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[SmilingJack]

So I had some business up in Hurdle Mills. The folks in Person County apparently believe Trump and Musk are saving so much money by the firings that we're all going to get a $5,000 stimulus check! I told a friend of mine in Graham about it and he said he heard it might be $2,500. All I could say was that I couldn't wait to get mine.

 

[Healing]

My one experience with morphine was in the ER after I cut my finger off. They gave me morphine for the pain. I was so loopy I was playing with my exposed bones.

I got a couple mils of IV dilaudid, on top of an epidural PCA, after having a chunk cut out of a tibia. Within 2 min I was floating on the moon, but more importantly, my respirations were 5 per min. I was quickly narcanned. On the flip side, I encounter many addicts in my work, and some of those folks consume/inject the equivalent of up to 50x that amount per day. That’s what makes shit like fentanyl so deadly, we all have very different chemistry/tolerance.

 

[Centerpiece]

Anybody doing the economic blackout thing today? Friday Feb 28…
I’m not sure if this will have any affect or effect - even if every single non-Trumper participated. But I’m in, just not sure if it’s going to matter one iota.

 

[nycfan]

 

[HandsonFire]

Continued

“… Work culture is “probably going to shift a little bit toward the harder end” for employees, said Lori Yue, associate professor of business at Columbia Business School.

Some companies may see the government’s actions as an opportunity to make drastic changes, work experts say.

“For companies that have been wanting to return to the office and push that agenda, this could be another piece of ammunition,” Bell said.

Tech start-ups, known traditionally to be more flexible than large corporations in their work policies, also are pushing more in-person work and longer hours, some within the community said. For founders, the new culture is something they think will give them a competitive edge.

… While unions continue to fight for worker rights, union participation hit a new low of about 10 percent of U.S. workers in 2024, down from 20 percent in 1983.

Trump also fired leaders of the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, both federal agencies that help protect workers. …”

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Out - work-life balance, work to live

In - live to work

No surprise there, anyone could see that a Trump/Musk combo was an enemy of labor. And yet MAGAts think they are here to help them…

 

[SmilingJack]

FAFO teamsters et al!

 

[nycfan]

 

[heelinhell]

Sleepy Joe gifted Trump a 2.6% PCE... It will be interesting to see the PCE by years end (assuming we are not in another Trump recession)

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pce-inflation-gauge-matches-expectations-offering-relief-to-fed-134539849.html

 

[nycfan]

 

[farce©]

My one experience with morphine was in the ER after I cut my finger off. They gave me morphine for the pain. I was so loopy I was playing with my exposed bones.

Morphine has no effect on me. None. I had kidney stones 40 years ago (before lithotripsy was a thing) and was in the hospital for several days before they finally had to go in to get it. I was on a Demerol IV which was very effective. One day, I was in excruciating pain and learned they had switched me from Demerol to morphine. They switched me back to Demerol and it was almost an immediate impact.

Years later, I went in for a TURP procedure. I woke up in recovery in tremendous pain. I asked what was going on and the nurse said they had me on morphine so she didn’t understand. I told her morphine didn’t work, so she found a doctor and he prescribed a switch to Demerol and again the relief was almost instant.

One other instance about ten years ago I went to the emergency with severe abdominal pain (I thought it was another kidney stone but it turned out to diverticulitis). Among all the activity I asked if they were going to give me anything for pain and they said there is a morphine drip in that IV. I told them it wasn’t working so the doctor gave me fentanyl and the pain was relieved immediately.

I live in fear of being involved in a serious accident and the EMTs only having morphine available. I have found a few other people over the years with this same issue of morphine being ineffective.

 

[finesse]

I mostly stay away from opiates. They cause terrible constipation for me. They had morphine as a fallback for me after my trach. I was able to settle for Tylenol. Since they said I couldn't leave until I was able to have a bowel movement, I decided the opiates weren't worth it.

There was a time back in the very early 70s that I had a fair amount of fun smoking opium. A bit of opium, some hash and some cognac made for some sweet dreams.

 

[nycfan]

Morphine has no effect on me. None. I had kidney stones 40 years ago (before lithotripsy was a thing) and was in the hospital for several days before they finally had to go in to get it. I was on a Demerol IV which was very effective. One day, I was in excruciating pain and learned they had switched me from Demerol to morphine. They switched me back to Demerol and it was almost an immediate impact.

Years later, I went in for a TURP procedure. I woke up in recovery in tremendous pain. I asked what was going on and the nurse said they had me on morphine so she didn’t understand. I told her morphine didn’t work, so she found a doctor and he prescribed a switch to Demerol and again the relief was almost instant.

One other instance about ten years ago I went to the emergency with severe abdominal pain (I thought it was another kidney stone but it turned out to diverticulitis). Among all the activity I asked if they were going to give me anything for pain and they said there is a morphine drip in that IV. I told them it wasn’t working so the doctor gave me fentanyl and the pain was relieved immediately.

I live in fear of being involved in a serious accident and the EMTs only having morphine available. I have found a few other people over the years with this same issue of morphine being ineffective.

That is crazy. I had morphine once when I had to have emergency gall bladder surgery and that hit me like a tidal wave. An extraordinary experience, TBH.

 

[nycfan]

 

[Calheel]

That will get the fed to cut interest rates. Unless we enter stagflation.

 

[heelinhell]

fake news...the Trump GDP growth will come in at 6% next quarter with inflation at 1% and the stock market up 15%

 

[superrific]

For the record, the median of the top 10% is also known as 95th percentile.

 

[grimes70]

Anybody doing the economic blackout thing today? Friday Feb 28…
I’m not sure if this will have any affect or effect - even if every single non-Trumper participated. But I’m in, just not sure if it’s going to matter one iota.

My sister did a mass text and stuff urging everyone she knows to do it. think it needed wider public coverage to have any effect. I had not heard of it til then.

 

[grimes70]

I mostly stay away from opiates. They cause terrible constipation for me. They had morphine as a fallback for me after my trach. I was able to settle for Tylenol. Since they said I couldn't leave until I was able to have a bowel movement, I decided the opiates weren't worth it.

There was a time back in the very early 70s that I had a fair amount of fun smoking opium. A bit of opium, some hash and some cognac made for some sweet dreams.

Never been one for downers but dabbled a bit. Had a buddy who was stationed in Korea who would write me letters with sticky black stuff smeared on. Yes it was opium. As you say sweet dreams.

 

[finesse]

Never been one for downers but dabbled a bit. Had a buddy who was stationed in Korea who would write me letters with sticky black stuff smeared on. Yes it was opium. As you say sweet dreams.

Weren't my thing for the most part but a couple of my buddies had just gotten back from Vietnam and had some sort of thing going. Don't really know what but bits and pieces came my way.

 

[UNCatTech]

That will get the fed to cut interest rates. Unless we enter stagflation.

There's no way this can be true. Trump has the keys to the best economy ever, he told us so. And he told us he was going to give it to us, because we are so deserving.