Most map projections dramatically underestimate the size of the Pacific Ocean:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/point-nemo
We're just not used to seeing this half of the planet depicted, and the Pacific IS almost half of the entire planet.
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Trained people become impervious to chemical fumes.
The problem is the complete dismissal of subjective evidence as being a valid form of evidence. We have deified objective evidence to the point of hubris, denying the existence of anything that doesn't show up easily using our current technology. In my experience, it's less often gaslighting and more often an embarrassing lack of epistemological humility and a pretense that we are have somehow reached the pinnacle of medical technology already and have nothing left to learn.
We're here to treat patients, not test results. If a patient is reporting that they are experiencing distressing symptoms or that something is making them feel better or worse, they deserve to be taken at their word. Ignoring them because our current tests are not sophisticated enough to identify everything invalidates their subjective experience, and that's not patient centered care.
This is the real issue when people are talking about medical gaslighting. Every endometriosis patient being told for years on end that their debilitating symptoms are "normal" period pain. The embarrassing statistics on how long it takes someone with an autoimmune disease to be correctly diagnosed.
We've become too impressed with our technological toys and forgot how to see the real human beings in front of us.
Funny story, instead of referring to groups of adults as " hey guys," I like to refer to them as "hey kids." You know how many grown adults I've had object to this? Zero. Not one. Ever.
We all know it's true
Jesus Christ
Whoever you are, wherever you are, make the extra effort to make sure you can vote this cycle. Just because of how much they don't want you to
Agreed wholeheartedly. That said, Oppenheimer is officially the only biopic I've ever watched twice and will definitely watch again someday. Which makes it my favorite biopic, for whatever that is worth about a genre that I loathe.
They're game devs, not an acquisition and mergers team. "We signed contract to do business with xyz terms" should be plenty reliable enough for conducting business. Not "Lol, whut? You didn't read the fine print? Psyche! We're changing everything."
Unity deserve to get sued into oblivion for this
Fears lives could be lost due to lack of volunteer rural firefighters during 'traumatic fire season'
This is silly. They can help between training assignments. It's not one or the other
People also tend to be more hesitant to hurt women, especially elderly women. And CPR done properly HURTS. A LOT.
"Benevolent" sexism is still harmful to women.
I don't know that it's better; just pointing out that it is kind of how the country works right now. Around 10% of their entire population works overseas at any given time. And those higher paid workers like nurses can bring a lot of value to their families back home.
Is it right? Is it a good idea? I can't speak to that. But the country has developed an entire administration to deal with it:
(I work with a lot of Filipino nurses who have explained some of this mentality to me.)
Almost 10% of the entire GDP of the Philippines is the money those overseas workers send home:
You're not wrong about the fact that we underinvest in training our own population to do this work though.
You ABSOLUTELY can have a cop sued for making a minor mistake. They can carry malpractice insurance, just like I do. Don't give me that shit. There is no reason cops should be immune from lawsuits