I work in EMS. I will be at work on Friday. I want to participate in the general strike, but if someone in my community dies or has a worse outcome because my ambulance isn’t in service then I feel like it is defeating the purpose of a general strike which has the ultimate goal of helping the general public. I have just determined to not spend any money and to express solidarity with anyone who is participating or speak out if I hear any negativity towards the strike.

It doesn’t hail in the winter, and hail is larger. Hail comes down in pellets due to the fact that it’s made by water droplets falling down, getting blown back up into a cold cloud, freezing, getting blown back up to freeze some more, and so on until it’s heavy enough to overcome the updraft and fall to the ground. Sleet is like rain that freezes as its falling, but doesn’t become the soft gentle snow, and the difference between sleet and freezing rain is that freezing rain is liquid until it hits a frozen surface.

Yes, around here the difference between freezing rain and sleet is that freezing rain is liquid until it lands and it freezes on contact with a cold surface and sleet is solid as it comes down.

If its winter, you walk outside and the precipitation is very loud and stings like hell when it hits you it’s sleet.

Rise Against is always my “The world is fucked I’m so mad” band. All their stuff is great, but Re-education(Through Labor), The First Drop, and Mourning in America are so incredible and so relevant.

If a dragon flew overhead right now I’d be absolutely delighted, run outside waving and shrieking “OMG look everyone it’s a fucking dragon I can’t believe it I’m so excited” and promptly be incinerated by said dragon.

I mean, it’s mostly the older range of the spectrum, but I’ve absolutely seen 50-something year olds become acutely confused suddenly and ultimately get diagnosed with a UTI.

Source: 8 years in EMS. I get called by panicked family members all the time.

Older people (like 50s and above) often get acutely confused as the first symptom of a UTI. They’ll go to work, come home, and then an hour later they’re arguing with the clothing in their closet because they think it’s a family member and talking to faces they see in the walls. If your older family member just out of the blue starts acting “crazy” with no history of psych problems, drug abuse, or dementia, it could be something serious like a stroke, but it’s probably a UTI. UTIs also go septic super fast in older people so they definitely need treated sooner rather than later.