This occurred a while back. I was standing at a nurses station, when the technician watching the heart monitors announced that a patients heart rate had jumped from 80s to 140s

For those who don’t know, parameters are 50-100. 40s if you’re an athlete. And the heart rate is generally allowed to go to 129, in a hospital, if you have no symptoms.

This individual jumped from 80s to 140s. This being a significant change, staff ran to the room to check the patients well-being and found this patients girlfriend riding him in the hospital bed.

The question you should ask is how much privacy do they want?

Or, go to a reaction vid like Asmongold or someone else.

Look at this. Only 307k views. Is that normal for something like this?

https://youtu.be/xJfUXVOoFBo

Trump specifically said fact checking was wrong and an infringement on free speech.

I’m starting to think that 1A speech Trump posted out via RFK on YT, the one with the giant green crayon subtitles, was a directive list for his oligarchs, not really intended for mass consumption, just them and the legislators who worship at his altar.

No one’s talking about it, not even here, but these guys are doing it.

Most aren’t expected to, unless it’s your job like Kimmel, SNL, Stewart, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, etc

It’s just easier to find new content reading material than today’s market in fiction which is disappointingly awful of late.

It’s definitely not 2005 any more.

Idk that anyone working class is. Even the MAGA family members are of the opinion that Luigi is cool.

My closest genetic link, fiscal conservative of yore + 2A, is: I don’t care what they say, I only feel bad for his kids. And then I here about the math, and our mutual love of Star Trek where they say: “the needs of the many…”

Unifying us, through this or any other point, instead of having us rolling around in the mud arguing trans is not what corporate america wants.

They even manage to divide working class on unions and such. But not this.

You could also argue that it’s a very American roots level of civil disobedience that harkens back to the 1770s. So it’s hard for them on multiple levels.

I like the way the Behind the Bastards podcaster explains it. Each journalistic outlet had strengths to certain things and part of learning to consume journalism is knowing what each sources’ strengths or weaknesses are. Or learning to follow specific journalists across platforms.

And some just play to the echo chambering of political parties saying exactly what their reader base wants to hear. It’s good to learn what those are as well.

Even if an ice asteroid crashed and vaporized some semblance of an atmosphere onto the planet the solar wind would strip it off because there’s no magnetic field.

It’s a dead rock. Better to look to Jupiter’s moons than Mars.

Plus the republicans would lose their damn minds over this prospect. E-ID for elections? Never.

People can’t afford yet another monthly bill.

It’s like walking in Trador Joes for snacks. Oh, hey, this is only $3! And look, this is only $5! Get to checkout: $130 please.

Seriously, that’s how this nickel and dime subscription crap works.

Depends on your history.

If you have a great history and it feels like home, high odds you’ll not run into abuse.

Granted, given the level of therapy avoidant people out there, they may not recognize their own emotional/mental abuse in their own history.

All of that said, some people sort it out, recognize the abuse for what it is and live happy lives utterly avoidant of prior abuses.

Resilience is one of those things no one has cracked in its entirety. It may very well be an inherent quality, like height or the capacity to never get type 2 diabetes no matter your weight.

(People are messy.)

Here’s a more realistic way to look at this phenomena. I’ve experienced it twice. Opportunity and initiative don’t always align so I only established a relationship with 1.

Its not love at first sight, it’s instant recognition.

Pattern recognition is what our brains are best at, built for, on so many levels. Your “gut”, the “gift of fear”, and other such phenomena come down to pattern recognition on a level you often cannot verbally explain. Same goes for instant recognition of another human being.

Another Psych 101 basic is that people are drawn to the familiar. Different context to help explain: music. There’s a mimicry in popular music going back to Mozart and a repetition in what radio stations play based on creating familiarity because it works to sell things.

Eyes meet, instant recognition, you’re drawn in.

On an uglier note, this is how repeating abuse cycles can happen. You felt like you knew him already because you did. You met him the first time in the form of your alcoholic father, or fill in the blank.

There’s some shady export behavior from Trump on this first term. He who has the most chips wins. China IS winning.

Chips = military win.

So it’s worth watching Trump on this during this term. Tariffs on imports could be a slight of hand distraction, something he loves to do, so no one pays attention to exports.

To be fair, much patient care happens without knowing what the patient actually does or did for a living. Sometimes it comes up organically, sometimes doctors, nurses, caregivers ask, and sometimes it never comes up.

If the patient is what we would call a “poor historian” which is a typical thing that is found with dementia care patients (do you know where you are right now? And they really don’t, so deep dives don’t occur past the how oriented to present reality is this patient, beyond those generic determination questions, when they fail.)

So let’s say she has no family. Shows up in hospital, doctors determine dementia, she’s stable and it’s time to go, physical and occupational therapy in conjunction with the MD determine a lack of safety to going home alone so it’s now decided for this patient to go to a care home, and she goes to a care home. Who then, inside the care home, says: oh, maybe I should call the Texas legislature about this random patient of whom I know nothing personal, never mind HIPAA.

How would they know? How could they talk if they did, given HIPAA?

Or there is a relative making decisions by phone who never thinks, oh, maybe I should call her boss and tell them. They just miss that part in the midst of everything else.

This feels like such a fuck you to working class. People can’t afford another layer of these costs right now.