Why not find a hobby that keeps you intellectually and socially active? And physically, for that matter.

Growing old alone must suck.

My goal: don’t do that

“Did you just like your own comment?”

It was a good comment

I know several nurses. They are all quite clear that you simply get used to the ick after a few times, and you mostly don’t socialize with patients. Its like working a customer service job (because it is!) - you will have so many patients cycling in and out that they just become faceless stats on the chart. You don’t remember someone unless they are particularly memorable in some way. Which, 99% of the time, means they are particularly fucked up, or unpleasant to be around. You tend to try your best to show up for the former, because thats where you work on the really interesting stuff and the patient is usually sedated. And you tend to try to get the latter out of the way as quickly as possible, since most people don’t tend to like hearing the rants of a senile nazi or being masturbated on by a homeless schizophrenic. As they tell it, that is one of the two main drawbacks - dealing with the people that no one wants to deal with. Polite, normal people don’t need your people skills - they tell you information and fill out a form and play on their phone, because they are polite and normal.

The other drawback is the schedule. A lot of my nursing friends got into the job expressly because the schedule lets them do things like have an 8 day weekend regularly. But the problem is that: (1) A large portion of nurses work the night shift, or worse, an inconsistent night-and-day schedule - especially early in their career. This destroys your circadian rhythm, and most people need to plan a day or two just to flip back from night to day. (2) Your schedule doesn’t line up with your friends’. Their weekends are not your weekends. Their nights out are your workdays. So your social life tends to shift towards people who also work a non-standard schedule - but that’s still hard because your schedule is unpredictable. Everyone’s schedule constantly shifts to cover everyone elses sick days, since there is essentially no slack in department scheduling - the hospital doesnt want to pay someone to sit on their hands just in case someone is out sick, so everyone has to work erratic schedules. (3) Because your schedule is always changing and your shifts are 12 hours long, it is quite difficult to really stay consistent with anything else in your life. Want to make a habit of running or lifting every morning? Want to make a home-cooked meal for dinner every night (night? What’s night?)? Well, it is going to cut into your sleep schedule.

Yeah, I also dont get it. TNT?

fwiw, I agree with you

Most likely prefabs on land you dont own. Houses really arent expensive. Land is expensive.

Hot take: this move was completely predictable and almost no one cares. As Sony said in their press statement - basically no one buys physical copies of games anymore. Even if some would prefer a physical copy, they tend to want to get the game immediately, without having to leave the house, more. Those who are completely committed to buying physical media are an extreme minority, and by sunsetting support for it, Sony saves a lot of money. Most gamers, if they hear this news at all, will probably think “well, that makes sense - I haven’t bought a physical game in years.” It’s like saying your favorite taco shop is nazis because they stopped making your favorite fish and nutella taco that no one else ordered.

Another factor is probably cultural. These countries simply don’t have rhe obsession with football during childhood that other nations have. I might be misinformed, but I’ve not gotten the impression that every Chinese child, no matter how poor, spends all their time outside playing football. But that is the impression I have of, say, Brazil.

Wow, um, do you want a binkie?

I wasnt sure, so I checked. He has had American citizenship since 2002. He is (unfortunately) an American

*their

If it hurts, stop doing it. Otherwise its fine

Do you believe there is some high council of global beauty standards, disseminating their message to every bar and tv show and school in the world? That this message is given, unambiguously, from the global beauty standard high council as marching orders, and then that all these institutions follow suit obediently while also remaining quiet about the fact that they were given these instructions?

coordinated effort

This is our point of disagreement. The effort isn’t coordinated. In fact, it is competitive. If you believe there is some high council of global beauty standards, disseminating their message to every bar and tv show and school in the world, you are a conspiracy nut.

Instead, these entities look at the subcultures they sell to, observe what people consider beautiful in them, and then sell that image.

Hot take: advertising doesnt have that much impact on womens views of their own attractiveness or society’s beauty standards, unless those women are completely disconnected from the outside world. If it did, women’s beauty standards would be completely homogenenized. Instead, we see significantly different standards for what women strive for between cultures and social strata.

Instead, women are picking up cues from their social circles and the broader cultures they participate in.

#science

It’s natural to comment on a graphic when you’re face to face

This might be why I feel like front graphics are more trashy. You are picking a thing and putting it in peoples faces, and it feels like a stand in for actually saying something and expressing ones self. Versus on the back, it functions more as an out of the way vibe that supports the way you want others to see you, but still allows you the lions share of expression

Absolutely disagree. If I’m wearing a graphic t, I’d much rather the graphic be on the back. Graphic on the front feels trashy, ala 3 Wolf Moon.

I mean, really, representative democracy.