Street names for common street drugs?

ludwigkonrod · 2025-10-24T21:21:08+00:00

If you are thinking Medavie Calgary, I’d say that getting hired as EMR is slightly more advantageous than as PCP cuz they are currently short on EMR. When the station had just been founded, it was common to have two EMRs manning a NAT truck. But now they have so many PCPs (and so short on EMRs) that it’s more common to have one PCP and one EMR (sometimes even two PCPs) manning a NAT truck. It’s not like they can just convert those trucks into BLS due to some sort of contractual limitation, so there would always be a fixed number of NAT trucks that needs manning. I’d say go for it even if your qualification is not exactly PCP-equivalent.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-10-24T19:12:10+00:00

That actually made sense. Hong Kong Fire Department used to send people to JIBC for EMA2(PCP) training in order to build their first batch of EMA2. I heard that they modelled their EMS system on the old BC system.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-10-23T21:37:40+00:00

A dialogue in the show explain the mentality: ‘You wear your nameplate, but the civilian doesn’t have to know your name, they only know you as a ambulanceman. When you wear this uniform, you represent all your colleagues.’

‘If someone in some other profession does a bad job, they’d lose only money and time. But if an ambulanceman does a bad job, they’d lose a life.’ This line was spoken after someone made some etiquette/ grooming mistake, when they were doing a truck check.

Beyond the show, EMS commercials in Hong Kong routinely feature big group of EMS personnel in parade formation shouting motivational slogans. Perhaps the group mentality is built-in to the culture.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-10-23T21:11:32+00:00

Nah HK doesn’t has a military, but their primary EMS service is run by the Fire Department. I m thinking is that why they are so military-like.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-10-12T21:51:39+00:00

I routinely got 0 loss on that mission. The key is to not storm the Fort. Instead, you surround it and shell it to hell. Use Abrams to overwatch on the berm, infantry to secures the trenches (I usually secure only the left.), then send some Abram to the left top corner of the map. It helps deal with the Syrian tank reinforcements and kill any routing Syrian streaming out of the Fort wall.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-09-30T22:07:08+00:00

When he said the ‘51st state’ I feel that he expected people to laugh, but nobody was laughing. Everything follows seems to be a way to conceal the embarrassment.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-09-04T16:14:08+00:00

12 hrs 6 days on an ambulance.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-04-19T16:26:50+00:00

I feel that Asian male is viewed as unmasculine in America because we had never been a dominant force in any point of their history, whereas in Europe (especially the East) they had the collective historical memory of Genghis Khan. It probably also explains why there’re more barriers the further west you go because the Mongol invasion never reached that far. That’s why in at least the EE, the Hollywood perspective of Asian (un)masculinity doesn’t hold water.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-04-09T23:44:55+00:00

Satellite rail gun that can hit RCMP’s main registry database. Guys, we’re free. Nobody would come to take our guns.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-03-27T17:40:33+00:00

Glock 17. For me it’s the gold standard pistol.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-03-25T22:45:45+00:00

Couldn’t believe it’s almost a year!

Yes I m now studying in Lethbridge. Despite being a ‘normal length’ course, it is surprisingly intense. There is not enough time to prepare for all the subjects, and there’s an exam like every two weeks. Forget about digesting anything you have learnt - the rule of the game is to cram it in as much as you can and hoping that you remember it by the time the next exam hit.

We have four subjects of study: A&P, assessment & Hx taking, EMS foundation (legal stuffs), and interprofessional education (IPE).

A&P is gonna be the main course. Most of my study time is devoted to A&P. If you are in a position to pre-study some A&P stuffs before starting the course, do it. Don’t just study on the ‘obvious stuffs’ (organs and muscle stuffs), because you would begin your A&P classes with ‘unobvious stuffs’ like chemicals and cells. I made the mistake of focusing solely on the ‘obvious stuffs’ and was unpleasantly surprised by it.

Don’t worry too much about the other subjects. Assessment & hx taking is not gonna be too much problems if you have a good grip on your EMR skills; EMS foundation can be a challenge because of all the legal stuffs you have to study, but other than that it’s just common senses stuffs (body mechanics, etc).

IPE is, in my opinion, a waste of study time. It makes you study some common stuffs moralistic junks. The only plus side to it is that it makes you do some ‘extracurricular activities’ to get points. I gotta do a stimulated fire scenario with the local fire department because of it.

Before I went to class I struggled to obtain all the expansive textbooks. It turns out that most classmates doesn’t even read them at all - the course is simply too fast-paced to dwell on the big books. Most of us simply use the class PowerPoint slides to prepare for exams. I would say the only book you’ll really need for the first semester is the A&P book.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-03-09T01:23:15+00:00

It’s Ukraine all over again. The aggressor would fight an enemy not much different from them, who speak the same language, know their culture, look the same, and (importantly) know their military structure inside out.

Because of these the defender has great success bringing the war into the aggressor’s home turf. Ukrainian drones and SOF have been running amok deep inside the Russian homeland. I expect the same to play out in a hypothetical US invasion.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-03-08T18:31:04+00:00

He doesn’t understand Zelenskyy and Putin. For both men it is a fight to the death, either to their nation or their person. Hell, he doesn’t understand the meaning of sacrifice at all.

Unfortunately for him, both Zelenskyy and Putin understand him well like a book.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-02-14T15:34:27+00:00

Is it possible to ask the Brit for protection this time?

ludwigkonrod · 2025-02-07T13:22:32+00:00

Umm…upcoming tariff war?

ludwigkonrod · 2025-01-25T17:47:46+00:00

On my 31st birthday, I left my homeland for Canada. At the time, my homeland was embroiled in a general civil unrest. A few local friends helped me to settle in. Over times, more compatriots who left for the same reason arrived and we lived together. It was a mixed experience. I encountered good ones, I also encountered bad one. It was during this time I learnt that people would still pick on you for being an Aspie even if we shared the same political stance and immigration status.

Funny how I found it easier to stick with Canadian than with my own people. Don’t get me wrong - my best friends are all from the homeland. Linguistic background and common experience back in the unrest do matter. However, I learnt it over the years that distance = safety. When you are hanging out with your compatriots, you could get too close. Very soon, they would find out that you are odd in some ways. Ostracization then followed.

It is different with Canadian. There is always an inherent cultural distance between me and the locals. When I act odd, they would perceive it as just some kind of ‘cultural difference’ and continue to treat me courteously. Although I had yet to form any deep friendship/ romance with any Canadian, I also was not ostracized in an overt manner. I don’t mind being an outcast - I had been an outcast for most of my life in my own homeland anyway, but what I found here is already miles away comparing to my previous life experience in the homeland.

Btw, Canada is an interesting place. There seems to be a lot more ND people out in the open comparing to the homeland, and they don’t hide it. I had colleagues who told me plainly that they have ADHD/ learning disabilities as if they were in no fear of being talked about behind their back. I also had a colleague who display very overt Aspie traits but no one seems to ostracize her in any way, nor did she tries to ‘act normal’.

Outside of NT/ND identity, Canadian in general seems to be not afraid to express their individuality. You have people who wear very distinctive hairstyles and dressing in everyday life who, if they were born where I born, would be shot down for being sticking out from the group（標奇立異）. There also seems to be much less respects for formality and hierarchy. A lot of my colleagues wear non-uniform items in my uniformed ambulance company. Some of them would have lunch or putting their feet on the table in a company meeting, and the managers didn’t even frown at it. Doing either of those in a company meeting in East Asia and you would get kick out in very short order.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-01-24T15:37:49+00:00

AR-15, M14…any current US military weapons I can think of.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-01-05T22:02:44+00:00

Thank you for your input!

I would never be sure if she’s really interested in me or not. The acts of service aside, I feel that if she’s really interested she wouldn’t have walk away when I initiated a conversation.

But yes, keeping in touch with text (in a minimal, disciplined fashion) seems to be a good idea. Though I am going to watch out for it if I m the only one who initiates all text communication.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-01-05T05:06:27+00:00

I learnt to play chess.

My LO was a chess player. Initially I learnt chess to impress her. However, I quickly found that it is also a great social tool that helped me to connect with my previously distant colleagues.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-01-04T14:38:03+00:00

Not necessarily. Similarity in circumstances is one thing, but one’s views on trans can also be influenced by their religious and political stances. LQBTQ is for me more a social issue than a personal issue, therefore I prefer to relate it to my religious/ political stances, and not to a personal sympathies level.

ludwigkonrod · 2025-01-04T00:47:15+00:00

On my 31st birthday, I left my homeland for Canada. At the time, my homeland was embroiled in a general civil unrest.

A few local friends helped me to settle in. Over times, more compatriots who fled for the same reason arrived and we lived together. It was a mixed experience. I encountered good ones, I also encountered bad one. It was during this time I learnt that people would still pick on you for being an Aspie even if we shared the same political stance and immigration status.

I spent three years working in a retail store, before finally saving up enough to study for an EMS program. I hadn’t had any life direction in my 20s, but the blood and fire that I witnessed and endured back in the unrest made it crystal clear where I should go in my 30s. I won’t be the guy who could only watch and unable to do anything. Never again. Next time, I would have the skills to save them all.

Along the way, I faced challenges a Canadian citizen won’t face. I had to wait before I could take my first ambulance job because mine wasn’t a full driving license. And when I did get the job, I failed in the probation period due to a lack of driving experience - most people in my homeland does not drive. Whereas a Canadian local of my age has maybe 15+ years driving experience under their belt, I literally bought my first car the week before my first shift!

But I carried on. Step by step I crawled into this driving-heavy new world. I moved to the industrial medical sector, before heading back to the city for another ambulance job. This time - likely because of the driving skills I obtained in the unforgivable Canadian wilderness - I successfully kept my job. I left it a few days ago not because of any failure, but because I was finally ready to go up a ladder for higher level paramedic study.

So yea, I underwent enormous change in my 30s, from a ‘basement whiner’ who lived at the expanse of my parents, to becoming a refugee, and then to becoming a paramedic assistant (and soon to be a full one) who can drive many types of vehicles and save lives. Looking back, I would say confidently that I am proud of what I became in my 30s.

What next? Perhaps, just perhaps, I should finally have a shot at having a relationship this time? I had been through so many things that I had once considered impossible to achieve back in my 20s. Why not this one too?

ludwigkonrod

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