Protests against this neonazi flavor of right wing extremism have been happening for decades. They haven’t accomplished shit. To the contrary, things have gotten considerably worse. The protests are ignored. The protests will continue to be ignored so long as they’re just noise.

It’s based on observing current events through the lens of the education I’ve received on history. Protests by themselves today require a ridiculous scale to accomplish peanuts; contrast that to MLK Jr’s protests during the civil rights movement. His got shit done. Why? Because the Black Panthers were standing by with rifles. Today’s protests are all bark from a toothless mouth, so we’re allowed to yip away until it’s out of our system, then the status quo just keeps trucking along. There’s no modern iteration of the Black Panthers to back up all of our nonviolent protests.

The 50501 movement / ICE protests are starting to show promise, but again, scale - we’ve seen nationwide protests regularly for months, and so far all they’ve accomplished is being an inconvenience for ICE… in exchange for making themselves a target to multiple facets of the military.

We need more than noise.

what might work?

Actual fights. The first time we fought the Nazis, we didn’t beat them by protesting; we beat them with bombs and bullets.

Nonviolent options only work under the threat of a violent plan-B.

…and plan-A has been completely ignored for decades.

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Now if only the military would turn on him in accordance with their oath to defend the constitution from domestic threats…

the guy is representing himself as having special knowledge about what Signal is doing internally and what they’ll do next.

I didn’t get that impression- to me it just came off as him being cynical about platform enshittification.

Like, with recent news of Nexus being sold, my reaction was to join a chorus of others excplaiming that Nexus is about to be shit. We don’t know that - we just know it’s being sold. But we’ve all seen a ton of services follow a similar path, so the assumption feels justified. If a Nexus employee came out and said “Don’t panic, literally nothing is going to change!” Whether that came from the janitor or CEO, I’d have a similar knee-jerk as the dude in the OP.

I also have no idea who the old or new CEO of Nexis is. If it happens to be a woman, me arguing with her wouldn’t be from sexism, it’d be because Nexus is setting the stage to go down the toilet.

Dude in OP absolutely could just be a misogynistic prick, but there’s certainly not enough info in the screencap to say so with any certainty.

It definitely does; my take is only that is has the hallmarks of more benign activity too. I can’t say with any certainty that it IS one or the other. Suspicion is justified; torches and pitchforks, not quite yet.

Important context. Yeah that definitely reduces the benefit of the doubt, but I still wouldn’t jump to sexism. People refer to the organizations they’re employed by as ‘we’ all the time - that doesn’t imply any kind of authority. He definitely assumed she was a nobody, but 99.999% of us are just peasants milking a roof over our heads from a system we have absolutely no control over… so, assuming she’s a nobody is a pretty safe assumption. Were she a dude and all else the same, I don’t see the conversation going any differently.

There are tons, and tons, and tons, and tons of examples of demonstrable and absolutely clear misogyny in our dumb fucking society - it’s really not necessary to try to find it by attempting to read between the lines.

So… unless that dude has a history of misogynistic bs, imo the safer assumption is that he’s being cynical about platform enshittification (and reasonably so when you consider the patterns shown by every single other platform), vs an attack based on gender.

In all fairness, if a CEO doesn’t introduce themself as a CEO, there’s really no reasonable expectation for random internet strangers to know that.

I would have had no idea who that was.

Hold up, orangutans are chill as fuck, don’t do them dirty like that.

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It’s part of a whole-health or holistic model of healthcare. It’s good in that it acknowledges that there’s more to a person than the specific issue(s) they’re checked in for. We have a tendency to become kinda desensitized and lose sight of the human vs the ‘lap chole in room 4’. Spiritual health is one of the pillars of that model, and that’s what chaplains are there to provide.

The problem is that “spiritual” is just assumed to be religious, and religious is just assumed to be Christian, at least here in the states.

The other problem is that chaplains assume they’re part of a patient’s healthcare team by default, so they tend to just waltz into patient rooms and start talking to them as though they’re automatically welcome. Many patients lean on their religion when they’re stressed, and if that makes them feel better, then fuck yeah that’s cheap medicine. Some of them are so distressed that they want to speak to a religious official - enter the chaplain. Ideally, the chaplain functions like part psychiatrist and part liaison, tackling whatever it is that’s causing the patient spiritual distress and then connecting them with the people or resources needed to put that at ease. In other words, it shouldn’t matter if you’re a Christian or Satanist or astrologist or Pastafarian or anything in between - the chaplain should be able to see to the needs of each with equal competence.

In actual practice? “…well that’s why Jesus di–” OMG SHUT THE FUCK UP!!

Even looking at them through the lens of “they’re healthcare providers” it’s still super fucked up that they just butt into the patient’s space unsolicited. Like, imagine if a urologist did that… “Hey it looks like you’re here for a lap chole? Nice, nice… anyway, you’re a human with a prostate, so don’t mind me, I’m just gonna… get… up… in there… Alrighty that’ll do it, have a nice day!”

…and given the state of healthcare in the US, that’ll probably come back as $1700 extra on your bill that your insurance won’t cover cuz that doc was out of network.

But yeah, imo the chaplain should stay in their office unless a patient specifically requests to see them. Not every patient feels empowered to say no when the fucker just drops in right next to them and asks if they want to talk about whatever god they’re trying to push.

Cheering for a traitor is traitorous. The traitor in question being the president doesn’t mitigate that in the slightest - to the contrary, that’s the most damaging traitor we could be cursed with.

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Right back at you if you have any questions about the OR! Anything specific to the procedure you’re about to have, this late in the game I’d definitely stick with your healthcare team and not a random internet stranger, but anything that’s OR in general, I got you!

Did you say anything silly when you were waking up from surgery?

Surgical tech of roughly a decade, here: This almost never happens. Of the thousands of patients I’ve seen wake from anesthesia, exactly 3 of them so far woke up saying funny/weird shit. Two of them were WAY over the top hilariously thankful; and one was completely convinced that we were bullshitting him when we told him his surgery was over and that he was just waking up. He had zero recollection of being unconscious at all: from his perspective, we rolled him into the OR, had him shuffle from his gurney to the OR bed, then immediately shoved him back onto the gurney while saying ‘it’s all done!’. He was a little more receptive to it once he saw the sutures, lol.

The vast majority of people either want to stay asleep, or they wake up kicking and punching.

it’s weird to me that chaplains are pushed so hard with gender-affirming surgeries

It’s weird that chaplains are pushed so hard, period. This has been driving me nuts in clinicals - they’ll just drop into a patient’s room completely unsolicited and start asking religious shit. Like… dude, did that patient request a chaplain? No? Then get the fuck out! I can see the value in having a chaplain available to patients who want one, but until that request is made, stay in your damn office!

Thanks!! As a surg tech I don’t get much insight from my patients: they roll into the OR, I introduce myself, anesthesiologist knocks them out, and we get to work. And the times I do get to chat (case delay for whatever reason and the patient is just hanging out with us on the OR bed) I usually try to just keep them distracted with questions about their work or kids or music preference or shit like that. Anything to keep their focus away from the pile of what looks like medieval torture devices I’m assembling, or the alien environment that ORs are for anyone who doesn’t work there. …what I don’t do is grill them about the quality of care they’re receiving lol.

So, conversations like this one are the closest thing I get to direct feedback. So again, thanks!!

Once nursing school is finished up and I switch over to the dark side, there will be a lot more interaction with actual conscious patients, so the feedback I’m getting here is super helpful!

asking for name and pronouns, and then sharing their own.

Huh. We’ll ask during intake, but haven’t offered our own. Do you think that’s a good practice overall, or making it weird? You and a couple other posters have mentioned -and I agree- that trans patients are first and foremost patients who should be able to expect the same care as anyone else, to include not getting special treatment since that can be awkward for the recipient. I have noticed a couple nurses seem like they’re walking on eggshells - like they’ll get WAY apologetic if they fuck up a pronoun. It’s awkward just to see from the sidelines, lol.

My surgeon has awful bed-side manner / weight

Some surgeons are like that. Reeeaaaaally smart in their area of expertise; but dumb as rocks the second they set foot outside of that bubble, to include basic social skills. Med school really needs a course or two on “how to not be an asshole!” …often the side you see as the patient is the ‘nice’ side, too - once you go under, they crank the asshole up to 11 to the staff in the room.

But… we tolerate it. They’re good at providing healthcare, and if that wasn’t keeping them occupied, they’d probably be serial killers or some shit.

Hope your recovery is going well! Unsolicited advice: you’re only about 30% as good as you feel after surgery. It’s the drugs. When you start feeling good enough to return to your normal daily routine, NO YOU DON’T! Sit down, be lazy, and chill for a couple more days. And follow your post-op instructions to the T - the groin is a high infection rate area, so don’t cut any corners with whatever they told you to do for cleaning, dressing changes, etc.

Also, congrats!

Think a drone could get up above it and drop something into the propeller?

I mean, nowadays the can of worms is long-since opened, and there’s the whole spiel about how definitions change over time with use, so… sure I guess?

AI became synonymous with computing in general, and “AGI” moved the goal posts in an attempt to un-muddy the waters? Give it time, I’m sure marketing will fuck that one up too and a couple other randoms on the internet will be having this same conversation but between AGI and whatever the new flavor is.

As a surgical tech in the process of switching over to nursing:

How was your healthcare team? What did they do that stood out as good / is there anything they could have done better?

I hardly ever get trans patients, but I want to make sure their experience is as good as I can make it.