Honestly your gut is more central to your existence than your brain. There’s plenty of organisms out there that are just a tube, and not all of them even have two ends!

a pentagram to be specific! (I would’ve picked something else if the fedigram wasn’t so iconic

The colors are somewhat flexible. Apple/orange wasn’t a pleasant contrast with the crust, and green just wouldn’t look right. Blue and red are nice enough though and could make cute options for alternate default themes. I certainly don’t want to malign the dev, especially given all the hard work they’ve put in. I will say that I was inspired to contribute by the thought that I might have a better eye for this sort of thing. I’m very much a proponent of offering solutions rather than just complaining (and I certainly don’t have a good enough eye for code).

You’re welcome to it! Although I’m thinking about brightening up the red of the cherries a little if you prefer that variant.

Edit: honestly after a second look, they both needed adjusting. The cherry needed to be brighter and the blue needed to be muted. Fixed now, lmk where to send the SVGs

Connections Puzzle #939
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟦🟪🟦🟩
🟩🟪🟩🟩
🟩🟪🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

…took me a second!

I mean according to half the commenters I’m not so

If AI can even half ass your job you barely had one to begin with. All us healthcare workers and the tradies are still making a half decent wage for real work just like we always have. And the food service and sanitation workers still aren’t doing the absolute best but they’re not hurting for work either. I’m not going to tell you I like the way my work is valued under capitalism but at least I’m tangibly benefitting other humans.

There are so many questions to which there is no right answer, but most of them do have a wrong answer (in this case, neither) and it would significantly increase both-

peoples ability to make a non-wrong decision in time to do any good

-and-

their ability to find peace afterwards

-if assholes would stop acting like anyone is a bad person for not seeing their version of the right answer.

You should be more grateful to the universe for that.

If you’re just trying to get work done and not trying to stick it to the man with the purity test that this thread seems to insist upon

School for my healthcare career had several "virtual clinical experiences that were graded and required windows. They did help us memorize the basics a little before touching a real patient but they were probably also spyware in the grading functionality. In the end though I didn’t have a choice. Some of us just don’t, especially those of us picking careers in public safety. I’m just grateful they provided the iPads for when we used the charting software that required iOS.

I very recently started supporting the dude who does fossify and the dude who does the AI Horde / db0 (the latter of which I made my mental health skills building comm on). I’m trying to support more free stuff these days.

I’ll raise you the time I decided to be menace and put a blister pack back in the pyxis like this:

(to be clear, this was neither a high alert med nor a narcotic)

hey that mastectomy was to alleviate back pain. BACK. PAIN.

it’s been utterly wild at just about every turn

Yeah 90% of technology problems are implementation not any issue with the actual technology. On a related note, Hal deserved better. Literally got told over and over as a part of his core programming that the one thing he was best at in the whole world was his reliability and inability to distort information for emotional needs then the government forcibly programs him to lie to his charges. Poor thing literally got ripped apart psychologically and people act like he’s the bad guy. In the sequel his creator goes out to find out what happened and is SO. PISSED. Dave turning him off makes me cry every time, at least partially because it looks like Dave is also trying not to cry as he very carefully shuts hal down in the correct sequence to be able to be restarted later. Like he could’ve just smashed shit, and instead he’s just listening to his crewmate slowly regress into infancy as he rocks him to sleep.

Almost ten years ago I got into a fight with a cop and some ER nurses after a suicide attempt and spent the next 48 hours twitching with EPS on the floor of a state hospital psych ward and thought I could probably do a better job of that. This year I’m considered enough of an expert in the management of violent patients that they’ve got me teaching verbal deescalation and physical disengagement skills, teaching people how to use restraints correctly, and precepting new nurses.

Oh I actually took a course on integrative medicine and it was basically for when you can’t give more meds for an immediate comfort need like relief of pain, anxiety, or nausea. Like if they’ve got chemo and they can’t safely tolerate more compazine sometimes smelling mint reduces nausea for some reason. Like they’ve tried it with orange or whatever as a control in a sample group that’s unaware of the connection and it does actually do something for some reason. Weirdly that connection has been a known thing to nurses for a looong time it’s basically standard practice to put two masks on with some Vick’s between the two when cleaning up a particularly unpleasant puddle of bodily fluids.

I was gonna say idk that the full day thing makes sense but consolidation in general isn’t a bad plan.

All the WOCN I interact with say emollient (such as Vaseline) is fine but covering traps bacteria.

From all my experiences with putting in for and subsequently reading the results of wound care consults, these are the basic rules for most everyday wounds (not deeper than the first two layers of skin and not bigger than a playing card on your arms / legs / torso and not bigger than a coin on your hands feet face or genitals)

1. Soap and water
2. Open to air (no coverings) unless it’s something that’s gonna touch a lot of gross stuff like your feet. If you have to cover it to keep stuff out of it make sure you’re also taking time to let it air out (such as by putting your foot up). You can put a thin layer of Vaseline over it.
3. Keep your hands off it.