Specifically thinking of stuff that make your life better in the long run but all kinds of answers are welcome!
I’ve recently learnt about lifetraps and it’s made a huge positive impact on how I view myself and my relationships
When you’re about to face a high risk, high reward situation, you should willfully, willingly start to hyperventilate, as this helps your brain …
NEVER take any stranger’s advice on the internet as credible without checking it with a specialist. This is especially true when said advice relates to your health and/or safety.
That seems like good advice…
I guess I can’t trust it. Since a stranger in the internet told me eh? Lol
… without checking it. If that’s your understanding, you’re correct.
On the affirmative, ALWAYS check whatever advice you hear/read on the internet. Be ultra careful with your health and safety.
Sounds risky, but the rewards are limitless.
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In Windows 10 & 11, window+shift+S then draw a box to grab a quick, pre-cropped screenshot. It goes to your clipboard for easy paste and you get a notification you can click to view and save to file.
Bonus: use window+L at work to lock your desktop, preventing shenanigans.
basic windows knowledge may be needed unexpectedly someday
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Yeah, but they removed the “Ctrl+Alt+cursor” shortcut I used to use to punish people for leaving their computers unlocked.
What did this do?
Changed screen orientation. The cursor indicated which part of the monitor was the top of the screen, so with a standard monitor config “Ctrl+Alt+Down” flipped the screen, for instance.
Ahha of course. I remember using this to mess with people when I was in school. Thank you
Lol it’s still around, a graphics tray shortcut or something
That was part of the Intel integrated graphics program, not Windows.
I keep learning this exists and then instantly forgetting about it…
That GoodWill and Autism Speaks are not valid as charities/nonprofits.
Could you provide a explanation for someone not in the US?
GoodWill is a chain thrift store that uses legal loopholes to achieve charity status. A lot of charities are like this in America as well as elsewhere (should stress it’s not just an “American thing”). Sometimes the legal definition of a charity isn’t well-thought-out enough which allows for too much wiggle room when it comes to what a charity is. GoodWill achieved charity status by presenting itself to exclusively offer positions to people with disabilities in a society that does not favor them for job positions, but at the same time GoodWill underpays them and inserts them into working conditions comparable to the beginning of the industrial revolution when children would be injured or killed by the machines they were supposed to be working on.
Autism Speaks, another famous so-called charity, has a similar story. They came into prominence for saying they will help “treat autism” and help those in need, and they are partners with Sesame Street, with whom they are co-sponsors. However, people often ignore their attitude is one of eugenics. They believe the people they present themselves as helping are burdens and will side with anyone who has acted on this, including Planned Parenthood and even the Canadian government pre-2020, the former of whom is preferential with abortions (therefore amounting to eugenics, in fact that was why they were eventually cancelled) and the latter of whom did not let anyone with a disability immigrate into the country for forty years.
Move the decimal point one number to the left. That’s 10% of the original number. Double that number to get 20% of the original number.
Now you have your tip.
Pay liveable wages like the rest of the developed world, with medical, retirement contributions, and taxes all sorted. Then you don’t have to tip.
No one has to tip.
Then people turn out like your username in “developed” unbalanced countries.
Tipping in the US is fucking wack. We have a service charge already on the bill and if i liked the service I tip, giving them more. Nobody should tip for standard service.
As a kid, I was taught to tip 15% for standard service. I still do that today.
20% is for exceptional service. 10% for mediocre. 2¢ for service that’s so bad they should probably think about getting a different job.
Anyway, getting 15% is still very easy. Get 10% the way you said. Now add half of that.
Magnetic USB connectors are a thing and can save your cables/devices not just from wear and tear (unplugging/replugging constantly) but also from cables being tripped over or otherwise pulled. Highly recommended if you’re using VR! Sadly there are no standards to these.
My dad has Parkinson’s Disease, so he has poor coordination in his hands and can’t plug in small cords like a charging cable.
My sister bought him magnetic USB connectors and it’s changed his life! There’s a small USB end that plugs into his smartphone port, and the cable connects to it via magnets. Takes my dad almost no effort; he just needs to get his phone near the end of the cable and it latches on.
There are regular charging cables and fast-charging cables. Depending on your device, make sure you know which one you’re buying. The regular cables take half a day to charge my phone.
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Bonus tip: get as many as you need, and then a couple more. Sounds like I’m some kind of salesman, but trust me. I bought some to create a simple charging station for my vr controllers. Works great. Now I want some more to charge other things with the cables I already have laying around (I had some more). Didn’t have the right adapter pieced for in my devices. (Needed usb c, only had micro b and lightning). Now, a few years after I bought them to make that charging stand thingy, they don’t sell this exact one anymore. Bummer.
There are, but are recommended against. Since they expose all the pins in a way it doesn’t happen normally in the connector. If a device is not 100% perfectly protected you might send 20V in a data line that’s expecting <1V, therefore frying something.
No, but laptops often do :)
I know.
Which brand/type can you recommend? I want some, but I find them hard to search for.
Especially with the amazon whatever slightly matching keywords providing bogus results.
Cement is highly alkaline. If wet cement comes in contact with your skin, it can cause third degree chemical burns. So don’t write your name in wet cement like Bart Simpson.
IDK if “third degree” chemical burns are a thing.
Cement will dissolve the fat from under your skin, and a third degree burn is when you cook the fat under your skin.
Also it’s not going to burn you within a few minutes the way we normally think of a chemical burn.
The “degree” is based on the amount of damage done to flesh, bone, and skin. Each type of burn has different criteria, so yes, a third degree chemical burn will be different from a third degree flame burn, which will in turn be different than a third degree steam burn.
Bullshit.
If you have a coherent rebuttal, I’m happy to listen. If not, Johns Hopkins has a good page on the subject.
I had a quick look at this which basically says that you’re right and I’m wrong.
Additionally, it lists sunburn as an example of a radiation burn, which is kinda neat.
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How about this - your position is that a chemical burn from concrete cannot reach third degree? That it doesn’t happen fast enough to cause that damage?
Let me use your vernacular.
Bullshit. (Warning: NSFW)
That’s not what I said at all.
Yeah, use a stick, not your fingers.
Something that applies when you get a little older - if you’re in a relatively specific job field, don’t burn your bridges at a job you’re going to leave. You never know who will be sitting across the table from you at the interview, at the meeting table, on the job site. People in the same field tend to move around in the same jobs as you. If it’s someone you burned, you may not get the job, or if you do, it could be pretty miserable.
I am now the client of a company I worked at for over 15 years.
Because I handled a difficult situation leaving well, we still have a very good working relationship.
It’s a very niche industry, and I’ve worked for or with almost all the players in my region. My former employer, while small, is the best at what they do.
Yep. It absolutely never hurts to handle a situation with grace, even if it sucks in the moment.
Ironically, most people I know doesn’t know how to use their phones or computers at all.
Not all of the people require more knowledge than Excel, but it’s very useful to recognize types of errors, backups, where are the settings you may need and how to find your device options.
- Exercise grows your hippocampus
- So do antidepressants according to recent research
- Small hippocampal volume is an excellent predictor of depression and anxiety
- Exercise grows your hippocampus, in a dose-dependent way
- Exercise grows your hippocampus
- Exercise grows your hippocampus
This is the most important fact I have ever learned.
But is there any benefit to exercise?
Not sure, it wasn’t very clear from the comment.
So does meditation according to my psychiatrist
Just adding some sauce for the weird cult like talk: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1015950108
Excuse me what do you think is cult like about that?
It straight up reads like cult craziness or crazy 2 am infomercials. HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO FOREHEAD! I’m glad you’ve placebo’d yourself into happiness though lol.
You said Exercise grows your hippocampus in 4 different bullet points lmfao. Great, it increases size by 2%. It proves nothing about whether it affects depression in adults. In fact, the studies show they do jack shit except help memory lol.
Exercise training increased hippocampal volume by 2%, effectively reversing age-related loss in volume by 1 to 2 y.
More showing it means little to nothing:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811917309138
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2017.00085/full
The effect of aerobic exercise on hippocampal volume in patients with psychotic disorders
Four studies examined the effect of aerobic exercise on hippocampal volume in people with schizophrenia or first episode psychosis (n = 107). Aerobic exercise did not significantly increase total hippocampal volume compared to control conditions (g = 0.149, 95% CI: -0.31 to 0.60, p = 0.53, Table 2). Among the two studies which reported effects on left/right hippocampus separately, there was no evidence of effects in either region (both p > 0.1). There was also no evidence of heterogeneity or publication bias influencing these results.
The effect of aerobic exercise on hippocampal volume in other populations
Data in other populations was insufficient for pooled meta-analyses, and so results from individual trials are summarised below. Individual trials which examined effects of aerobic exercise in patients with depression (Krogh et al., 2014), mild cognitive impairment (Brinke et al., 2014) and probable Alzheimer’s disease (Morris et al., 2017) all found no significant effects on total or left/right hippocampal volumes. One study examining the effects of exercise in young-to-middle-aged adults found no change in total hippocampal volume but did find a significant increase in anterior hippocampal volume following 6 weeks of aerobic exercise (Thomas et al., 2016).
Effects of exercise in relation to participant age
Meta-regression analyses were performed to examine the relationship between mean sample age and effects of exercise on hippocampal volume. No statistically significant associations of effects of exercise with sample age were found for total, right or left hippocampal volume (all p > 0.05).
In conclusion, this meta-analysis found no effects of exercise on total hippocampal volume, but did find that exercise interventions retained left hippocampal volume significantly more than control conditions. As these positive effects were also observed among the subgroup of studies of healthy older adults, the findings hold promising implications for using exercise to attenuate age-related neurological decline. Currently, the overall quality of the evidence is compromised by the fact that 10 of the 12 studies included some risk of bias, therefore more high-quality RCTs are now required. In additional to RCTs, a prospective meta-analysis examining how changes in physical activity and fitness predict hippocampal retention/deterioration across the lifespan would provide novel insights into longer-term neural effects of exercise, while also reducing the impact of methodological heterogeneity often found across exercise RCTs. Further research is also required to determine effects in younger people (Riggs et al., 2016), and establish the neurobiological mechanisms through which exercise exerts these effects, in order to design optimal exercise programs for producing neurocognitive enhancements. However, the functional relevance of structural improvements has also yet to be ascertained. Nonetheless, the link between cardiorespiratory fitness with both structural and performance increases indicates this as a suitable target for aerobic training programs to improve brain health.
Oh you noticed the repetition did you?
So it’s right there in the results you quoted:
In conclusion, this meta-analysis found no effects of exercise on total hippocampal volume, but did find that exercise interventions retained left hippocampal volume significantly more than control conditions.
Apparently it simultaneously shrinks your right hippocampus while growing your left, for an average change of zero while the left grows?
That’s the only way that sentence makes sense.
I read that as “the hippocampus shrinks at a rate of [x] [y]s per [z]. Exercise slows that shrinking in the left hippocampus.”
Agreed.
I wonder if it would “regenerate” an atrophied or shrunken hippocampus. Like the way rest and nutrition won’t make your skin larger but it will heal missing patches of skin.
I know I’ve seen claims from reputable sources that exercise raised BDNF levels, and that BDNF leads to hippocampal neurogenesis. I can find the sources again I’m sure if you’d like; let me know.
But how could hippocampal neurogenesis be happening without volume change? Could it be replacing dead cells (and preventing shrinkage)? Packing neurons in more densely?
Okay so it’s not making anything grow. Yeah that’s probably it.
Though that is still an effect on hippocampal volume.
Maybe they meant to say something like:
“Overall exercise doesn’t affect hippocampal volume, except in cases the hippocampus is actively shrinking in which case it can slow down the left side” (and reading between the lines possibly on the right side with a p value a little higher than significant?)
What do you mean by “in a dose dependent way”?
I think it means more exercise leads to more growth.
Apparently it also increases the feeling of needing to repeat yourself 🤔
You wish more people knew how to quit porn?
Having an active sex life really dried up my porn consumption. So boyfriends and girlfriends are the cure to porn?
Update: I just read that book.
It starts off by pre-blaming readers that any failure is due to them " not following instructions ", " not understanding the instructions ". You know it’s going to be a good read when you’re already blamed before you start.
Anyway like halfway into the book they reveal the magic method.
- Stop watching porn
- Don’t think about porn
The rest of the book is a huge amount of verbiage, a Socratic walk through a theory of mind, doing a lot of straw man arguments that one might use against porn.
It’s clearly a book, written from the heart, but man they need to learn how to be a more effective writer.
The end of the book calls for all porn to be behind age verification. The blight on our society.
Wild Read
One for people in the US:
You aren’t taxed at the higher rate for all of your income when you get a raise that puts you in a higher tax bracket, only the part that is in the range of that bracket specifically. The rest of your income below the bracket is taxed the same as before.
I’ve seen a lot of people decline promotions and raises over this, and bosses are very happy to let you continue thinking that’s how it works.
Not sure if that counts as not common knowledge, but a lot of people I know didn’t know it before.
While that’s true for taxes alone, there are income gaps where a small increase of income can result in a loss of various benefits that were worth more than the increase. This can be things like food stamps, subsidized rent/childcare, etc… People end up stuck because while they could potentially earn significant advancement and increased wages over a 4-7 year period, they’d have to weather a significant deficit through intervening years.
Ideally there should be no cliffs, and all these social programs should have a sliding scale of benefits so a person can always benefit from increased income. Part of the problem is they’re managed across multiple levels of government that don’t always play well together, and a sliding scale might mean more benefits paid out to people that don’t currently qualify. That’s probably actually a good thing, but gets spun politically as undesirable.
Cars are way more expensive than you think, and getting rid of it will make you happier and way wealthier.
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I don’t think it will make me happier to spend 1.5 hour in the bus and train instead of 20min by car.
Yeah, I’m generally anti-car in urban areas, but the bus system where I used to live forced me to get a car to go to work (it would have taken like 2 hours 40 minutes and involve walking for a fair amount of that. each way.)
Yeah, a lot of the in the Americas it’s not the fact that we’d rather be in a car it’s that our public transit options are just so non-competitive with driving by design that it makes no sense to ever use them from a time perspective if you can afford not to.
If you live somewhere like the Bay area where you’ve got the BART or Chicago with the L, you can 100% use public transit as your daily driver because it’s actually faster then driving in most cases and you can read or do work while doing so… sadly this is not the case in most places. Takes me 15 minutes to drive into downtown, if I took the bus it would take me 2 and a half hours.
unless you live in like, the netherlands maybe, the traffic is going to make driving by far the least enjoyable option. Have fun sitting trapped in your car while others switch to micromobility and literally arrive home faster than you while enjoying the breeze on their face and the money to spend on having fun instead.
Clearly you underestimate the size of america and how spaced out things are for the majority of people living here. Maybe in a city you are correct, but for most of us, this isn’t the case.
Even in cities cars are the best way to get around in many American cities. This is because we built (bulldozed) our cities to be that way and neglect transit. Also, most people currently live in cities 🤓
Drowning is very fast, seconds not minutes like in the movies. People in distress can take minutes before they are actively drowning. Active drowning is silent, they will not be yelling for help. It looks like the person is “climbing” or pushing down at the water. They will be vertical in the water and may be “bobbing”, going underwater and resurfacing. They will have their head tilted back parallel to the surface of the water.
If you see someone go under in open water keep looking at where they went under while calling for help, don’t take your eyes off it. If you are the only one who saw them go under, your job is to direct others to where they went down. In open water it’s very hard to find people because the bottom isn’t visible.
If you see someone go overboard, get someone else to start throwing stuff off the deck to where they are in the water (while you keep pointing at them). Makes for much easier locating by others, and a quicker rescue
We trained on this a lot. Also yelling “swim” because apparently the shock of sudden cold water can make you forget to do that.
There’s a YouTube channel that shows videos of people drowning and being rescued so you can see what it looks like: https://youtube.com/@LifeguardRescue
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The alternative piped link is YouTube?
When I hover over the pipedbot’s link it looks like it goes to piped. But yeah, misleading link text.
Also drowning can happen after inhalation of water. All incidents involving children being rescued from water may require medical intervention, even if they seem fine initially. “Dry drowning”
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Bleach + vinegar = toxic chlorine gas that can be lethal.
Not sure how many people know this but I was in my mid-20s when I found this out, luckily not the hard way.
Also bleach and ammonia.
Basically, don’t mix cleaning chemicals.
Don’t clean a cat litter box with bleach either.
Or a toilet. Basically anything that gets pee on it.
And not just because of the ammonia! Bleach is highly toxic to cats and they can absorb it through their paws.
Also, ammonium nitrate + gasoline = bad day.
I know a farmer who lived to tell the tale. He had a bunch of empty sacks, and he had piled them up and was ready to burn them. He poured some gasoline on them so that the fire would start easily. Unfortunately, he didn’t know that one of the sacks contained a little bit of ammonium nitrate, which happily combined with the gasoline and fire. Next, the mixture exploded, throwing burning gasoline everywhere.
After he managed to put the fires out he was taken to the hospital. Today, he still has some nasty burn marks on his skin, but he survived.
I think he must have left a bit out. To make it explosive, typically it needs to be in a space that will allow it to compress when ignited. That can be a hole in the ground or a large quantity in that it will create its own compressive reaction. Also generally to set it off, you generally need a shock wave type of igniter. A small amount will simply burn.
Dynamite is same way. I worked with it quite often when younger. Old dynamite can begin to sweat and when like that, it is a bit unstable. Few times just burnt it to destroy it. Otherwise you would need to use a blasting cap to set it off. That was now expensive and might annoy neighbours if you do it above ground.
You shouldn’t use gasoline for anything else than your vehicle anyway.
If one must use liquid accelerants, kerosene or (gasp) charcoal lighting fluid are good choices because they don’t turn into gas as readily or burn as quickly as gas. Again only of you must. Solid fire starters are more reliable and safe anyway.
Also don’t pee in bleach.
Just another in a long list of things you’re not allowed to pee in!
