I was once at a blues concert in New York. The singer was all “this song is about Bakersfield” and most of the patrons politely clapped. I walked past the stage with a frown and double thumbs down and he was like “yeah! Yeah I see you” and went on to sing

https://youtu.be/GO4gkvuC5WA

About half the time when someone asks “you know What?” I answer, “no but I hear he plays second”.

Honestly I thought it was a rhetorical device used cunningly.

I just said something along these lines in a different comment, but … I have been both a barista (1 week of training-ish) and a physical therapist (4 year bachelor’s and 3 year clinical doctorate). At times, I really enjoyed both. However, doing either full time either bored me or burned me out. I would love to swip-swap between those positions (and others) just because I could because my ability to stay in my home would not be dependent on having a “high skill” job.

I think if you decouple capital and earning from skill this “more or less valuable” thing sorts itself out. If I’m hungry, I’d rather have a farmer and a chef around. If I sprain my ankle, I’d rather have a doctor and a PT around. My needs of the moment are not what I always need. My abilities at this moment, are not what my abilities always will be. for example, if I sprain my ankle, I probably can’t help the farmer bring in the cattle, but I could help the doctor by setting up the autoclave for surgical tools.

I also feel like if my ability have a home and live in a community and not starve were separated from how my time is spent, I would get to choose both less specialized things and I would probably get to cycle through different things (and prevent burnout). I would adore a schedule that lets me do significant physical labor for 2-4 hours in the morning, child care 2 days a week, geriatric health care 2 days a week, barista another day or two, and creative endeavors the rest of the time. That’s not really a job that can or does exist these days and if I tried to cobble it together from part time work, lean staffing would never let it be regular enough to manage all of them without flaking out on someone.

There’s a comment elsewhere that they were arrested in their youth but not charged for a crime and that record is the first thing found when searching their name.

Whoops, thanks

Basically, anything around exercise. You can get strong as hell while rarely ever being sore. Your body requires rest in order to build up muscle and deload weeks can actually improve gains. However, most people don’t need as much rest as they think they do after injuries. Possibly the amount of rest that people try to get after injuries may prolong the injury.

I’m a pretty average sized person but I’ve stared having bespoke clothing made for me. It’s frequently not as expensive as I initially thought it would be and there is a magic feeling to slipping into a pair of pants that just fits.

Sure do, I ended up going to a zombie apocalypse survival training and spending a few hours with city kids leading to tie simple knots (for a rope ladder).

I am still mad that I paid actual money to see Valerian and the city of 1000 worlds

These days no, because my spouse doesn’t like it. Prior I used to sleep to instrumental music on repeat. My go to for a long time was the sound track to The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. To this day if I hear any part of it on shuffle, I immediately feel sleepy.

Yeah I lasted less than 10s. I couldn’t stand the difference between the general whisper and the sharp syllabants.

So I don’t know where you are or what your healthcare system is like, but I suspect it’s somewhere with a public system. Do you think it’s good for your system to treat depression and suicidal ideation/attempts? Because transition is the best prevention of suicide attempts for people who are transgender. Full stop. If there was any treatment that came close to the improvement for depressed cis people, it would be considered a god damn miracle.

I couldn’t reach you at 2:41 AM so I went ahead and merged directly to prod!

I got shadow banned on Reddit. I suspect it’s because I kept using the old.reddit interface. I would have let some ads/suggested communities into my feed, but I hate infinite scrolling.

Honestly the way they used it, I always thought the tricorder was just the reading part of other diagnostic implements. Kind of an all in one CGM, implanted pacemaker, etc.

That was a great read though.

I’m kinda the opposite of you. I use Face ID only for wallet functions on my phone. Everything else is pin/password, but that’s due to interpretations around right to remain silent.

I am not careful about being recorded. I do press random numbers on my door lock keypad.

I tell people all the time for moving that nursing homes have the best boxes if you don’t mind it saying weird things like xxl adult diapers. Probably also true for killing preventing weeds/grass.