And unionized, and the employer pays for (without touching employee pay):

• PPE (including gloves, dental dams, and male and female condoms, which are mandatory for any and all physical contact that includes genitals, mucous membranes, feet, or non-intact skin).
• regular STD testing
• vaccinations
• optional pharmacologic prophylaxis
• building security
• both bedside and wearable panic alarms
• identity monitoring and protection / assistance removing their personal information from publicly accessible records.

Every room should be required to have a poster listing employee rights.

Aside from pricing differently for specific services (handjob vs blowjob etc) tipping is illegal.

No employee (particularly owners or supervisors) are allowed to receive service at their own location or any owned by a same parent company.

The owner and any shift supervisors are required to take a class on these regulations and sit for and pass a licensure exam.

Independent workers can receive a special, less restrictive license (that includes basic sex ed but mostly focuses on informing them of their rights and that independent means independent not “your boss just doesn’t want to get a license” and keeping people with intellectual disabilities or low educational level from being misinformed of their rights as a sex worker).

They worker will never face charges for not having a license but their boss or any John (Jane?) / client who can’t prove the sex worker or company was licensed (or that they were significantly or intentionally misled) can.

Years ago when I first bought one of those multitool hairclips it mentioned it could be used as a trolley coin and I had to look that up. I discovered that in a lot of European countries it’s customary for carts to be locked together with a lock that takes a coin to unlock then returns the coin if you correctly return and nest the cart. Now, it does take a decently curated social milieu to design systems that promote prosocial behavior. That said, that particular prosocial behavior not only had to be mechanically encouraged, but has also led to the development of something called a “trolley coin” to circumvent the mechanism for people who are diametrically opposed to that prosocial behavior.

Who do you trust more, the neighbor who keeps his blinds closed, or the neighbor who goes around trying to look in everyone’s windows? What do you they have to hide?

You’re unlikely (but not impossibly unable) to reap the full benefits of that level of connection to a community completely without spirituality. There are many Hindus and shinto that are functionally atheist and I come from healthcare where atheist chaplains are actually a thing as well.

You are not separate from humanity’s history and attempting to separate yourself from it in this manner won’t by definition harm you, but will require a level of constant attention that I have not found to be worth it. It’s like trying to run the windows version of Firefox or Discord with Wine or a virtual machine just to prove you can. Just run the Linux version, or another program with the same function that is even better designed for the architecture.

I tracked my moods, bodily upkeep, and social tasks with DBT based spreadsheets for years but it eventually became exhausting. What it did do was give me a solid framework to redesign spiritual practices that work for me. Just use the software the human brain was developed alongside and use your processing power on things more useful than trying to feel smarter and more right about the universe, which is mostly just lying to yourself anyway.

This is something of the intention of a unitarian church. They use largely judeo Christian imagery but they don’t actually GAF what your beliefs are and are generally open to not necessarily debate but definitely exploration of non-judeo Christian theologies and / or philosophies.

Well tumblr and Twitter are the same way. There are no magazines / subforums / subreddits / individual communities (or weren’t last I used them). Your profile has your posts and people follow other users individually. You can tag your posts but you can use just about as many tags as you want the post isn’t bound to any one tag. The only specific thing they’re bound to is literally just your personal profile (or that of anyone who reblogs / retweets / retoots / reposts it to their own profile). A microblog is literally a completely different format to a forum / message board style post while kbin treats it like a forum post lite. You don’t microblog to an individual community you microblog as yourself to your entire sever (and beyond, if properly federated).

When you do use traditional social media, try to actively downvote and if you can justify it report engagement bait. People will intentionally do stuff like pronouncing things wrong or even just straight up lying about shit just to get engagement from people correcting them. Also do the same for people that add nothing but their facial expression to call something their own content or even another stolen video played side by side or who post still memes as video.

Federation has the opportunity to solve a lot of these issues but unless special attention is taken to create voting systems that promote healthy community engagement the corporate pressures will eventually push into these spaces as well. I’ve wondered for a while if there’s a good way to create an algorithm that would offer the comfort of a targeted media algorithm except readable, modifiable and executable only by the end user’s client. Piefed is probably the best push towards that kind of functionality currently, but very prototypically.

You’re probably not struggling as much as you think you are. Not in a “your problems aren’t that bad” kinda way but more in a "your responses to those problems aren’t as pitiful as you think they are. Just because the problem wasn’t 100% fixed doesn’t mean you didn’t deal with it like a boss. It’s not like everybody else is out there dancing through their problems with the grace of a ballerina. 90% of them have the fridge door open at 2am eating shredded cheese right out of the bag too. You’re doing great, don’t be so down on yourself.

Yeah but like. Why not just straight to a profile? That’s what masto does.

As soon as I can microblog straight to my own profile I’m sold. On mbin I had to make an admin only magazine for my microblogs to all be in one place.

The app connects you to the human translator by video call and automatically connects the service to the patient’s medical record so the patient can be correctly identified. It creates a note on the patient’s chart that records me as having requested the consult, the time of the call, the amount of time spent on the call, the language used, and the translator’s ID#, for both legal and billing purposes. Me and the bean counters aren’t the best of friends, but from a legal perspective I like that it provides supporting evidence that I at least tried to talk / problem solve a safe resolution with the person before having to resort to restrictive / invasive interventions (and hey, that day it did work!)

The good Lord world want it that way!

My thought is that it also implies that there’s a good chance dinosaurs sang.

Just generally rude and running all over everybody’s boundaries at a whim

We went to move a patient to another room the other day because they were confused and trying to do unsafe things so we wanted to move them somewhere closer to the nurses station so we could keep a better eye on them. This conversation was also being had by way of a translator on video call on a work phone so we start guiding them down the hall while they’re confusedly babbling and I’m trying to keep the translator close in case real words happen to fall out that I need to understand.

Then the translator hollers out “please don’t give me a shot” and I was fumbling trying to get the phone close enough for the patient to hear me be like “NONONO we’re just moving you to a different room!” That translator earned her money that day. She was just about crying on the call by the end. There was other stuff about the overall situation that was also depressing but that moment in particular was very NO NO NO NO that is not what’s happening honey! Like I will if I have to but there’s about 20 more things I’m gonna try first!

Honestly this is just another example of why I had the translator app installed on all the work phones instead of just the iPad on the stand. So many people give up too quickly when the patient is confused and the translator can’t make sense of it and they don’t like pulling up the iPad on the stand because they don’t want to trip on it while running away or get hit with it but like. I’m a ten year veteran of talking people out of dumb decisions and the talking is actually pretty key, even and ESPECIALLY when the dumb decisions are actively happening.

Being neurodiverse and scoring well on standardized/IQ testing doesn’t excuse being an utter menace.

If you want something specific, simple, and believe it or not evidence based to do:

Do a simple, repetitive task that uses both your eyes and hands

• crocheting / knitting
• coloring
• simple arcade / phone style games such as Tetris, candy crush, or snake

…while listening to instrumental music. Jazz, classical, lofi, or EDM are all great options, but you might also consider a video game soundtrack

This will gently stimulate your subconscious to get some processing done kind of in the way walking / water aerobics is good for physical rehab.

lite.duckduckgo.com is my default search engine. I have other more specific searches for stuff like Wikipedia and sepiasearch, and I use duckduckgo regular for shopping.