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bunkyprewster@startrek.websiteto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
3·6 days agoWe are like children.
White Americans have been raised to believe the most preposterous set of lies about ourselves (land of freedom, etc) and the amount of effort to sustain that belief despite all evidence to the contrary is hard to imagine. Effort from the ruling class (eg “god save America” at the baseball game) but also internal efforts from the people themselves - because the collapse of the lie tears your self image apart. This actually started during the George Floyd Black Lives Matter moment but the reaction the other way brings us back to Trump.
People who want real change, and end to imperialism and capitalism feel isolated and hopeless. 1/3 if the country are committed to racism and misogyny. All lot of better off folks just want the illusions of the old normalcy back.
It doesn’t help that truly unedited critical voices here get shut down for somehow being responsible for Putin.
bunkyprewster@startrek.websiteto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
31·6 days agoFor something created by communists, for communists - it’s amazing how the loudest voice is people complaining about tankies.
bunkyprewster@startrek.websiteto
Technology@lemmy.world•Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9English
9·15 days agoCan I use it here in Burgerstan?
bunkyprewster@startrek.websiteto
Entertainment@beehaw.org•Stephen Colbert Makes Quick Return to Late-Night TV… on Monroe, Michigan Public AccessEnglish
0·22 days agoThis was so enjoyable. I haven’t been watching the CBS late show. Was it this good?
It’s not important
bunkyprewster@startrek.websiteto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is everything in your life the way you want it to be & you're comfortable & feel no angst?English
8·1 month agoYes.
Except of course for the world falling apart, my country descending into fascism and impending climate diaster.
But for me personally, things are entirely chill.
Is there an android 5.0 nethack?
Seems like they changed to Lua for making levels?
Aramaic seems like it was a big deal for a while
bunkyprewster@startrek.websiteto
science@lemmy.world•China Planted 78 Billion New Trees, and Seriously Messed Up Its Water CycleEnglish
9·2 months agoOr simply that humans can keep learning about ways our activities effect the environment
bunkyprewster@startrek.websiteto
Antique Memes Roadshow@lemmy.world•Ryan Gosling Won't Eat His CerealEnglish
12·2 months agoThis is why the Internet needed to be invented.
bunkyprewster@startrek.websiteto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there any way I can study Marxist theory in a way that wouldn't seem too boring or dry?English
1·2 months agoOh yes 1844, got confused with the later revolutions.
bunkyprewster@startrek.websiteto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•When did you realize that all laws are made to benefit the rich and/or oppress the rest of us, and a politician's job is to write the laws and sell them to the voters?English
463·2 months agoThey are enforced against poors. While rich rapists walk free.
bunkyprewster@startrek.websiteto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there any way I can study Marxist theory in a way that wouldn't seem too boring or dry?English
2·2 months agoI thought the 1848 manuscripts were pretty rocking when I first read them.
I always felt Marx’s finished products had a kind of dull exposition, at least for large parts. I think he felt he had to lay out a system like that. But the unfinished stuff, even the Grundrisse have a lively dialectical feel that is pretty captivating.
bunkyprewster@startrek.websiteto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•is it a stupid idea to become a Physician Assistant if you're a Registered Nurse, tired of it and 46 years old?English
7·2 months agoWouldn’t it be easier to go from RN to ARNP than starting over to train as a PA?
bunkyprewster@startrek.websiteto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•To those who grew up in religious schools, what's the craziest thing you remember a teacher telling you?English
13·2 months agoMy wife went to Catholic school in the 70s. Not sure how it came up, but someone asked how King Herod died and the nun said he ate so much his stomach exploded. My.mom went to Catholic school in the 50s. She was told that Martin Luther “ate babies”




Doctors being jerks are sometimes required to do professional coaching to improve attitude and communication. Having less hierarchical communication actually improves patient safety, because people are braver to speak up. So feedbacking to someone about the haughty doc might actually be in everyone’s best interest.
(Source doctor who actually had to do that coaching myself at one point and found it helpful)
PS would love to see some haiku