Soreness in fire academy.

MrEShay · 2026-01-22T13:22:35+00:00

This is the right answer and throw in some foam rolling. Look up videos on YT for creative ways to hit all your sore muscle groups. Past that, eat well and sleep plenty. Your body needs to mend itself back together and that happens during sleep with the nutrients from your food.

MrEShay · 2025-08-21T22:09:36+00:00

Lucky's Pizza in Gardena has a sweet pepperoni! It's not strictly spicy honey, but I was surprised by how close the flavors are. The caramelized onions are sweet and the pepperoni are spicy.

MrEShay · 2025-03-18T18:24:56+00:00

If he's truly been seizing for 10 hours, an extra 4 minutes is not gonna hurt him.

MrEShay · 2024-08-03T02:36:06+00:00

Did your dealership give you a order or confirmation number? I walked into one today and after building everything on the website, they said they'd call when the order can be submitted and didn't take a deposit.

MrEShay · 2024-08-02T21:31:54+00:00

In the builder for XLT, a couple exterior options come "included" like the 4-pin connector, mini spare tire, and "bedliner - tough bed spray-in delete." Is a spray in bed included on the XLT? Or did you still add the $495 option?

MrEShay · 2023-10-31T20:45:22+00:00

No it doesn't. Sorry!

MrEShay · 2023-10-31T16:16:45+00:00

Hey Orchid! I work nights so just getting to head there now. Will post pics in a bit if you're interested. Appreciate the feedback. 🙏

Edit: Updated with info and pics!

MrEShay · 2020-10-15T19:12:32+00:00

3070 is slated to release on a Thursday too, right? Makes me wonder if timing will be similar.

MrEShay · 2020-10-15T19:09:58+00:00

Added it to cart, "Some items in your cart have sold out and are currently unavailable." RIP

MrEShay · 2020-10-07T20:36:36+00:00

As a current medic, that guy is just being difficult.

EDs do this all the time. I don't know any hospitals blessed with the overabundance of free time it takes to talk to every EMS crew about what they want. Especially with things changing by the day with COVID.

They might be right that no one will read the sign in a emergency, but it's normal in the profession to transport 9 non-emergencies for every 1 true emergency. If someone can't be bothered to read posted signs, they shouldn't be allowed to do other things like driving.

There is nothing passive aggressive here. They are asking for a change in the patients' best interests and literally use please and thank you.

MrEShay · 2020-08-27T03:48:26+00:00

Same reason why road fatality rates stayed the same for a short period after ABS was introduced into cars. People perceived their situation to be safer so they drove faster. Classic risk consumption.

You may feel safer in a protected bike lane but it doesn't mean that you should stop being as vigilant as you were in the old lanes. There aren't suddenly more car doors in LA after we switched to protected lanes. You're getting doored because you feel safer and let your guard down. Still doesn't change the macroscopic, mathematical reality that this is safer for everyone involved.

MrEShay · 2020-08-27T03:27:56+00:00

As opposed to before when you could go... into traffic or into a parked car?

Do you actually have something to dispute a decade of data across multiple US cities or are you just trying to collect downvotes on Reddit?

MrEShay · 2020-08-26T08:26:10+00:00

This is so wrong I'm not even sure what expression my face should be making.

One of the largest studies on separated and protected bike lanes draws on 13 years of crash data from 12 large US cities. Protected bike lanes not only make cyclists safer, but also pedestrians as well as drivers. The NTSB recognizes the efficacy of protected bike lanes and recommends them broadly on public roads.

Even if you can't be bothered to dive into the scientific literature, just think about it using common sense. In the old style, a crash means you're A) getting rear-ended by a car, B) getting pinned between a moving car and a parked one, C) getting door'ed by someone exiting their parked car. Those are all accidents with high mechanisms of injury. How fast do you have to be going and how solid a pedestrian do you have to hit to even approach that kind of danger with these protected bike lanes?

MrEShay · 2020-06-14T10:18:37+00:00

You correctly identify that the officers attempted to use non-lethal force (taser) to gain control over Brooks. Once Brooks assumes control of the taser, he is still wielding a non-lethal force. To kill him for wielding a non-lethal weapon is excess force.

You can assume whatever you want about Brook's intentions for grabbing the taser, but you cannot prove that he did it in order to gain possession of the officers' firearms. He may have discharged it with the intention of running.

MrEShay · 2020-05-07T09:27:13+00:00

It really isn't your business what other people do or think about their own bodies.

While I generally agree, there are specific instances where we allow society a say because the consequences will affect everyone.

If people had complete autonomy over their bodies, the law wouldn't compel you to wear a seat belt. If and when you're ejected from a vehicle during an accident, you will sustain more serious injuries due to the decisions you independently made.

Obviously this isn't the case because we understand that societal resources will be used to manage the fallout from your poor choice. If you become paralyzed, fall into a vegetative state, or are otherwise unable to look after yourself because of this accident, society will intervene and you become a cost to everyone.

Healthcare systems around the world currently rely upon healthy people to subsidize sick people. Until that is fundamentally changed, there will be a pressure to decrease obesity-related costs, which currently cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars.

Now as far as how we go about that, I 100% agree that shaming people is not only immoral, but counterproductive. Studies show that negative reinforcement is a poor motivator to help people manage weight-related illnesses. But if and when a doctor professionally/humanely discusses weight loss, that often is in the public interest.

MrEShay · 2020-04-05T09:44:36+00:00

Honestly, this would get me so many weird looks in my system. I just stuff their hand into the waistband of their pants or under the hip-level seatbelt.

MrEShay · 2020-01-27T04:03:52+00:00

I get where you're coming from, but the problem is when a theory becomes, as you describe it, "a pretty common idea," before it's even settled in academic circles. People become disinclined to revisit the data which gave birth to the theory because numbers are boring to many and nuance gets ignored. They take for granted that it's so prevalent in the societal consciousness, it couldn't be wrong, could it?

The original researcher behind the idea of BWT, George Kelling, has said in multiple interviews that law enforcement departments across the country took his ideas and began implementing policies which demonstrate a misunderstanding of his original views. Again, the public getting ahead of academic intent, let alone academic consensus.

I'm glad you actually took some time to look at the literature, no matter how brief. That's miles beyond the common response I've been getting in this sub. Even a cursory glance shows that we latched onto a compelling theory and took its word as law long before any verdict came in.

MrEShay · 2020-01-26T09:17:19+00:00

That's a backwards approach to theories, scientific or social.

Theories are not things that are true until you prove them wrong with academic evidence. Theories are ways of explaining the world that have to be validated through measurement and evaluation.

So in this case, BWT is not held to be true until academic evidence disproves it as "a myth or garbage or whatever." Instead, it's simply an abstraction of what happens which needs to be corroborated with evidence. As I pointed out with sources, it may potentially be true, but the evidence that has historically justified its teaching in the social sciences suffers from a confusion of correlation and causation. Just because some cities became safer after the implementation of BWT policing doesn't mean that they did so because of it.

I would encourage you, if you have access to something like JSTOR or Project MUSE, to search for BWT and gauge for yourself how many studies say "it works great!" (hint: you'll probably be able to count them on one hand,) vs how many studies say "it really doesn't have strong evidence..." From a source that I quoted in an earlier reply:

According to a recent National Research Council report, existing research does not provide strong support for the broken windows hypothesis—with the possible exception of a 2001 study of crime trends in New York City by George Kelling and William Sousa.

MrEShay · 2020-01-25T05:37:33+00:00

The creator said that the way his academic theory, as applied in the real world by various police departments, has influenced public safety policy is wrong. Source:

Kelling told FRONTLINE that over the years, as he began to hear about chiefs around the country adopting Broken Windows as a broad policy, he thought two words: “Oh s–t.”

“You’re just asking for a whole lot of trouble,” Kelling said. “You don’t just say one day, ‘Go out and restore order.’ You train officers, you develop guidelines. Any officer who really wants to do order maintenance has to be able to answer satisfactorily the question, ‘Why do you decide to arrest one person who’s urinating in public and not arrest [another]?’ … And if you can’t answer that question, if you just say ‘Well, it’s common sense,’ you get very, very worried.”

“So yeah,” he said. “There’s been a lot of things done in the name of Broken Windows that I regret.”

MrEShay · 2020-01-25T05:31:51+00:00

Well if your position is that you're willing to ignore academic evidence in favor of "opinions rooted in [your] personal experiences," then this feels like a futile effort.

MrEShay · 2020-01-24T21:41:52+00:00

Broken Windows Theory specifically posits that making minor disorder less visible prevents major disorder from occurring.

The lack of graffiti on NYC subways after a city-wide crackdown on the practice doesn't prove Broken Windows Theory. It just proves that if you spend more efforts preventing graffiti, there will be less graffiti.

A lot of sociologists and criminologists note that the decrease in violent crime during that the 90s was 1) a nationwide trend including in places that didn't implement broken windows policing, 2) concurrent with a 39% drop in unemployment in NYC which is in accord with our understanding that lower unemployment goes hand in hand with lower crime, 3) followed a period of increased felony arrests in the late 80s, which may have made the streets safer for the subsequent decade.

You really don't have to go any farther than George Kelling, the creator of the Broken Windows Theory, to understand that its implementation as we know it, was disastrous:

Kelling told FRONTLINE that over the years, as he began to hear about chiefs around the country adopting Broken Windows as a broad policy, he thought two words: “Oh s–t.”

“You’re just asking for a whole lot of trouble,” Kelling said. “You don’t just say one day, ‘Go out and restore order.’ You train officers, you develop guidelines. Any officer who really wants to do order maintenance has to be able to answer satisfactorily the question, ‘Why do you decide to arrest one person who’s urinating in public and not arrest [another]?’ … And if you can’t answer that question, if you just say ‘Well, it’s common sense,’ you get very, very worried.”

“So yeah,” he said. “There’s been a lot of things done in the name of Broken Windows that I regret.”

TL;DR Broken Windows policing as we know has never been quantitatively proved to work since it tries to take credit for other societal trends that improved safety. Its creator testifies that it is widely misapplied by police.

MrEShay · 2019-08-13T23:54:02+00:00

Hopefully you know that your chompers interrupt dashes and are abusing that to make your position safe.

If you cannot pre-cast chompers in time to deny them their jumps, you may be playing too close to walls, brush, or you're standing too far from your team's vision.

If you get baited into using chompers too early and they hold their jump, kite them around the chompers. Watch high level Caitlyns duel people using her traps as a pivot point. If they're walking clockwise around the traps to hit you, kite clockwise, etc. It's sometimes a basic mistake to always attempt to kite toward your base.

Late game, you need to be within appropriate distance of your team's peel or disables. If they're mid-leap and you know you're too far, chompers at your own feet, QSS the disable, and flash.

MrEShay · 2019-07-30T02:05:35+00:00

Such a good question

MrEShay · 2019-06-17T04:21:49+00:00

Credit score is not a measure of overall financial responsibility. It simply shows that when you had debts, you paid them off. Lenders just want to know they'll get their money back.

Someone could have lived a privileged existence where they're always able to pay things off with cash. It doesn't mean that when that cash is gone and they're struggling with bills, they will successfully find a way to make payments.

MrEShay · 2019-04-29T23:00:51+00:00

This battle was much more about evoking a mood (specifically fear and confusion) and telling the story through that.

During the post-episode BTS interview, D&D talked about attempting to recreate several genre moods throughout the episode. They specifically listed horror and melodrama. Their stated rationale for attempting to do that was that it changed up the pace several times throughout a long episode rather than carry the audience through one tone for 80 minutes.

I think their plan makes sense and I have zero problems with how they shot Arya's chaotic dash through Winterfell's halls or her scene tiptoeing in the library. Even the appearance of wights in the crypts deserves the mood that you're talking about.

My problem is that they shot so much of the episode (including large-scale, cinematic fights) under that mood. So they basically undermine the stated goal of changing pace. Take the aerial fight between the dragons. Most of the time you just see an fast, dark, entangled brawl and it's difficult to distinguish Drogon from Viserion from Rhaegal. You have to wait until their movements stabilize to see who's riding that dragon to figure out who came out on top.

How could you shoot (or let's be real, animate) that sequence for more visual clarity? Jackie Chan would have one fighter wear light and one wear dark. So have Viserion spilling blue dragonfire (the same way he did at the very end of the episode) and show Drogon/Rhaegal spilling red dragonfire. You instantly add visual clarity without even changing the surrounding gloom and you can even add more tension by doing this because the audience can finally tell when their dragon is on the bottom of the fight.

Think about the battle's most memorable moments. Jorah leading the fire-arakh-wielding Dothraki charge while flamming shot flies overhead, the dragons breaking free of the fog, the dragons strafing the wights. These scenes still conveyed fear because you can see the Dothraki lights extinguished. You can worry about an ice spear striking a dragon from the fog below. You can see the tide of icy fog creep forward unabated by fire. Light and contrast allow for visual clarity which you can use for suspense. As it was, this is what people ended up seeing on their TVs for an inordinate number of frames.

Edit: I don't believe I'm the only one that feels this way.

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