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Freaquency posted:Also because I know all you degens want to know: Oh no I did not want to know this. Time to, uh, unplug.
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Jan 1, 2024 15:40
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Leper obliterated me in word count, I just flooded the zone with brevity.
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Jan 2, 2024 05:26
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I’m not ashamed. I post a lot when I’m working between calls, because it’s an easy place to browse and you can pick it up and put it down at will. It’s hard to get into a book when you’re posted on a street corner and calls are constantly going off. It’s only ~4/day anyway
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Jan 2, 2024 05:37
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Qwijib0 posted:40 with 6/2, so I'm on this pace. Definitely glad I waited, even though I am more tired than I want to be. 40 with a 7yo. I feel way more capable of handling the ups and downs of parenthood but *gently caress* am I just tired.
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Jan 2, 2024 17:16
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Braksgirl posted:I say this with love and not that you'll necessarily do this, but if you're going to go into parenthood resentful because it was her dream and not yours, then cut her loose now. Parenthood loving sucks like 85% of the time so if you're not all in and prepared to be a useful and equitable partner, then don't do it. Agreed. It is impossible to convey to someone how much emotional and physical labor goes into having a child. Having a kid *for* someone else, if you’re not totally bought in, will result in resentment from you because of the workload, or from her when you have to mentally check out to deal with it. Wife and I were 100% bought in, financially prepared and educated on the promise and pitfalls and it’s still by far the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life by ten thousand miles. I’d never undo it and love (LOVE) being a dad, but holy moly I could not imagine doing it if I weren’t 100% in. Edited to add that we got married at 29/28 and took 4 years just being married and together as a couple before having a kid. That made a big difference because we wanted to be sure that we were prepared and that we felt we wanted to add to our family. Giving yourself breathing room is important, and we got to a place where we felt like we wanted to build our family further beyond the sort of nebulous “I want kids one day.” LeeMajors fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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Jan 2, 2024 18:51
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shirts and skins posted:if you think the change from potato to toddler is something, wait til you see the change from toddler to full on kid. my oldest turned 5 in September and she's like suddenly...a person. like, the hindbrain and forebrain stuff connected, she can reason through things, and she comes up with all kinds of amazing questions and ideas. This really is stunning to see. What surprised me most was like the sudden development of a strong sense of humor. She was already a pretty funny kid but she really like had comedic timing and hits observational humor super hard. It’s amazing.
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Jan 3, 2024 14:08
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I called off today because some days you just have to Hit Da Bricks.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:13
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Amy Pole Her posted:Flu is definitely going around. I’ve been sick 2 days so far The relatively sleep ER close to my current EMS district had the walls lined with beds and had no beds upstairs for admissions last week. Its as bad as I've seen it since they had to turn an entire stepdown floor into Covid ICU.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:56
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Us and Nope were both incredible too.
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Jan 3, 2024 20:24
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FizFashizzle posted:Siri show me depressing as poo poo It’s super fun how the economy has unraveled completely for young people in less than like 40 years.
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Jan 4, 2024 17:52
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lol https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1743106354879844596?s=20
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Jan 5, 2024 16:38
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Grittybeard posted:This person was an ambassador to the United Nations and viewed as the sanest R candidate. I will never tire of espousing my hatred of Nikki Haley. Just a soulless bag of poo poo. Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:I look forward to them dealing with the herpes that is lung disease. 
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Jan 5, 2024 17:27
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seiferguy posted:Was just asked if I wanted to travel to middle of nowhere, South Carolina on Monday for work lol what town? I have to know
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Jan 6, 2024 00:15
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seiferguy posted:Anderson. Basically was like "lol no, my college football team is in the championship, I can in on zoom, thank you" Oh, sir, we have way more middle of nowhere than that now. Haha. But yeah, that would’ve been a bad choice go huskies
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Jan 6, 2024 00:28
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Happy birthday SB, may your tigahs fall to the gators in the CWS once again, but all else should go swimmingly!
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Jan 9, 2024 17:52
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Silly Burrito posted:Nick Saban is retiring. Holy poo poo. Best ever. Goddamn. Wonder who they call on? Dabo?
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Jan 10, 2024 23:50
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Bama hasn’t had a coaching search in the modern social media environment so this has potential to get really hilarious, really quickly.
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Jan 11, 2024 02:37
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swickles posted:Ooohhh, was plane tracking even a thing when Saban got hired? I feel like he just squeaked in before that became main stream. It was, but rudimentary and limited to homer message boards. Now that I’ve mentioned it though, there will be a drama-free successor named. But I’m hoping it gets appropriately buckwild
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Jan 11, 2024 02:49
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My daughter’s school district has started doing early dismissal or outright elearning days for loving thunderstorms. In the south.  I don’t know how anyone is expected to work ever, and we are fortunate to have my wife working from home and I have a fairly unusual schedule with lots of weekdays off. Still a loving nightmare. This is in addition to the minimum of one holiday per month, an additional teacher workday and another early dismissal with no aftercare programs.
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Jan 12, 2024 03:12
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:It's been great. Also great: transporting a guy to the hospital 20 miles away in said storm because he vomited once. Last night. Is this rare for yall? It’s like an immutable law here that we will get a call for back pain x2 weeks, general malaise, cold-like symptoms or some other nonsense as soon as weather kicks up. Had sciatica x2 days in a tornado warning earlier this week. Waited right until the squall line got to us.
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Jan 12, 2024 18:23
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:Not rare, just ... What's the word I'm looking for... Awe-inspiring? Most of the time we get the aforementioned "This has been hurting for 2 weeks" call at 3am because they couldn't sleep calls. All chronic maladies are invariably unbearable at 3am or just as the bottom falls out. Couple that with the predictable flood of unhoused folks borrowing phones to call for shortness of breath or chest pain coincidentally when it starts raining or the temp drops….. 
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Jan 13, 2024 02:26
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Android Apocalypse posted:I'm mildly happy my city has warming/cooling stations for inclimate weather and the city's public transportation system will not charge folks that are heading there. Our public transit is pretty miserable and I totally get trying to get off the street but we don’t have enough loving ambulances to run the actual emergencies. These types of calls put an appreciable strain on our system whenever the weather changes. It’s very predictable—all the parks and abandoned banks and poo poo ping calls when it starts raining hard, or gets windy or cold at all. And i know most of those folks by name, and have memorized most of their birthdates. It’s loving inappropriate. Particularly when the hospital is going to street them in under 90min anyways.
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Jan 13, 2024 02:52
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Android Apocalypse posted:https://i.imgur.com/3PixU2B.mp4 This is adorable. Also she needs her goggles.
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Jan 13, 2024 19:09
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It’s been rainy and miserable lately in Charleston and it’s like slightly too humid and not sunny enough to dry up. So basically I’ve got a soggy goldendoodle I wash multiple times a week who hates wet paws and refuses to piss in the rain.
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Jan 13, 2024 19:22
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Joey Freshwater posted:I came down to Florida with the gf to visit her college friends. They’re all married so I’m hanging out with their husbands while the girls go off and do stuff. We played golf today and I swear to god they haven’t stopped complaining about their wives. Idk if it’s like bro culture or whatever but it’s annoying as hell. They tried roping me in like “does your girl annoy you too?” And I’m like…no, she’s awesome and I love hanging out with her wtf, and even if she did I wouldn’t talk poo poo about her to you losers. Wife complainers are the worst. I’m never quite sure if it’s a cultural expectation among bros or what, but like, marriages and relationships are voluntary endeavors and you’re supposed to be a team.
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Jan 14, 2024 20:45
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GD_American posted:Meet Henry James. He is so stinkin' cute. Ahhhhhh
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Jan 15, 2024 22:26
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swickles posted:I mean I am not gonna lie, would. It took awhile but your Florida Man is showing. Also yeah same.
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Jan 16, 2024 16:21
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My daughter talked me into downloading Minecraft so she could play a bit easier (she’s been playing World of Cubes on her tablet) and I’m pretty sure I’m straight up going to lose many hours of my life tunneling deep into the earth like a goddamned Tolkienesque dwarf.
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Jan 17, 2024 03:43
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a neat cape posted:The realization that I have done nothing with my life combined with the only thing I REALLY care about, my family which are moving halfway across the country and the fact that I feel like I am being left behind is all kinda starting to hit me at once Sorry bud  that’s rough. Existential crises seem to come hard and fast at the Typical Goon Age.
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Jan 17, 2024 12:14
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My midlife ennui precipitated into abrupt newfound sobriety and deciding to become a loving engineer at 40. There’s no light at the end of the tunnel yet and I’m nuts deep in my calculus series, but sometimes you’ve got to unmake your life to make it more fulfilling.
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Jan 17, 2024 12:41
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swickles posted:Are they actually good boots or am I just paying for the name? What kind of timberland boots are we talking? Like euro hikers? Or something a bit more utilitarian?
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Jan 17, 2024 19:08
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Guess we will get an answer to what the Third Reich would look like if the trains were *never* on time. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1747682442821923200?s=20
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Jan 17, 2024 20:10
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swickles posted:It’s like the classic Timberland design, just some nice colors and trim. Oh gotcha yeah I have no experience with those but 20m New Yorkers can’t be wrong. I’ve got some dressier Goodyear welt Wolverines I’ve had for a billion years and they’re bombproof. I’ll prob look at RedWings in the next couple years. I’ve got some Lems mid height “waterproof” hiking shoes and some Blundstones I love too, but none of those are really comparable.
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Jan 17, 2024 20:16
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trevorreznik posted:I let my kid get it this Christmas on his iPad and I'm not sure what the hell he's doing in it. He wants a bunch of mods too that cost $$$ , no thanks. Ah yeah I’ve got all the store poo poo turned off and heavy parental controls on her profile.
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Jan 18, 2024 03:15
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GD_American posted:She understood. I'd have felt better if she called me a piece of poo poo. You know, I walked into public service as a sheltered, white libertarian dipshit and was radicalized within weeks. All the “moochers” I’d been hearing so much about were actually quite destitute, desperate and very much human. I didn’t grow up rich (at all) and was raised on a single enlisted salary, but I did grow up in the south to mildly conservative parents and that messaging definitely seeped in. I’m still ashamed, to this day, of how easily I accepted that alternate reality of dehumanization. The second you see the actual reality of their living conditions and all the mechanisms that keep them from getting ahead, buddy, it makes you want to burn everything down. kiimo posted:don't make goons say their salary because then their opinions on Democratic socialism will be null and void. To be clear I make less than 200 I dont fault socialists for earning a lot of money to insulate them from the evils of this system of capitalism. It’s almost necessary for survival. That feels suspiciously close to conservatives just telling them to send all their money to the government if they love taxes so much.
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Jan 18, 2024 13:57
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Those numbers thrown around are giving me hives. Can’t wait to be a loving engineer. This is giving me intense anxiety just looking at it, good lordt
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Jan 18, 2024 21:34
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Ether Frenzy posted:My non-tech company just sent tech people (or at least me) two pretty nice zip-up fleece jackets, one black and one in (our particular version of) Hamlindigo Blue, as well as a cream colored puffer vest. I feel like I'm ready to go do an early mission as Michael in Grand Theft Auto V I’m unabashedly a vest guy and just caved and bought a Patagonia down vest that absolutely loving rules. Also this post made me jones even harder for GTA6.
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Jan 19, 2024 13:34
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:I gave a patient <10mg ketamine not long ago for pain (fentanyl didn't touch it and she was elderly so I went slightly under our protocol weight-based pain dose) and I think she may have saw God for a few minutes. Good poo poo, ketamine. I’m not sure if you guys do chemical restraint (or if you do, what you use) but we switched to ketamine frontline many years ago. Initially we used same dose for RSI and chemical restraint at 1.5mg/kg but for whatever reason the IM dosing increase first to 3mg/kg then to 4mg/kg. We have autonomy to lower our doses if we have good reasoning, but those are the official guideline dosages. Thing is, I’ve never seen anyone that 1.5mg/kg didn’t level. Like, knees folding unconsciousness within ~30-60s. I haven’t had to use it in awhile but I half dosed the last guy I sedated (combative powerlifter I thought might be having hemorrhagic stroke) because I’d already given him 10mg Versed (5mg x2 IM) with no effect. 2mg/kg ketamine had him nearly unconscious, and close to needing a tube. It’s a pretty safe drug and I do like it, but these escalating doses are pretty nuts especially when most medics are so lovely at math and/or reasoning. Having said all that, I think Haldol is coming sooner or later in our area for prehospital but I’ll prob be done before it’s here.
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FizFashizzle posted:B52 takes too long. Yeah but it really really works. If these loving dorks would stop listening to cops and stop overdosing their patients or stop giving it to people who are already bordering on cardiopulmonary collapse, ketamine might not have such a negative connotation in prehospital setting.
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