And like. I’d be fine with that if the primary function in practice was to ensure the original creator gets financially compensated for their work and then they can pay for copyright controlled distribution services if that helps therm make sure they get paid but that is not why or how current law is used and I’m kinda losing that it even can be.

This reminds me of a book I read recently. I get like 30 $1 paperbacks at the library used book sale every spring / fall. When I’m done reading them they go on the unit book cart for the patients unless theyre wildly objectionable (and it takes a lot for me, I recently put out some only mildly tasteful furry badger shapeshifter smut).

Anyway this year I got something called “the king’s hounds” where the back summary sounded lit but it turned out to be super rapey (like Sean Connery bond just keep doing it until they shut up rapey). And it’s been sitting on my coffee table collecting dust since I finished it because it feels wrong to just throw it away but I’m definitely not giving it to my patients (who like, ALL have rape PTSD for some reason). I probably will wind up throwing it out but. Fuck. It just feels wrong to destroy a book for some reason even though that’s probably the only thing to do.

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I sucked until like 22 roundabouts when I did like 3 straight years of dialectal behavior therapy.

Yeah the alternative is euthenasia. I guess that would be better for the ecosystem.

Or an extremely good one.

It’s been this way since choosing who to buy copper from in Mesopotamia, probably longer.

looooooooong boi

Majestic AF

I feel like the answer is to have all competitions be centralized on special competition computers. You physically travel to a centralized convention or whatever and have to use equipment set up just for the competition that’s been checked for mechanical and software fairness the same as the ball etc get tested for a professional sports game. You can practice at home with whatever software you want but if you want to be properly competitive you’re going to want to practice on an uncracked game (or even cracked against you).

owls are just bird cats in the same way foxes are dog cats

ooc how normal is it to allow a child / younger sibling to win a game? My parents always said you shouldn’t do that because that’s not how the real world works then my siblings told me I was dumb for not being able to win and that this is why no one wanted to play with me (I was the youngest). When I grew up and heard stories of people letting their kid or little sibling win a game I thought that was wild but I don’t actually know what the true incidence is. It’s one of those things where I wonder if I’m oversensitive or if that was truly abnormal. My older sister also used to tell me I was a psychopath a lot while growing up but I’m starting to think she might have been projecting.

They know it’s not abuse, they have a high horse they wanna ride on someone else’s post.

I guess the elevator pitch is 10y experience inpatient psychiatry including forensics (“criminally insane”), now I teach restraint classes 1x a month and other units in the hospital have a special version of a code they can use to summon me (kinda like a code blue except the patient is still, and literally kicking).

My husband just woke up and said the exact same thing unprompted. Literally this exchange almost word-for-word.

“That’s a rat though.”

“HOW CAN YOU TELL?” - more emphasis on my part due to hearing this for the second time today

“Just how it is. That’s a rat.”

After additional discussion and googling, the actual answer is, my dear people, mostly size, but also more subtly the proportions of the ear and tail to the rest of the body.

I’ve had to handle dogs and cats and when I was younger occasionally livestock. As an employed adult though I’ve mostly had to handle other humans, but many of the same concepts of how to be nice when you have to do something objectively uncomfortable still apply (namely, do it as fast as you possibly can without causing more damage). Restraints are actually kind of not just my specialty but also one of my subspecialties, but that’s a whole different conversation. To this conversation the answer is “usually velcro and plastic buckles, on cotton fabric for the little old ladies and neoprene for people with actual muscle.”

There’s a lot of reasons a lot of things happen and the history and ethics of animal experimentation is a particularly long winded subject of which I will not be getting into any more of a debate than I have somehow gotten sucked into already.

idk ask a vet most of the animals I’ve worked with are larger than that

Please also enjoy these images of a hedgehog and a human baby getting an x-ray and a bird being weighed:

ooc how can you tell?