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I'm a nurse, not a doctor, just gonna chime in here that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a thing:

https://www.heart.org/en/news/2022/04/14/fatty-liver-disease-not-caused-by-alcohol-is-common-and-often-missed

In general, any kind of sudden changes to your normal functioning are things you should probably be discussing with a physician, even if you're young and otherwise healthy. The really encouraging news is that, if this is indeed caused by a health problem, you're young enough that it's really likely you can completely reverse it and get back to 100%. And if it's not, then no harm done by seeing a doctor and confirming that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(Also, not to scare you, but no I wouldn't expect to see that dramatic a decrease in alcohol tolerance over the course of just a couple of years at your age. I think it's worth talking to a doctor about this.)

It's amazing to me how people really believe illegal economic immigrants to the United States are just like "nah man, fuck the paperwork, trudging my way across a life-threatening desert is so much easier"

I wonder what could possibly create a positive incentive to do something so insane? It couldn't be that getting legal immigration is almost impossible, could it? Surely it's the poor people who are wrong.

Oh wait...

"Because of the numerical caps and per-country caps on certain green-card categories...as of November 2018, there were 3.7 million people waiting in line abroad for a family-sponsored green card, and 121,000 awaiting an employment-sponsored green card."

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/content/explainer-how-us-legal-immigration-system-works

WE'RE the problem. We simply DO NOT PROVIDE a reasonable legal framework for people who want to come to the United States to do so. They're still here, mind you. So clearly those county-based immigration caps are very effective.

If we want to end illegal immigration, then we need to reform the immigration system so more people can do it legally.

Well, the US Supreme Court unfortunately decided to agree with him in 2010

This is what I do as well. That's when my middle-aged ass realized I've actually turned into my 9yo nephew lol

Hahaha, as a nurse, I think you should become a nurse. This is a clinical skill we are taught called "therapeutic use of self."

I will selectively tell stories from my own personal background explicitly for the sake of drawing more information out of a patient, letting them know they're not alone I've been through something similar, or sometimes just a funny anecdote to distract them from something uncomfortable.

But it's never about something I'm particularly interested in talking about. It's only because it's relevant to the patient's current situation and I feel like it might help them in some way. Because, after all, love y'all and everything, but I'm at work here, not trying to socialize with ya.

And yes...it sometimes feels a little sociopathic lol

Rewatching the Extended cuts is also a Christmas tradition of mine

I'm really sorry. Just to offer a little hope, a friend of mine at church was beset with almost daily migraines when she hit retirement age, if you can believe that. Several years of trying everything, and a hail Mary pass trying amitriptyline of all things finally calmed them down. She still has mild symptoms when weather fronts roll through, but it's much improved.

I really hope you find something that works well for you. Migraines suck.

No, it's the even more clever business model where I convince half my employees that if they just work a few extra minutes a day off the clock or work through their legally mandated lunch breaks, but still allow me to automatically deduct their pay for the break, then someday I'll notice all their hard work and reward them for it... someday.

Friendly reminder that wage theft outweighs all other robberies combined:

https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-billion-crime-against-workers/

Lmfao that is not at all what Republicans mean by smaller government. They literally mean "no government regulations of any kind"

https://theconversation.com/the-shutdown-drowning-government-in-the-bathtub-111333

"Many believe that government is at best superfluous and at worst a drag on a free market. It has long been their aim to cut taxes to “starve the beast.”

Grover Norquist, who founded Americans for Tax Reform in 1985 at the urging of President Reagan, declared in 2001: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”"

They want government taxation and regulation at ALL levels GONE (except when it's convenient for their political agenda, we see)

What you're talking about is their disingenuous pretending that they care about local government and "states' rights" to hide their real agenda.

(Funny enough "states' rights" was also used as an excuse to maintain and expand slavery before the Civil War. So never forget that bigots have always been liars because they know they're wrong and evil.

https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/causes-of-the-civil-war/#:~:text=A%20key%20issue%20was%20states,Another%20factor%20was%20territorial%20expansion.)

I don't know where you got your information from, but they're wrong. I lived through the 80s; I've been listening to Republicans talk about "small government" for 40 years. They only care about being able to handicap taxation and regulations that cost corporations money.

What? No lol. I don't think you understand how government regulation works. Stopping abortion bans was just a handful of Justice Department lawyers prosecuting lawsuits on Constitutional grounds. Enforcing abortion bans will require any number of absurd bureaucracies - auditors to review medical records, police to investigate reports of illegal behavior, prosecutors to litigate cases, some kind of agency to enforce any fines levied, more prisons.

Enforcing a ban requires massively more government intervention than filing a few lawsuits did.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that Inca Dove is offensive so much as it's inaccurate, and while we're doing a mass name change, might as well change that one too.

Honestly, I wish we would just bite the bullet and do this with a lot of inaccurately named biochemistry stuff lol

Two cats is the perfect number of cats. It's hard when they adopt you though.