Ezekiel 23

tbh I think the backend software itself should prompt you to select a default language on signup and choose not to specify should be an option or multiple should be an option for people who really just post in multiple languages. that way people who are either monolingual or just do most of their interaction in one language (probably a great majority of users) can have their posts auto tagged.

I say "I continue to be blessed with gainful employment." My voice is flat enough that people can either take it as gratitude / positivity or (more likely) as a bit of my classic dry wit.

storytime:

had a patient so fractious they would wake up agitated and stumble out into the hall trying to fight people. I noticed one time passing this room that the pt was gurgling in their sleep, (excess saliva being a side effect of all the antipsychotics they were getting for the punching). this turned out to be pretty common for them. They would then start coughing and sputtering, then wake up.

So you have a feedback loop: Choke on your own spit, wake up mad about it, punch a nurse, get more antipsychotics, pass out while making more spit to choke on and so on and so forth.

Now this pt did have sublingual atropine drops ordered that would stop the excess salivation, but there was no way to get them to willingly let me put them under their tongue...

...so I did it while they were still asleep. When I heard the gurgling I would have a coworker shine a light on the ceiling while I heel-toed in with the drops, very carefully dropped 4 as close to the bottom lip as I could manage, then toe-heeled my way back out. the gurgling would dry up and stop before the pt started choking.

no more overnight agitation. no more punching. no more shots. well none on my shifts anyways. everybody else was too scared. I figured I was being swung on either way I may as well actually try to fix it.

would probably have a stroke or heart attack.

I'm in the same boat as the other reply, I can use them for a lot of stuff but for ANYTHING work related even just viewing my schedule let alone sending HR a sick note or w/e I need chrome proper to log into the organization's intranet. Degoogled chromium, even Firefox just keeps reprompting me to enter my authenticator codes.

yeah I have to inventory peoples things for work and some things you just KNOW. Like a guy in a coma in the ICU needed all his jewelry removed before an MRI and when we saw it was a pet tag we were eeeextra careful to make sure that did NOT get lost. hospital can pay if we lose something fancy but there's 0 way to replace a dead pets tag. one person came in with some kinda weird knotted rag and I was like hm I'm not gonna wash this with the other clothes because it doesn't look like it would survive but if it was trash they wouldn't keep trying to repair it so I found a good pocket of the bag to put it back in. found out later in the shift when the parents came by; baby blanket. A lot of items just have an aura even if you can't pinpoint why right away.

there should be spiders in your walls. they eat the worse shit. as long as they're not recluses or widows (or whatever the actual dangerous kind in your locality are) leave them alone. They're like the insect version of cats, they're a symbiotic organism that keeps disease out. I understand not wanting them directly in your space with you but if they're in the walls and vents where they belong leave them alone. trust me if you'd ever woken up to a cockroach crawling on your face or had your house eaten out from under you but termites you'd welcome the hidden spiders because modern cockroaches and termites don't give a flying fuck about pesticides.

My husband just woke up and said the exact same thing unprompted. Literally this exchange almost word-for-word.

"That's a rat though."

"HOW CAN YOU TELL?" - more emphasis on my part due to hearing this for the second time today

"Just how it is. That's a rat."

After additional discussion and googling, the actual answer is, my dear people, mostly size, but also more subtly the proportions of the ear and tail to the rest of the body.

There's a lot of reasons a lot of things happen and the history and ethics of animal experimentation is a particularly long winded subject of which I will not be getting into any more of a debate than I have somehow gotten sucked into already.

Please also enjoy these images of a hedgehog and a human baby getting an x-ray and a bird being weighed:

Tumblr Heritage moment: Pear wiggler meme for added memetic context:

Will also crosspost to curated tumblr with thanks to OP