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You got some misinformation here

The current Post Exposure rabies Prophylaxis (PEP) regimen is definitely not "a shot a day" for 20 days

First day you get a dose of vaccine and a dose of human rabies immune globulin (HRIG)

Then you get an additional vaccine dose on days 3, 7, 14, and if you're immunocompromised you get an additional dose on day 28

And if you've previously received the rabies vaccine (for either pre- or post- exposure) you only need a booster on days 0 and 3.

And the incubation period varies, like you said location and viral load plays into it, in humans it can be as little as a week, but more commonly it's a couple months, and even up to a year. There are a lot of variables at play, and the sooner you can start PEP the better of course, but generally speaking it's usually not a "rush immediately to the hospital in an ambulance or you will die" situation. If it comes to it, you usually have at least a couple days of wiggle room to start PEP.

And no, bats don't always bite the neck. Head and neck are pretty common, they're usually pretty exposed, and bats fly so it would be kind of weird for them to bite you on the leg for example, but it's not like they're magically drawn to act out the plot of a vampire movie. It is true though that a lot of people don't recognize a bat bite for what it is.

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Yeah, overall the policies where I am are pretty damn sensible. Technically we're not supposed to, but unless you do something stupid like show up to work high, I'd have a hard time thinking of a way you'd get in trouble for it.

Of course if you ended up getting in trouble somehow on your own time, since it's still illegal here it would probably lead to some sort of disciplinary action, revoked certifications, termination, etc. which I suppose is understandable

It's always interesting to me how different some of these policies are from one agency to another. I see a lot of dispatchers in other places talking about how intense their background checks were, and they had to do a polygraph test and all of that. My background check process was all pretty out-of-sight/out-of-mind. Filled out some paperwork, I don't even think they called any of my references (although to be fair, I was able to list a few firefighters and such as references, and got a friend of a friend who works here to vouch for me, which I'm sure helped) no polygraph, did have to go to the county detectives to get fingerprinted during training, but technically I was already hired at that point, and that was about the extent of it.

I once played a warlock with a kraken for a patron.

My character had been a sailor, shipwrecked in a storm, saved by the kraken in exchange for my service.

I washed up on an island full of kuo toa. Started up a little cargo cult to direct their worship towards the kraken, so that he could ascend to full godhood with the help of the psychic energy bullshit.

Of course things went a bit sideways, the kuo toa kind of fixated on me a little bit since I was the one sitting on a throne in front of them and not the kraken itself.

I also kind of figured that whatever the kraken wanted with godhood was probably bad for the world in general.

So I ran the fuck away from that island before the start of the campaign.

And so I constantly had a bunch of koa toa trying to track me down to drag me back to the island, or maybe to eat me, kind of hard to say. The kraken felt he had invested too much time and energy with me to just let me go so he kept pointing the little fish monsters in my direction to try to get me back on track with his plans.

Sometimes when they showed up I could leverage my position as the object of their worship to bend them to my will. Other times not so much.

I don't have any specific recommendations for software or services, but I do have a couple general thoughts on this problem

How many pieces are missing and how ornate is the set?

If you have at least one of every piece the easiest course of action is probably to 3d scan them. A scanner is probably a bit pricey to buy just for this one project, but if you ask around you can probably find a hobbyist or makerspace that will let you use theirs.

If you can't find a scanner, as long as your set isn't too ornate, most chest sets are probably pretty easy to model for the most part. Except for the knights which are of course horses which are a weird irregular shape, most chess pieces are essentially cylinders and cones of various sizes stacked on top of each other. With a little quality time taking measurements with some calipers and some youtube how-to videos, you could probably learn enough to make a pretty decent model pretty quickly.

You might even be able to carefully trace your pieces onto a piece of paper or maybe use a contour gauge to do the same, scan that tracing into your computer, and create a 3d model from that profile. Heck, you might even be able to just take a picture of the pieces then trace them on your computer.

It's been a long time since I've done any 3d modeling personally, but something like that is a feature in a lot of software I've used.

Then you'd just need to add some details- a slot cut into the bishops hat, some crenulations at the top of the rook, a cross on top of the king, etc. which should all also be pretty straightforward to model

Again, if you ask around at makerspaces and such you can probably find someone willing to take up the challenge or help you figure out how to do that.

Of course if your set has a lot of textures and details you wouldn't be able to capture them that way, like if your pieces have a face or otherwise aren't rotationally symmetrical, or the rook has a brick pattern, etc.

And if you need to model the knight, that's going to take some more advanced modeling skills unless it's a really simple and kind of abstract horse.

If you are missing pieces entirely, unless you can track down another set to use as a reference, you're going to have to recreate them from scratch. You can take some styling cues from the other pieces- like the bases are probably all pretty much the same, but beyond that you'd kind of have to work off of memory and eyeballing them.

EDIT: When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I was thinking about good ways to recreate your missing pieces by 3D printing so I kind of forgot to consider other techniques

Again, assuming you have at least one of each of the pieces you need, make a mold and cast new ones out of epoxy or something.

Also, again assuming no detailed textures, except for the knights, most chess pieces are almost perfect lathe projects. There's some really cheap tiny lathes to be had on Amazon that would probably be up to the task of turning a chunk of plastic into a chess piece.

Policies vary on this place to place, and of course there's no accounting for police who don't bother to follow the policies

But as a current dispatcher.

1. Yes, people do call about that. I went into some more detail on that in my other comment.

2. Phone calls are only half of what we do, we're also the ones on the radio with the field units. If they pull a traffic or pedestrian stop, they call it in to us over the radio so we can check their status, send backup, run information for them, etc. because if we don't know they're out on, for example, a traffic stop and something happens, we otherwise wouldn't know about it until it's too late. They give us a short disposition at the end of the call- if someone was cited, parties advised to separate, they turned the music down, crowd dispersing, subject in custody, etc. We don't get all the details, we don't get their full reports or anything, but we have a pretty good general overview of the outcome.

Current 911 dispatcher here, same kind of experience.

Recreational is not legal in our state. FWIW, I don't smoke myself.

Seen our officers give plenty of warnings for weed, but really the only time anyone gets cited for it is when the person is already getting taken in on multiple charges and being a massive dick about it so the officers are really throwing the book at them.

I know at least one of the sergeants in my county used to smoke a lot because he went to high school with me. I've occasionally seen him enter some colorful notes into calls, like that he gave someone a "warning for the electric lettuce"

I know a handful of my fellow dispatchers smoke, and I'm pretty sure at least one of my supervisors does, and even more of my coworkers admit to smoking in the past (as long as you can pass the drug test to get hired, past drug use is not a disqualifier for our agency, though lying about it could be if something about it comes up on your background check, and unless they have reason to think that you're under the influence on the job we're not subject to testing otherwise)

We pretty much all roll our eyes when we get a call where the main complaint is "someone's smoking marijuana"

We have to enter something about it, we can't just ignore a 911 call for liability reasons. But we all know it's a waste of everyone's time and resources. We don't really have a specific code to enter it as so unfortunately we usually have to enter it as something like "suspicious activity" which is a fairly high-priority call, but when we can we'll try to bury it in something trivial like a noise complaint because cops don't really need to be going out lights & sirens to tell someone to be more discreet with their smoking.

Funny thing I noticed today when I did some grocery shopping.

For most of my life I've always just purchased store brand large eggs. I've never really looked at the price, I need eggs and they're cheap, but of course I took notice today that my usual eggs are now something like $5.49/dozen.

Then I look next to them to the fancier organic cage-free eggs and they're 4.99/dozen.

Almost like if you don't keep thousands of chickens crammed together in cages they're less likely to pass bird flu around.

Translation is always a bit of a balancing act. If you translate literally you may lose the jokes, and to keep the same vibe you may need to go for something that's not a literal translation.

One example that comes to my mind is in FLCL there's a line in the dub about a store that still has Crystal Pepsi, however i the original Japanese it's a different discontinued soda. The translators made the call that almost no one outside of Japan would be familiar with the original soda, and that it wasn't really that brand itself that was funny, it was that this store was still selling a soda that was discontinued like a decade ago.

I feel like the weiner/hot dog/dachshund joke is probably pretty universal, it's a pretty simple sort of visual pun- dachshunds look like a hot dog (or maybe a sausage in countries that don't eat a lot of hot dogs) and hot dogs are pretty phallic, I suspect that pretty much every culture and language has similar kinds of jokes that translate pretty well. Maybe in some cases you swap out hot dog for kielbasa or salami or whatever the local tube-shaped meat product is and the accompanying local slang, but overall the joke isn't much deeper than "lol, penises are funny and these things look like a dick"

Yeah, if he specifically wants them for dual-use with d&d (and cares about keeping his minis in-theme, my group has been known to plop down a star wars AT-ST on the table to stand in for a dragon) then AoS is probably a better bet for that.

Another thing to consider, since you say he's been having trouble finding places to play D&D, there's a good chance he's going to run into a similar problem with Warhammer. If you have any local game stores, in my experience, most of them will have pretty regular events for both D&D and Warhammer. You can also sometimes find groups and events in other places- libraries, community centers, book stores, schools, etc. aren't uncommon.

But if you really don't have many options around you, that means he's going to need to convince his friends to play with him (which can be an uphill battle, Warhammer isn't a cheap hobby) so his best bet is probably to see what his friends are more interested in playing (assuming he wants to play Warhammer, and not just paint the minis, which some people do)

Something you may want to consider is a cell signal booster, cell phones are a bit limited in the size of antenna and how much power they can transmit at because everything has to fit in a neat little rectangle.

But you can get a device to hook up to your car that will retransmit your signal at a higher power. With that you "might* be able to get a signal further out than you normally would.

It would be useful for stuff like this of course but probably also just in general if you're in an area with spotty service.

I don't have any particular brand recommendations or anything like that, I think WeBoost caught my eye as a pretty decent-looking option at first glance but I don't know if they're actually any good. They're mostly a product I'm aware exists and I intend to look into more when I have some spare time and money because I camp and hike in areas with spotty reception a lot, but it's pretty far down my to-do list, so you're on your own for research right now.

Because they mostly all have terrible personalities and would find each other totally unbearable just like the rest of us do.

They also generally don't really want to date any sort of actual human that exists in the real world. They want to date a perfect parody of the opposite sex, incels are looking for someone who looks like Barbie (or whatever their idea of a perfect body type is, some go for a the petite almost childlike look after all) who wakes up looking like she just left the salon, who is totally subservient to all of his wants and needs, never speaks up unless it's to stroke his ego, a perfect cook and maid, an oversexed freak in the sheets, who will bear however many children his twisted ego wants to inflict on the world but never gain a pound or show any stretch marks, wrinkles, or grey hair

In short they don't want to date a real person, they want a real doll who does their laundry and squeezes out children.

And they're convinced that these mythical creatures exist out in the real world but that someone is conspiring to keep them from them, because obviously they're the perfect example of masculinity and why wouldn't these perfect females be flocking to them otherwise?

And I'm not certain exactly what sort of fictitious Superman feels are after, but the same overall sentiment applies.

Or else they're just deeply in the closet.