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medical professionals when a patient advocates for themselves in a medical setting (x100 if that patient is a part of any minority): damn. you’re a hypochondriac crazy bitch who has every mental illness and is seeking every narcotic in existence. that’s the only reason you’d be disappointed in the care you’re receiving here. in retaliation, we will be even less helpful and less sympathetic. our jobs are hard. people are dying. we don’t have time to deal with anyone who is slightly inconvenient for us.

Yeahhhhhh. Whenever someone comes online to speak about a negligent, discriminatory or extremely unprofessional and uncomfortable experience they had in a medical setting, medical professionals tend to swarm them just to remind them over and over again that their job is sooooooo hard and patients are soooooo mean to them and that there are soooooooo many sicker people, like the sicker patients aren’t also being humiliated and abused, like hospitals do not stabilize people and dump them back on the street to die, like deaths due to medical errors aren’t a major problem, like racism, ableism, classism and misogyny isn’t rampant in the medical system from the top down, perpetuated systemically and individually by providers. So many doctors and nurses hate to admit they’re wrong, they hate to admit they’re complacent, they hate to admit that their patients are all people, often having the worst day of their life.

Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.

I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this.  I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this.  Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this.  When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here.  It’s a great resource.

I'm so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let's keep that fire blazing!

it's a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!

and the more popular the classic - the more likely someone has uploaded it

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Project Gutenberg began in 1971; the first text was the US Declaration of Independence, shared through the university computer system. That was the start of "hey computers + public domain text = FREE BOOKS FOR EVERYONE."

https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top#books-last30

And yes, Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain. But I got bored with Sherlock Holmes after a few months, and became much more pumped when I discovered his mirror opposite, Arsene Lupin. Because when you're not only young and penniless but living through the Great Recession, what you really want to read about isn't the world's greatest detective solving crimes. It's the world's greatest thief robbing fat cats blind while pantsing the police along the way.

This is so powerful that in the old times they made a whole-ass index of every word in the Bible, called a concordance. It is now possible for every electronic book

10 years on and he's still living with his parents, except now with a 'wife' and two kids in the basement.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

Having said that, I do think we're approaching the point of no return with this global warming stuff. Some billionaires seem like they actively want to kill off a big chunk of the population and some people (manosphere men especially) discuss the apocalypse with a crazy amount of greed.

tech companies are shaking in their boots trying to prove to shareholders that their investment in AI is worth it, to the point where they’re tricking their users into using the AI features even for a split second in order to fudge the numbers. like awww is your little environment-destroying toy not wielding the results you hoped for? so sad!

It also almost never goes the way straight men think it will. Our society teaches men that it's absolutely okay for men to have one night stands and teaches women that we should avoid it all costs. This means that when a woman gets on the market looking for sex with no emotional attachment or expectation of commitment, men are lining up. Meanwhile the straight man realizes he has no market value whatsoever after the first person or two, and has to watch his female partner get with other men. Most of the time, the men get possessive, freak out and want to close the marriage and by then the woman has realized she can do better.