I’ve encountered many a schizophrenic who prefers to sit in a quiet room with no TV or media on to avoid confusion between their AVH and reality.
“Smart” ads should be optional for this reason. Like the warning pre many video games regarding lights/cameras potentially inducing seizures.
You can buy a rechargeable heated shawl as well.
Who knows. I’m more likely to hear the complaints in spring, about not being able to find good workers any more. My money is on that one.
It makes a point of slapping people who truly believe, even now, that all the ICE activity thus far has been against illegals.
Illegal only. For real. They believe that.
A maga relative in landscaping was mystified as to why half his employees had either left or were leaving and weren’t coming back for the next season. In his words: they’re believing all the lies and hype being spewed by the media.
In his mind, even now, ICE is only doing their job: removing people here illegally. Because media can’t be believed and is filled not with lies but terrible twisting of the truth.
So putting a face on this, that looks like MAGA, is about all that’s left to try to get their attention.
Clearly raccoons have spent far too much time mingling with humans.
People keep voting for Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, and Ron Johnson on repeat, to name a few turds who have made headlines.
The AOC method. If they have a good record and actually care, like Bernie, (doubtful there are many), sure, leave them, otherwise, AOC them.
We wouldn’t need a shingles vaccine if it did.
Let’s be real. These guys will still be getting vaccines. It’s the plebs who will not.
Let him go first. This dipshit should get the measles, have the immune restart, then (if he survives) go to Christmas dinner with all the sick relatives hiding that they’re sick.
Flu is miserable. As is, all we have to combat it after the fact is Tamiflu. Manufacturer hype aside, the data says, at best, Tamiflu shaves 16hrs off the duration of the flu, if any only if it is taken within 2 days of showing symptoms. Not after.
Flu can also kill old people.
I’m not even that old and I take the shot yearly. Worst case is a sore deltoid and possibly a weak parody of a fever on day 1. Way better than flu imo.
Yes, I failed to paste the copy. After a 12 hour shift.
There’s less errors overall in having consistency in who healthcare reports off to between shifts. The 17% is balanced out by that (math wise). The errors in having 3 people reporting around an 8hr clock are significantly higher than with the 12hr clock.
But a 4th shift? Staying over to 16hrs? The 36hr week, I feel, is the extent to which you can safely take the 12h shift.
Additional madness is in that, in 26 states, the administrators of hospitals can hold shift workers over into double shifts. I don’t know about you, but I lose the capacity to read words around hour 18. Yet, this practice is engaged routinely in health care, without regard to sleep patterns. Maybe it is an 8h shift. Maybe that person spent day shift in school then went to work for an evening shift. Now is being held on their license to stay a night shift. And expected to drive home after more than 24hrs awake. Maybe their babysitter leaves at midnight. How good and safe is that patient care going to be?
This is true. It also results in less intershift rancor. But it doesn’t change the difficulties of 4th and 5th shifts in the same week.
I’m all for turning a 40hr/5day work week into a 36hr/3day work week. It works well in 24hr professions.
What I’m not for is this 996 nonsense.
In the healthcare environment that is true. 12h shifts retain consistency between back and forth reporting, while with 8hr shifts things get lost or missed or misinterpreted in the handoff.
My point is that 3 is the sweet spot, it’s the 4th and fifth shifts that become cumulatively bad and result in increased car accidents on the commute.
There is a large body of research out there regarding 12h shift work in healthcare. I’m only linking 1 article, a quick search will yield more, easily.
A TLDR on it: 12h shifts decrease performance. Stacking them decreases safety and performance, cumulatively. Car accidents pick up significantly on day 4.
Send in Zohran. Maybe then he’ll answer questions.
The same basic, 2x4, light trucks, no frills, Nissan Frontier and Chevy Colorado have increased from $19k to $29k, last check, between 2019 and 2024. 4 cylinder, “truck shaped sedan” models, in terms of capacity and the ability to fit in any parking space.
That’s quite a reduction in MSRP.
Wage increases are not there. You typing it feels like a Mike Johnson sound byte. Jobs that paid $20-$24 in 2019 still pay $20-24 in 2025. Federal minimum wage remains at $7.25/hr, or $1160 a month for 40h/wk.
I’ll grant you, healthcare saw a jump, but with Covid, had it not, more of the work force would have switched careers. Most of those hourly personnel had not seen much in the way of pay increases since pre-2008, until Covid.
Vance’s future running mate, probably. The ick ticket.