southsamurai

Damn hard of hearing genies! You think I asked for a tiny, 12 inch pianist?

I mean, the lady isn’t into cold coffee.

That’s what my wife calls it when I stir her coffee with my dick

I mean, it ain’t wrong

Awww, I hate I didn’t find this in time to answer since it was in a crossword the other day.

Instead! I’m going to pretend to be a nutter for entertainment.

Yo man, that’s just ambidextrous. Which is cool with me, I got no hate for any sexual orientation, you do whatever and whoever you want, it’s okay, that’s how allah made you.

Well, it depends on what you call a hitter.

Any time there’s money offered, the chances of someone taking it are non zero. It’s hoping to be lower on a platform like reddit, or even lemmy, but there are people out there willing to kill for money.

However, that’s different from someone doing it regularly, which is still different from a “professional” or contract killer. The difference is largely in methodology and pricing.

You aren’t going to get someone that’s very skilled at subtle or reliable activity, because they wouldn’t be responding via a public and security weak platform if that was the case.

Unless the platform reports it to a law enforcement agency, it’s not going to be an automatic preventive, but it would indeed be a clear reason to make a report to authorities.

Hiring a killer randomly is pretty much asking to be arrested, or in the case of this question, shoved into a facility and held against your will for as long as is deemed necessary.

It’s also a pretty damn low chance of success. Non zero, but low. Normally, when people want to hire a killer any way other than finding someone they already know and convincing them to do it, they’d have to know someone that knows someone.

You can find paid killers, if not serious professional killers, in most cities with gang/organized crime. The problem is that they aren’t usually going to even talk to an outsider, and they definitely won’t go DMing randos on reddit or whatever.

There’s been reporters that have made contact with that kind of killer and interviewed them. But it isn’t exactly a regular occurrence and there’s no way to properly use any interviews as evidence in most situations. Actually discussing the possibility of taking the job is likely to be admissible, and damning.

Now, it’s kinda funny you asked about going to a bar to look. While you aren’t likely to be successful, and may end up getting hurt rather than killed, organized criminals do tend to have favourite bars, which also tend to be money laundering fronts from what I’ve been told. So, if you knew the right places, you’d be more likely to succeed than asking on a forum. Still not likely, but not impossible either.

As a tangent, I was recently watching a short documentary about a reporter trying to investigate the matter. Even with her contacts and easily verifiable identity, she only found one person in the US willing to talk to her, and that guy was pretty unbelievable. Seemed more like some gang banger playing at being tough. Especially when compared to the South African killer she interviewed. But both it those were still not going to be easy to make contact with. You have to be vetted, or it ain’t happening

Tbh, I find it a little more than mildly infuriating. Verging on very infuriating.

They do it on purpose. Makes you stay longer, increasing chances of extra sales

The idea is that you’ll go through the brain stem.

Which, it can. It just isn’t a guarantee.

But you gotta realize that movies, even ones that are meant to be mostly realistic, fudge that kind of stuff a lot. There’s insurance reasons even when they don’t care about showing it accurately, and most of the folks that work as the gun safety manager (can’t remember the right term for the job) will raise immortal hell if someone makes it too realistic. Well, the few I’ve talked to anyway.

As you surmised, “Tyler” missed on purpose. The narrator “Jack/Joe” is aiming at Tyler, it’s not meant to kill the body at all. Iirc, Tyler tended to be on that side of the narrator more often than not, so they picked that side. Can’t recall where I ran across that, though. Which is all tangential anyway.

But, putting a gun to your temple is pretty bad too. Just as likely to end up a vegetable. None of the positions used in movies are all that great if you want it to work, and that’s a good thing. It’s at least sometimes intentional, like how they fudge recipes for dangerous things (like they did in fight club) just enough that it won’t work right. They’ll give the big brush strokes to satisfy the chemistry nerds sometimes, but omit important steps.

It’s been ages since I researched suicide success rates (for a book, no bullshit, though I never used that part of my notes), but you never see the ones that are as close to 100% as it gets with firearms, or most OD/poison scenes either.

A lot of times the director and writers just don’t care about accuracy though. They just use tropes that are good on camera. Seriously, you’d be amazed at how much of most movies just hand wave as “good enough” because it’s what people think should be there. Like the “one phone call” thing when someone gets arrested, or not being able to file a missing persons report until however long they need it to be for the plot. I think screen rant did an article about that kind of thing a while back.

When it’s an action movie in particular, John Wick levels of almost realism isn’t the norm. It really is all about making it look good on screen, so don’t expect most of that stuff to hold up to someone that does whatever it is irl. It’s also common in books to do the research and still fudge things because reality gets in the way of telling a story sometimes. Which, again, tangential.

What isn’t tangential is that because people think that movies are realistic, they’ll do things the way it’s seen on screen. You ever get in a fight as a kid and someone was doing those stupid cowboy movie roundhouses? Great way to get knocked the fuck out because you’re wide open and not delivering power where it needs to be. But it looks great on screen.

Guns are no different. People do what they think will work, often because they don’t know better. But, in the internet age, they may think to look it up, but get worried they’ll get found out, or be “put on a list” (which is a trope of its own). So they just follow the on screen directions, and wake up without a face, or maybe don’t wake up and are hooked up instead.

Peertube is pretty much it right now. Anything else is more expensive or YouTube.

Damn. I’ve only been around a few, what with home health patients making maybe mistakes and playing gopher in the local ER. It was actually worse, for me, than stuff like strokes or heart attacks. There’s just this extra edge of “wtf” to it.

Luck of the draw, the first day I was in the ER, still 17 and a student, the third patient I “helped” with, I actually had to help with. 14yo OD, pregnant and wanting to escape it all. She was not quite conscious, but not as far out as I saw later on. But she was fighting everyone trying to put a tube in, so the big kid got pointed out to hold her legs.

After that, it was a lot less panic, but a lot more uncertainty on my end. Compared to that kind of thing, finding a patient in bed barely alive was more about not being sure what to do, which is what made it worse for me. At least with a stroke, there wasn’t any uncertainty, no way I could screw up. Well, I guess that’s not true, but it felt that way.

I don’t envy the folks that deal with ODs regularly, much less a crisis shelter worker.

Generally, after two or three washes, you don’t need to separate any more. You really only get bleeding with new fabrics, and even then only with cheap fabrics. As an example, if you order Amazon’s cheapest towels, not only wash them separately, wash them before you use them unless you want the color on you. But even those eventually stop bleeding.

If you’re going to sort, the way I was taught is to separate colors from whites, with blacks being a separate load as well. The idea is that the bleed from any of the colors isn’t going to be enough to matter since there’s already dye present, which means there’s less ability to take on new dye. That can fail, and you end up with the color of things changed. So you still always test any new fabrics before throwing them in with other colors. But, generally speaking, if you don’t have the time, don’t have enough of that color to make a load, or just don’t care about color change, the risk of any color change being huge is low nowadays.

The only reason to do blacks on their own is that it mutes other colors when it bleeds.

If you’re really paranoid about it, either do each color on their own, or make batches where the colors bleeding wont be as significant. Like, blues and greens, or greens and yellows. Any bleed that does happen like that won’t be as noticeable, if it is at all.

But I never saw in all my years washing other people’s clothes anyone that had enough of every color to make multiple loads without waiting way too long between washings. Maybe in a really big family you’d pile up enough mixed colors in a week or two to make full loads of multiple single colors, or even two colors.

You’re also usually okay washing bed sheets and clothes together, though you can pull out stuff with zippers and metal buttons if you take want to maximize life spans of the rest. Being real though, making a load of those together is just going to shift which items get the teeny, tiny extra bit of wear from the fasteners. It might be worth it with heavy denim, but I wouldn’t and don’t bother personally.

Now, as far as types of fabric, you run into some issues. Good wool might need its own special care, but you’d want to refer to the label to determine that. Silk is hand wash only unless you like ruining silk. Cotton, linen, polyester, rayon, and nylon can all be washed with any other fabrics, no issues. At worst, you might run into a little extra pilling with the natural fabrics being washed together, but I’ve sever seen it actually happen more than what the fabrics do on their own just from being washed.

You specified merino wool. Afaik, you should machine wash as the default. But wash in cold only, and go with the bare minimum of detergent. Make sure you pull it out as soon as possible to reduce wrinkling, and hang to dry. Yeah, in theory your can machine dry merino, but if you’re asking this at all, you want to maximize the life and appearance of your clothes, so hang to dry.

Hand washing works as well as you’re willing to put in the work on, but wool tends to hold on to oils and sweat residue more than most fabrics, so you have to really work at it compared to something like cotton that gives up oils as easily as any natural fabric will.

If you’re having a problem with lint on your laundry, do your towels and other terry fabrics on their own. Most of the time, that’s where excessive lint is coming from. But if you aren’t having that issue, don’t worry about it.

A lot of separating of types of fabric goods, like sheets from clothes, isn’t about what they’ll do to each other or needing different types of care, it’s about convenience. Folding and storing sheets all at once is easier than dealing with a mixed load, as an example. You do benefit in being able to run things like towels hotter than you’d want with most clothing, but it’s a marginal benefit imo.

My laundry isn’t sorted much at all unless I get new stuff. Towels and washcloths and the like stay in their own loads. Clothes together, with only a few extra heavy fabrics on their own (like my canvas outdoors stuff and gis). Bed linens tend to be a load of their own since there’s two beds worth of those at a time, there’s just not room for more. But, when that’s not the case, I tend to throw them in with towels.

And, as always, check your labels. While it isn’t a guarantee, the recommended care on them really is the best pick. You’ll run into some chinese fabrics where it’s just generic instructions, but those tend to default to the least wear options anyway, so it won’t hurt anything, it just isn’t ideal. The companies using outsourced labor still specify the label contents, so it’s only when it isn’t a brand at all that you see the generic labels.

I also tend to recommend that you avoid fabric softener. They really don’t do anything useful, they cost extra, and a lot of people are sensitive to them and don’t realize it. If you’re getting itchy a lot, and you’re using them, try a few weeks without. Same with rashes where the fabric is extra close to skin.

That’s pretty much exactly what I was told back when narcan first started being available easily for pain patients and such. There’s too many factors involved to piss around with trying to calculate anything in the time you have available to make it work, so you just give more and pump that damn chest.

No worries, happens to simply everyone eventually :)

And, again, since you had nothing to contribute, maybe scrolling past would have been better than being a dick about it.

Just saying, it’s an option. The post didn’t do anything to inconvenience you any more than any other random post. OP didn’t name you in specific to give a response, no matter what it might be.

That’s what it comes down to.

It’s Wheaton’s law. Don’t be a dick.

So, apply it. Be better. We can all use improvement in how we treat people, right? I mean, you’re making some kind of reaction to being told your words were dickish. Anyone would. So, don’t double down. Don’t make excuses. Just use it in the future.

That’s horseshit. Google has gone downhill, for one thing.

For another, the vomit of inaccurate and/or outright wrong “ai” generated drek has taken over every search provider.

For another, there’s a lot of benefit in asking other people that have followed a guide about their experiences in using them

And, for the last, it’s just a dick move. Don’t want to give a real answer, scroll on, scroll on.

There’s some overlap there for sure.

Problem is that the ducks are quackers, and the chickens are giant peckers, along with being some serious mothercluckers when you take the eggs off of the pc.

From personal experience, you will only be able to fit one chicken into your network, but you will end up with at least two, possibly more.

If you refuse to buy said chickens, one or more will arrive on their own

So, you might as well just default to three and hope that’s the end of it.

The good news is that chickens very much enjoy the warmth of a humming PC, and will gladly lay eggs there.

That last part is not a joke.

Yeah, who gives a fuck about what his parents did for a living, he fucked over people’s health and lives for profit.

Oh. My. God, Becky