A Texas church has chosen a radically different path from many denominations nationwide. Instead of demonizing LGBTQ+ people, the Galileo Church in Fort Worth has opted to support and welcome the community....
Funny story, instead of referring to groups of adults as " hey guys," I like to refer to them as "hey kids." You know how many grown adults I've had object to this? Zero. Not one. Ever.
God bless this kid, he deserves all the credit for pulling that guy out of the pool. That's probably what saved the guy's life.
However...
"Patients in previous studies have cited television as a large source of their belief that rates of survival after CPR vary between 19% and 75%, whereas actual rates of survival of CPR range from an average of 12% for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests to 24–40% for in-hospital arrests."
You don't attempt CPR until you confirm that the person doesn't have a pulse. The angle up on the edge of the pool and the way the kid was doing compressions were not doing anything. Trust me, I've seen and done effective chest compressions and that shit is HARD. A 12yo tapping on someone's chest might be well-meaning, but it's not CPR
I've seen too many should-be-dead bodies dragged through years of medical torture after a crippling incident to be able to agree with that sentiment. There are worse things than death.
Oh, almost nothing gets pulverized when galaxies collide! Our Milky Way galaxy is currently colliding with a couple of small satellite galaxies. There's so much empty space between stars that almost none of the stars themselves impact.
It's more a matter of the gravitational orbits of the stars inside the galaxies changing dramatically. But those changes caused by a galaxy merger take millions of years. Plenty of time for life to adapt.
The biggest danger to life would be the possibility of getting blasted by radiation, if you ended up too close to a supernova or something like that.
So, the thing is this is based on a particular hypothesis that Long Covid is caused by lingering, chronic, low-level viral infection that results in an overactive immune system. While that may be true in a subset of Long Covid suffers, the long history of post-viral syndromes like ME/CFS make me pretty skeptical that an anti-viral drug is going to have much impact on most of Long Covid.
I put in a dual fuel heat pump in my Massachusetts house a couple years ago. I'd love to have just a heat pump, but those arctic temperature excursions we get - ironically because of climate change destabilizing the jet stream - combined with our ongoing lack of cheap, sustainable electric generation made me want to keep that gas furnace backup for the worst of the season.
Heat pump means in using my gas furnace about 50% less than I was before the switch. And also, new gas furnace is 96% efficient rather than 80%.
-60⁰ F windchill. You always want to install the heat pump exchanger where it's not getting battered by wind anyway, so it's probably not feeling temps that low
Instead of focusing too much on all of the things that are currently wrong, could you please help paint a picture of what a future utopian society could look like?...
I'm deeply skeptical of any and all utopian ideas. They have this mysterious tendency to wander down paths to authoritarianism because we, as a species, are more defined by our ideas of who and what we are than by anything else in our existence.
When an idea becomes an ideal, people become willing to kill or die in attempts to bring that ideal to fruition, no matter how vain.
In fact, this is how I self-edit my own beliefs about the world and myself. "If the cards were all really on the table, would I be willing to proudly die in defense of this idea?" If the answer is yes, then I cling to that as an ideal that I strive toward.
All human lives matter equally.
It is important to lift up those who have less than I do.
Any small effort to alleviate the suffering of my fellow humans is meaningful.
There is always hope.
That is the utopia I choose to live in deliberately every day, and what I appreciate most is that it is resilient to the whims and chaos of this world that I can't control.
I’ll go first: “You have to have children when you’re young,” told to me when I was in my late 20s, with no desire to ever have kids, and no means to support them, by someone divorced multiple times with at least one adult child who does not speak to them....
I don't know how it works where you are, but in the US, we've always needed to get a written prescription from a doctor to get birth control pills. The prescription gets you permission to obtain the pills from the pharmacist (chemist) "behind the counter." The change here is the pills will be available without seeing a doctor first aka "over the counter" as we call it.
This has its good and bad points. It's better for people to receive teaching from a doctor about the side effects of birth control and how to use it. But also, getting in to see a doctor is a huge hurdle for working class people who need birth control the most. So overall, I support the move to make both control available over the counter.
Some users wonder if the dev will be charged for having it still up, others argue Reddit can't charge him without having signed a contract. Everyone is confused as to why the API change hasn't made it inoperable....
The thing about TIHI, interestingasfuck, SLPT are that they regularly made r/all. Content hitting the front page means views for Reddit. So it's less about the sub's specific userbase, and more that those "main" subs have broad user appeal that brings people to Reddit in the first place.
And currently they're all shuttered. Which means less content on r/all, which decreases the general audience appeal of Reddit.
Similarly, Nick Zentner's lecture on the Flood Basalts of the Pacific Northwest. I can't tell you how many times I've watched this exact lecture (although all of Zentner's stuff is great):
The subreddit r/steam, about the digital game storefront, received as many other subreddits a notice to open the community again, or else the mods would be replaced by those who abide....
I mean, looks like no matter what the current mods do, Reddit is determined to silence the organic community-driven protest. Eventually mods will have to play ball or be replaced, but this current attitude of "look admins, we're doing what you want, it's the users who are not" delays that inevitability in a way that does in fact support the community users in their desire to protest. All the mods quitting right now in anger would just be replaced with new boot licking mods who would ban these protest posts immediately.
I don't think there's any way for the community to win in the long run, but the current mods half-ass playing ball is allowing the protest to continue for now
Texas church launches program to help fund transgender kids’ healthcare (www.lgbtqnation.com)
A Texas church has chosen a radically different path from many denominations nationwide. Instead of demonizing LGBTQ+ people, the Galileo Church in Fort Worth has opted to support and welcome the community....
I have no idea what I'm doing (lemmy.ca)
12-year-old saves drowning man, credits CPR learned from 'Stranger Things' (abcnews.go.com)
Computer simulation of galactic collision with images from Hubble depicting the different stages (mastodon.social)
Massachusetts passed a millionaire's tax. Now, the revenue is paying for free public school lunches. (www.cbsnews.com)
Scientists developing new drugs that could treat Long Covid and prevent reinfection (www.abc.net.au)
A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies (www.businessinsider.com)
Well so it begins.
Heat pumps sold so fast in Maine, the state just upped its target (www.canarymedia.com)
What does an ideal world look like to you?
Instead of focusing too much on all of the things that are currently wrong, could you please help paint a picture of what a future utopian society could look like?...
What is the most unhelpful advice you have received?
I’ll go first: “You have to have children when you’re young,” told to me when I was in my late 20s, with no desire to ever have kids, and no means to support them, by someone divorced multiple times with at least one adult child who does not speak to them....
what was your first video game/system you played or remember playing?
mine was snafu on intellivision. i think i liked it because it reminded me of the light cycles from tron.
Arizona governor greenlights over-the-counter birth control (www.yahoo.com)
3rd party app for Reddit, Boost, is still functioning well after July 1st (www.reddit.com)
Some users wonder if the dev will be charged for having it still up, others argue Reddit can't charge him without having signed a contract. Everyone is confused as to why the API change hasn't made it inoperable....
r/TIHI has been banned for being unmoderated. (old.reddit.com)
What are your favorite (Youtube) video's/documentaries of all time that you can watch again and again?
For me: 1.) Cicada 3301 - Lemmino [17:53]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O7blSSzpI...
r/steam (maliciously) complies with the call to open again (lemmy.world)
The subreddit r/steam, about the digital game storefront, received as many other subreddits a notice to open the community again, or else the mods would be replaced by those who abide....