[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago

I use Phind solving computer problems. It does cite the sources it uses. At least for distro and general Linux issues. So far, it's been a very good resource when I've needed it.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 5 points 5 hours ago

Snap could have been great. Except it wasn't very good...........

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 10 points 5 hours ago

Variety - a silly taskbar program that changes my background randomly from my own selected sources with added random quotes. I have it set to change my background every 3 hours and the quotes every hour I think. I just can' live without it anymore.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee -2 points 1 day ago

"Saints should be presumed guilty until proven otherwise"

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

You need to find a better restaurant than Red Lobster.

A proper kitchen will crack open and loosen the meat before service.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Greed and jail is keeping him in the race. Followed by narcissism and the drive for power. (The last 2 are a requirements for a politician of any stripe).

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 29 points 4 days ago
  1. No one elected Musk.

  2. Tax the hell out of him.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

Yes and worse. He only talks about the funny stuff. Though what might be funny to a table of EMS people, probably would make you ill to hear.

Never eat a meal with a table full of emergency medical personnel.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

That ain't "being really good" - That's being stupidly lucky. I spent 20 years in the back of the bus, and I never had a revival on scene or in the rig. Nor did I ever meet anyone who ever made such a claim.

Quite often patients that are brought in with CPR in progress are called dead by the ER Doctor after another 20 or 30 minutes of effort or they do get a patient back and keep them going for another few days or a week or so. Only for the patient to finally die in hospital.

But, every so often someone surprises the hell out of us and actually survives and goes on to live for years. This is why we try as hard and as best we can to keep you alive. Because there is always a chance.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Now try doing CPR in the back of an amber-lamps bouncing down a gravel road at insane speeds while standing up and you have 50 miles, (80 Kms for those in Rio Linda) to the nearest hospital. Been there, done that, got way more tee-shirts than I ever wanted. Thank god for automatic CPR machines so I didn't need to manually do CPR for 40 minutes straight anymore.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 36 points 1 week ago

And we are only bound by a DNR IF we have the actual document in hand. Or as EMS, if CPR has already been started when we arrive, we are automatically obligated to continue. If it ain't written down, it never happened. Nursing homes are supposed to provide the documents any time we transport such a patient as part of their medical history papers. And yes, we treat and transport a lot of such patients with a DNR that needs to go to a hospital for some reason.

Worst case scenario, entering a home with family gathered and grandma has a heart attack. And half the family wants me to start CPR and the other half tries to tell me grandma to let grandma go. I will ask them if they have the documents and they don't answer me because they are too busy fighting each other to respond to me. And my poor driver is trying to literally breakup a fight while I'm doing CPR.

Source: A very old and happily retired medic

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