schrodingershorse.bsky.social
PNW ➡️ Canada ➡️ Desert SW. Cats, horses, public lands. She/Her
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Detouring past campus. After searching my entire car, the very bored border guard at the tiny rural crossing allowed me to keep my samples if I promised not to unpack them the entire time I was in the US. But that was fifteen years ago, and I'm white, and a US citizen.
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It does not decompose fast (we're talking decades) in the high alpine or desert environments. Everest, for example, is quite literally full of shit, and most protected natural areas are trying to avoid that
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My (beloved) sports physio, after about five years of putting up with teenage me's shit, finally went "yeah, yeah, ALL of my patients think subluxating their hips on command is a fun party trick, now please stop doing it"
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I wasn't attacking you? Just confirming that yeah, this is a thing you can do in large parts of the US
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You definitely can buy vibrators at Target, at least in every state I've lived in
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The people in the course, but they WILL pound in the need for stopping to assess
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IME, between a wide variety of first aid and workplace safety classes, NOLS actually does the best job of implanting the need for scene size up and rescuer safety with their wilderness first aid/first responder/EMT courses. The exact hazards discussed will depend on the location and background of
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I am familiar with this problem
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You know it's the American West when a) it's on fire and b) ICP is at the rodeo grounds
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If it's being advertised as "adaptogenic" or "functional mushrooms" it's generally some or all of: turkey tail, lions name, reishi, chaga, or cordyceps.
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Also it would require them to stop implying-but-not-saying that they're using psilocybe instead of cordyceps
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Getting real sick of the "adaptogenic" trend of putting mushroom extracts in everything
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Absolutely will risk it for chanterelles or morels though
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I really regret pushing through and training myself to eat mushrooms and tomatoes because the rest of my family loves them and I wanted to see what I was missing out on by having an instinctive aversion to them, because now I know that both are delicious but will trigger migraines and MCAS stuff
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Oh, yeah, and it's definitely how they're hoping to justify the regional office cuts. It's just yet another move that would be pants-on-head crazy to actually try to carryout even if they could get away with it
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It's a real fucking depressing budget proposal. Setting aside the aspect of how states are supposed to now pay for the upkeep of these sites, it's also going to be a real mess for all the sites that span multiple states.
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Nasty looks my way. Fortunately, I now live in a city where that type of person is terrified of taking our buses, so I don't have to deal with them.
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I once eavesdropped through my headphones an entire conversation between two fellow about "kids these days" (I was in my twenties) and how it's so rude of them to wear headphones and look at their phones on the bus instead of engaging in conversation with strangers. This was accompanied with many
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Also the alpaca tenderloin with red wine sauce at a tiny hole in the wall restaurant in Cuzco.
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Very important and valid disclaimer but also I too allow one horse to do this
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I'm sorry, who could possibly have predicted that firing/encouraging everyone to quit would result in not enough frontline employees to keep the parks open? Not Secretary Cookie Monster, apparently
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I stay in hotels a lot for work and have a little plastic dry box that has seasonings, knives, coffee making supplies, corkscrew/bottle opener, collapsible dishes, and good instant noodles at all times.
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Also, I assisted on a holiday carryout at GRBA years ago, purely because my team was at the resource office finishing paperwork when the call came in. That was when the resource chief was the SAR coordinator.
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Oof, tale I've unfortunately heard multiple times as a traveling regional office person
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IME, the best way to get time on SAR callouts is to be available on holiday weekends. People who can help with carry outs are always appreciated.
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Yeah, I got super lucky in that I was term back when they decided NPS was abusing term positions, and got converted to permanent that way. Not really a replicable path for others.
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I have always figured I'd retire as an 11 or 12. It took six years for me to go from a 4 to a 9, and that's generally considered wildly fast in this agency. The classic "stall out at 7 waiting for a higher position to open up" only lasted a couple years for me.
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Every time they try to "fix" the federal hiring process they make it worse. I started using contractors to fill my entry level roles a few years ago because trying to hire them as federal employees was so impossible.
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They are regarded as having the same credibility as EWG among restoration professionals, or do you still believe the EWG is a reliable group as well?