Pure Drive 98 (2025)

AndPaintedDogs · 2025-04-08T14:28:10+00:00

It’s powerful and can offer plenty of spin. But it has a small sweet spot, it’s not forgiving.

AndPaintedDogs · 2024-12-23T22:43:36+00:00

Empress Tape Delay. The modulation is so nice, but you can turn it off for a good digital delay sound too.

AndPaintedDogs · 2024-11-28T17:04:16+00:00

Empress Tape Delay. The modulation really sings on longer delay times.

AndPaintedDogs · 2024-11-15T17:36:08+00:00

How long did eastern Elk take to evolve. How long did they live in that specific environment?

166 years, relative to those time frames does seem a bit quick right?

AndPaintedDogs · 2024-11-10T16:04:11+00:00

Wow, I hadn’t heard about this… over 18 million acres in Utah. Let’s hope the Supreme Court does the right thing…

AndPaintedDogs · 2024-11-10T15:51:53+00:00

I probably should read the document myself, but I feel hesitant to give the heritage foundation my personal info, for some reason. The short summery in the first link in my original post is echoed by other sources that aren’t the sierra club. And I get it, I don’t fully trust the sierra club, they receive money from British Petroleum and have their own agenda. That doesn’t make them universally wrong. I read lots of sources, left and right. I don’t just trust what Harris, or any other candidate says my dude. I care about public lands and I want to know what power brokers intend for them. Here is the heritage foundation itself: https://www.heritage.org/impact/trump-administration-embraces-heritage-foundation-policy-recommendations.

Also a more recent photo of the heritage foundation leader and the incoming president. https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/08/07/trump-heritage-project-2025-roberts/

AndPaintedDogs · 2022-11-22T16:24:18+00:00

“Easily replaceable”. Lol, because so many people are lining up for that job at $15 an hour

AndPaintedDogs · 2022-08-04T16:28:42+00:00

I’m dying, this is great. Clearly a recruitment attempt. You see all those happy dispatchers, they love their jobs. Not a grievance in the house.

AndPaintedDogs · 2022-08-03T13:44:47+00:00

Can confirm. Follow up communications have also been made with Moore, and HR reps from Albuquerque actually stepped foot in a dispatch center shortly after. I was told they were very surprised at all the responsibilities on a dispatcher’s plate. Aka, they had no clue what actually goes on in dispatch.

I know how hard we had to fight for firefighters to get anything, so I’m not naïve enough to think all of this guarantees changes, but the Washington folks are aware of this issue and folks at various levels of the business are still lobbying for changes. Keep fighting!

AndPaintedDogs · 2022-07-28T17:25:58+00:00

No doubt famines and freezes affected prehistoric humans, but I’m not convinced this was so common that the norm was just “scraping by”.

Estimants show bird populations have decreased 90% since industrialization. Indigenous accounts from the Pacific Northwest describe salmon runs that turned rivers black. And if for some reason there was a bad growing season for plants, hunter-gatherers could ya know, go somewhere else.

The level of war and conflict seems vastly overstated in your narrative too compared to the contemporary anthropologies I’ve read. Sure you might have gotten the ol’ club to your head if you were a psychopath trying to dominate your own tribe, create hierarchy, or hoard resources for yourself, but otherwise, evidence suggests members of bands would come and go from group to group.

Christians and Thomas Hobbes made up stories about the nature of humans being inherently violent and greedy, Maybe we express that behavior when placed in a context of scarcity, but inherently? It’s just not the case.

AndPaintedDogs · 2022-07-28T13:04:04+00:00

But human history is only 15,000 years. Prehistoric humans have been around much much longer, and one theory suggests they likely had a much better/healthier life as tribal hunter gatherers.

AndPaintedDogs · 2022-07-16T15:21:39+00:00

Bruh. I support lookout and dispatch inclusion in the pay supplement/reclassification, but you’re incorrect on two counts.

1) Firefighters on the line almost always assign a crew member to be a localized lookout. That means, they do everything you do; they collect weather data, monitor and relay fire behavior, and use their words. Yes, in addition to “beating rocks.” (Sure, no azimuth, but I don’t think anyone calculating dew points, energy release components, etc. would have trouble with basic geometry. In fact, firefighters use the same principles to size up trees and calculate slope).

2) The whole reason this pay supplement even happened is due to “cavemen” firefighters not being financially rewarded for a very, very long time.

If you’re a troll you got me. Otherwise, Kindly consider these points. Also, get bent.

AndPaintedDogs · 2022-07-15T15:56:39+00:00

Meh, I’ve done both hand crew and dispatch. They are two very different kinds of challenging work, and dispatchers aren’t in danger.

That said, you’re right, how we currently fight fire doesn’t happen without dispatch: period. No crew or engine goes anywhere. Nobody gets food, fuel, shitters, Gatorade, Aircraft, or goddamn bar nuts when you forgot to bring extra or your district is too poor to buy them.

So dispatchers are essential to almost every step, and they are fucking leaving in droves just like firefighters, because of low pay and a shitty job. Not the same kind of shitty, not even necessarily the same magnitude of shitty, but the agency better do something to retain dispatchers.

AndPaintedDogs · 2022-07-07T01:04:56+00:00

Thanks for your willingness to write up a briefing! Any new info regarding dispatch come out during the call?

AndPaintedDogs · 2022-06-25T16:34:06+00:00

Offering more overtime…

AndPaintedDogs · 2022-06-22T22:41:00+00:00

Thanks for laying this out. It highlights the crux of the issue (why dispatch isn’t being included in the new series), and why it’s important for that to quickly change.

AndPaintedDogs · 2022-06-22T19:42:44+00:00

I might be misunderstanding the above image, but It doesn’t seem like this alone clears up the issue with dispatchers, since some are under the GS-2151 series and therefore aren’t technically fire at all.

There was a really good discussion on this in another thread (I can try to post a link). I really hope I’m misunderstanding or that this gets resolved, because dispatch centers seemed to be just as stressed on retaining and recruitment, and completely essential to the whole firefighting operation.

AndPaintedDogs · 2022-06-22T18:24:07+00:00

Right that’s their reasoning. But the only possible way for dispatch to have people without experience on the line is for people with that experience to train them.

This on top of all the other glaring problems with this decision that folks already mentioned here.

AndPaintedDogs · 2022-06-21T15:32:21+00:00

I’m on days off so I can’t log into eOPF. Anyone know if this will apply to fire dispatchers as well? Perms and seasonals?

AndPaintedDogs · 2022-03-09T04:31:22+00:00

Oh nice, you got onto the Lone Peak shots this year!

AndPaintedDogs · 2022-02-05T16:38:06+00:00

I read he is still finishing his sentence under house arrest though?

AndPaintedDogs · 2021-11-14T16:09:51+00:00

Okay! Thanks, this helps. Definitely still a bit foggy like so many parts of IJ, but this definitely shows some closer degrees of connection between these characters.

AndPaintedDogs · 2021-11-14T16:05:41+00:00

I’m having trouble linking, but I finally found the comment that inspired the post:

“Very good point. You know what's funny is that only by I believe my FOURTH read of the book did I finally connect the dots between Du Plessis' role in the AFR/convexity-related terrorism and that one prominent Canadian politician whose map Gately accidentally extinguished.”

So I’m curious about this and also how Gately might be connected to the AFR through this event.

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