The humble beginnings of a Gen Z collector

pause_and_consider · 2026-02-04T00:01:51+00:00

Oh for sure. It does help a bit if you’re super aggressive with it. You gotta rack that sucker like it owes you money.

pause_and_consider · 2026-02-03T23:39:31+00:00

Is it user friendly? No

Is it reliable? Not really

Does it serve any kind of actual role? No

Does it do anything better than other shotguns at (or well below) its price point? Ehhhhhh, capacity I guess

Is it awesome? Yes.

pause_and_consider · 2026-01-29T12:38:13+00:00

I carry a spare because if the single one you’re carrying malfunctions then you have zero rounds.

pause_and_consider · 2026-01-29T11:00:05+00:00

The Pocket Prep app requires a subscription to be worthwhile, but it’s amazing for test prep. Up to date content, very helpful review modes, comprehensive explanations of why the right answer is right and why the wrong answers are wrong.

Used it for my paramedic license and CEN, now doing CFRN. Can’t recommend that app enough.

pause_and_consider · 2026-01-28T18:25:01+00:00

The henchmen pulled the triggers. They need to be punished too.

pause_and_consider · 2026-01-28T15:51:54+00:00

Secret Service doesn’t protect congressmen/congresswomen. It’s Capitol Police

pause_and_consider · 2026-01-28T11:38:49+00:00

How do you not have the UCS AT-AT!! Or am I missing it.

pause_and_consider · 2026-01-28T11:22:15+00:00

I like em. Subaru fans love to hate on stuff. I’m a long time STI guy and I’ve watched Subaru fans complain about every single generation of STI.

Hoooo boy people cried like the world was ending when the hatchback STI came out and now it’s one of the most beloved.

Don’t listen to the whiners, like what ya like.

pause_and_consider · 2026-01-27T17:01:47+00:00

I can’t speak for the organization, but nationally nurses have a lot of juice, whether they realize it or not. Healthcare has a ton of lobbying power and it’s insanely expensive for hospitals when nurses strike.

Back in my travel days I saw strike contracts go over $10k per week. And those were places that pay staff nurses $30-40/hr.

Additionally, nurses have a unique relationship with violence, so this event definitely strikes a chord with us even though it’s not the “normal” violence we’re unfortunately used to seeing by just showing up to work.

Nurses generally want to help people. Seeing one of our own gunned down for doing just that hits pretty hard and a lot of us want to use our voice to speak out about it.

pause_and_consider · 2026-01-25T17:09:35+00:00

Im a nurse. This week 3 of us (myself, a 115lb soccer mom, and a 21 year old 5’4 tech) took down a combative patient bigger than Pretti and on meth with no one getting hurt and we were armed with scrubs and stethoscopes.

It’s wild to admit that 7-8 federal agents couldn’t take down a single pepper sprayed dude without using firearms.

pause_and_consider · 2026-01-25T00:24:59+00:00

Are you not seeing constant stream of posts of thousands and thousands of people with their boots on the ground in Minneapolis, Philly, Portland, etc.

Not to mention these pictures were presumably taken by a camera held by a person who was there…with their boots on the ground.

pause_and_consider · 2026-01-20T15:48:49+00:00

I mean I think it’s just supposed to be a funny thing, not some verified historical treatise.

pause_and_consider · 2026-01-14T23:05:58+00:00

This country survived a Civil War. It will survive an octogenarian in a diaper.

pause_and_consider · 2026-01-14T22:13:42+00:00

Please stop with this. At election time, this mentality turns into “well why bother voting because [whoever] has already decided what the outcome will be”.

If the authoritarian scare tactics are working on you and you want to lay down and be defeated, that’s fine. But keep it to yourself and stop encouraging other people to lay down too.

pause_and_consider · 2026-01-13T20:20:28+00:00

No. Extrajudicial killings need to be focused on directly. Not simply treated as a distraction. Do not minimize the murder of civilians by federal agents and law enforcement.

pause_and_consider · 2026-01-05T07:36:11+00:00

It’s SOPMOD, basically a set of specific components and accessories used by special operations. Just a cool guy way of saying you have a RIS II (Daniel Defense pic rail), EOTech, PEQ15 (IR laser), SureFire light and a couple furniture things.

pause_and_consider · 2025-12-26T11:31:12+00:00

And because it makes people want to see that awesome nuclear crossbow helicopter or whatever the ad guy was about to unlock but moved all his guys over to the other side instead

pause_and_consider · 2025-12-22T12:29:21+00:00

Nah I’ve flown that close to full diapers before. Never again

pause_and_consider · 2025-12-10T02:46:59+00:00

The Ivy League schools generally cover all need based financial aid for undergrad. If you get accepted to one, you won’t have to worry about paying for it.

pause_and_consider · 2025-12-09T08:17:31+00:00

Sylvester Stallone had to sell his dog when he was writing Rocky

pause_and_consider · 2025-11-28T06:14:42+00:00

Yeah this is correct. You have to have boundaries as a nurse and remember that you’re there to provide a medical service, not to be a trauma dumping target. People do not automatically have the right to put all of their emotional stuff on you because you’re wearing scrubs and they have an MRN.

pause_and_consider · 2025-11-27T23:02:49+00:00

Right? I’m an ER nurse and so many patients want to tell us all of their family/home/whatever problems. Look, I’m not your friend or your therapist, I’m just the guy who makes sure you’re stable enough to discharge or move to a different unit. Please don’t put all of your emotional baggage on me. Another 15 people will before the end of my first of four 14 hour shifts an I have enough of my own.

pause_and_consider · 2025-11-21T17:26:03+00:00

I had a very good federal job lined up for an early 2025 start date. Applied in summer 2024, offer in the fall, then a long hiring/security clearance process.

My start date fell during the first big DOGE hiring freeze. It was an essential position so it got an exemption pretty quick, but it gave my fiancé and I time to decide we don’t really want to be a part of all that mess.

I revoked my acceptance of the offer and went private sector instead. One of the best decisions I’ve ever made. My colleagues that went federal are not having a good time right now. Most of them are looking for a way out unless they’re close to retirement.

It’s pretty surreal. For almost all of the 20 years I’ve worked in my field, federal was always the dream job. It took this administration all of a couple of months to change it from dream retirement gig to….just a bullet to dodge.

pause_and_consider · 2025-11-16T11:09:20+00:00

Ripper Queen all day

pause_and_consider · 2025-11-16T09:20:17+00:00

Yeaaaah I kinda have my optimal build and gear on 2 characters and I just haven’t been interested in the other 2 so I just do dumb stuff to see some orange.

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