I’m not sure if it’s like this everywhere in the US, but in the rural part of Georgia I’m from when 911 is called it is required that the police (or deputy), an EMT, and firefighters/first responder all show up to be prepared for any type of emergency. Doesn’t matter what’s reported to the dispatcher, it’s kind of an all hands on deck until someone’s on the scene and the situation is assessed. Not commenting on whether this is the best system, but just an observation that might help answer your question.

I live in the Pacific Northwest and I’m personally more interested in the weather in Spokane.

Soon.

That typo made me chuckle.

Dude’s just happy to be a part of something.

That’s grammatically correct in the neck of the woods I grew up.

Oh, for sure. It’s good and necessary work, just not good for the person doing it, unfortunately.

That’s par for the course for me. I’m the type that’ll start a video game on the hardest difficulty for a challenge and then my pride won’t let me lower the difficulty so I just quit under the guise of disliking it.

Oof, that sounds like a shitty job. CNA or equivalent? I hear those jobs often lead to disability as well, having to lift patients regularly and such.

As someone who has never tried Linux, this meme has done more to make me want to give it a try than anything else Linux users have thrown at me so far. The fox is very convincing. I might step into the back of an unmarked van if it asked me to.

I read it as “couch cousin coitus”

It’s not an arcade-style game by any means, but I can’t recommend “Sky: Children of the Light” enough! My partner and I have been playing it daily for over 4 years and still can’t get enough of it. It’s hard to give it a proper description. It has a beautiful storyline with new seasonal stories that come out every 3 months or so. You play as a child of light whose mission is to banish darkness and shepherd spirits from a post-apocalyptic land into the stars. However, the real core of the game is the social aspect. It’s mmo-adjacent (typical server sizes are 8 players) with other players showing up as other children of light. You slowly make friendships using in-game currency and gifting each other friendship levels. You cannot chat with others at first and must communicate through a variety of emotes until you unlock chat in the friendship tree. The way communication and friendship is handled in the game makes it one of the most friendly and least toxic communities that I’ve found on the Internet. It’s also cross-play and cross-save between Android, iOS, Switch, PlayStation, and Steam. That Sky Game

It was referred to as a “suicide” in my neck of the woods.

Cishet guy here. I use the term “partner” all the time because I prefer nongendered relational terms. Plus, partner sounds a little more serious than saying “my girlfriend”. We’ve been together 8 years but are not interested in marriage, so I feel like it’s just the best word to use. It is amusing, though, when my partner isn’t present and I’m talking to a stranger, that they often just assume I’m gay when I use it.

Over the Garden Wall. It’s not terribly long, yet remains one of the most quoted shows in my family.

I blame the turtle from Rocko’s Modern Life for this usage of nauseous that has overtaken nauseated.

Progressive-leaning lesbian and vehemently anti-Trump, actually. She was very much a part of LGBTQ+ culture in the 90s, and the ear piercing thing was a part of it at the time. Though it really has fallen to the wayside nowadays.

Or, as my mom so concisely put it when I was a child, “Right is wrong if you’re straight.”

Tetsuo, is that you?

Whenever I see “cishet” I pronounce it in my head “sishay”, like how one pronounces sachet. Makes being cishet sound pretty fabulous.