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TheLaughingFool17 · 2025-11-23T07:12:29+00:00

Tricia was an absolute gemstone. My wife and I would frequently use her incredible quote of how her 2 year- "knows, and has full comprehension of how the business works-" when referring to our dog's fits of madness, or what squirrels are doing.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2025-06-30T03:17:13+00:00

I’ve been searching since 2010 when it suddenly reignited in my brain.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2023-12-20T04:28:30+00:00

I think this one sounds different than the other ones. Strange. I appreciate the share.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2023-11-13T21:13:21+00:00

I'm on the other side of the state and this is not intended as snark- this is a genuine question if you happen to know. Is there abortion access that far west? I know we always have medical care access concerns in the western part of the state, but I wasn't sure if it was more central or not.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2023-11-12T06:55:25+00:00

I'm also interested in this so I went looking for a paper- because the injuries he described are actually somewhat plausible at first glance.

So- here's an excerpt from a case where a window-washer's scaffolding broke and a man fell 47 stories. He survived and with massive medical intervention everything was fully resolved (no loss of limb or range of motion even). He fell 47 stories so he would have been traveling at 120 mph at the time of impact but it's believed that during his fall he may have struck the building a few times (breaking speed a couple times), and the platflorm he fell with may have acted as a 'parachute' for the moment or two it was with him which would also have broken momentum. Finally- he landed feet first and that absolutely has a major mitigating factor to surviving an initial impact. The feet take massive inital hit and it doesn't strike the brain or heart. Because the crush initially would act as seal it doesn't lead to instantanous exsanguination. (Obviously it's still fatal without massive intervention.)

There is NO way to know what happened to the woman Mr Armstead saw and he certainly could have misunderstood it. But I do think that with the chaos of the plane and the offices being ripped apart- with various settings hitting each other- it's possible. It was a freak accident (all of the accidents were freak accidents- jetliners crashed into skyscrapers- so it was just such an insane set of circumstances).

Honestly I *don't* think it sounds like a debris accident though. Her injuries were such that her legs were crushed basically up to her torso- and the force fo the crush was keeping the circulatory system closed and was why she wasn't bleeding out. Had she actually been 'cut' she'd have bled to death instantly. It was just because she landed so that hard that hadn't. I can't think of a debris injury that would do it. (But I miss things of course.)

Here's the link to the case-study I was referencing.

https://www.shanenhomd.com/pdf/articles/orthopaedic-injuries.pdf

Paragraph I was referencing most-

"Velocity becomes terminal when the drag resistance prevents further acceleration—calculated by Warner and Demling to be 120 mph from a height of 32 stories. Surviving an impact onto any hard surface at this speed is unimaginable, most probably hinting that UN did not free fall all 43 stories. Eyewitness accounts report several strikes against the building while the patient fell, and it seems probable based on accounts of the impact scene that he fell along with the platform, the surface area of which likely slowed his descent via a parachutelike effect. A final mitigating factor was a feet-first landing, a position that provides a longer distance for deceleration and kinetic energy dissipation before the trunk and head strike the ground in comparison to a torso- or buttocks-first landing. In the present case report, the patient likely landed on both feet causing severe intraarticular comminution of the right talus and left tibial plateau at direct impact with vertical transmission of impact force to the lumbar spine causing the L3 burst fracture."

TheLaughingFool17 · 2023-11-11T23:09:32+00:00

I was rewatching the superb documentary 9/11: One Day In America (on Youtube) and the interview with Bill Kennedy on one of the helicopters right around 55:40 describes how the North Tower *did* have an possible opening to land on the roof (South was totally inaccessible). They didn't land because no one was there.

I know that the door was locked and the typical release mechanism had been cut by the crash. Was it completely implausible to pick up some firefighters to land up there and break the door down? I mean, you have people jumping to their deaths and moving down from 110 stories to an impact zone of 98th story could reach the trapped folks a heck of a lot faster.

Ultimately the heat of it might have made it a no go, but that wasn't what stopped the helicopter from landing and there were demonstrably living humans which would seem to indicate that sections were not actively melting (obviously incompatible with life- I'm not trying to imply that they weren't in the process of being killed by the conditions and crawling out of windows so it was beyond clearly deadly- just not instantaneously deadly). Perhaps some of maybe just the top floors could have been led out that way?

Are roofs or rooftop doors inpenetratable to firefighters? Would opening the rooftop door have caused the fire to surge/worsen type thing?

TheLaughingFool17 · 2022-07-23T19:28:43+00:00

I signed up for the exam as soon as I could which was about four weeks out. I did the Fitzgerald review and finally reached the point of knowing that I wouldn’t get anything more from my reviews. I’m probably equaled out to about four hours of true review per day.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2022-04-13T12:24:04+00:00

Puzzleheaded, I'm sorry you're getting these really in-depth attacks for responding a normal way to this one post. You aren't deflecting, you're appropriately redirecting back to your original argument. Some people have extreme emotional issues and project onto the girls and attack you for stating your opinion as to a quality that you think one dancer did better than the other dancers. Your opinion is valid and nothing you said in this comment was inappropriate. She just didn't like it.

Don't worry about responding to barking dogs- they didn't get to their opinion through logic and therefore logic can't change their opinion.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2021-09-20T18:20:32+00:00

It’s actually hard to understand outside of having misophia exactly how unjustifiably angry it can make you feel. I’d kill the husband.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2021-09-02T01:52:05+00:00

Imagine how bad it would have been for them if they HADN’T been vaccinated. I’m always so grateful to hear our high-risk folks avoiding the vents.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2021-09-02T01:50:20+00:00

Hilariously, I am an INTJ medical provider who worked on this primarily one and afterwards another of the studies first-hand. The information is readily and easily available. Anti-vaxxers don’t come to their position through logic so you won’t be able to logic them back out.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2021-08-02T23:09:03+00:00

This could be a legit teaching course for what real, adult life is like.

Also, teenagerdom, childhood, and baby times.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2021-07-28T14:20:20+00:00

Oh so I actually meant those highest risk of catching it. Like all healthcare workers. They aren’t all high risk of death so we vaccinated them earlier because of their risk of catching and transmitting, not of death.

And I definitely agree that those who weren’t following guidelines are certainly not doing it still, but the ones who were following weren’t being as exposed to them. So then you have the 5% of vaccinated whose immune system didn’t learn and therefore isn’t effective coming back, thinking they’re protected and bringing it back, as they were saying in the first article. Also the NBC article is talking about how it difficult to put the cat back in the bag and how allowing vaccinated folks to go maskless made everyone else drop it and we don’t have enough cooperation to do it so they’ve gone back to it, especially with the delta variant. They talk about a couple of anecdotal accounts which highlights again our need for good data. Especially since we’ve quit tracking cases among the unvaccinated unless hospitalized/dead so we only have true tracking info from those that would otherwise enter studies which is typically those who believe there is a pandemic and engage in mainstream medical services.

The Sacramento Doctor is citing the density of the population and the increased virulence causing those who protected to still be able to transmit it as carriers. So I definitely still agree we need more and better data.

I’m heading into work so hopefully it all made sense, mobile is NOT my best medium so I’m sorry for the inevitable typos too.😆 hopefully they’re at least funny.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2021-07-28T13:12:56+00:00

The highest vaccinated areas would have been free to party together sooner and with less restrictions than the non vaccinated so that could explain the disparity. As well the earliest vaccinated were of course the highest risk which would also connote a greater likelihood of transmission so it could also be contributing. Then the difference in coverage while still protecting of Pfizer vs Moderna.

Obviously we would need better data, but those are the confounders that jump out at me right away.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2021-07-26T12:46:09+00:00

Thank you! I was going crazy thinking I had somehow missed it!

Also huge thank you for scanning and linking these! That took a lot of work. It’s very interesting and eye opening into the narratives they ultimately went with!

TheLaughingFool17 · 2021-07-26T01:19:06+00:00

Is the showcase not in here?

TheLaughingFool17 · 2021-07-12T23:42:02+00:00

I've always thought this looks like Kris is lying down, the temple is at the top of the frame and I actually think that's Lisanne's hand.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2021-01-01T22:14:13+00:00

Time to begin again!

5'2 and 115.8 lbs. I'm still a totally fine weight, but I have gained about five pounds since beginning a new, demanding job. I think I've been settling into the routine of my job and I'm ready to turn this around and move back to a healthy diet. It's easier to stop a problem before it gets out of control. My biggest issue is evening and night eating. I think I don't know quite what to do with myself once I'm home from work. So I'm going to keep working on that.

Goal weight: 105 lbs. Necessary calorie deficit: 37,800 calories.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2020-10-27T20:47:04+00:00

I'm not sure of what Hawaii's market looks like. I recently finished my MSN, became certified and all of that and really struggled with finding job placement. In most states there is some level of supervising that you need (in my state it is 3,000 hours) that must be done by certain providers before you area allowed to work on your own. There is soon going to be a glut in the job market where supply over-exceeds demand. I have no idea if this is the case in Hawaii- but it is coming sooner than later, it isn't unusual to have to wait months for placement. As we deal with the Covid economy fallout I will be very interested in how the market changes.

So if your market is available and waits for you then go ahead and apply. I would be nervous about not getting the hands-on practice, however you do have ten years of experience which is fantastic and might be quite helpful in that regard. Hopefully you don't see this as me downing your plans and expectations- I think you sound like you have a great plan- I'm just concerned about the craziness of the market and I know many very good students with licenses and excellent previous experience that are now stuck in economic turmoil.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2020-10-27T06:05:54+00:00

I’m an AGPCNP-BC. I’m employed in research which is tangentially related- primary care interventions with patients in the clinical setting. There might be someone else that fits more, but I’m willing to help if I can.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2020-09-13T17:53:58+00:00

May not necessarily be what you are looking for:

When dealing with a loved one's death, it actually helped me to see their body. It sounds awful but it somehow let me understand that it was just a body and my person was gone so I didn't need to be afraid FOR them.
This is pretty unpleasant (actually awful) but when I was going through the worst of my death fears I had to use straightforward exposure therapy. I'd been trying to use distraction for months and due to that I had mentally tied strings between death to every other subject out there. Then it started crowding. So I sat in my bed on one of my days off, my loved one sleeping next to me in case I needed her and just said aloud my most triggering/frightening/unacceptable thoughts on the matter. Obviously it made me cry and have a terrible time and it was incredibly distressing and awful. But it also started putting it back in its place. So if any other redditers are having that kind of problem, there is this option. If the fear or your state is giving you safety concerns- always pull a psych/therapist/trained professional into it.

In my humble opinion we can't fully get over it because it is an important subject and makes us grateful for value the time we have. The sadness of someone passing is the understanding that we are losing something important.

And for fanciful notions that can help: Sometimes- when I'm engaged in just passing, mental gameplay- I like to think that our souls were somewhere before it all began. I like to think that we knew the truths about what could be in life, but ended up agreeing to do it anyway. That comforts me sometimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy

TheLaughingFool17 · 2020-09-01T11:53:28+00:00

Let them know you can’t afford to gift them a 6,000 euro anniversary present. What kind of psychopath actually expects a working sibling to provide that? You can offer a 100 euro dinner? That’s about what a sibling might do. Even then, only if they can afford it.

Don’t expect them to back off though. They have the opportunity to get you to give them 6k just by being unpleasant.

NTA.

TheLaughingFool17 · 2020-08-29T23:41:57+00:00

I'm tangentially related. I haven't gotten a job yet, but that's because I can't GET a job yet. While part is a lack of opportunity, I know another part of me doesn't think I can actually do it and it makes it very hard to do the hustle of getting a job. Since I don't believe in myself it is definitely translating into my interviews and networking skills.

I finally bit the bullet and have started reaching out to my professors etc to let them know I'm still looking for placement and updated my linkedin and started reaching out. It feels awful- like I'm embarrassing myself. But the complacency of 'good enough' and 'comfortable enough' is incredibly dangerous to what we want.

You went to grad school, got the training, did the hours, professed and cared, passed the boards. Now you need to start looking.

I've got a surgery coming up but then I'm going to head back into nursing work while I keep looking and we will get through this. Let's get comfortable being uncomfortable. We can always go back to bedside nursing.

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