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  • No.

    Just as the famed US DoD budget contains enormous amounts of social welfare (Veteran healthcare, GI bill, dependant care,etc.) that is covered in EU nations by the standard social welfare systems the NASA budget is extremly focused on hidden economical subsidies,especially for some obscure senators. This is already a major ESA problem and just as defence spending shouldn’t be increased just for the sake of it to reach a quota it is even less worth doing so in terms of space egos. We need to reducue this kind of behaviour massively all over EU spending.

    Do we need to put someone on the moon just for the sake of it?Hell no. Should we do so when we have a good reason for it? Yeah. Absolutely.

    So basically should we invest in reaching feature parity? Yeah. But not for the sake of spending.





  • “I am very sure my husband has no heart attack. I am a homeopathic and this is clearly not a heart attack. You don’t know what you are doing.”

    I am a paramedic for 24 years, a critical care paramedic for 16. The husband had such a “myocardial infarction out of the book”-ECG it almost looked twice. He literally almost coded on us twice. And this lady walzes in (funny enough: They were in the process of separating) and after 60 sec. decides she knows what’s up.

    Homeopathy therapists here have no formal training. Just a state exam that makes sure they don’t kill someone too often.

    The husband barely made it,personally I think mostly out of spite for her. Had a cardiac arrest twice while in the cathlab,but survived without neurological issues.

    It’s really really rare that I am out of words and don’t have a comeback. But that woman in that moment?

    (For the medical folks: Massive STEMI accross 3 leads, massive contractility issue visible on POCUS, later on become pressure dependended, had VF arrest during PCI, needed an impella for two weeks)




  • Yeah, but not that many.

    Usual setup nowadays: One monitor for the main CAD (computer aided dispatch) forms, one for map overview, eventually a third one for a unit overview(theye are often done on the map monitor these days), one for external data (browser window, video feeds,etc.), one below as a touchscreen for communication control (VoIP/Radio).

    Most EMS Dispatch clients I have switched to a three+one touch setup ages by now and rather use a central dashboard for some less important views and feeds.