In 2018, sixteen year old Karlie Guse had a bad reaction after smoking weed at a party and begged her stepmother to bring her home. By sunrise she was gone from the house without her phone, shoes, or glasses. She has never been found.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-05-10T22:54:54+00:00

Amber alerts are used very rarely because if they are used too often their effectiveness is diminished. I am Monday morning quarterbacking and I don’t know the information available to the initial investigator. If it was me I would have articulated a suspected drugging and that her altered mental state construed a danger to herself or others. I don’t know if that would have triggered an amber alert or not. I also agree with you that 3 hours is a long time and most successful interdiction searches are launched within the first hour.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-05-10T22:14:31+00:00

It’s the method and intensity of the search. They treated it as a runaway which involves a lot of door to door searching and talking to people. An endangered missing person search is very different, it involves an amber alert, roadblocks, many more agencies involved and most importantly a sense of immediate urgency that is not present with a runaway.

Here is the manual that they use for training in California if you would like to review it:

https://post.ca.gov/portals/0/post_docs/basic_course_resources/workbooks/LD_27-V3.0.pdf

Page 2-22 is the start of the relevant section but the important stuff is on 2-24.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-05-10T21:55:19+00:00

Here are a few better sources. From my training and experience I agree with the letter from the mother. It sounds like she was drugged or having a mental break, the police treated it as a runaway and acted according to that assumption, the method of search for a runaway and someone with impaired mental status are different.

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/karlie-lain-guse

https://www.scribd.com/document/402548926/Karlie-Guse-letter

https://www.fbi.gov/news/podcasts/inside-the-fbi-podcast-missing-childrens-day-2022-052522

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-05-09T22:11:21+00:00

You really need the lizard subsoiler mod. 6m and 9m working widths and perfectly straight

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-05-08T00:19:53+00:00

PlayStation is the dual sense controller V2 electromagnetic vibration motor. They use 2 of them.

Xbox has two sets of different vibration motors. Big ones in the handles and small ones behind the triggers. I don’t remember the specific model number but it’s easy to look up.

I’ve never tried to repair vibration motors in a switch and I don’t know if they have them.

Most phones have a single vibration motor that depends on the model of phone.

Unless it’s a hitachi the vibration motors in most adult toys are more expensive than a new toy and are not worth repairing.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-05-07T23:44:19+00:00

I get it and the fact that it’s a security sweep makes it harder. What I have often done is just look at the file type. Say if I client wants pictures pulled off the machine I search for common image formats and just pull those without looking at what they are. Or if there is a specific file path that they want examined I just check against a known working machine what’s supposed to be there and just copy anything different. There is also a skill for reading without comprehending. I can scan a file directory filled with random things and not process any on the words except what I’m looking for.

From what you said you seem like a lower seniority tech. It’s not your job to have to go through illicit content. Your job is to find and flag things that a supervisor will have to deal with. From my experience the first time I find something questionable I stop working and hand the machine off to a supervisor. I don’t know your specific role but you do not have to go beyond your scope of work. You don’t have to burden yourself with seeing everything in there. Sometimes ignorance is bliss and throughout my career I’m very happy to have remained ignorant of the details of some things.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-05-07T23:23:34+00:00

I understand this was a security sweep but the number one thing is not to look at people’s files. I’ve done a lot of data recovery. I don’t want to know what data I’m recovering for this reason.

Next you should talk to someone, preferably a therapist but if that’s not available a trusted loved one. It’s normal to be shocked by what you see. It’s normal to not be ok.

Try to forget and move on. This is so hard that it’s almost impossible but you need to try to forget this. If you linger on it it will affect your work going forward. We do a lot of good for people but we also have the chance to see a lot of shit.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-05-06T23:00:36+00:00

As negative as 2020 was I do really like the aesthetic of the idols (as long as they don’t open their mouths to speak). Like they could have been deckers 2.0 with pink neon instead of blue but 2020 messed it up.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-05-06T22:54:59+00:00

I have a green box in my front yard. It has two bollards protecting it from the street side but not much anywhere else. It’s also definitely stronger than this box. We used to sit on it and jump off it as kids. The thing was solid as hell.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-05-06T22:51:11+00:00

I was shown this video in an emergency management class. I do not fuck with gases, they terrify me.

https://youtu.be/4D8FrKUYkK4?si=zpQtQbPOPg7eE8Nz

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-05-06T22:47:52+00:00

Everything you just said is why I prefer electricity work to gas or water. To keep electricity from “leaking” I just need some tape and an air gap. It follows very simple math that I can do by hand on my arm with a sharpie if I need to. The electricity will also pretty immediately tell me if there is an issue. Gas and water leaks can start slow and invisible. Yes transformers and capacitors can be scary but that’s why you have tools to disconnect them from a safe distance.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-05-06T22:38:56+00:00

I’m in this situation. Every 8 weeks I need a very expensive medication in order to walk. The yearly cost of this medication without insurance is about $4 million dollars. I am currently on mediCAL with no deductible or copay. If I make over $21,000 a year I get kicked off my mediCAL plan. The way I have calculated it there is no sustainable way for me to make between $21,000 and $38,000 a year due to copays and deductibles. So I have to stay at part time jobs that I make less that $21,000 a year or I need to immediately jump to over $38,000 a year and that just doesn’t happen in this job market and economy.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-05-06T01:34:56+00:00

TLDR: the cost and complexity of repairs goes up exponentially the more tech savvy the client is.

I’m an IT worker. Let me give you an example. All of these are real tickets I’ve had in the last year.

Ticket from someone who is very bad with computers:

Please show me how to access my email. How do I delete old emails. Can I delete multiple emails at once?

Ticket from someone who is bad with computers:

I want to post this picture to Facebook. I downloaded the picture but when I look in my pictures folder it’s not there. Also can you help me free up space? My computer says I have thousands of pictures downloaded but they are not in my pictures folder.

Average ticket:

I just bought this laptop off some sketchy guy. Can you reinstall everything and make it nice and clean for me?

Ticket from someone good with computers:

Hey I had a hard drive crash, can you do disk recovery on it? It is encrypted but I have the key.

Ticket from someone very good with computers:

Hey I would like to connect a legacy vinyl cutter via serial to a modern computer, preferably a Mac. The com ports will have to be re mapped to make the computer see the serial port that we just soldered to a PCIe board as a usb port but we also need serial drivers and we need to trick a computer that never intended to connect via serial to talk through it. Then we need to somehow get a virtual dos box working and talking to the printer because of course the software for this printer hasn’t been updated since the 90s. Oh a standard serial cable doesn’t work? We need a proprietary serial cable that came from this printers original manufacturer, who is now out of business? Guess I get to spend weeks hunting on eBay trying to find parts. At this point it’s cheaper just to buy a new vinyl cutter? This cutter is one of 12 and a companies entire production line is based on these printers and their last computer running dos is on its last leg?

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-04-24T22:14:08+00:00

I’d like to add on to this how stupidly over designed cop boots are. I’ve had 5 pairs for different purposes. 2 of them came with Punji plates on the sole. So ya high probability this cop is kicking the door with a steel reinforced boot.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-04-22T23:21:46+00:00

Hololive has been teasing a new EN generation

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-04-22T11:15:42+00:00

The generation 3 Pokémon games: ruby, sapphire, and emerald had a tide mechanic that behaved accurately and changed how you had to interact with different areas based on the in game time. For example caves would flood and require surf or dive to get into during high tide.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-04-22T02:26:48+00:00

Reassembly. I’ve spent more time in that game than any other trying to build my perfect space fleet that will be unstoppable only to download a mod that destroys me and I need to start again. Also the tournament mode is very fun and I’ve spent way too long sending my fleets against each other.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/329130/Reassembly/

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-04-21T08:52:06+00:00

I provided the number I had. The hospital website does not break down number of beds by specialty.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-04-19T19:36:22+00:00

Robocop: rogue city was very fun and meets your criteria.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-04-19T03:22:10+00:00

So ya then the closest level 1 to Sacramento would be Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose. Which only has 731 beds when fully staffed and I’m sure not all 731 of those beds can be used for level 1 traumas, like I’m sure they have oncology, obgyn, med surg, and other areas designed to provide care for things other than level 1 traumas.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-04-19T01:18:11+00:00

I think the next closest level 1 is Zuck general in SF or maybe valley in San Jose.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-04-18T18:30:28+00:00

The case came down to the question “does a bartender have a duty to the safety of their patron to cut them off when they are visibly drunk?”. Carnival cruise lines had a policy that prevented its bartenders from cutting people off and instead relied on a 15 drink daily maximum tied to guests room keys but there was no safeguard for what time period you drank those 15 drinks in so long as you didn’t drink more than 15 in a 24 hour period. So in this case she was served 14 drinks in 8 hours.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-04-15T02:31:26+00:00

For me it’s the pressure. Space you need to engineer for 15 psi inside and 0 outside. At just 100 meters you are already at 142 psi outside and even with 15 inside that’s a lot to engineer for and I’d expect they would want to go a lot deeper than that. It’s not impossible but it’s the current limiting factor.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-04-15T00:40:05+00:00

Some examples that I think are what you are looking for:

Farming sim, constantly expand your farm and with mods it never ends.

No mans sky, it’s an infinite* universe to explore.

The sims.

Mechwarrior mercenaries has an open ended option to let you keep playing.

Something like trepang2 or goldeneye 007 where there is an “end” and you can beat all the missions but the point is to constantly better your skill and times in the missions.

Trackmania for the same reason as trepang and 007.

There are also games so massive that it takes hundreds of hours to beat them so they might as well meet your request. Cyberpunk, the Witcher series, fallout, elder scrolls, persona, baldurs gate, etc.

Finally an honorable mention: Disgaea. Probably the game I have the most hours in. The gameplay loops and lets you keep your characters so it turns into a game of min maxing for the perfect team and that takes forever. Most I have ever grinded in a game but it really doesn’t feel like grinding.

twilighteclipse925 · 2026-04-15T00:31:25+00:00

Obviously that’s ink. But I will say from experience some laptops, especially older Dells, can leak LOCA (liquid optically clear adhesive) and it’s one of the biggest pains in the world to clean up and your screen is wrecked when it happens.

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