Just commenting so hopefully I remember to check back in on this thread later, I work in a 911 dispatch center.

Currently I’m on my break, but we’re dealing with some high winds knocking down trees and power lines and such and things so things are kind of blowing up for us (sometimes literally, more than a few transformers have popped) if things die down later I’ll try to chime in, answer questions, maybe share some stories.

That’s a map of the magnetic “dip” pole not the geomagnetic pole. They are slightly different things.

I’m a bit out of my depth, so I’m not gonna try to explain the distinction because I don’t really understand it very well myself, it’s just a fun fact I picked up somewhere.

But AFAIK, the geomagnetic pole is still supposed to be somewhere around Canada/Greenland

Also, not for nothing, but those are two different map projections so with how things get distorted around the poles in the OPs map,it’s a little hard to directly compare them. Remember that with cylindrical projections the whole top edge of the map basically represents a single point (the geographic north Pole) so things are often a lot closer together than they may look on the map. Just from eyeballing the two maps as an amateur who uses maps more than the average person but doesn’t exactly study them, I wasn’t 100% confident that the dip pole wasn’t in one of those higher spots of the puffin’s range (it’s not, I confirmed on a couple other maps, but it’s closer than you might think just from casually looking at these two maps.)

My go-to easy party thing is buffalo chicken dip, I basically never measure anything so if you’re not comfortable eyeballing stuff there’s a million recipes out there to get you in the right ballpark.

The way I do it is requires maybe about 5 minutes total of actual work

Cook some chicken. I just throw some chicken breasts in the pressure cooker. Crock pot should work fine if you have the time, or bake them in the oven, poach them on the stove, hell just buy pre cooked chicken if you want, a lot of grocery stores near me even sell pre-shredded chicken which would be ideal. Whatever’s most convenient for you. Pressure cooker or crock pot lets this be a one-pot kind of deal, and you can serve in it to keep it warm.

I just throw the chicken in there, little bit of salt & pepper, maybe some cayenne if I know people can handle the spice, some garlic and onion powder if I actually like the people I’m going to party with and it’s not just a work function I’m half-assing things for.

Shred the chicken. I just go to town with a hand mixer. Use whatever method you like.

There’s usually maybe a cup or so of liquid that cooked out of the chicken in the pressure cooker, I just leave it. If you’re using other methods you may need to add or drain off some liquid - water, chicken stock, whatever. I think some added liquid is good and help it stay “dippy” even if you can’t keep it warm for serving.

Add some cream cheese, Frank’s red hot (or your preferred buffalo wing sauce,) and crumbled Bleu cheese

I like to shred some carrots and celery into it with a grater. Totally optional, but I think it kind of helps get the full experience of a basket of wings with a cup of blue cheese dressing and a couple celery sticks.

Mix it all together, easiest to do if it’s still warm of course so the cream cheese can melt.

A lot of recipes call for shredded cheese, I don’t think that adds to the flavor profile here, and just kind of makes the dip stiffer and less dip-able.

Serve with your preferred dipping chips, pita/naan, etc.

I’ve also used basically the same exact recipe as a filling for things like pierogi or rangoons. In those cases I do usually drain off the liquid from the chicken so that it’s a bit thicker.

I believe the geomagnetic pole falls somewhere in that region

Savage Daughter by Sarah Hester Ross comes to mind

The implications of Tyranids vs Chaos are kind of wild to think about too,

With their whole hive mind/shadow in the warp thing, 'nids are more-or-less immune to chaos corruption. And even if the forces of chaos somehow managed to enter into some sort of dialogue with the hive mind as a whole, what do they have to offer each other? All the tyranids want is to consume biomass, and they’re doing that just fine on their own, constantly adopting and growing more powerful. Sure, maybe chaos can offer them tools to do it more efficiently, but then what? The 'nids consume all of the sentient races in the universe and chaos has nothing left to corrupt and feed off of for itself?

And the tyranids have no particular interest in the demons and other entities of the warp since they’re not really “real” they’re immaterial, made of the fabric of the warp. There’s no biomass there for them to consume.

Although, since encountering the aeldari and adapting to create zoanthropes and the ability to use psychic abilities beyond just being a hive mind, perhaps they will even further adapt to be able to consume warp entities.

Tyranids are as big of an existential threat to chaos as they are to the rest of the factions in 40k. It will likely never be explored in the lore, but I think it’s likely that some time in the future well beyond the 41st millennium, that if tyranids continue their advance, that things could work out that chaos may need to step into a sort of protective role fighting back the tyranids, because if they succeed in consuming all life in the galaxy, that’s pretty much it for the chaos gods as well.

Couple weeks back, but this is still one of the things I’m most proud to have ever done in my life

My friend works security at a bar. He texts me a pic of a guy sitting at the bar wearing a shirt with some SS lightning bolts, and said the girl he was with was wearing them too.

They’re not otherwise causing a problem, so the manager won’t let my friend kick these guys out, but he really wanted to.

I’m at work, probably 5 miles away, and I can’t leave to go start a ruckus. But I like this bar and I’ll be damned if I let Nazis get a foothold there.

So I think through my options. I remember that the bar has a jukebox with an app you can queue songs up on. I open up that app and see that I, for some reason, have a ton of credits on there.

And even better, you don’t actually even need to be at the bar to play songs there.

So I begin queuing up every anti-nazi, anti-fascist, anti-racist song I could find.

According to my friend, after a couple songs he got visibly frustrated and steps outside to have a cigarette as All You Fascists Bound to Lose comes on (sadly the jukebox did not have much Woody Guthrie, so I had to settle for the Billy Bragg and Wilco version)

He comes back inside and is created with Youth Against Fascism by Sonic Youth.

I keep it up. I find a version of Bella Ciao to play, Racist Friend by The Specials, This Is America, etc.

This bar has their jukebox set to a family friendly mode, since they also operate as a restaurant during the day. This limited my options somewhat, but I managed to put together a pretty solid dozen or so songs.

He starts looking around the bar, trying to figure out who is playing all this music obviously targeted at him. Of course I’m not even in the same town, so he finds nothing. My friend is keeping busy checking IDs and such at the door and occasionally texting me an update.

At some point in the middle of this someone queued up a single kid rock song, and I strongly suspect it was them.

It only took about an hour and they decided to close out their tab. He walks out to Michael Jackson’s They Don’t Care about Us.

But that’s not the end of this. I’m on a warpath now. I fire up a throwaway Google account and leave a 1 star review of the bar complaining about the Nazi. This causes a bit of stir with the management, and my friend is successfully able to argue for more authority to throw Nazis out.

Nazi punks can fuck off.

All good, I always feel like it’s 72 hours, and I think the equivalent in most states is only 72 I think we’re the odd one out on that, and I feel like in most cases patients managed to get stabilized enough to be discharged after the 72 hours.

I kind of feel like the extra two days are mostly so there’s time to get everything set up for a 303 in case the patient tries to fight it and it goes to court. I had to be a witness for that over a call I took once, I only got like a day or two’s notice because it all has to happen on such a condensed timeline

A 302 can actually be up to 120 hours

303 is up to 20 days

304 is 90

There’s also a 305, which I believe is up to 180

And technically a 306, but that has to do with transferring involuntary commitment patients to another facility or something.

Like I said in another comment I work in PA and my wife happens to work at a psych hospital so I get to hear all about this stuff.

It is and it isn’t

Certain things absolutely need to be standardized

But in other cases it can just kind of bog things down.

I remember one training thing we had to do to keep our certifications up to date, part of it had to do with fire dispatch.

And at the beginning of that, our instructor basically said “Almost nothing in this course is at all relevant to us. But it’s a national standard and we have to teach this to you”

It had a lot to do with wildland firefighting and some other specific situations that have nothing to do with how things operate in our area or with the kinds of situations we deal with.

It was interesting, I learned some fun facts, but I haven’t yet had any reason to use any of the knowledge I picked up from that training.

And that time could have probably been better spent doing something else.

Funnily enough, I actually work in an agency that’s very close to Philly and deal with my counterparts in the city fairly regularly.

I don’t get (or want) to listen to a whole lot of PPD radio chatter, we have plenty in our own county to keep us busy, so I don’t know for certain if they’re actually still using 10-codes or any other similar system or not. I can’t think of any time I’ve heard a Philly officer or dispatcher use one with me, but it’s certainly possible that they’re still in use there internally.

Also even though we’re using plain language, there’s still some weird miscommunication that happens.

I remember one time needing to advise Philly of a report of gunshots we received that might have been relevant to them, it was near their border.

So I called over to their dispatch and advised them that “we received a report of shots fired in the area of…”

Which kind of sent their dispatcher into a bit of a tizzy because in Philly dispatch lingo “shots fire” basically means an officer has fired their gun, but to us it’s just any report of gunshots (which, more often than not, means fireworks or something that the caller mistook for gunshots)

Just as an aside, most police codes aren’t really standardized across different agencies.

There’s a handful of 10-codes that are pretty much universal, like “10-4”

67 isn’t one of those codes. A lot of departments do use it for a report of a death

But it’s also commonly used to advise of an important incoming message

And other agencies may have other uses for it

And other agencies use other systems besides 10 codes, I believe some departments in CA have been known to use penal code numbers

But so because of that, there’s been a big movement in emergency service to use plain language over codes for the last decade or two, mostly since Katrina since different agencies using different codes lead to a lot of miscommunication there.

I work in 911 dispatch, at my agency and pretty much everywhere around me it’s all plain language. One or two 10-codes linger around, more as informal slang than anything that gets official use. 10-4 sometimes gets used, but that’s practically just part of the English language now.

10-96 also kind of lingers around in my agency, which in the set of 10-codes they used before I started was for a subject with mental health issues. We’re not really supposed to use it but no one has really come up with a better shorthand for it so it still pops up from time to time, mostly from our officers.

A fridge stocked full of Orbitz

I don’t even remember if it was any good, and the handful of times I had it I’m pretty sure it was already discontinued, I remember getting it from a discount grocery store that sold a lot of stuff that was damaged or near its expiration date.

But it left a mark on my childhood.

Not a fan of the bait and switch, and I haven’t really looked into her beyond this article so I can’t say if this is the case

But I kind of wonder if this isn’t actually a pretty good strategy.

A whole lot of Texans aren’t going to vote for anyone who doesn’t have an R next to their name, regardless of if they actually like their policies or not.

So maybe if you just do everything as a Democrat would do but register as a Republican and don’t talk about it too much, you can slip one by them and get the idiots to vote for an actual RINO.

Of course the trick is getting the word out there to get Dems to vote for someone without a D next to their name as well without clueing in the Republicans that that’s what’s going on. The Republicans are a little more used to listening for dog whistles than Democrats are.

I think a whole lot of “maker” type channels have all stayed pretty solid, off the top of my head

This Old Tony
Adam Savage
Xyla Foxlin
Clickspring
Blondihacks
Colin Furze
Inheritance Machining (though compared to some of the others he’s relatively new)
Stuff Made Here
Jeremy Fielding

Branching out a bit

How to drink
Caitlin Doughty (ask a mortician)
LockpickingLawyer
NileRed (and NileBlue)
Tasting History
Townsends
Useful Charts
EDIT: Almost forgot Technology Connections

Some of them have changed their format a bit over the years, I don’t think that’s been a negative for any of them. Also due to how YouTube revenue works these days a lot of them have had to rely more heavily on sponsors, patron, merch etc. don’t hate the player for that, hate the game.

No, that’s the opposite of what I’m saying.

I do believe you’re being 100% genuine.

But your genuine self looks a hell of a lot like a troll to the vast majority of people who aren’t going to comb through your comment history and realize that you have mental health issues. They’re just going to treat you like a troll and move on with their day.

And regardless of whether you’re genuine or trolling, at the end of the day, your intent doesn’t really matter, if it’s annoying, disruptive, etc. the mods are going to treat it as trolling, and they are right to do so.

OP, after scrolling through your history and the modlog a bit, I don’t get the impression that you’re a troll, but you absolutely do come off as one or at least as a real asshole in nearly everything you’ve posted to Lemmy since creating this account. In fact, I can see that I’ve personally downvoted you a couple of times for it.

But going through that history, I can see that you have some mental health/neurological issues. That kind of makes things fall into place.

I have a few friends in similar boats. If they were more-techy people I suspect their comment histories from when they’ve had an episode or gone off their meds or what-have-you would look a lot like yours. They’re good people, who unfortunately have issues that make them sometimes seem like they aren’t. And I feel like that’s the case with you.

I won’t pretend to know what the best course of action for you here is. I don’t know you, I don’t know what kind of help you’re already getting or what different kinds you may need, or what you would ideally like your life to look like on or off of Lemmy.

But you’re on here complaining about getting banned by mods, so I think it’s safe to say that you don’t enjoy that.

So I think you need to realize that if you act the way you have been, that’s going to continue happening. It feels very trollish, annoying and disruptive, and honestly maybe even a bit dangerous in some cases. I definitely get why mods have felt like they need to step in with you, I’d probably do the same in their shoes. Their role isn’t to cater to you, but to protect the community as a whole. Sometimes they step out of line to be sure, but I’m just not really seeing that in your history.

So you gotta change something, man. Maybe it’s something small, like exercising a little extra mindfulness and taking a moment to think about what you just wrote before hitting “post”

Maybe it’s something bigger-therapy, medication, inpatient treatment (all easier said than done, I know)

Maybe it’s something else entirely.

But if you don’t like the bans and having your comments removed and such, the fix is something that needs to change on your end, not the mods’.

I doubt you’re going to be too interested in taking that advice from a stranger on the internet, but I figured I’d al least try.

There was a thread I saw not too long ago where someone brought up a little conspiracy theory I think I may subscribe to

There’s a new Alzheimer’s treatment, Lecanemab/Leqembi, that was given accelerated approval in the US by the FDA this year in January, so just as trump took office.

It’s given by IV every 4 weeks. Trump has been seen with what looks like makeup thats covering up bruising from an IV

It also seems like he has highs and lows where he declines for a couple weeks then perks back up a bit before declining again, and you can maybe kind of match those up to a similar 4-ish week cycle.

And it also calls for regular cognitive tests and MRIs to monitor if it’s effective, and, well, trump has been doing that.

They have 3 different peelers (4 if you count the left and right handed versions separately, 5 if you count the julienne peeler.

We have the swivel peeler which comes in left and right handed versions.

And on that note, think about how you peel. I tend to do long things like carrots and cucumbers in long strips away from myself, which is the opposite direction from what the right handed peeler can cut.

Round things like apples or potatoes though, I generally peel towards myself like a paring cut, which is what the right handed peeler is designed for.

If you’re splurging on a peeler for yourself, you could do like we did and just get both to cover all bases. Otherwise it may be worth taking an extra moment to consider the person you’re gifting it to’s handedness and what they’re likely to be peeling with it.

The stabby looking one should, I think, be ambidextrous. I haven’t used that one, I suspect it’s probably a cut above the cheap peeler you may have in your drawer now, but I can’t actually vouch for it. It also doesn’t look like the blade is replaceable on that one so I’d be less inclined to splurge on something that’s ultimately going to be disposable once it gets dull unless you want to get really fiddly trying to sharpen it. That said I think it’s probably going to be made of better steel than most regular peelers and will probably last a good long time before getting dull.

Or get the crosswise peeler which also has the replaceable blade. Can’t quite vouch for that one myself either, but we do have the julienne peeler which seems to be essentially the same but with a (non-replaceable) julienne blade, and I’ve been quite happy with that as well (though I do feel that it could have been designed to use the replaceable blades) the crosswise basically seems to be the julienne peeler but with the replaceable swivel peeler blades, so I’m pretty confident that it’s also a solid piece of kit, just not my preferred style of peeler.

Final note, the plain cylindrical steel handles may not be everyone’s aesthetic or ideal ergonomics. I like it just fine or even prefer it, but that’s just me.

My wife worked in a fancy kitchen store for a while, and has strong opinions on just about every kitchen tool or utensil you can imagine, and to her credit I agree with most of them.

A while back she ordered a Rösle vegetable peeler and due to a shipping error, instead of one single peeler we were sent, what I assume to be, one entire case’s worth of peelers.

Having now used it for several months I strongly believe this is the best vegetable peeler I have ever used. Also the blade is replaceable, which is, I think, pretty damn cool.

So since we have a bunch of them, pretty much everyone we know is getting one for Christmas.

They’re pricey if you’ve got a bunch of stockings to stuff, but not outrageously so if you only need to get one or two for people you know enjoy cooking. And they’re the kind of thing a lot of people probably wouldn’t spend the extra money on themselves. If it weren’t for my wife I’d probably have whatever the cheapest peeler in the kitchen aisle at target is, and it never would have crossed my mind that there was room for improvement.

Otherwise, I’ve never personally been disappointed to find a flashlight or pocket knife in my stocking.

My wife and I are on-and-off casual magic the gathering players, so a pack or two of that often finds its way into our stocking, substitute whatever your trading card game of choice is there.

Or various other small card or dice type games. It’s kind of nice having some little game you can carry around in your backpack or purse and bust out when you have some time to kill with friends.

Small Lego sets

Fidget toys

Snacks

Soaps, lotions, lip balm, etc.