Professor Professorson

Pattern recognitionist and logical assumptionist. 🇨🇦 Homesteader, homeschooler, food grower, libertarian.

[Professor Professorson @ProfessProfess]

@stormchasernick Canada, whenever there’s a tornado.

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@HandyGingerGal Love a cruller, such a great use of eggs and so much faster than a yeast or cake doughnut.

You can pipe small blobs directly into the hot oil to make Cruller “holes”. I toss them in powdered sugar & lemon zest or cinnamon.

[Professor Professorson @ProfessProfess]

@howisthismylif Funniest post of the day goes to 👆

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@Marielaina3 They’re going to choose it for life. Denial and flailing will continue indefinitely.

[Professor Professorson @ProfessProfess]

We finally had 12 hours of rain here that actually saturated the soil.

Beforehand, I planted my old & unused veg seeds in all empty garden soil for hours on end.

Carrots, beans, beets, sunflowers, cucumbers, herbs, squashes, pumpkins.

If anything grows: it’s free food.

[Tyler Todt @tyromper]

SCHOOL IS NOT FOR BOYS.

When my son was 4 we enrolled him at Montessori school.

Their mission statement is:

"To cultivate the "whole child" by providing a prepared, stimulating environment that fosters independent thought, self-directed learning, & a lifelong love of education."

My son is all BOY.
We were assured this would be a great environment for him & he could roam & play a lot!

A week in they pull my wife aside to say he isn't sitting still in the circle during reading & art times...... how long are those my wife asks? 45 minutes each.

He's also not sitting quietly during other times too they scolded.

You want our 4 year old boy sitting quietly for 45 straight minutes multiple times a day????
WHY? And if so you had better run him through an hour of tough cardio, sprints, & relay races first!

It kept escalating the next few weeks until we heard similar..... he needs meds, can't sit still, too aggressive.

We pulled him out.

School isn't for BOYS.

Only in academia is LOW ENERGY valued & HIGH energy + curiosity demonized.

Our young boys aren't broken.
Our schools are broken & failing them.

[Professor Professorson @ProfessProfess]

And Canada rolls out the welcome carpet. This place…

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BREAKING: The Somali referee who was denied entree into the U.S. had an “association with suspected members of terror organizations.”

Democrats are really mad that we didn’t let someone who reportedly has ties to terrorist organizations into our country.

Let that sink in.

[Professor Professorson @ProfessProfess]

@wrowclif Winning at life.

[Katewerk @katewerk]

Has anyone bothered to ask how it came to pass that "temporary" foreign workers can qualify for 30 year mortgages with @RBC?

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[Jas @keepontruckin78]

I just tried to get on a family doctor waitlist in BC and was sent an “intake form” that reads less like healthcare and more like onboarding into a disciplinary regime.

Let me walk you through how a clinic can quietly strip away your sense of rights and agency before you’ve even met a doctor.

First, the vibe: you’re not greeted as a person with needs. You’re treated as a potential problem to be controlled. The form opens with medical history, then rapidly shifts into a wall of clinic policies, “I Agree” checkboxes, and threats of termination.

You’re told “INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ADDED TO WAITLIST,” which is wild when there’s a family doctor shortage. Miss a checkbox in this maze and you don’t even get the privilege of waiting. [1]

Then the consent pile-on starts.

You’re asked to consent to:

- PharmaNet access
- Care Connect access
- E‑messaging over explicitly “not secured” channels
- Doctors using “AI-assisted tools during consultation”

No explanation of what AI tools, what data they touch, where it goes, or whether you can say no without losing care. Just a checkbox: “I consent doctors utilize AI-assisted tools during consultation.”

That is not meaningful consent. That is “click accept on the EULA if you want a doctor.”

Now let’s talk recording and privacy.

The form says you “accept” that audio/video recording in public areas (like the waiting room) is not permitted and may lead to “discontinuation of the therapeutic relationship and termination from the practice.”

Then it goes further: any recording of your doctor or their staff in the exam room or virtual visit, “without her/their permission and/or knowledge,” may also lead to termination. If you *do* record with permission, you “must” give them a copy as part of your medical record.

So the clinic can document you in their systems, but your ability to document them is treated as a threat to be controlled, and potentially a reason to cut you off from care.

In an era of medical gaslighting, disability struggles, and patients needing their own record for self‑advocacy, that should set off alarms.

Then comes the termination section.

The clinic lists reasons it may end the physician‑patient relationship, including but not limited to:

- “Excessive use of outside walk-in clinics”
- “Routinely showing up late to appointments or missing appointments (even if no-show fees are paid)”
- “Significant breakdown in the physician-patient relationship, including irremediable differences in philosophy of care”
- “If the practice size is decreased/reduced for any reason”

And then the kicker: this list “is not exhaustive,” meaning they reserve the right to terminate you for other reasons they haven’t stated.

So you’re supposed to sign away your acceptance of a policy where:

They can drop you if you seek care elsewhere when you can’t get in.
They can drop you even if you pay their fees.
They can drop you over “philosophy of care” differences.
They can drop you whenever they feel like shrinking their panel.
And they explicitly reserve the right to add other reasons later.

All of this is presented as if it’s just normal admin housekeeping.

Meanwhile, you’re the one expected to be perfectly compliant: cancel 24 hours ahead or pay, arrive late and you may be penalized, use other providers “too much” and you risk being discharged.

This is what power imbalance looks like on paper.

It doesn’t *say*: “We will treat you with dignity, collaborate on decisions, and work through disagreements like adults.”

It says: “We will control the terms, keep our options open to discharge you, and you will accept that as a condition of getting on our list.”

And it’s all wrapped in that classic, soothing healthcare tone: “We appreciate your honesty,” “Thank you for your understanding,” “We respect your decisions…”

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[Jas @keepontruckin78]

2/2
But underneath the soft language is a hard structure:

- Consent is bundled, not negotiated.
- Termination is broad, not exceptional.
- Recording is treated as a threat, not a tool for patient safety.
- AI is pushed as a checkbox, not explained as a risk/benefit tradeoff.

If you’re desperate for a family doctor in BC, you’re expected to swallow all of this just to be allowed to wait.

This is exactly how systems teach people to accept less than they deserve: normalize the idea that you’re lucky to get any care at all, then attach a long list of one‑sided conditions to that “luck.”

The clinic might say, “We need policies to protect staff and manage limited resources.”

Fine. Have policies. But policies can be written in ways that either respect or erode patient agency.

Here are some examples of how this could have been different:

Instead of “we may terminate you for using walk-in clinics,” they could say: “We ask you to let us coordinate your care. If you need walk-in care, please inform us so we can integrate those notes.”

Instead of “recording may lead to termination,” they could say: “We respect patients who want to document their care. To protect everyone’s privacy, let’s agree on how recording will work and where copies will live.”

Instead of a single checkbox for AI, they could provide a plain-language page: “Here’s what AI tools we use, what they see, how we protect your data, and how to opt out.”

Instead of a non-exhaustive list of reasons to terminate you, they could bind themselves to professional standards that make discharge rare, justified, and properly transitioned.

But they didn’t.

They chose to front‑load control. They chose to ask patients to walk into a relationship where they have less recording power, less leverage, less clarity, and more fear about being dropped.

If you are writing or reviewing policies in healthcare, this is your reminder:

You cannot build trust by handing people a contract that screams “you are the problem we’re managing” and then slapping “therapeutic relationship” on top.

A therapeutic relationship is not something you secure with “I Agree” checkboxes. It’s something you earn with transparency, humility, and mutual respect.

What this intake packet shows is not just one clinic’s approach. It’s a symptom of a system where scarcity and burnout are being offloaded onto patients as conditions of entry.

If you’re in BC and you see forms like this: read carefully. Ask questions. Push back on bundled consents. And remember: needing care does not mean you forfeit your right to be treated as a full human being.

Link to original form:

https://t.co/1rpc4Ltxzq

[Ken Edwards @KenEdwards22971]

@visegrad24 Crazy, the city is in flames, but not one single Irish woman has to worry about walking home in the dark tonight.

[Scott Aspinall @ScottAspinall5]

#skstorm #ndwx may be producing a tornado now. Approaching Oxbow 7:10PM #stormhour

[Professor Professorson @ProfessProfess]

@DebbieCRC @mrmikeMTL A genuine classic. And still a solid ride if you can find one. 😁

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@MarkReid42 Excellent diced and roasted on pizza too

[Professor Professorson @ProfessProfess]

“I’m too busy with summer activities to plant a food garden” is not a good look this year.

If you have available dirt, put some food seeds in the ground. If food grows, you can eat it or share it.

Self-sufficiency is worth making planting one of your ‘summer activities’.

[Professor Professorson @ProfessProfess]

If a Canadian politician says they’re doing something “for Canadians” then gets so many negative comments on X disagreeing with them that they have to turn off replies…

It’s NOT for Canadians.

[Professor Professorson @ProfessProfess]

I made stew with Bay leaves in it, showed them to my daughter and said:

“These make food more tasty but they can be dangerous. I’m in charge of looking out for Bay when you’re little, then you’ll be in charge when you’re grown.”

Thats how parents should deal with social media too.

I don’t need the government to ban Bay leaves for my daughter not to choke on one.

And I don’t need them to take charge of when and how she accesses social media and the internet as she grows up.

That’s my responsibility as a parent.

Not the government.

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@VigilanteFarmer Finally