At my volunteer station, we all just go to work like normal and respond if there’s a call.

We do have some part time staff who remain at the station for EMS calls. When there’s down time they are:

• cleaning the station
• filling out charts from earlier calls
• checking all the apparatus equipment
• training skills
• homework from advanced classes (paramedic, rescue technician, officer, etc)
• napping to catch up on sleep from calls in the middle of the night
• doing station laundry

It’s enough to keep them lightly busy but not enough to be strenuous, as they typically do 12-24 hour shifts. Being “at work” for 24 hours is pretty rough, so I don’t begrudge them a mid-day nap.

smh Bazzite doesn’t even get on the list

And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific boomerang effect: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers standing around the racks invent, refine, discuss. People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind—it’s Nazism, it will pass!”

And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.

— Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1950)

yikes

Bravo, this one surprised me

I switched to Bazzite and I’m really liking it.

I have had a few issues with old SDR software that didn’t work.

All in all, I’m very happy with the change and have absolutely no plan to return.

Imho the easiest way is to find a skill that you can learn, ideally at a school, that’s hard to learn and is stable. Then you can go into business for yourself selling that to others. Skills like accounting, home nursing, tutoring, medical care, financial advisor, IT, database maintenance, plumber, electrician, elder care, handyman. Not all of these pay super well, but they let you start your own business.

I’m not loving how childish the students act. Most are sulking and barely seem to want to be there. They act like sullen middle schoolers and not the 21yo best of the best competing. The tonal shifts are jarring, from the main character being bratty and whining and then there’s explosions and violence.

I believe you mean dump into drinking watersheds

That feels like a pretty good amount per week, basically a 5mg gummy every day. I can attest I start feeling much worse when my tolerance pushes me over that amount. I’ve been up to 20 units a week and generally feel pretty awful compared to 8/week. Lately I’ll do a tolerance break past 10/week because I just feel so bleh. This was before reading this paper, so it’s interesting to see how it lines up with my experiences.

I can confirm that a couple pages of printed cards in sleeves has given me endless hours of fun. The only thing is the rules are a little fussy, you’ll want an app counter for money and a bag of tokens to keep track of what virus is attached to what ice.

The asymmetrical play and “what cup is the ball under” mechanics are very replayable. My partner and I have a backpack of games to take on the go, and there’s always a dozen netrunner decks inside. There’s a lot of mayhem to be had with all the different decks and styles.

But for real, the rules to play netrunner to me feel much more complex than MtG, and it feels super unfair to the corp at first because you’re always on the defensive and the runner is so much more active with an extra action every turn. It’s a very hard game to teach someone at a pub. I swear sometimes I forget rules from week to week and I’ve been playing it off and on for like 10 years.

For on the go pickup games, in my bag I have Hive, Go, Jaipur, Carcassonne, and a regular deck of cards. I feel like those offer a range of quick fun. I especially love teaching someone Go and letting them whoop me at like 4-5 stone advantage on a 9 wide board. I get a great game to play from behind and they get to practice a new game.

Despite most of the bag being Netrunner decks, I’ve never once gotten someone to play it with me who wasn’t already into the game.

I feel the same way about all the NY and NJ bays that are just packed with houses. We really need more protected wetlands and coasts

I’m so grumpy, I bought three 8bitdo Ultimate controllers and only one keeps a stable connection even using it’s USB dongle on the steamdock. smh. I then tried a different PC with Bazzite, same deal. Like wtf why won’t they work

I hope to buy a new steam controller but I’ll return it the same day if that shit doesn’t connect

I highly recommend if you’re going to get the 8bitdo ultimate try getting one and just return the ones that don’t work.

I want to leave a place of powerful healing both physical and emotional. Plants grow with vigor from the immense vitality. Babies are always conceived on the first try. Standing on the ground you can faintly hear soothing affirmations and a subtle warmth like a loving hug. A place where the stars shine a little brighter, the air smells wild and clean, and the soil is rich and dark.

Dude in the top center-left is literally blowing steam out his nose

If the labor class wasn’t losing a class war to the capital holders you’d see 10x the support for saving the planet. But right now cost of living is so bad that folks are easily susceptible to propaganda that divides the labor class, and environmentalism is just one of the issues they’ve chosen to use as a wedge issue.

It’s obvious how “do you want the cost of gas to go up?” is an effective propaganda message. Or “Do you want your taxes to go up and be used to wash sad animals while your own kids go hungry and get no Christmas presents?”

That’s the real kicker here, a huge number of folks are barely scraping by and the propaganda lies and tells them the only way we can have environmentalism is by them suffering more. They’re already scared and desperate, sad animals is nothing compared to their own families suffering.

I don’t know how it got that way.

I do know I’m supposed to investigate with binoculars from a pretty far distance, then

• setup a hoseline in case the fuel ignites
• only let rescuers get close for a few seconds to connect stabilizers like struts or junk yard dogs all around any direction it can fall
• disconnect the batteries on all three
• put on the parking break on all three
• add chocks under the frame of the two with all 4 wheels on the ground

After that I’d find the easiest way to extract the victims, probably by cutting off the roof with our electric cutters avoiding any undeployed airbags in the roof struts.

Finally, we’d move the victims through where the windshield is, taking care to put neck / back collars on any with possible spinal injuries.

And that’s the end of my armchair quarterbacking. Here’s hoping I do all of these steps the next time I have a rescue like this.

Your guess is as good as mine, I don’t know how it gets that way, just how to stabilize the vehicle and get victims out.

Maybe both cars were speeding, and both hit the breaks, but the rear car pushed the other one up in the air just right that it balanced that way?

Whoa, I had to do a simulated victim rescue from one of these in Vehicle Rescue Operations class.

I thought at the time there was no way this could happen in real life but damn here we are

mulberries do require chilling hours. If you check out this site your might find something that fits.

https://www.foodforestnursery.com/shop/berries/by-climate-zone-berries/berries-for-zone-10/

A dwarf blueberry might be fine in a container, or a dwarf citrus tree like lemon or orange. Or a fig that doesn’t require chilling hours

Just look for a job and make sure you’ve got a visa. Third world countries have a lot more “informal economy” that isn’t taxed or handled with paperwork so it’s possible sometimes to just find a job without paperwork or anything, but that won’t help you get a permanent visa.

Ideally, you get a visa that allows work, show you’re working, and then the visa gets upgraded to a permanent resident visa. This varies a lot from country to country. If you’ve got a job, some countries are pretty happy to have you adding to their local economy and will extend you a visa. If you’ve got a remote job that might go even faster.

Alternatively if you’re not skilled in any way, you apply to a super cheap college and apply for a student visa, that’ll buy you a few years while you’re getting skilled in something that country needs. Studying to become a doctor, lawyer, or STEM goes a long way. One of these probably is in demand there, figure out which one and take a crack at it. Hard, for sure, but a pretty solid way to build something long term. Of course if you don’t know the language that will be harder, but colleges generally have language classes too, so that could be the first classes you take.

There’s also teaching English, it’s generally not too hard to find work as a tutor or English teacher, I saw the other day like there’s only one English teacher for every 500 open positions. So that’s a possibility too.

Just generally try to participate in their economy. Try to make local friends and assimilate. Think about what first generation immigrants do: find a steady job or bust ass studying tech or medicine.