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  • Distorted views of The Nursing Profession

    Now I’ve been known to both overtly and covertly objectify nurse and their time homered and essential place and societal importance within the midical-industrial complex in modern times. As they say honesty is the best policy so I’m going to outright admit that do to a severe pornography and explicit matter addiction which caused me to not only objectify nurses but all persons of members of the opposite sex(gender) on the whole I was part of the guilt gender in specific the male or masculine side of the ” gender divide”. It used to be due to women being type cast into societal roles like nursing, child rearing and as educators(teacher) and I still hear this appalling and externally bigoted view point of women being type cast as more nurturing.

    The fact is even though women have assented threw the ranks of medicine to holding positions such as MDs of all specialties and and even threw managerial ranks out side of professions like teaching and nursing. We still have what in my view are really bigoted and sexist misrepresentations the a women’s true societal value. These disconnects come from industries like sales and marketing, film and popular culture as well as to this very day the vast y of nurses of all licensing levels are women. The misrepresentations and over sexualization of certain professions that have traditionally been filled in large majority by women. What I strongly disagree with is the old and worn-out societal belief that ” matters of the homo and hearth” are a women’s place.

    The most verilent example of this misrepresentation of the nursing profession is in the motivation picture “One Flew over The Cuckoos nest” in which actor Jack Nicholson plays a mental patient named RP Morphy and Louise Fletcher plays nurse Mildred Ratched. Which has earned really strict nurses the in my view really dishonorable title of Ratchet While in the modern day a wast majority of nurses of any level of either scope of practice or experience are still females we’ve also started to see more men enter the profession because it’s at times a quite psychically demanding profession because your lifting both equipment and maneuvering patients.

    Several cartoons from the anime which is a Japanese for of cartoon animation that was originally derived from manga which is a form of comic book that’s typically read from left-to-right. But to to their increasing popularity among western readers was flipper from it’s original form to the typical right-tp-left western page orientation however, many international publishers prefer to keep to the original left-to-right page orientation. This a whole post originated from an observation that my mother made while she, my father and I where having drinks at the bar in our hotel.

    Said hotel is also playing host to an annual fanfiction event aimed at fans of the popular Trans-Formers anime cartoon and movie series. While down in the bar my mom noticed I young women who was dressed as Manerva a nurse from aforementioned manga,cartoon and movie franchises. Funny as side Minerva is the Who’s the equivalent of the Greek goddess of Wisdom,Medicine,commerce,crafts and strategic warfare. I think that the fact that the creators of the Transformers franchises thinking to name a cheater that represents a Nurse Minerva is very fitting because if you think about it nurses do play an integral role in health care in all scopes of practice in which they participate in.

    Being a constant student of history I’d like to point out that had it not ben for pioneers like Florence Nightingale (Lady with the lamp, born 5/12/1820 died 8/13/1910 (age at death 90 years old)} and her American protege part Clara Barton (1821 – 1912 (died at 81 years old)). In my view the modem film and television industry’s over simplification of the profession of nursing does a terrible dis-justice to nurses of historical significance like Nurse Nightingale (for whom the nightingale Pledge) the pledge that every graduate nurse has to swear to uphold and Clara Baron her later American protege and counterpart and for that case every nurse at any point sense have in my my solidified the ever important roles that nurses both hold in health care along side doctors but also as front lines innovators and inventors should at no time or point be discounted to any degree.

    As a recovering pornography and explicit matter addict I really disagree strongly to what the adult film and media industry has done in screens in which both mental and physical health practitioners of either gender but especially of the feminine gender does all of society as a whole a gigantic disservice.

  • My Concerns For Linux

    As a long-time Linux user,I’ve seen a huge number of changes both positive and negatives. I’ve been using Linux on and off on and off for the past 20 to 25 years and can still remember the days where you’d have to use utilities such as bw43-cutter in order to get drivers for devices that required Broad-Com chip based Ethernet and WiFi chip sets. I can also remember when you where required to enable enable the the contribute and non-free repositories in the case of Debian this was until Book-Worm when they split the free and non-free firmware packages within the archives. I’ve also used plenty of different terminal emulators ranging from gnome terminal,kitty,Xfce terminal,Konsole,UXterminal and several other terminal emulators. I’ve also used nearly every opensource productivity suite from Apache Open Office to LibreOffice and in between.

    There are multiple things that give me a lot of concern for the Linux and open source communities as a combined whole. The first and most to me are the astronomical degrees of polarization around certain topics such as the proliferation of YouTube and just regular old social media hot takes including several by massive media conglomerates like Linus Media Group and Mr. Beast. More so Mr. Beast who operate solely on driving up their channels popularity by running scams on there subscribers in order to gain financial gains for the media corporation or individual behind the channel(operation). On the other side of the coin you’ve got YouTube personalities and channels like Gamer’s Nexus or The Linux Cast that actively try to promote choice in your distributions. The other things that annoy the ever living hell out of me are the Waring factions between Desktop Environments,Window managers and purists like those who choose to strictly use the command line interpreter. The worst of the desktop environment factions are the KDE vs. Gnome user basis that are to me at least tearing each other down on a daily if not hourly basis both on YouTube and on certain Open Source Software forums that I frequent

  • Daily writing prompt
    What’s your favorite game (card, board, video, etc.)? Why?

    My favorite game is an old gambling card game known as canasta in which you try to go out before you opponents by way of making runs of seven cards known as Canastas. You can either have a pure canasta for instance one which consists solely of 7 for example or an impure canasta which might consist of say 6 eights and a wildcard. Now you can either designate Aces or ones or both or one or the other as the wild cards and this must be done prior to starting the game(hand).

    You can play with as few people as three or four all of the way up to multipule teams of 5 or six. The caveat is that you have to have one deck of cards per player so you can tmagine that after two or three players if you aren’t a very dexterous person you’d run into issues shuffling the potentially massive number of cards implied.

  • Daily writing prompt
    What’s your go-to comfort food?

    My all-time favorite comfort foot is lemon-ginger tea because of it’s digestive benefits. It also doesn’t carry the caffeine load of other teas like black tea or earl gray. This is especially a benefit for me because I’m quite caffeine sensitive. So I can consume Lemon-Ginger tea pretty much all day if I so please. This tea ls carries several other health benefits one such benefit is that the vitamin C in the lemon acts as an immunity booster and helps shorten the length of viral infections like the common cold and to some degrees the Flu.

  • Intrest In health in General

    As of late I’ve been consuming quite a lot of YouTube content related to both psychical and mental health as well as listening to quite a number of audio books. I’ve also been using my downtime to work on both my drawing as well as my other writing projects. I’ve also been volunteering at a local Food Bank near my house. I feel like I’ve built a whole entire second family. Both working on my other artistic pursuits as well as volunteering at our local food bank has really done a lot to keep my mental health from becoming a absolute dumpster fire.

    As a person whom isn’t just a neuro-divergent but also a patient who’s been through not just our nations mental health care system cycling in and out of a Florida hospitals behavioral Health Unit for several times. I’ve cycled through the “traditional” wards for life threatening internal bleeds and quite a few convulsive episodes as well. Furthermore I’ve also bore witness to a family member or two cycling through specialized treatment centers like Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research hospital. This is all originating from the keyboard of a native son of Berkeley California who’s lived in Seattle,WA for a great deal of his life. I’ll also concede the Seattle is one of the several “tech hubs” within our nations boarders. This however, doesn’t mean that just because this is a truth that Seattle is completely amine from economic hard times.

    If you look at american cities such as Seattle,Sanfran Cisco and Berkeley for instance you’ll commonly notice that the over all populates is resilient to a certain amount of economic uncertainty however there is a plague effect where the ratio of losses overwhelms the gains.

  • All good things must come to an end

    Well It’s been a week long whirlwind tour of the state of North Carolina. We landed at the Raleigh/Durham airport(rdu) a week ago. That night we met with some family that I hadn’t seen face to face for quite some time. I’m still in the process of starting to sort out some demons from my past as well. I’ll provide more about that in a post to come.

  • Not understanding the rampant disinformation.

    Now I know that certain people will descend upon me for pointing out the obvious. It’s been proven time and time again throughout history in times of armed conflicts going all of the way back to middle ages. As a student of both world and United States history.

    As we’ve seen in the armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia as well as the Israel Palestinian conflict. You will likely realize that both the Ukraine Russia and Israel Palestinian wars we’ll also see the application of rape as a weapon of war by Russians and Palestinians are both employing this technique to induce fear and doubt in the opposing side.

    Going all of the back to both Operation desert storm in the early 1990s to Operation Iraqi freedom in the the early 2000s.

    All this being said, another thing that really gets my goat is that the US and it’s other western allies seem to have this false since if “we need to plays world policeman”. I really think that this is a rampantly false thought pattern as I see it because it seems that ever since the current armed conflict in the middle east. No I know that all parties whom have come to gather to negotiate (broker) a piece agreement. I’m going to take a step back and place my faith in all parties enveloped as I know deep down in my empathetic soul of souls that the current ugly situation in the middle east.

  • Why I try my hardest not to use Social Media

    Now I know that I’m going to incur all kinds of slurs for making my best efforts to steer clear of social media. I’ll admit that despite my best efforts to stay off of social media platforms such as X(formally twitter) or Facebook. I wind up having to use Facebook because certain family members and friends as well as groups/organizations that I associate with use Facebook to allow their members to connect as well as communicate and coordinate gatherings of their members and supporters.

    On the flip side of the coin I’ll admit that I’m significantly shortchanging myself in the area of networking with those whom share my interests and like political beliefs that I do. Although despite my knocking all of the “main stream” social media platforms, I ‘m aware that by doing this I’m practicing what in my eyes is a cyber security approach by minimizing potential attack surface.

    I also do rather prefer to not get sucked into the constant slur slinging fests that can and do occasionally tend to bread on social media platforms suck as former president Trumps truth social. I tend to want to avoid certain polarizing communities such as truth social this is because I don’t want to have the potential of being associated with the “far right wing” of the republican party”party of Trump”.

    The other point that I’d like to point out that I’m not all that well versed in the social sciences, but I know that if I try my hardest to avoid controversial influences on social media and on mainstream media outlets like CBS,NBC,ABC,etc,etc. Let’s not forget the polarized media outlets like Fox News for example and let’s not forget to mention CNBC,MSNBC,etc,etc.