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one of my toxic traits is i remember a smattering of french nouns from learning french and i like to sprinkle them into conversation for emphasis u kno but sometimes i check the spelling and they don't have a little accessory ontop of any of the letters and so i add one
to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube
they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!
i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies
Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚
Great time to start pricing this out by the way, fire season starts… on the summer solstice this year, that’s fun. Signs point to it being a doozy.
when i was younger i had a really bad fear of danny devito when i was going to sleep so my older brother gave me a watch that he set to like 8 hours ahead so that it was always daytime on the watch when i was asleep and he told me it would confuse danny devito and he would think it was daytime and get scared of the sun and leave me alon
Your brother is the best
Who the fuck changed this from vampires to Danny devito
the real question is why I was completely ready to accept that this person had a debilitating childhood fear of Danny Devito
According to the CDC, in 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening. Drowning does not look like drowning—Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this:
“Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.
Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.
Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”
This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble—they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long—but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.
Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:
Head low in the water, mouth at water level
Head tilted back with mouth open
Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus
Eyes closed
Hair over forehead or eyes
Not using legs—vertical
Hyperventilating or gasping
Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway
Trying to roll over on the back
Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder
So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OK—don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they can answer at all—they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents—children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.
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Can I just say thank you to OP for putting such a detailed description on this?
I’ve been a lifeguard for 6 years now and of all the saves I’ve done, maybe two or three had people drowning in the stereotypical thrashing style. And even those, like the save I made last weekend, it was exactly like OP describes where the person’s head is going in and out of the water but it isn’t long enough to get any air. Mostly you recognize drowning by the look on someone’s face. If someone looks wide eyed and terrified or confused, chances are they’re drowning. That look of “oh shit” is pretty easily recognizable. And even if you can’t tell for sure: GO AFTER THEM ANYWAY. I’ve done “saves” where a kid was pretending to drown and I mistook it for real drowning, but that’s preferable to a kid ACTUALLY drowning.
Also please remember that even strong swimmers can drown if they have a medical emergency, get cramps, or get too tired. If your friend knows how to swim but they’re acting funny get them to land. And even if someone can respond when you ask them if they need help, if they say they do need help? GO HELP THEM.
However . If the victim is a stranger, I can’t recommend trying to get them. Lifeguards literally train to escape “attacks,” because people who are drowning can freak the fuck out and grab you and make YOU drown as well. If you do go in after someone, take hold of them from the back and talk to them the whole time. IF YOU ARE GRABBED: duck down into the water as low as you can get. The person is panicking and won’t want to go under water and should release you. Shove up at their hands and push them away from you as you duck under. Don’t die trying to save someone else.
Please guys, read and memorize this post. Not all places have lifeguards. Being able to recognize drowning is such an important skill to have and you can save someone’s life.
Just incase!
In a water park once, I was suddenly grabbed by a child and he dragged me under the water without warning. I was going to get angry with him when I resurfaced because I thought he was being an ass, until I looked at him go back in and out hyperventilating the entire time. I grabbed him under his arms and began trying to drag him out while screaming for the lifeguard.
When the lifeguard got us both out, a woman came running down and accused me of harming him and said he had been completely fine in the water. That there was no reason to drag him out of there. The lifeguard had to explain to her that her son had been drowning, to which her response was to say that she didn’t hear him call for help.
People seriously need to learn the signs.
http://spotthedrowningchild.com/ really demonstrates how easy it is to miss drowning
Physical Education, all grades, Swimming
Teach this. Just… Teach this
This delicious apple crisp with oat topping is a comforting dessert perfect for any occasion. Serve warm with ice cream or whipped cream for
Streusel
3/4 cup Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
3/4 cup old-fashioned oats
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup cold butter, cut in pieces
Filling
6 cups chopped (3/4-inch pieces) peeled tart apples (6 medium)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon lemon juice
Instructions
Heat oven to 375°F. Spray 8-inch square (2-quart) glass baking dish with cooking spray.
In medium bowl, mix 3/4 cup flour, the oats, brown sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon until blended. Cut in cold butter, using fork or pastry blender, until mixture is crumbly. (Do not overmix.) Set aside.
In large bowl, mix Filling ingredients until well coated. Spread evenly in baking dish. Sprinkle streusel over top.
Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until topping is golden brown and juices are bubbling along edges.
Cool at least 20 minutes before serving.
If you are lazy like me, you will be pleased to know that the recipe is lying about you have to peel the apples. You don’t! I also didn’t cut them evenly—just threw them in the food processor. Perfectly delicious!
I will admit that I also didn’t measure the apples, but I’m not sure how much 6 cups of apples is in grams and I was distracted anyway. I did wind up with slightly too much streusel, I think, but it filled the container almost perfectly and I couldn’t really have fit more apple.
It is *very* sweet though, so next time I’d test how much sugar I can cut. Not from the streusel, because it has a structural role there, but I’m kinda inclined to reduce the sugar in the apple mixture by half or maybe more. If it turns out not sweet enough, then just get some ice cream or whipped cream!
Normally I dislike theories about the world that are predicated on the moral failings of entire professions. These things are more complicated than that, right? Incentives create patterns of behaviour.
However: I was out getting ramen with a buddy of mine, guy who works at one of those huge-big software companies in a senior position. This restaurant had one of those digital menus, where you scan a QR code and have to order your food on their website. And the website they had... christ almighty! It took a full 10 seconds to respond to any of my inputs!! If I was booting up fuckin noclip dot website here I might understand, but this was literally a list of meals and a button to check out. What in god's name could this website be doing behind the scenes that was causing such latency???
I complain about this to my buddy, how absurd it is that their website was lagging this bad, and what this extremely skilled, senior software developer at a billion dollar company said in response was "ah, but it's a pain in the arse to support older phone models, so really this one is one you".
So I think one of two things is going on here. It's either modern app designers really are just pod people from mars, or they put a special slug in your brain when you get the job. Still figuring out which.
Getting conflicting reports here.
developer here, can confirm that most developers think this way, but this isn't unique to software development, it's just capitalism. it's not really that older machines are a pain in the arse to support, meaning people could do it but won't cause they're lazy. it's that there's no time to do this because every higher up is all about KPI and stuff, and making sure apps run well just doesn't make the numbers go up, so it's not on the menu. if a developer makes sure the app runs well, they're probably doing this in their own free time.
this is the real answer.
Best practice for this type of thing is to use the same thing as other people, rather than making your own, because that means you get security updates. So the website was likely made out of the pieces that a larger company sells.
On the other hand, being a website means the restaurant gets insight into how long the average customer spends on the menu, what sort of conversion rate each of its menu items have (how often is this menu item clicked on when people look at it?), what percentage of customers come back...
Lots of perks for the restaurant that gives you a QR code.
Current twitter drama is Europeans confidently declaring that they don't need to drive or use overpriced public transport to get to the MetLife stadium for the World Cup; they will simply walk down the highway to get there. Girl it's New Jersey. They're gonna splatter you for fun.
If you manage to get on the turnpike before the cops stop you, a soccer mom is gonna do the Jersey slide in a RAV4 and turn your entire group into a wet speedbump
this? you want to walk down this????
please say sike
IT'S NOT A FUCKING STREET ITS AN 8-LANE SUPERHIGHWAY THAT GOES OVER A SWAMP
footpath
that is grass. just like ur ass, if you try to walk this thing
Image me gently taking your hand as I tell you the following:
This is ABSOLUTELY a perfectly fine footpath.
In fact, with how much space I’m seeing here, it is entirely plausible, that the European hordes will just create a temporary little Wanderweg right next to the highway. With that much space they might not even have to interfere with traffic.
But also have you seen the space between your highways? I‘d say the gaps each easily fit another whole stream of European walking hordes. Or maybe even two going opposite directions :D
tightly grips your hand with both of my sweaty hands.
the grass is not a permanent feature. there just happens to be a chunk of it there. the side of the road can vary from grass to swampwater ditches to steep embankments to absolutely nothing within a very short distance.
they will call in every highway enforcer in the state and mass incarcerate the lot of you before they allow you to Darwin Award yourselves across 6 lanes of traffic into an international incident or, (their real concern) impede the progress of the single most important north-south interstate corridor in america, ball kicky game be damned.
(I'm starting to believe that a fair number of you in the notes have We're Better Than Stupid Americans embedded so deeply into your cultural identity that you will Just Not Listen to anything we say to you about the material circumstances about the place we live in, rather than taking us at our word that there is a reason that most Americans travel the way we do and it's a good reason.)
maybe if we let enough europeans trample our verges they'll form functional desire paths
Thank you silent hill artist and creator of pyramid head Masahiro Ito
This is WHAT
When I imagined one of my favorite artists responding to me on Twitter it wasn't like this tbh
All right. I am a little tipsy and I did not do this recipe correctly—however!!!! It would be fully evil to hide this kind of information from you, so:
This toast is fuck.
For notes, the official and proper process is: white bread, honey, toast; butter, toast; spicy; eat. Predictably, I got confused and added an extra layer of butter (unsalted) before the spicy. And also, for the spice, I used chili flakes—my favorite lovely Flatiron brand Dark and Smoky flavor, which in my experience goes beautifully with sweet dishes. Also, coarsely ground salt on top.! Yum.
Also. I’m done explaining Japanese kitchens so please don’t reblog if you’re just trying to ask why so much seasoning can be toasted (spoiler: it’s a broiler; the bread is always horizontal). It’s late; please respect how sleepy I am!
Anyway!!!! I’m real mad about how good this shit is and that I could’ve been eating it for years but never up and crossed that bridge. Don’t be like me! Bread it up!!! Now!!!!!
Do you think you could teach a high school literature unit about Homestuck?
Bring it on!
Probably, yeah
I'm not confident, but maybe?
I could make the materials, if someone else teaches it
I could teach it, if someone else made the materials
No, just no
I have no idea what Homestuck is
[I refuse to participate]
#I voted no
#but I'm coming around to a maybe i could make materials
#I'd definitely need to actually read the omegaupdate and reread the comic
#i do have the (apparently) unpopular opinion that act 1 is more honest
#the comic lost something as it grew more popular and the prompt became meaningless
#that's why the forum adventures were... better
#until they suddenly died
#but my opinions on the rest of the comic aren't very strong so... rereading necessary for sure
@smurfton one of the best things about literature is that unpopular opinions are judged not by popularity but by the strength of your thesis.
Ok, I'll go for it. First, we should consider the other MS Paint Adventures. With each one, the scope grew and the audience grew. As the audience grew, Hussie had more prompts to choose from. Now, we should consider that either Hussie had an incredible number of prompts to choose from in Problem Sleuth, or he just started ignoring them at some point, because reader suggestions are extremely unlikely to build towards a satisfying close, but that story actually finished.
That's just a really hard thing to do, even with cooperative fans, because fans can easily expand the scope of the story, but have a very hard time tying up loose ends. I think the audience of All Night Laundry was very cooperative, but @monsterfoundry still needed to stop accepting suggestions at some point in order to wrap it up.
That said, Hussie spent a year allowing user prompts to move the story forward, and you can tell that the author is having a great time as you read it. In Act 2, he decides to stop accepting user input, because there was just so much, but also because it was getting in the way of telling a serious story the way he wanted to.
Homestuck had a tone shift. Hussie sanded off the rougher edges. The plot moved forward much more rapidly, but it's a different project from the one that he started with. I'm certain that Hussie loved Homestuck throughout, but Acts 2+ are Hussie being presentable, while Act 1 is Hussie having a good time.
The MSPA Forum Adventures were better, not because they could tell a better story, or because they had a better than 1% chance of actually getting completed, but because the MSPA Forum Adventures were properly collaborative, and many of them didn't give that up. People just, wanted to tell a story together.
but the MSPA forums died suddenly after getting hacked and... just didn't really come back. so that community fractured, and some of the longer term fan adventures survived. others super didn't.
anyway, Act 1 is more honest.
Do you think you could teach a high school literature unit about Homestuck?
Bring it on!
Probably, yeah
I'm not confident, but maybe?
I could make the materials, if someone else teaches it
I could teach it, if someone else made the materials
No, just no
I have no idea what Homestuck is
[I refuse to participate]
France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.
Honestly, we should all be more French.
I can't blame them. American software is now as liable to contain security vulnerability as bad or worse than the ones American developers claim are in Chinese and Russian software.
This isn't about security vulnerabilities in the software. Windows could be flawless and they'd still want to change. The security vulnerability is the United States. As long as France (or any other country) relies on something made in the US, they cannot say no to the US.
Male writers writing female characters:
“Cassandra woke up to the rays of the sun streaming through the slats on her blinds, cascading over her naked chest. She stretched, her breasts lifting with her arms as she greeted the sun. She rolled out of bed and put on a shirt, her nipples prominently showing through the thin fabric. She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards.”
‘ She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards’ is the greatest fucking sentence I have ever read.
THE ORIGINAL??
(smh) Never thought I’d see it in the wild. Yet here it is. :)
always gotta reblog the ‘breasted boobily’ post
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What's your favorite creature from any video game world?
Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.
well, the myrmecoleon in la mulana is cute
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I don’t usually post about acquisitions from the NYC Trans Archives, but this one is too cool not to share. We recently obtained 1 of the 2 known remaining copies of the censored 1933 German booklet “Wie erlange ich eine vollendete Büste?” (“How do I achieve a perfect bust?”). It advertises an early estrogen compound using a patient who was assigned male at birth.
The text shows that not only were hormones readily available to trans people in the 1930s, but actively advertised to them. Nazis targeted this specific book in the 1930s, leaving only a few copies left in existence. This text, along with hundreds of other rare trans books, zines, and ephemera, will be available for viewing next year when NYCTA opens to the public.
Tap Card (L.A) / Clipper Card (Bay Area) / Ventra Card (Chicago) / MetroCard (NYC)
Orca Card (Seattle / Puget Sound region)
CharlieCard (Boston), SmarTrip Card (DC), Compass Card (Vancouver), Presto Card (Toronto)
Suica and Pasmo cards (greater Tokyo area, almost nationwide usability?)
Rio de Janeiro, originals above and the new "Riocard Mais" which covers a bunch of different systems (metro, bus, BRT, etc) below
SEPTA key card ( South Eastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority, Greater Philadelphia area)
Nimoca (Fukuoka prefecture, but works nationally like suica and passmo)
Anonymous OV-chipcard / Personal OV-chipcard (The Netherlands)
The Rapid’s Wave card (Grand Rapids, Michigan metro area)
t-kort (Trondheim Area, Norway)
SUBE (some provinces in Argentina)
@amtrak-official
The design of Metro Cards is so fun and exciting, I need to start collecting them
No love for my blorbo the octopus?
mexico city!
Travel Card (old) / One Card (Delhi)
Snapper Card (Aotearoa NZ)
myki card (Melbourne)
一卡通 (Beijing)
