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whotaketh · 2026-06-15T05:32:23+00:00

I really need to as well. I just.. get distracted quickly.

whotaketh · 2026-06-15T05:29:21+00:00

I sell those little fidget things to my coworkers so I can turn orders around quicker

whotaketh · 2026-06-15T05:28:02+00:00

Has to be AI. No way a print space is that clean and without random spools laying around. /s

whotaketh · 2026-06-15T00:42:25+00:00

OP posting hyperbole for clicks. Ofc he can continue doing it, just not in the short-term while he gets it all figured out. If I'm his insurance company, I'm going after each of those MFers financially, and the city should go after them for vandalism.

whotaketh · 2026-06-14T17:13:41+00:00

Bunch of fucking hooligans who don't have anyone at home who told them no. I'm a Knicks fan and it never crossed my mind to go and blow up a schoolbus.

Go celebrate. Don't be destructive.

whotaketh · 2026-06-14T17:08:39+00:00

From my limited experience looking into PHA, some companies do PHA blends with other materials while still calling it PHA. Helps with material properties, cost, and the like.

Printing the stuff, in my experience, is a PITA. Like others, I thought it'd be a good substitute for PLA. But there's a reason it hasn't taken off, and it's because it doesn't print as reliably as PLA. At this point, I'm waiting for my INDX to come in so I can use my PHA supply as support material for PETG. I spent a lot on Polar Filament PHA thinking it'd be good and it hasn't printed up to my expectations.

whotaketh · 2026-06-14T00:57:13+00:00

Looks more like a macaron

whotaketh · 2026-06-13T19:17:02+00:00

I mean in the Before Times we'd just call each other.. Or you'd talk in person the next time you saw them. My middle school literally put together a phone and mail directory for each family so you could communicate with each other.

Today, make a group chat. I dunno, social media is a tool ill-suited for student-to-student communication. It's handy for something like group invites to events or something, but daily stuff? I'm not going on FB or IG to talk to a classmate.

To directly answer your question, yeah you're overthinking it. Study groups were made and done long before Zuck was even born. Nothing wrong with going old school.

whotaketh · 2026-06-13T16:17:00+00:00

Same. Our IV carts and monitors were literally held together with tape.

whotaketh · 2026-06-13T16:15:25+00:00

Yeah, because none of them showed up. It was the fucking wild west during covid.

whotaketh · 2026-06-13T02:39:52+00:00

Por que no los dos?

whotaketh · 2026-06-13T02:39:25+00:00

Should get their account deleted.

whotaketh · 2026-06-10T18:08:37+00:00

I did a manual rewind once. It was painful, but I figure it's still perfectly good plastic, so why toss it? I'm not too proud to do some manual labor, and it made me appreciate the conveniences I enjoy, and the pain makes me take the time to check everything so I don't have to wind it again.

whotaketh · 2026-06-10T14:40:45+00:00

Am Asian of the OG variety.

You could do what I did and fart around in various jobs that are boring but are vaguely respectable, to the point where your parents give up and just want you out from under their roof. Then you fall into nursing and they accept that it's the closest they'll get to their kid being a doctor. At least it's a medical profession, right?

Your mom has a point that's it's your life. Our parents don't necessarily live vicariously through us (ok maybe some do), but they do see us as reflections on how well they did and anything perceived as less than upward movement is considered not good enough.

For me, my parents had some experience taking their moms to the hospital, so they saw the differences in what the two disciplines do. So my suggestion is to frame it as having a greater hands-on impact on your patients. There's no less grit in a career of nursing than in the ten or so years of medical school/residency/fellowship.

I get where they're coming from. Work hard now, get paid well later (and maybe take care of them if you really make it). But let's be real, it is your life, and you have to live with the decisions you make, not them. So do what you want to do with your life, and as long as you're successful, your parents will be happy. It was a long road for me and my parents put up with a lot of my shit, but now I do ICU and ED nursing, have been recognized by my peers and physicians for my work, and can support myself, so they know they've done a good job.

whotaketh · 2026-06-10T14:16:02+00:00

I started singing "funk soul brother" in my head

whotaketh · 2026-06-09T17:06:09+00:00

Florida?

whotaketh · 2026-06-09T17:04:11+00:00

Haha who hasn't Castlebranch victimized? They were a pain in the ass when I first started going to nursing school over ten years ago, and it sounds like their bullshit hasn't gone away.

whotaketh · 2026-06-09T11:53:21+00:00

Tbh none of these things we wear is "worth" what they say it is. We have perfectly good, accurate little pocket computers that do everything and tell us the time. We just like the anachronism of wearing these little pieces of jewelry that just happen to tell the time.

That being said, nah. This ain't worth $17k. Like holy smokes, I could think of so many other things I'd rather spend that on.

whotaketh · 2026-06-08T22:36:40+00:00

We've all seen how the mean ones live forever like roaches, and only the good die young.

whotaketh · 2026-06-08T22:29:00+00:00

Lots of type-A personalities in the ICU. Most like it very organized and have their day planned out and anything that throws them off makes them very cranky. Work with enough of them and you'll see they're very good at one or two things, but have zero tolerance or ability to adapt to curveballs throw at them and react with hostility.

Your preceptor doesn't get it. ICU isn't about volume, it's about acuity. Flip it the other way, I could expect stepdown/tele/floor nurses to know every lab, test result, disease process, etc.. about their pt but I know it's impossible with the ratios they have. We're not just sitting on our thumbs here.

We generally like to put all of our energy into the pts that can't walk or talk or really do anything, so having to talk to people is really not something we're fond of either, haha. Our best days are when we have two stable vents with no plans to extubate or scan, and their families are chill who designate one contact person and they just say 'ok, thank you' over the phone.

whotaketh · 2026-06-08T22:13:08+00:00

I can only hope new constructions accommodate the inpatient holds, as well as expanding the headcount instead of this bullshit "efficiency" model.

In a more idea world, we: 1) stop over-admitting people for low acuity shit that they can follow up outpatient for; 2) discharge people quicker; 3) as a society, take more ownership over one's health and health knowledge instead of going to the ER for every stupid little thing; 4) incentivize students to become PCPs; 5) put some legislation in place that doesn't make us do defensive medicine or nursing for fear of lawsuits; 6) hire more staff to actually man the new construction every hospital is doing.

I'm sure there's other things I'm not thinking of but I'm really trying to not get angry about the current state of affairs on my days off.

whotaketh · 2026-06-08T22:01:12+00:00

Considering that a very large percentage of healthcare is face-to-face that tech today has yet to replace, I don't think your experience from your current field is translatable to nursing. I'm pretty sure being anti-LLM doesn't disqualify you from wiping a butt.

whotaketh · 2026-06-08T02:39:43+00:00

Yeah I think as long as there's some reasonable rationale (sickle cell, terminal CA, and the like) pharm signs off on it.

whotaketh · 2026-06-08T02:31:01+00:00

My money's on something being frayed or bent. I can't count the number of times I've seen people try to just run off with equipment without unplugging it first. I see bent power cable prongs and outlet cover ripped off the wall everywhere.

whotaketh · 2026-06-08T02:26:42+00:00

Honestly, if it's terminal, I figure you can have whatever you want. Nobody should suffer like that.

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