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A couple years ago I was 90% sure that the next car I purchased would be a Tesla.
Now I'm 100% certain that the next car I purchase will not be a Tesla.

“I don’t think civility politics works when I’m engaging with people who don’t even view me as human.”

We should be living and breathing this sentence.

I started as an EMT more than 20 years ago. I got my paramedic 4 or 5 years in. It was a significant pay increase at the time. It was good for a while.

Fortunately enough I made it into the fire department, mostly because I was a paramedic. I sometimes ride the ambulance, maybe 2 or 3 shifts a month. That's enough for me.

I was lucky. If anyone asks me if EMS is a good career my response is hell no, unless you think you're part of the 1% that makes it into the fire department. Use it as a stepping stone, but it's not something you should stay in for too long. The pay is too low for EMTs for one, especially for what the job entails.

So let me tell you guys what being on the ambulance is like. It's exciting at first. You push drugs, you shock people, intubate them, etc and if it's a good day you help save someone's life. Fun stuff initially. Then once in a while you see or experience something that gets permanently seared into your brain. For me it's the worst calls that I can vividly remember, not the good ones.

So let's say you have a sudden infant cardiac arrest call. You go to the scene, everyone is screaming, you pick up the kid and take him in to the ambulance as quick as you can while you're doing CPR. When you get to the back of the ambulance hopefully you have some backup. You take care of the airway. You drill an intra-osseous into the kids leg. You give meds. The whole nine yards. Once you get going, often you're alone in the back of the ambulance for the 15 or so minutes it takes to get to the hospital. There is no one to turn to if you need help or support. No one to take advice from. The mom is probably in the front seat wailing. You get to the hospital, and the kid is still dead in the end. And following you out to the ambulance by is the agonized screaming of the mother.

So you clean your ambulance up and try not to think about anything because you're on the edge already.

So you clear up from the hospital, and you don't know what's coming in next for the next call. It could be something minor. But it could also be something just as traumatic. You just don't know. So for the rest of the shift every time the alarm for a call comes in your body goes through an extreme stress response because it might be another dead kid. That you have to deal with. Alone. Again.

People think that police give most of the death notifications to family. I don't think it is. It's the medics. When the medics stop efforts it's the medics that tell the family that their husband or wife or kid is dead. The police get called after the fact. So you're with the family during the initial shock of the notification. The cops get there after everybody is quiet. I envy them.

So it gets to the point where every shift you're battling that same feeling. From here you keep doing calls until it breaks you or maybe if you're lucky you have a psychologist that can help you.

One of my friends killed himself in the ambulance while on shift. His name comes up in the media once in a while when PTSD is reported. Every time I hear his name I remember how funny he was, how he was such an excellent paramedic. I think about how I saw him a few days before and he seemed totally normal to me. I wonder what pushed him over the edge.

I don't think people understand how hard the job is after a while.

That's my 2 cents. You're right. EMTs and paramedics don't make nearly enough for the BS they go through.

Trump going free definitely has enabled the big lie to become the new basis of the gop. It’s shown us all that there is literally no consequence for attempting a fascist power grab, and so the fascist party has stopped trying to hide.

And it’s working for them. They have enough supporters—and this includes those who simply go along with it despite any reservations, even without actively participating—to maintain the threat of total power indefinitely. They’ve hit critical mass.

We will see a fascist government in America by 2032 unless bulletproof voting rights laws are set in place. And it has to be done while the Democrats have control of the government because the gop will never support it.

Please stop calling for the destruction of the site or cancelling subs. This site is my home and your home too, we're awfully lucky to have someone generous enough to keep this place alive.

99% of other businessmen would have killdiskd this place a long long time ago.

I would be infinitely less happy without this place, than I would a bit of a mean article. Please give him a pass, you've all given me thousands (literally!) For 20 years.

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Nobody should expect the police to brutalize them. There is absolutely nothing wrong with bringing children to a protest. Great way to instill values and a sense of community in them. This is 10000000% on the shitty cops.

I've overheard people at work talking about it. I always want to be like, WELL I KNOW THE MAKER! I don't. But we hung out. At the same place. Online.

ASTRONEER HUH? WELL LET ME TELL YOU, I SAW A PICTURE OF THAT GAME WHEN IT WAS JUST A SIDE PROJECT ON SHACKNEWS.COM/CHATTY.

HOUSE OF THE DYING SUN, YOU SAY? WELL ME AND THE CREATOR OF THAT GAME GO WAAAAAAY BACK. NO. WE'VE NEVER MET. I LOL'D ONE OF HIS POSTS A FEW TIMES.

DEMONS AND SHOTGUNS! CLASSIC. DEFINITELY. ME AND HIM ARE ALWAYS TALKING GAMES TOGETHER. WELL, SEPARATELY, USUALLY. SOMETIMES WE POST IN THE SAME THREAD. IT'S TRUE!

SHOPIFY? MORE LIKE, I KNOW THE GUY, AMIRITE? I DON'T, BUT ONCE HE REPLIED TO A THREAD OF MINE.

CORPSES N' SOULS? WHY THAT'S MADE BY A CLOSE PERSONAL ONLINE FRIEND WHOSE NAME I KNOW BUT HAVE NEVER TALKED TO PERSONALLY, BUT WHO ONCE TOLD ME ABOUT A COOL GAME THAT WAS BAD BUT HE WAS SUPER STOKED ABOUT AND I LOVE HIM FOR IT. SHACKER OF THE YEAR 2019, DIDN'T YOU KNOW? SAME CLUB.

OH, I HAVE FRIENDS WHO WORK AT THE GOOGLE. YEAH, WELL, NOT FRIENDS. BUT I DO KNOW THEIR TAGS AND FACES, YES, I GUESS IT'S KIND OF CREEPY. ALSO SOMETIMES I PM ONE THOUGH, USUALLY AT INAPPROPRIATE TIMES. THEY DON'T REPLY.

MARK REBEELIT? REBELAY? REEBEELAY? OH I KNOW LOOP DADDY. I WAS THERE WHEN HE WAITED IN LINE FOR AN IPHONE BACK IN THE DAY. OH, YOU SAW THE VIDEO TOO. WELL I SAW HIS EARLIER WORK! OH, YOU DID TOO, WELL GUESS WHAT? I UNF'D HIS POSTS...NO, IT'S NOT SEXUAL. USUALLY.

This is a very sad post

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