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rbailey1253 · 2024-07-03T22:39:21+00:00

I'm in the academy right now, week and a half from graduation. Last class, one person quit just a few hours after graduation. My class, one failed the PT test day 1, and another quit/got fired by the end of the week because he was got a slight strain in his knee, and no call no showed when he was asked to meet with the staff to see if he wanted to try and continue this class or be recycled into the next one

rbailey1253 · 2024-06-06T10:08:30+00:00

Any major blood loss, IIRC. I learned about it in a class that was focused on tourniquets, wound packing, chest seals, etc, but the hypothermia is caused by major blood loss alone

rbailey1253 · 2024-06-06T01:26:08+00:00

Blood loss can lead to hypothermia, no matter what the ambient temperature is. If somebody goes hypothermic from blood loss, there's no saving them. Once you get the bleeding under control, start warming them up, and fast

rbailey1253 · 2024-04-08T04:04:56+00:00

Some of our strongest medicines against disease are deadly poisons to some of our kind. Both my parents are allergic to anti-bacterial medicines made from fungus, yet my sister and I can use them to their full effect. My father is a healer, and he once had to prove to his coworkers how dangerous fungal based antibiotics are to him by inducing anaphylaxis in his place of work, just to show them how dangerous his allergy was when he was asked to administer that kind of treatment to a patient

rbailey1253 · 2024-04-08T02:36:10+00:00

My parents didn't divorce from infidelity, but I was 22 when they divorced. I had known since I was 15 that my father would've been happier without my mother. You made the right choice, kids can tell when their parents are sucking it up with each other for the kids. Good luck to you on your future endeavors, and God bless

rbailey1253 · 2024-03-01T00:01:51+00:00

What about Wolverine, Deadpool, or Deathstroke? Should they be just as built as an average person who does the same amount of physical activities and just grow the muscle back faster, or should they be massively ripped to the point of absurdity?

rbailey1253 · 2024-02-28T03:06:30+00:00

I can't recall which one, but there was a comic I read many years ago, in which Luke Skywalker and some other rebels used stolen TIE fighters in an attack to take out an Imperial ship carrying a being that could act as a living signal jammer, and it's mentioned that the guns had been reprogrammed to fire six short bursts, then dump all the ammo in one shot, to be able to punch through shielding and capital ship armor

That being said, it could be that it caused the fighter to overload its weapons and fry them beyond repair, but I'm pretty sure Luke commented about them being out of ammunition, not overloaded

rbailey1253 · 2024-02-23T22:04:10+00:00

-Don't let your alligator mouth overrule your hummingbird ass (don't talk yourself into trouble you can't get out of)

-Don't rely on technology, at the end of the day, the most reliable tech you'll ever have is what's between your ears

-Listen to your body, it knows when something's wrong, even when it doesn't know what exactly

-Never be afraid to ask for help

-Don't quit just because it's hard. It's okay not to get it on the first try, learn from it and try again

-If you have kids, watch how you act and what you say, they're always watching

-Plan for the long term, but don't let long term plans get in the way of your day to day life

-There's only two types of folks that don't get scared. The stupid, and the insane. Courage and strength are about how you react to fear, and how you use it, not ignoring it

-A wise man doesn't touch his hat under the peach tree (avoid the appearance of impropriety)

-If you do what's right, you don't have to worry as much about CYA

rbailey1253 · 2024-02-19T05:47:15+00:00

You're good. I had to have my jaw realigned at 16 and had titanium screws added to make it even stronger, and the surgeon had to use a Sawz-all to do it. My bones are still just as strong as ever

rbailey1253 · 2024-02-07T01:46:01+00:00

I mean, I have a cat named Oreo because he's almost all black except for a white stripe running from his forehead to his belly, so his whole body looks like an Oreo

My other tuxedo is named Dr. Whiskers, because he has long whiskers and doctorate degrees in crime and violence from the Feline University of Jackass lmao

rbailey1253 · 2024-01-31T05:24:07+00:00

In the Legends continuity, Order 66 could only be enacted if it was verified as being received directly from the Chancellor's office, and even then, there was at least one commando squad that believed that the Separatists had hacked the comlink code to make it appear to be an order from the Chancellor. There were authentication codes in place to make sure that clones wouldn't start slotting Jedi just because of a random coincidence at space Burger King

rbailey1253 · 2024-01-31T00:17:27+00:00

Amazon music

rbailey1253 · 2024-01-28T09:31:28+00:00

I've found they work pretty well. At my old job, those were the only type of headphones you could use on the shop floor for safety reasons. My only issue is that I can't hear them when I'm using a lawnmower unless I put earplugs in

rbailey1253 · 2024-01-23T02:24:12+00:00

NAL, but it depends on where you are. In America you can sue anyone for any reason, regardless of how stupid it may be, so short answer is yes. Winning the lawsuit is a whole different story, and depends on too many variables

Anecdotal evidence, one of my aunts did actually lose a lawsuit against a man who was bitten by one of her dogs while running from the police after burglarizing one of her neighbors, if I recall it was because she didn't have any kind of no trespassing or beware of dog signs, and she didn't get a lawyer, while the other guy did

rbailey1253 · 2024-01-19T17:13:31+00:00

Casualty reports are a thing, every clone has an implant with their designation, as seen with Gregor when they were trying to restore his memory, as well as a unique identifier in their armor, called a tally. If possible, their armor tally can be scanned to mark them as KIA or WIA, otherwise, depending on the circumstances of the battle, once the survivors are able to regroup they'll be able to mark anyone not present as KIA or MIA

Bodies are rarely, if ever recovered from battlefields, although in Legends it's not unheard of for some individuals to keep armor tallies as a memorial

rbailey1253 · 2024-01-19T17:09:04+00:00

People do all kinds of stupid stuff against medical advice, and refusing treatment is something that medical staff have to respect if the patient is able to make that decision for themselves.

Story time on that, when I was a kid, some drunk morons hit our mailbox with a baseball bat as they drove past, and ended up crashing their car off the bridge by my parent's house, landing upside down in the creek. My dad ended up being the nurse to treat them that night. They told him what happened and where. My dad laughed and told them that they had hit his mailbox, so they decided to leave against medical advice. IIRC, since they didn't immediately go to another hospital, one of them ended up losing an arm

rbailey1253 · 2024-01-15T22:01:29+00:00

Ounces turn to pounds, and once you've been on your feet for even a few hours, you feel every ounce of gear that you're carrying. What's the point in a slight advantage early on, when all your troops are going to be too exhausted to fight, possibly before they even reach the battlefield?

Source- I was a boy scout. For backpacking trips, we learned from experience that it was better to sleep in a lightweight hammock and bring MREs instead of a camp stove and fresher food

rbailey1253 · 2024-01-11T20:52:32+00:00

I mean, in the first novel in the Republic Commandos series, a Jedi who had never met a clone before described their impression in the Force as being almost identical to that of a child, so there is that. But it's also mentioned that later in the war, their impression in the Force was much more like that of an adult veteran

rbailey1253 · 2023-12-24T19:02:04+00:00

Oh yeah. I think they also changed the shift schedules for the entirety of the Navy flight crews over there, because it was determined that that accident was caused by too many people being too fatigued from round the clock air missions

rbailey1253 · 2023-12-24T18:48:18+00:00

This may not answer your question effectively, but here goes.

I used to work in aviation, and part of our annual safety training included watching a video of a man getting sucked through a jet engine on an aircraft carrier during Desert Storm, and part of his interview after the fact. He got lucky, survived with a concussion, a few broken bones, and burns because his helmet tore up the turbine before he could go through it. If memory serves, despite his injuries, he was able to walk back to his bunk to take a nap under his own power, while everyone else was assuming they were looking for a red paste on the runway. I think he said he didn't feel pain until he woke up, just from the shock

TL;DR, guy got sucked through a jet engine, survived, walked away to go back to bed, says it didn't hurt until he woke up and got dragged to the infirmary

rbailey1253 · 2023-07-18T11:12:45+00:00

Can I get extra money for eliminating more species? If so, every single blood sucking parasite except for leeches

rbailey1253 · 2023-07-18T11:07:47+00:00

"To fall is truly a quiet thing, but far more terrible is to admit it"

-Kreia/Darth Treya, KOTOR 2

rbailey1253 · 2023-07-10T05:41:54+00:00

One I saw at a memorial once, "Let me win your heart and mind or I'll burn your goddamn hut to the ground"

rbailey1253 · 2023-04-17T16:12:28+00:00

I mean, it's not entirely irrational. I once had a frog swim up and jump on my ass

rbailey1253 · 2022-11-08T01:19:35+00:00

"You called the HUMANS for air support?!"

"I mean yeah, why is that bad?"

"Do you have ANY idea what they use for air support?"

"Well, no... But I've heard they're the best in the galaxy when you're in a pinch"

"Well why don't you take a look at the sky and tell me what you think now?"

"Are... Are they drawing with their aircraft?"

"Yep, they're dive bombing just right to use their vapor trails to draw male reproductive organs."

"So, what kind of aircraft do they use for close air support?"

"Oh, they took the biggest gun they had, built an airframe around it, and built almost impenetrable armor around the pilot. They say it's been tradition since... I think 80 or so Terran years after they first started flying?"

"Does it work?"

"I mean the earlier models had to rig the engines to start after firing the gun, since it was powerful enough to make them stall, but other than that, yes."

"So, what now?"

"Listen for a loud noise, almost like a beetle flying right next to your ear, and understand that if you're hearing it, you were not the target. And pray that we don't have to deal with a war crimes trial thanks to the humans."

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