@Fringe_Centrist@senatorshoshana I wouldn't be so sure. Most paramedic work is actually very, very boring. Pick up guy. Give oxygen. Sometimes. Put him on cot. Drive.
Sometimes give epi pens. *Sometimes.*
That's it.
the most core facet of america is that for any process, any transaction, there must be a middle man who does nothing but make 100% profit immediately and then increases the price to the end user by at least 10x. you cannot ever bypass this huckster or it's else it's communism.
I NEVER KNEW THIS. Doctors and nuses lobbied against PARAMEDICS being able to save lives
"laws in all states made it a crime for non-physicians to practice medicine without a license. These laws rendered paramedic services unfeasible due to the fact that many of the medical functions that paramedics could have performed constituted the practice of medicine. Paramedics could be criminally prosecuted under these laws even if they had undergone training and could demonstrate expertise in carrying out their paramedic tasks."
I didn't know when I first posted about Mr. Mantooth's death that 'Emergency' played a role in licensing reform. EMTs were seen as practicing medicine without a license, thus breaking the law. Then this show became a hit...
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“At the heart of the operation in Tokyo is a secretive Russian military intelligence unit known as the 20th Directorate, whose role has never been publicly disclosed. Posing as diplomats or businesspeople, its officers work to buy or steal battlefield technology and smuggle it into Russia, according to current and former officials at five Western intelligence agencies.
The man overseeing the 20th Directorate’s operation in Tokyo maintains a cover identity as an employee of the Russian state airline Aeroflot, according to current officials from four of those intelligence agencies. He plays a crucial role in supplying Russia’s war machine…
Mr. Filchenkov began developing relationships with logistics companies that ship goods from Japan to Russia, according to business records and interviews. Western officials have warned Japan that relationships like these help G.R.U. officers buy sensitive technology under false pretenses and send it to Russia, sometimes using bogus shipping records.”
@jane__bradley@mschwirtz & Adam Goldman
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>Gave Kurt Cobain the money he needed to record Nirvana's first album.
>Was Nirvana's guitarist for a bit.
>Went to be the bassist for Soundgarden for a bit.
>Becomes inspired by Benvenuto Cellini's philosophy that every man must be an artist, warrior, and philosopher.
>became an Army Ranger
>retires from military service, and became a bike courier in NYC.
>Goes to live in a Buddhist monastery for a while.
>Re-joined the Army as a Green Beret this time
>gets an Honorable Discharge
>Recieves a Bachelor's in Philosophy from Columbia
>Back to music
What an utterly wild life trajectory.
It's interesting to read how astonished explorers were to find that the Africans they encountered were equally well-travelled
Barth in 1850 met Africans in Bagirmi (Chad) who had visited Basra (Iraq), kept works of Plato, and were as inquisitive about Europe as he was abt Africa
Ukrainian Trooper using an RPK-74 5.45mm LMG with a PSO-1 scope, ATO Zone, 2010s period. Many RPK-74s were configured into makeshift marksman rifles due to a lack of properly maintained SVD rifles during early ATO operations.
In 1995-1996, after TKB-0145S was dumped, its creator Alexander Borisovich Adov developed a gun based on it. It was called OTs-41.
The gun had a good weight balance, short barrel, and pretty look. It was made for .308 Win.
Unfortunately, it was also abandoned.
- kalashnikov_ru
VICTORY! A federal appeals court rejected Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act” — a broad ban on what public university faculty may discuss in class — holding it violates the First Amendment.
“Though the government has plenty of ways to promote its own viewpoint, puppeteering every university professor in the state is not one of them. Forcing an official government line—in a college classroom of all places—is exactly the ‘pall of orthodoxy’ the First Amendment will not tolerate.”
LAWSUIT: We’re suing DHS after agents tracked down a Rochester, NY, man for sending a critical email to ICE’s director.
This is America at 250. Dispatching federal agents to your doorstep because you criticized a public official is an insult to the First Amendment.