Dr. Rhodes

@MadelaineLucyH My people have spoken French in North America for 425 years and people come from all over the world to eat our food. Being Cajun and Creole doesn't mean we're not American.

Americans are so cute with their heritage stuff. Here in Europe you stop claiming heritage from somewhere after about 3 generations. If I went to Belgium and went 'I'm actually Belgian, my great, great, great great aunt lived here!' they'd be like :) ok weirdo

@loonlake55 You. Were. A. Child.

@MeanderingRhode Boomers were 1946-64. We played a huge role. My mother opposed most of the new rights.

Last week, my post about Boomer life drew some ire from young people who feel we "destroyed the world and their future." (But lots of fellow Boomers liked it!) So for the young people. Here's a peek at life before the late 70s. The life you DON'T have because of us. 🔹Women were often stuck in secondary roles (you could be a nurse but not a doctor). 🔹Employers could deny a woman a job because “she might get pregnant,” and many had to quit when they did get pregnant. 🔹Birth control was restricted or illegal in many places under the Comstock Law. 🔹A husband couldn’t be arrested for beating his wife; it was a “civil matter.” Marital rape wasn’t even a crime. 🔹Women often needed a male relative to co-sign for a bank account or credit card. 🔹Black Americans in the South lived under Jim Crow. Even after it was outlawed, change was slow. 🔹Gay people could not be openly gay or get married. 🔹Information was scarce. You had to access a big library or buy expensive books. No pulling info up on your phone. 🔹Acquiring skills meant finding someone willing to teach you in person. No YouTube or no AI. 🔹Drive by a river and you’d see pipes dumping bright orange or green factory waste straight into the water. Some toxic landfills were so bad, nothing has ever grown there again. 🔹Heart attack? Often a death sentence. No stents. No pacemakers. 🔹Young men could be drafted and sent to war against their will, then come home to a country that called them baby killers and spit on them. Here's the thing. Every generation gets handed problems. We addressed these. Now it’s your turn to fix the ones you’re facing. Sincerely, Your Retired and Tired Boomer Grandma

@loonlake55 You did not fight the court battles. The previous generations did.

@MeanderingRhode First Boomer born in 1946 and we were the first to integrate helping the social change become normalized.

@loonlake55 Desegregation happened when Boomers were children.

Boomer's got rid of this. You're welcome.

@HMhnuey @HumeralO That's benign pearly papules of the penis.

@HumeralO Missed opportunity to add penis in there

Dermatologists be like: “palpable pruritic purpuric patches of papules and pustules parading partially past the platysmal plane alongside prominent plaques of pedal petechiae”

@Madhava_Setty @hell_line0 Lol. This dork pretending that he's been polite to anyone is hilarious.

Wow. You know what? You’re absolutely right. You’re clearly more intelligent than I am. I don’t know what I was thinking. Thank you for setting me straight on all of these matters including my overinflated confidence in my understanding and training. I hope that I can model your approach to research and more importantly to how interact with others. You set an example for the rest of us. Well done, doctor!

Cancer surgeon here. No, sugar doesn’t feed cancer. Stop telling people with cancer and especially woman with breast cancer to avoid sugar, salt, or carbs when you have no idea what they can tolerate and you are NOT their oncologist.

@RossBinkley @mikjcal Yes, Ross, I already realized that you don't understand why it's called a living document. You don't need to keep proving it. I also don't need an engineer's approval of my work.

@MeanderingRhode @mikjcal @belle379 LOL "It doesn't matter what the people who actually wrote the law intended it to mean." Well, you don't sound like a great doctor either, but I'm at least glad that you're not a lawyer.

I’m actually really surprised to learn that for the United States that bangs on so much about Christianity that Good Friday and Easter Monday are not federally mandated public holidays for the whole country 🤔 Here in Australia the whole country gets a 4 day long weekend, and those who have to work get paid penalty rates for it.

@RossBinkley @mikjcal Mine is 175. Grow up.

@MeanderingRhode @mikjcal @belle379 Why do 100% of the people who unironically use the word 'mansplain' have IQs below room temperature?

@Iratespart69131 @mikjcal @belle379 The government does plenty of things that are unconstitutional, whether you like them or not.

@KalmiaLatifolia @mikjcal @belle379 I think that people should get to choose their holidays, religious or not. I think that labor laws should be revised altogether to include mandatory PTO of the individual employee's choosing.

I think people should get floating holidays. Everyone gets the same number of religious holidays, and they choose which holidays are their state/federal holidays. (Christmas, New Year, Eid, Passover, etc.) It's nice in the Philippines, Christian and Muslim holidays are on the official calendar. People get a lot of days off.

@londo402 @mikjcal @belle379 Columbus Day doesn't exist anymore. Indigenous People's Day was initiated by a grassroots movement of South Dakota tribes in the late 70's, became official in California in the 1990's, and spread to the whole country. Joe Biden official changed the federal holiday 5 years ago.

@MeanderingRhode @mikjcal @belle379 But Columbus gets a day?

@Madhava_Setty @hell_line0 3/ ...instead of directing your invective at the men who disagree with you. So you're wrong twice, and I've learned over nearly 50 years of life that I don't owe anything to pompous, self-aggrandizing pieces of shit like yourself, because your insecurity isn't my problem. 😂

@Madhava_Setty @hell_line0 You're not important to me, and you don't become important via ego-driven harassment. Making demands on my time is indeed harassment, AND you chose to do it to a woman whom you assumed was younger and less-experinced on purpose, 2/

@RyanLThomas1 @mikjcal @belle379 2/2 ...it shouldn't necessarily be the Triduum, because most people don't care to participate in Bronze Age rituals. It should be holidays of choice.

@RyanLThomas1 @mikjcal @belle379 1. The government is performative when you get Republicans in, but nearly half if citizens are religiously unaffiliated with even more non-practicing. Most of us think the obsession is idiotic. 2. We should also have better labor laws than mandate paid leave for everyone, 1/2

@PeterWallaceAU @mikjcal @belle379 Good. That whole Church of England thing is incredibly bizarre.

@MeanderingRhode @mikjcal @belle379 So does Australia.

@RossBinkley @mikjcal @belle379 It doesn't matter what the Founders wanted, except that they wrote it as a living document ON PURPOSE. Jefferson spoke about this, and it's on his Memorial. Is your next unsolicited essay going to tell me how to practice medicine next? Engineers often do, and it's always wrong.

@MeanderingRhode @mikjcal @belle379 Granted, far more recent court decisions (mostly in the last 50-70 years) have placed far more restrictions on government endorsements of religion than were ever actually intended by the First Amendment (or were practiced for its first ~200 years.)

@RossBinkley @mikjcal @belle379 They were forced to add the entire Bill of rights to even het the Constitution ratified by the states. Jefferson, dirty, raping slaver that he was, was correct that people wanted a lot of protections for the government.

@MeanderingRhode @mikjcal @belle379 While Jefferson felt there should be a stronger separation of church and state, that view was not widely held by the people who crafted or ratified the 1st Amendment. They didn't want a national state religion or religious requirements to hold office, but that was it.

@RossBinkley @mikjcal @belle379 1. They specifically wrote the Bill of Rights after they realized that the Constitution was very unpopular as-is. 2. A lot of people are very much against any type of prayer at any government event. 3. Why is it so often an engineer trying to mansplain to a smarter woman?

@MeanderingRhode @mikjcal @belle379 Nearly all of the people who actually signed the Constitution (except a few deists) routinely endorsed religion as part of official duties. There have been prayers in Congress since the very beginning and the Constitution's preamble explicitly acknowledges the Creator (i.e. God.)