I work in disaster planning - so if you want a really good disaster to happen then give me a call.
To be more serious:
I write disaster response plans mostly for the medical field, e.g. hospitals, nursing homes. That starts with ordinary fires and flooding, but also includes things like “IT outtakes”(which kill far more people than fire each year), “supply line collaps”, etc.
We also train staff, mostly management, and conduct full scale exercises. Additionally I write medical intelligence and evacuation reports. These are basically “plans” for aid workers, expats. that go to risky places: “Oh, I broke my leg in bumfuck nowhere South Sudan! What now? Is there a hospital? Which one do I go to? Which one has actual doctors? Is there a chance that a medical evacuation plane can reach me?”
Originally I am a critical care paramedic and I am currently studying towards (another) master degree in healthcare management. Before I founded my current company I worked as a consultant for various healthcare related firms, before that as an ambulance service director.
But mass casualty situations always were “my thing” and the multi-stakeholder approach I take during planning talking to basically all roles in a hospital, from the higher ups to the guy in charge of waste disposal, is something I enjoy immensely.
I bet Covid got you a lot of fun data to play with re: “supply line collapse”.
I’ve always been interested in work like this–I took a class that covered lean manufacturing and kept thinking about how “just in time” inventory seemed like it’d be awful for a hospital, as the hospital would be MOST needed if supply lines collapsed, and JIT stuff seemed a dumb move. But I was only spitballing on the surface as an outsider.
And mass casualty events are generally centred around population centres. If a train hits that bus in bumfuck, it’s six hours before triage and transport
Yeah, thankfully in central Europe our “bumfuck nowhere” still means that some infrastructure is reachable within 120min usually - and as long as the weather permits we throw dozens of helicopters at it.
Personally I am far more afraid of other scenarios therefore.
Factorio, Minecraft, and… Counter Strike. I exclusively play with a full squad of friends and even if we have a bad game, at least I’m spending time with my friends. Keeping contact with your friends is super important and getting harder every year. So it’s quality time.
Sorry, I don’t know of any good resources off the top of my head
Agnostic Theist
Or
Agnostic Atheist
Are what the majority of people are.
Agnostic makes the most sense because there is no “proof” a God or gods exists or doesn’t exist.
If I walk up to a Theist or Atheist and ask for “proof,” neither side will have any.
When you ask a Gnostic Theist that practices Christianity (but could be any religion). They will say that the Bible is “proof” and that they know that to be the truth. They claim to have the knowledge that their belief is correct.
A Gnostic Atheist doesn’t really exist. Because they would have to believe in some knowledge that is “proof” for their belief that no God or gods could ever exist. There is no knowledge out there that proves that.
It becomes a semantic battle of what do you call the God or gods and that “Anything is possible”
So you can assume anyone that calls themselves Atheist is an Agnostic Atheist.
As an example, no Atheist is going to lay down their life to die on a hill that no God or gods has ever existed. They believe that no God or gods existed, but they realize that the knowledge to prove it doesn’t exist yet.
A Gnostic Theist will die on the hill for what they believe because they truly believe that they have the knowledge to prove it.
Plato has a lot of good stuff to read up about religion
But unless you want to pick a religion and roll with it on faith, agnostic is what it is.
It’s nice to hope for a nice God or gods. That would make you Agnostic Theist.
But if you feel like a God or gods don’t exist then you’d just be Agnostic Atheist.
But to become religious, you’d have to read about all the different ones and see what speaks to you and decide yourself if you want to buy in or not.
I’m a kiln operator. I run a giant oven to dry red and white pine.
Dropped out of uni. Various retail and tech jobs for about 12 years. 4 years disability. Took an interview at a lumber mill because ‘cool tour’, took a job because ‘paycheck for a little while anyway’. Ran a planer for about 6 weeks and then offered kiln operator when their previous was poached.
On the job learning for me with the caveat that it was not a reasonable expectation to set. Typically one works under a senior operator for about two years not ‘you’re on your own but you’re good at google right?’
Certified by my work for government heat treatment programs, front loader/forklift operation and working at heights. One of those jobs where mindset is more important than education.
Would I do it again? Yes? I’d want more money for the work. There’s not a lot of people who will write an algorithm to interpret the data they gather in a 50c box. It’s a really intense combination of intellectual and manual labor and the compromise seems to be to plop the pay in the middle. Good pay for a lumber mill but shit pay for developing processes, an inventory system and an entire goddamned iOS app(that my boss didn’t even understand much less appreciate).
I wouldn’t expect the door to be open again in the future. There’s not a lot of kilns to run, they are increasingly automated and it’s a job people hold til retirement. The manager who hired me took a massive gamble on a physically disabled but intelligent person so that’s not easy to find either. Owner runs under the ‘warm body is better than no body’ premise. There’s not even any other mills close enough with kilns that I have other employment opportunities. I’ve got a very specific and reasonably lucrative skill set for a rare job.
Warp is more about the piling and stickering of the packs going into the kiln. Wet you can mitigate at home but once a warp is set you’re pretty much screwed.
The mill should have some sort of quality control in place to communicate these issues between the kilns and stacker crew. Find a different mill to buy from. Anything warped is pulled out before the planer at my mill and then sold as rough outs or goes to the chipper.
Ever seen 20 feet high of stacked lumber sway in the wind? Stickering can be a huge safety issue alongside quality.
I imagine if you took two seconds to contemplate how too many small businesses are run, you could figure out it’s shit management from your local companies and not this particular kiln operator.
Breath of the Wild. I mean, yes, there are quests, bosses, temples, shrines, minigames and whatnot, but it is also completely fine to just fetch your favorite horse from the stable and ride across Hyrule, hunting wildlife, watching the sunset, cooking food for your character, maybe have Wolf Link accompany you on a hunt, just taking in the scenery, foarge for mushrooms, looking for shooting stars at night … a little bit of reality escape helps to unwind after a long, hectic day. And this game is unreasonably beautiful as well, despite the simplyfied graphics.
This doesn’t answer your question, but I will take this time to rant about Jackson Hewitt. I’ve never used them, but I had an 18 year old employee making a little over minimum wage that used them about 20 years ago. His taxes were simple and just, at the time, a 1040EZ. It’s a simple one page document that takes about 1 minute to fill out. He didn’t owe any federal tax, so he should have received back all that he had paid in that year. Jackson Hewitt took all of his refund plus about $200. I wouldn’t be surprised if all the places you listed are just as scummy.
I’ve always done my own taxes except when I had to withdraw from my 401k for a large hospital bill. I went to a local independent tax preparer that charged me $100, but she had a special code that saved me several thousands of dollars in taxes and penalties for early withdrawal from 401k. There was no way that I could have done that on my own. The IRS gives accountants special “powers” that make them necessary. The fact that an entire industry is built around just figuring out how much taxes you owe is a travesty.
I have several games for a lazy evening on the sofa, so it depends on the mood.
I hoard virtual cars, tanks and ships, so I pick CSR2 when I want to do an event there (daily boring grinding tasks are automated). When I want to shoot I either junp in World of Tanks Blitz or World of Warships Blitz.
When in a mood where I want to just tap around, I dust off Hay Day.
Gershwin Impact has been on the tablet, but after a few attempts to play it, it’s removed again. Looks nice, but not my style, yet.
Above everything else, the protocols should be compatible with one another.
Long ago, in the US, there used to be a law that said that, if you commit a crime in one US state and then travel to another state, the police in the first state can no longer pursue you and it becomes a problem for the next state to handle. This was one unsung part of why Wild West style bounties were a common thing in the past even on the East Coast.
Now if the protocol in each entity is so aloof from one another that borders become the strength of a saboteur, doesn’t that ruin the biggest perk of calling yourself the “united [insert thing here]”? It’s also worth bringing up when someone treats the US as one single entity, like when they say “those darn Americans and their guns” and “those Americans are so fat” like one state can enforce a stereotype for the other 49 (something nobody says about, say, Europe).
That all teenagers must spend all their time chasing girls and going to parties as to not be “losers”. I see this attitude both from older people and from other teenagers, though it annoys me mostly from older people, as they just can’t seem to fathom that some teenagers have interests that aren’t just… Wasting their time? I mean don’t get me wrong, I enjoy doing it as much as anyone but it bothers me when people talk to me like it’s the only thing I should be doing in my teenage years…
And the other thing is the stereotype that you need to talk to teenagers with a belittling attitude, I really don’t know how to explain it but I sometimes feel like older people (not like old old, people in their mid to late 30s) feel the need to talk to me in a different, more “fresh?” or overly friendly way. It’s not just individual people who do this, big companies also do it, and it’s just as annoying. Like, we’re both adults, just talk to me like normal… (I guess this doesn’t apply to teenagers, younger than me but I’m talking about stereotypes that bother me so Idc, I’m 18 and this has bothered me for as long as I’ve been able to notice it)
Oh my, you and I had some similar frustrations. I am 39 and let me tell you what I wish I had known. Most adults are dumber than you. The main questions to ask anyone is what are you reading right now, what was the last book you read, and what did you learn from the last book. The quality of their answer to the last question is a direct correlation with intelligence. Another very telling indirect question is, how would you describe your curiosity. Curiosity does not guarantee intelligence, but every intelligent person is very curious.
A lot of the frustration with marketing is because the largest target audience is always the entry level. Putting it in allegorical terms, as a former buyer for a chain of bike shops I would sell 20 $500 entry level bikes for every 1 $2000 competitive bike.
The lowest level is always the main target audience. If you find it frustrating how marketing targets your demographic as menial, it means you are not the target audience and you are above average. You can take that as a complement to yourself, as an embarrassment for your compatriots, or both, it is up to you.
Life’s experiences will determine if or when you ever feel “adult.” A lot of that is from having kids and the difficulties involved. Most people never really feel adult. There is no moment of transition. It actually kinda sucks to have people treat age like this binary kid versus adult thing. Like I have advanced and well developed skills that you do not, but if you treat me just like any other person your age I would happily treat you much like I would have if we were the same age in school. Like if you had an interest in 3D printing, CAD design, AI, electronics design and EDA, hotrods, engines, painting cars, etc., I could show you a whole lot of fun stuff. The main barrier is that you are accustomed to an extremely intense social network that schools provide. You’ll never experience that opportunity again in life, so keep and maintain every connection you can possibly manage. As you age, life gets more and more lonely for most people. This is the hard thing to overcome in the reverse. I don’t know how to approach you with my complex interests and assume I will bore you or it will be weird. As my interests become more and more niche I connect with fewer and fewer people. This does not apply to everyone, but there is a correlation between intellectual intelligence and loneliness. I don’t mean to discount the value of emotional intelligence. That is just an area with which I am not particularly familiar.
Idk, I’ve always been pretty introverted and never really liked the “intense school social network” it’s not like I fully distance myself from others or anything, it’s just that sometimes, especially early morning, the crowd can be a bit much for me. As for emotional intelligence, again idk, I like to think that I’m somewhat emotionally mature to an extent (been through a lotta shit and all) but I’ve never really been in an emotional relationship before, so I can’t say for sure… Dunno I guess I’m just fine with keeping a small friend group and just being generally friendly with everyone else.
And you mentioned that you have niche interests… Yeah, you should look at my lemmy profile, though I generally don’t feel like having niche interests makes it harder to socialize with people, as if you give them the hint, they’ll usually start the conversation themselves and you can pick up after…
And my problem isn’t so much an age group problem, it’s more of an, as I mentioned above “I’m an adult, you’re an adult, why do you feel the need to belittle me?” type of feeling… And yes, 18 is the legal age for… Pretty much everything, where I live.
Seriously, I would have said all of these same things at your age. You will find yourself in much the same situation I have described.
It is so very difficult to relate how complexity changes and how deep you can go with decades of experience. Things are much more complicated the deeper you go into a range of subjects. Like I painted cars for nearly a decade, to most people I am an expert, but I was still learning all the time. Any idiot can learn to paint in a day. The real skill is knowing how to solve the thousands of random problems you’ll face every 3rd job. Everything is like that or more so.
I only played it to try it out, and it isn’t 100% in my range of games I’d care that much for, but I’ve gathered that Pokémon Mystery Dungeon (especially the first few pairs of games in the series) is the king when it comes to escapism. If someone said a psychologist made the games, I’d believe them.
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