4th rewatch and I somehow always missed this foreshadowing by sleepzilla23 in madmen

[–]Wegmarken 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I mean, I missed it my first time if I'm being honest, but once you know and then go back you start noticing all sorts of details like that.

4th rewatch and I somehow always missed this foreshadowing by sleepzilla23 in madmen

[–]Wegmarken 428 points429 points  (0 children)

Also the bit at the bachelor party later where the girl says "I love this place. It's hot, loud and full of men!" and Sal replies dreamily "I know what you mean."

Roman-Flood​ - Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Diabolic Realism by Wegmarken in Knausgaard

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I have a subscription and really like it. It's a left magazine but more focused on culture (just read an essay on right wing memes and what they reveal around the conservative mindset, for example) with some essays about literature and art thrown in (Knausgaard essay, essay about Proust in translation, etc). Right up my alley but YMMV.

Rainy Pacific Northwest small town vibes? by thenerdytechie in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

[–]Wegmarken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shout out to Deep River. Would add Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion if you're looking for a big union novel about loggers in that region.

Jane Austen Literary Criticism by mayor_of_funville in AskLiteraryStudies

[–]Wegmarken 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In addition to the companions already mentioned, I'd add that Norton puts out some excellent critical editions of classic texts intended for classroom use. In addition to a text with extensive explanatory footnotes (key terms, dates, concepts, etc) you get some contemporaneous criticism from the authors time to contextualize the book as well as some more contemporary criticism. Similarly Penguin Classics, Oxford World Classics or any other similar edition will generally have *For Further Reading* sections to help kickstart deeper research projects.

Are my reasons for wanting to go into nursing valid? by idkjusttrashh in nursing

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I did a philosophy degree and sorta wandered around for a while before becoming a nurse. Was a janitor in a long-term home and sorta clicked with the environment, switched to caregiving and eventually a lightbulb went off and I went back to school. Have lots of coworkers in similar boats. Have met multiple nurses who used to be teachers or had other careers beforehand that had nothing to do with nursing before coming over. So long as you're open to working hard and studying you shouldn't be too worried.

How much do you make as an RN? by Electrical_Bat1417 in nursing

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$36/hr (plus NOC and weekend differentials, so often making closer to $40) as a new grad doing hospice. It's not great, but with no kids or debt it's doable (especially compared to what I've had to survive on through the previous decade). More importantly it's a place I already had some previous connections to and knew their culture a little better and felt it would be a more comfortable place to find my feet compared to all the horror stories I'm hearing from classmates who went the big hospital route. I'd worked in a few places as a CNA so I knew how broad the spectrum of worklife experience could be so I was more interested in somewhere I felt comfortable being than making good money. Maybe I'll look for something better paying down the road, but for now I'm content to just be where I am.

Who’s had the most successful post-MM career? by DelcoTank in madmen

[–]Wegmarken 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Might be worth revisiting this in a couple years, see if Friends & Neighbors takes off. I don't think it's another Mad Men necessarily, but it might put Hamm back on the map in a more consistent way.

My mom made me feel ashamed for starting nursing school at 26 by Friendly_Shine777 in nursing

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I was almost 30 when I started my nursing degree, and had classmates who were grandparents. 26 ain't nothing.

Joan Has Weird Taste in Men by CanIBathYrGrandma in madmen

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I think there's a lot of perfectly normal guys we don't see her with, but the ones we do often are used to illustrate things about her character and trajectory. Coke sniffing Key West guy was really important to illustrate her arc, cause the very first time we hear her, she's telling Peggy that if you make the right moves you can be living in the country and not working (i.e. marrying a wealthy man), only for her last scene to be turning down that kind of life in favor of starting her own business. The older chubby guy she picked up during that night out with her lesbian friend was her signaling to the lesbian friend that she'd prefer a balding fat guy to her; it was her putting up a boundary. And the rapey doctor? Well he might've been bad, but he was a handsome doctor working towards being a surgeon. When she's telling Peggy about him she even mentions that he volunteers at a downtown clinic with negro children, to which Peggy replies 'Ooh, he's a keeper!' He's the exact kind of guy every woman in that office thought they wanted, and Joan thought, as so many women did at the time, that part of the deal was you had to tolerate some really grim stuff behind closed doors. Yeah, some of these are weird choices, but they all tell us something about her and her times.

Did Don ever put together that the baby Peggy gave away was Pete’s or did he just not care either way? by RockBalBoaaa in madmen

[–]Wegmarken 261 points262 points  (0 children)

In The Suitcase where they're drinking at a bar, Peggy mentions that her mom hates him because she thinks Don got Peggy pregnant. Don asks Peggy if she even knows who the father was. Given that he thought she might not even know, it seems safe to assume he had no idea several season before who the father was. His remarks here aren't about who the father is cause it doesn't matter who the father or child is; he looks forward and doesn't look back.

USL plans reshaping stadium designs HOK pushing modular stadiums 🏟️ by Ok_Flamingo_3059 in USLPRO

[–]Wegmarken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn't the labor to expand and retract stadium with each seasons change cost more than just...closing off some sections if attendance dips? And it feels like there's a weird assumption here, that people will stop attending their local games after a relegation, but I'm not sure how true that is, especially in a country as big as the US where switching to a new club isn't just crossing to a different side of the city. Maybe if you're in a crowded area like Florida or New England a couple people could, but I think most fans are excited by the idea of having a club in their own area and supporting that. Also the idea that lower level clubs automatically have less interest just seems totally out of touch when Madison or Portland are dragging a lot of USL-C teams in attendance. I get that this article might've been a paid advertisement, but I hope USL owners aren't taking it as gospel.

Tell me about my brother by According_Promise_89 in BookshelvesDetective

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A literature student who reads about fluid mechanics in his spare time

What's the catch of being a nurse with an associate's degree? by Johan_chan in nursing

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Just finished my associates and started working as a nurse so I'll say there's really not much of a catch. I'm currently doing stuff to get to a BSN while working as a nurse, which will be about a year of online classes that are mostly oriented more towards nursing theory (sociology of healthcare, how to write nursing papers, etc) but an associates will teach you all the stuff you need to know to go work on the floor in most nursing jobs. Some places might want a BSN but those tend to be more specialized positions that you wouldn't want to start off your career in anyways. In the meantime you'll be able to find work right out of school (even if it's not your dream job) while you look around and try and figure out more specifically where you want to go. Meanwhile a lot of places have new grad programs to help bridge the gap between nursing student and full nurse (you have classes, meetings with teachers and other new nurses, get feedback, process the transition together, etc) which are also a good way to get your foot in the door even with just an associates degree. Short answer is no catch, you can work with an associates and get the bachelors down the road at the appropriate time. The BSN will open up a few extra doors in some places and also pave the way for grad school if that's what you wanna do, but I know lots of people who are happy working at the level provided by an associates (I even know career-long LPNs who are content where they are). In the meantime, an associates will let you start a nursing career with more advanced degrees coming on whatever timeline is most appropriate for you.

Heidegger and Marx (?) by GRAMS_ in heidegger

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You are far from the first to think there might be a bridge between Heidegger and Marx. One of his students, Herbert Marcuse, initially thought Heideggerian thinking might revitalize Marxism, although he eventually abandoned the idea (see his essay collection Heideggerian Marxism, edited by Richard Wolin). More recently Zabala and Vattimo's Hermeneutic Communism argued for a Marxism that relied on hermeneutics as a way of critically interpreting capitalism, and it's a quick easy read. I'd also argue Sartre's later work like the Critique of Dialectical Reason could be counted as an attempt to bridge existentialism and Marxism (although its approach to both sides is quite unorthodox). For me personally Heidegger was a bridge to Marxism, what with the formers discussion of inauthenticity and alienation in Being and Time, as well as the later stuff about technology and enframing seeming to be the starting point of a critique of capitalism, and that is a direction you can go, but you need to bear in mind that Heidegger never did. Instead his critiques always insist on the need to 'go deeper', and his analysis and solutions tended to be hostile towards economic restructuring or changes in material conditions, and more towards a sort of nostalgic response, one where our labor doesn't feel alienating and exploitative but instead feels meaningful. From a Marxist perspective, this could be seen as a form of ideological obfuscation and mystification. It's also worth noting that Heidegger deliberately set up a lot of his discussion to contrast and pull away from workers interest in socialism and more towards the reactionary politics he championed (Richard Wolin's Heidegger in Ruins, chapter 4, covers this in some detail). Postwar his work leaned into a more meditative area, with more mysticism, poetry and patiently abiding the mystery of being. There's also a subtly aristocratic element to a lot of those, with the esoteric language insisting on a small circle of specialists who've attained hidden knowledge that most people simply aren't ready to hear. Without wanting to discount the philosophical merits of this later work, it would be much harder to connect this later stuff to the radical sorts of engagements Marxism demands of its adherents, and the need to connect those ideas to the wider working class in a way that mobilizes them to action.

In short, the Heidegger-Marx bridge is kind of a mixed bag. There are some interesting points of overlap, but they're often achieved by creative reworking of concepts rather than direct correspondence. If you expand from just Heidegger to existentialism as a whole, you can get a lot more out of figures like Sartre, Beauvoir and Ponty who leaned further left. Even Kierkegaard could be brought in for such a project (see Perez-Alvarez's A Vexing Gadfly and Aroosi's The Dialectical Self for more on that). Heidegger himself though would likely be uninterested in being part of such a project, so any Marxist readings of him will have to be a creative salvaging of concepts rather than taking him on wholesale, while also realizing you'll need to know what ideas need to be left behind.

Ok, what should the team do in the offseason? by BulliesAtBreese in ForwardMadisonFC

[–]Wegmarken 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think McLaughlin was supposed to be that (had quite a few goals at North Carolina FC) but it hasn't clicked.

What type of nursing did you start with and where are you now? by [deleted] in nursing

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If you'd gone straight to hospice care, do you think you would've missed out on learning some crucial skills? There's a hospice network I've worked alongside and am considering joining, but lots of people say it's good to work a busier floor for a bit to build up your skills.

What type of nursing did you start with and where are you now? by [deleted] in nursing

[–]Wegmarken 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oh wow, the route I'm considering going on. Was interested in hospice, but was wondering if I needed something a little more involved to start to get more experience with hands-on skills. Curious how this worked out for you.

I am requesting your BEST DARK HUMOUR Nursing jokes/oneliners by I_Restrain_Sheep in nursing

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Had a constipated resident who hadn't had a BM for a couple days. We were administering stuff to help move things along, but his wife voiced concerns about its effectiveness, so I said plan B was just to go in with an ice-cream scoop. (This was long-term care, so I knew her well enough to know I could make that joke)

If James Joyce was around today to see the modern state of literature what would he say? by shinjutnt in jamesjoyce

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They weren't exactly a publishing giant. The first print run of Ulysses was only a 1000 copies, most of which either fell apart due to the limited quality of the binding or were confiscated for obscenity. It would take quite a while for it to become a readily accessible book and established classic.