong!

Sterile_Technique, 8 days ago

An impeachment is just an investigation; if it doesn’t lead to a conviction (as his didn’t) it doesn’t mean shit. Agent Orange just got himself a felony conviction - what that means in terms of sentencing, idk - my hope is they throw the book at him and make him do some actual time. I doubt that’ll happen, cuz he’s Trump and always seems to find a way to weasel out of this shit… but then, he didn’t weasel out of this one, so who knows.

I’m interested in what having a felony conviction means in terms of political candidacy, which might require setting some new precedents, since afaik we’ve never had a felon run for president before.

In any case, this isn’t like those articles we’ve beein seeing for fucking YEARS exclaiming how he just took a major legal blow only for nothing to come of it - a felony conviction is a MAJOR leap forward, and gives me hope I haven’t felt in years that he’ll start facing some real consequences!

Sterile_Technique, 8 days ago

Republicans are gonna have to square their “law and order” worldview with voting for a CONVICTED FELON.

That’s not how republicans work. The shit they do is always about the cruelty. The “law and order” shit was only ever to cheer on enforcement on people they don’t like (dark skinned people, women, non-christians, etc).

You’ll drive yourself nuts trying to do things like point out hypocrisy on their ‘law and order’ or any of their other paper-thin dogmas because they’re all made to be bullshit in the first place.

The cruelty is the point. Once you start considering their actions through that lens, they become much more consistent and predictable.

Sterile_Technique, 9 days ago

Futurama called it.

Sterile_Technique, 9 days ago

Thought that was sheep’s blood agar for a sec, but that one’s darker iirc… which was the light red one? Or are there several?

Sterile_Technique, 9 days ago

He always supported Israel… I think the ‘until’ is in reference to Israel’s more recent and more blatant attack on Gaza - prior to that, Biden’s support for Israel wasn’t nearly as flagrant as it is now.

Like, no one would bat an eye if I told them I support my wife’s decisions, but if she started breaking into the local NICUs and stomping on people’s babies, my continued support for her decisions would be a tad sus. …especially if I regularly said “honey could you tone the baby-stomping down a bit?” as I handed her a new pair of baby-stomping boots.

I’m not a both-sides’er (unless I’m talking to a trumpanzee in an attempt to steer votes away from Agent Orange). My vote is going to Biden and I encourage anyone reading this to do the same, but our complicity in the genocide on Gaza is genuinely upsetting, partly because it’s complicity in a fucking genocide, and partly because this WILL cause voter disengagement and could hand that other dipshit the presidency on a silver platter.

Sterile_Technique, 9 days ago

The planet is on fire, the nazis are back, we’re taking leaps backwards in civil rights, genocides have become normalized, and the purchasing power of our labor has been hamstrung so many times that it’s a double amputee.

Who the fuck looks at that dumpster fire and thinks “This is a great environment for a child!”?

Sterile_Technique, 9 days ago

oppose nazis

I mean, apparently that’s a lot to ask in today’s world, so your SO isn’t wrong, but having a kid for that purpose is ethically questionable, and cruel as fuck to the individual kid.

“Sorry lil Timmy, your world is absolutely FUCKED but you’ve been chosen as a bucket of water to throw at the wild fire… good luck!”

The idea of having a kid is just mean. Or at least whipping one up from scratch is - adopting and raising the kid to be a decent person is the best case scenario here, but that’s obviously a gargantuan undertaking that very few (absolute badass) people are willing and able to do.

Sterile_Technique, 9 days ago

Part of me wants to give the driver the benefit of the doubt… he looked more stunned than the judge. Idk how the process normally works - never had my license suspended - but I’m wondering if the cop that pulled him over initially told him to Zoom for his “traffic citation” or something and the dude legit had no idea his license was suspended?

I mean, he could just be stupid, but either way it doesn’t actually look like he meant to break the rules during that call.

Sterile_Technique, 10 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

I’d recommend learning some of this guy’s and the LP’s highlights: you will NOT ever convince a trumpanzee to vote for anyone on the blue team, but they’re a lot more receptive to the libertarian pipe dream.

I’ve managed to direct a few votes away from Trump by singing the LP’s praises tactically to co-workers who were otherwise hopelessly right wing.

The spoiler effect is a best case scenario in that situation.

Sterile_Technique, 10 days ago

I only ever went there a single time. I remember it being expensive AF for basically seafood-Applebees. I’m no economist or nothin, but people not being willing to pay top dollar for a mediocre product is a great way to a business to tank…

Sterile_Technique, 11 days ago

So, living in the cousin-fuckingly deep south, the LP is actually a great tool to redirect votes away from Trump.

There’s pretty much zero chance I can sell the local rednecks on Biden, but I’ve had decent luck with the whole break-room-political-banter situation - they’ll have Fox or some shit on, get all heated about whatever the bobble-heads on screen tell them to, then start bitching to me about it.

My strategy is to bitch right along with them - don’t defend Biden or (more often) Hillary, but connect whatever it is they’re whining about to Trump, and lump him in with whichever dem is in their spotlight.

Like when they bring up Hillary’s emails, I’ll hit em with something like “Dude, I don’t know how they get away with shit like that - if I did a tenth of what Hillary did with her private email server or Trump smuggling classified docs over to his private property, I’d spend the rest of my life in prison!”

‘Both sides’ em. End with a sales pitch for the LP as the only viable alternative, and hopefully you’ll get that “hmmm” response.

Don’t get me wrong, the LP is a bad fucking joke, but you can do some good talking up their on-paper highlights to the less crazy end of the Y’all Quaeda horde.

Sterile_Technique, 12 days ago

what are modern Republicans even about?

Cruelty. You can run circles around pretty much any issue pointing out examples of their hypocrisy and inconsistency, but they’re pretty reliable with harming their community.

Once you acknowledge that the cruelty is the point, their bullshit starts to make a lot more sense.

Sterile_Technique, 13 days ago

In light of the last decade, I’ve come to almost appreciate the dumb, harmless conspiracy theories like this one.

Flat Earth, birds aren’t real, etc - if folks think spending their time on that shit is fun, then more power to em.

More of the fun dumb shit, less political conspiracies that almost invariably shepard idiots over to supporting fascists.

Sterile_Technique, 13 days ago

Oh. Well… fuck.

Sterile_Technique, 13 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Just finished the 1st semester of nursing school!

bends over Do your worst.

Sterile_Technique, 13 days ago

Currently a surgical tech, and looking back semester 1 in pretty much every test there were at least a few questions that I knew the answer to because of my job; but that I’m positive we didn’t even scratch in lecture or any of the assigned reading; and a lot of questions that we only kind of covered, but required a lot of reading between the lines which was also made way easier by my ST experience.

Idk how people who don’t already have a medical background are doing it.

Sterile_Technique, 14 days ago

Corrupt politicians, corrupt law makers, and billionaires get a gram of francium magicked into the center of their brain.

All religious writing becomes saturated with an enzyme that dissolves the paper; hard drives with religious text saved to it become filled with the strongest magnetic material known, destroying their contents and shorting every circuit within; religious carvings are filled in with the missing material, etc. All of it, gone. Attempts to recreate get the francium. Attempts to spread it verbally get a few drops of water in the trachea.

Then it’s straight to NASA to demonstrate the ability and put it to work doing things like manifesting materials in space and otherwise following the guidance of people much smarter than myself.