ME, as a trilogy, plays on most of the tropes in scifi. The voice acting is pretty great too, barring the Resident Evil 1 level Liara in ME1.
And then Bioware lost all capacity to write dialogue stronger than a wet, overcooked spaghetti noodle.
Tapped into the comments to ask this too.
I need F to understand these images.
I think the 1% get it, they simply don’t care. It’s too hard, so, they’ll drink up as much money as they can from the rest of us to invest in bunkers from which they will watch the rest of the world burn.
Buy a thermos. Make and bring your own coffee.
I can math, it’s always been an easy A. But economics twists my head. Half of it seems reliant on the neighborhood of make-believe and chaos. I believe you but I’m not going to pretend to understand it.
20lb bags of jasmine rice.
2023: $16.97
2024: $16.97
2025: $18.55
It’s not all or nothing. Each case is individual. Sometimes the bullet is intact and sometimes it’s in pieces. Sometimes trauma repairs minor injuries to the intestine, pulls the bullet, and they go to a post surgical floor like any other GI surgery. Sometimes trauma pops the spleen and the bullet and the patient still goes to med/surg. It depends on what a bullet hits and how, and how it lands is ruled by chaos and statistics. Sometimes it doesn’t puncture an artery but lodges next to it creating a future potential aneurysm that is monitored in ICU for 24h and then they’re off to med/surg, and the potential aneurysm goes on “continue to monitor” mode outpatient.
In reality, a person ignoring diverticulitis (then perfing) can sometimes spend more time in ICU than a bullet wound. And sometimes the bullet kills outright. It’s so variable. But that’s adults. Tiny bodies have far worse odds on any hit.
I’m not making light. I’m emphasizing how chaotic it is.
Thank you for widening this perspective. I had no idea, but it fits.
I wish I hadn’t known that.
In theory. Realistically it’s also about what you’re shot with and where. A robust man shot in the gut with a standard .22 that doesn’t ricochet or hit anything immediately vital probably isn’t even going to ICU after the bullet is fished out. 9mm changes the odds on everything. Again though, 1 bullet to the gut may not be an ICU scenario after surgery, depending. An AK/AR though, why are they even legal for civilians?
A child, with any bullet, I don’t like to think about it.
I’m skeptical.
I liked that Buffy had a clean, final ending. All stories deserve a good ending.
Besides, how are they going to reconcile the fact that Sunnydale is a massive crater?
This is an underrated statement. Far too many want a parent / life manager instead of a partner.
I checked current prices against my last order, 2 months ago, and I don’t see a price change on the bags of rice.
They’re not residents, you’re thinking of nursing homes. Roughly a third of hospital patients can walk without assistance, but yes. The rationale is staff doesn’t turn themselves into bullet sponges, because then who is left to remove the bullets once the shooter is dead? Either way, what do unarmed, untrained (to fight) people with the body armor equivalent of pajamas do to stop bullets?
The patient room doors don’t lock. Sometimes those doors are made of glass. But herding the patients who can walk into the halls is likely an opportunity for an active shooter to hit more targets. As such, everyone hunkers down, and the police take care of it. In theory, per the training modules. Police sometimes run drills with the hospital, depending on locale and interagency dealings.
Shutting all the fire doors is likely the only defense. Those nurses can be crafty on the fly, but there are limitations.
I can’t imagine a secondary piece of this policy isn’t hospitals avoiding liability regarding workplace injury/death lawsuits.
I just hadn’t known until now that in grasping for solutions schools found the standardized hospital policy and are running with it.
I didn’t realize the schools were using Run, Hide, Fight. That is the same policy for hospital staff in the event of an active shooter. Maddening.
If that’s a decision you make for yourself, that’s great. Do that, as the owner.
Expecting it if anyone else, who, in reality, will never be as into the business as the owner, is exploitative. The level of entitlement in that expectation is not much different than that leechy individual you know who is forever trying to get more from others because he feels like world owes him. Expecting dedication to your dream, not theirs, is like that guy who verbalizes a demand for respect on every occasion.
You want labor, then pay people for it. You want trained, experienced labor, then pay people commensurate with their skill level. This means raises each year as they level up that experience working for you.
Please. The Clintons are a distraction from Trump himself and that is all.
I haven’t been in a mall in at least a decade. I wasn’t sure they existed any more. I know what Claire’s is as do most people alive and shopping in the 90s.
It’s junk jewelry & a place you’d get your ears pierced in the 90s. You’d walk in with a parent, pick some studs, and they’d use an earring gun on your lobes.
It’s older than American Eagle, in terms of mall fare. Spencer’s & Claire’s were in every mall back in the day.
This isn’t a defense of cheap jewelry post, it’s an I find your statement odd post.
You don’t need graphic updates, those power ranger body suits are great as is. Nothing says style like a bright yellow avian evolved alien.