Off topic, but I have that same cutting board and knife holder. Thought that was weird.

We had a call at 2 in the morning a couple nights ago for a lady that needed help turning on her oxygen tank. We get there and the oxygen tank is already hooked up and working. She told us she was upset that her boyfriend was at the bar and not home with her, so she dialed 911. He shows up drunk at the house while we are checking her oxygen, and she starts tearing into him blaming him for us being there. He looks at us with a grin on his face and we all understand why he was at the bar instead of home. Honestly, I don't blame him for choosing the bar over her.

My mom put my $300 Zwilling Kramer Chef's knife in the dishwasher after a family barbeque. It was halfway through the cycle before I noticed it was missing. I did my best to restore it, but sometimes you just have to take a loss.

You could probably go down to a cabinet shop and have them run your board through a jointer/planer, then sand and refinish, but it will be pretty thin by the time it's done.

We used commercial Brother printers at our business, and they worked great most the time. They were pretty efficient and reliable. The powder cartridges though got to be so expensive to maintain, I began considering other options.

Their new models are programmed to literally stop printing once one of the cartridges is "low" (not empty), but a complicated reset workaround that could be found only deep in the annals of the Internet would get you another month or 2 of printing off that same cartridge. That was until an update removed the workaround, and cartridges that were around 40% full had to be thrown away once the printer decided it wanted you to buy another one. We printed thousands of pages a month and were probably wasting hundreds of dollars in powder. I think a full set of powders was around $500 for our machine.

I don't think a good printing option for businesses exists out there, but I would steer away from Brother too if I were doing it over again. I was disappointed to see such a reliable product be destroyed by such a small software change.

Well said. When I started solo backpacking, I realized I had to accept the fact I could die and needed to be ok with it. It's a weird place to be mentally I guess, but is necessary to get out there and not be filled with fear the whole time. Life is temporary, and I don't get to decide when and how I leave.

At night I play podcasts on low volume so I have something else to focus on besides the twigs while falling asleep and randomly waking up in the night. Kind of messes with my sleep, but I don't sleep well on an air mattress anyway. Nothing like Joe Rogan and Elon Musk talking about AI taking over the world to help me fall asleep.

Same here. Always have a gun on my hip and ready to fire just in case. Goes right next to my pillow at night in case I need it.

I also carry bear mace on my other hip and a Garmin as backup.

Drive sober

Been an EMT for almost 15 years now. Almost every wreck I've been on involves alcohol. If nobody were to drink and drive, accidents on roadways would go down significantly.

I started doing this after cleaning my bathroom floor last time and removing all the stickiness from splattered toilet urine water. Now my feet don't make that gross sticking sound when I walk across the tile away from the toilet.

I thought I was the only one...

Haha, buy two bottles tomorrow and try again 😂

Vanilla extract

Almost all brands (even the expensive ones) are fake or have nearly zero detectable vanilla in them.

A $20 bottle of vodka and $20 worth of fresh vanilla beans can make a full liter of extract that would save hundreds of dollars from buying at the grocery store.

Assembly is ridiculously easy too. Put fresh beans in a bottle of vodka and wait a few months before using. Don't have to worry about spoiling because of the vodka.

That was such a cool game. I was really young when I played through it. I remember my brother helping me get through the hard parts after he beat it. I can only imagine a remake.

Warcraft 4

That franchise was my childhood.

Been waiting for over 20 years now. I think because of the success of WoW and the demise of Blizzard over the past decade, it will probably never happen. Like a failed relationship, I just think of how good it could have been given how much I loved WC3 and WC2. My favorite games. I remember sneaking over to my grandma's house when I was a kid to play this new game called Warcraft that my cousin had installed on her computer because she was the only one in our neighborhood who could afford one.

Even if Blizzard were to crank out another installment in the franchise, it's clear they just don't have the golden touch or ambition like they did back in the 90s. I can only imagine how microtransactions would dominate over quality of content, like Overwatch compared to original Blizzard titles. Remember how big of a flop Reforged was? Having experienced Blizzard through the 90s when it was in its prime was a wholesome experience I will always look back on.

Thanks for listening to my rant.

This is a bit late, but I happened to be looking back at this post. This would be really hard to do with cheap tools, but might be possible with a few attempts. I have a drill press, jointer/planar, router, etc. It was a fairly complex build.

I was on a business trip in Nashville back in 2014, and a co-worker of mine suggested that we all go see a movie together. After everyone gets on the same page and we get down to the theater, someone suggested we go watch this new show called Interstellar - I'm not much of a movie person at that point in my life, and so I hadn't heard of it. The next showing was an IMAX, so we all buy tickets. I think someone mentioned it was a space movie, but I had no idea what I was about to see.

A couple hours later I walk out of there just mind blown. Probably the best theater experience I've had. I often think how I would have missed something that amazing had someone else not brought it up. I watch it at least a couple times a year since seeing it in IMAX. It was weird to me that a few of the people in the group were like, "That movie was ok."

We debated leaving it on for the next crew to find while on a code. Seemed like a funny idea, but our better judgement won, and we took it off.

I know exactly who it was and was going to post their name in here; but then I thought, what if they are on r/ems and come across this post? Never can be too careful. We don't get along great to begin with.

Haha very true. We have been begging our boss to put in some hard flooring and get rid of the carpet. One can only imagine the things that get tracked in there on our boots. Same carpet for like 10 years now.

I've literally been waiting years to get into Skylines until after the next game is released. I grew up without purchasable DLC and just can't bring myself to get into this new economic model of gaming. I figure I will buy Skylines tomorrow after announcement of the second game, or sometime in the next couple of weeks when it's all bundled and discounted.

The first one might not be the newest and greatest once the 2nd one comes out, but it's new to me if I've never played it. My brother thinks I'm crazy, but it's how I prefer to play games. Makes it more affordable.

I agree. Even if some parts of the events that day seem off, I would not side with the attorney in that video. He obviously has a bias and his claims are extreme and just plain wrong in most of his statements throughout the video.

The guards likely cut him down and started CPR right away on the floor of his cell once he was discovered. They are trained and required to do so. EMS would have arrived and taken over as soon as they got there. That's usually what we see. If the cell had enough room for the EMTs and their equipment, they would have worked him in the cell. If it was too crowded, they would have dragged his body out to the common area outside of his cell and worked him there. They also might have had an "oh shit" moment if they realized who it was and rapidly loaded him onto the gurney for transport while working their code and providing life-saving measures.

Like I stated in my first comment, those scenes are crazy and decisions are made quickly on a case-by-case scenario, but transporting to the hospital would be an acceptable decision given the circumstances, and not uncommon at all.

You're completely right. Guards, medics, nurses, doctors, police would all be nervous once they knew who it was. They would not want responsibility for his death to fall on them, so they would try to follow every rule in the book and move the responsibility up the ladder all the way to the doctor that was brave enough to pronounce him dead and cease life-saving measures.

All the co-workers of the people involved in that event are glad they weren't on shift that day. Most of the people there will end up in a court room, or with a deposition at least. It's a really uncomfortable process for the average Joe. We hope to avoid it as much as possible.

As an EMT over a decade in the profession now, I can tell you their conversation at 3 minutes into the video is completely wrong. EMTs will always engage a dead body in the event it is not an obvious death (missing a head or decaying corpse, for example), and we most certainly will cut hanging mechanisms to get the patient on the floor, strip their clothes, drag them somewhere we have enough room to work on them, etc. Life-saving measures always come before crime scene presentation due to the fact the individual might survive if given proper care.

Those scenes can be so chaotic, and you never know the various contributing factors to current situation until after the call when you read the news articles or hear rumors on Facebook. That's why you don't make decisions based on potential future police work. You don't know anything about what is going on or what's suspected by the time you arrive. There's a good chance EMTs didn't even know who he was when they got to the body. People look way different in those scenarios than they do in everyday life, and there simply isn't time to gather all the info about the person before rapidly loading them and transporting. The reason his jail cell photos look so chaotic is likely due to the large amount of traffic from medical and police personnel who entered his cell with all their equipment and worked on the body before loading and transporting him. CPR scenes always look like a small disaster after we are done. And we don't stick around to clean up, especially when transporting during a code.

Which brings me to the next point regarding transportation to a hospital. Their conversation about this in the video - that it's not standard protocol to transport a dead body - is also blatantly false and misleading. We make a decision to transport based on a number of criteria - how long have they been down, is there a potential reversible cardiac rhythm, are bystanders pressuring us to do more, did someone witness the event, are they warm or cold to the touch, our personal opinion on whether they can still be revived based on our prior experience and knowledge, conversations with medical professionals at the hospital over the phone about current situation, resources available, and so on. We also take into consideration the likelihood we could be sued or end up in court down the road. We will end CPR procedures in some scenarios knowing the person isn't going to make it, but will continue in others and transport if it seems like a high profile case that is going to end up in a court room. We want to be able to tell the judge we did everything we could to try and save them. So the decision to transport is a complicated one, and the guy being interviewed in the video stating transport to a hospital is not common procedure is completely inaccurate. His statements are negligent and supportive of his view of conspiracy.