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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Her words, you have to be a psychopath not to be affected by the shit you see in the hospital, and you don't want to be only treated by psychopaths do you?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

I see this topic really affects you, it is clear that real life experiences has colored your view on this, and you deserved to not be harassed. (Good luck with this under this administration)

But the fact remains that seatbeltlaws are in place in many countries, including countries where cops dont harras brown people. So this argument doesn't hold water. Nixon did infact talk about racial targeting by illegalizing marijuana, not seatbelts

My wife is a hardy woman, who has treated kids in hospices, people with knifes stuck in their brains, women receiving cecarians that didn't get sedated properly by the anaesthesiologist because their drug use affected how they took the sedation, she regularly treats new amputees, changes bandages of burn victims, washes the asses of elderly, and has to see people where the pavement scraped away half their face. She is 37, and has seen a lot of shit during her career, and what she gets in return is patients that ask why they sent a child in to treat them because she looks like a teenager when she doesn't wear makeup.

She, and the rest of the tax paying public are very happy that seatbelt laws are strict, I dont want to pay my tax money on the crazy amount of money each road fatality cost (its more than you think), this is both true in countries where you don't have free health care like yours, as well as the rest of the western world. It's expensive, both in money, and the toll on the people who will treat you.

If you want to get a little bit of compassion for the people who work in health. Feel free to watch the TV show The Pitt (2025), season one, is set up like every episode is an hour in the shift of the ER. And every 5 minutes my wife says this happened to me, this is realistic, that's how it actually is, that's a realistic amount of blood, that happened to a colleague of mine etc

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (17 children)

My wife works in a hospital and receives patients from car crashes. If driving without a seatbelt was legal she would find another job.

Intact she has worked in a country where no one, even kids are required to wear seatbelts, and she doesn't want to work like that now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

With patience, something ADHDers have in a abundance for the weirdest thing at the wrong time

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

He tried, but he colflated a person on the leaderboard of a video game with a likeable personality

(No offense to likeable people on leaderboards)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Just a reminder that nix packages works on most any distro, and then they work like other universal packages, but without the sandboxing

NixOS is just when you take this to the logical conclusion and have every part of the distro packaged in Nix, including configuring your OS, and optionally your users configuration files as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If you hate the word handegg, then maybe call it American Rugby, instead of American Football

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Call it handegg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Except for my home directory, I have a little bit state on my machine, ssh host keys, WiFi credentials, journal logs (I almost want to remove this, but I bet that would bite me in the ass one day)

The root partition is a tmpfs ram disk, and everything not saved in a separate partition, and either mounted or symlinked on to my root partition is lost at shutdown and regenerated at boot. Its less than a second extra to boot, and it uses about 16MB extra memory. Everything is made very convenient through the impermanence nix module and the sops nix module

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I need to check the price of broken steam decks, there are so many fun project's I could do if I had the motherboard or daughter boards in the steam deck, and no I need my current steam deck intact to play on

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I understand why you think this, but its kind of wrong. Because Nintendo has had the upper hand with hardware many times.

  1. SNES was arguably better than Genesis system
  2. N64 has much more raw power than my favorite system the PS1
  3. GameCube was stronger than PS2 and Dreamcast

And yes, I'll just wait and use my steam deck until SD2, because I also just want a computer that I can play games on.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, my wife used to work in the ER, she still tells the same stories over and over again 15 years later, because the memories of the horrible shit she saw doesn't go away

 

I hope this fluff post will be allowed if I actually share some facts about DnD and etymology

Balders Gate is named after the Norse god Baldr/Balder/Baldur

Baldur in DnD is named after a legendary explorer Baldurian from Faerûn, name obviously inspired by the norse god's name.

The word Gate means street in Norwegian, as well in Swedish/Danish/Icelandish but its spelled differently in those languages

The word Gate in English is a cognate with the word Gate in Norwegian, meaning they stem from the same root word, incidentally they are also spelled the same way today, which is not a requirement to be a cognate, Gate in English is also a cognate with the word for street in other nordic languages even though they spell it differently.

Swedish still spell it the same as in Old Norse, Gata, which at the that point meant path, road, or way, which is how it is used in current day nordic languages, but you can see how the English word Gate is now used for an entrance with a door of some kind. Other English definitions for the word gate, like a manner of walking or even a path, among others also stem from the same root word.

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