And if it doesn't, you've still won!

I'm in this picture and feel pretty neutral about that.

One time I had a hardcore combo meth-heroin addict who was vegan who candidly told me something to the effect of 'idgaf what I put in my body I just have a moral problem with the livestock industry' and I was like 'you know what, based.' The core issue of that conversation was that dietary sent a roll with dinner and they were like 'naaah I can tell by the texture they used cows butter' and like many things in the hospital they're probably right and also at least they recognized I had no way of fixing it.

Some of you have never had to remember to log the fridge temps after dodging a thrown patient urinal. At my old hospital facilities maintenance used to call us and tell us to close the fridge sometimes. 😂 That said, it could absolutely regulate internally and just send off read-only logs periodically for FM to use in dispatching.

going from pads / tampons to the silicone cup was my learning a better way. First week was rough but by the end of the week and thereafter I couldn't even feel it once it was in. Went to fuck a few times and the dude was like TF is this? And I'd be like oh shit lemme swap it for a disc real quick.

Had a supermorbidly obese mania pt where (imo) a big part of the problem was poor sleep at night. They would sleep sitting straight up against the wall and when they would finally nod off, their head would fall to the side and you'd immediately hear them start choking on their own throat until they jerked partially awake enough to pick their head back up. That mania was crazy hard to break because they were too manic to tolerate the CPAP but also too sleep deprived to break out of the mania.

100% medically cleared and ambulatory enough for psych but that snore was just aaaawful to listen to. I used to mention it every single time I handed off in the morning and they'd be like "we know!" and I'd be like, no. no you don't know. You haven't just sat and listened to it for an hour straight. It just keeps going like that. Continuously. There is 0 REM happening. ZERO.

we're talking about Ao3 here

The other issue is that a big part of ao3 most people don't realize is there is the volunteer tag wranglers. Some of that might be able to be done by an llm that can catch basic misspellings and common ship naming conventions but sometimes ship names refer to really obscure references that can't be reliably sorted that way.

I applied to squidgeworld personally. I'm super bummed because I JUST finished my latest two chapters of my slow burn tentacle porn plus the actual porn part for later down the line because it needs a little more burn to fully satisfy.

Well it's mostly an academic religious term and for a lot of people those two things don't go together for one reason or another. It's sad because they both have a lot of benefits.

And yes on the tarot cards. I actually used them in a therapy session recently because I haven't done it in a while and I feel like that's pretty symbolic of my current life state. It gave my therapist a lot to work with because she does EMDR and I basically started babbling about which people in my life resembled the court cards and events in my life that were similar to the pips and so on and so forth and her EMDR direction / redirection technique helped go in the right directions more consistently.

And no it's not rude, I love TIL moments.

My honest recommendation is that you calculate your chart, then pick one thing in there that resonates with who you actually are, then emphasize that when the conversation comes up. The charts are long and messy with lots of different meanings mixed in for a reason. Even just between the sun, moon, and ascendant signs you should be able to find one of the three that describes you. If not you can look into the planet / house alignments or even just have the chart made sidereally.

It's a small amount of information to memorize, then you can say,"oh my sun sign is Aires but honestly it's my Libra ascendant that matters most of the time. I'm just always looking to make the world more equal." It'll both satisfy the person you're communicating with while also providing them with a way to conceptualize your personality within their worldview (which is basically the entire point of dating, or even just vetting sexual partners).

For the uninitiated: You need your birth time to calculate your full astrological chart. There's definitely a looot of crazy in the western esoteric mystery tradition (loose term for the religion-lite surrounding tarot, astrology, tea leaf reading, palmistry, etc). I should know, lol.

I spent about two years learning to interpret tarot cards as a regular introspective practice. Whenever you learn one thing though, you wind up learning about the others since they all use the same spiritual model (a lot of Christian Kabbalah influence + the four element alchemy of the time, but highly syncretic with especially greco-roman mythology but also a touch of Babylonian, Zoroastrian, and new age Buddhism, and some minor Celtic or Norse influence, although the specific mix varies highly from person to person).

So anyway I also wound up learning about, history, multiple religions, and symbolism of various glyphs, plants and animals, gemstones, etc. It was fascinating and has the benefit of deterring pretentious men (although that's less important now that I've picked one).

You're not a bad person but you either need to masturbate a lot more or a lot less.