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▲ 646 r/ThePittTVShow

What's with the night shift working day jobs?

This stands out to me as the most unrealistic part of the show. You get off your 12 hour shift, and now have 12 hours to get home, get some sleep and eat a real meal before going to back into the proverbial Pitt for another 12 hours. Instead Abbot puts on a uniform to tag along on a raid and intubate under fire and the night shift charge nurse spends half the shift caring for the dying cancer patient. They're getting, what, four hours of sleep? If you're in your early twenties, then you can, to some extend, treat sleep as optional, and pull your weight after 3-4 hours of sleep. But Abbot and Lena are both at an age where your body is just not going to go along with this, not on the regular.

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u/Invariable_Outcome — 3 days ago
▲ 0 r/steamsupport

Bug in Skyrim Special Edition that causes skills to level up instantly.

I have started a new playthrough and the skills just level instantly, I hit an npc one time and one-handed goes up, I crouch one time and sneak goes up. I loaded various old saves and the same thing happens. I uninstalled and re-downloaded the game twice, and it still happens. Googling the issue suggest it can happen as a result of mods, but I don't have any mods, I never got into that. Have you guys encountered this and know how to fix it?

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u/Invariable_Outcome — 9 days ago
▲ 26 r/HistoryBooks

Viking Empires, Cross & Scepter

A comprehensive overview of the Viking Age, specifically focused on overseas colonisation. Forte, Oram and Pedersen take a broad view and start their account with the battle of Teutoburg Forest. A bold choice, but they convincingly argue that the contact with the Roman military sphere started a process of professionalisation among Germanic warriors that extended into Scandinavia and down to the middle ages.

The Scandinavian settlement in Ireland, England, the surrounding islands, the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland is recounted in detail, including the eventual assimilation into the Scottish and English kingdoms and identity.

Towards the end, the narrative briefly covers the Northern crusades of the 13th century that saw the consolidation of the Danish kingdom and the further integration into the European Catholic sphere. On the process of the consolidation of the Scandinavian kingdoms past the Viking Age, I can recommend Cross and Scepter, which delves into the complex power dynamics between kings, aristocracy and the church.

u/Invariable_Outcome — 12 days ago
▲ 307 r/okbuddywhitaker

What do you guys think of the Hentavirus storyline for season 3?

Personally, I don't know. To me it feels a bit like rehashing the COVID pandemic, but maybe it could be cool, the writing team could be doing a creative spin on it.

u/Invariable_Outcome — 15 days ago
▲ 94 r/HistoryBooks

Frederick II A Medieval Emperor

I can recommend this volume on the Staufer emperor. Abulafia recounts Frederick's life and argues that the popular image of the emperor as a crypto-atheist or Muslim is the result of papal propaganda and that of him as a renaissance man prefiguring modernity is largely exaggerated. In his view, Frederick was a man of his time, a conventional emperor and also an orthodox Catholic and a sincere crusader.

u/Invariable_Outcome — 18 days ago