Digital Kitten

@MidwitRoyalty @memeticsisyphus I’m fine with hierarchy being based upon merit. I’m not fine with it based on vagaries of likability and politicking and DEI and my-cousin-needs-a-job-they-can’t-get-fired-from.

@memeticsisyphus Leftoids just think rightoids love hierarchy *because* it's hierarchy, they don't realise we think hierarchy - when correctly applied - is utterly crucial to making society run well and that's why we think it can be good.

Yes some hierarchies are bad, some are good. Some are abused, some are the framework for a healthy society.

@notcoolxer @joeybtoonz Sigh. And what, pray tell, is ironic/deadpan about staring blankly at a person who has said ‘hello’ and tried to engage with you? Nothing. Gen Z is merely buffering or hoping you will go away, neither is good for workplace settings. It’s not ‘deadpan’. It’s DEAD.

@DigitalKitten5 @joeybtoonz Wrong. Deadpan isn't limited to comedy. And it is definitely an expression.

ME: hello CASHIER: ME: thank you CASHIER:

You’re right, many of us have not had a an Archie Heddings. We’ve had Nurse Rachet treatment telling us we are crazy and should go home and meditate and drink more water and refusing to order us imaging, blood tests that we cannot do for ourselves, even if only to eliminate a posibility for peace of mind. We’ve had docs mad their precribed treatment isn’t helping, or that we had serious side effects from the drugs they Rxed, as if we CHOOSE to be in pain daily that limits any joy in life. We’ve hd questions ignored not by one doctor, not by two, but enough to be statistically relevant. Maybe stop looking in shock at the patients and look ar your colleagues and ask them ‘what the hell guys, we have one job - do no harm and help.’ When restaurants get the same complaints from multiple patrons from different demographics and walks of life, we don’t bash the patrons, we ask why the food is cold, slow, undercooked. But blaming the patients for the medical systems failures is the norm.

I do not understand all the doctor-hating that seems to fill so much space online. I say that as a physician, yes. And also as someone who has now been on the other side of the bedrail. Of course, there are bad doctors. No profession is exempt from that. But the worst examples often consume all the attention, and in doing so, they can obscure something deeply true: great doctors bring hope, healing, and restoration into people’s lives every single day. I know that differently now. When I was the patient, lying on the ground with a shattered kneecap, staring at imaging that showed my patella in pieces, watching my knee fill with blood, feeling pain that seemed impossible to control, and fearing I might never walk normally again, I was not thinking about abstractions. I was thinking about disability. About loss. About whether life and physical ability, as I knew them, had just changed forever. Then I met the surgeon who reconstructed my knee. I will never forget Archie Heddings. He showed me the images and explained exactly what he would do. Piece by piece, he walked me through how he would reconstruct what had been broken. Screws. Tape. Sutures. Precision. Skill. Calm. He was quietly confident, never overstated. At one point I just bluntly asked, “Doc, can you fix this?” He looked at me, nodded calmly, and said, “Andrew, this is what I do. I fix broken, smashed stuff every day, all day. I will do my job, and you do your job with PT. You will walk, run, ski, and hike again.” That moment brought tears to my eyes. It also brought hope back into my soul. He booked the OR for the next day. Now, just 14 weeks after surgery, I am back seeing patients. During my last week rounding in the hospital, I climbed 160 flights of stairs. I can flex my knee to 130 degrees. I am not all the way back yet, but I am back in motion, back in purpose, and back in my life as a father and giving back to my patients and the world around me as best as I can. My surgeon is not God. But I will say this without hesitation: through his hands, his judgment, his training, and his care, he changed the trajectory of my life. So, when I hear sweeping contempt for doctors, I think now about moments like this. And it is much more personal. Sometimes the people who speak most dismissively about physicians have simply never had their moment yet, the moment when they are scared, hurting, vulnerable, and utterly dependent on someone with the training and courage to do what almost no one else can do. When that moment comes, they may understand. Doctors can do far more than treat disease or repair injury. Sometimes, they give people their lives back. Tell your doctor you appreciate him or her. A simple genuine thank you will really make a difference.

Yes, it is purified water, and often tied to filtered water, ‘Water Mills’ where you can also refill 5 gallon jugs or smaller containers a gallon at a time on one side and get ice for coolers or parties on the other. Much of the US has ‘hard’ water which os technically safe to drink but tastes kind of bad.

この製氷機って、アメリカならどこにでもあるの？実は見た事がないんだ。この氷は飲み物や食べ物を冷やすために使うんだよね？コップの中に入れて飲み物を冷やすことはできるの？つまり、飲める水を使った氷なの？🧊

@hoshizorarock Much of our country is very warm, we are very thirsty.

アメリカ人よ🇺🇸 君達はスモールサイズの意味をわかっているのか？

@TaiAmaranth @Critical_Scribe And there’s the problem - words have definitions already. The issue is the insertion/projection of tone where none may exist.

@Critical_Scribe That's not new to Humanity. You always necessarily translate the words using your definition of the words.

I have noticed that people are shockingly bad at just reading the words and taking them as they are nowadays. Now it’s all about how the words “feel” or their “vibe” which can be misread so hard in text that they end up seeing implications where there aren’t any at all. So often people just assume what you’ve said based on their vibe read of you and most of the time they’re just off the mark.

@DiaryofaSickGrl I write and paint and draw right handed, fine detail tasks, but can use screw drivers, drills, play pool (ages ago) and eat with either hand. If I try to write left handed I do mirror writing unless I concentrate. My grandfather was allegedly ambidextrous and was a carpenter.

Are you right handed or left handed? (And if you feel like it, comment if you have EDS with which hand is your dominant hand)

I’m a girl and had this same experience with mostly female teachers. I think learning HOW to think not what to think and regurgitate onto the standardized test is where we’ve gotten lost. Also, I think education has progressively gotten worse, the more progressive it’s gotten. We don’t need 5 news ways to teach mutiplication. We should never have removed phonetics from reading. Just because an EdD seeking sorority girl wants a degree doesn’t mean we let them ‘flip the classroom’ for a dissertation, so they can play with other people’s kids until they have their own.

Since so many of us relate to this on a deep level, I would like to have a discussion about what pedagogical alternatives you think would be optimal for future boys/young men. Looking back, how do you think you should have been educated?

@notcoolxer @joeybtoonz And Jim Halpern:

Deadpan is a comedy style, not a facial expression. What you are showing is actually an example of the trope common in the 70s-90s called breaking the fourth wall to share a moment of exasperation or surprise with the audience. This person above has an emotion on their face, and it’s not a normal response to merely being told, ‘hello.’ The Gen Z stare is a blank mannequin looking nobody’s home expression. You can’t tell if they even register you are there, talking to them, or their surroundings.

@notcoolxer @joeybtoonz And Keemit doing this:

@notcoolxer @joeybtoonz I grew up with it, and my husband and I can give each other this look. Eddie Murphy used it a lot.

@LissaJStrange @Euphoric_Levi @QueeringPsych Neither does readhing out to the advisory board, so at least they are consistent? 🤷‍♀️

@Euphoric_Levi @DigitalKitten5 @QueeringPsych That doesn’t even make any sense.

I’m a therapist. Clients come in with self diagnoses all the time. Their self dx is supposed to be an invitation to a discussion. A time to gather info in an unbiased manner from the patient You don’t live in their bodies. You actually need their input for a proper diagnosis

@Tort77019 @emhill2100 @Rugburnhurts @SlumRNA_Dog Does the definition not include ‘straight’ as a descriptor for the lines?

@emhill2100 @Rugburnhurts @SlumRNA_Dog Its funny watching 90IQ midwits like yourself attempt to be smart, they all try to pull retard gotchas that only work on other mid wits and lesser intelligence retards

“Intelligent boys tend to butt heads with their midwit teachers.” “Ahh, but have you considered that poor retarded male black and brown students are very disruptive in class? These are not completely separate issues. I didn’t even read your post.”

I’m sure great wisdom was imparted on some 7 year olds to know when the teacher was going to be so easily triggers as to get mad at them for reading too quickly, finishing tests too quickly, or realizing assignments are vague and wanting clarity to do them to specification. You DO realize this tend started in esrly grade school for many of us, not as rebellious teens trying to be edgy?

@argonian_talios @Rugburnhurts @SlumRNA_Dog But knowing when to pick your battles is.

@SaltyTroonTears @emhill2100 @Rugburnhurts @SlumRNA_Dog Correct. They are describing nerutoypical group/herd comformity as a measure of intelligence, not acquisition and comprehension and application of knowledge.

@emhill2100 @Rugburnhurts @SlumRNA_Dog You are retarded, and because of that you are conflating intelligence with agreeableness.

@emhill2100 @Rugburnhurts @SlumRNA_Dog ‘Excuse me, Teacher, you asked us to circle the rectangle but you have a rectangle AND a square here, am I supposed to circle both?’ is not interrupting class. And teachers get pissed when you are uncertain because their test is dumb.

@Rugburnhurts @SlumRNA_Dog So interrupting the class in order to stroke your ego? Doesn't sound like intelligent behavior to me.

@emhill2100 @SlumRNA_Dog Teachers hate when you point out their questions are actually ambiguous amd have more than one correct answer (girl, here, picked on by female teachers for the same reasons the guys are relating).

@SlumRNA_Dog If the boy was actually intelligent he would quickly learn that antagonizing the teacher is a bad idea.

@stefaniasettle @uncledoomer 😂 yes

@uncledoomer The Venn diagram between all three is just a circle

what im seeing from the twitter timeline this week is that if you had a good time in school, never got in trouble for reading ahead, being excited, you are a subsentient midwit giga fried turbo normie npc, and if you had an active feud with your teachers, you are likely 130+ IQ

@GunsNAmerica @Hydroman11234 Gen X got openly mocked by teachers and peers. Lucky for us, we didn’t have the internet to be shamed on. School was where you went because they forced you, then you were free to be on your own till whatever curfew existed for you.

@Hydroman11234 Half the time the teacher makes fun of them in sly ways

If you’ve been to a public high school within the past half-decade you’ll see a phenomenon called “Zoomer hesitation” where kids will refuse to raise their hands and answer questions out of fear of mockery from either teacher or student or both

@GunsNAmerica Even worse, they may know the material well, but the teacher wants the regurgitated answer, not an answer from understanding, because they need the standardized test responses.