Dear Midwest, I’ve been in Tokyo for the past week for the @Olympics & I’ve noticed that my instinctual use of “Ope!” is universally understood by Japanese and other nationalities. Language barriers have been broken. 😉 @midwestern_ope
@AbakpaJob@BrentAWilliams2 I think about this all the time. And if one was poisonous… there was no way to spread the warning far and wide (& fast enough). We are so chronically privileged.
@arkm2563@Libs_OfChicago My wife used to be trauma surgery resident at Sinai. Insane stories every goddamn night. Plenty of chest cracking. Best of luck to your daughter. 🫡
I wish they were more widely celebrated as superstars… but I understand why they aren’t. There’s no audience in that operating room. Those unbelievable feats go unseen and are often more complex than accurately putting a ball through a hoop.
A neurosurgeon teamed up with an ENT surgeon to remove my wife’s brain tumor this week. Flawless intense life saving work. They’re absolute gods for what they do & deserve every bit of the comfortable salary they earn.
Strange that they both make less than a rookie in the NBA.
I know this gets debated all the time. NBA careers are shorter than most surgeons. There’s an audience…Etc etc. As a former pro athlete myself I support them making good money. (Sub NBA for any entertainment career) My point: the difference in societal impact is stark.
@royalpratt@MariahWoelfel So a white girl puts her hero cape on while refusing the pay $10K.. meanwhile my wife works until midnight on a Sunday saving lives in an operating room and pays 10X+ that to the feds annually. Her slack will be covered by the real ones.