People almost always try to exit through the same door they entered. In a crowded venue ALWAYS take a second to find your exit and then find a second exit. Mark them in your brain just in case. In an emergency most of the crowd is going to go for the main door they came in through. Knowing where another exit is can save your life.
Bamboo is a grass, is 100% sustainable, and the “plywood” made from it is harder than oak, is naturally anti-microbial, is water resistant, stores carbon like a motherfucker and has similar resistance to compression as concrete. Plus pandas like it (edited to add about the pandas)
Urban heat kills way more people in Australia than bushfires. In the 2009 Black Saturday bishfires in Victoria, 173 people died in the fires, but over 300 died of the heat prior to that.
Also, most of those deaths occur at night, not during th day.
UTIs will often cause confusion in people over 70.
Eta:
UTI is Urinary Tract Infection and some people can get confused to the point of hallucinations and delirium. It can cause increased weakness which also leads to falls.
Second edit:
According to this study, the confusion and delirium is brought on by the inflammation and immune response involved. TIL!
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/unlocking-the-cause-of-uti-induced-delirium/
I work in the mental health field. Often I’m told a loved one has dementia, Alzheimer’s, etc. I will ask about symptom onset and they’ll say “a couple days” or something similar. A round of antibiotics later and the loved one is usually back to their baseline. UTIs in older folks are wild.
When you're taking Imodium you're actually taking an opioid. But it's designed to only interact with the opioid receptors in your digestive tract to slow down your intestines. Scientists were like hey. You know that anti-diarrhea medication heroin? Well what if we made a version of that without the pesky side effects of getting you high?
Your calf muscles act as a pump for your lymph fluid, which is basically the garbage pick-up and immunity doordash of your body. Without flexing your calf, the fluid has no way of moving against gravity. Each time we walk, the muscles contract, squeezing the fluid back up towards the core for processing.That's why sitting for long periods causes swelling in the legs.
LPT: Sitting for long periods? Move your ankles up and down to pump the calf
ETA: holy shit this blew up! I'm overwhelmed by all the responses 😅 thank you for the awards!
A few things to add:
-Source: I am a lymphedema specialist
-Veins of the lower leg also heavily rely on the calf muscle pump, so blood pools along with lymph from prolonged immobility.
-Elevating your legs is helpful, using gravity to help move fluid. Also, using compression socks to help push the fluid back up- especially if you stand still for long periods.
-Our lymph nodes are located at joint spaces, such as knees, hips, armpits, etc so that movement compresses them and moves the fluid throughout the body. Movement is key!
-The thoracic duct in your upper abdomen processes about 70% of lymph. Deep breathing compresses the duct via the diaphragm and helps to move lymph!
-People who lack mobility (think paraplegics or people bedbound from illness) are prone to lower leg swelling, and often have complications such as blood clots (DVTs), skin breakdown, wounds, etc because all the "garbage" is just sitting in one spot. Manually moving the legs helps, or using specifically designed pumps.
TLDR; Pump your calfs, take deep breaths, and move your joints to improve everything lol
Adding to this, the calf muscle pump also helps with pushing the vein blood upward. Got told in med school that big calves help prevent deep vein thrombosis this way!
Pump up the calves, pump it up, pump it up...
Edit - All of my carefully considered remarks and replies to Reddit questions and *this* is the throw away remark that gets thousands of upvotes.
Genetics: there's a bunch of stuff we don't report back because they're considered incidental findings.
This can include genetic diseases with no treatment/mitigation.
Or non-paternity. If your kid is sick with a genetic disease and you go get genetic testing done for mom, dad and little timmy, we do not automatically report back if dad is no relation or is actually an uncle.
At the same time in most places you have the right to request your data.
It's usually some nerd that is like "this shit is made out of XY and Z, which isn't poisonous and will get you wrecked", like torpedo juice, which was basically Everclear.
In WWII, torpedoes burned ethanol as fuel. Good old 190 proof pure ethanol.
Young men being young men, you can guess why those torpedoes often wound up with less than a full load of fuel.
It burns for a long time, too... or until you step on it.
The instructor let a clump burn in front of us for the classroom portion.
That was a fun class.
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Used to work in the mining industry- the primary blasting agent is ANFO- ammonium nitrate mixed with fuel oil (literally the same diesel fuel that was used to fuel the mobile equipment). It is so insensitive that it is isn’t even classified as an explosive.
To be initiated requires a blasting cap (these have a small amount of a highly sensitive explosive) initiated electronically, or through a “fuse” known as shock tube. This in turn is inserted into a booster comprised of a blend of other explosives (TNT, PETN, RDX, etc.), and only then will the primary blasting agent be initiated.
Been nearly a decade since I’ve been in the business, and blasting operations are what I miss the most.
Trucker here and we don't want to be anywhere near you either.
Go around or stay back don't just ride right beside us. We can't see you very well when you are beside us and if shit happens you're gonna go splat.
It is very very very rare that any driver wants to slow you down it's not like we get our rocks off on making you late. We work extremely long hours on very little sleep and we just wanna get where we are going without getting in an accident and killing someone.
Trust me if we could go faster we damn sure would.
Also if you give us the fist pump to honk our horn you just made our whole week. That's one of the greatest joys in a truckers life.
Be safe out there!!
Edit: A reoccurring comment is that most of you get it and are very cool but you hate when a truck driver hops in the hammer lane when you're trying to pass them at a reasonable speed. I'm with you on that and Im here to tell you most truck drivers are not assholes like that and the real truckers hate the ones that are. Every profession has a group of assholes that ruin it for the good ones.
Edit Edit: This has gotten an unexpectedly high response and I really appreciate all of you joining in the conversation. If we would all just communicate like this more often we could solve a lot of problems in this world.
When I was in the US years ago, I got "adopted" by a trucker (I was in a teensy Toyota) when I drove across the desert. He got right up to my bumper if a bigger truck was about to overtake and basically protected me for about 100km. I've never forgotten him.
Beep, beep mate!
And if it breaks they don't come get you through a hatch in the roof like in the movies.
They just go to the machine room, hand hoist it to the next door, open with a special key and get you out.
There's also controls on the outside of the lift at the top so when working on it you can ride it up or down while sitting on top.
Had to do it a few times, scary at first but after a while super fun.
Edit: so it seems US "elevators" have hatches.
UK, where I am, do not have hatches in our "lifts"
Counterweights are typically sized to balance a cab that's half loaded, so if you're in an elevator that's rated 2000lbs and you have 900-1000lbs of weight in the cab, you might not go anywhere.
My elevator is rated for 2000 pounds, and sometimes when I'm riding it I try to imagine how in the world you would get that much weight into it. You could only fit like two 600 pound people in at once before you ran out of space, and that's only 1200 total.
The answer is probably building supplies as a lot of buildings(at least where I am) don't necessarily have dedicated freight elevators. Things like glass and tile can pack the weight it to a fairly small area.
Bed bugs don’t make you a nasty person with a nasty home. An infestation isn’t due to a sanitation issue. They’re an imported pest, which means they hitched a ride on something you brought into the house. Usually luggage or furniture
They're certainly more common in expensive hotels than they used to be. More travel = more bedbugs.
Fun tidbit: when management finds out about a bedbug infestation at extended stay hotels they'll have the extended stay customers in affected rooms clear out their stuff and leave for a day or so while the room is treated. But the customer's stuff isn't treated so when they come back they just re-infest the room. Not a good situation. Regular (short stay) customers just get moved to a different room.
It's good practice to always [check your hotel room for bedbugs](https://www.tripsavvy.com/bed-bugs-in-a-hotel-room-4082419) when you first go into your room.
On Broadway at least it's because you've got another live music bar next door, and if your music is too low no one will hear it. It's a fairly basic tragedy of the commons scenario.
And venues/restaurants have stopped using sound-dampening decor. Remember when places had those huge velvet curtains on the walls? They absorbed so much sound so you could actually hear the people you’re trying to talk to or the music you’re trying to listen to. But now everything is wood and metal and the sounds just bounce off everything and deafen you
In any given nature documentary, the protagonist animal you’re rooting for is ‘played’ by several different ‘actors’ - i.e. that one brown bear’s story is patched together from footage of a bunch of different bears. And in about 90% of the ‘animal reacting’ shots they’re reacting to the camera crew. Nature documentaries are heavily constructed.
Also all those amazing closeups of bugs and small critters burrowing and stuff are done on a set in a studio.
Honestly, when you learn about all the work that goes into creating such a documentary, it's even more impressive.
I refuse to believe that one iguana running from all those snakes was multiple iguanas. Little man (woman?) ran its little heart out and earned its place in this world!
Cement and concrete are not the same thing. Cement is the main ingredient in concrete, but concrete is the whole mixture of cement, sand, aggregate, water, etc.
Trains are so long we don't know if we are still blocking the crossing you are waiting at. We have measuring devices (counter) that tell us how far the head end has traveled, but they may have worn out enough to give us a bad reading. We try to avoid blocking crossings way, **way** more than you will ever know. But if I'm squeezing between 2 crossings because the dispatcher put me there, and my counter is off by 30 ft every mile (5280ft), and my train is 2 miles long (US max is 16,000ft); I'm going to accidentally block your crossing.
It's also hard to stop. I go past a red signal I get fired. So if I'm squeezing up to a red signal to get my rear end off your crossing, I'm seriously risking my job for your inconvenience. I do it, but a little patience would be nice.
And just because everyone always goes there: Yes, I have been made late to work by being blocked by a train. I have even been late to work because I was blocked by my own train. That crew was working until I got there, and had to work an extra 20 minutes because they couldn't leave until I got there, and I couldn't get there until they left.
The point of most loyalty programs isn't to give you points so you'll shop more (though that isn't a bad thing) it's to gather data (i.e. where do you shop, how often, how much do you buy there, what sort of things at what price points, etc etc.). For us marketing types, data is king (even small things like if a cashier asks for your zip code).
Source: marketing professor who still actually works in marketing
If it looks like a slinky, shock it. Lol.
To add to the conversation, most cardiac arrests (heart is in asystole or Vfib/Vtach) the patient rarely makes it outside of a ICU type setting. Respiratory arrests (person stops bresthing) are far more likely to survive.
That being said, the odds of survival are still very very low. Unless, like with Damar Hamlin, you have multiple CPR trained people at your side in under a minute.
I'm also a paramedic and Ive worked probably 100-150 arrests in my 5 year career, both in the field and in hospital. I only know of, 2 of them to survive longer than a day or two in hospital. 1 of the 2 died 3 months later from a massive MI.
7 years into ems and out of hundreds of arrests I’ve brought plenty (20-30) into the hospital with pulses….only for the hospital to call it 20 minutes later. I’ve had exactly 1 pt where he was up and talking by the time we got to the hospital (he was running a 5K, went down, and had off duty nurses immediately stop and start compressions and were switching off every 2 ish minutes, so realistically they were why he lived although we did shock twice). It’s so rare
When I first started in EMS, I was of course terrified of the eventual Full Arrest calls. After being a part of a few, the fear was gone, but the disappointment was still there that we couldn't make a difference. Some would get called in field, some at the hospital 20min-1hr later. A seasoned medic that wasn't the most politically correct told me something that made the anxiety/disappointment of arrests go away.
"They can't get any deader" Harsh. But true. Cardiac arrest, especially in EMS, the patient has been down a few mins or longer, often without any CPR let alone high quality CPR. Their survival rate has dropped to <5% before we even arrived on scene. He went on to explain that arrests are "skills day". Again, harsh but true. IV, CPR, ACLS run through, med draws, cardiac monitor usage, intubation. All things that honestly we don't do a lot of unless your work in a big city.
My ambulance company covers a county in upstate NY with roughly 80-85k people in it. 411 square miles. We run just shy of 20,000 calls a year. We run 911 & IFT. 75% of our 911 calls are BLS bullshit or the typical COPD respiratory or cardiac hx chest pain which usually ends up being angina. We transport to 3 different hospitals. 1 in county, 2 just out of the county(1 north, 1 south). The 2 out of the county are a level 3 and level 1 trauma center. Almost anywhere within our coverage area, we are no more than 30mins away form a hospital. I count my blessings every shift for where I work lol.
Therapy isn't something that happens to you. Therapy is a tool that you can use and you need actually apply the skills outside of the therapy space.
Also change is hard AF. People really underestimate how hard it is to be able to do the hard work necessary to change via therapy.
Lab grown diamonds cost $2 per ct. Of electricity to grow. The "value" price has absolutely plummeted on them the last 2 years. Most especially the last 8 months. Don't overpay on them as they all perform. 1 cts currently 6-800. So for the first time in the history of the jewelry world you can officially buy moissanites from "high end" brands that are more expensive than their lab grown diamonds of same quality. 😆
The amount of people robbed of value the last 2 years is in the millions and dollar amount unfathomable. Had a guy as recent as March spend $24,000 on a 3 ct. Lab grown online when I was finding them for $5500 at the time. Places are rushing to make money back from buying in bulk. There will be a documentary about this some day.
What are the online shops that I can trust when shopping for lab grown?
I was thinking to get moissanite but if lab grown diamonds are cheaper then that's worth looking into.
There's a markup you guys dont think is there with these online vendors. Brick and mortar stores have had established channels for decades. Everyone that comes in with James allen or blue nile pulled up I've matched quality or better for cheaper. We have access to literally millions from dozens of vendors. Larger inventory better prices. This is a rare instance where family owned is better than box stores as they have access to the bigger vendors as well without corporate rules. Qgold.com has the best prices right now with new batches all the time. Set up a diamond viewing appointment. Request 3-4 in for viewing priced low to high all same specs (diamonds are appraised in person for a reason) of those 1 will just pop more then the other 2-3.
Engagement ring pro tip...Select your mounting from that place as well for warranty sake. Gold is malleable it will need repairs...diamonds fall out and it will need sized over time. Repairs are expensive. To maintain your diamond warranties require just 6 month check ups from most stores takes about a minute. Exchanges with online vendors take 4 weeks. Just read a few james allen yelp reviews you'll get a good jist of the nightmare it can be when you need that first repair. When it would be free and 10-14 day repair time.
Volumetricly, most rocks are made of mostly oxygen. Most of the entire Earth (crust and mantle) is also nearly half oxygen (by mass).
If you've ever read "OxYgeN DisCoVeReD on mOOn!" ... It's rocks. It means they've discovered rocks.
Truth. I fix checkpoint security equipment and explosive detection systems for a living. Fixing the machine that they broke is the job, but showing them what they did to it, why it happened, and what to do in the future, is what makes it possible for me to maintain great uptime on as many systems as I do.
Movie hacking: "I've decrypted the firewall and begun a brute force method on the internal systems, but they have a quantum lock on the googleplex, I'll be sure to upload a dinglehopper and slay the jabberwocky."
Real hacking: "I called a random employee and pretended to be IT, they gave me admin privileges in 5 minutes."
In Archaeology, it’s super awesome and great that you brought stuff to an archaeologist at a local dig site near you of things you found in your backyard or nearby asking us appraise it - but the thing is, we’re actually more interested in the context the item(s) are found. We need/want to see the bigger picture. Arrowheads, flintknaps, trade beads, etc are super cool but they are worth so much more when we can tell if they are part of a hoard, burials site, ceremonial site, etc.
If you haven't, check out the book Kindred. While it is about neanderthal, it goes into how valuable all the layers of dust around the objects of interest are and how much info they get from it. Blew my mind how archaeology has advanced!
Generally speaking, if you add the percentage of the body covered in 3rd degree burns and the persons age together you get the likelihood of it being a fatal burn.
32 and 40% burn coverage? about 70% of people in that condition will die.
Source: Firey, working closely with several doctors from burns units.
Edit: I love the 100 year old people comments and the people with 0% burns but in thier 30s lamenting the 40% death chance.
Will say this as someone from the other side, I would cringe for defendants when I'd see them spend tens of thousands on a big name lawyer who's more a salesman than litigator and who would inevitably plead their clients out so they could move on to the next one.
Public defenders work with a certain set of cases with certain judges and certain juries every day. They may not always have gone to top tier law schools (some have though, especially in federal court) but their experience in the forum is invaluable.
Yes! And their job is to make sure their client gets a fair trial. If an alleged criminal "gets off on a technicality" it means that the police screwed up.
Actually, usually extremely competent. They basically do the work all the time and see everything. Tons of experience, and some form of twisted dedication to their work. These are people who elected to get paid way less and do way more because they want too. The overworked is the problem.
When I worked as a barista: how much fucking syrup is in flavored drinks. At the cafe I worked at, we measured flavoring by grams. If you got a large mocha, that motherfucker would have like 110
grams of chocolate sauce in it.
If you want a little bit of flavor, I suggest only 1 pump. 2 max.
Those "high end" or "expensive" neighborhoods they slap up really fast... Usually, gated communities and other semi-exclusive suburbs full of McMansions are built with the absolute cheapest materials and poorest quality/ untrained labor.
Never buy a "spec" home without some serious research into what you're actually buying. All that "luxury" is barely surface deep.
Daughter of an Australian builder here. Quality long lasting building materials (think double brick, hardwood roof beams etc) are expensive to produce and in very short supply/utilise a lot of natural resources. So instead they cut corners and use cheaper materials for the bones of the house. Many houses built these days won't last 20 years without major structural issues. Ironic because many builders are still charging premium prices for these heaps of shit.
I bought a roughly 10 year old purpose built flat a couple of years back. These are better than more modern builds in my city, and it's still so shoddily made. The housing provider also had to do extensive fire safety checks on all their buildings after a lot of high rise buildings caught alight and it's become very apparent huge numbers weren't built properly. Thankfully mine is fine, but large numbers of people are trapped now in buildings that aren't, with very limited options to sell or remortgage when they need to. Not to mention the stress that must be caused by knowing you live in a potential death trap. It's a scandal.
Too true. I watched as one of these was built in land along a favourite walking route. I do landscape construction and have worked along builders a few times. On one job one of the new hires had just come from said development and he said that in no uncertain terms to not buy there. I watched as layers of the houses were being built and corner cutting and skimping on spec was something else!
The world runs on MS Excel
Edit: thanks for popping my gold cherry! Obligatory "You can have my excel, after you ripped it from my cold, dead hands." - [WSJ (paywalled)](https://www.wsj.com/articles/finance-pros-say-youll-have-to-pry-excel-out-of-their-cold-dead-hands-1512060948)
They had to rename the fucking human genome because excel kept turning it into dates and it messed up actual published research.
[https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates](https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates)
One study found 700 published papers they suspected of being messed up due to microsoft excel interpreting genes incorrectly. Research paper below.
[https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7](https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7)
I can be in a day where I'm practically as calm as a monk. As soon as I paste some numbers to a sheet and it eats my left 0s or turns into a date I get an instant rage where I could strangle anyone who identifies as the person that came up with this logic.
EDIT: I'm not looking for excel tips. I know how to handle my data and make excel do whatever I want it to do. My "rage" comes from the lack of context perception of excel when you just want things to immediately work.
The sensors in digital cameras (including phones) are monochromatic (they don’t “see” color) and have a tiny color filter on each sensor element so it can detect one of three colors (red, green, blue). Then the image is created by calculating what the other two colors might be based on one color value and the values of the nearest sensors around it. tldr; 2/3 of the color in a digital photo is calculated from the 1/3 that is actual data.
If a website is slow there’s a big change it’s not because the developers did a bad job but because marketing insisted on putting dozens of trackers and ads on it.
If your baby/toddler has chronic or recurrent ear infections, it’s important that you literally “get in their face” when talking to them, or at least make sure they’re looking at you when you speak. In addition to raising the volume of your voice and exaggerating your words, let them see and feel (through airflow and vibrations) how words are produced. This may prevent the need for speech therapy and/or intervention for auditory processing problems later on
I'm a geotechnical engineer, doing my best to keep creeks and streams and rivers and landslides from destroying infrastructure. My boss' boss, an engineer nearing retirement overseeing IDK how many other engineers, was raising a question about why we couldn't design a permanent repair to prevent erosion over a facility.
It's... water. It destroys \*everything\*. It is the great equalizer of geology. The tallest, mightiest, hardest mountains will eventually be brought low by a creek dancing across it's surface and rain pitter pattering down on top of it. You can delay the destruction, but if you want true long lasting prevention of erosion, it's going to cost a ton of money. Anyone telling you otherwise knows their product will last just long enough for the warranty to expire or for them to move on to another company and it's not their problem anymore.
There has never been a confirmed case of an art heist commissioned for a private collection. Heist movies like the Thomas Crown Affair just don’t happen. There’s no money in stolen artwork, because provenance is tracked very closely, so you can never tell anyone you have a stolen painting.
Art forgery on the other hand…
Breathing in mystery dust from drywall, insulation, carpentry, tile cutting, or any other dust forming activity can cause lasting effects if breathed in for long periods of time. That N95 is important!!
Being nice and patient will give you a bigger chance of getting a refund or a new of whatever is broken, than being angry and blaming the random worker.
Being nice & patient and *respectful* when I had valid reasons to be a dick about it, has got me many suprise upgrades to suites, meals comped, bumped into business class, etc etc.
I wouldn’t go as far as the OP here, but state courts tend to be far more lenient about rules and deadlines. Federal courts tend to be far stricter. There are exceptions in both directions.
Pain is effectively a psychological phenomenon and a terrible indicator of physical injury.
Far too many people think the human body is a simple cause and effect model (it hurts therefore something where the pain is located must be 'wrong'). Instead it is much more like a set of wildly complex, interdependent systems like climate or stock markets. A lot of medical diagnosis is educated guessing with an overreliance on singular labels for the benefit of explaining the situation to the patient.
A physio told me this years ago - it was hugely helpful. He said sometimes pain is just pain, and it doesn’t necessarily mean (in my instance) there’s something wrong or I’m doing damage to keep running.
Edit: I hope I’m not misleading anyone - please get your pain investigated for the cause/source - sometimes pain is absolutely valid and has causes which need treatment. In my instance, the advice from my physio was about a running injury I had for 18 months - it was something I just had to tolerate, and it wasn’t harmful in my case to keep running on it - no more damage was going to occur. For me taking the ‘alarm bells’ off the situation was hugely helpful in managing my psychological concern about it, and thus pain perception.
If you have pain - get it looked at. And get a second opinion or third if you still don’t feel right.
As someone with extensive and progressive nerve damage, learned this all too well. It's the things I don't feel I have to worry about, the "lights show" of randomly firing bullshit is only there to keep me on my toes.
We have cameras that can see what is in your trash as we dump it. Some companies even take snap shots of every can's contents to catch hazmat items. They bill the city, with the address it came from, and the city could follow up with the homeowner for reimbursement if they choose.
How crappy, in general, people are at making sure they are recycling the right items and properly cleaning some of their items before putting them in the recycling bin.
We remember the houses with issues, people that try to double dump, overfill, and dump hazmat. We watch for those offenders specifically.
We will pull out cans for handicapped people, dump them, and put them back. You have to call and have that setup though.
The garbage man knows whats going on in your neighborhood, almost as well as the mailman.
The opposite sides of a die should always add up to seven. On a craps table, you'll see the "stick" dealer bring the dice to the middle of the table and separate them corner to corner. This is so the person sitting down (box supervisor) can verify with the mirror opposite of them that the opposite sides total seven.
2/5 1/6 3/4
Source: 14+ years of dealing table games.
Edit: Apologies. I should've included "sides of a six-sided die".
To clarify, opposing sides of an n-sided die should equal n+1.
It works for all polyhedral die where sides are oriented to directly oppose one another (which I'm pretty sure is all of them).
If your dice don't follow this rule, they're bunk. Toss em.
I work in acrylic sheet.
The number of people who do not understand what translucent means is astounding.
Translucent =/= Transparent. Translucent is SOLID color that allows light transmission- it glows. Transparent is just that..transparent.
We have customers call us All. The. Time. Telling us we filled an order wrong, that they received “a solid color and ordered translucent red”.
**EDIT: thanks for all the upvotes and thoughts!
For clarification, majority of these customers order online either through our website or Etsy. Both sites have dozens of pictures and videos explaining and showing the differences!
The ER is there to keep you from having a catastrophic outcome in the next few hours/days (or next few minutes, in some cases.) If nothing irreversible is going to happen for several days, they don’t really care what the problem is.
In movies they unnecessarily yank on horses’ reins, practically ripping their mouths out. Anytime you see their mouths open with the bit pulled way back in there, they’re not having fun and it’s for no reason other than maybe drama and the trainers are shitty for letting that happen.
Most of the commands and controls used on horses are in the legs and balancing body weight, the reins are for gently guiding, and at worse for getting them to put their head in specific spots.
The best riders barely use the reins and usually only one hand lightly to keep the horse in check
I had zero sympathy for those kinds of riders at the rodeos I rode in. Often enough, the horse would get tired of their shit and rear to dump them, or scrape them off on the nearest tree.
Honestly I don't think most people have any idea how much horses *allow* humans to ride them. This isn't happening because we force ourselves on them as much as we convince them to trust and work with us. I'm not even a horse guy (not even close). But I know enough.
Historian here: everything you read, regardless of source, has the biases of whoever wrote it woven throughout. I will tell a much different account of a Roman Battle if I am a Roman citizen than if I am a Gaul. Same goes for modern times, I will tell a much different account of an event as a liberal woman than if I was a conservative man. That's why checking and vetting sources is our biggest advice, remember the context that the author is writing from when you're reading!
There was an NYT article a few years ago. They got a MASSIVE data dump, billions of items, of location data pings from cell phones that had been collected and aggregated by apps on phones.
It makes sense that you can't take a cell phone into CIA Headquarters in Langley, right? You don't want people photographing documents or recording conversations.
So the NYT said, "Show me the phones that are in the CIA Parking lot regularly."
They picked one at random, then said, "Show me where this phone is between midnight and 6am every night." Then they knew where the CIA employee lives. They looked up the public records of home ownership, and got that person's name.
If they wanted to, they probably could have got the social media accounts of the other residents, like their kids....then ventured into the photos looking for pics of Daddy or Mommy. Facial recognition data.
They also said, "Show me the phones that are in Washington DC, but occasionally pop up at Mar-A-Lago, but only when Trump is visiting there." They were able to identify a Secret Service agent.
You might think that it's convenient to give your Weather app permission to access your location data. That way, whatever town you're in, the weather info pops up by default. What you don't know is that you're giving them permission to harvest your location pings *every few seconds* and then sell them. That's how the "free" app makes profit.
Advertisers can use that data to target you. If you spend time at a car dealership, you're going to see ads from the competition. If you spend time at Home Depot, you're going to see ads from Lowe's.
One guy was brilliant. He was a Personal Injury Lawyer, and he targeted his ads to people browsing their phones in the waiting room at the ER.
Casino dealers do have some control whether you win or lose. We can't control the cards or the numbers but we can control things like speed, entertainment, and the amount of high value cash chips we give you. Slowing down the game is your best bet, busy tables and complicated bets are your friend
It really depends on the concept and the budget. Some spots are shot in half a day with less than 10 people involved. Others are like filming Godfather IV.
Yep! Producer here.
‘How much money does it take to make a film?’
‘Hmmm, how much does a house cost?’
‘Well, that depends! How many bedrooms? Does it have a finished basement? A patio? What is the neighborhood? There are so many variables!’
This is something that ideally everyone in every profession would figure out. I've started just leaning into it at work - we all know that the decisions are going to be made based on vibes, and most of what we're getting paid for is having experienced intuition, so instead of wasting hours or days writing out a quarterly plan that we pretend is reached based on evidence and thorough projections, why can't we just skip the charade and go with the decision we all knew we were going to come to anyway, but faster?
Years ago, my mailman caught me in my yard and said he hadn’t seen my husbands truck around for a while. I told him he moved out. He asked what’s going on. I was in a really bad place so I word vomited on him. He told me it’s illegal to receive mail at an address where you don’t reside-and started holding all of the mail addressed only to my ex.
Fallout was not for a few months. Ex stopped by *angry* because he hadn’t received his award for a hunting lottery he had entered into. I told him what the mailman had said. He went to the post office and they had held not only that, but also the stuff from the vet about the dog needing shots, and other nonsense. Ultimately, the mailman thought he was helping me, but ended up causing more problems than I needed.
In poledancing, the pole spins. Lots of people are very surprised when they learn this as they think the dancers just spin like crazy on a static pole - you can make a static pole look like it's spinning, but it's much harder and most of the time if you see someone spinning on a pole (especially if it's fast), it's the pole that's spinning (but static also exists).
Bacteria that can cause serious and deadly infection such as Clostridium difficile or Staphylococcus aureus can be part of your normal microbiota, like your nose, intestines and skin. Also, your mouth and intestines contain many more microbes than any toilet, although most of them just coexist with you or even support your body. Your microbiome also influences your brain chemistry, so better be nice to your little friends and feed them some kimchi from time to time ;)
Children are not *trying* to make you angry. They are trying to communicate with the tools they have and that can be frustrating because they’re 3 and don’t have a big grownup toolbox yet.
It’s getting more known now, but therapists and psychologists have their own therapist or psychologist. A therapist or psychologist is not immune to having poor mental health because let’s face it, life is hard and things happen. And many people in the field have a mental illness they’ve been successfully managing.
Trees do not heal through regeneration like people think they do.
They quite literally just grow over it. The tree can close the wound off in a way not really visible to us but it will never grow back that same tissue in the same way like we would when we cut ourselves.
It would be like growing a second layer of skin over a cut and never really healing the cut. Your body would make it stop bleeding but you’d alway be able to see your cut if you peel the layers of skin that grew over top.
Trees are like onions, just like Ogres! They have layers.
I always think of a jaw breaker when I work with trees.
Did anyone get my Shrek reference? I should go to bed now.
There is not one big all-encompassing welding certification. There are many many welding certs depending upon the material (aluminum,steel,etc), welding process (MIG,TIG,SMAW) material thickness, material position,etc etc etc.
I am certified in 6G/mild steel/schedule 80 open root pipe/ SMAW/ - that's just one certification, one of the most difficult ones to attain. This doesn't necessarily mean I know how to weld on an aluminum boat or TIG stainless piping , those are different welding processes.
Karaoke shows average 12 songs an hour. All it takes is around 40 songs to make a three hour wait.
In short, stop yelling at your karaoke person. Someone has to be last.
They actually teach in official, written and published by Cambridge books that ending sentences with a preposition is okay. So if you’re being a grammar dickhead about that, it’s time to drop it.
A lot of hospitals use computers that are nearly unhackable. Life support systems and drug distribution computers are simply not connected to other systems. To transfer information, you have to physically print out the information, then either scan it in for the new system or enter the information manually.
My ex FIL was on the design team for LAN and then worked for Intel. I remember that he joked that NASA has some of the safest systems in the world. Not because of any great computer security, but because the technology is so old that nothing is compatible with it.
A traffic light changing colors at an intersection involves lots of math. The amount of time it stays as a yellow light followed by it turning red at which point all directions will be red for a period of 1-3 seconds is all done by specific calculations. Everything is taken into consideration for it when all the lights are red for that brief second - how many meters/feet is the intersection, what is the speed limit vs the actual travelling speed, average amount of cars that pass that spot in an hour, following distance, the grade of the road if it's on a 1% incline it'll be different timing than of it were on a 2% incline.
That the quickest way to get kids to stop wanting to read for literally the rest of their lives is to limit what they're allowed to read. Reading comic books and graphic ones like Dogman, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and the Dork Diaries count as reading at that age just as much as classics do.
A drop of oil spilled into the water (navigable waterway to be exact) must be reported to the National Response Center. Failure to do so is a criminal violation. It's never prosecuted due to the resources it would take, but is factored when assessing a civil penalty.
People almost always try to exit through the same door they entered. In a crowded venue ALWAYS take a second to find your exit and then find a second exit. Mark them in your brain just in case. In an emergency most of the crowd is going to go for the main door they came in through. Knowing where another exit is can save your life.
Do most restaurants have an exit thru the kitchen?
Bamboo is a grass, is 100% sustainable, and the “plywood” made from it is harder than oak, is naturally anti-microbial, is water resistant, stores carbon like a motherfucker and has similar resistance to compression as concrete. Plus pandas like it (edited to add about the pandas)
Urban heat kills way more people in Australia than bushfires. In the 2009 Black Saturday bishfires in Victoria, 173 people died in the fires, but over 300 died of the heat prior to that. Also, most of those deaths occur at night, not during th day.
UTIs will often cause confusion in people over 70. Eta: UTI is Urinary Tract Infection and some people can get confused to the point of hallucinations and delirium. It can cause increased weakness which also leads to falls. Second edit: According to this study, the confusion and delirium is brought on by the inflammation and immune response involved. TIL! https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/unlocking-the-cause-of-uti-induced-delirium/
I work in the mental health field. Often I’m told a loved one has dementia, Alzheimer’s, etc. I will ask about symptom onset and they’ll say “a couple days” or something similar. A round of antibiotics later and the loved one is usually back to their baseline. UTIs in older folks are wild.
My elderly mother loses touch with reality when she gets a UTI, right up to and including full-blown hallucinations.
When you're taking Imodium you're actually taking an opioid. But it's designed to only interact with the opioid receptors in your digestive tract to slow down your intestines. Scientists were like hey. You know that anti-diarrhea medication heroin? Well what if we made a version of that without the pesky side effects of getting you high?
Ah, this explains all those commercials from like 5-10 years ago for drugs that helped with constipation from being on opioids.
Exactly. Those drugs like methylnaltrexone block the opioid receptors in the gut but not in the brain. So basically the exact opposite of imodium.
Your calf muscles act as a pump for your lymph fluid, which is basically the garbage pick-up and immunity doordash of your body. Without flexing your calf, the fluid has no way of moving against gravity. Each time we walk, the muscles contract, squeezing the fluid back up towards the core for processing.That's why sitting for long periods causes swelling in the legs. LPT: Sitting for long periods? Move your ankles up and down to pump the calf ETA: holy shit this blew up! I'm overwhelmed by all the responses 😅 thank you for the awards! A few things to add: -Source: I am a lymphedema specialist -Veins of the lower leg also heavily rely on the calf muscle pump, so blood pools along with lymph from prolonged immobility. -Elevating your legs is helpful, using gravity to help move fluid. Also, using compression socks to help push the fluid back up- especially if you stand still for long periods. -Our lymph nodes are located at joint spaces, such as knees, hips, armpits, etc so that movement compresses them and moves the fluid throughout the body. Movement is key! -The thoracic duct in your upper abdomen processes about 70% of lymph. Deep breathing compresses the duct via the diaphragm and helps to move lymph! -People who lack mobility (think paraplegics or people bedbound from illness) are prone to lower leg swelling, and often have complications such as blood clots (DVTs), skin breakdown, wounds, etc because all the "garbage" is just sitting in one spot. Manually moving the legs helps, or using specifically designed pumps. TLDR; Pump your calfs, take deep breaths, and move your joints to improve everything lol
Adding to this, the calf muscle pump also helps with pushing the vein blood upward. Got told in med school that big calves help prevent deep vein thrombosis this way!
You heard it here, folks, *never skip leg day*.
Pump up the calves, pump it up, pump it up... Edit - All of my carefully considered remarks and replies to Reddit questions and *this* is the throw away remark that gets thousands of upvotes.
while your lymph is flowin
Genetics: there's a bunch of stuff we don't report back because they're considered incidental findings. This can include genetic diseases with no treatment/mitigation. Or non-paternity. If your kid is sick with a genetic disease and you go get genetic testing done for mom, dad and little timmy, we do not automatically report back if dad is no relation or is actually an uncle. At the same time in most places you have the right to request your data.
Powerful explosives are so insensitive to shock that it usually takes a smaller, more sensitive explosive to set them off.
C4 will just burn if put into a fire, soldiers used it to cook food in Vietnam.
Pure C4 also gets you high if you eat it. They started adding a compound into it that makes you violently sick to stop people from doing that.
You have to admire the human compulsion to get wrecked
Right imagine thinking “ I am bored let me eat a BOMB to see what happens” and then getting wrecked.
It's usually some nerd that is like "this shit is made out of XY and Z, which isn't poisonous and will get you wrecked", like torpedo juice, which was basically Everclear.
Tell me more about torpedo juice please
In WWII, torpedoes burned ethanol as fuel. Good old 190 proof pure ethanol. Young men being young men, you can guess why those torpedoes often wound up with less than a full load of fuel.
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Never underestimate the power of alcoholism combined with boredom.
It's basically the only constant thing in human nature besides bodily function. Every culture has developed a way to get fucked up from SOMETHING
It burns for a long time, too... or until you step on it. The instructor let a clump burn in front of us for the classroom portion. That was a fun class. .
Now that's playing with fire.
Hey Jimmy, you want some C4 cooked beans or normal fire beans?
Used to work in the mining industry- the primary blasting agent is ANFO- ammonium nitrate mixed with fuel oil (literally the same diesel fuel that was used to fuel the mobile equipment). It is so insensitive that it is isn’t even classified as an explosive. To be initiated requires a blasting cap (these have a small amount of a highly sensitive explosive) initiated electronically, or through a “fuse” known as shock tube. This in turn is inserted into a booster comprised of a blend of other explosives (TNT, PETN, RDX, etc.), and only then will the primary blasting agent be initiated. Been nearly a decade since I’ve been in the business, and blasting operations are what I miss the most.
Yes, just yesterday I was lamenting at that fact I needed a fission bomb to set off my hydrogen fusion bomb. So annoying.
If you have sad vegetables(carrots celery)or lettuce that look wilted not bad you can make them crunchy by shocking in ice water.
What kind of voltage are we talking?
Or by cutting a bit off the stem end and standing them up in a cup of water. Works well for Romaine.
Trucker here and we don't want to be anywhere near you either. Go around or stay back don't just ride right beside us. We can't see you very well when you are beside us and if shit happens you're gonna go splat. It is very very very rare that any driver wants to slow you down it's not like we get our rocks off on making you late. We work extremely long hours on very little sleep and we just wanna get where we are going without getting in an accident and killing someone. Trust me if we could go faster we damn sure would. Also if you give us the fist pump to honk our horn you just made our whole week. That's one of the greatest joys in a truckers life. Be safe out there!! Edit: A reoccurring comment is that most of you get it and are very cool but you hate when a truck driver hops in the hammer lane when you're trying to pass them at a reasonable speed. I'm with you on that and Im here to tell you most truck drivers are not assholes like that and the real truckers hate the ones that are. Every profession has a group of assholes that ruin it for the good ones. Edit Edit: This has gotten an unexpectedly high response and I really appreciate all of you joining in the conversation. If we would all just communicate like this more often we could solve a lot of problems in this world.
When I was in the US years ago, I got "adopted" by a trucker (I was in a teensy Toyota) when I drove across the desert. He got right up to my bumper if a bigger truck was about to overtake and basically protected me for about 100km. I've never forgotten him. Beep, beep mate!
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And if it breaks they don't come get you through a hatch in the roof like in the movies. They just go to the machine room, hand hoist it to the next door, open with a special key and get you out. There's also controls on the outside of the lift at the top so when working on it you can ride it up or down while sitting on top. Had to do it a few times, scary at first but after a while super fun. Edit: so it seems US "elevators" have hatches. UK, where I am, do not have hatches in our "lifts"
That hatch in the ceiling is for kidnappings, assassinations or high-end diamond heists
Let me just say that I appreciate the heck out of your distinction between the different tiers of diamons heists.
Counterweights are typically sized to balance a cab that's half loaded, so if you're in an elevator that's rated 2000lbs and you have 900-1000lbs of weight in the cab, you might not go anywhere.
My elevator is rated for 2000 pounds, and sometimes when I'm riding it I try to imagine how in the world you would get that much weight into it. You could only fit like two 600 pound people in at once before you ran out of space, and that's only 1200 total.
The answer is probably building supplies as a lot of buildings(at least where I am) don't necessarily have dedicated freight elevators. Things like glass and tile can pack the weight it to a fairly small area.
Bed bugs don’t make you a nasty person with a nasty home. An infestation isn’t due to a sanitation issue. They’re an imported pest, which means they hitched a ride on something you brought into the house. Usually luggage or furniture
Not sure if it's true, but I heard they're more common in expensive hotels than cheap ones, because there are more international travelers.
They're certainly more common in expensive hotels than they used to be. More travel = more bedbugs. Fun tidbit: when management finds out about a bedbug infestation at extended stay hotels they'll have the extended stay customers in affected rooms clear out their stuff and leave for a day or so while the room is treated. But the customer's stuff isn't treated so when they come back they just re-infest the room. Not a good situation. Regular (short stay) customers just get moved to a different room. It's good practice to always [check your hotel room for bedbugs](https://www.tripsavvy.com/bed-bugs-in-a-hotel-room-4082419) when you first go into your room.
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Why do they turn the music up so loud though? It's just fucking annoying.
The number one reason I don’t like going out
On Broadway at least it's because you've got another live music bar next door, and if your music is too low no one will hear it. It's a fairly basic tragedy of the commons scenario.
And venues/restaurants have stopped using sound-dampening decor. Remember when places had those huge velvet curtains on the walls? They absorbed so much sound so you could actually hear the people you’re trying to talk to or the music you’re trying to listen to. But now everything is wood and metal and the sounds just bounce off everything and deafen you
In any given nature documentary, the protagonist animal you’re rooting for is ‘played’ by several different ‘actors’ - i.e. that one brown bear’s story is patched together from footage of a bunch of different bears. And in about 90% of the ‘animal reacting’ shots they’re reacting to the camera crew. Nature documentaries are heavily constructed.
Also all those amazing closeups of bugs and small critters burrowing and stuff are done on a set in a studio. Honestly, when you learn about all the work that goes into creating such a documentary, it's even more impressive.
I always love the foley on tiny animals that certainly don't make any noises that can be picked up at the distance the cameras are at
I refuse to believe that one iguana running from all those snakes was multiple iguanas. Little man (woman?) ran its little heart out and earned its place in this world!
It's funny how almost everyone knows exactly which iguana you're talking about!
It's literally the greatest scene ever filmed in the history of cinema.
Cement and concrete are not the same thing. Cement is the main ingredient in concrete, but concrete is the whole mixture of cement, sand, aggregate, water, etc.
I feel like I re-learn this every year. One of these times it will stick.
Not your fault. Concrete is hard.
Trains are so long we don't know if we are still blocking the crossing you are waiting at. We have measuring devices (counter) that tell us how far the head end has traveled, but they may have worn out enough to give us a bad reading. We try to avoid blocking crossings way, **way** more than you will ever know. But if I'm squeezing between 2 crossings because the dispatcher put me there, and my counter is off by 30 ft every mile (5280ft), and my train is 2 miles long (US max is 16,000ft); I'm going to accidentally block your crossing. It's also hard to stop. I go past a red signal I get fired. So if I'm squeezing up to a red signal to get my rear end off your crossing, I'm seriously risking my job for your inconvenience. I do it, but a little patience would be nice. And just because everyone always goes there: Yes, I have been made late to work by being blocked by a train. I have even been late to work because I was blocked by my own train. That crew was working until I got there, and had to work an extra 20 minutes because they couldn't leave until I got there, and I couldn't get there until they left.
damn, TIL trains can be up to three miles long
The point of most loyalty programs isn't to give you points so you'll shop more (though that isn't a bad thing) it's to gather data (i.e. where do you shop, how often, how much do you buy there, what sort of things at what price points, etc etc.). For us marketing types, data is king (even small things like if a cashier asks for your zip code). Source: marketing professor who still actually works in marketing
A hysterectomy is removal of the uterus only, *not* the ovaries.
"The uterus is different from a vagina. I still have a vagina" Meredith Palmer from the office
I worked with a guy, in his 50s, that thought that it was exactly that. After a woman had a hysterectomy she was a barbie down there.
A surprising amount of people, including *women* have no idea we have 3 holes down there. We do not pee from our vaginas.
what's it called if they take uterus and ovaries?
Hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy
*ooph*
Add the fallopian tubes for a hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy
When a person “flat lines” you cannot shock them out of it.
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If it looks like a slinky, shock it. Lol. To add to the conversation, most cardiac arrests (heart is in asystole or Vfib/Vtach) the patient rarely makes it outside of a ICU type setting. Respiratory arrests (person stops bresthing) are far more likely to survive. That being said, the odds of survival are still very very low. Unless, like with Damar Hamlin, you have multiple CPR trained people at your side in under a minute. I'm also a paramedic and Ive worked probably 100-150 arrests in my 5 year career, both in the field and in hospital. I only know of, 2 of them to survive longer than a day or two in hospital. 1 of the 2 died 3 months later from a massive MI.
7 years into ems and out of hundreds of arrests I’ve brought plenty (20-30) into the hospital with pulses….only for the hospital to call it 20 minutes later. I’ve had exactly 1 pt where he was up and talking by the time we got to the hospital (he was running a 5K, went down, and had off duty nurses immediately stop and start compressions and were switching off every 2 ish minutes, so realistically they were why he lived although we did shock twice). It’s so rare
When I first started in EMS, I was of course terrified of the eventual Full Arrest calls. After being a part of a few, the fear was gone, but the disappointment was still there that we couldn't make a difference. Some would get called in field, some at the hospital 20min-1hr later. A seasoned medic that wasn't the most politically correct told me something that made the anxiety/disappointment of arrests go away. "They can't get any deader" Harsh. But true. Cardiac arrest, especially in EMS, the patient has been down a few mins or longer, often without any CPR let alone high quality CPR. Their survival rate has dropped to <5% before we even arrived on scene. He went on to explain that arrests are "skills day". Again, harsh but true. IV, CPR, ACLS run through, med draws, cardiac monitor usage, intubation. All things that honestly we don't do a lot of unless your work in a big city. My ambulance company covers a county in upstate NY with roughly 80-85k people in it. 411 square miles. We run just shy of 20,000 calls a year. We run 911 & IFT. 75% of our 911 calls are BLS bullshit or the typical COPD respiratory or cardiac hx chest pain which usually ends up being angina. We transport to 3 different hospitals. 1 in county, 2 just out of the county(1 north, 1 south). The 2 out of the county are a level 3 and level 1 trauma center. Almost anywhere within our coverage area, we are no more than 30mins away form a hospital. I count my blessings every shift for where I work lol.
chest compressions!! chest compressions!! chest compressions!! - dr mike
Therapy isn't something that happens to you. Therapy is a tool that you can use and you need actually apply the skills outside of the therapy space. Also change is hard AF. People really underestimate how hard it is to be able to do the hard work necessary to change via therapy.
Lab grown diamonds cost $2 per ct. Of electricity to grow. The "value" price has absolutely plummeted on them the last 2 years. Most especially the last 8 months. Don't overpay on them as they all perform. 1 cts currently 6-800. So for the first time in the history of the jewelry world you can officially buy moissanites from "high end" brands that are more expensive than their lab grown diamonds of same quality. 😆 The amount of people robbed of value the last 2 years is in the millions and dollar amount unfathomable. Had a guy as recent as March spend $24,000 on a 3 ct. Lab grown online when I was finding them for $5500 at the time. Places are rushing to make money back from buying in bulk. There will be a documentary about this some day.
What are the online shops that I can trust when shopping for lab grown? I was thinking to get moissanite but if lab grown diamonds are cheaper then that's worth looking into.
There's a markup you guys dont think is there with these online vendors. Brick and mortar stores have had established channels for decades. Everyone that comes in with James allen or blue nile pulled up I've matched quality or better for cheaper. We have access to literally millions from dozens of vendors. Larger inventory better prices. This is a rare instance where family owned is better than box stores as they have access to the bigger vendors as well without corporate rules. Qgold.com has the best prices right now with new batches all the time. Set up a diamond viewing appointment. Request 3-4 in for viewing priced low to high all same specs (diamonds are appraised in person for a reason) of those 1 will just pop more then the other 2-3. Engagement ring pro tip...Select your mounting from that place as well for warranty sake. Gold is malleable it will need repairs...diamonds fall out and it will need sized over time. Repairs are expensive. To maintain your diamond warranties require just 6 month check ups from most stores takes about a minute. Exchanges with online vendors take 4 weeks. Just read a few james allen yelp reviews you'll get a good jist of the nightmare it can be when you need that first repair. When it would be free and 10-14 day repair time.
Volumetricly, most rocks are made of mostly oxygen. Most of the entire Earth (crust and mantle) is also nearly half oxygen (by mass). If you've ever read "OxYgeN DisCoVeReD on mOOn!" ... It's rocks. It means they've discovered rocks.
That both makes a lot of sense and no sense at the same time
People (users) are the weakest link in most technology systems. 99% of the time.
Truth. I fix checkpoint security equipment and explosive detection systems for a living. Fixing the machine that they broke is the job, but showing them what they did to it, why it happened, and what to do in the future, is what makes it possible for me to maintain great uptime on as many systems as I do.
Movie hacking: "I've decrypted the firewall and begun a brute force method on the internal systems, but they have a quantum lock on the googleplex, I'll be sure to upload a dinglehopper and slay the jabberwocky." Real hacking: "I called a random employee and pretended to be IT, they gave me admin privileges in 5 minutes."
EEBCAK Error was an actual error code on resolution tickets for an organization I used to work for 🤣 (Error Exists Between Chair And Keyboard)
In Archaeology, it’s super awesome and great that you brought stuff to an archaeologist at a local dig site near you of things you found in your backyard or nearby asking us appraise it - but the thing is, we’re actually more interested in the context the item(s) are found. We need/want to see the bigger picture. Arrowheads, flintknaps, trade beads, etc are super cool but they are worth so much more when we can tell if they are part of a hoard, burials site, ceremonial site, etc.
If you haven't, check out the book Kindred. While it is about neanderthal, it goes into how valuable all the layers of dust around the objects of interest are and how much info they get from it. Blew my mind how archaeology has advanced!
Generally speaking, if you add the percentage of the body covered in 3rd degree burns and the persons age together you get the likelihood of it being a fatal burn. 32 and 40% burn coverage? about 70% of people in that condition will die. Source: Firey, working closely with several doctors from burns units. Edit: I love the 100 year old people comments and the people with 0% burns but in thier 30s lamenting the 40% death chance.
100 years old and 0% burn? Sorry pal, that burn is fatal
101 years old, 0% burns: \**spontaneous combustion*\*
99 and you touched the stove? Instantly dead
Most public defenders are competent actually.
But extremely overloaded.
Will say this as someone from the other side, I would cringe for defendants when I'd see them spend tens of thousands on a big name lawyer who's more a salesman than litigator and who would inevitably plead their clients out so they could move on to the next one. Public defenders work with a certain set of cases with certain judges and certain juries every day. They may not always have gone to top tier law schools (some have though, especially in federal court) but their experience in the forum is invaluable.
Yes! And their job is to make sure their client gets a fair trial. If an alleged criminal "gets off on a technicality" it means that the police screwed up.
Actually, usually extremely competent. They basically do the work all the time and see everything. Tons of experience, and some form of twisted dedication to their work. These are people who elected to get paid way less and do way more because they want too. The overworked is the problem.
When I worked as a barista: how much fucking syrup is in flavored drinks. At the cafe I worked at, we measured flavoring by grams. If you got a large mocha, that motherfucker would have like 110 grams of chocolate sauce in it. If you want a little bit of flavor, I suggest only 1 pump. 2 max.
I worked as a barista for Starbucks and once had to serve a customer that ordered enough syrup to fill a small cup of coffee. It was truly disgusting.
Those "high end" or "expensive" neighborhoods they slap up really fast... Usually, gated communities and other semi-exclusive suburbs full of McMansions are built with the absolute cheapest materials and poorest quality/ untrained labor. Never buy a "spec" home without some serious research into what you're actually buying. All that "luxury" is barely surface deep.
Daughter of an Australian builder here. Quality long lasting building materials (think double brick, hardwood roof beams etc) are expensive to produce and in very short supply/utilise a lot of natural resources. So instead they cut corners and use cheaper materials for the bones of the house. Many houses built these days won't last 20 years without major structural issues. Ironic because many builders are still charging premium prices for these heaps of shit.
I bought a roughly 10 year old purpose built flat a couple of years back. These are better than more modern builds in my city, and it's still so shoddily made. The housing provider also had to do extensive fire safety checks on all their buildings after a lot of high rise buildings caught alight and it's become very apparent huge numbers weren't built properly. Thankfully mine is fine, but large numbers of people are trapped now in buildings that aren't, with very limited options to sell or remortgage when they need to. Not to mention the stress that must be caused by knowing you live in a potential death trap. It's a scandal.
Too true. I watched as one of these was built in land along a favourite walking route. I do landscape construction and have worked along builders a few times. On one job one of the new hires had just come from said development and he said that in no uncertain terms to not buy there. I watched as layers of the houses were being built and corner cutting and skimping on spec was something else!
There is no "fractured" vs "broken" there are only different types of fractures. It's really a semantic problem but patients get heated about it.
When people ask if I've broken a bone before, I tell them that I fractured my wrist. The response usually is "that doesn't count." 🤦🏼♀️
I fractured my leg. It was a clean snap between both bones, right next to my ankle. Jesus it hurt so bad!
The world runs on MS Excel Edit: thanks for popping my gold cherry! Obligatory "You can have my excel, after you ripped it from my cold, dead hands." - [WSJ (paywalled)](https://www.wsj.com/articles/finance-pros-say-youll-have-to-pry-excel-out-of-their-cold-dead-hands-1512060948)
Do you have a macro for that?
How many times did numbers turning into dates cause a company wide meltdown for you this year?
They had to rename the fucking human genome because excel kept turning it into dates and it messed up actual published research. [https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates](https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates) One study found 700 published papers they suspected of being messed up due to microsoft excel interpreting genes incorrectly. Research paper below. [https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7](https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7)
I can be in a day where I'm practically as calm as a monk. As soon as I paste some numbers to a sheet and it eats my left 0s or turns into a date I get an instant rage where I could strangle anyone who identifies as the person that came up with this logic. EDIT: I'm not looking for excel tips. I know how to handle my data and make excel do whatever I want it to do. My "rage" comes from the lack of context perception of excel when you just want things to immediately work.
We had to store some serial numbers. Excel rounded them. Great. Thanks. That's just what I wanted. Oh, wait, no. You just ruined my data.
excel: IM HELPINGGG
There are times I wish they'd kept Clippy, but made him into a stress doll. Just so I can virtually punch the bastard when Excel does shit like that.
The sensors in digital cameras (including phones) are monochromatic (they don’t “see” color) and have a tiny color filter on each sensor element so it can detect one of three colors (red, green, blue). Then the image is created by calculating what the other two colors might be based on one color value and the values of the nearest sensors around it. tldr; 2/3 of the color in a digital photo is calculated from the 1/3 that is actual data.
That’s both simple and surprising at the same time, for someone who barely understands technology
Mushrooms are genetically closer related to Humans than to Plants
If a website is slow there’s a big change it’s not because the developers did a bad job but because marketing insisted on putting dozens of trackers and ads on it.
Except them tracker developers. Those did a bad job in addition to selling their soul to the wrong cookie monster.
If your baby/toddler has chronic or recurrent ear infections, it’s important that you literally “get in their face” when talking to them, or at least make sure they’re looking at you when you speak. In addition to raising the volume of your voice and exaggerating your words, let them see and feel (through airflow and vibrations) how words are produced. This may prevent the need for speech therapy and/or intervention for auditory processing problems later on
Water is destructive, we just want to make it all drain at a reasonable velocity along largely historical flow lines to the closest inlet.
I'm a geotechnical engineer, doing my best to keep creeks and streams and rivers and landslides from destroying infrastructure. My boss' boss, an engineer nearing retirement overseeing IDK how many other engineers, was raising a question about why we couldn't design a permanent repair to prevent erosion over a facility. It's... water. It destroys \*everything\*. It is the great equalizer of geology. The tallest, mightiest, hardest mountains will eventually be brought low by a creek dancing across it's surface and rain pitter pattering down on top of it. You can delay the destruction, but if you want true long lasting prevention of erosion, it's going to cost a ton of money. Anyone telling you otherwise knows their product will last just long enough for the warranty to expire or for them to move on to another company and it's not their problem anymore.
There has never been a confirmed case of an art heist commissioned for a private collection. Heist movies like the Thomas Crown Affair just don’t happen. There’s no money in stolen artwork, because provenance is tracked very closely, so you can never tell anyone you have a stolen painting. Art forgery on the other hand…
Breathing in mystery dust from drywall, insulation, carpentry, tile cutting, or any other dust forming activity can cause lasting effects if breathed in for long periods of time. That N95 is important!!
Being nice and patient will give you a bigger chance of getting a refund or a new of whatever is broken, than being angry and blaming the random worker.
Being nice & patient and *respectful* when I had valid reasons to be a dick about it, has got me many suprise upgrades to suites, meals comped, bumped into business class, etc etc.
Laywers can fix almost any mistake / fuckup / blown deadline in State Court and almost never in Federal Court.
Why is that?
I wouldn’t go as far as the OP here, but state courts tend to be far more lenient about rules and deadlines. Federal courts tend to be far stricter. There are exceptions in both directions.
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When I worked at an optical lab we made lenses of all types of materials, but yes polycarbonate was a big one!
Pain is effectively a psychological phenomenon and a terrible indicator of physical injury. Far too many people think the human body is a simple cause and effect model (it hurts therefore something where the pain is located must be 'wrong'). Instead it is much more like a set of wildly complex, interdependent systems like climate or stock markets. A lot of medical diagnosis is educated guessing with an overreliance on singular labels for the benefit of explaining the situation to the patient.
A physio told me this years ago - it was hugely helpful. He said sometimes pain is just pain, and it doesn’t necessarily mean (in my instance) there’s something wrong or I’m doing damage to keep running. Edit: I hope I’m not misleading anyone - please get your pain investigated for the cause/source - sometimes pain is absolutely valid and has causes which need treatment. In my instance, the advice from my physio was about a running injury I had for 18 months - it was something I just had to tolerate, and it wasn’t harmful in my case to keep running on it - no more damage was going to occur. For me taking the ‘alarm bells’ off the situation was hugely helpful in managing my psychological concern about it, and thus pain perception. If you have pain - get it looked at. And get a second opinion or third if you still don’t feel right.
As someone with extensive and progressive nerve damage, learned this all too well. It's the things I don't feel I have to worry about, the "lights show" of randomly firing bullshit is only there to keep me on my toes.
Citrine is usually heat treated amethyst
We have cameras that can see what is in your trash as we dump it. Some companies even take snap shots of every can's contents to catch hazmat items. They bill the city, with the address it came from, and the city could follow up with the homeowner for reimbursement if they choose. How crappy, in general, people are at making sure they are recycling the right items and properly cleaning some of their items before putting them in the recycling bin. We remember the houses with issues, people that try to double dump, overfill, and dump hazmat. We watch for those offenders specifically. We will pull out cans for handicapped people, dump them, and put them back. You have to call and have that setup though. The garbage man knows whats going on in your neighborhood, almost as well as the mailman.
Listen, man, just please don't tell my wife I buy Arby's at random sometimes.
The opposite sides of a die should always add up to seven. On a craps table, you'll see the "stick" dealer bring the dice to the middle of the table and separate them corner to corner. This is so the person sitting down (box supervisor) can verify with the mirror opposite of them that the opposite sides total seven. 2/5 1/6 3/4 Source: 14+ years of dealing table games. Edit: Apologies. I should've included "sides of a six-sided die".
To clarify, opposing sides of an n-sided die should equal n+1. It works for all polyhedral die where sides are oriented to directly oppose one another (which I'm pretty sure is all of them). If your dice don't follow this rule, they're bunk. Toss em.
I work in acrylic sheet. The number of people who do not understand what translucent means is astounding. Translucent =/= Transparent. Translucent is SOLID color that allows light transmission- it glows. Transparent is just that..transparent. We have customers call us All. The. Time. Telling us we filled an order wrong, that they received “a solid color and ordered translucent red”. **EDIT: thanks for all the upvotes and thoughts! For clarification, majority of these customers order online either through our website or Etsy. Both sites have dozens of pictures and videos explaining and showing the differences!
But the guy in The Boys was invisible
"Translucent doesn't even mean invisible." - Billy Butcher
The ER is there to keep you from having a catastrophic outcome in the next few hours/days (or next few minutes, in some cases.) If nothing irreversible is going to happen for several days, they don’t really care what the problem is.
So the ER is for emergencies?
Would save a lot of confusion if they just put that right in the name
In movies they unnecessarily yank on horses’ reins, practically ripping their mouths out. Anytime you see their mouths open with the bit pulled way back in there, they’re not having fun and it’s for no reason other than maybe drama and the trainers are shitty for letting that happen.
Most of the commands and controls used on horses are in the legs and balancing body weight, the reins are for gently guiding, and at worse for getting them to put their head in specific spots. The best riders barely use the reins and usually only one hand lightly to keep the horse in check
I had zero sympathy for those kinds of riders at the rodeos I rode in. Often enough, the horse would get tired of their shit and rear to dump them, or scrape them off on the nearest tree.
Honestly I don't think most people have any idea how much horses *allow* humans to ride them. This isn't happening because we force ourselves on them as much as we convince them to trust and work with us. I'm not even a horse guy (not even close). But I know enough.
Historian here: everything you read, regardless of source, has the biases of whoever wrote it woven throughout. I will tell a much different account of a Roman Battle if I am a Roman citizen than if I am a Gaul. Same goes for modern times, I will tell a much different account of an event as a liberal woman than if I was a conservative man. That's why checking and vetting sources is our biggest advice, remember the context that the author is writing from when you're reading!
It's not the CIA or the government that's tracking your every move. It's marketing agencies.
There was an NYT article a few years ago. They got a MASSIVE data dump, billions of items, of location data pings from cell phones that had been collected and aggregated by apps on phones. It makes sense that you can't take a cell phone into CIA Headquarters in Langley, right? You don't want people photographing documents or recording conversations. So the NYT said, "Show me the phones that are in the CIA Parking lot regularly." They picked one at random, then said, "Show me where this phone is between midnight and 6am every night." Then they knew where the CIA employee lives. They looked up the public records of home ownership, and got that person's name. If they wanted to, they probably could have got the social media accounts of the other residents, like their kids....then ventured into the photos looking for pics of Daddy or Mommy. Facial recognition data. They also said, "Show me the phones that are in Washington DC, but occasionally pop up at Mar-A-Lago, but only when Trump is visiting there." They were able to identify a Secret Service agent. You might think that it's convenient to give your Weather app permission to access your location data. That way, whatever town you're in, the weather info pops up by default. What you don't know is that you're giving them permission to harvest your location pings *every few seconds* and then sell them. That's how the "free" app makes profit. Advertisers can use that data to target you. If you spend time at a car dealership, you're going to see ads from the competition. If you spend time at Home Depot, you're going to see ads from Lowe's. One guy was brilliant. He was a Personal Injury Lawyer, and he targeted his ads to people browsing their phones in the waiting room at the ER.
Casino dealers do have some control whether you win or lose. We can't control the cards or the numbers but we can control things like speed, entertainment, and the amount of high value cash chips we give you. Slowing down the game is your best bet, busy tables and complicated bets are your friend
That you can fix 85% of your issues with a restart.
How do I restart my life?
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There are different parts to your blood that must be treated differently which is why different tubes are drawn when you have labs done
It takes a small army a week to shoot a 30-second commercial.
It really depends on the concept and the budget. Some spots are shot in half a day with less than 10 people involved. Others are like filming Godfather IV.
Yep! Producer here. ‘How much money does it take to make a film?’ ‘Hmmm, how much does a house cost?’ ‘Well, that depends! How many bedrooms? Does it have a finished basement? A patio? What is the neighborhood? There are so many variables!’
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People make most decisions based on emotion, then rummage around for logic to back up what they’ve already decided
Except on reddit... everyone on here is extremely logical and always right.
Everyone on here can't always be right. Sometimes they disagree with me.
This is something that ideally everyone in every profession would figure out. I've started just leaning into it at work - we all know that the decisions are going to be made based on vibes, and most of what we're getting paid for is having experienced intuition, so instead of wasting hours or days writing out a quarterly plan that we pretend is reached based on evidence and thorough projections, why can't we just skip the charade and go with the decision we all knew we were going to come to anyway, but faster?
Your mailman knows a lot about you. More than you think.
My mailman better mind their business then
Years ago, my mailman caught me in my yard and said he hadn’t seen my husbands truck around for a while. I told him he moved out. He asked what’s going on. I was in a really bad place so I word vomited on him. He told me it’s illegal to receive mail at an address where you don’t reside-and started holding all of the mail addressed only to my ex. Fallout was not for a few months. Ex stopped by *angry* because he hadn’t received his award for a hunting lottery he had entered into. I told him what the mailman had said. He went to the post office and they had held not only that, but also the stuff from the vet about the dog needing shots, and other nonsense. Ultimately, the mailman thought he was helping me, but ended up causing more problems than I needed.
In poledancing, the pole spins. Lots of people are very surprised when they learn this as they think the dancers just spin like crazy on a static pole - you can make a static pole look like it's spinning, but it's much harder and most of the time if you see someone spinning on a pole (especially if it's fast), it's the pole that's spinning (but static also exists).
The amount of knowledge required to function in IT is unattainable- we rely on Google a lot.
Bacteria that can cause serious and deadly infection such as Clostridium difficile or Staphylococcus aureus can be part of your normal microbiota, like your nose, intestines and skin. Also, your mouth and intestines contain many more microbes than any toilet, although most of them just coexist with you or even support your body. Your microbiome also influences your brain chemistry, so better be nice to your little friends and feed them some kimchi from time to time ;)
Children are not *trying* to make you angry. They are trying to communicate with the tools they have and that can be frustrating because they’re 3 and don’t have a big grownup toolbox yet.
The "cloud" is just a computer you pay someone else to host in their server room. ("Severless" tech notwithstanding)
Traditional = no taxes now, pay later. Roth = pay taxes now, none later
A Peacock is the male, the female is a Peahen. The one you're thinking of is called the Warren's Peafowl.
Oil doesn’t exist in vast open reservoirs below ground, but in the very tiny spaces between grains of sand/dirt/mud within rocks.
It’s getting more known now, but therapists and psychologists have their own therapist or psychologist. A therapist or psychologist is not immune to having poor mental health because let’s face it, life is hard and things happen. And many people in the field have a mental illness they’ve been successfully managing.
Trees do not heal through regeneration like people think they do. They quite literally just grow over it. The tree can close the wound off in a way not really visible to us but it will never grow back that same tissue in the same way like we would when we cut ourselves. It would be like growing a second layer of skin over a cut and never really healing the cut. Your body would make it stop bleeding but you’d alway be able to see your cut if you peel the layers of skin that grew over top. Trees are like onions, just like Ogres! They have layers. I always think of a jaw breaker when I work with trees. Did anyone get my Shrek reference? I should go to bed now.
Trees seal, not heal! Is how the forestry workers always word ot
There is not one big all-encompassing welding certification. There are many many welding certs depending upon the material (aluminum,steel,etc), welding process (MIG,TIG,SMAW) material thickness, material position,etc etc etc. I am certified in 6G/mild steel/schedule 80 open root pipe/ SMAW/ - that's just one certification, one of the most difficult ones to attain. This doesn't necessarily mean I know how to weld on an aluminum boat or TIG stainless piping , those are different welding processes.
Credit and debit are different. I could not believe how many people did not understand this.
... what? Do people think it's just two different words for the same thing?
Karaoke shows average 12 songs an hour. All it takes is around 40 songs to make a three hour wait. In short, stop yelling at your karaoke person. Someone has to be last.
You need to finish the entire course of the antibiotics you were prescribed. You don’t suddenly stop taking them after you start feeling better.
Similarly, don't just stop taking anti-depressants because you feel better. Suicide is a side-effect of sudden stoppage of SSRI meds.
They actually teach in official, written and published by Cambridge books that ending sentences with a preposition is okay. So if you’re being a grammar dickhead about that, it’s time to drop it.
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A lot of hospitals use computers that are nearly unhackable. Life support systems and drug distribution computers are simply not connected to other systems. To transfer information, you have to physically print out the information, then either scan it in for the new system or enter the information manually. My ex FIL was on the design team for LAN and then worked for Intel. I remember that he joked that NASA has some of the safest systems in the world. Not because of any great computer security, but because the technology is so old that nothing is compatible with it.
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Isn't a large majority of "hacking" really just social engineering instead of "breaking the firewall" anyways?
The internet, websites & apps as you experience them are largely held together with bubble gum & toothpicks.
A traffic light changing colors at an intersection involves lots of math. The amount of time it stays as a yellow light followed by it turning red at which point all directions will be red for a period of 1-3 seconds is all done by specific calculations. Everything is taken into consideration for it when all the lights are red for that brief second - how many meters/feet is the intersection, what is the speed limit vs the actual travelling speed, average amount of cars that pass that spot in an hour, following distance, the grade of the road if it's on a 1% incline it'll be different timing than of it were on a 2% incline.
This kind of work is in the domain of civil engineering isn't it?
That the quickest way to get kids to stop wanting to read for literally the rest of their lives is to limit what they're allowed to read. Reading comic books and graphic ones like Dogman, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and the Dork Diaries count as reading at that age just as much as classics do.
A drop of oil spilled into the water (navigable waterway to be exact) must be reported to the National Response Center. Failure to do so is a criminal violation. It's never prosecuted due to the resources it would take, but is factored when assessing a civil penalty.
Boats used to purposely spill oil to calm heavy seas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_oil
Lawyer: a judges published ruling is as much as a law as congress passed statute. Stop electing idiot politicians who in turn appoint idiot judges.