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The sick reality is that many of the renowned academics and writers among Gaza's thousands of martyrs will, in twenty years time, be quoted and memorialised by the same universities and institutions that have denigrated them and enabled their slaughter.

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Now that she is all better from her accident she is back to her usual shenanigans, like jumping in the gross pond out back and getting extremely smelly.

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I have the most infuriating landlord. My saving grace is that he lives out of state so I rarely see him. It is with immense regret that I have to say he still tries to interact with me from time to time. His big thing right now is complaining about young people who are in financial distress "because of iPhones and expensive coffees." It is sickening when people like him assume financial strain is a result of poor life choices. I was already about 150K in medical debt before I graduated high school. I was going back through some of my financial statements and realized that I had a hospital stay a couple years ago that cost 300,000 dollars. Can you imagine what the average plan covers for a bill like that? What most people would be stuck owing over a medical emergency they could not foresee? All it takes is one catastrophic event. Even the most stringent financial planner could find their savings drained and plans derailed in a single moment of random and rotten luck. You don't have to have a catastrophic event to struggle, of course. The cost of living is skyrocketing and wages are not skyrocketing at the same pace, making mere survival cost-prohibitive. Entry-level jobs want years of experience and are not paying a livable wage. Dedicated "everyone should go to college" campaigns in the 90s-2000s have created a generation who were encouraged to take out loans as kids unsure of their professional trajectory, saddling them with debt for degrees that are not paying off in today's job market. To chalk financial struggles in 20-30 year old's to pleasure purchases is overwhelmingly ignorant.

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Okay, ACLS recert is all done! Now I get another 2 years before I have to take Necromancy Class again and watch a really stressed out newbie try to do a 200J defib on a-flutter (there is always someone).

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Every so often they give me a copy of reviews patients leave for me. I got one that rated me positively, and then mentioned at least 4 times that I "seemed interested" and "made eye contact." My friends, the bar is so low that it is on the floor.

#medblr

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just so you know how these campuses deal with actual antisemitism

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It drives me insane how many people dont realise how often they break the law and that if the full force of it was ever applied life would basically be unliveable. Like between traffic violations, petty workplace theft, account sharing and piracy alongside how common it is to have been in posession of some illegal drug at some point in your life. People still manage to get away with thinking "criminals" are people who commit crimes not just populations that are surveilled enough to be routinely prosecuted

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One of my alcohol-addicted patients died, and I am devastated. I got to know him so well, and he was such a kind man. He was trying so hard and had been for years, but just couldn't ever make sobriety stick. We had tried everything. He even went a good few months sober but relapsed and drank himself to death. I don't just feel like I lost a friend. I feel like I failed him.

#tw death #tw alcohol #tw alcoholism

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“It Is an Honor to Be Suspended for Palestine”

Dispatches from the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University

https://crimethinc.com/Columbia2024

In this in-depth report, participants offer a blow-by-blow account of the events at Columbia, appraising the tactics that the demonstrators have employed and the challenges that they face.

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