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I've had some baller dreams now I've been on clonidine for a bit then started trying Valerian again. Clonidine helps prevent nightmares (so does prazosin, another blood pressure med) and valerian is famous for great sleep but with weirdly vivid dreams so I've just been having the craziest adventures every sleep for a bit and it's great.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 child)

    I keep meaning to make a wojak tarot deck. Your pictured soyjack would make a good king of cups.

    Edit: OK question for the interested: what would the suits / pip cards be? The classical associations are:

    Wands / Staffs (Modern Clubs). They symbolize the classical element of fire, and the concepts of inspiration, creation, and the inner spirit.

    Cups / Goblets (Modern Hearts). They symbolize the classical element of water and the concepts of emotion and close personal relationships like one's partner or close family.

    Swords / Knives (Modern Spades). They symbolize the classical element of air and the concepts of intellect, strategy, and one's formal / professional relationships like work, school, or community action.

    Pentacles / Coins (Modern Diamonds). They represent the classical element of earth and the concepts of the physical body, possessions, and material assets.

    I feel like bitcoin is a pretty obvious stand-in for pentacles but the others have me stumped.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    I remember hearing somewhere that they used to make the residents / apprentices do it, but I'm not sure how sensationalist that was. Either way residency hasn't changed much in spirit and that's why I went to nursing school. The amount of doctors that think being hazed for six years entitles them to assholery isn't huge but is also nonzero (nursing school is also hazing just only for 2 years and no 72h shifts).

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    "Society is doomed for one very simple reason: it takes dozens of men working months with millions of dollars in material to build a building, but only one dumb-ass with a bomb to bring it down." – Jason Pargin, John Dies at the End

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    Working healthcare, I tell all other healthcare / first responders "I hope you have a boring shift" (every once in a while a younger person objects, but they are almost immediately hushed / corrected by their senior coworker).

    But it occurs to me that many office / sedentary workers might not find this to be a blessing. What would I say to a desk worker that might be equivalent?

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