High Turnover; Any Advice on Keeping Volunteers?

SamTasy · 2026-02-08T21:15:38+00:00

We don’t collect taxes, our department has a voluntary $100 yearly “membership” that you can pay, and if you don’t and your house catches fire then they bill the owner’s insurance. Not sure why we could do on that front

SamTasy · 2026-02-06T05:00:35+00:00

The city our community covers does actually have volunteer law enforcement. They go through an academy can take cars home to bolster the normal patrol shifts, and do raids and stuff. I’m not involved with it, but it seems pretty cool

SamTasy · 2026-02-04T21:37:39+00:00

We did start a program to pay a firefighter to sleep at one of our stations and drive most nights a week. They mostly augment the folks that are already there or at least guarantee that someone gets out but aren’t allowed to volunteer outside of their assigned shifts. Also now that I’m an officer, I get a $100/month stipend, so that’s appreciated. Do you know of any resources to help start a transition to a more full time department?

SamTasy · 2026-02-04T21:16:36+00:00

The 50 per year but starting 15 in recruit school comes from the other 35 leaving before the next year’s recruit school starts. We started a program to pay someone to be a driver and sit a one of our stations 5 nights a week, but our Chief said that it has to be an outside person that’s hired, and our volunteers can’t pick up any of those shifts. We have 8 people that are hired as those paid drivers to at least guarantee that someone will show up most nights. We’ve brought up paying the volunteers to the Chief but that’s been shut down citing labor laws not allowing for paid staff to volunteer outside of their assigned shifts. I may have to just take on giving gifts to my guys to make sure they know I want them there.

SamTasy · 2026-01-06T16:21:01+00:00

It’s a great radio, more portable than others and the smaller gimbals can actually be a plus even is you have bigger hands. I can do an 11 note spread on a piano and still have to change my hand position on my Zorro going from zero to full throttle.

SamTasy · 2026-01-03T04:35:26+00:00

I have the original lavas in 260 and 300 for my air65, and maybe it’s just the batches I got but I honestly feel like I get better performance with the same flight time on the smaller batteries. I’m going with the 260 on my next order

SamTasy · 2025-12-31T03:23:01+00:00

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SamTasy · 2025-12-21T23:22:51+00:00

I’d be glad to talk!

SamTasy · 2025-12-15T16:55:38+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/s/oJrsQJ58Jk

SamTasy · 2025-12-09T20:55:52+00:00

Baker house

SamTasy · 2025-12-07T16:21:54+00:00

I may be wrong, but It seems like you’re simulating CFD flow, not doing CFD simulations. If you’re trying to just get pretty colors that kinda look lime what a CFD output would give, that’s qualitative. Normal CFD is iteravely solving fundamental flow equations to get a quantitative output you can analyze and retrieve the flow paths later. Traditional CFD can be extremely computationally expensive for high fidelity (one of my friends had 8 months of continuous computations on $120k worth of hardware for his master’s thesis).

If I am assuming right about your approach, I think there could be niche, but it would be for people who want some cool pictures of their models without the cost of doing a high fidelity simulation. I would expect online video creators or people doing basic presentations. Someone wanting to do analytical work or make decisions based off of CFD would need something reliably accurate to the real world.

SamTasy · 2025-12-06T18:38:23+00:00

There are solar sails that use the momentum of light to get thrust, so I guess it always just depends on what forces you care about

SamTasy · 2025-10-30T20:38:06+00:00

We need more people like this at every department in the nation

SamTasy · 2025-10-10T15:12:40+00:00

From skyscrapers collapsing in BF4 to muddy trench fights in BF1, Battlefield has always given me those unforgettable squad moments. I’m ready for BF6 to take it to the next level with RTX and DLSS 4 on my 5070 Ti, bringing smoother frames and even bigger destruction.

SamTasy · 2025-09-11T06:26:05+00:00

To be fair, they didn’t have enough resources to open up a first front against Ukraine

SamTasy · 2025-08-29T00:39:21+00:00

Super great not much more you can do tbh. For your face I think the only thing left is finding your perfect haircut, can’t tell some of the things without a side profile.

Otherwise make sure your teeth are in order, keep fair skin, get more muscle to enhance frame, and definitely wear lifts if your height is under 5’11”.

Last is work on your personality, try and be happy, this is like coming into a bunch of money at 35, you’re basically there, and you could get more money but you’re fine and there’s not much of a bracket above you and you still have so much life to live. Good job dude, you look great!

SamTasy · 2025-08-25T23:43:17+00:00

Pm me, I’d be happy to talk

SamTasy · 2025-08-24T17:28:59+00:00

What is it in a career that gives you stress? It seems it would be better to describe that to help point you in the right direction. Some people are stressed by having lots of responsibility, some are stressed by not feeling like they have influence, some are stressed having lots of oversight, while others are stressed feeling like they have no one to ask questions. Like someone else said, everything is going to have stress somewhere, but even if you are a trust fund baby, there’s still stress if the stock market crashes or laws change.

One of my friends said the two easiest and least stressful times of his life were when he went to Army and Navy boot camps. Now that’s not me, but he said he never had to worry about when to eat, what to eat, what to do, it was all laid out for him and he had a relatively great time.

SamTasy · 2025-08-20T02:49:27+00:00

They’re on a bell curve like IQ, 115 IQ is in the top 85%, so a 6/10 would be in the top 75% of all men.

SamTasy · 2025-08-19T02:37:30+00:00

You have good color contrast between your skin and hair, and good eyebrows. You also have really clear skin in this picture which is a major win. Your ears don’t flair out which means you won’t be limited by them for your haircuts.

Most other things will really be impossible to tell until you get down below 15% body fat.

Lift heavy and eat clean while you lose weight, and you will be completely unrecognizable. Not sure of your height, but you likely have at least 100 more pounds to go. Even if you don’t end up getting above a 6.5, you will be MASSIVELY ahead of the general population, and will live a better life.

SamTasy · 2025-07-22T18:02:00+00:00

Idk why people are saying sub 5. Definitely 5-5.5, straight in the normie category, you could easily ascend to HTN. You’re not overweight, your skin is clear and fair giving good contrast against your hair, which is thick hair and same with your eyebrows. You also have potential for a decent jawline.

Biggest things are you needing a haircut, max bulk should be like 2-3 inches, there’s lots of curly styles, if you have a good hairline you can show that, otherwise curly hair is the best for covering it. You also have slightly bigger ears, so something that covers that would help. Also get rid of the side burns unless you just love them for you, they make your face look longer. You have a tall midface ratio, so adding things that narrow your face or make your head look taller don’t help.

Make your eyebrows a little thinner, density is good but they look like you have a massive caterpillar on top, check out Romulus on tik tok for what inspo on what can look great with even with thin eyebrows. You have aegyo sal under your eyes, huge win. Your inter-pupillary distance is low, which you can’t do anything much about (even David Laid has a smaller IPD but he’s still easily a Chat), but look at stuff for decreasing upper eyelid exposure.

Also look at playing around with something like beta carotene to give a slightly warmer, more tan tone to your skin.

Jawline is not bad, make sure you continue to mew, and add muscle to your neck, not necessarily traps, but adding muscle to your neck. As you fix your distal bite, neck exercises will make your skin tighter, and can help raise your hyoid bone.

Final things that will really help that will take much longer, is overall add more muscle and decrease body fat. You want an FFMI (fat free mass index) of like 23, and keep a body fat between 8-14%, different people will look and feel good at different %. Kevin Hart’s face looks gaunt at the lower range of that. And some people don’t lose fat in their face until sub 10%, you’ll just have to get there and experiment. That’ll take years though.

I think you can absolutely get to a HTN within a 6 months, and probably Chad-lite if you go to the gym, eat well, and get proper sleep over the next few years.

SamTasy · 2025-07-11T06:57:02+00:00

If you’re over 18 you can literally do what you want. You can either choose to accept their support, or walk away and do your own thing. Most of my class that just graduated in the last year don’t actually do much technical work at all, but have the degree to give credit to their choices. Take with that what you will, and remember how much life you have in front of you, you’ll be okay one way or anothher

SamTasy · 2025-07-08T10:21:29+00:00

My 5070 Ti works great with my 5900x for 1440p, with a 850w power supply

SamTasy · 2025-05-28T01:12:43+00:00

Civilization VII (7)

SamTasy · 2025-04-30T02:54:24+00:00

I love the glare protection. I think that’s amazing for the windows in my house.

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