A few decades ago, the business guys realized they could trick Christians into voting for them if they said they themselves were Christians and opposed abortion. This relationship has now existed for so long that now many Christians have conflated Republican economic policy with Christian moral ideals and can’t seem to separate the two.

Most nurses also don’t have the time. It’s usually nursing assistants bringing you ice chips. Nurses do a lot of what many people might imagine to be a doctor’s purview, or for which they might not realize the complexity and importance. E.g., it’s not a doctor carefully cleaning and dressing your wounds so that you don’t develop a systemic infection, nor is the doctor watching your vital signs or adjusting intravenous medication infusion rates while your organs balance on a knife’s edge, nor is it a doctor who pumps you full of epinephrine to restart your heart after you’ve slipped off the mortal coil. Doctors diagnose and order the treatment, but nurses carry it out, and that too requires specialized knowledge and skills which necessitate intensive education. Ask any nurse, and they’ll tell you that nursing school was one of the hardest experiences of their life.

But that’s all kind of irrelevant to the issue, which is loan eligibility for graduate-level education for nurses. That is, for roles like nurse practitioners and nurse anesthetists, whose job functions and responsibilities significantly overlap with those of medical doctors. Much of the conversation in this thread, and the article itself, confuses that. Associate and bachelor level nursing degrees (the degrees held by most nurses, and the nurses doing the bedside care) weren’t eligible for the loans this rule impacts in the first place.

So my eyes, feet, and soul need professional care, but not my ears? Wild.

And my hope for humanity.

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Same here. Hopes are high, expectations are low.

Appointees do have to be approved by the Senate, but we’ve already seen that the republicans are perfectly happy to rubber stamp anyone who will favor republican policies. I don’t know if the president could appoint himself, but I’d bet a republican-controlled senate would be happy to confirm him even if some law theoretically disallows it. The president cannot himself remove the justices through any mechanism of law (as if he cares about that), but justices can be removed by Congress via impeachment. I am not a lawyer, but I’m thinking a sufficiently corrupt congress/senate could make it happen.

It’s depressing how much of our government and legal system relied on the idea that at least most people would act in good faith.

I’m guessing the concern would be resolving them to the wrong address, either to censor or to serve disinformation.

Part of me wants to say we should save even more energy and just send him to CECOT. But to do so would mean being no better than him. I’m almost ok with that.

Owning a home or otherwise having stable housing doesn’t mean you don’t have or can’t develop debilitating mental health or drug issues. I’ve worked with many currently and previously high-functioning, well paid, housed individuals who have developed severe mental health or drug problems despite their economic security. Economic security and stable housing absolutely are protective factors which reduce the risk of developing such problems, but they don’t eliminate genetic factors, trauma, unexpected economic hardships, etc.

Source: I work with people who have severe mental illness and addiction problems, most of whom are currently homeless.

Not matching whatsoever is a stretch. I’ll grant you that the title might be a bit sensationalized, but the only potentially erroneous aspects are the title stating it was random and the wording creating the implication that Stalin might have done all the killing himself. None of which reduces that it was an objectively bad time in which many people were unjustly killed.

What are your thoughts on Stalin’s and the government’s action during the time period described?

Not that you need more edits, but: racial *segregation was found unconstitutional.

And Ruby Bridges is still alive. She’s only 71 years old.

I’m a nurse, but work in a different speciality (psychiatry). I’m curious where you’ve heard 4-6 months? While he’s obviously not in a good state, he doesn’t look like imminent death to my only-peripherally-trained eye.

And then they blame it on “left wing political violence” and then the shooter’s family will be like “look at all these pictures of him wearing maga hats” and then the media will be like “but he had a high school class with someone who’s cousin was bisexual so he’s obviously a left wing lunatic”.

making comparisons

You explicitly acknowledge that they’re just making comparisons while also suggesting they’re calling Israel literal Nazis. Your trolling isn’t even internally consistent.

For practical stuff like that, I find directly searching on YouTube to be the most useful. The wealth of free practical instruction available on YouTube is staggering. Unfortunately, that doesn’t help for those who want the information in written form, and a not insignificant proportion of it is by amateurs who have no idea what they’re doing nor know what the word “safety” means.

They weren’t thinking. They were gulping down the propaganda and gorging themselves on the fear-mongering. And now their kids are fucked over because of it.

Moved recently. My old place had only Comcast cable and AT&T DSL available. At the new place, I got 1 gigabit fiber from TDS for $10 less than I was paying for 300mbit with Comcast. When I called to cancel Comcast, they of course did their won’t-take-3-no’s-for-an-answer script. They even (finally) offered to do an additional $10 less than TDS for gigabit. I still said no.

Honestly, if their initial response had been “how much are they charging you? We’ll beat it”, I might have considered staying, but that I had to say no multiple times even after telling them I was getting a comedically better deal is just so emblematic of every interaction with them. I don’t want to talk to your service rep any more than they want to be yelled at by the caller after me.

I probably wouldn’t use TV service from either even if it was included for free.

Eh, if the simulation were allowed to develop organically from the beginning, then it makes sense to me. If it has the fidelity for the subatomic particles comprising your eye then it has the fidelity for macroscopic particles getting in your eye.

I see dust in my eye as a better argument against the existence of a benevolent creator deity, personally.