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those are good articles (the top 25) but the site has a left liberal bias which shows only censorship from the right. I have followed https://ground.news/ for a while which shows s…

yes - usually larger caliber and often a revolver, ie: https://blog.cheaperthandirt.com/best-6-handguns-bear-countr...

good luck - I really feel for you and know others who have struggled with similar job search frustrations... I lost a position over a year ago and found myself scrambling for a new…

Are these devices (Free Style Libre) safe for contact sports? I wanted to wear one and even got a scrip for one as i am pre-diabetic. I do BJJ 4x a week and am concerned about the …

Really beautiful site. Made my morning. I wear mechanical watches on a daily basis (I rotate between a few Maratec/CountyComm models) I like the size, weight and the sound and the …

yeah - I have bought a fair amount from them over the years - good lights and decent watches and pens

I will never look at it quite the same…

(I don't work for these companies...) This is a cool tape to make handles and such - it sticks to itself but you can peel it off easily: https://countycomm.com/products/self-vulcan…

came here looking for this comment as its one of those minor peeves - duck tape is from WWII era and is a water resistant cotton tape - modern home depot duct tape is a plasticky, …

There is a chess training program called "Dr Wolf" which has a learning mode where you play the computer. At certain points it asks you to switch positions to see the weakness in y…

that is a very memorable incident - not least for the number of lives lost. I am not sure if it was deference as much as reverting to a native speech pattern in a critical moment. …

some years back I worked on a project with Korean Air on exactly that topic, cockpit communication and honorifics... A compounding factor was that pilots and crew often came from m…

“this is my rifle/ this is my gun/ this one’s for fighting/ this one’s for fun”

so funny you mention the vaseline impregnated gauze. I have had more than one instructor say the best thing to use as a chest seal is the wrapper itself. Vaseline sucks to try and …

The civilian version of this class us called TECC (in the US) i took it last october- quite good. It is an adaptation of the military TCCC “combat casualty“ class. Thus class was s…

NJ EMT here and the guidance we are given is to not run AED while driving as the vibrations can make the analyzer misread. There are probably different types of AEDs to account for…

expected an AED - wonder if inflight vibration makes it unusable

destination was Delhi - mmaybe no good medical option en route?

> 3 spontaneous pneumathoraces… I remember from EMT school the informal advice that spontaneous pneumo is a predisposition for certain body types and something as trivial as a burp…

> Have you tried asking any of the jobs that rejected you're getting rejected? Great point. I interviewed at Bridgewater and they gave a good post mortem on why I didnt get the job…

Beautiful. I think about this living on the Hudson across from NYC. Not only the Statue but other riverside details like the vent systems for the tunnels and the Hoboken train stat…

sax and violins on tv...

yes - bad joke in the vein of "male sex" - the categories are sloppily generated in the WHO example. But you are right - the sinks are in short supply...

There is a lot of confusion about PPE and disinfecting. People wear surgical masks thinking they are making themselves safe - which they arent. I think also people use magical thin…

thought the same thing - men not washing hands after nookie? And whats this about sinks being too short? Distractingly crappy data categories.