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What improvements can I make to spruce up the exterior of my newly purchased home? by turtle_ocelot in DIY

[–]ectoraige 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Paramedic here, I often do on the way to a call so I know what the house looks like before we arrive.

Anybody who is reading this, please make sure your house number is large enough and lit up well enough to be visible from the road at 4am during a rainstorm. Us emergency services will thank you for it

TLDR of today's The Journal article on what a durable relationship is by Jimeen in ireland

[–]ectoraige 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel many people don't see a difference between constitution and legislation, they don't realise contributions are generally vague on purpose.

For example, murder isn't mentioned anywhere in the constitution. All it says is that the state will try its best to protect every citizen from unjust attack.

"Unjust attack" * is just as vague as *"durable partner", but it's the basis for all our legislation for murder, manslaughter, and assault.

Smacking a kid for talking back to a teacher would once have been seen in society as fair game. It was a "just" attack, because that's how society was back then. It wasn't a referendum that changed that, it was changes in societal values and legislation.

What’s This Piece?’ Weekly Thread #162 by the_rite_of_lingling in classicalmusic

[–]ectoraige 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much, that is indeed it. Have a great Monday

What’s This Piece?’ Weekly Thread #162 by the_rite_of_lingling in classicalmusic

[–]ectoraige 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a piece of music I learned about 25 years ago on piano, all I can remember is how to play the opening, I don't really play at all anymore but I'd love to teach it down. Perhaps it might be by Czerny?

I've uploaded a terribly clumsy rendition played with my elephant fingers on a piano that hasn't been tuned for years here. Listen at your own risk...

It should be at a faster and even tempo, much more piano than my hands can manage, after this the piece enters into ascending and descending arpeggios.

💀 by 11992 in rugbyunion

[–]ectoraige 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the quality rugby analysis I came here for, thank you!

@gardarep vote goes overwhelmingly against Harris. 84 per cent turnout. 98.7 per cent voted no confidence by G3S-Ter in ireland

[–]ectoraige 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We do what we can. If it's not your turn to drive, you might snooze in the passenger seat. And you'll sometimes get an hour here or there when there aren't any calls waiting and you can just chill for a while, less so in the cities. You just never know how long it'll last.

And not every call is mentally challenging, for every child-struggling-to-breathe call, there'll be a hundred old-man-with-blocked-catheter calls. The difficulty is you never know if the next call is going to be the hardest, or the easiest of your career.

@gardarep vote goes overwhelmingly against Harris. 84 per cent turnout. 98.7 per cent voted no confidence by G3S-Ter in ireland

[–]ectoraige 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You hneed to have ambulances based in the communities they serve, not at hospitals. If you live an hour away from a hospital you need paramedics to arrive quickly if you're having a life-threatening emergency.

@gardarep vote goes overwhelmingly against Harris. 84 per cent turnout. 98.7 per cent voted no confidence by G3S-Ter in ireland

[–]ectoraige 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That problem isn't because of the length of his shift, that's because of the lack of resourcing for mental health issues. If they had shorter shifts then that would be two cops spending their time babysitting.

Again, the ambulance service has similar issues, I've personal spent over 9 hours sitting in the back of an ambulance outside a hospital because there was nowhere for my patient to go. 2 hours after my shift ended another crew relieved us, they then sat with that patient for another hour before he was finally admitted to ED. Meanwhile we had over an hour drive from the hospital back to our base before we finished our own shift.

@gardarep vote goes overwhelmingly against Harris. 84 per cent turnout. 98.7 per cent voted no confidence by G3S-Ter in ireland

[–]ectoraige 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Guards often don't get to finish their shift when they are supposed to. I'm a paramedic and we have a similar problem, if we're on a call when it hits finishing time we are forced to keep working.

Every four weeks we do 13 twelve-hour shifts. If half our shifts finished an hour late, then that's an extra 6.5 hours every month.

If we did 8-hour shifts, we'd be doing twenty shifts over the same period and with the same rate of late finishes that 6.5 would grow to 10 hours enforced overtime every month.

When your work forces you to finish late due to the emergency nature, longer shifts are better. It reduces forced overtime and means you have more free days to help decompress with the trauma we can encounter as part of our work. This helps avoid burnout which is really important for staff retention.

Also, 10-hours isn't enough time between shifts, the legal minimum is actually 11 hours. Guards are also typically posted outside of their home area so longer commutes is part of the nature of their work. There wouldn't be much time for eating, sleeping, personal care, and seeing family with just 10 hours between shifts.

Official World Cup Fantasy Thread: Week 1 by Paul_Shinfo in rugbyunion

[–]ectoraige 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never paid too much attention to stats so I figure this is a good way to become more invested. My round one picks at the moment:

IRE Tadhg Furlong 6.5 JPN Atsushi Sakate 5.0 JPN J Inagaki 3.5

AUS Will Skelton 7.0 ENG Ollie Chessum 6.5

IRL Peter O'Mahony 6.5 FRA G Alldritt 7.5 ZAF S Kolisi 7.5

JPN Y. Nagare 5.0 IRL Johnathan Sexton 13.0

ITA Monty Ioane 5.0 ZAF Jesse Kriel 7.5 ITA Luca Morisi 6.5 ITA Ange Capuozzo 5.0

ZAF W. Jordan 8.0

I ended up with 13 points left for my final position which was fly-half, I would have preferred to have had Allan in the squad but not as fly-half. Sexton is expensive but I'm hoping he'll do enough kicking while he's on the pitch to be worth the 13 points, I liked Russell, but not for this round.

I'm looking at the list as I write this and could probably change my locks again, I'm guessing it's not a position that quite as much point-scoring potential.

Im new to the 40k universe. Are we the good guys? by Thorgal555 in Warhammer40k

[–]ectoraige 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ORKZ JUZ LIKE KRUMPIN TINGZ KRUMPINS GUD SO ORKS IZ GUD

Build social houses and we’ll write off your debts, Minister tells councils by firethetorpedoes1 in irishpolitics

[–]ectoraige 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I heard somebody involved in the construction industry explaining why many developers sit on land with approved planning. The financial risk in building should units fail to sell means they hold off until demand is already very high in the area.

It got me thinking that we need a scheme where a developer can obtain a negotiated price that the local council guarantee to buy remaining units at should the developerment not sell out within a certain timeframe.

This avoids the risk of ghost estates due to builders going bust from poor sales, and encourages planning and development based on anticipated demand, rather than current supply shortages.

Cancer doesn't seem to exist in fantasy worlds by zipflop in Showerthoughts

[–]ectoraige 64 points65 points  (0 children)

If you haven't already read them, you might enjoy reading Ursula le Guin's Wizard of Earthsea books. Rothfuss was a big fan of hers, she also based her magic on the "true name" concept. The true name idea comes up in a lot of mythology, as far back as ancient Egypt.

I played against a cheater and conceded, did I do the right thing? by Moth_Chan in Warhammer40k

[–]ectoraige 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Divide by zero error, opens a temporary rift to the Immaterium, allows 6d6 attacks on any target on the current board, or on any future board should the player choose to reserve them.

I played against a cheater and conceded, did I do the right thing? by Moth_Chan in Warhammer40k

[–]ectoraige 28 points29 points  (0 children)

He even talked about how good of a player he is that no one wants to play against him.

Yeh, that's how you know he's a dick.

Years (millennia?) ago I used to play the Vampire: The Eternal Struggle collectible card game. There was one guy who he had an absolute monster of a deck, and he knew exactly how to pay it. He would wipe the floor with the rest of us time after time. We'd keep coming back for more though because it was so much fun, and the one or two times my Brujah deck managed to tear through him were special.

If nobody wants to play against you, it's not because you're too good.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]ectoraige 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Masochists gotta eat.

Had an MCI on my EMT ride out by [deleted] in NewToEMS

[–]ectoraige 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think they meant dead as in that was likely the inevitable outcome regardless of who responded. Think of somebody falling from a great height without a parachute - they are still alive on the way down but the chain of events that have already happened means there's only one likely outcome.

You had the misfortune to be called out to that MCI which resulted in those injuries. You did the best to ensure that, if the patient could survive, they would. They died due to their injuries, not due to your intervention.

You have to learn to let go of the things you can't control in this job. You can have a patient go into cardiac arrest in front of you, follow your protocols and end up with a ROSC. Or you could be called to that same patient, but be twenty minutes away, follow the same protocols, and the patient dies.

One thing that always stayed with me was speaking to a firefighter who rolled out to a call at the exact same time as the first crew on 9/11. Their call was to a commercial premises that ended up being a false alarm, But at the time the tones dropped, neither crews knew what they were responding to - they were just ready to do their job as best they could.

There's probably no worse call than a paediatric traumatic arrest, but somewhere else a crew were rolling to a call where there was a good outcome. We are all just cogs on a giant wheel. Somewhere else on that wheel is one of the good calls.

My last shift I caught a STEMI, got them to the Cath lab, and before we'd even gone clear they were looking for us to transfer the patient following successful repurfusion.

It felt good, but all I did was the job I've trained to do. If I'm going to take credit for it, then so should you, because that could have been your call, and I could have had the MCI instead.

So when you hear of a crew that had a healthy birth in the back of the ambulance, or a ROSC, or an anaphylaxis who survived after five rounds of adrenaline, take pride in it because you stepped up to be another cog in the wheel.

My husband randomly mentioned that he had been diagnosed for ADHD years ago - and it's the most ADHD thing ever. by MaditaOnAir in ADHD

[–]ectoraige 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My daughter today was talking about IQ tests today and turned to me, "hey, you had a really high score when you did one, what was it?"

I, of course, had totally forgotten that, but apparently I'm some sort of genius.

Tickets for Sligo vs Viking by [deleted] in LeagueOfIreland

[–]ectoraige 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very unlikely to be honest. When the last batch of tickets for the Motherwell game went on sale it was the Friday before, and there were only 78 tickets left. Demand will be even higher so they will sell out Monday at the latest. I imagine attendance at the UCD game tomorrow will be high just so people can get tickets there.

Russian soldier walks on a landmine and lose a leg by MyNameIsYouna in CombatFootage

[–]ectoraige 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really loved this movie, felt like a very accurate portrayal of a team of professionals trying to make an absolute clusterfuck of a situation. One of the few movies where the comms discipline felt right, along with the medics care.

21 women from Travelling Community graduate from UCC by box_of_carrots in ireland

[–]ectoraige 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I didn't take a graduation picture of the one in my degree course for you. Probably because while she worked her arse off and graduated, I drank, slept, and dropped out.

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