Kolanaki

Kolanaki , 8 days ago

I have 20 BAs, 17 AAs, and 4 doctorates.

If only 1 of them was in my name... 😮‍💨

Kolanaki , 10 days ago

Here's the entire article just copy&pasted:

The union representing nurses at Riverside Community Hospital has been ordered to pay more than $6 million to the hospital for the fallout from a 2020 strike.

The unusual financial penalty was imposed by an arbitrator who found the 10-day work stoppage during the pandemic violated the terms of the labor agreement signed by HCA Healthcare, which operates the hospital, and Service Employees International Union Local 121RN. The $6.26-million fine, the arbitrator determined, was necessary to compensate the hospital for the cost of replacing workers who walked off the job during the strike, according to a statement released Wednesday.

Nurses walked off the job in June 2020 in an effort to force the hospital to increase staffing and improve safety as COVID-19 infections surged, the union said at the time. But hospital officials argued that because nurses also voiced complaints about shortages of personal protective equipment, the reasons for the strike were too expansive to be allowed under the collective bargaining agreement the two sides had signed.

“Our contract was clear, and the union showed reckless disregard for its members and the Riverside community by calling the strike,” said Jackie Van Blaricum, president of HCA Healthcare’s Far West Division, who was the hospital’s chief executive during the strike. “We applaud the arbitrator’s decision.”

SEIU 121RN Executive Director Rosanna Mendez objected to the arbitrator’s findings, saying nurses were permitted under their contract to go on strike. She called the arbitrator’s decision “absurd and outrageous.”

“It is absolutely shocking that an arbitrator would expect nurses to not talk about safety issues,” Mendez said, adding that the union was exploring its options to contest the arbitrator’s decision.

Kolanaki , 11 days ago

I can read some of those characters. The only word I know in there is "please" though. However, I've only been learning for 13 days.

Kolanaki , 11 days ago

I'm using Duolingo. That should be good enough to start learning, right? I don't expect to be able to read and write all 50,000 kanji through it, but I hope to at least eventually be able to watch Japanese media without subtitles.

Kolanaki , 10 days ago

Wow, damn. Right info at the right time. Watching his 800+ Days on Duolingo vid and I'm at the exact same point he started using other things. TYSM! 😃

Kolanaki , 11 days ago

If you haven't already BEARD about it...

Is that pun on purpose or is it just the typography and that actually does say "heard?"

Kolanaki , 12 days ago

To be fair, $22/hour is still not a living wage here.

Kolanaki , 13 days ago

"Why, to better to hear your screams of course."

Kolanaki , 14 days ago

That's one hell of an assumption. It's not gonna break down equally across the entire spring. Whatever the weakest point is will eventually wear away first and cause it to break because of all the tension in it.

Even if it could dissolve equally across the entire spring, the outer parts would go first and it eventually will dissolve away from the things holding it in place and release that tension. If it doesn't just break due to the dissolving metal weakening the structure while still under tension.

I feel like to get the meat and potatoes of the question a better way of asking would be what would happen to the potential energy if the spring was instantly vaporized, like by a Star Trek phaser.

Kolanaki , 7 days ago

Any sufficiently cute doggo. The first time I walked my first dog through the local city fall festival, I was swarmed by ladies wanting to pet him.

Kolanaki , 14 days ago

If both my dogs get out, I only need to catch one to get the other one to come back.

Kolanaki , 17 days ago

Yeah that sounds super fun for the kids. Not.

If they wanna pay me, I'd wear the cow suit tho.

Kolanaki , 17 days ago

Radios receiving signals don't just siphon the signal off lol

What you're asking would only really happen with wireless Internet service and it's not because of the wireless signal, but because the overall bandwidth diminishes the more people connect to it.

Kolanaki , 17 days ago

Actually, the waves emitted by the radio tower are enough for a receiving device to generate a small electrical current just through the oscillations of the propagating signal.

Kolanaki , 23 days ago

I want a dog to care about me more than I think they do

That would be pretty much any dog, really.

Kolanaki , 28 days ago

But then he accidentally shits himself trying to fart and you forget all about that.

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

I like her in so far as that she made Data even stronger by constantly challenging him. But she is also a stark contrast of the rest of the vibe on the show. Clearly they wanted a Bones analogue but it just didn't work. I've also read a lot about how she operated on set and didn't seem like everyone really got along with her, which kinda shows in the season.

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

If "quiet quitting" was just doing the absolute bare minimum, wtf is "quiet vacationing?" Showing up to work but then spending all day in VR at a virtual beach while at your desk? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

I don't want to live in a world where I have to assume there are recording devices in bathrooms. 😬

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

How fast would the water have to be traveling for this to actually work? Pretty sure there was a waterslide built with a loop once and it infamously didn't work, but those work on gravity alone. With enough pressure it should be able to loop, right? Or would it just get wonky because it's a fluid? 🤔

I feel like this could be one of those things that works perfectly if you make a small model, but won't ever scale up due to reasons.

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

I was actually more curious about the water itself and forgot we were even talking about a boat lol. Could you force that much through an open loop without it sloshing back inward?

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

Dog.

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

Per the alt text: How do we know that particles are the smallest bits? Let's zoom in even further.

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

What is nothing made of?

Oooh! I know this one! It's Quantum Foam! 😁

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

How do we know Teddy is high?

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

I have a followup question: When scientists are taking these images, are they just static snapshots or does the technology to see them doing their thing in real time exist? Are they even actually "pictures" in that sense, or are they just representations of things we can't actually see?

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

intrusive thoughts:: "Pop it in your mouth and swallow."

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

Heelies should be at least below the middle line.

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

I wish I was cute enough that using the same strategy a cat uses would work. I want the same things... Shelter, food, belly rubs and the occasional saucer of cream.

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

Is it ok? It looks a bit messed up and the final image looks like there's a smear of blood on the gravel.

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

I was surprised by a zebra in a field here in California when I was doing work that had me driving to a lot of farms all over the state. I didn't know you could just have a zebra like you could a horse.

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

Whoa the pictured alien is a Breen?

No wonder they wear those masks.

Kolanaki , 1 month ago

And pogs.

Hey... 😟

Kolanaki , 2 months ago

Not pictured: The prophets getting super annoyed at the increased traffic.

Kolanaki , 2 months ago

If you're in some kind of science experiment where you're being conditioned to not stop touching something: Yes.

Kolanaki , 2 months ago

Blame English for having the rule for possessive form being "apostrophe s" on every word except "it."

Kolanaki , 2 months ago

I would imagine whatever the Steam Deck uses. You can install it on a desktop, and is literally intended for gaming. IDK if they are still referring to it as SteamOS or if it's entirely different from that old shit.

Kolanaki , 2 months ago

E-F-I-L-I-N-G

E-filing? 🤨

Kolanaki , 2 months ago

When I turned 21, my dad took me to a Star Trek thing in Vegas. There was a Borg invasion sim and then we got to have drinks at Quarks (I got some gigantic fucking fish bowl of blue stuff). It was fun, but I barely remember it because of that giant blue drink. lol

I had gotten a shirt that was a riff on the old "Im with Stupid" joke that said "I'm with Illogical." I don't know where it is now tho...

Kolanaki , 2 months ago

Romulans.

They actually show their emotions and we don't know a helluva lot about them, and I'd be interested in learning. It'd be hard at first; they are paranoid AF about anything not Romulan. But I think I could get them to see humans aren't trying to "get" them.

Kolanaki , 2 months ago

Because then it would be Spring Theory and not String Theory.

Kolanaki , 2 months ago

My thanks to the person who discovered your body and decided to click the send button.

Kolanaki , 2 months ago

In my case, having something to keep me busy makes time move along faster so I'd rather have constant work than downtime so it feels like I am getting done with work and going home faster.

Reading/using my phone does the opposite. 30 minutes feels like 2 hours. I want 2 hours to feel like 30 minutes. Factory and routines that never end don't work this way, though. But stocking shelves or cleaning toilets does; I think it's because I can actually see that I have accomplished something, unlike when you do 1/100th of building the same exact thing for 8-10 straight hours and don't even necessarily see the end result.

Kolanaki , 2 months ago

For real. I don’t want X brand coffee in a Spock package.

I want Spock flavored coffee.

Kolanaki , 2 months ago

I thought the C word in question was going to be “customer”

Kolanaki , 2 months ago

I mean, conservatives got roe v wade repealed and a bunch of other stupid shit moving us backwards instead of forward.

Pretty sure it ain’t the progressives making themselves sad. It’s the neanderthals dragging us backwards making us sad.

Kolanaki , 2 months ago

Dat editor’s update tho.

Editors’ Note, April 2, 2024: After publication, The Times learned that Troy and Andrew Nelson were named in a civil lawsuit filed in Pierce County Superior Court in 1998, in which they were accused of molesting three disabled adults in a state-licensed facility that they operated. After a six-week jury trial, Washington State was ordered to pay $17.8 million to the plaintiffs. The state said it intended to appeal but missed the deadline and paid the victims. The Nelson brothers denied the allegations and were never criminally charged.