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ethaver

@ ethaver @kbin.earth

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  • my school had an NCLEX question competition with 4 teams with a student from each active cohort on each team. Each team was supposed to select a theme, team name, and entrance song and my suggestion was going to be "the fifth vital sign" and everybody wear black leather and have the song be Believer by Imagine Dragons. then COVID happened. idk if you'll find any use in this idea, but I was always a little bummed we didn't get to use it.

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  • I grew up in redneck country and this was legitimately a problem occasionally. In particular you'd have people / families who consciously knew racism = bad, America fought against the Nazis for a reason, etc, but had a lot of subconscious biases particularly in ways that just prevented them from regularly intermingling with other races.

    So they'd go decades just having their insular little neighborhood block parties and family reunions and such that never had a black or other non-white person and just never consciously consider the implications of that. Then one day their kid would bring home a new friend, someone new would move into the neighborhood, or even just a black guy would come to install the new fiber optic internet cables or whatever and suddenly they find out that their sweet beloved family pet hates black people.

    and there were definitely some families out there for whom this was more of a feature than a bug, but there were also a lot of people that were suddenly confronted with the realization that subconscious and systemic biases are a thing by the surreal yet glaring realization that they somehow raised a racist dog.

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  • When we got the puppy I had intentionally left the cat's claws untrimmed for a little over a month leading up and a few after. it certainly wasn't the only way we trained the dog to be respectful of the cat, but it definitely helped! These days we've progressed to more advanced socialization; cuddling on either side of me in exchange for treats. sometimes on a pretty good day I can get them to sit on the same side with a few inches in between, and on a very good day the cat accidentally rubs her face on the dog's paw while aiming for my hand (the look of surprised disgust is hilarious). The biggest rule that really helped was teaching the dog that if the cat is close by the dog should be belly up. Helps the cat feel safer and makes it less likely the dog will chase.

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • I worry a lot of it is human trafficking or at least human trafficking lite. A lot of employers really like having employees they don't actually have to pay properly or obey workplace safety and other protections for, and who will be afraid to speak up about fraud and other illegal practices.

    But to me that would be easily solved if we only made it illegal to hire people without a permit, but never deport or otherwise penalize the workers. And publicize that heavily. So if you don't have a permit and your boss is abusing you, just call the hotline on the billboard and let us know and we'll arrest them and you can go find another sketchy employer and tell on them too when they piss you off.

    No one would be hiring people without permits if there were actual consequences for the employer. We wouldn't be stuck with trying to figure out how to deport people and whatnot. They'd only be able to hire people the law is already protecting as workers. but nobody actually wants to hold rich people accountable for having caused all this trouble in the first place.

  • We don’t memorize phone numbers anymore, we rely on GPS to tell us where to go and Facebook reminds us of birthdays. What else will we stop remembering once AI remembers everything for us?

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  • how for right coherent sentences other people red

    I can't tell if this is a bit or not—I thought I was having a stroke for a minute.

  • We don’t memorize phone numbers anymore, we rely on GPS to tell us where to go and Facebook reminds us of birthdays. What else will we stop remembering once AI remembers everything for us?

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  • nah hammer to fall still slaps

  • What's something that, after you had it, you immediately wanted another?

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  • You have to make 40 dollars in 3 hours or your family will explode. What do you do?

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  • am I already scheduled for a shift? I make that hourly.

  • Do you think you can become a benevolent dictator without ever getting corrupted or turn evil?

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  • I think I would last a little longer than average. And I only say that because the more power I get handed the more anxiety I get and I think it's the people it doesn't make anxious that are the scariest. I also burnout quickly though and I don't handle everybody being mad at me very gracefully.

  • What are some horror movies that don't make any sense outside of a narrowly specific cultural context?

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  • Not sure if this is what they're talking about, but vampires are frequently depicted as having to stop and count large numbers of small things. So if you're being chased by one you can throw out salt or grains of rice or seeds or whatever and they will have to stop and count it before they continue pursuing you. Or you can attack while they're preoccupied too I guess. That's where you get the count from Sesame Street.

  • What are some horror movies that don't make any sense outside of a narrowly specific cultural context?

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  • oh this one is a fav of mine but I was raised redneck so

  • What is the origin of your username/nickname?

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  • What is the origin of your username/nickname?

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