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When you are alone and have a heart attack. What are you gonna do then?

Take a 2 minute break and read this:

Let’s say it’s 5:25 pm and you’re driving home after an unusually hard day’s work.

You are really tired and frustrated. All of a sudden your chest pains. They are starting to radiate in the arm and jaw. It feels like being stabbed in the chest and heart. You’re only a few miles away from the nearest hospital or home.

Unfortunately you don’t know if you can make it..

Maybe you’ve taken CPR training, but the person running the course hasn’t told you how to help yourself.

How do you survive a heart attack when you’re alone when it happens? A person who is feeling weak and whose heart is beating hard has only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness.

1. But you can help yourself by coughing repeatedly and very strongly! Deep breaths before every cough. Coughing should be repeated every second until you arrive at the hospital or until your heart starts to beat normally.

2. Deep breathing gives oxygen to your lungs and coughing movements boost the heart and blood circulation. Heart pressure also helps to restore a normal heartbeat. Here’s how cardiac arrest victims can make it to the hospital for the right treatment

3. Cardiologists say if someone gets this message and passes it on to 10 people, we can expect to save at least one life.

4. FOR WOMEN: You should know that women have additional and different symptoms. Rarely have crushing chest pain or pain in the arms. Often have indigestion and tightness across the back at the bra line plus sudden fatigue.

davidkendall

Reblogging this, because it is helpful information, BUT, with a couple of additions and caveats. First, this:

Rhythmically coughing during a heart attack increases your chances of surviving it?

And then this:

As if the thought of having a heart attack isn't worrisome enough, what would happen if you had one while all alone? Thankfully, it is quite

And yes, as you get older, these are things you actually start thinking about, and worrying about, so I always try to stay informed.

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Important for younger people too!! I was in my 30’s, sitting in a waiting room, feeling sorry for myself because I was the youngest person at the cardiologist’s. Then a kid who couldn’t have been more than 16 walked in….

One of the most dangerous mistakes people make about their health is believing that a health problem doesn’t happen to people “their age”.

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Note to vacationing non-Americans: while it’s true that America doesn’t always have the best food culture, the food in our restaurants is really not representative of what most of us eat at home. The portions at Cheesecake Factory or IHOP are meant to be indulgent, not just “what Americans are used to.”

If you eat at a regular American household, during a regular meal where they’re not going out of their way to impress guests, you probably will not be served twelve pounds of chocolate-covered cream cheese. Please bear this in mind before writing yet another “omg I can’t believe American food” post.

briarpatchfinn

Also, most American restaurant portions are 100% intended as two meals’ worth of food. Some of my older Irish relatives still struggle with the idea that it’s not just not rude to eat half your meal and take the rest home, it’s expected. (Apparently this is somewhat of an American custom.)

xenoqueer

Until you’re hitting the “fancy restaurant” tier (the kind of place you go for a celebration or an anniversary date), a dinner out should generally also be lunch for the next day. Leftovers are very much the norm.

From the little time I’ve spent in Canada, this seems to be the case up there as well.

jumpingjacktrash

the portions in family restaurants (as opposed to haute cuisine types) are designed so that no one goes away hungry.

volume IS very much a part of the american hospitality tradition, and Nobody Leaves Hungry is important. but you have to recognize that it’s not how we cook for ourselves, it’s how we welcome guests and strengthen community ties.

so in order to give you a celebratory experience and make you feel welcomed, family restaurants make the portions big enough that even if you’re a teenage boy celebrating a hard win on the basketball court, you’re still going to be comfortably full when you leave.

of course, that means that for your average person with a sit-down job, who ate a decent lunch that day, it’s twice as much as they want or more. that’s ok. as mentioned above, taking home leftovers is absolutely encouraged. that, too, is part of american hospitality tradition; it’s meant to invoke fond memories of grandma loading you down with covered dishes so you can have hearty celebration food all week. pot luck church basement get-togethers where the whole town makes sure everybody has enough. that sort of thing. it’s about sharing. it’s about celebrating Plenty.

it’s not about pigging out until you get huge. treating it that way is pretty disrespectful of our culture. and you know, contrary to what the world thinks, we do have one.

theunnamedstranger

atreefullofstars

Reblogging because I honestly never thought about it but yeah, this lines up.

tayloralison

NDHSNHDBDHE

pleucas

post-corruption

daisy-mooon

Annabeth's character is supposed to represent smart women who have their intelligence and authority devalued and undermined because of their appearance, not specifically blondes lmao please be serious

jay-wasstuff

it has begun

poisonpercy

AITA FOR ASKING A GIRL IF SHE LOVED ME WHILE I WAS ACTIVELY DYING

I (22M) had known this girl (16F), let’s call her A, since I was 14. I had run away from home when I was 9 years old, and later came across another runway named T (15/20F) who was 12 years old at the time. Together, T and I came across A, and the three of us stuck together as we attempted to find somewhere safe for us to live. The three of us made our way to a camp for kids like us with the help another person named G (16/33M). T unfortunately died before we made it to safety within the camp and was turned into a pine tree by her father.

After 5 years of living at this camp, I grew mad at our neglectful parents and decided to join my great grandfather K (∞M) in his crusade to overthrow them. Around that same time, P (16M) joined camp. P was prophesied to either help or beat K on his 16th birthday, so I was tasked with trying to stop P before then. A became very good friends with P and also tried to stop K and me. The summer before P’s 16th birthday, I joined bodies with K since he was previously cut up to bits and thrown into a pit that served as his jail.

I was very dedicated to my cause and helping K because I thought us kids deserved better. However, on P’s 16th birthday I realized that I may have been the “bad guy”. While my intentions came from a good place, my actions were not. The only way to stop K was for me to die, so I stabbed myself in my armpit with A’s knife that I had given to her when she was 7. While I was bleeding out and waiting to die, I asked A if she loved me. A told me that there was a time in which she thought she did, but ultimately she saw me as a brother and did not love me.

I did end up dying and when awaiting my judgment in the underworld, I was told that asking A if she loved me was one the the many bad things I did in life, and that it made me an asshole. However, I personally don’t think I was an asshole for asking A that question since I was dying and wanted to know for my peace of mind.

AITA?

dykg

hey girl are you from missouri because you're the only miss i'd yuri

dykg

tough crowd tonight

riosnecktattoo

somebody get Chris Pine outta there lmao

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southeastsappho

queue this post when it’s your birthday and be surprise

grymmoires

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This stupid exchange between friends has become a cultural icon.

daglout

This text thread brought us into a new age

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The year is 1 ATP (After Then Perish)

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The 17th of August, 2017 is the date that Then Perish was posted by Tumblr user Spooky-Grimwhoire. Friday will be exactly one year after the original posting of Then Perish. Mark your calendars.

grymmoires

I’m still here just different url the know your meme article is outdated and yes it’s on Friday

grymmoires

It is officially the 1 year anniversary kinda surreal tbh

paganinpurple

It has been two years, man.

Two whole years

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Three years now

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How has it only been three years???

captainwaffles

Four Years

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you guys. if you haven't been following the mar a lago fbi raid saga this week you have really been missing out. it came out monday night that the fbi had spent the day collecting boxes of documents from mar a lago and maga world lost it. "this is war", hard right demands to abolish the fbi, insane posturing, every single pundit on the record saying "if this search was for anything short of the nuclear codes, this is going to massively backfire on the biden administration" (foreshadowing!). eventually report comes out that people close to trump are quietly telling the rest of the gop to dial it back just a hair, because things might get worse before they get better. most crucially is that the susan collinses of the world are demanding accountability from the justice department, demanding that they explain why this raid was warranted. (notably, trump himself has the warrant describing exactly what the fbi was there to collect, and is free to share that with the world at any point - the judge/doj is typically barred from making that public at any point, so by hounding the wrong figures for the warrant they're thinking they can control the narrative.)

not so. today, attorney general merrick garland makes a statement saying you know what? you guys are so right. there's actually significant public interest in making the details of this warrant - why a former president was raided by the fbi - public knowledge. so with your blessing, mr trump, i am asking the judge who signed the warrant (he and his synagogue have been getting death threats already btw, rot in hell forever you maga fuckwits) to unseal the warrant. trump, you have until 3pm friday to publicly object to this action. love and light, merrick

and then wapo reported tonight that the warrant was for, among other things, nuclear documents. yeehaw

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conspiring-limabean

As someone who has been following this situation with a bag of popcorn, I need to go off about what makes this so goddamn bizarre

So the context obviously: Trump's main residence, his home at Mar-A-Lago resort, was raided by the FBI for documents that he shouldn't possess. The FBI raiding a former president's home is completely unprecedented.

This is NOT an easy task. It requires substantial levels of support from a judicial system that is primarily owned by Trump's appointees and significant evidence to suggest that a law was broken and a raid was the only remaining option to prove it.

Trump and his supporters' first complaints were that "This is completely unnecessary!" and they demanded the FBI release the warrant details--despite Trump being capable of releasing the warrant details himself. They just preferred the publicity of being able to blame the FBI for it

The FBI released the warrant details to Trump's request on Friday, revealing that, holy shit, they retrieved top-secret files including among them information on US nuclear weapons, some of which I've seen implied to be the highest level of classified possible

Trump is being investigated for 3 potential crimes, which are (in summary) concealment or mutilation of government records, destruction of evidence, and violations of the Espionage act. That could be interpreted as spying, but at the very least, it suggests the distribution of fragile government information to other countries

The question now is not whether a law was broken. We know for a fact that he illegally possessed documents. The question now is what law(s) were broken, and who to blame (whether Trump himself or those that were handling documents for him)

Generally, complaints by his followers have transitioned to "Okay so he broke the law--but why was a raid necessary to prove it" and they're demanding to see the evidence that led up to it. They will never be satisfied

Something they like to keep claiming is that a raid wasn't necessary because Trump was being "cooperative" with the FBI because he handed over some documents earlier this year. For context, the FBI subpoenaed documents Trump possessed, and he handed over some of them. Some. His supporters like to use this to claim that he was being cooperative even though it literally shows that he was being untrustworthy in his negligence to hand over everything he should have.

They often demand that the FBI could have retrieved the documents more peacefully... even though they literally did issue a subpoena for them and he didn't fulfill it. They could not have done more. This was the last option.

Trump has complained about corruption in the Judicial branch... despite the Court being majorly his appointees, and the fact that he himself appointed the FBI director who approved the raid

He illegally possessed files on US nuclear weapons. Some of his followers have gone so far as to claim "but not all nuclear information is that bad! He could have had things that were harmless!"

Trump has simultaneously baselessly implied that the FBI planted evidence while also claiming that he had legal right to possess those files and demanding they be returned. You can't have it both ways chap

The only way the FBI could've known about the documents was if someone very close to Trump disclosed it to them. I've seen a lot of estimates that only 4-8 people have that kind of information. This means Trump has to be paranoid about a traitor very close to him which is hilarious and fun to see

Many of his supporters have claimed that the Judicial system is rigged and that the FBI should be defunded and arrested... ignoring the fact that, you know, he illegally possessed top-secret government files. Police brutality against people of color is fine, but God forbid the FBI stops someone from carelessly possessing classified nuclear weapons documents!

i cant stress enough how absolutely bizarre it is to see people admitting that he did break a law but they somehow think it's "political" for the FBI to catch him for it

He likes to claim that Barack Obama had possessed millions of government files as if it's some kind of gatcha argument when the documents in question were actually in the safe possession of a National Archives facility... not Obama's house

He had top-secret nuclear weapons documents in his house?????

Generally, Trump's supporters have either polarized in his defense or are just at a loss for words. Many have gone silent and quietly withdrawn their support. Some have admitted they're concerned about the FBI's findings. Others are blindly following his weird claims to the point of violent extremism (which looks great for someone who's already being investigated for organizing a coup!)

A dumbass with a gun tried to break into an FBI office and it ended with his death after a standoff with police

Feel free to add or elaborate shit I didn't word right

in conclusion: There is an absolute shitstorm going down and you should be interested

funnytwittertweets

rogha

no I read something about this recently!

it is a combination of:

projectionists used to well trained union workers now they are mostly some guy who works in the cinema and hits play without adjusting any levels

boom operators aren’t allowed to get in as close as they used to and miking performers well isn’t routinely done

directors don’t appreciate setting up and getting good sound on the day sound on the day assuming everything can be fixed in post (it can’t)

sound operators who say ‘hey actually we need one more take of that for sound’ are routinely ignored

tight turnaround and schedules means that the noisier equipment (generators etc) is set up closer and closer to where they’re filming so mixers have to try hide the sound of noisy diesel engines etc that the mics are picking up

a mumble style of delivery is increasingly popular among actors who want to appear naturalistic on screen

film and television is very much considered a visual medium so directors are trained to think of visuals first when filming and sound last

appalachianapologies

There are many new friends on the archive, and many are young and have only known social media, which is why I wanted to say something!

Ao3 does not have an algorithm! It isn't a social media site, it's an archive.

Posting fics on Tumblr isn't the same as posting fics on Ao3

Ao3 is like a giant virtual bookshelf, and everyone is able to add their own stories to the bookshelf, all stored with different tags and different fandoms. Works are automatically sorted by newest to oldest, but filters, looking at bookmarks, and using the search function can change that.

Certain works are not pushed to the top like social media posts. More kudos and reads don't push a single work to more viewers by some algorithm. Unless otherwise filtered, works will be at the top of the page based on how recent it was posted.

Smaller fandoms get less views, less kudos, less bookmarks, and larger fandoms get more simply because of the number of people inside the fandom.

Ao3 is a giant virtual bookshelf- there is no algorithm, and there is no man behind the shelf pushing certain books forward.

Happy reading, and if you'd like to have more people notice a fic, why not share it with them! Send a dm to a fandom friend and it might turn into one of their favorite fics!

carpenter-synth

Ao3 is not:

-trying to set you against other users in competition, as algorithn-manipulated sites do.

-trying to make you feel certain ways so that you will use the site more, as social media do

-manipulating you to feel certain ways for profit (they don't profit at all)

-trying to make you use the site in ways that give passive income (again, no such income)

like social media do.

It's an actual site, where you can look at things as you will, and are responsible for your own interests; not one that tries to hold your hand in bad faith and for its own gain, as social media do.

thespookiestace

Tumblr doesn’t have an algorithm either. Writers tag their stuff, and there’s a lot of overlap between tags used on AO3 and tags used on tumblr specifically by fanfic authors because we often have both. Tumblr’s attempts at algorithms have not done well so far because of the level of anonymity, and AO3 will never include a popularity feature because it is an archive, not social media.

The Archive treats every work on it equally, so every fic has the exact same chance of appearing in search results. Fics with 1458382 hits will never drown out fics with 30 hits and make them more difficult to find or appear at the bottom of search results. All that matters is how relevant it is to the amount of fields you searched. That’s it.

ex0skeletal-undead

I think it should be illegal to write a good song that’s under three minutes long. What am I supposed to do? Listen to it 84 times in a row?? Well I’m gonna

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