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CoolChillGuy420Im slightly regretting my decision to pursue emergency medicine as a career path because I am neck-deep in shit right now and way over my head. It's all so fast and too quick and my ADD brain can't focus sometimes, with or without meds. I wish I could just go back to working mindless seasonal jobs but that isn't sustainable in your late 20s at all.

CoolChillGuy420Im slightly regretting my decision to pursue emergency medicine as a career path because I am neck-deep in shit right now and way over my head. It's all so fast and too quick and my ADD brain can't focus sometimes, with or without meds. I wish I could just go back to working mindless seasonal jobs but that isn't sustainable in your late 20s at all.

runforlove2024It is absolutely disgusting that there's a growing handful of states who are enacting harsher penalties on people who call 911 for overdoses. People are literally being charged with first degree murder. What the actual fuck.

By that logic, every state prison official should be charged for allowing facilitation of drugs throughout the prison systems. But ohhhh no we won't talk about how bad they are about stopping smuggling or corruption. Let's just target the addicts. This is probably the worst policy since the beginning of the war on drugs.

runforlove2024What's overwhelming about it? There's other jobs you can do in healthcare. The ED isn't for everyone.

dognutswhy are short crotches getting so low

they fit so weird and you can’t move in them or ride a bike

what has a man gotta do to get a nice fitting pair of shorts that dry fast and have zippers 😭

runforlove2024Generational labels are retarded. Anyone who subscribes to this kool-aid is a retard. Literal retard.

ASSholebomber22What a quirky millennial thing to say

runforlove2024Point proven.

runforlove2024Generational labels are retarded. Anyone who subscribes to this kool-aid is a retard. Literal retard.

WoFlowzi feel like those fuckin losers asking insane prices for their old as Allez in marketplace. I feel like 1200$ is semi reasonable for a 08 carbon alle with full 105 and a carbon seat with new cables and a fresh tune and tape. Still seems high but god i need money, absolutely liquidating my bikes to afford insurance since mine went up, and this bike build.

CoolChillGuy420but I also think programs like suboxalone programs just replace one drug with another
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LonelyAll I want is a better breakdown of zoomers. A person born in 96 is wayyyyyy different from an 06 kid. Lotta shit happened in those two decades

CoolChillGuy420Like what the fuck does this country do in order to fix this issue? Homelessness is a huge part of it along with the ongoing mental health epidemic especially, but I also think programs like suboxalone programs just replace one drug with another and cities like Portland especially where we just allow it to happen and have safe shoot-up spots instead of providing actual healthcare to people make the issues 10x worse. People go to the hospital, sleep, discharge, and they're back onto the streets in no time before they either OD or get rushed to the pysch ward again. It's a broken system to it's core. Along with many other issues in the US Healthcare system.

And yeah it is fucking annoying that a methhead gets a hospital bed before someone with an actual medical emergency with their family that has been waiting in the waiting room for 4+ hours.

**This post was edited on Jun 28th 2023 at 10:15:39am

LonelyAll I want is a better breakdown of zoomers. A person born in 96 is wayyyyyy different from an 06 kid. Lotta shit happened in those two decades

cyphersmy opinion on this has changed a lot in the past 5 years. and it’s def not a popular one.

dedicating resources to people who have chronic substance abuse issues (ex. your post above about people shooting up inside the hospital) is a waste. they are long past the point of no return - totally crippled by decades of drug use. i truly don’t think there’s a way to reintegrate those people.

diverting our money and time to younger (14-20yo) people who are just beginning to use would have a huge impact. many are foster kids, youth homeless, etc. who are on the verge of checking out from society but could be turned around with more employment/housing outreach. if you’ve been on the street for 20 years you’re not going to leave - it probably seems like there’s no point in trying. but if we can steer people the right way while they’re young we can eliminate many of the symptoms (drug use, petty crime) that happen when people have never been shown what a healthy lifestyle even looks like.

unfortunately this would mean accepting that 1. our current population of addicts are effectively a lost cause, and 2. that we wouldn’t see progress for decades.

but i think that’s where we’re at.

WoFlowzi feel like those fuckin losers asking insane prices for their old as Allez in marketplace. I feel like 1200$ is semi reasonable for a 08 carbon alle with full 105 and a carbon seat with new cables and a fresh tune and tape. Still seems high but god i need money, absolutely liquidating my bikes to afford insurance since mine went up, and this bike build.

TOAST.that seems high to me. it's 15 years old, people wanting a used carbon bike can probably find something newer for that price. Did you ask the dude at the shop you work at what they would price it for?

PacificRimJobYou know what though, gotta give credit to a lot of zoomers, they know their history most of the time, and are aware of the significance of shit... and seem generally far more tolerant to other generations. Perhaps Gen Xers were just way better parents than the boomers or something, I dunno. They definitely share the same sentiments towards boomers that Millenials have, and any generational antagonism between millenials and zoomers seems kinda forced for the sake of clout.

I feel like theres a strong comradery with Millennials and Zoomers as both have to deal with the same fucked up shit in the world right now with a pretty uncertain future and it's obvious to the majority who the real culprit is. Additionally, zoomers pretty much just do the same thing as millenials, and there's not quite as distinct of a difference in subculture as you see with previous generations like Boomers and Gen Xers.

Something that's a pretty big tell of generational gaps is fashion, and I wouldn't call zoomer fashion super distinct, really. Theyre doing the shit that millenials did in the 2000s when they started copying a lot of 70s and 80s fashion trends, only theyre copying 90s and 2000s trends that their folks and early millenials wore - and millenials seem to be more receptive to joining them in these trends anyway. It's not like when in the 90s and early 2000s you saw a distinct change when hip hop fashion exploded and you saw pants get absolutely huge and crazy and incorporate a lot of unique looks.

Nowadays you can get away with anything from any time period and pull it off so long as you stick to your style.

All while boomers still tuck in their poorly fitting polo shirts unironically like the Ned Flanders they are...

cyphersmy opinion on this has changed a lot in the past 5 years. and it’s def not a popular one.

dedicating resources to people who have chronic substance abuse issues (ex. your post above about people shooting up inside the hospital) is a waste. they are long past the point of no return - totally crippled by decades of drug use. i truly don’t think there’s a way to reintegrate those people.

diverting our money and time to younger (14-20yo) people who are just beginning to use would have a huge impact. many are foster kids, youth homeless, etc. who are on the verge of checking out from society but could be turned around with more employment/housing outreach. if you’ve been on the street for 20 years you’re not going to leave - it probably seems like there’s no point in trying. but if we can steer people the right way while they’re young we can eliminate many of the symptoms (drug use, petty crime) that happen when people have never been shown what a healthy lifestyle even looks like.

unfortunately this would mean accepting that 1. our current population of addicts are effectively a lost cause, and 2. that we wouldn’t see progress for decades.

but i think that’s where we’re at.

CoolChillGuy420suboxalone programs just replace one drug with another

PeppermillRenoIts a problem with the USA. Most Americans are losers they were born into wealth and never had to scrap to get ahead. My GF is from Africa only been here a year she works all the fucking time chill though can't believe she wanted to go roller skating for the first time last night and thought it was easy and you didn't have to know how to skate or anything. I was basically doing 90 lb curls with her falling every 2 seconds. Her cousins my age who came here 20 years ago are ballers they aren't crying about rents being high they drive Benzs take sick vacations. Just met the aunt she lives with for the first time after 6 months because she works so much. Just a different culture than people born here. Your average middle class white person is a fucking loser even the successful ones look at all the single chicks in their mid 30s with good jobs who are spending $5k on Taylor Swift as they cry about cost of living.

I love the time I was born I can work from the chairlift or my boat taking sales calls and sending emails.

PeppermillRenoIts a problem with the USA. Most Americans are losers they were born into wealth and never had to scrap to get ahead. My GF is from Africa only been here a year she works all the fucking time chill though can't believe she wanted to go roller skating for the first time last night and thought it was easy and you didn't have to know how to skate or anything. I was basically doing 90 lb curls with her falling every 2 seconds. Her cousins my age who came here 20 years ago are ballers they aren't crying about rents being high they drive Benzs take sick vacations. Just met the aunt she lives with for the first time after 6 months because she works so much. Just a different culture than people born here. Your average middle class white person is a fucking loser even the successful ones look at all the single chicks in their mid 30s with good jobs who are spending $5k on Taylor Swift as they cry about cost of living.

I love the time I was born I can work from the chairlift or my boat taking sales calls and sending emails.

NewsheepersFlying to chiraq from 1 am to 9 am and the air quality is ass, apparently its like smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day if you're outside all day

partyandBSBike falls hurt so much more than ski falls

LonelyCheaters fukkin suck

PacificRimJobI mean, you could say that about anywhere really, that once people hold a bit of privilege, they have stronger demands - especially as they climb into tax brackets that are more demanding, or have dependents that they have to care for.

Still, I don't personally buy into the whole cult of work nonsense, where someone feels the need to absolutely grind themselves out to get anywhere. If 'just worked harder' actually worked, we would all be millionaires, because, well.. it would work. Simply put, that's not the case.

Work-life balance is where it's at... where, if you do a good job for 8 hours a day (as is customary here), you should be paid accordingly and taken care of. It goes back to basic labor theory that traces back to the beginning of society - Today, we are effectively selling 33% of our workday, or 20-25% of our week (if you work 3s or 4s) in order to be able to eat, party, and be protected...

Grinding out 14 hour work days and working 2 jobs just to make ends meet is a breech of that expectation we should all have. Nobody should be giving up over 50% of their non-asleep time per week in order to pay bills and afford basic necessities plus a healthy amount of leisure... It's unhealthy for themselves, their relationships, and certainly any dependents that they might have.

We shouldn't celebrate people having to grind - we should pity it. Quiet quitting isn't a thing - it's just doing as expected of you. - and if you do a good job, you should be given raises tied to currency inflation.

TOAST.says the guy that works in sales

PeppermillRenoIts a dirty business. A $350,000 order was sent to me yesterday. Me and my boss hate each other. He assigned the account at the last minute to a rep firm who will get $20,000-$35,000 in commission. (I would have gotten 4k.) I tipped the owner off this was happening and hes going to lose $30,000 out of pocket because of my boss.

Companies go out of business if they don't have people driving around generating sales though. And when you're not driving around showing up to businesses to sell them shit they'll inevitably buy from someone its just a matter of who you can be on the boat or the chairlift.

cypherstook out student loans fully expecting to pay them back. but it definitely sucks watching the govt drop trillions to bail out banks and businesses before turning around and telling me to go fuck myself

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RparrIt's not that simple though, you can't really get high from suboxone. It actually binds to the opiate receptors in your brain and essentially blocks other opiates from working. I'm a huge fan of the stuff, several people in my life would not be alive if not for it.

You might be thinking of methadone, the other common replacement drug for opiate addiction. Methadone is actually fucked. It's not like suboxone, you can get high from it, and the withdrawals from methadone are famously longer than heroin/fent. That's why they call it liquid handcuffs, it's really hard to get off of. I've got no idea how the country will ever fix this either, it seems unfixable.

I hung around people who did a lot of drugs in my late teens and early twenties. Almost 30 now and everybody has either died or quit doing drugs lmao

ASSholebomber22Hey dude, I just wanted to let you know that united airlines appreciates your sacrifice

runforlove2024Funny joke but they're probably gonna be less happy in the short run. Let see by October how this shakes down on consumer spending. People haven't been spending on those loans for 2+ years. What's gonna happen come September when that shit resumes and adds 10%-20% to their spending? It's definitely gonna depress spending in other areas.

runforlove2024Funny joke but they're probably gonna be less happy in the short run. Let see by October how this shakes down on consumer spending. People haven't been spending on those loans for 2+ years. What's gonna happen come September when that shit resumes and adds 10%-20% to their spending? It's definitely gonna depress spending in other areas.

CoolChillGuy420I've never really been exposed to much drug addiction before since I started working at a hospital. The lengths people will go to in order to get their fix is not only sad but also pretty frustrating too.

On sunday our team caught a guy smoking fent-laced weed in his room, and then earlier this AM we caught a visitor in a patients room sitting on the floor openly roasting a spoon with heroin that was getting ready to shoot up syringes and all, and probably was handing it over to his girlfriend to shoot-up into her IV port.