Honestly, it looks like the mall ninja tried the skin bronzer and then tried to get rid of it after. The thing is he’s going to have to wait for the dyed skin cells to shed off to replace themselves, as they do. The face itself sheds at different rates in different areas.

This is a disturbing thought, that he is so keen on cozying up Trump he tried the look. Has he changed his hair too? I don’t keep track.

It’s individual universities.

All the extension office university data on plants, agriculture, etc. It’s invaluable info for anyone who grows their own food and deals with bees in relation to that food growth.

I haven’t done office in a while. The inception of the subscription model killed it completely for me. Scrivener is better organized for big projects. And there’s plenty of small word programs that get the job done for things like resumes and such, in lieu of Microsoft Word.

I had an older student office disc. Microsoft wouldn’t allow installation.

And then Adobe stealthed onto my elderly parents computer and killed all their photo files. Demoralizing to say the least. They won’t even engage their favorite hobby any more.

The enshittification is real.

Medias touch is a left YT channel that has been around for a bit. Not my thing but I have relatives into it.

You’re saying it’s an unaffiliated play off of that?

There were more variables than just Trump.

COVID and all the conditions it created.

You want the real answer?

Inertia.

Think about the scene in Fight Club where the homework is to go out and start a fight. It isn’t easy. Most people have never hit another person their entire lives. Men who punch walls or tear their shirts off to throw down with someone over perceived offenses are not the normal. That’s tail of the bell curve behavior. If it wasn’t, people would be fighting in parking lots everywhere you go.

The inertia of most peoples lives is to avoid conflict. This is why only a handful of people in any building you happen to be standing in are suited to leadership roles.

Now, if you can get one of those guys in the right conditions to stir up a mob hive mind then the game changes. Until then, most people will be propelled forward by inertia and conflict avoidance.

We felt it last year. A building up of something. A sense of impending doom. Feelings of grim.

Things are worse especially with Trump making noises about using the American military to take resources. I don’t know who put the Panama canal and Greenland into his head but here we are. He is a guy who would do it too. Making us axis and not ally this go. That’s grim.

Pick and choose your outlets but don’t stick your head in the sand.

It’s day two and time has already stretched 1 week. I’m exhausted.

There are people on Lemmy and Reddit trying to gaslight people calling it a nazi salute. It’s sharp, clear, and definitely a nazi salute.

Apartheids child is excited and saluting as such.

Didn’t Snowden already establish that?

That would be almost everyone. I can tell you that most patients I see (mostly) love, like, or are ok with their staff (doctors, nurses, ancillary) while disliking the company, management, etc.

I think, since COVID, the general public is more in tune with how things work. I can hear both patients and family asking, or directly asking me, things like “How many patients does each nurse have?”

That question alone speaks volumes on how well they understand what’s happening. And they won’t, typically, blame the nurse for shitty service, but corporate instead.

Same thing on the clinic end of things. Patients ask how much time each doctor is allowed per patient. Again, that speaks volumes on how well they understand what’s really happening with their care. The rationing of healthcare, not just by monetary coverage, but by trained personnel is understood.

Allowing a doctor only 10-15min per patient such that anyone who is late gets dropped and has to wait another 3 months to get in is working as intended.

Having a nurse take 7 patients such that there is only a few minutes per hour per severely ill patient is working as intended.

Patients and their families are asking the right questions. They understand, these last couple years, how the rationing of car is occurring in person, in addition to the denial of monetary coverage. It is ALL rationing of care.

The difference is whether or not it’s spoken verbally in an office or hospital vs typed out on Lemmy or elsewhere. If they really want to track disgruntlement, they should start recording ED, urgent care, and clinic waiting rooms.

This was my first thought, as it’s a very common username addon. I was unaware of all the other stuff.

Your disposable income, such as it is, belongs to them. That’s why.

Draining working class with bug bites. Every sub is another swarm of insects in need of blood. You’re not supposed to notice.

Ok. Don’t eat the watches.

This lack of attention is simply a marker of how media is consumed. They sorta caught a smell and made up a story to source that smell without ever seeing what’s cooking. Half an idea with the blanks filled in by maybe and sounds right. A friend expresses an opinion that doesn’t disagree with any of it so that’s ran with like it’s fact. Headlines only, no actual reading to fact check. And here we are.

This is also how elections work.

He buys shit and he larps. That’s Elon.

The issue is his latest acquisition is Donald J. Trump

Stay away from echo chambering news sources. New Republic, HuffPost, Commondreams and the like. They’ll either go full outrage or tell you exactly what you’ve been waiting to hear.

Indy journalism can be solid, you just have to be careful.

I enjoy Heather Cox Richardson. She definitely leans left but everything is so steeped in the context of American History (she’s an American historian) it’s not doom and gloom so much as educational. Historical context adds depth and width to the present issues. Accessible. She’d be a good professor to attend classes with not a boring one.

I never thought there was anything wrong with the first narrations. I hope those aren’t gone for good.

I’m curious enough to try this.

Audiobooks are made or broken by the quality of the narration. It’s not enough to simply narrate written word, the narrator has to “act” as well. Given the quality of other arts engaged by AI I’m going into this skeptical.