medgremlin

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago

It was a legitimately nonprofit hospital and he probably was overpaid, but at least he was a practicing physician at one point and did seem to give a damn about his staff.

[–] [email protected] 116 points 9 months ago (9 children)

I once worked at a hospital in the ER where the department director was a union-busting bastard, but the CEO was pretty reasonable. After I left, one of the other ER techs went to the CEO about our pay being messed up and got everyone $5-6/hour raises to actual market rate. Also, there were a few weeks when we were really understaffed that the hospital encouraged admin folks to volunteer as "candystripers" in the ER to do stuff like help clean/turn over rooms, and answer patient call lights for water, blankets, etc. And the CEO was down in the ER for a couple hours every evening helping out most of that time period. It was encouraging to see the CEO of the hospital putting on some gloves and helping us with basic stuff like cleaning and stocking.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As a medical student, I have a negative amount of trust in and/or respect for anyone in the healthcare sector that has a business degree.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For me, it just looks like he has a certain coldness in his eyes. It's not a dead or vacant look, it's just the way a smile, or any other facial expression for that matter, just doesn't seem to make it to his eyes. There's obviously life and intelligence there, but it's not a friendly intelligence. I pulled up the most lizard-man pictures of Zuckerberg for comparison, and even at his most robotic, his eyes still look human. Like there's some capacity for empathy in there somewhere. With Musk? His eyes just don't quite read as human to me in an uncanny valley sort of way.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Let's rewind to the part where you look at why they are mortal enemies, and realize that the same problem is still happening in the West Bank at the same time as the mass murder in Gaza.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Israel lost 0.014% of its population to the Hamas attack. Gaza has lost about 0.52% of its population to Israel's rampage and that over 40% of those deaths are children. How is that comparable at all?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've had it for years and one of the biggest features that I find worthwhile is being able to easily download videos to watch on the plane or play like podcasts when I'm driving. When I first got it, I had a really long commute, so being able to download stuff and play it with my phone screen off is helpful.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From Lord of the Rings: "Not all who wander are lost."

From the Old Kingdom Series: "Does the walker choose the path, or does the path choose the walker?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pro tip: if there's an Aldi near you, get the Benton's sandwich creme cookies. They're so much better than Oreos and way cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Other people have given me a hard time for using that as the metric for when they're done. It's not my fault they interpret it as me drowning the cookie.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

An interesting thing about Benadryl (diphenhydramine): if you look at "PM" meds or things that are supposed to help with sleep, diphenhydramine is usually the active ingredient. Benadryl is a sleep medication that happens to also work as an antihistamine which I find a bit amusing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I won't be buying one for quite a while. I'm driving my 2021 Crosstrek with a manual transmission until it dies and I can't reasonably repair it anymore. It's the first new car I've ever had, it's my first manual transmission car, and I'm not giving it up for anything besides another of the same in a newer model. (and unfortunately, it looks like manuals are getting phased out throughout the market)

(Edit to add: I would be sorely tempted by a BRZ though.)

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