phobosanomaly

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   by phobosanomaly 6y ago

   I think that people are nervous that legitimate complaints about China may be a subterfuge to start some sort of bizarre conflict so the President can use 'rally-round-the-flag' as a way to boost re-election prospects.
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   by phobosanomaly 6y ago

   "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" - Hanlon's Razor
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   by phobosanomaly 6y ago

   It's terrible, right? But, it's important to contextualize it with the level of violence occurring in these countries destabilized as a result of US foreign policy. Much of it makes the violence in the US (as horrific as it is) lo
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   by phobosanomaly 6y ago

   Tack on the geopolitical quagmire of Pakistan taking advantage of the opportunity to ensure India would never hold sway in Afghanistan, the Saudis trying to counter Iranian influence in Afghanistan, and the Iranians trying to counter Saudi
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   by phobosanomaly 6y ago

   You're not being snarky. Seems pretty on the mark.
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   by phobosanomaly 6y ago

   > "The degree to which ordinary Americans are isolated from the violence of <these conflicts> is mind-boggling." I am not personally familiar with any school shootings in the United States that were perpetrated by militan
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   by phobosanomaly 6y ago

   A country whose leader was overthrown, military was dissolved, and entire government structure was dismantled as a result of unilateral foreign activity will most likely feel the ripple effects of that for the next hundred years. You can&#x
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   by phobosanomaly 6y ago

   No, but the US effectively put a stop to that with a no-fly zone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_no-fly_zones
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   by phobosanomaly 6y ago

   Sure there's always the what-if, but in the counterfactual there likely wouldn't be nearly as much cash and weapons floating around. There are significant ties between groups. They may not be under a unified command structure, but
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    I would say that most of the world isn't running around overthrowing governments. My point is that we are insulated from the fallout of overthrowing governments. Not that we don't have a problem with school shooters. It's tha
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    There does definitely seem to be a pattern with Western intervention in these states and the emergence of hardcore religious militant groups. The Western interventions tend to piss everybody off and flood the country with cash, guns, and tr
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    I don't see anything as to which country the group specifically emerged in, but it looks like they've been around longer than I thought they had. "ISIL originated as Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in 1999, which pledged all
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    The mechanism itself is not mind-boggling to me. I'm in awe of the degree to which a democracy can set in motion tremendous violence seemingly on a whim with the voting constituents of the democracy being utterly divorced from the end-
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    I would counter that Iraq and Afghanistan both offered an excellent training ground for militants from around the planet, which provided Al-Qaeda and other groups with thousands of battle-hardened soldiers. The US basically created a factor
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    The degree to which ordinary Americans are isolated from the violence of these conflicts is mind-boggling. The notable absence of car-bombs alone is telling how privileged we are to be able to lead our lives without fear of getting murked
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    That also opens up the ability to weight comments from a given user based on their success in predicting political outcomes. If you have a high rate of success predicting outcomes, it's likely you have a good grasp on events in that br
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    I can't find a specific breakdown of time differentials between the two groups of calls, but dispatch times should be separated between 'Code 3' dispatch, which is lights and sirens for an immediate threat to life and limb, a
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    That's a great question. I found this plot from Arizona Department of Public Health.'Hospital Bed Usage & Availability' sub-tab 'Number of Intensive Care Unit Available and In-use at Arizona Hospitals.' https:&
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    Sure, it's meant as an example of how large influxes of people into an area can potentially lead to superspreading-type events, and how common these are. That tiny town is an example of thousands of such places and events throughout th
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    So, article was May 11 when the influx started. This is June 25th. "Fewer than 200 ICU beds available in Arizona as state reports more than 60,000 coronavirus cases." https://www.abc15.com/news/state/fewe
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    Arizona saw this early in the pandemic in cities along the California border like Lake Havasu. They had zero mask restrictions for a while, and cases were low. Then they opened restaurants and bars, which were flooded by thousands of Califo
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    I have zero data to support this, but I've thought about it a lot and it seems to me that the majority of respiratory droplet secretion would be through the mouth during vocalization as a result of the vocal cords vibrating. +1 for the
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    1,000% this. I worked on ambulances in a fairly urban area, and even there the number of times we were at 'level zero,' or no available units for dispatch was unsettling to say the least.
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    One of the posters above mentioned Wilderness First Aid, which is a great course. Wilderness First Responder goes more above-and-beyond and includes things like relocating a dislocated kneecap or shoulder, splinting, bandaging, administerin
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    Those wilderness medicine classes are awesome. Highly recommend keeping going for Wilderness First Responder. It's really, really fun.
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    So, part of that is that even when an ambulance gets there, what happens next? The nearest hospital in rural areas is guaranteed to not be even a level II trauma center. So it takes 30 minutes for an ambulance to get on-scene, then maybe it
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    I'm thinking California East of the Sierras. Mono County, Inyo County, San Bernardino County, slivers of Riverside County, and Imperial County. If you're in Amargosa, Shoshone, Tecopa, Wonder Valley, Lanfair Valley, Kelso, Amboy,
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    I guess you could look at it in a relative sense. Compared to Beijing, it could be argued that Los Angeles is in the early stages of development.
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    I could see it as East of the Sierras in California continuing across the midwest. The economic and cultural differences crossing from the western coastal strip in California to east of the Sierras are mind-boggling.
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    by phobosanomaly 6y ago

    In many parts of the United States when you call 911, you're lucky if anyone shows up within an hour. It's a couple hours to get to a Wal-Mart or a store. It's difficult to get anyone to drive 40 minutes outside the nearest t