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nicoco3890 t1_j9yqvcx wrote

Reply to comment by Chappietime in A 2-year-old boy was lost in the Florida woods for 24 hours. Everyone feared the worst. Hundreds of volunteers came out to look for him. One volunteer came to a fork in a field: right or left? He trusted his gut, went left and soon heard a whimper. It was the little boy, crying but in good health. by ConquerWyoming

Deaf or hard of hearing? Using euphemism here make the story hard to understand.

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axw3555 t1_j9yq3py wrote

Reply to comment by Sticky_Keyboards in ‘Four days a week is a great experiment’: work options examined in Calgary by AFH_Global

Mental inertia in the people running it.

My job can be almost entirely done on computer, from anywhere. I could literally go in like 2 mornings a week. Some of my colleagues are 100% digital.

Boss still has a "work from home doesn't work for me" philosophy. But he's also got the old mindset of "I value the time, not the work". If I go in, do all my work in 34 hours, and I spend the last hour chatting (one hour spread across a week), he'll complain about it.

It's something that will change, but in a lot of cases it's going to require senior management aging out of the workforce.

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Important_Tale1190 t1_j9ypyvz wrote

Reply to comment by mechwarrior719 in A 2-year-old boy was lost in the Florida woods for 24 hours. Everyone feared the worst. Hundreds of volunteers came out to look for him. One volunteer came to a fork in a field: right or left? He trusted his gut, went left and soon heard a whimper. It was the little boy, crying but in good health. by ConquerWyoming

I wonder if that says something about the way we treat children in this society...

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It's possible that kids are just scared and confused all the time, but still. Not knowing who the helpers are.......

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Northwindlowlander t1_j9ypjkw wrote

Reply to Yungblud says he will provide a mental health safe space for fans on tour by TheScaryWatchdog

It seems like in practice it's going to be more of an expansion of the traditional first aid place/chillout room, or maybe better to say it's expanding the perception of those.

And that's great! People tend to expect those to be for drugs and injuries, and pretty much a place of last resort, but not always for mental health issues. If people feel that it's appropriate and encouraged to seek out a safe space then that's important.

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rvralph803 t1_j9ypf6x wrote

Reply to comment by moocow4125 in A man with no home was treated as if he didn't matter. Then a group of people helped, saving his life in the process. by CBSnews

Bud, my wife is a pastor and she fights with her church to get them to serve the community in these ways. I've come to the conclusion that the preponderance of Christians are the most vile hypocrites.

The church has 70k in the bank.

When the question of letting homosexuals lead came up they decided to leave the broader Methodist church. There were people tripping over themselves to donate for the costs of leaving over homosexuals in the church. But if there's a drive to do anything for the community. To home someone or fix a person's home or health... Nothing.

As a Christian I'm just as disgusted as you.

That said, what are your practical needs. How can I help?

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BeeExpert t1_j9yp5mx wrote

Reply to A 2-year-old boy was lost in the Florida woods for 24 hours. Everyone feared the worst. Hundreds of volunteers came out to look for him. One volunteer came to a fork in a field: right or left? He trusted his gut, went left and soon heard a whimper. It was the little boy, crying but in good health. by ConquerWyoming

Last time I went left at a fork I ended up falling down a muddy embankment and hitting myself in the nuts with a stick (two separate incidents)

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Northwindlowlander t1_j9yoo79 wrote

Reply to comment by Ange1ofD4rkness in Yungblud says he will provide a mental health safe space for fans on tour by TheScaryWatchdog

Crowds, mostly. Getting squished or feeling you can't escape, touching people you don't know, lots of noise, overload. Emotional overload too, that goes all the way back to Elvis and probably further, my mum could have done with a mental health safe space when she saw the Beatles...

Physical plays a part too, dehydration or exhaustion can be pretty heavy triggers especially for those unused to it. Plus, sometimes too much drink, or drugs. AND there was this whole pandemic thing, even old hands like me are still not really match fit (it's really only this year that I've really got my gig reflexes back, and that's a skill I'd been working on for about 25 years) lots of people are less comfortable and there's this whole surge of new gig-goers that missed out on 2 years.

Last bad one I helped with was at a my chemical romance show- panic attack, the person had some history of that but it was triggered simply by the excitement and the anticipation kicking them into a state of emotional overload, and then that getting magnified by feeling surrounded and not able to get out so it got really bad. It was the person's first big show post-pandemic too.

(and exactly like Yungblud, there you've got a rock show that'll be attended by a lot of people that are not normally at rock shows, so inexperience and other people's experience is a multiplier. Only reason I was involved- most of the kids around them were inexperienced, I'm an old hand.)

Last one I had, was at a Sepultura show, I was having a great time but I just plain ran out of oxygen in the pit and couldn't get myself out, and then in that state being helped did not feel like being helped. I've gone to hundreds of gigs and been in hundreds of pits but that was like flipping a switch in my head. Never happened to me any other time at a show, even at properly dangerous ones when people have been leaving in ambulances, I'm usually the person that hauls other people out. That's the nature of a mental health crisis really, it's not predictable, it doesn't follow rules.

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luger718 t1_j9yojc4 wrote

Reply to comment by Hivestrung in A 2-year-old boy was lost in the Florida woods for 24 hours. Everyone feared the worst. Hundreds of volunteers came out to look for him. One volunteer came to a fork in a field: right or left? He trusted his gut, went left and soon heard a whimper. It was the little boy, crying but in good health. by ConquerWyoming

>(but possibly dangerous due to strangulation risk idk I don't have a child)

Bro, toddlers are suicide machines, you are not that far off.

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FightOnForUsc t1_j9yohj0 wrote

Reply to comment by littleferrhis in High-Speed Rail Project Will Create Over 10,000 Jobs in California by gammapsi05

And then when you get to those cities there isn’t good public transportation so you need a car. So if you’re only going a couple hundred miles it starts feeling like it makes more sense to drive. Especially if you have lots of luggage or multiple people as the costs don’t scale with the number of people in a car

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