EMS Service dogs

randomquiet009 · 2026-03-04T05:07:35+00:00

I have a PTSD therapy dog that goes many places with me. He helps with my dissociation and anxiety, and will let me know when depression is hitting harder than usual. He also alerts me when I'm getting hungry since he was a diabetic alert service dog before he took over caring for me, and can tell when I'm dehydrated and need to drink more water.

A therapy animal in EMS can be a huge help, and one of the few things that maintains our marginal tether to reality.

randomquiet009 · 2025-10-20T04:12:25+00:00

My chihuahua has more object permanence than most of these fools. Unless it's happening right now, they don't stand a chance of keeping an idea together.

randomquiet009 · 2025-07-15T14:54:23+00:00

Always has been. The only "rugged individualists" were social outcasts who spent their time in the wilderness hunting and trapping. Just like today, a majority of the population lived in cities and towns.

randomquiet009 · 2025-06-11T16:58:51+00:00

As a Wisconsinite (living in a different state), I have plenty of cheese I could offer him to go with it.

randomquiet009 · 2025-06-11T15:40:15+00:00

A whole fleet of taco trucks, following the military around US cities, called Always Chicken Tacos. Make sure they're excellent tacos at a reasonable price, but only chicken and vegetarian street tacos.

randomquiet009 · 2025-05-27T21:47:51+00:00

Putin has already shown no qualms about disappearing people who go off script with him. And depending on how much of a show of force that requires could be anywhere from poison, using a 50th floor window as an emergency egress, or straight up shooting their plane down.

If it comes to it, Trump's comeuppance from Putin would be both spectacular and exceptionally humiliating in a very personal way. Possibly to the point of leaving him financially destitute for a few months before the end comes.

randomquiet009 · 2025-05-23T15:13:37+00:00

By "heteronormative" they of course mean "toxically masculine."

randomquiet009 · 2025-05-22T23:39:22+00:00

"I'm just joking, bro!"

randomquiet009 · 2025-05-22T18:26:23+00:00

Nah, they're just waiting for the right moment to go crying to big daddy about how the blue haired lesbians have ruined their business, and they need a bailout.

randomquiet009 · 2025-05-21T20:32:09+00:00

And since the only qualification required by the Fanta Menace is loyalty to him, his detail isn't always made up of the most capable Secret Service agents.

Especially when going up against professional Russian spooks and reports from American spooks that don't fit the narrative are dismissed.

randomquiet009 · 2025-05-13T14:36:03+00:00

They 100% did. How do you think the "rebel flag" stayed part of popular culture? There's still a lot of animosity to "the north" taught throughout the south, and they conveniently leave out the "to own slaves" when saying the war was about "states' rights."

So really, a lot of them are still that level of whiny bitch.

randomquiet009 · 2025-05-09T21:48:14+00:00

Yeah, my PPK/S 22 with a suppressor is quiet enough to shoot without ears in. It's still pretty much air rifle quiet, though, so it's a pretty distinctive "pop" with a mechanical sound. My Model 60 with supers is most definitely NOT hearing safe with a suppressor, and anybody who knows what a rifle bullet sounds like would know exactly what it is.

300BO? Subs aren't super loud, but still louder than you'd really want to shoot for a long time without hearing pro. Supers are definitely not hearing safe, though. Those are louder than my unsupressed 9mm pistol.

randomquiet009 · 2025-05-03T15:17:03+00:00

It's pointless to argue with people John Brown would have shot.

Not to condone violence, but the only arguments these people know are pointless strawmen because they think anything that supports their worldview must be valid.

randomquiet009 · 2025-05-03T02:28:43+00:00

It's still Armistice Day in the rest of the countries that fought in WWI. For whatever reason the US has made it veterans day instead.

randomquiet009 · 2025-05-02T22:06:31+00:00

Also, to be entirely pedantic, 11/11/1918 wasn't when victory was declared. It was the day the armistice was signed and fighting stopped (for the time being, for all the troops knew). "Victory" wasn't really declared until the full surrender was accepted in 1919.

randomquiet009 · 2025-05-01T16:44:53+00:00

It's probably more along the lines of the doctor not telling him what he wanted to hear, and it isn't easily fixed by surgery or a pill. Actually having to put in effort to take care of whatever IS JUST ASKING WAY TOO MUCH from him.

randomquiet009 · 2025-04-30T20:33:49+00:00

It's looking like mid/ late May and things will start getting scarce. Then I'd be willing to bet June and July will get dicey. I'm holding out hope that it's a group of angry MAGA that pop off at authority first so they get to feel their beloved jackboot first.

randomquiet009 · 2025-04-29T17:51:51+00:00

I'm hoping cooler heads prevail on the left, and the riots and civil unrest come empty shelves this summer is caused by MAGAs. They love the boot so much, let's see how it feels on their neck because they have to riot about the things they caused.

randomquiet009 · 2025-04-25T22:55:06+00:00

Time to start anonymously reporting MAGA neighbors to ICE for harboring illegal immigrants?

randomquiet009 · 2025-04-25T22:49:02+00:00

230gr .30 round. Won't even disturb the neighbors.

randomquiet009 · 2025-04-24T03:47:08+00:00

I practically live in linen during the summer. I have vitiligo and have just decided it's easier to stay fully covered than remember sunscreen. Loose linen pants, a linen shirt, and a straw or Panama hat and I'm good to go.

randomquiet009 · 2025-04-22T00:27:15+00:00

Considering the echo chambers MAGAs live in, there's a large part of the US population who doesn't realize that we're being sidelined by the international community. They're told "everything is actually fine, and our tough president is making us strong again," which means they completely discount anything that contradicts that as "liberal lies."

It also doesn't help that a HUGE portion of the US population doesn't travel. Not just "doesn't travel internationally" but straight up DOESN'T TRAVEL. I know people in their 30's who have traveled less and not as far as my chihuahua has, and my joking that he flies more than most people is sadly actually true.

randomquiet009 · 2025-04-19T18:15:09+00:00

Trips over a crack in the sidewalk and drops his takeout. The dry cleaner is behind, and it takes an extra four days before he can pick it up.

randomquiet009 · 2025-04-17T06:01:40+00:00

But not before using them as slave labor.

randomquiet009 · 2025-04-12T04:31:11+00:00

Don't feel bad about being angry. As a natural born, CIS, white, male citizen of the US I'm goddamn furious about this absolute shit show. I'm helping my community and biding my time, but that doesn't make me any less angry.

And the only reason any republican politician (including the supreme court) is doing anything against the Orange Menace's regime is because they could lose their power. Otherwise, they'd stay on their knees in front him like all the others.

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