And what is wrong with quick access to an NP who is clearly supervised by doctors? They get significant training and often have extensive experience in healthcare before they took the NP.

Because the pouring spout is to the right. Tip it, you’ll see. It works better if you are staring closely at the spout from below when you do so.

Peter Funke? The famous anal-rapist?

I think you could get a five episode miniseries with an epic arc where Ronald, God of Fire takes humanoid form and finally accepts his sexuality.

I will die on this hill.

All chaps are assless.

If chaps had an ass, they would be pants.

Thank you for hearing me out.

A short self-satisfied chuckle, such as a duchess might emit when someone makes a really good joke about the poors.

I experienced it pretty profoundly when taking a plant systematics and identification course. I had always loved plants as a gardener, so the added knowledge of general plant anatomy lit a fire in my brain.

Now when I would learn a new plant, I would notice it everywhere, even out of the corner of my eye while driving at speed on a highway.

I’m still a slut for the thrill of learning a new plant.

Yay! Isn’t it great to love your body? I have discovered a whole new side of myself with fitness. Hell, no, I am not embarrassed at liking what I see in the mirror as I finish that burpee!

There are few things in life one can say they truly earned and a fit, strong body made through dedication is one of them.

Sounds like a great opportunity to use the word ‘chortle’!

They, meaning the people behind the bans, have thought it through perfectly well. They are counting on milquetoast centrists to ‘both sides’ the issue so they can start to attack LGBTQ+ people and their concerns as being inherently indecent.

No, it’s price-fixing, an illegal practice.

This one works if you are an inbox-zero sort of person. Write a script to send yourself an email daily. Have another utility look for your reply. If you go too long without replying, have it trigger whatever other emails/actions you would like to happen.

One year for murdering thousands of people with paperwork.

No justice, no peace.

I have an image of a certain mentally lazy older relative being confronted with anything slightly challenging. The degree of hand wringing and play acting to avoid a few minutes thought and perhaps looking ignorant was always over the top.

Since the world has many many people like that, there will probably end up being a handful of large ‘instances’ that seem ashamed of the fediverse’s ‘complexity’ (like Bluesky) and they will pretend to be their own thing, so as not to freak out the squares.

I am somewhat glad Lemmy instances get ignored in this discussion. I want to be surrounded by the better, smarter and more challenging voices such as I have found here.

Is it an information bubble? Damn right it is. Lemmy is my refuge from and group therapy for preparing to contend in vain against the daily grind of human cupidity and stupidity.

CEOs are not workers, they are part-owners in typical compensation schemes. Give me large unearned blocks of stock or a percentage of the net revenue, that would make me not a worker.

Civilized societies burn smaller piles of shit on the regular!

Hah, nice point. Whoever is behind it just has an axe to grind and they are counting on being re-posted mindlessly, probably by other AI agents.

You must know when to hold them, and when to fold them.

I am certain this pertains to every aspect of life, but am still figuring out exactly what to hold or fold, and when.

My boyfriend said I needed to be more affectionate.

So now I have TWO boyfriends!

Namaste! They built him well too, but differently. He might be one of those ‘good times, noodle salad’ people. Well intentioned, cosseted, smart in a narrow way and so so naive. The clincher was dumping him in the same hole as Lalo Salamanca. Dirt doesn’t know the difference, but the audience did.