George Budd @Gbudd@social.cleverlibre.org
Father, Boyfriend, Volunteer EMT, (conflicted) Veteran, Computer Geek, Perpetual Student. Command line kind of guy (he/him) Very amateur woodworker, crude sketcher, proud nerd, liberal, wished I knew more math and science.
I’m willing to be wrong, certainty often means that I don’t actually understand the problem
Joined Nov 2022
Sadness
@AustinB @icymi_law That’s awful, I’m so sorry for everyone involved
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Remembering the time my newbie #EMT partner was told by me earlier in the day about the superstition around The Q Word and he thought it was stupid, so he deliberately dropped it in front of the entire triage line. I thought the charge nurse, who is a 5 foot nothing black-haired Italian woman, was about to physically toss him out the ER doors by the look on her face. You can bet he never did that again.
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The hardest part of photographing Mina is getting the shot before she shoves her face into the camera.
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Mina "Minoskins" "Mina Mina Jelly-Bean-a" Silverio-Zink left us yesterday evening at the age of 17, following seven months of enduring an aggressive cancer.
She was a "real trouper of a cat”, in David's words. In the words of all the vet staff who interacted with her over the last year, "a sweetheart who started purring the moment we touched her”. In the words of the innumerable rats she slaughtered and dumped at our feet over the years, "an unholy terror; avoid”.
She had short stubby legs, a very round head, and glossy dense black fur that looked chocolatey in sunlight. She was a luxurious cat to pat because of that fur and her easy-start purr motor. She didn't so much meow as chirp, and would have long erp-brrt conversations with me at times.
Her passing was painless and involved purring and belly-rubs.
In her memory, please post the cutest photo of your pet or pets you have.
I'll start. Here is a photo of Mina eating cheese, her second favorite food after raw fish. Here is also a photograph of her attempting to stifle me.
@ceejbot @lisamelton So sorry for your loss, she looks like such a special cat. Thank you for sharing her story.
This is Annie, she has chirpy conversations too.
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This photo of the sun might not look too impressive... until you realize it was taken at night – not looking up but looking down, through the entire Earth, using neutrinos rather than light. Amazing! https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap980605.html
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My kid (10) has gotten really into watch and clock repair. His latest success was this German Bradley travel alarm clock from the 1950s. He did a full service cleaning on it.
Getting the main spring back in was a challenge because it wasn't in a barrel, but his makeshift solution with zip ties got him past that.
@robryk @freemo I should have been a bit clearer. In this specific context (it might be different in other states) we can involuntarily transport someone who has explicitly expressed suicidal thoughts or acts.
It’s not the same case as “I think they’ve got a fatal condition but they don’t want to go to the hospital” though I guess it’s arguably a legal rather than moral distinction. In the EMT framework it’s just presumed that if you want to actively end your life that you’re not mentally competent.
@freemo I should clarify a bit too.
When I’m out as an EMT it’s a relatively bright line. If they’re competent (alert and oriented, not a threat to themselves or others, over 18) they get to refuse medical attention. We might try to convince them but at the end of the day they get to choose.
There are calls where that feels crappy but at least we have a decision making framework to fall back on.
@freemo That’s a really interesting question! Putting my EMT hat on, if they’re competent they get to refuse an intervention but in practice those are hard calls.
More generally it kind of depends on other factors. For example, do you let someone ignore a mandatory evacuation knowing they may want to be rescued later at greater risk to all concerned?
It’s a thought provoking question. I’d lean towards answering “Yes” in the abstract and mostly in practice but I’m willing to believe there are circumstances where I’d be open to “No” and I can’t come up with a consistent limiting principle.
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Randall Munroe is brilliant... https://xkcd.com/1732/
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Time to put a smile on your face! 😃
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In 1917, the US Army executed 13 black soldiers by hanging after a deadly riot in Houston, Texas between the soldiers and other white soldiers and locals. Months later 6 more were executed. This week, the Army announced it was overturning the convictions of those 19 men and 97 others citing a trial that deprived them of basic due process rights.
The trial, and subsequent snap execution of these men, became known as one of the most unjust military trials in US history. The decision now makes it possible for their descendants to receive benefits and even potentially reparations. My guest is Fatimah Gilliam, whose great great uncle was one of the 19 executed.
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One minute you're debugging code, and the next minute you're searching for sheet metal brakes on Amazon. This is true for everyone, right?🤔
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Logarithm = banging on a fallen tree to a beat
HAHA! HA!
And yet the connection to music is quite real. Since I realized that recently, thanks to an xkcd comic, let me tell you all about it!
https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/xkcd-is-logfrequency-to-my-ears
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Was banned from Nextdoor when someone posted looking for a local hand doctor and I replied to “Check on Phalanges List”
Father, Boyfriend, Volunteer EMT, (conflicted) Veteran, Computer Geek, Perpetual Student. Command line kind of guy (he/him) Very amateur woodworker, crude sketcher, proud nerd, liberal, wished I knew more math and science.
I’m willing to be wrong, certainty often means that I don’t actually understand the problem
Joined Nov 2022
