Shiroc posted:

I didn’t touch the obviously cursed object but lmao

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

He's an ophthalmologist

he can fit you for glasses or fix your cataracts

Shiroc posted:

I'm curious about if the "millions of American lives" is because Hannity actually thinks the death and disablement toll is that large or if he just thinks lives were destroyed by the at most year and a half of inconsistent, half assed mitigation efforts.

rockear posted:

lol/lmao

Hearing one of her colleagues say “it’s better than nothing,” Sol Espinoza spoke up.

“I’d rather take nothing,” said Espinoza, a firefighter with Cal Fire in San Bernardino. Espinoza said she could never imagine wearing a constrictive device that makes it harder to breathe.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/firefighters-smoke-respirators-18405003.php

quote:

It's not much of a story. My crew rolled off a fire in Southern Oregon one morning and showed up on a Type 1 complex in Northern California that evening. Completed check-in, received our assignment for the next day and racked out. The next morning we showed up at briefing, trundled out to our division briefing and immediately knew we were in trouble when we saw 3 strike teams of city engines, complete with their crew in full turnouts/bunker gear and 3 other wildland rigs, a hand crew and a falling mod (sawyers) for the entire division. Now this would certainly make sense if the division was responsible for ANY amount of point protection (structures, inhabited or otherwise) but our entire division was chaparral and ponderosa pine, but I digress.

Div Supe had a palpable amount of disdain for us wildland guys and literally told our engines to 'guard a tree at the staging area' I wish I were making this up.




So I did what I could and followed the book to the letter, I flagged the hazard tree visibly and ensured we had someone watching it and informing others entering the work area of the hazard tree. Nobody was going to lose an oil pan on their rig on my watch.

The city rigs were sent down the line to hold fire watch, if you've never seen a city unit try to navigate a two track road, I assure you it's quite a sight, especially when they have to back down multiple miles of a road because they are physically unable to turn around.

In the afternoon apparently the Div Supe got tired of us warning him of the hazard tree in the staging lot every time he rolled through and told us to gently caress off up a hill somewhere he couldn't see or hear us anymore.

Unfortunately where he pointed on the map for us to gently caress off to had fire below, no lookouts established, no escape routes, and was out of radio communication with the rest of the division. We protested the assignment, on violation of rules #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 & 9 (see: NWCG Standard Orders) but didn't outright refuse the assignment.

After an extended lunch and a nap (we set our own lookout) we attempted to report a spot fire that had jumped the containment line, but were unable to establish radio contact with division, section or overhead. Thankfully two of the other wildland engines heard our traffic and were able to assist and we contained the spot fire at around 5 acres.

Around that time we finally heard some more panicked radio traffic indicating that the city units had completely lost the containment line due to a wind shift and we all now had a very active fire front a few hundred feet below us and they were attempting to evac before they lost equipment.

I turned on a second radio and attempted to contact the Air Boss, whom promptly informed me they were engaged trying to save equipment on the ground, and much to my surprise provided a description and coordinates to where we had stashed our truck a few miles back. The video in the bonus content is actually a drop they made near our truck to try and protect it, but had been "unable to contact the operators of the equipment" because they were not responding to calls on TAC or Air-to-Ground. We had been expressly prohibited by the Div Supe from monitoring or using frequencies not explicitly assigned to us, including A2G. gently caress you, my priority is crew safety, I'll monitor what I please.

At the end of the day, I failed to zip my phone back into my radio harness and in the ensuing chaos of trying to get out from an active fire front (from below!) it probably bounced out while we were running and working. They eventually drove a D8 Dozer down on our heads from uphill with no spotter/HEQB after we had secured part of the fire flank and I assume that phone turned into a puddle of plastic and glass or was crushed by the dozer, but I never found it. The city lads burned 3 entire trucks worth of hoses that day and we're huffing and puffing in their bunkers as they had to hike more than 50ft from their trucks to help us idiots that aren't "real firefighters"

That wasn't the first or last time CalFire tried to kill me that trip, or that year, but in short, gently caress CalFire and their incompetent Overhead. They added 2,500 acres to the fire that day iirc on our division alone.

The HEQB when we finally found him had parked his lowboy "back around the hill near a pink truck with some burned paint" It was a white truck, and gently caress scrubbing retardant off paint.

Steve Yun posted:

eyyyyyyy

Platystemon posted:

I’ll just leave this here.

Psycho Society posted:

Doesn't seem like anything to me

Chamale posted:

Alberta has a good answer for when "covid season" is. In case you can't view tweets, this says "The current [respiratory virus] season starts on August 27, 2023 and ends on August 24, 2024."

(..)

https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/4246341-the-summer-covid-surge-is-finally-waning-is-a-winter-wave-coming-soon/ posted:

The summer COVID surge is finally waning. Is a winter wave coming soon?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/boris-johnson-covid-prime-minister-experts-evans-b2429421.html posted:

Experts angered and disappointed over Boris Johnson’s long Covid remark
The then-Prime Minister said the condition was ‘Gulf War Syndrome’.

[ed. not actually in the article:]

(..)
A WhatsApp message in February 2021 from Mr Johnson was also referred to, saying “Do we really believe in long Covid? Why can’t we hedge it more? I bet it’s complete Gulf War Syndrome stuff.”
(..)

Jort Fortress posted:

Nearing 24hrs after the Novavax shot and regret to inform you that it hosed me up pretty good!

Chills, fever, body aches, pain in armpit, racing heart...basically everything the Moderna shots did to me, but slightly less intense. I will say that the symptoms seem to be going away faster and I'm about 75% back to normal. My wife is immunocompromised and only had light fatigue, WTF.

Rescue Toaster posted:

My understanding is that at the end of the day, even if they have different mechanisms, both types of vax present a bunch of basically the same spike proteins to your body to produce antibodies for. I wouldn't necessarily expect much difference in side effects.

Platystemon posted:

Jort Fortress posted:

Nearing 24hrs after the Novavax shot and regret to inform you that it hosed me up pretty good!

Chills, fever, body aches, pain in armpit, racing heart...basically everything the Moderna shots did to me, but slightly less intense. I will say that the symptoms seem to be going away faster and I'm about 75% back to normal. My wife is immunocompromised and only had light fatigue, WTF.

Raskolnikov2089 posted:

I finally finished reading Immune and would highly recommend it to the thread, or anyone who wants a good layman's overview of the immune system. I knew the immune system was complex, but had no idea as to the scale of the complexity. Even now I think I've only glimpsed the barest corner of the mountain. It's a fascinating read.

Now on to Necropolis.

Raskolnikov2089 posted:

I finally finished reading Immune and would highly recommend it to the thread, or anyone who wants a good layman's overview of the immune system. I knew the immune system was complex, but had no idea as to the scale of the complexity. Even now I think I've only glimpsed the barest corner of the mountain. It's a fascinating read.

Now on to Necropolis.

quote:

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IN A NUTSHELL: Overall this book is excellent. I'd recommend it to absolutely anyone who wants to try to understand all the moving parts of the universe inside your body that keeps you alive. The takeaways should be taken with a pinch of salt.

WHY ONE STAR?: Simply because you, dear review reader, probably sort by one star reviews to see the worst criticism and that's a little unfair. Five star reviews are often too enthusiastic to be taken seriously, and one star reviews are usually too angry to be useful. He already had more than enough 5 star reviews to have a nice rating overall and I wanted this review to be useful. In truth, this is a very good book.

Steve Yun posted:

oh cool I recognized the art style of the cover and turns out the book is by the kurzgesagt infographics YouTube guy

Platystemon posted:

Platystemon posted:

Chamale posted:

Alberta has a good answer for when "covid season" is. In case you can't view tweets, this says "The current [respiratory virus] season starts on August 27, 2023 and ends on August 24, 2024."

https://twitter.com/GosiaGasperoPhD/status/1712579319879627006/photo/1

euphronius posted:

I made that joke earlier !!

Raskolnikov2089 posted:

I finally finished reading Immune and would highly recommend it to the thread, or anyone who wants a good layman's overview of the immune system. I knew the immune system was complex, but had no idea as to the scale of the complexity. Even now I think I've only glimpsed the barest corner of the mountain. It's a fascinating read.

Now on to Necropolis.

Steve Yun posted:

should we assume moth juice wanes over 3-6 months like the mRNA

mawarannahr posted:

it's kinda interesting how Island seems to lag everyone else... i could speculate as to why, but is this pattern persistent?

Steve Yun posted:

so… anyone else wanna join me on the 6 month plan

get one free annual shot through insurance, pay for a 6 month booster out of pocket

figure that should cover the bases well enough for waning