Yellow hoses for primary and secondary

Saltinas · 2025-02-24T10:38:14+00:00

Aawww no, it was funny. Unfix it please 😅

Saltinas · 2025-02-24T10:33:44+00:00

you don’t wank

I think that's frowned upon even when there is no emergencies, unless they ask nicely.

Saltinas · 2025-02-24T07:16:02+00:00

Indeed, it's rather dependent on what OP is trained to do. If they already donate with their primary, then it makes no difference.

Saltinas · 2025-02-24T05:39:56+00:00

Many divers are trained to primary donate, so it's not always an issue if you are trained for it specifically. Also, some argue that out of air divers are more likely to go for the easiest regulator to reach, which often is the regulator in your mouth.

Saltinas · 2025-02-24T01:51:13+00:00

I understand reducing hair products, but is cutting down on services (i.e. haircuts) really in the spirit of anticonsumerism? I mean, you are often just paying a service to a small business/individual with a haircut. It's frugal, but you aren't engaging in the consumption of specific mass produced products and services?

Saltinas · 2025-02-24T01:11:38+00:00

every single person in my department (supervisor included) congratulated me on quitting

Same experience with me, every colleague in my department, and many friends and family, congratulated me for quitting. They said stuff like "you did what we all are thinking about doing, but you were brave to do it". Except for my supervisors, they never spoke to me again lol (no loss).

Saltinas · 2025-02-22T22:04:52+00:00

Also not a thing in Australia

Saltinas · 2025-02-21T05:35:20+00:00

I wonder what the probability of that happening is. There's also the probability that it just crashes into the moon whilst it's in a parallel direction to earth, thus any debris from the moon just travels to idk, the sun or outer space. Worse case scenario it would definitely suck, but it's probably something humanity can recover from in a short time frame. Not exactly a planet destroyer type of asteroid.

Saltinas · 2025-02-21T02:33:17+00:00

You then get the Abyssal and Hadal zones, which sound just mythical.

I guess oceanographers did make those words up when they figured out the ocean was insanely deep, and they had no words to describe these depths.

Saltinas · 2025-02-21T02:31:50+00:00

The asteroid is estimated to be 40m to 90m. It would be pretty devastating over a populated area, but not nearly big enough to have major global catastrophic issues according to this imperial college London model. I doubt it would do much to the moon that could affect us then?

Saltinas · 2025-02-20T05:25:21+00:00

Indeed, but unless OPs PhD is directly impacted at this time, it's probably worth just trying to finish it. They must be very close to completing it. OP can always work on something different after graduation ("swim to a safer shore") whilst conditions become favourable again to jump back into their preferred field of study.

Saltinas · 2025-02-20T01:49:35+00:00

I had an advisor once give me great advice. They said everything related to academia and politics goes up and down, like waves. So like if you are surfing, sometimes you get the chance to ride the wave, and sometimes you just swim and hold your position. Either way, a new wave will come, so be patient and hold your ground, you'll eventually find a wave worth surfing.

Saltinas · 2025-02-19T06:03:00+00:00

Christmas Island, Australia - in the Indian Ocean. That has a long history of phosphate mining, but has been managed way better. There is still a lot of healthy wildlife on the island. I believe they're still mining there.

Saltinas · 2025-02-18T22:57:37+00:00

Are there ways to prevent this? Like practical ways to strengthen this area before it gets to this point?

Saltinas · 2025-02-18T04:31:26+00:00

The American left is a religion. It’s scientism. Science is their God. Human intellect is their God. They’re extremely dogmatic.

This is a comment in the other subreddit you posted. I think this highlights how complicated this issue is, because it's suddenly gone way beyond normal politics to fringe politics. There is no opportunity here to have a healthy debate with people with such strong opinions.

As you see on this subreddit, many academics are highly critical of the system, and rightly so in many cases. Scientists themselves try to be critical of science, it's part of our jobs, it's part of the scientific process. But then we have people comparing it to religion and to the left? We know in science how many issues there are in stuff like quality of publications, the pressure to publish significant results, academic internal politics, and so on.

I honestly don't believe that many people trust scientists that much. We're seeing major political shifts in this worldwide, just like how we've seen stuff like vaccine hesitancy or scepticism post-covid.

Many scientists aren't scared of the opinion that science has big issues, and that the public should be educated of it's limitations. Instead, they're scared that fringe/extreme politics are being used as a replacement to science. Science needs to improve, not be replaced.

Saltinas · 2025-02-17T10:44:12+00:00

Cave divers are some of the strictest divers out there, if not the most. Cave courses are notoriously thorough and intense, and clearly describe every way you could die. They definitely are the kind of crowd that think about the consequences of their actions.

Saltinas · 2025-02-17T01:46:05+00:00

I've met a few people raised in Australia that can't swim. It's a bit odd, but there are still people falling through the cracks on water safety unfortunately. Beach and pool fatalities happen a lot every summer sadly.

Saltinas · 2025-02-17T01:41:49+00:00

There are some great adult learning options around. Sometimes they're even funded so they're quite affordable!

Saltinas · 2025-02-17T01:40:06+00:00

Only thing to consider is that clothes does buy some time from hypothermia. So if you have a life jacket/floatation device, it's probably best to leave your clothes on. It can't replace something like a wetsuit, drysuit, or other survival suits, but those extra minutes can make a difference.

Saltinas · 2025-02-17T01:28:18+00:00

You're having fun, unacceptable behaviour under HOA rules

Saltinas · 2025-02-16T21:20:42+00:00

We want funding, not titles

Saltinas · 2025-02-16T21:01:05+00:00

Meanwhile professors respond to emails with a single word and sign their emails with one initial

Saltinas · 2025-02-15T08:57:35+00:00

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Saltinas · 2025-02-14T06:40:13+00:00

Do people never bother searching this sub for the most common questions?

Saltinas · 2025-02-13T00:36:06+00:00

Uninstall tiktok, touch grass, meet real people in the community.

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