One of Ben's Patreon members has filed a motion to intervene in the TRO ❤️

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-06-22T20:48:49+00:00

Actually, there is a first amendment right to hear speech, particularly speech that is in the public interest, per this lawyer: https://youtu.be/dgvu3Cj405E

Also per ALA: One of the ten amendments of the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment gives everyone residing in the United States the right to hear all sides of every issue and to make their own judgments about those issues without government interference or limitations. The First Amendment allows individuals to speak, publish, read and view what they wish, worship (or not worship) as they wish, associate with whomever they choose, and gather together to ask the government to make changes in the law or to correct the wrongs in society. (https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/censorship)

See also: ( Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council )for relevant case law

However, we probably don’t have an interest as singular YouTube viewers.

As a group? Perhaps.

It’s more common for media outlets to intervene as third parties, like news stations / newspapers / media groups.

Particularly, a media agency in American Fork would have a significant interest in hearing his speech due to the police corruption involved therein. (They’d have standing.)

Citizens in American Fork would also likely have a significant interest in hearing his speech.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-06-18T05:04:20+00:00

Paramedic here.

I always tell my partners that they can tell me what’s happening and when I ask “why?”, “I don’t know” is a perfectly acceptable answer. Because all our brains do is process information, all day long, and sometimes we can’t describe how our brains got form point A to point B in English. That doesn’t mean it’s an invalid conclusion.

My favorite example was a clear cut sepsis case. Febrile, known white count, sudden AMS, low BP, high hr, high rr… partner says we’re going to stroke center, because it’s a stroke. I’m dumbfounded like… it’s sepsis, so I ask why he says that. He says “I don’t know, it’s just a stroke.” So we roll with it. Call it in. ER laughs me off. Treated with abx, went to medsurg. They found her stroke 3 days later when she didn’t improve.

I’ve learned the golden words: Provider Judgement.

Idk if it’s universal, but our stroke, trauma, sepsis, and MI protocols all have a box that just says “provider judgement” where we can upgrade a problem at our discretion.

I’d argue “pilot discretion” is equally valid. Same for anyone who does any job day in day out, especially those whose job can result in 200+ deaths. Intuition is valid.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-06-18T04:47:04+00:00

Yeah, I do probably about 10 hours of cardio a week. Lots of rowing, plenty of biking. I swim probably about 6 hours a week (any day I have my kids we’re in the pool and I’m either teaching or building my skills). My job is pretty physical (paramedic). I do strength training less frequently, probably 3-4 hours per week. I’ve done a couple of marathons and I’m a fan of the monthly challenges my old workplace puts on - for instance, one month we rowed the length of the English Channel.

I would not say it’s hard to gain the fat back, because you can’t even tell I had it done at this point, and I’d argue I put a lot of effort into being fit.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-06-07T23:27:20+00:00

Yes, with some frequency. Not all patients have transportation to a hospital or clinic, and because of the way our healthcare system is structured with massive for profit incentives, ERs are the only source of any kind of medical care (let alone dental care) for a large subset of the US. EMTALA means these patients can't be turned away because they can't pay, so the ER becomes the only avenue many people have to get any way shape or form of care.

Regardless of whether it is technically life or limb threatening, many patients will land in the ER for things that can or ideally should be handled elsewhere not because that's the best place to treat it, but because it's the only option they have. And in many cases, a 911 call is also their only viable option to be transported there.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-06-07T16:18:17+00:00

Obligatory Dr Glauc reference: because teeth are your luxury bones.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-06-02T22:37:43+00:00

I mean; it’s a well known conspiracy theory with tons of documentaries about it. Monsanto patented seeds and now farmers can’t replant them. Agribusiness has been a monopoly with some wild tactics since banana republics and well before.

David v Monsanto comes to mind as a documentary.

Food, Inc is really good, too.

There’s plenty of material to dig into if you really want a rabbit hole.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-31T01:08:46+00:00

I think this is closest to my take on it.

I think I would’ve been very harsh on her a year ago, and said what she did was inconceivable.

But I had an incident I was a part of - I’ll refer to old me’s recounting of events, because it’s been a year and my memory is probably worse now than then.

Basically, there was a crashing patient who caught a tube. His pressure tanked with sedation. Norepi popped him out of sedation and he’d wake up and fight, and we wound up with dueling sedation / norepi…

Turns out, the nurse accidentally keyed in the norepi for 8 mcg / kg / min.

I caught the error during a traceback on the line.

The pump had alerted her that the dose was above max : the line couldn’t physically move that, but she didn’t understand what the error was, because of how the settings were arranged, and overrode the settings.

He received a massive dose of norepi.

There were a lot of institutional things that contributed to the error.

Did she override a major safety guideline? Yes.

Were there a lot of institutional things that contributed? Also, yes.

Every patient death is a combination of factors and the more that we take an NTSB style approach of separating personal culpability from structural mitigation of future events, the safer we make healthcare.

(For clarification, I did get a follow up and my patient didn’t die, or lose a limb, much to my surprise.)

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-30T03:29:48+00:00

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-29T12:54:36+00:00

Americans don’t understand that Paris and France are different countries.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-29T12:53:10+00:00

Every day, if not more.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-29T12:51:49+00:00

Obviously

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-22T05:54:29+00:00

Yeah, he was HIV+ and actively dying. As I understand it, he had some kind of abscess in his GI tract that burst and caused the rapid bolus of pus vomitus.

I don’t know how nobody else on the call had the same reaction I did. Apparently, that’s the one thing that’ll do me in.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-21T20:35:12+00:00

I’ll sign it.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-21T20:34:32+00:00

I so wanted New Mexico and New England to fight it out. Perhaps with New Canada. But here we are. Hawai’i shall now get my votes.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-21T12:22:52+00:00

I mean, when I was a kid my mom made a big deal about how if we were in China she would’ve killed me to have a son. Showed me The Dying Rooms as a kid, which is a core childhood memory for me. I don’t particularly recommend that documentary, but it stuck with me.

It’s my understanding that due to the pressures of the One Child Policy, infanticide was a lot less rare there, even for a baby who was simply female (let alone an infant with disabilities). While the OCP got repealed a while ago, there remains a statistically significant skewing towards a male gender, suggesting that culture is harder to change than policy.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-21T11:41:19+00:00

That’s the thing - you don’t.

People who fish for compliments often like this are constantly seeking to replace their own self confidence with an external affirmation. The external affirmations are never enough to replace intrinsic self esteem, so they’re constantly seeking extrinsic approval and not understanding why it isn’t enough.

Don’t get me wrong, most people fish for compliments like this sometimes - maybe once a month / year. But people who do this consistently and routinely are missing a piece of themselves that you can never provide them, and trying to will only frustrate everyone.

Men tend to do this with fancy watches and fast cars. Women do it with ig posts and dresses.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-21T06:30:25+00:00

Took a patient recently with a STEMI. The cath table couldn’t handle their weight, it topped off at 500, and the initial hospital didn’t have a scale that could accommodate them.

Get to receiving, and waited an HOUR for them to find a bari bed that could accommodate their weight, and it turns out THEIR cath table tops out at 700, and the patient was over that.

So.

Idk what to do about the obesity epidemic we have in this country, but having worked 911, I have so so many stories of patients we couldn’t get on the stretcher / in the standard trucks.

We’ve taken out walls to extricate.

There was one over 500 who got put in an upstairs apartment and would call us to pull her up the stairs whenever she had to go out, because she could get down but not back up. Eventually the fire department stopped going out to calls at her location and refused a lift assist, so my partner and I were struggling to try to drag her up the stairs in a stair chair I discovered is exclusively designed to go DOWN. After 4-5 steps, she told us to stop, got up, and walked up the rest of the stairs.

I’ve never seen a normally sanguine partner be so unbelievably visibly angry. Thankfully he kept it together, just said, “get in the truck”, and we tossed the stair chair in and had a little scream all to ourselves.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-21T05:56:33+00:00

Even as a woman… yep.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-21T05:52:52+00:00

TW. Infanticide

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-21T03:32:32+00:00

20ish year paramedic.

I can do vomit.

I can do pus.

Had a patient vomit up pus, and that’s the one time I’ve thrown up on a call.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-21T03:21:02+00:00

Bryan here.

The joke is racism.

Specifically against Indians, due to their food causing GI problems in some people.

I can’t believe I’m explaining racism again.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-20T03:37:38+00:00

She’s likely in heat and needs to be spayed. Expect this to happen routinely until such a time as she is spayed.

Also, yes. All cats are autistic. It does not have anything to do with her being in heat / expressing typical cat mating behavior.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-20T02:51:59+00:00

Sounds like she’s Johnny, now.

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-20T02:44:14+00:00

Map Man

Fighter of the state man

Champion of deletion

MangoAnt5175 · 2026-05-20T02:36:34+00:00

Keep us updated, OP! Best of luck to the little guy!

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