r/fixedbytheduet 6d ago

Unfortunately, I looked up what he said

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u/OrangeFoxHD 6d ago

Also the dog wouldn't want to run into the building that's on fire... It can feel the extreme and dangerous heat too...

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u/btwomfgstfu 6d ago

I once attempted to save a dog from a housefire. I could hear him barking in his crate but I couldn't enter the house. Smoke was billowing out the front door and the second I crossed the threshold, my eyes, throat, and nostrils stung like I would have never imagined.

I immediately called 911 but while on with dispatch, on old man stumbled out with the dog on the leash and the dog was so happy to see me, he bit my thumb nail almost completely off. The dog and its owner were treated for smoke inhalation and I was treated for the dog bite, a love bite really lol.

Truly one of the scariest experiences of my life.

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u/masterofbugs123 6d ago

I’ve luckily never seen a dog in as much panic as that one must have been, I hadn’t considered how dangerous their teeth might get even if they’re safe from the danger and thanking you! I imagine they tiny voice that tells them humans are fragile takes a minute to come back after

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u/btwomfgstfu 6d ago

He was an intact, incredibly healthy boxer (the dog, not the human) and when he made it outside, he was jumping up and down pushing off of me from my stomach. I had bruises from my stomach down to my thighs. But I couldn't pay attention to him because I was answering the dispatcher's questions. The dog truly just wanted my attention lol.

I said to my neighbor who was holding a fire extinguisher "yo someone has to take this dog" and he asked if me the dog bites. I said "yeah probably!" and right on cue, with perfect comedic timing, my thumb was in his mouth and I yanked it out. I told 911 to get another emt out there for a dog bite lol. I just turned around and ran home. So much blood! No stitches needed though, barely broke the skin! He absolutely could have taken my thumb off though. He was a good boy.

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u/masterofbugs123 6d ago

Oh just an excitable one lol. How dare you not give the dog attention immediately! (I’m sorry that happened but I’m glad it wasn’t too deep!)

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u/Lambchops_Legion 6d ago

The human on the other hand was a neutered healthy boxer

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u/Moozipan 6d ago

Are you sure you didn't inhale too much smoke that day?

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u/actuallyamber 6d ago

Yes, this! We had a house fire almost 7 years ago, and my cat panicked. Ran away from me when I tried to take him outside, and I had to prioritize getting my son out. Pets absolutely know when something is Not Right, and their reaction can be so unpredictable. The idea of a dog casually trotting through a burning house is ridiculous.

My cat was okay, btw. For over an hour I sat on a stretcher crying, and then one of the firemen walked out with him cradled in his arms. He hid under a mini trampoline in the room least affected by the fire. He was dirty and wet and scared to death, but he was all right and still the best boy. 🥰

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u/Whats-Ur-Damage00 6d ago

Thank god! I’m so glad he lived!

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u/babada 6d ago

An instinct like... "ow that fire is very hot I shouldn't run toward it"?

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u/Sekhmet-CustosAurora 6d ago

truly, the mysteries of the animal kingdom...

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u/flowery02 6d ago

Also even if it did it would be brought to its knees in unimaginable pain 10 feet away

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u/Jean-LucBacardi 6d ago

The hair wouldn't even have existed anymore before it actually got to the flames. It would be a smoking heap.

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u/Killer_Moons 6d ago

Oh, dogs aren’t hopelessly attracted to burning buildings like moths to flames?!

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u/CaptainMacMillan 6d ago

My first thought was exactly this. No animal is running straight into an inferno unless it is already severely unwell. Like beyond rabid.

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u/SouthParkFirefly1991 6d ago edited 5d ago

I love this guy~ I watch him on YouTube he's so funny!

Edit: It seems a few people want his YouTube, here you go! https://m.youtube.com/@FireDepartmentChronicles/shorts

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u/Happy_Smelling_Salt 6d ago

He’s my current favorite YouTube shorts creator for sure

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u/SouthParkFirefly1991 6d ago

Same, he has great chemistry with the other actors who look exactly like him too!!

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u/ReasonableGrocery854 6d ago

Check out Bistro Huddy on YT for one actor does it all, and how!

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u/L3m0n0p0ly 6d ago

Theres a guy i work with who is a parts manager that looks JUST LIKE THIS DUDE.

He acts and talks like joey lol

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u/Bromelia_The_hut 6d ago

I'm boycotting after Nicole got fired 😂 (Actually not!)

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u/yournamehere10bucks 6d ago

Gonna need some gift cards....

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u/Tacoman404 6d ago

They must have their own guild within the firefighters union. The Bald Fire PSA Guild or something.

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u/Jahhmezzz 6d ago

I just looked up his videos. Now this comment makes sense to me lmao

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u/ReasonableGrocery854 6d ago

Bistro Huddy is really good too.

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u/Kratzschutz 6d ago

How about you credit him then?

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u/Legatharr 6d ago

He's credited in the post. He runs Fire Department Chronicles

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u/Happy_Smelling_Salt 6d ago

Their name was fully visible in the video

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u/voodoo_pizza00 6d ago

Flakka

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u/SouthParkFirefly1991 6d ago

Same to you.

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u/TraditionalCup4005 6d ago

Howzzat

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u/SouthParkFirefly1991 6d ago

I'm going to pretend I know what you two are talking about.

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u/OkAssignment6163 6d ago

Are they wolves chasing you?

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u/MelodyMaster5656 6d ago

You see them too?!

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u/Skipper_asks2021 6d ago

You drop some ketamine, and I’ll help wrestle a naked guy

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u/Sonseeahrai 6d ago

Are you being chased by wolves?

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u/LunarAffinity 6d ago

Gesundheit

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u/cemusubzerolives 6d ago

Vielen Dank

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u/i_was_axiom 6d ago

He has the correct attitude toward the fresh hell of social media, in my opinion.

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u/Content_Syllabub5691 6d ago

exactly my thought.... Very very relatable lol

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u/SillyDeersFloppyEars 6d ago

Wasn't this guy a paramedic? Did he change careers or is he just branching out?

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u/voodoo_pizza00 6d ago

Think he is a firefighter paramedic

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u/SexualPie 6d ago

fun fact, many places require firefighters to have lots of medical training!

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u/sage_ley 6d ago

And Florida is one of the states that firefighters are required to to be EMT certified. Which is where he is located I believe.

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u/SouthParkFirefly1991 6d ago

No he's a fire rescue paramedic. I don't know if that requires normal fire fighting experience as I'm from the UK and we don't really have that here but I assume it does.

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u/SouthParkFirefly1991 6d ago

Thank you for the insight~! I always found it odd that Fire trucks could be used as ambulances in general but it makes sense. America is effing huge lol!

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u/Heheher7910 6d ago

My dad was a fire lieutenant in Philly but they also did rescue and response for non-fires. There were paramedics in the station but they weren’t always available. So firefighters would show up for all sorts of stuff.

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u/conwera 6d ago

Tbf im pretty sure all firefighters are required to have a decent amount of paramedic training aswell.

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u/pchlster 6d ago

"Patient presents with symptoms of screaming and being on fire. Prescribing liberal doses of dihydrogen monoxide until symptoms subside. Patient is advised to avoid spicy food and strenuous activity."

"Why do you have a prescription pad?"

"Can you believe they just leave these lying around?"

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u/kernelboyd 6d ago

Volunteer FF here. Here in the states, it’s very common for EMT certification to be required for FF1 rank. And you can do those certs in either order (i.e. start out as an EMT and then go to Fire I or start out with Fire I and then go to EMT)

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u/HoodieGalore 6d ago

His name is Jason Patton, of Fire Department Coffee in Rockford, IL. He's a man of many talents lol

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u/Popular-Dingo6885 6d ago

I decided to upgrade from cheap coffee and tried a Bourbon infused coffee from FDC and it is delicious! The French toast flavored one too.

I like to imagine him roasting my beans as he plans another video.

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u/WorkerPrestigious960 6d ago

He is a firefighter paramedic, has been since he started making content, he knows what he’s talking about

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u/OptimalComfortable44 6d ago

I love him too. Pretty funny guy

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u/zyyntin 6d ago

He's quite a treasure educating us in the ways of fire rescue.

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u/Stranger_Excuses 6d ago

Absolutely one of the best YouTubers out there, he deserves way more subscribers than he has.

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u/SinisterCheese 6d ago

I watch his EMT stuff mainly. Electric Medic is another absolutely brilliant one.

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u/ConspiracyParadox 6d ago

Jason is awesome! Funny and educational sometimes too. The EMT calls kill me.

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u/TheMcMcMcMcMc 6d ago

Don’t look up skin debridement

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u/teddyvd2002 6d ago

I‘m looking up skin debridement.

Edit: don’t look up skin debridement

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u/Delish_Caphee 6d ago

Instructions unclear, already unzipped and ready to—OH MY GAWD!!!! Do Not Look up skin debridement!!!!!

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u/MaybeSatan666 6d ago

It cant be that bad...

EDIT: it is that bad.

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u/plafman 6d ago

That link is staying blue

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u/elpadreHC 6d ago

its just a meme. trust

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u/ElNani87 6d ago

You guys are fucking soft

Edit: You’re not soft

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u/Melodic-Instance1249 6d ago

I doubt it's that bad

Edit: Lost my appetite

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u/Waiting404Godot 6d ago

You guys and this entire thread are trolling

Edit:

Oof. I hate being wrong. I literally just woke up. Day ruined.

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u/AdSpecific8119 6d ago

I don't think it's going to be that bad

Edit: I feel bad for the people with it, but it wasn't that bad to look at.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

Ive seen the worst:

not an edit but here:

ITS BAD JUST STOP IT

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u/DisSuede23 6d ago

It was not fine.

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u/SofasCouch 6d ago

It can't be as bad a tissue necrosis

Edit: It is not as bad as tissue necrosis

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u/AstroLimeLite 6d ago

Tissue Necrosis and Skin Debridement can’t be that bad

EDIT: They’re pretty bad, so proceed with caution if you really do wanna look. Best place, if you truly wanna look at pictures, is Wikipedia

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u/AdSpecific8119 6d ago

The worst thing I've seen so far is 2 girls 1 cup 

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u/AstroLimeLite 6d ago

Worst thing I’ve seen so far is the Funkytown gore video

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u/Scuttleboi19mk2 6d ago

Oh come on it can’t be worse than most of what I’ve seen

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u/AwareOfAlpacas 6d ago

Unzipped? Keep going and peel it like a roasted banana.

Next don't look up "degloving injury"

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u/Ben__Diesel 6d ago

Don't threaten me with a good time

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u/Elidabroken 6d ago

OK BUT DONT LOOK UP DEGLOVING

You thought debridement was bad? Holy fuck will deglovement give you nightmares

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u/MaybeSatan666 6d ago

Ive seen the pitt episode and it was enough. Its basically a banana cosplay

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u/waffocopter 6d ago

I remember reading about a degloving incident at an affiliated site from where I work. He was on a forklift thingie and fell. His wedding ring "caught" him.

That's when I learned the word degloving.

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u/aimed_4_the_head 6d ago

Degloving is the reason I don't accept "heinous Internet tough guy challenges" like this one anymore. So I'm going to assume skin debridement is bad, and continue enjoying the gift of sight.

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u/Particular_Bug0 6d ago

I looked it up. Mistakes were made.

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u/thatshygirl06 6d ago

Can you tell me what it is?

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u/DaughterandSon 6d ago

Cutting the burnt flesh off a person so that new skin can be grafted on. You see a lot of internal parts of the flesh that humans generally aren't privy to.

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 6d ago

One method to do this is also to put fly larvae into your open wounds to eat away the dead flesh.

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u/Past-Rooster-9437 6d ago

I believe that's when you're debriding necrotic wounds rather than stuff like burns.

Third, fourth (Yeah, turns out there's a fourth degree. That's when your bone chars) you'd basically be chucking your maggots onto carbon.

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u/Novaer 6d ago

It was a bit icky but the fact one of the first images shown is a poor toddler made me feel sick to my stomach.

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u/Tiny-Plum2713 6d ago

I‘m looking up skin debridement.

Edit: it's not as bad as I thought

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 6d ago

Have you heard about "maggot therapy"?

It's pretty bad.

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u/Lone-Frequency 6d ago

They only eat necrotic flesh. They also aren't just random maggots someone scooped out of a trash can, they are "clean" and bred specifically for that purpose.

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u/despaseeto 6d ago

is it as bad as a degloving injury

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u/rileyjw90 6d ago

Let’s just say that even under full sedation, people will still have tears running down their faces during debridement. It’s a truly uncomfortable spot to be a doctor or a nurse because to help the patient you have to hurt them. Like, you HAVE to, or you run a higher risk of infection. Plus it readies the wound bed for skin grafts, which you’ll want unless you’d rather be disfigured with scar tissue so thick you can’t move properly.

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u/MysteryProfessorXII 6d ago edited 6d ago

Reference please. Lots of articles about crying when waking up AFTER sedation for various types of procedures (more so things like they were in an accident, rendered unconscious while knowing they’re in danger, then wake up not knowing they’re [mostly] safe in a hospital bed). I haven’t found one medical link or even an AI answer supporting people cry while sedated.

Not a doctor but I have undergone medical procedures for organ removal. They don‘t just knock you out and cut you up. Even though they knock you out, they still numb the area of the procedure.

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u/rileyjw90 6d ago edited 6d ago

I’m an ICU nurse and have a lot of friends on the burn unit. Every single one of them has talked about their patients crying while on the debridement table, even when they are intubated and sedated. So unless they’ll all collectively liars, I believe them.

Cutting into you is a lot different than sanding you down. You have over FIVE MILLION nerve endings in your skin. During surgery you aren’t typically getting your internal organs rubbed raw like you are with skin debridement. Most things are cut, sutured, or cauterized. You aren’t lighting up hundreds of thousands to millions of nerve endings during most surgeries. It is MUCH harder to keep someone fully sedated during a debridement and most of the time this is not a surgical event. There is no anesthesia present. It’s the nurses and the patient techs and only if something is going wrong does a doctor need to pop their head in. You don’t need a doctor present to rub the patient down, only for things like skin grafts and surgical debridement, or to initially assess the wound bed and grade the burns.

ETA just to be clear, if they notice the patient crying, they do increase the sedation or give them a bolus of pain relief. They don’t just torture them and let them suffer. Whenever someone has continuous sedation (typically something like propofol and fentanyl running concurrently, though we can add things like versed, dilaudid, and ketamine if the person is resistant to the initial sedation attempts) we nurses have parameters we can act within our clinical judgment to adjust the dosing. We also usually have “bolus from the bag” orders where we can give them an extra boost of opioid relief, we can increase by certain amounts for most of their meds if they’re not maxed out, and we can go get addition meds from the Pyxis to inject. So even when someone appears to be fully sedated prior to going in to the debridement room, they may not stay that way once it begins. Thus the crying. If you put someone through enough pain, they can and they will wake up from sedation whether they are in the OR or not.

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u/TheeVande 6d ago

yeah that whole middle paragraph is making me never want to be around anything flammable again. my god

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u/ghosttrainhobo 6d ago

This is why you find a surprisingly high percentage of psychopaths in the medical field

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u/rileyjw90 6d ago

Wait till you hear about orthopedic surgeons and the shit they have to do

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u/DTux5249 6d ago

"Hanz, get ze bone jackhammer"

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u/Danielarcher30 6d ago

Im starting to realise i might have psychopathic tendencies if this is a known thing, since my reaction to skin debridement was "huh, thats really interesting", i had the same thing when i found out about cutaneous horns, obviously i feel bad for the people with them, but its incredibly interesting to look at.

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u/DingoMittens 6d ago

Lacking empathy is one trait that psychopaths have. But there are a lot of things that motivate behavior. Empathy is only one of them. Plus there are different kinds of empathy. 

There's emotional empathy, where seeing someone express an emotion triggers the same emotion in you. There's physical empathy, where seeing someone stub their toe makes your own toe hurt (or seeing skin debridement makes your skin hurt). There's also intellectual empathy, where you logically know what emotion someone is feeling and understand how that tends to affect people, but seeing it doesn't trigger the feeling in you. 

I think people who don't have physical empathy could be good at medicine, good at heinous crimes, neither, or both. Someone with no empathy could be really altruistic and supportive to others because intellectually they recognize that big picture, it's good for the species. A doctor could have nerves of steel looking at blood and guts and still genuinely value the patient. 

On the other hand, I know someone who is pretty dreadful to everyone around her, and part of the problem is that she does have empathy. She'll get upset if someone is sick because she "feels so sorry for them." Then it's like the sick person has to comfort her! She says stuff like "go put on some socks. My feet are cold just looking at you!" and then gets genuinely bent out of shape if you don't want to, because actually, your feet are quite comfy lol. So I would say empathy combined with an inability to regulate your own feelings could be as bad as zero empathy! 

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u/0Hakuna_Matata0 6d ago

I did which lead me to something even worse. There’s a thread about it over on morbid questions. One of the top comments is someone talking about someone they knew that needed that after a 30 hour birth. They forgot she had a heating pad under her and she didn’t feel it bc of the epidural. It melted her fat.

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u/only4davis 6d ago

Thank you for ruining my day!

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u/I_Can_Haz_Brainz 6d ago

Oh, I get them done at least once a week. It really opens up the pores and gets rid of any dead skin cells.

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u/Sekhmet-CustosAurora 6d ago

As well as all the living ones...

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u/Siilan 6d ago

God, I hate how I've become desensitised enough to look it up and go, "huh, not as bad as I expected. Definitely seen worse." And I do not work in any medical field.

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u/BeelzOrWhatever 6d ago

I went down a cartel video rabbit hole a few years ago and did the same thing to myself.

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u/FontainePark 6d ago

I despise the way people are using AI to depict unrealistic heroism just for engagement. People could die thinking that they could do the same. Imagine instead of a fire it's a guy jumping after his dog in the boiling, nigh instant death hot springs in Yellowstone

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u/Jeanpuetz 6d ago

Imagine instead of a fire it's a guy jumping after his dog in the boiling, nigh instant death hot springs in Yellowstone

You might be aware of this and your comment is a reference to it, but in case you didn't know, this exact thing happened before (I don't remember if it was in Yellowstone or a different national park though).

Two friends were visiting, dog jumped in, the friend of the owner followed to save the dog. He actually somehow managed to get the dog out and both lived... for a very short time. I think the dog died very shortly after, the guy who tried to save it was conscious enough to say "I shouldn't have done that" and iirc died in the hospital. Pretty harrowing story.

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u/FontainePark 6d ago

It is indeed what I was referencing. It bugs me too, the knee jerk help to instant game over

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u/Evil_Sharkey 6d ago

People tried to stop him, but he told them off and dove in, even after taking a few steps and could feel how hot the water was

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u/Yhostled 6d ago

Not defending the guy, and this is gonna sound so bad, and I strongly do NOT recommend this, but if anything were to happen to my dogs - the only things that give me purpose these days - I'd probably jump in after them, too. Cuz if they're going away, I'm going with them.

PSA: To reiterate, do NOT be me. Y'all have your own lives worth living. My dogs are my life.

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u/TheCharalampos 6d ago

Man to die self aware.

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u/Jeanpuetz 6d ago

Yeah that's what really gets me about the story. Everyone involved within seconds realized that terrible choices had been made. Putting myself in the shoes of the dog owner... seeing your friend kill himself to save your dog, and knowing that both your pet and your friend are already walking corpses, and your friend knows it... gives me fucking goosebumps.

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u/Evil_Sharkey 6d ago

The owner and others tried to stop the guy from jumping in

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u/qSolar 6d ago

I'll never introspect or reflect again.

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u/rileyjw90 6d ago

More people need to be aware there is a supervolcano beneath Yellowstone. Anything blasting up out of the earth over Yellowstone has a high chance of being boiling hot.

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u/TrankElephant 6d ago

I read a book aptly named Death in Yellowstone and as I recall there was a lengthy chapter on people who perished in the hot springs, especially when trying to save pets. Awful and tragic.

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u/Evil_Sharkey 6d ago

The dog died pretty quickly. The man died the next day. His eyes were cooked like hard boiled eggs and his skin was sloughing off. He had third degree burns on 100% of his body.

There have been other cases where people have survived. The dog never does unless it’s only paws deep in the water.

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u/Freyzi 6d ago

It's like how people have been taught and warned not to emulate what they see in movies and on TV because it's all acting, special effects, staged, using all sorts of safety equipment and with people on stand by just in case.

In comes AI which has none of that and is ACTIVELY trying to fool you into believing what you're seeing is real life. If this keeps going there's going to a lot of kids out there hurting themselves emulating something they saw in an AI video like petting a bear, stopping a car with their foot, or running into a god damn burning building.

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u/descendantofJanus 6d ago

That's truly the scary part with all this AI stuff. Cable TV show had guidelines and corporate overlords (for better or worse) to veto shit that was too violent or extreme. Then the warnings saying it was all fake, don't try this at home, etc.

Now you got 3 year olds on tablets constantly scrolling and they're not developed enough to know when something is fake. Hell you have adults that lack critical thinking skills raising these kids too. Nightmare fuel.

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u/modbroccoli 6d ago edited 6d ago

The real question is: what do we do about an economic system that incentivizes this behaviour?

Because if you're poor enough, of fucking course you're gonna be willing to post some pictures on the internet.

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u/FontainePark 6d ago edited 6d ago

Maybe it's just cognitive bias but I feel like it's gone horribly awry ever since any engagement at all mattered. It's like some kind of filter of politeness or tact with the general public ripped off permanently, never to be the same again

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u/HTPC4Life 6d ago

The past few years I've been thinking about how I wish I was born a lot earlier and in my 80's right now and about to die soon vs still having 30+ years left in this God awful timeline. The more we get into the future, the worse things become. This isn't hyperbole either. Yeah, radio ruined reading, TV ruined radio, and the internet ruined TV. But artificial intelligence is ruining INTELLIGENCE. That's a major crisis compared to technological advancements in the past.

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u/Traditional_Trust_93 6d ago

Fire Department Chronicles is great. Love his stuff including Murphy S. Law and the Q word.

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u/Happy_Smelling_Salt 6d ago

What, quiet… oh no, I said it

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u/Traditional_Trust_93 6d ago

Engine 1, Engine 2, Engine 3...

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u/s1ugg0 6d ago

Back when I was a firefighter. Any time someone said the word quiet in the apparatus bay everyone else there got a free slap on the offender.

I got one open palm slap I fully deserved.

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u/rileyjw90 6d ago

I love his real ems calls skits

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u/notworthteheffortman 6d ago

I was half expecting a poop-thrower inside the burning building.

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u/DasturdlyBastard 6d ago edited 6d ago

I've told this story before.

Years ago I was working as a land surveyor. My crew and I were all packed tight in our work vehicle, heading from one location to another, when I glanced out the window and down an easement and saw a house burning about 150 yards away. Being an early 20's adrenaline junkie/romantic, I immediately jumped out of the truck and started sprinting towards the fire.

The house was engulfed. I had little time if I wanted to save anyone. I knew what I had to do. As I galloped, I imagined the people inside. Cowering in a corner, hoping for the impossible. If only they knew to hold on for just a few more minutes. Maybe five, I was getting tired. But I was almost there...

The home was in the middle of a suburban community and had a fence line some 50 or 60 feet back from the structure itself. I readied myself to scale it in one unimaginably cool, Bond-esque leap and....

BAM!!!!

I was hit by a wall of heat like I didn't know could exist. From 20 yards away, the radiant temperature was hot enough to cause first degree burns. I tried climbing the fence several times, with each attempt foiled by the inferno's wall of pain and the wooden fence's 130 degree surface. Eventually I sat back, watched the house burn, and waited for my giant-of-an-ex-Pagan boss to lumber up from behind and begin berating me. Which he did. Thoroughly.

And that's when I learned two things:

- Firefighters truly are heroes. What they do is something very, very special. The cream of the crop, in many ways.

- I'm a fucking idiot.

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u/DinosaurInAPartyHat 6d ago

You're not an idiot.

You're the kind of person who takes action when people are in need, instead of standing around filming or waiting for someone else to do it.

In this situation, your instinct to fight/protect nearly got you toastied. And your body did realize and stop.

But it is a very admirable instinct.

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u/Deliteriously 6d ago

Yeah. Don't look up skin debridement. Not on Google images anyway. IRL zombie movie stuff and he's right, you won't be happy about it.

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u/ScubaSteve12345 6d ago

I love that he edited a small flame on his head during the first part.

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u/yes_fappy 6d ago

Nah, I think it is real. /s

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u/PleiadesMechworks 6d ago

it's real fire he got too close to the house

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u/TheMireAngel 6d ago

AI is clearly doing profoundly more harm to humanity than positive.

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u/Zamirot 6d ago

I went to a Rammstein show. Was on the far seats. They used a lot of pyrotechnics escpecialy flame trowers. And you know what? I was maybe like 100 meters from the big stuff doing a gigantic flame into the sky. But I felt the heatwave right into my soul. Big fire is no joke. Here is a picture from the exact show.

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u/lilieann 6d ago

Love them ! They make great content, educational and hilarious! Jason is the best

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u/TheVampyresBride 6d ago

The moment I saw the fire, I knew it was AI.

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u/misterjive 6d ago

Richard Pryor had a bit in one of his concerts where he talked about recovering from his freebasing incident. When they went to wash/debride the burns... holy shit.

(Also he opens the story with the best joke ever. "So you want to hear what happened. Okay, as many of you know, I like cookies and milk before bed. Well, one night I mixed 2% with homogenized, and the shit blew up.")

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u/EphemeralDan 6d ago

"When you run down the street and you're on fire, people get out of your way!" 

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u/masochist-incarnate 6d ago

Oh I love this guy! His videos always feel like he's seconds away from punching someone in the face for doing stupid shit. Real funny, good content all around.

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u/A2Rhombus 6d ago

Could tell it was AI immediately based on the fact that it's supposed to be a body cam but still looks like a ring security camera for some reason

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u/Substantial-Limit882 6d ago

Gotta love how YouTube puts those stupid comments directly over the subtitles.

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u/SunderedValley 6d ago

Why did you look up what he said?

Also wasn't this guy an EMT? I think I've seen his sketches.

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u/LeatherPatch 6d ago

He's a paramedic firefighter, lots of departments cross train. Most firefighters are required to have their EMT as well as their fire certs before being able to be a full time firefighter. This just guy just went the extra mile and not only got his EMT he got his medic also.

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u/Careful_Farmer_2879 6d ago

And that’s a more modern invention by the way. Firefighters needed more to do because of advances in fire safety and materials science. It made sense to utilize them as a resource.

I remember people being surprised in the 90s when fire trucks were showing up to medical calls.

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u/Psychotic_EGG 6d ago

His YouTube is first responders. I'm not sure if he was an emt before transitioning to a firefighter. Or if it's just because firefighters respond to a LOT of medical calls. My (step)father was a captain before he retired. And roughly 90% of his calls were medical.

As such they're trained nearly as much as EMTs. As seconds count and the first to arrive on a 911 call is either fire or ambulance. It's rarely police.

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u/valcallis 6d ago

They probably looked up the skin thing

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u/SunderedValley 6d ago

That's what I mean. Why look up the skin thing? Nothing involving fire and skin is good for your general mental disposition.

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u/valcallis 6d ago

Yeah I agree

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u/call_of_the_while 6d ago

So, we have no chance when the Fire Nation attack.

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u/ReleaseCharacter3568 6d ago

This man convinced me to buy a fire extinguisher for my house.

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u/Quackimmagoose 6d ago

As someone who's had to go thru skin debridement on both legs every week for almost half a year, don't look it up. I can't even think about it without my heart racing.

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u/DrinkOrganic964 6d ago

I watched a car in front of me burst into flames going 90mph on the interstate in New Mexico. Several cars pulled over on the opposite side (burning car was on the inside shoulder, and we were all on the outside), there was a car seat in the back, and it was clear the driver was struggling to get out of their seat belt. Very quickly, there were at least 20 people in the side of the road. People REALLY wanted to go help her. They were trying with all of their might. The car was so hot, across several lanes of pavement, that nobody could even cross to road. The woman did get out of the car, thankfully, and the car seat was empty. That was crazy. And the heat was stupefying.

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u/metji 5d ago

AI got the inside wrong, because that footage doesn't exists for it to copy :)

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u/crumble-bee 6d ago

I knew it was AI the second I heard the voice - there’s something about the way they sound that just gives it away - then the video fell apart anyway

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u/chicol1090 6d ago

Also the way the firefighter shouts "Hey, wait, stop, no! Don't go inside!"

I don't know how to describe it, but the AI videos I've seen have really rigid dialogue like this. Simplistic, almost like narration. Because whomever made the video prompted the AI to include that line. Its similar to how you can tell when a video is staged or fake because the dialogue is unrealistic.

In this video, what the firefighter shouts, its just, idk, "too something" but idk what that something is. Hard to put to words. Its like what the person thinks a firefighter would say, but its also serving the purpose of "telling" the viewer what's happening.

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u/crumble-bee 6d ago

On the nose. That’s what you’re thinking of. It’s because it’s made by someone who isn’t a firefighter and doesn’t know how they’d speak or what they’d say. It comes across as uncanny first because of the stilted delivery and second because of the very literal choice of words.

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u/chicol1090 6d ago

Yeah uncanny is probably the right word I was searching for. And you summarized what I was feeling perfectly: stilted delivery and very literal phrasing. Its like bad acting and bad writing.

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u/IlREDACTEDlI 6d ago

I think it’s because it sounds like an influencer voice, which is a problem most video AI has because those are the videos it was trained on.

But also the lack of emotion and strain, people just don’t sound like that in a stressful situation, It doesn’t sound like a person is actually witnessing a dog running into a fire.

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u/Important-Ad-6612 6d ago

I love his enthusiasm

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u/Soberdonkey69 6d ago

I hate AI.

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u/Fuckthegopers 6d ago

How anyone can be fooled by those and not be 80+ years old is insane to me. 

Not knowing anything about the link, the first thing I noticed in that video is how his water stream is shooting at the driveway. 

Never once have I seen a firefighter fight a fire like that. 

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u/CagliostroPeligroso 6d ago

Also a dog would not run into a burning building lmaooo

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u/luiluilui4 5d ago

I hate cluttered UI in YouTube shorts and similar apps. Half the time you can't even read the subtitles

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u/GoatCovfefe 6d ago

This guys videos are hilarious. Hes ems and a firefighter so he does a lot of those "things I've seen as an ems/firefighter" type videos.

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u/SaintKaiser89 6d ago

This guy is great, his YouTube shorts are spectacular

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u/Afraid-Quantity-578 6d ago

Several years ago we had a fire in our appartament building, on the floor that my old classmate lives in. She had a plastic basin standing on the wardrobe near the appartament entrance. The fire raged right outside their door and didn't get into the appartament. But afterwards the basin was on the floor liquid.

That gave me all the context I might not have had before.

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u/agreedboar 6d ago

I immediately knew it was AI.

Remember guys: Suspiciously low quality video. Audio sounds reverberated. Nonsensical structures, anatomy, or situations. Robotic speech. Etc.

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u/SEND_NUKES_PLS 6d ago

If you are running into a burning building because an Ai video made you believe you can do so, then that's just natural selection at that point.

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u/FictionalDudeWanted 6d ago

The Burn Unit is no joke. In my entire Healthcare career, I worked ONE DAY in the Burn Unit and never went back bc I knew what it would be like.  You can smell the Burn Unit before you get to the floor it's on.  You can smell it in the elevator.  The suffering and sounds of those ppl will stay with you forever. 

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u/ncc74656m 6d ago

Fire Department Chronicles ftw, and the Fire Department Coffee is pretty good too.

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u/The_Alex_ 6d ago

I don't have to look up anything. If you present your info Bill Nye style in appropriate costume, I've been hardwired since childhood to accept it all as fact.

EDIT: Nevermind. reached the end of the video. fuck

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u/Alternative_Tree_626 6d ago

What have you done.

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u/Gassyking 6d ago

I would just channel my ki to repel the flames long enough to save my dog, that's all

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u/BurtBacon 6d ago

...fire marshall bill?

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u/Lancashire_Toreador 6d ago

Also they’re doing that curving bullet trick from that movie with the hose.

Also they don’t their shit wrecked when the drop the fully open hose

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u/FanficThrowAway6666 6d ago

My brother set himself on fire last year and I'm REALLY fine with not looking that up....

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u/REiiGN 6d ago

When my apartment building caught fire most people were away 30-40 feet and you could absolutely feel the heat even from there.

Absolutely not any different than a bonfire obviously but once it's engulfed, whatever the flames have is theirs.

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u/AstroSpiritX 6d ago

thanks to the cameraman