notapantsday

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do bike tires increase pressure in summerm⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you also don’t hear about it as much because people tend to bike more in warm weather so it’s more likely for you to go long stretches of time without biking when it’s getting colder.

  Off topic, but I think it’s funny how cycling is viewed in different parts of the world. You look at it as a hobby that is naturally done less in the winter. For me it’s just a way to get to work and I still have to work when it’s cold, so obviously I’m still cycling just as much. And this is true for a lot of people, the bike rack at my job is almost as full in the winter as it is in the summer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nylon can be washed in the dishwasher, but in my experience it does degrade a bit over time. Silicone on the other hand tends to absorb any smell or taste, including dish washing detergent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What chemicals and tools do I need to clean my bathroom?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For toilet bowl cleaner, you want to make sure it has the ‘quality seal’ on the packaging. It looks like this.

  Generally, if you have hard water and a lot of issues with limescale, you will need an acidic cleaner. These are usually advertised accordingly. Bleach won’t help with limescale and is usually not necessary. It’s also very dangerous to mix bleach with acidic cleaners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Risks of CPR⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While we’re on the topic of CPR, I want to address the myth that CPR “almost never works”. It’s great at what it does, which is pumping blood through the body enough to keep vital organs supplied with a bare minimum of oxygen so they can survive.

  However, there’s usually a reason why the heart has stopped beating and in most cases, CPR can’t reverse that reason. If the patient is in a car crash and has completely bled out, CPR won’t get any blood back into their system. Or if they’re at the end stage of a terminal disease, CPR can’t magically cure the disease.

  But in cases where the cause for the cardiac arrest is simple and easily reversed, chances of survival are much higher. For example, if someone is drowning and you get them out of the water within a few minutes of cardiac arrest, CPR is very effective, with the majority of patients surviving. Here’s a study with 113 patients who were resuscitated after drowning and only 8 were confirmed dead. For 20 patients, the outcome was unknown, but even if they all died as well, that’s still a 75% survival rate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Risks of CPR⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, a heart that has completely stopped beating cannot be restarted by defibrillation. It only works in a condition called ventricular fibrillation, when the muscle fibers of the heart are still contracting, but are no longer “in sync”. This causes the heart to twitch chaotically, which is not an effective way to pump blood. And without blood pumping, the heart itself does not receive any oxygen as well, so it will eventually go into a complete flatline after a few minutes of untreated ventricular fibrillation.

  The electric shock helps the fibers resynchronize. If you want to see the effect directly, here’s a video:

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCbawp9ZSnY

  Be warned, it shows an open chest and an exposed heart, most likely during heart surgery. They are using spoon-shaped internal defibrillation paddles. In the beginning, you can see the heart in ventricular fibrillation. It’s twitching chaotically and not pumping any blood. After defibrillation, it starts contracting rhythmically again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Risks of CPR⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never heard of a punctured heart personally, but I do think it’s possible. A punctured lung is much more common. But both conditions are usually treatable if the patient survives.

  CPR does carry some risks, but not doing CPR is guaranteed to be lethal. So any risk (to the patient) is worth taking at that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do overnight shift workers do when the clocks change?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At my hospital it’s just luck of the draw. If you get the night shift in the spring, you work an hour less while being paid the same and in the autumn you’re working an (unpaid) extra hour.

  The craziest thing was when my girlfriend had a patient die of non-natural causes during that night. In these cases, police have to be notified so they can investigate whether there was any wrongdoing. The police arrived a few minutes before the time of death of the patient, because in the meantime the clocks had been moved back an hour. Apparently they had also never had that situation before, so they were unsure how to document it correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there so much hate against children here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I once came across a reddit thread where physical violence against children was seen as a normal and necessary means of parenting. And it was a mature thread in a mainstream subreddit with thousands of responses. This was the consensus and anyone disagreeing was downvoted into oblivion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there so much hate against children here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the adult, depends on the child. But my worst experiences on planes have always been with other adults being drunk, taking half of my seat or smelling like two weeks old fermented sweat. And when children are seriously misbehaving, usually once I find out who the parents are, I feel more sorry for the kids than for myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who back into parking spots: Why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people don’t even want to drive, but in a lot of places there’s just no viable alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why must it be this way? (but also I'd like shark please)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate those manly male scents for true men™ so much. I’ve now switched to odorless deodorant which is so much more expensive but it’s worth it. And when I want to smell nice, I use a perfume that actually smells nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use the swipe to type feature on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really unbelievable how bad swiftkey is, especially after seeing what language models can do nowadays. The number of times it has entered a totally absurd and exotic word in the wrong language in the middle of a very common phrase like ‘see you later’, is just ridiculous.

  I’m testing thumb key right now. There’s definitely a learning curve, but i’ll see how fast I can get. Thanks for the tip!