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Guys, guys, I just called my Dem Congressman's office to tell him I don't want Jeffries as speaker and before I was even done with my preamble, the staffer said, let me guess what you're going to say...he said he's been hearing it all day and then he asked me what I'd like to see Democrats do and had a 10 minute conversation with me. He even asked me to repeat some items from my laundry list so he could write it down.
I also called my Senator. Who has also been getting calls about new leadership.
Call your reps!
This hits the nail on the head and "the compounding interest of accumulating dysfunction" is immediately entering our household lexicon
As someone to whom this does not come naturally I believe women but also moms in particular do this bc they have an acute awareness of the compounding interest of accumulating dysfunction. It’s vivid to them bc they bear the brunt of it, and it can accumulate from nothing rapidly
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Much of this is true in fact, but I want to add this: I spend a lot of time in assisted living facilities, and my patients generally still want to live. Even the ones who are bedbound, incontinent, dementia-stricken, 96 years old, etc. Not all of them, but most do.
“Multigenerational living” will not save you from the nursing home once you’re old enough and sick enough.
The way you end up in a nursing home is having a stroke or huge medical issue when you’re in your late eighties, which was nature’s way of mercifully putting you down, going to a hospital, being nonsensically kept alive through some kind of Frankenstein wizardry because they’re legally obligated to save you, going to a “rehabilitation facility,” where you never fully recover because you’re already at life’s natural end, and being too big for your family members to lift and care for at home.
Now you’re essentially dead but still suffering, and you’ll just drain your savings to be tortured. The family compound cannot and will not save you from this fate. Only the DNR and advance directive can. Accept death. It comes for all of us.
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I know I'm late to the party but I've just reached season 4 of The Witcher and I simply can't believe they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a mistake this big. The writing is awful; I see why Cavill left, and it's clear that he was holding the show together.
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I am a chaplain and I work with the elderly. The answer is that when someone goes into assisted living, they have to spend down all their assets. Then, once they are destitute, Medicaid kicks in and pays. They are left with a small allowance each month - as low as $85.
I genuinely don’t understand how ordinary people are supposed to afford assisted living for their aging parents. Some facilities charge upwards of $10,000 A MONTH. That’s $120,000 a year just to make sure your parents are properly cared for. How is the average family supposed to afford that?
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Finally watching The Witcher; we're halfway through season 3 and if Geralt and Yennefer don't make up and bone again before Hemsworth gets here I'm going to need to join a grief support group; I can't this anymore 😭
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The best therapist I ever had, when I would tell her my anxieties and would ask "Does that sound crazy to you?" would respond "Yes." Once, she said "Jesus Christ, Snail, are you listening to yourself?" and it literally cured me. Barbara was wonderful.
I’m reading this tiktok comment section about what people have done in OCD therapy and I may have found my new occupation
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Snail Sanctuary retweeted
idk how to boycott ed sheeran more than i already am but i’ll have to find a way
Macklemore says Ed Sheeran and his team decided to remove him from tour due to his comments in support of Palestine, after Kraft Group rallied stadium owners and gave Ed an ultimatum:
“[Ed] told me that the words ‘Free Palestine’ and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, ‘I don't take sides.’”
Snail Sanctuary retweeted
You cannot be creative at a high level unless you are robotic at a low level.
The anti-memorization movement has left millions of students unable to think because every elementary operation consumes working memory.
For instance, solving equations feels smooth when basic arithmetic is automatic. It's like moving puzzle pieces around, and you just need to identify how they fit together.
But without automaticity on basic arithmetic, each puzzle piece is a heavy weight. You struggle to move them at all, much less figure out where they're supposed to go.
It’s the same all the way up the ladder of math: from arithmetic, to algebra, to calculus, to all sorts of university-level math and beyond.
I have known many people, including family members, who begin all their explanations with "see what had happened was," without ever developing an awareness that the common factor in all of these convoluted and improbable happenstances was them
There’s a whole class of people who continuously find themselves in situations like this, situations completely unknown to normal well adjusted people, and at no point do they consider they had a hand in creating the situation. I’ve referred to it before as the cloud of chaos. They’re constantly being cheated on, arrested, yelled at, fired, have health issues, being evicted, just an endless stream of interpersonal drama. They insist it’s never their fault.
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