dur posted:

who's randy then?

chumpchous posted:

Breakfast All Day posted:

nurses can dress however the gently caress they want

mad nurse respect

Shaggar posted:

most nurses are idiots. compassionate idiots, but still idiots.

pseudorandom name posted:

I know a guy who quit and retrained as a hospice nurse and is now dealing with actual real poo poo on a daily basis and is happier and more satisfied with his life than he ever was janitoring databases.

Grandmaster.flv posted:

Lol if you don't think the shittiest nurse is doing a better job than any computer janitor ever

Shaggar posted:

nurses are people janitors

chumpchous posted:

lovely nurses kill lots of people so idk

Shaggar posted:

hr is company janitors. nurses deal w/ people's poop. their the people janitors

LP97S posted:

So you're a janitor because of your posts?

pseudorandom name posted:

I know a guy who quit and retrained as a hospice nurse and is now dealing with actual real poo poo on a daily basis and is happier and more satisfied with his life than he ever was janitoring databases.

chumpchous posted:

lovely nurses kill lots of people so idk

Improbable Lobster posted:

nurses-1 cjs-0

Trig Discipline posted:

my mom is a counsellor in the icu at a major hospital, she works with the families of people who are maybe about to die or just did. can't even imagine doing that job.

qntm posted:

anyway the really insane stuff is exotic matter, which unlike matter and antimatter has negative mass. because it has negative mass, the faster it moves, the less kinetic energy it has. and the higher its temperature, the less thermal energy it has. also its momentum is in the opposite direction to the direction it's moving.

if you have two particles made of matter or antimatter they will gravitate together. if you have one of matter and one of exotic matter, the matter particle is repelled from exotic matter particle, while the exotic matter particle is attracted to the matter particle. as a result, the matter particle rushes away into the distance, with the exotic matter particle chasing it, at ever-increasing speeds, with the distance between them never changing. this does not violate the law of conservation of energy because the total energy in the system stays at zero as long as both particles continue to move at the same velocity

also when an exotic matter body in contact with a regular matter body, energy passes from the first to the second, causing both of them increase in temperature rapidly without limit, for basically the same reason

luckily, exotic matter does not exist anywhere in the observed universe, and nobody has the faintest idea how to begin creating some of it

Trig Discipline posted:

my mom's been there over a decade and is retiring soon, i think she's writing a book about it. she was also one of the counsellors working with victims and families at the okc bombing, she has Seen Some poo poo

PCjr sidecar posted:

ive seen some poo poo

when ive read ur posts lol


i kid ur one of the good ones

but i kid

there are no good ones

Crasscrab posted:

my mom is a hospice nurse

PCjr sidecar posted:

ive seen some poo poo

when ive read ur posts lol


i kid ur one of the good ones

but i kid

there are no good ones

House Louse posted:

pretty sure it isn't, stross is an sf writer not a nurse

all slightly overweight white men with beards glasses and shaven heads look similar, even i looked like him when i had my head shaved

Grandmaster.flv posted:

Lol if you don't think the shittiest nurse is doing a better job than any computer janitor ever

coffeetable posted:

this is nitpicking but particles w/ negative mass are a type of exotic matter. exotic matter in general refers to a pile of 'unusual', phenomenon including poo poo we're all over already like bose-einstein condensates

also matter w/ negative gravitational mass might also have negative inertial mass but it might not we dunno

qntm posted:

all of us will one day depend on nurses so hooray for them

qntm posted:

I re-read Contact.

I found it difficult to get through the second time. Sagan's writing is awfully sterile and dispassionate, almost like he's making a scientific record of events playing out under a microscope slide. Of course that's almost certainly the entire point, but it doesn't make it any less dry.

The immediate aftermath of the machine activation is one of the hardest chapters I've read. I honestly can't think of a worse thing to do to a lifelong scientist than to expose her to real events of unimaginable significance and then make it impossible for her to ever report her data or prove that her story is true. I get that the idea was to show her what the religious side of the world is like by giving her the scientific equivalent of a religious epiphany, a life-changing experience which is totally personal and can never really be explained to anybody, but this was so much worse, because at least within a mainstream religion there are other Christians who will take your visions seriously. Nobody else in the whole world will ever believe Ellie's story except the people who were there for it. The aliens are pretty advanced jerks.