"Hope the night is manageable." I work in a field where people aren't sure how to wish me a good night at work.

988 is not using any AI in conversations with callers to my knowledge. I know that some branches are looking at implementing AI for training purposes, to perhaps give more realistic simulation calls for trainers, but at no point should anybody calling 988 needing help encounter an AI. For the chat platform, I know that the messaging system has some automatic questions that it asks everyone at the very start of the conversation, but it's a machine in the classic sense, and is not AI. Chat/Texters should not be encountering AI either.

988 Worker here.

Every single time someone asks me what we can do to fight the mental health epidemic in the U.S. and the rising suicide rates, I always always tell them the keys are workers rights, affordable housing, a healthcare system that doesn't suck, all of this shit that the person asking typically doesn't want.

I'm not aware of this having happened anywhere. At least not with the 988 Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which I assume is the line that's being referenced.

It's definitely true that my training, experience and employment gives me a lot more resources. I definitely encourage people to help others call us, rather than 911, when they're able.

The group that handles 988, the suicide line, is called Vibrant and they're working with 911 dispatchers all over the country to train them to transfer over to 988 if there's any situation like that instead of handling it themselves.

Yeah, unfortunately not all call centers have the same policies. I can only speak for mine.

I'm not sure I understand, you want to know how to deal with mental health workers or with people in crisis?

In some places, but not all, 911 will dispatch them and usually these crisis teams are required to bring at least one officer with them.

Also mental health practitioner here. The confused looks my family gives when they ask how to solve the mental health crisis. And I say worker's rights, better pay, affordable housing, single payer health care, measures against online radicalization, etc

A good tip, many counties have what's called a mobile crisis unit. It's like an ambulance of mental health workers that come to your home and don't take you anywhere. Usually calling 988 you can ask them to help you find yours if you can't find it.

I work for a mental health crisis line. We are taught, with extremity, to always go for least intrusive intervention possible. We will only ever call Emergency Services after a literal check list to ensure it's the last resort possible.

Practically the only times we ever call EMS on someone is if they tell us they are actively dying this very second, due to injury or overdose, etc. Or if they, after all of our attempts to listen, empathize, talk about what's going on, talk about how they're feeling tonight, work on what options there might be, who in their lives might be able to help, listing resources, and attempting to safety plan; if after all that, they say "yeah, I'm gonna kill myself specifically in this fashion and I'm gonna do it right now, and I have the means available to me." Then hang up and don't answer when we call back. Then we call EMS.

It's drilled into us that EMS is expensive for the person, and potentially dangerous because police are often not great at responding to Mental Health emergencies. So always the last last last resort.

One thing that I've found is super consistent across all Trumpers that I've ever spoken to.

They have no fucking clue what tariffs are.

My partner is in an apprenticeship program for electrical and plumbing. We're in a city so large, with so many tradespeople, that a given field has multiple unions within the same metro area. What you're describing is not at all anyone's experience in this area of the U.S.

Must be a state by state thing. My partner recently moved to trades from another career, and it's correct that you get put on a list of apprenticeship positions, but they employ you to actively do work the entire time.

Yeah, they've been doing this for years, we already know this haha

I'm playing a Dark Urge No Companions run. I have nearly completed Act 1 with zero party members beyond the Dirge.

Right now I'm Rogue (Thief) 3 and Ranger 2

I've discovered that if you are sneaking (so you can see the vision cone), you can sneak attack, and re-hide, and as long as you don't step into any vision cones during the process the enemy will spend its turn activating dash and staying in one place. They don't attempt to find you 90% of the time.

Fun fact

Before the incident that gave him his scar, the name that Scar's parents gave him was Taka. Which means "Trash".

So yeah, dude maybe had a little right to be vindictive.

Hold up, if that's the crux of his argument, does that mean that his argument is

"I can't be barred from running because I never took an oath to support the constitution. Therefore my inciting insurrection is not covered by this clause. But I totally incited rebellion."?

I had a gym teacher who was not really interested in being a gym teacher. He was the varsity football coach and that was where his main focus was. Gym/Health class was basically the bare minimum health information required by curriculum, and then the rest of the time was spent in the weight room. Not even doing like, fun games or anything like that, literally just 'weight room' so that his athletes could just use the hour for their workout time.

One day, after 'weight room' another student who was held back a bit (he had reached maybe 20 y.o. at this point, and hadn't graduated) made a joke about wanting to shower with people. Nobody thought it was funny, we all ignored him. He takes offense to this, and decides to vent that frustration on me. He grabs me by the side of the head, and slams my head into the locker next to me. He does this within full view of the teacher, maybe ten feet away if that. I walk over to the teacher, holding my rapidly bruising face, and repeat to him what happened, literally what he just witnessed.

He looked me in the eyes and said "Yeah, and?" and refused to do anything about it.

I went to the Principal, who didn't do anything. I went to the Vice Principal, who didn't do anything, and then I went to the Dean of Students, who got that kid pulled from class for three days total. The next week I had a sit down with the Principal who apologized for what happened, but was oh so thankful that I was such an understanding kid, and could empathize with my assailant's mental handicaps, and this didn't need to go any further than it did, right?

Shoulda sued.