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Today I had a barn day then made Mushroom soup.
rly cool girl@hikingshawty
today i walked six miles and i had a roast for dinner :) ☀️
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JN retired RN
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JN retired RN
@JNelsonRN
Mom. Wife. Boomer. Retired Nurse of 45 years. Hospice RN for 25 years. Animal lover. Love common sense, books, authors, book reviews, bookstores and libraries.
America Katılım Nisan 2009
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@JNelsonRN @ChrisMartin1961 $150k in 1993 was not a starter home. It was a McMansion or a very pricey area.
A starter home was $80k back then.
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I’m seeing, yet again, this surge of hatred for the Boomer generation. I’m a late season Boomer, born in 1961; I’ve worked for nearly 50 years, have been in the same profession for 37 years, I’ve routinely worked 45-60 hours a week.
I don’t get why we are so vilified.
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@GiancarloSopo @BishopBarron Ok yes but making the movie all about Christianity is a wrong take.
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@JNelsonRN @BishopBarron The pass is named after a Catholic prayer.
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Like @BishopBarron points out, Project Hail Mary is drenched in Christian imagery.
A man named Grace inhabits the Hail Mary.
"Hail Mary, full of Grace..."
That's not an accident.
Wonderful film.
Bishop Robert Barron@BishopBarron
I just saw the much talked about film “Project Hail Mary.” It's very entertaining and uplifting and features a fine performance from Ryan Gosling. But what most intrigued me were the powerful Christian themes at play in it. The title, of course, refers to the Hail Mary pass in football, since the adventure undertaken is a fairly desperate attempt to save the planet. But it also becomes eminently clear that the reference is not just to football but to the Blessed Mother herself, for the Gosling character is undoubtedly a Christ-figure. I don't want to give away too much of the plot, but it involves a willingness to sacrifice one's life utterly in order to deliver the entire human race from disaster. It is, of course, no accident that Gosling's character is called Ryland Grace, for throughout the movie, his presence and actions constitute undeserved favor to others. A particularly intriguing character in the film is a sober German scientist who relentlessly presses Grace to make the supreme sacrifice, even when he is unwilling. She represented for me the great moral demand that presses upon us throughout our lives, continually summoning us to self-gift. A last observation: Jesus had a second in command whom he called Peter (the Rock); Ryland Grace has a very unusual sidekick whom he calls “Rocky.” I'll leave it at that. I know lots of people say that Christianity is in irreversible decline and that we are inhabiting, at least in the West, a post-Christian society. I'm not so sure. Like it or not, we remain a Christ-haunted culture—and a film like “Project Hail Mary” makes this clear.
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@JNelsonRN @ChrisMartin1961 Depends on which end of Comm Ave! 😁
God bless.
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@DrSuneelDhand Farmers are the healthiest patients we see and never seek care unless forced.
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The healthiest people I know are the most skeptical of doctors and mainstream medical advice.
They literally question everything.
There’s a lesson in that somewhere
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I think ryan gosling should play a hundred more nerdy, awkward, silly guys
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@DivinityPartner @RadioFreeTom Who? You and your 400 followers. Probably all bots too.
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@RadioFreeTom That is your view, Tom. Many of us think he is superb and are grateful he is the Secretary of War.
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This is not how representatives of a superpower talk. This is how jumped-up teenagers talk.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Pete Hegseth: "We negotiate with bombs"
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@ChrisMartin1961 I don’t think they all do that. They are just pointing out things that they feel put that at a direct disadvantage to make it in the current world. We had more hope and optimism. They do not have that.
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@JNelsonRN So, I shouldn’t generalize, but every generation after us is welcome to do that to all Boomers?
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@HiddenYorkshire I also think that Ryan Gosling is an actor everyone likes. He is just so likeable! He truly seems like a middle school science teacher. And Rocky is the new ET.
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To elaborate: Project Hail Mary is an incredibly earnest film. It's about a guy who needs to save the world meeting an alien who also needs to save it's world. Because it has themes of friendship and self-sacrifice to save others, those with a reflexive jerk against anything sincere in sci-fi - everything must be couched in millennial irony and self-aware postmodernism - see it as gauche and "heartwarming", and because it has humour it's seen as 2013 Reddit. But it's really a fun, powerful film, great for adults and young people alike. The writing is very good, the cinematography a d effects are excellent, and it provides a more satisfying approach to themes which Interstellar tried to explore but struggled to. It's a very well-made film about the power of love and friendship. If that makes you want to hurl, so be it. It's probably not for you!
Catherine Warr@HiddenYorkshire
Project Hail Mary. Sci fi film of the decade.
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@ChrisMartin1961 I totally bought a new car when I became a nurse. I took vacations. And I worked more than my shifts to afford it.
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@JNelsonRN It’s all perspective. We didn’t buy new cars, want to live in mansions, we didn’t take vacations or “mental health days” several times a month. My first year out of med school, I made less than 60,000, and that was in 1995. Granted I grew up in SC, and things were harder.
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@ChrisMartin1961 Well I have a Gen Z daughter who is an environmental engineer and she works very hard. No handouts. Don’t generalize.
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@JNelsonRN No they do not, I’m sorry but they don’t want to work like we did; they were handed EVERYTHING, nothing was expected. I had a young nurse tell me today that he planned to stay long term, to him that was two years.
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@SteveDeaceShow We need more movies that are pure entertainment. We LIKE being entertained! The last movie I saw in a theater was the Barbie Movie and it was just fun. We are going to see The Hail Mary Project and are excited. The winners of the Oscar Awards are movies I will never see.
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My review of PROJECT HAIL MARY — not only is this the best film made so far this year, the bar is high on films for the rest of the year to clear it. Compelling, captivating, and compassionate as a man named Grace risks his own life to save mankind from destroying itself (I see what you did there). Nothing even remotely Woke, and I don’t remember a single profanity nor anything crass despite the pressure-packed circumstances — yet the movie is not cheesy or naive in any way. Ryan Gosling gives a magnum opus performance. Rocky is a new generation’s ET. This movie and its deserved smashing success shows Hollywood has been without excuse these recent years of self-inflicted degradation and existential fiduciary harm. It could’ve been telling these stories all along, it just didn’t want to.
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@ChrisMartin1961 I started as an RN for 7$ an hour. New RNs can now make over 40$ an hour. In the 70’s I was paid 50cents an hour to babysit. Now they pay over 15$ an hour for a teen to babysit. I get it.
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@JNelsonRN My first job paid 2.90 an hour; I just hired a high school kid and am paying him 17 dollars an hour, a HIGH SCHOOLER.
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@ChrisMartin1961 I was an RN for 45 years. I worked very hard. Let’s face it, starter homes today are super expensive. We bought a starter house in 1993 for 250k now sells for over a million. That same Boston Apartment is now 3500$ a month. They have every right to be angry.
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@JNelsonRN Those “overpriced” homes are overpriced because millennials aren’t willing to “settle” for starter homes. Who do you think has driven the price of homes through the roof, not Boomers. I asked a young coworker today what he spends on APPS each month, more than my first house
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@DrSuneelDhand Antivax people have been around a very long time. The political climate around Covid gave them a bigger voice. So “vaccine” has become a political issue and not a clinical issue. Everyone is trying to sidestep the political aspect.
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I am trying to figure out why the medical profession is so psychologically attached to the word “vaccine”.
I can’t think of anything else which provokes such a strong reaction.
As an example, antibiotics in my humble opinion, have saved way more lives than vaccines— but there’s no psychological attachment to the word “antibiotic”.
I would like someone to look at this from a psychological standpoint. Maybe do a study? There is something very strange about why doctors are so mesmerized by the word “vaccine” that they are literally stunned into not asking any more questions.
It is damn weird. Like a magic spell.
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@ThatEricAlper Little boxes of raisins. No one eats those anymore.
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What’s a childhood snack that disappeared but you still think about?
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@sweatystartup This isn’t true at all. My God. Most people hate HOAs because they have silly rules.
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All the rich people I know love living in places with HOAs.
No broken down boats. Rainbow yard signs. Grass 2 feet tall. Lack of weed control. Broken fridge on front porch.
Broke people hate HOAs because they hate doing basic things to make their houses look nice.
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