Real Gs have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Until i cannot drink anymore to the point that I must bathe in it
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I would have so much respect for any doctor delaying my care for the sake of research
There's a time limit, however.
Right, but if he's geeking out, and I'm learning something, a couple of hours would be fine. Not that any doctor would spend that long on such a thing.
I had a psychiatrist like that.
Incidentally he was always about 3 hours behind schedule.
I have wasted so many hours of therapy sessions geeking out with my therapist about irrelevant shit
You will not believe the trivial BS my doctor and I talk about.
This with a full waiting room.
Usually I'm the one that says 'I really have to go now' after 45 minutes because I feel guilty.
Love this for all kinds of people! That genuine interest in their field is something I look for everywhere.
Once had a vet completely ignore me, greet my dog, and had to get a reminder from another member of the staff to realize/acknowledge that I was in the room too. Stuck with him until his retirement, he was the same until the end.
Though he did have a checklist his wife made for him some point after that first visit, which had as its first item - and I'm quoting here because he showed it to me after I had been going to him for years
Greet the HUMAN!
Its been a couple years since he retired, still can't find a vet as dedicated to animals as he was. Dogs, birds, turtles, whatever - if you could carry the animal in, he knew about it to an incredible detail.
Anything else good on that checklist that you remember now?
The rest were longer and its been a while, but there was one about asking if there were any questions before starting to check the animal, where to put the paperwork, things like that. His wife used to do all that with him at the office, she had a busted ankle or something going on with her leg iirc, and I think she made the first version of the list around then.
That was the only really stand out funny one though, the rest were more or less procedural bits.
We see him at the county fair sometimes, though he's getting a bit up there and slowing down. Doesn't remember me or my wife in the slightest but absolutely recognized our dog every time. She passed this year though so he probably won't know who we are without mentioning her.
This? Right here?
Is what human interaction is SUPPOSED to be like.
Too bad capitalism says that's not profitable.
"QUIT LOLLYGAGGING AND GET BACK TO WORK, PEASANT!"
The world would be exponentially better.
If you're an adult, at your workplace and react/interact like this, something very important is still alive and thriving in you.
It means you chose the right job. Or you have ADHD. Probably both?
What neat little creatures. The Green eye also is bioluminescent. Have 3 short videos: https://www.mbari.org/animal/strawberry-squid/
Bioluminescent eye?! Holy shit! That's freaking cool! I want bioluminescent eyes! I don't even know what for aside from aesthetics, but man that's neat! Mofo's the coolest kid on the block with that feature lol
when you need to see in the darkest dark, let your eyes also be a flashlight?
edit: videos linked above explained that it's fluorescent. theory is that it's a side-effect of having a fluorescent-filtering layer to the eye, which would help finding prey that use bioluminescence to blend in with the dim sunlight coming from above them
Yeah the linked article and videos were very informative, but I guess yeah as far as me wanting them I don't know. I guess a flashlight's as good a guess as any, aside from the cool factor lol
My kid (almost 10) takes guitar lessons.
His teacher is cool. He lets me bring my guitar and learn alongside him.
All three of us, I should add, have wicked ADD.
Most classes start out like this...we both tune up, my kid takes longer...I start playing whatever 3-4 chord song I've been working on that week. Teacher doesn't know what song it is.
But within a couple of bars he knows exactly what song I'm playing and continues the song and we're just a couple middle-aged ADD guys rocking out.
It makes doctor-patient interactions a lot easier when you walk into the room with an understanding that it requires an autistic level of dedication to actually study that shit and memorize it all.
and memorize it all.
i have some news
I honestly love that the optometrist stopped working to look up something just like we do!
I have to be frank here - no matter how cool this story may be, I was unable to make it very far because of the poor (read: complete lack of) capitalization and punctuation. It might be a me problem, but these things combined with it being a screenshot made this impossible to read without a headache.
This is a late-Gen Z/Gen A thing. They don't use punctuation or capitalization anymore. Apparently they view it as too formal or "fake". They relate it to "fake it til you make it" mentality in the workplace.
I know this is a "no the kids are wrong" take, but I just find it infuriating to read. I understand you want to be more genuine and I'm all for that....but if I can't fucking read what you write because it's 28 lines of all lower case, unpunctuated text....that's not a "professional" versus "being genuine" problem. That's broke ass communication.
As a millennial who didn't stop using the internet in 2015 I have no problem reading this. I don't write like that because it's not what I'm used to, but it's fine, it's social media not a professional presentation, chill.
It's just called illiteracy, it's not that complicated.
Not being able to read it is technically illiteracy in that specific context, sure.
Illiteracy is both the inability to read and write. Punctuation is a part of writing, and literacy.
Had no problem with it and I'm old.
You might want to start on a new line after a sentence yourself.
Reads much nicer.
And you're just gonna make us google it too
Now, that's a doc we all need around! 🥰
"Oh yeah your results say you're going blind, but why does it have a big yellow-green one and a small blue one? That's so weird..."
That's how you know you have a good doctor. If you tell them a cool fact even tangentially related to their field and they immediately want to learn more about it, they're a keeper.