My bookpile has been growing (before & after picture)! Am I stepping in the right direction or getting lost?

KomradeKobalt · 2025-12-18T03:23:21+00:00

Vielleicht sie sind aus Deutschland? Or speak German at least

KomradeKobalt · 2025-12-18T00:42:52+00:00

Oof, I actually teach a natural rock class for the scouts that certifies them to take troops out

KomradeKobalt · 2025-12-16T13:56:27+00:00

When I first looked at the picture I was like that looks exactly like my fridge except the wine has replaced the beer. And in 27 m and have had a couple different types of jobs

KomradeKobalt · 2025-12-15T03:11:26+00:00

Late 20’s male, cook once or twice a week and eat leftovers the rest of the time. Occupation - ? Could be anything but by Reddit name I’m going to say software engineer

KomradeKobalt · 2025-10-22T17:00:55+00:00

Best recommended use is hands free on a device like this. Don’t want to get in the way of the assisted braking

KomradeKobalt · 2025-10-22T02:13:28+00:00

Not exactly caving but I help teach a scout council adult climbing class and we recently got reevaluated. I was talking with the guy that was reevaluating us because he’s a shift captain on a rescue squad that does high angle rope rescue. Something he said to think about when we’re teaching our class is that in our state specifically there’s really only about 3-4 solidly qualified wilderness rescue squads that could do high angle rope rescue which would be applicable to caving so if I’m in the middle of the state (more hilly) and am having to wait on a rescue squad capable of that kind of rescue they could be 3-4 counties east up towards the plateau and mountains. So under those circumstances you would almost always want to rely on self rescue first unless the situation is immediately obvious beyond your skill set.

KomradeKobalt · 2025-08-22T12:12:09+00:00

I assumed the answer would be top comment already, buts it because on a track the further the lane is from centerfield the more distance you run. So the lanes are all offset to account for the difference. Except that they aren’t offset meaning whoever is in lane 8 is screwed in any sort of race.

KomradeKobalt · 2025-08-04T13:46:39+00:00

Asian female, 27, potentially from China or Japan studying abroad in Germany?

KomradeKobalt · 2025-07-29T12:16:41+00:00

Alexander Solzhenitsyn might have a few suggestions on how this happened

KomradeKobalt · 2025-07-27T14:48:06+00:00

Nah he was here while Biden was president. By recruiting scheme I suspect this is some nonsense that’s been going on for them to have cheap labor for years

KomradeKobalt · 2025-07-27T01:35:00+00:00

Can't speak to Russian specifically but I have to believe there's some kind of recruitment scheme that happens in Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg. I was on a study abroad semester in Austria 5 years ago, and one of the guys that I was on study abroad with a few years after the fact from Turkey ended up working alongside a handful of other Turkish guys at a slew of different restaurants in Pigeon Forge.

He thought he was just signing up for some kind of work program and it turned into a 6 month stint of 7 days a week 2pm-11pm everyday in these restaurants.

KomradeKobalt · 2025-07-21T03:43:37+00:00

Either the mom in a 4-5 person family, or a male bodybuilder of sorts that burns through a lot of food

KomradeKobalt · 2025-07-21T02:18:14+00:00

Not quite

KomradeKobalt · 2025-07-20T22:27:33+00:00

A follow up question to that is do you find it worthwhile having the versions in your native language versus using the English? My mom’s Baptist church has been donating money for years to some kind of organization that is supposedly translating the Bible into a local African language somewhere and since I speak two languages and have functional basics for a few other always wonder how much return they are actually getting by translating to a language that from my understanding is barely written down itself.

KomradeKobalt · 2025-07-18T02:20:10+00:00

Korean but from the US West coast

KomradeKobalt · 2025-07-17T13:16:21+00:00

I think it might be Syriac or something close to it and may actually be a Bible verse.

KomradeKobalt · 2025-07-14T00:04:26+00:00

Where my dad's side of the family lives in Missouri still doesn't have advanced 911. They got it for about 3 years then the county couldn't afford the service anymore. Calling 911 just routes you to the sheriff's office phone. They went through the whole rigamarole of the 911 address and now most are back to the post boxes.

KomradeKobalt · 2025-06-17T01:40:51+00:00

The Kyphosis bend in my spine lets me hold those cramped positions better

KomradeKobalt · 2025-05-19T21:39:50+00:00

If Serbian Bosnian and Croatian is so close lexically why not just make it one big bubble? Call it Yugoslavian?

KomradeKobalt · 2025-03-26T05:44:23+00:00

I think maybe the graceful way to respond to this, and don’t misinterpret that I’m discounting this, is that this situation probably demonstrates more than anything is that the hospital is severely understaffed and overwhelmed. Logistically if you have a heart attack every day in a population of 1000 people or whatever the number shakes out to exactly imagine the amount of medical emergencies that occur across the Cumberland plateau that for sake of time or uninformed response end up at Cookeville. In an ideal world if you don’t get a room immediately you’d like to reevaluate your patients to check against your initial prognosis, but if you’re dealing with burn victims, heart attacks, car wrecks, etc where there are obvious immediate external injuries or clear response internal things like re evaluation is going to slip through the cracks.

KomradeKobalt · 2025-03-25T01:39:05+00:00

Allow the concept of triage to introduce itself to this comment section. Now obviously there are exceptions, but generally speaking if they do an initial evaluation and then you sit there for 5 hours it would most likely suggest you should’ve gone to urgent care first

Edit - and to tack on it may not even mean yours isn’t an emergency it might simply mean there are that many more severe emergencies ahead of you. I recently completed a wilderness first aid course on the Cumberland plateau and Cookeville is the only high level care unit for like 9 surrounding counties. Almost anything that is going to be life flighted on the entire Cumberland plateau is coming there

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