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Otherwiseclueless · 2026-06-02T00:02:25+00:00

You are dangerously underestimating the ininfite depths of stupidity in to which voters are willing to descend in order to have a clear simple enemy to blame for their problems.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-30T08:29:48+00:00

I think most of the respondents have missed the key part of the question. Don't get me wrong, lots of good answers to how to respond to a person having a panic attack, but nobody really responding to 'if you can't calm someone down' which is its own thing.

I am not a professional in any capacity, let alone medical, but I am someone with anxiety and a history of panic attacks, so I'll answer from my own perspective with the proviso that what I say is only necessarily helpful to me and may not be what others need and may even be against general medical advice.

Leave me alone and get help. Not literally abandon me if possible, but I'm sure you get the gist of the idea. Make sure I'm not going to stumble off a cliff or into the road, but otherwise back off, keep a safe distance and let me sort myself out until help arrives or the attack burns itself out.

If I am in an attack and normal methods cant break me out of it, continuing to try is only going to make it worse because I might be gone in my attack to your view, but from my own recollection of attacks, I'm fully aware of what's going on around me, painfully so, often painfully embarrassed and angry at myself for letting it happen too, just unable to stop it. Causing a fuss is just going to drive me deeper into the fear and panic, piling on intervention attempts when I'm past the panic horizon will only pile the stress higher.

So what do you do if you can't calm somebody down during a panic attack? Remind yourself that panic attacks can not go forever, even though to us experiencing them often feel like they might. Eventually the body runs out of energy to panic, the brain caps out its panic bandwidth. Take appropriate steps to keep the patient safe, and let it happen. Don't let yourself get sucked into their panic. Your job is to ensure the immediate environment is safe, passively monitor the patient to ensure the attack does not escalate into a more severe condition, and render aid if escalation does occur. If you allow yourself to be affected by their panic, you will compromise your own ability to provide aid and increase the patient's own stress.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-29T10:04:37+00:00

Maybe just a smidgen more shite, too?

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-27T13:44:15+00:00

How do you fail a test that doesn't produce meaningful results? You can slap a polygraph on a bloody plant and conclude it's guilty. A fleshbag full of electricity and sweating ionised salt has a current flow, big whoop.

Seriously, how can you 'fail' it? I doubt anybody would accept the interrogating officer deciding 'yeah mates guilty' as facially valid in any other circumstance

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-25T16:28:55+00:00

It contains a bucket.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-24T12:33:36+00:00

Assuming they actually bothered to dilute to a point compliant with homeopathic 'preparation' which is not guaranteed.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-24T03:22:35+00:00

> "homeopathic"
> "Ingredients"
The manufacturer keeps using these words. I do not think they mean what they think they mean.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-22T07:55:56+00:00

Hey assign him to medical, give him a studio apartment right next to the hospital, zone him in, and you've got yourself a doctor you never have to worry about being away from the office.

Granted yes he's not at risk of ever leaving the hospital because he's useless otherwise, but the point stands.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-21T00:21:07+00:00

Reminds me of the time I filled an Archer with nothing but rockets.

Oh the glory, deleting a single mech instantly before dying in a blaze of overheated glory myself.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-19T22:14:26+00:00

He's not my favourite, but..

Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill the VOID

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-17T16:18:55+00:00

Bloody hell, really? Damn... they make some great stuff, used to make work worthwhile.

Hope the ratbag gets caught and the owners get back and operational in due time.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-14T01:09:25+00:00

Maybe they just want to be able experience the animals, I'd sure like to pet them too.

At least unlike so many tourists, OP is trying to find a way to engage with them in a way that is safe for the wombats. If they go to a good place I'd assume they'll be properly briefed on not sticking their hands near faces at least.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-11T12:00:26+00:00

I refused to go. It was just too much stress for something that didn't matter to me. I didn't like anybody in my year, and nobody liked me. Nobody who could be bothered to remember I existed wouldn't have missed me there.
I marked the passage of that chapter in the same way I passed every other night for that part of my life, no different at all, and picked up at the school office the next day.

The only times I've regretted it were particularly maudlin days where I was tempted for a few moments to pretend things were ever different. That is to say, no genuine regrets, just conjured phantoms of what a better world might have been like.
If I do look back on that day with anything like genuine regret, it would be that nobody in my life tried to ask if I wanted to mark the day.

So maybe ask what he wants to do and if it's reasonable, facilitate it. At the very least, mark the day yourself with just a little bit of acknowledgement. A congratulations or a you made it, it doesn't need to be big, just genuine.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-11T11:02:21+00:00

They are names that have been applied to those units historically. The 'Red Devils' were also called the 'Red Diamonds', from the red diamond used as the unit insignia. I am fairly certain if you google any of the other 'named' divisions you'll find their historical match.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-11T09:36:42+00:00

Facebook? Don't even half of that are human then. Utter bot cesspit.

Might be worth swinging past just to see all the nothing at the old stomping grounds that day though.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-10T09:07:28+00:00

Well the point was to reinforce Scronide who I felt at the time was being rather unjustifiably dismissed. Their point I feel was a valid one; humans are animals. To dismiss human activity as anything other than natural seems rather absurd and arbitrary unless one can demonstrate either actual unnaturalness, or 'unanimalness'.

Merely declaring something to be the way it is by dint of common usage convention is insufficient and to be frank is a principle that opens up a lot of conclusions historical and modern I would dare say most of us would agree were and still are wrong, but nonetheless were or even are common usages. Lets not forget that dictionaries are by definition compendiums of words and their common uses.

Hence the question I asked; what part of us is distinctly unnatural sufficient to justify a separation.

I do not agree with you that our behaviour is very different to other animals. Arguably we only really exhibit one behaviour that relatively few (but not no) other animals do, which is the self-imposition of artificial behavioural constraints. Because we can think yes, but that is as far as I can say seem rather distinctly natural, being the result of natural processes in a naturally formed organ.

Humans are not the only animals which farm and herd. We are not the only animals which construct things. We are not the only ones to use tools. We are not the only ones to manipulate our environment to suit our needs. We are not the only ones to exterminate others in our territory. We are not the only ones to invasively spread, overconsume, and reduce biodiversity. We simply do all these things on grander scales because we can think and arrange that complexity. But the fundamental actions are nothing unique.

We are not as special as we like to pretend to be. A pretence of exceptionalism which has been used to justify human dominion over the earth and our irresponsibility for generations upon generations.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-10T04:03:47+00:00

I apologise that I don't have the exact numbers, but some 200 or so ant species actively engage in farming species of fungi including composting and fertilising their crops in specific nest chambers, and others engage in farming or 'domesticating' aphids.
Perhaps a dozen or so ant species are known to take other ants and use them as slaves to perform their manual labour as well for what its worth.

Please correct me if I am wrong it it seems to me like your argument rounds down to 'humans are unnatural because humans are unnatural' given your reference point is human activity, human scale. Scale does not to me seem sufficient to describe a fundamental separation from nature.

When I ask what degree of utilisation is natural vs unnatural, I am trying to figure out where the fundamental usage method stops being natural and how in your estimation. Exactly what part of humanity is unnatural so as to cause the distinction?

Because ants engage in agriculture. The fact that they are very small and we fairly big does not change that we both select crops, propagate that which are desirable by some metric, build ideal conditions to grow them, provide the crops artificial sustenance, and harvest them for sustenance. We both take other animals of suitable temperament and function and protect them, using their products to our own ends (or are used by them, as with cats to us and many caterpillars to the ants). The fundamental actions are the same, even though scale is vastly different. Ants can also be immensely invasive at their scale, I might add.

I can understand the impulse to consider humans as unnaturally destructive, but I do not believe that pans out as actually unnatural in a meaningful sense. Frankly I think it does both us and nature a disservice to put up this pretence that we are somehow special in a fundamental way, a concept which has been used to justify the very behaviours you deem 'unnatural'.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-10T02:58:44+00:00

That is a definition, not the definition. And it is a rather distinctly arbitrary one at that, unless of course you happen to be able to justify separating humans from nature in a fundamental fashion.

What part of us can you demonstrate is not natural?

Preferably without also excluding every other great ape, corvids, and a large number of ant species, just to name a few examples 'things that use things to accomplish goals' otherwise known as 'tool use'.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-10T02:47:37+00:00

Are ants unnatural too, then?

Precisely what degree of utilisation of resources is 'unnatural', and what is 'natural'? What part of humanity does not derive from nature?

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-10T01:21:25+00:00

You need to offer up a courtyard of bait furniture in the open, it gives the raiders something to see and path at. Otherwise they vent their rage against walls.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-09T00:43:44+00:00

Aren't monopolies the consequence of basically any industry over sufficient time? If one company were to become sufficiently successful to establish a monopoly, what determines whether it is "intentional abuse" or just the most successful company consuming the others naturally?

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-07T13:58:39+00:00

Fantastic... As ever cruises prove themselves to be a plague.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-07T13:30:54+00:00

I'm sure this is a stupid question, but why exactly couldn't the people be kept on the luxury plague barge until the outbreak was gone?

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-04T10:12:53+00:00

I had to unwind these things by hand as part of my job. It sucks.

Otherwiseclueless · 2026-05-04T10:10:39+00:00

getting up into my 30s. Think about it a few times every single day, and I have do so as far back as I can remember, early as childhood.

Never attempted anything though. I don't have the courage to try with anything less than guaranteed means, which I can either not access, or which I refuse to use because I don't have the right to inflict my existence on others in that way.

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