So much better to do it in person.

Started improv a few years ago. Very good for my mental health.

Doctors being jerks are sometimes required to do professional coaching to improve attitude and communication. Having less hierarchical communication actually improves patient safety, because people are braver to speak up. So feedbacking to someone about the haughty doc might actually be in everyone’s best interest.

(Source doctor who actually had to do that coaching myself at one point and found it helpful)

PS would love to see some haiku

We have been turned into sheep

We are like children.

White Americans have been raised to believe the most preposterous set of lies about ourselves (land of freedom, etc) and the amount of effort to sustain that belief despite all evidence to the contrary is hard to imagine. Effort from the ruling class (eg “god save America” at the baseball game) but also internal efforts from the people themselves - because the collapse of the lie tears your self image apart. This actually started during the George Floyd Black Lives Matter moment but the reaction the other way brings us back to Trump.

People who want real change, and end to imperialism and capitalism feel isolated and hopeless. 1/3 if the country are committed to racism and misogyny. All lot of better off folks just want the illusions of the old normalcy back.

It doesn’t help that truly unedited critical voices here get shut down for somehow being responsible for Putin.

For something created by communists, for communists - it’s amazing how the loudest voice is people complaining about tankies.

I’m reading a book called “German Philosophy 1760 - 1860. The Legacy of Idealism” and so far, it’s basically this

Hadn’t ever really thought about a snake’s penis, until today.

Cars didn’t last long back then. A 20 year old car was a big deal I the 70s.

Yes.

Except of course for the world falling apart, my country descending into fascism and impending climate diaster.

But for me personally, things are entirely chill.

Oh yes 1844, got confused with the later revolutions.

They are enforced against poors. While rich rapists walk free.

I thought the 1848 manuscripts were pretty rocking when I first read them.

I always felt Marx’s finished products had a kind of dull exposition, at least for large parts. I think he felt he had to lay out a system like that. But the unfinished stuff, even the Grundrisse have a lively dialectical feel that is pretty captivating.

Wouldn’t it be easier to go from RN to ARNP than starting over to train as a PA?

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=E6c4IjUO0HY

https://youtu.be/-asb8zTiuZ4

My wife went to Catholic school in the 70s. Not sure how it came up, but someone asked how King Herod died and the nun said he ate so much his stomach exploded. My.mom went to Catholic school in the 50s. She was told that Martin Luther “ate babies”

That sounds pretty PieFed good. What’s a good android app to access the pie?

Perhaps, it’s the world that we let happen.

During the more complex parts of Capital Vol 1, I sometimes read it out loud to help keep focus.

I actually just reread Vol 1 since there’s a new translation and felt some of the chapters in the back half could have been skipped.