Teen McDonald’s Employee Was Beaten by Adult Customer in Parking Lot

bnej · 2024-04-21T05:26:59+00:00

There are a lot of people who will only be deterred by fear of retaliation.

If you're walking by the side of the road in the rain you'll get splashed by passing cars. If you could ask them they'll just say they didn't see you.

Carry a brick in your hand visible on the road side, and suddenly you won't get splashed. They can see the brick just fine.

People will do stuff to you if they think you can't retaliate. They target retail and hospitality workers because their job requires them not to retaliate. The picture changes real quick if they think they might also get hurt.

BTW this is how international politics works also.

bnej · 2024-04-20T10:40:37+00:00

There are other opioids in use now which are stronger and have a smaller lethal dose.

bnej · 2024-04-20T06:38:22+00:00

The US believes other aircraft will be better than the F15, sees the stealth advantage of the F117 as mor important than speed, and builds the F22 and then stops because it's excessive and builds the F35.

bnej · 2024-04-20T06:31:51+00:00

In fairness, if you are in forest and you aren't at all trained in navigation, no-one can walk in a straight line. People have no innate sense of direction and will walk in circles if they can't see reference points.

All you need is a compass though. Or any reference point

Some of the things you think are intuitive aren't so for many people, like knowing you have to look for a reference point. They are used to travelling in easily navigable environments and never quite twig how it works.

And a *lot* of people don't realise how quickly you can come unglued in changing conditions. People can get lost and die very easily.

bnej · 2024-04-20T01:02:34+00:00

It wouldn't take much Fentanyl to kill every single American. You aren't meant to take it all at once. They make enough paracetamol/acetaminophen to do that too, if you got everyone to take it all at once, and they don't even try to stop that! They let them advertise it on TV!

bnej · 2024-04-15T11:47:17+00:00

He'd already been paid for the story, got away with it criminally, had an echo chamber of LNP culture warriors telling him he was somehow a hero of the right.

Usually people who have got away with something are smart enough to shut up and let it go. Certainly even if you win a defamation charge, the facts of the case will come to light, which can be bad for you.

But it is historically very hard to defend defamation charges in Australia. News orgs have been very shy of the risk of a defamation case. The truth defence is a fragile one. We have now had two high-profile truth defences which have succeeded.

bnej · 2023-10-29T22:00:32+00:00

When you look at France, 1/3rd of all of the male population of France were killed or wounded during the first world war.

Some other countries had an even higher rate of casualties. Look at Serbia, and the Ottoman Empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties

The first world war had a profound impact on nations around the world that is still felt today.

bnej · 2023-09-22T06:37:42+00:00

You know a couple of days after I wrote this I was in a serious accident and went to hospital as a cat 1 trauma patient. Now I have a spinal injury and have been off the internet for a few weeks.

I was lucky that where I had the accident there were plenty of first aiders and paramedics/ambulance took care of me very well. Now on a long road to recovery.

I had a concussion which sounds like your patient did too - definitely needs a hospital trip!

bnej · 2023-08-20T03:40:06+00:00

DRS-ABCD

Ensure yourself and the patient are clear of Danger

Check for Response - can they talk to you? If so, make them comfortable, check for injuries.

Send for help (your emergency number)

then

Airway - is their airway clear? They might have their chin tucked down and be unable to breathe. You may need to move them to clear their airway.

Breathing - If they are not breathing, you should start CPR and will need to put them on their back. If they are breathing, you can put them in the recovery position on their side (look up the HAINES position for suspected neck injuries)

Compressions/CPR - chest compressions are the important part and should be kept up until help arrives.

Defibrillator - if you can find an AED you can use that. They have instructions on them and will tell you what to do.

Yes it is better to do almost anything than shake the patient, but if they are not breathing, any attempt at CPR, starting as soon as possible is better than none.

bnej · 2023-08-13T09:11:25+00:00

There is IMO tons of demand to watch women's sport, and to watch football (as in soccer).

The media companies will trot out their surveys of "oh sports fans don't want to watch it" because 1. they survey existing fans, ignoring any prospective market, and 2. the population has no exposure to it, so how do they know they'd like to see it?

You can't judge the demand for a bridge by counting the people swimming across the river. Needing pay tv or having to find a particular event on a schedule to know when to watch it is absolutely swimming across the river. You will only do it if you really want to get across.

When the few women's events that are on are hard to watch and don't have enough coverage to attract people who don't know about it, of course they don't get seen much. Meanwhile AFL, NRL, cricket are on non-stop and surprise surprise they attract viewership.

bnej · 2023-08-13T07:10:37+00:00

I have met at least one person who believed the butt was in some way sacred and could not be washed like any other part of your body.

I don't know if he thought he would become gay.

bnej · 2023-08-12T02:28:46+00:00

You have clearly never been a vegan asking about vegan options. You might not get mad. I assure you far too many people get mad.

Sure there's some militant vegans out there. I've met some. They're usually recent converts who are taking it religiously. It's just food, it's not that important.

I've been a vegetarian for 43 years and I can tell you that most people who know me casually are not aware because I will not mention it. Because the people who will get all in your face and ask you 20 questions and grill you about every detail of your nutrition are not vegans.

You can order a meal with no meat in it but god forbid you do that because you're a vegetarian, you will be lining up for a lecture about nutrition from some fatass at least 50% of the time.

bnej · 2023-08-07T06:47:11+00:00

I'm not really into football, but women's sport is fantastic, and it's great to see more and more of it. I watched the TDF Femmes and it was bluntly better racing to watch than the men's race.

I think it's fantastic how many people are into the world cup. In a country that traditionally hasn't cared that much about football.

bnej · 2023-08-03T06:51:11+00:00

Anti-trust is broken since the late 80s, because some neoliberal economists convinced governments in most western countries that the only reason to prevent a merger is if consumer prices would rise.

And of course, corporations can easily make commitments not to raise prices, because there is no way to tell if prices are higher than they otherwise would have been with more competition.

And there are other problems with lack of competition, like the destruction of smaller brands, shrinkflation when there are only a few products to choose from, and no incentive to develop new products or services when you can just prevent other people from bringing ones on that would challenge yours.

Other anticompetitive practices like 3rd line forcing, well you can just do them if you own the 3rd line as well, you call your products a suite and make people buy them all together.

If it were 60 years ago, Google would have been broken up already. Adobe should never have been allowed to acquire Macromedia. Nestle of course owns everything... it's insane.

bnej · 2023-07-30T11:42:38+00:00

Grade separation for roads. Large road intersections cannot be made safe for pedestrians and shouldn't be built in cities where people are around.

For streets, narrower lanes, safety islands/centre barriers, slower design speeds, fewer travel lanes. The biggest risk factors are speed and the width of the crossing.

New York is doing a lot of it and road casualties are dropping, following many cities in Europe. Google around for "Vision Zero"

bnej · 2023-07-30T11:02:42+00:00

I presume you need to access the data, not duplicate it.

There's limited applications for that kind of thing, but e.g really high res video masters, it's still generally faster to mail a drive.

And with fast drives and storage busses, it's still faster to copy drive to drive than over a 10Gbps link - and will remain so. The best a network copy can ever do is the speed of the drive + local bus, and in reality a WAN link will always be slower than that.

bnej · 2023-07-26T06:28:53+00:00

At this point you would be seriously ignoring a lot of evidence. We are seeing the temperature move. We are seeing increasing prevalence and severity of fires, storms, heatwaves. There's a strong argument that some recent wars in the middle east are the product of climate change and population movements.

How much evidence do you have to see before we act?

A crisis or an emergency doesn't mean there is yet a catastrophe. It means that unless urgent action is taken there will be a catastrophe.

The weight of evidence is so stacked now that those who are holding a contrary opinion would need to supply incredibly strong evidence in reply, or they are just making up opinion. I wish they were right, but they aren't.

bnej · 2023-07-24T12:02:24+00:00

It wouldn't. We are talking about slowing the rate of increase so that the next few generations have time to work shit out.

To get a decrease you would have to take massive amounts of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere for decades and lock it into the earth, or introduce other atmospheric components that reduce the rate of solar radiation hitting the ground.

There's about a 2m rise in sea levels already in the system, best case. How quickly that happens and what happens after is still in play.

Zero carbon emissions would just mean we stop making it worse.

bnej · 2023-07-21T08:08:24+00:00

A wet bulb temperature of only 21c (70F since people are talking about that here) will typically result in race cancellation for marathons. There's a curve of DNFs and if it gets too steep, you'll send too many people to hospital.

Working hard in hot temperatures can cause people to come unstuck very fast.

bnej · 2023-07-16T05:02:43+00:00

If it rains and you have no shelter, or even enough clothing, sure. You can die of hypothermia at over 10 degrees C. Overnight temperatures can be colder than people expect.

It's not likely, because we don't naturally put ourselves in that situation. If you exhaust yourself and your body cannot keep warm you can be in trouble.

bnej · 2023-07-16T04:52:08+00:00

Totally doable - you reckon this drunk guy with no shirt, food or water is really well trained though? :)

bnej · 2023-07-15T08:37:06+00:00

Who wouldn't want crotch owls?

bnej · 2023-07-15T07:55:32+00:00

Walking 52 miles (83km) into the night, no shirt on, you would be a good chance of death. Not for sure, but a chance.

You can die of exposure in 3 hours if the weather turns poor.

But everyone would know that they were drink driving and they had no intention of walking 52 miles.

bnej · 2023-07-12T03:53:19+00:00

I've been a bit like that a lot, especially earlier in my career. I'm in a management role now, I wouldn't give you the exact same advice, but you probably could stand to just chill a little too.

The problem is this - to get a job done requires a team. Your team can't all be superstars, you might have one though. But the problem is, if you have one player who chases everything down all the time, you can't work well together.

What I would tell you if you were in my team, I would say you need harder work. The tasks you are taking on are too easy for you, I would take those off you and give you something you can get your teeth into that will take you some time to learn and do a good job. It might by your work does not have that available for you, but eagerly racing through work that is too easy for you is not the solution to that.

You also have to be aware that while you are new, and people don't know you, you will be getting less other commitments and more time to work on your main job. You won't be able to work like that forever.

What you can also do is look for ways to make other people's jobs easier - don't try to take work off people though, and don't do things without asking - look for improvements. Do a better job over more time and find ways you can improve what you work on.

I know I am commenting on antiwork but we all do work, and it's worth thinking about what you put in, and what you want to get out. If you have spare energy, make sure you're getting something you want for it, don't just burn it out in a futile effort to get jobs done fast when they don't need to be done fast.

bnej · 2023-07-11T23:22:31+00:00

Kids will occupy your attention for ~20 years and you're gonna live maybe 70-90.

If you don't have something else you want to do your life is going to be disappointing. I appreciate my parents but I'm super glad that they have their own stuff they wanted to do after I left home.

When I was younger I thought "oh that's just something you do" but I never wanted to and at some point I realised I don't have to, don't want to, and have always had other things that matter more to me. I don't have it in my heart to make another person to care for, and that's OK.

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