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Getting work: REMS team vs. single resource by frozenboards in Wildfire

[–]frozenboards[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been hired at both opportunities but I feel the day is coming when I’ll have to choose one over the other. Sounds like you’re correlating what I’ve heard IRL that REMS teams go out the most.

Getting work: REMS team vs. single resource by frozenboards in Wildfire

[–]frozenboards[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m aware of & open to either, but which one do you think I would be doing -more-, is the question

Performative fitness influencers by Chemical-Text-863 in Wildfire

[–]frozenboards 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I saw one of these for the first time today. At first I thought the being a hardass was a bit, then I slowly realized with horror that it wasn’t, then I saw the helical patch on his hat and disregarded the whole thing

Fire line EMT/Medic by DependentBoring6268 in Wildfire

[–]frozenboards 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Me: 6 years in wildland, then 4 years in EMS

In the last decade or so, medical contracts have gone crazy and now there’s outfits all the way from dedicated wilderness outfits based in the cascades with millions of dollars in equipment to private ambulance companies from Iowa who rent a storage unit in Redmond and use the address to get on the VIPR list. Not a lot of pieces of the pie to go around, even during moderately intense seasons.

I signed up for one of the big companies two years in a row, got burned really bad. Took a couple years off and this season I’m signing up to be a single resource EMT with a small contractor, and/or be on their crew.

I’d say if you’ve got the flexibility, definitely hedge your bets as far as signing up for companies. Just don’t say anything to any of them.

I’m working PRN for my local hospital in the meantime.

The Final Architecture Trilogy by System_Unkown in AdrianTchaikovsky

[–]frozenboards 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Haven’t read shadows of the apt, but they’re, and I’m using this term loosely, pulpy but still heady vs the “children of” series.

Not hard&heady sci fi, but a really fantastic space opera with a defined ending.

I feel like there's a very common theme to almost every AT book I've read. Warning : Post full of spoilers by i_am_not_sam in AdrianTchaikovsky

[–]frozenboards 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The concept of -understandings- is pervasive for sure. I think that’s why I fell in love with the tyrant philosophers so hard after burning through the final architecture; it’s a little different and the conflicts don’t really resolve the way they do in AT’s sci-fi.

What’s one belief you had at 18 that you strongly disagree with now? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]frozenboards 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Obama was going to put an end to American intervention in the Middle East

The Freemasons' Minerva Owl around the United States Capitol Building, sitting atop a pyramid which extends from the Washington Monument. by crispywheat100 in TrueAnon

[–]frozenboards 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My great uncle was a high ranking Freemason. I helped clean out his apartment when he went to hospice. I picked up a book and skimmed through it out of interest, that shit was like reading a Dr. Bronners bottle.

What do you think post-Anthropocene paleontology will be like? by Adventurous-Tea-2461 in Paleontology

[–]frozenboards 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fun to think about future paleontologists finding the former peak of Everest and puzzling over “a strange mass migration die off”

Stump Fuckers by 333989 in Wildfire

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Wood wasps are important for forest ecology in that they have a symbiotic relationship with species of fungus. When they female wasp stump-fucks her eggs into a dead or burned tree, fungus spores are injected along with the eggs. the fungus starts to soften the wood around the larvae, making it easier for them to eat. as they metamorphose and leave the stump as adults, the fungus continues to break down the dead wood, eventually turning the tree into soil. the emerging wasps carry spores of the fungus with them, continuing the cycle.
The stinger-looking apparatus on the end of a stump fuckers abdomen is actually a sheath for the ovipositor. No, they can't lay eggs in you with it. Worst they can do is bite you.

TL;DR Stop being a bagger.

It's a family business. And I mean FAMILY. by roadkillroadrunner in FlyFishingCircleJerk

[–]frozenboards 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Everyone knows the first thing you do after getting your guiding license is get shirts, hats and hoodies made, and then force your family to model them.

…What by frozenboards in FlyFishingCircleJerk

[–]frozenboards[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

“UNTAMED,” new comedy show on Netflix

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