[–] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Better answer: we've been doing it so long that it's just kinda part of human existence. It's not great for you but I've also had sex with a fair amount of guys that keep their hands on their dick while watching women that don't even look human so much they they've busted their nerve endings and struggle to cum in a real vagina. Doesn't mean masturbation or porn is good or bad for you but both are sure as hell things humans have been doing for millennia. Humans also really love to gamble, eat fast food, and get on social media. Stop shitting on the behaviors of the human individual, guillotine the 1%, prevent corporations from owning real estate, tax any individuals' third property at 100% annually and exponentially for every property more than that, make it illegal to work without minimum wage even as punishment for a crime, and remind the 5% that it's their job to pay for bread, circuses, and thirdspaces. That's 90% of modern problems fixed right there.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 hours ago*

    that is actually a situation I do not reccomend doing that especially if your shower does not have mobility aids like grab handles but also nurse brain hates lots of things like that one time I saw my husband stumble and had a straight up PTSD flashback with visuals where I briefly hallucinated him falling back and hitting his head on the corner of the wall and the adrenaline spike that caused was a WILD ride. Legit though like statistically speaking a lot more people just fall and crack their head and randomly die or spend the rest of their life paralyzed / brain damaged than we're willing to talk about as a society.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

    And range of motion and balance. Last time we had a restraint incident I was on the floor bracing my foot on the crossbar under the chair hauling that leg strap back like I was a gotdamn sailor then had to go over and crawl between the security guard's legs to do it on the other side because my coworker was still tryna figure out how to crouch down like jfc thank god security was already there keepin' ahold of the guy or we'd all be dead by the time Doris's knees got low enough (fake name). And at least that was in the hallway, time before that I was vaulting furniture in the patient's room to get to all the straps. My coworkers always look at me like I'm nuts when I'm climbing and hanging on the furniture at work like a bat then look at me like I'm heavensent when the shit happens. Like I don't even do anything formally (probably should) I just stop and use the hallway rails like a barre sometimes for funsies. I'll stand on one leg to help me focus while passing meds or do a split under a counter to put it at waist height and they'll walk by and ask 'you good?' I don't go anywhere and torture myself for an hour I just make it part of my daily life.

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  • [–] 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

    Apathy. I have a bunch of coworkers who even struggle with it. Sometimes schizophrenics just yell at you for stealing their shadow and putting gremlins in their socks. They just do that sometimes. Help me do whatever they want to get them to swallow the haldol then just don't talk to them for an hour and we'll all be besties again. Or they'll sleep it off. Either way it'll be fine.

    No they're not actually yelling at you because you did anything wrong. They think they are, but they're not. You know you didn't do anything wrong. I know you didn't do anything wrong. They're yelling at you because you're the one who happened to make eye contact when the voices told them someone stole their shadow and put gremlins in their socks. They would've yelled at anybody. In the nicest way possible, get over yourself, you're not that important. Crazy people be crazy and if you hold it against them you will be too.

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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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