Gregory Alan Isakov - Feed Your Horses
Also, anyone who is actually a licensed doctor or nurse spreading misinformation should be charged with fraud.
If you are contradicting your medical training, but using your medical credentials as support of your position, then you are committing fraud.
This may not be in the same vein, but don't 100% trust the people at the front desk that you talk to on the phone either when it comes to information about medical things. If you can find a way to ask a second opinion, do it.
I have binocular double vision. This means I see two things. I have my whole life. When I was like 1, my mom wanted to take me into get my eyes checked, cuz she could tell I probably needed glasses. So she called the place, and the lady at the front desk said she wasn't allowed to take me in until I was 3, so I could easily identify shapes.
So she waited 2 years, took my in, and my eye sight was awful. I also have esotropia, which means my right eye turns in. And the doctor asked why I wasn't brought in earlier. My mom explains it, and the doctor is livid. He says that she absolutely could have brought me in, and that if he knew who the lady was he would have had her fired.
If they had brought me in when i was one, I would have been given a eye patch to wear on my left eye, so my right eye could grow stronger. Doing this would have also most likely prevented my double vision from getting as bad as it is now. I didn't even know I had double vision until I was 16, because I assumed everyone saw that way, and I just mentioned it offhandedly during a check-up.
There is no cure for Binocular double vision, because it's technically not a physical issue. It's in my brain. And I can't get fully corrective lenses for it either. I need prisms in my glasses to help me see a single image, but i need 10+ prism. and having that high effects how clearly I can see things. I have to now choose between seeing one image like everyone else, or seeing clearly.
I have since gotten used to it, but i get headaches, and I have to stop doing things because I can't focus if my double vision flares up. (Idk if flare up is the right word, but if I get tired or focus for too long, then I struggle to ignore the second image. and by struggle, I mean its impossible for me to read or write until the flare up is gone)
Long story short, that one phone call, that one lady saying "hey, heres some misinformation" completely ruined my life. I can still do things, of course, but I can't use binoculars, I'm self conscious taking off my glasses cuz of my eye turning in, i can't even drive, and I probably will never be able to have normal vision ever. All because she told my mom the wrong thing.
So yeah. Misinformation sucks, and I agree that anyone who spreads it should be fired and/or have their license taken away.
North American Total Solar Eclipse, 8 April 2024
This is your friendly heads-up that if you want to travel to see the total solar eclipse coming up in the spring, now* is a good time to start making your arrangements!
This one will be visible as at least a partial eclipse to most of North America, with the path of totality cutting a diagonal from Sinaloa, Mexico to Newfoundland, Canada, including 15 US states from Texas to Maine.
Although we just had one a few years ago in 2017, we won't have another solar eclipse visible in the continental US until 2045--and the path of totality for the 2024 one is within driving distance for a much larger proportion of the US population than either 2017 or 2045. The Northeastern US won't see another until the 2070's.
For millions of people, including me, this will be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see a total solar eclipse without getting on a plane. Hotels in major cities along the path of totality are already starting to fill up.
Last time, in 2017, I was able to see the partial eclipse from where I live, but it wasn't feasible to travel to see the totality. I heard from people who did see the totality that it's really quite something, so I decided back then that I was going to go to this one. (The one in 2079 might be a bit closer to where I currently live, but I'll be 101 by then, so I figure I'd better not wait.)
Erie, PA is the closest place for me to see it, and I figured I'd camp. I started looking into it last night, and pickings are pretty slim already. I lucked into a camping cottage at a park 20 minutes' drive outside the path of totality--I think someone must've cancelled recently, for me to get it, because out 87 spots, all they had left was 9 tent/trailer sites, and the one cottage.
So anyway, if you want to go, it's an overnight trip for you, and you don't want to end up sleeping in your car at a rest area, now's* the time!
(*Actually several months ago would have been the best time, but the second-best time is now.)
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Buy your solar eclipse glasses and solar lens covers for your camera now.
I saw the 2017 eclipse and it was one of the coolest things I'd ever witnessed.
You won't want to miss this.
which one annoys you the most?
Sunday being considered "the day of rest"
video games that have xmas, easter, and/or halloween for literally no reason
days starting in the middle of the night for some reason
getting time off for xmas even though you'd rather not
not getting time off for holidays you actually celebrate
people who act like pork is gd's gift to humanity
folks who think everyone celebrates new years on jan 1st
"my sibling in christ" being treated like a normal, non-aggressive phrase
most charitable orgs/health things/homeless shelters being very xtian
just seeing roman execution devices everywhere you go, apparently
Xtian bibles - and ONLY xtian bibles - being offered in hotel rooms
when someone calls a religion a "faith"
enjoy my cultural-xtianity annoyance poll for today. plz behave in the notes.
I avoid writing the word "christ" where possible bc I am jewish and using the word that indicates Jesus is the moshiach and possibly devine is, for me, a form of idolatry. thanks.
always so scary to see a placw you’ve been irl online. like what are you doing on here
