Wishing you a boring and uneventful complete recovery from Australia ❤️

Ah yes, I should have been clear, these are filter lists you can use with ublock which is what I did.

I use two lists and have noticed a huge difference.

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

https://github.com/NotaInutilis/Super-SEO-Spam-Suppressor

One removes ai slop, the other removes all the junk websites. Like when you search for reviews of a watch and end up with endless pages of “top 10 watches of 2025!”

I also changed my default search engine to https://google.com/search?q=%25s&udm=14 which removes the ai overview crap. (For now.)

This is really sad … I still send letters, sometimes it’s nice to get a post card or letter in the mail. 😔

Beautifully written, thank you.

I remember they made a statement about it and I think they stopped.

Welcome! Lemmy is like Reddit was in its infancy.

Don’t be a jerk and you’ll be fine. :)

You know that quote “Blood is thicker than water”?

The entire quote is “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”.

We found our family, and that bond is as strong as any blood.

That is a straw man argument, but I’ll indulge again.

No amount of lead is safe, and a random sampling of newly built houses testing water from the cold kitchen tap as well as hot and cold from the bathrooms found lead above the current regulatory limit, and 5 times higher than the proposed new regulatory limit.

https://leappalliance.org.uk/litw-blog-15/

https://www.ifeh.org/docs/scientificreports/scottish_new_homes_lead_survey_ summary.pdf

One study has shown a clear response in infants where blood lead levels increased by 1µg/dL with drinking water that exceeded 5 µg/L. This is already worrying since it is now believed that blood lead levels as low as 1-2µg/dL result in negative health effects associated with fertility, neurological, cardiovascular, and renal disorders.

https://thewaterprofessor.com/blogs/articles/drinking-water-lead-and-iq

The use of lead solder and brass fittings has only been illegal in the uk since 1999, and these are still legal to use in central heating systems. This leads to people having access to these fittings and products, and them being used illegally.

“WaterSafe Warning after Kitchen Fitter Fined for Illegal Use of Lead Solder on Water Pipes” https://www.watersafe.org.uk/news/latest_news/watersafe_warning_af/

Unfortunately this problem is sort of universal and I imagine if I google other countries I will find similar.

It’s still legal for plumbing parts that contain lead to be used here in Australia.

It was supposed to be banned last year but they extended the dead line twice because the plumbers were crying.

It’s now meant to be fully phased out in May 2026.

There may be more lead in your country than you think, even if lead pipes are banned.

Multiple schools here have had lead found in their water. It’s crazy.

Pilots train for hypoxia in hyperbaric chambers, repeatedly losing consciousness to train.

I question the claim that the brain needs to rewire itself because of massive cell death.

That is a seriously problematic study with few controls and a small sample size.

Pilots regularly train in for hypoxia in hyperbaric chambers, losing consciousness repeatedly to train.

Consent and education are important, but safely engaging in breath play is very unlikely to give your partner brain damage.

Exactly what I wondered when this was brought up 6 months ago!

https://vger.to/lemmy.world/comment/16311493

This article is feeling kind of clickbaitish, as the sources are … odd.

However, restricting blood flow to the brain can also have serious health implications.

While not all pressure on the neck will be fatal, research shows even relatively low pressure can cause death by strangulation.

The first source is a medical journal describing the physiology of the arteries in the neck, and does not seem to include anything about restricting blood flow (never mind temporarily) having serious health consequences.

The second source is a book from 1991 about autoerotic asphyxiation with the quote:

autoerotic asphyxia denotes death resulting from failure of a release mechanism of the device, apparatus or prop designed to attain cerebral hypoxia for heightened arousal.

Which is … not the same as doing this with someone, and doesn’t address the risks of a partner who releases pressure immediately after a loss of consciousness.

The issues around consent are troubling indeed, consent should always be paramount.

I also found it amusing that the beginning of the article said

Although rare, strangulation is the leading cause of death in consensual BDSM play.

Which links to a study that found a total of 16 cases that included strangulation between 1982 and 2020. Rare indeed.

My husband and I dabble in breath play, so I was curious and read a few studies myself. It seems that every case study I could find included atypical circumstances. Things like accidental hanging, or asphyxiation due to bags etc being over the head.

This paper includes a 50 year review of cases for anyone interested. https://benthamopen.com/contents/pdf/TOFORSJ/TOFORSJ-1-1.pdf

It is also worth noting that loss of consciousness due to cutting off blood flow to the brain (cerebral hypoxia) is not dissimilar to the hypoxia experienced by pilots, who even train with repeated exposure to hypoxia in hyperbaric chambers.

I would be curious to know if there were any studies of the long term effects of this on pilots. (My dive into the rabbit hole is done for the day, lol.)

An article about this was posted 6 months ago and I looked into it: https://lemmy.world/comment/16311493

I wrote:

This article is feeling kind of clickbaitish, as the sources are … odd.

However, restricting blood flow to the brain can also have serious health implications.

While not all pressure on the neck will be fatal, research shows even relatively low pressure can cause death by strangulation.

The first source is a medical journal describing the physiology of the arteries in the neck, and does not seem to include anything about restricting blood flow (never mind temporarily) having serious health consequences.

The second source is a book from 1991 about autoerotic asphyxiation with the quote:

autoerotic asphyxia denotes death resulting from failure of a release mechanism of the device, apparatus or prop designed to attain cerebral hypoxia for heightened arousal.

Which is … not the same as doing this with someone, and doesn’t address the risks of a partner who releases pressure immediately after a loss of consciousness.

The issues around consent are troubling indeed, consent should always be paramount.

I also found it amusing that the beginning of the article said

Although rare, strangulation is the leading cause of death in consensual BDSM play.

Which links to a study that found a total of 16 cases that included strangulation between 1982 and 2020. Rare indeed.

My husband and I dabble in breath play, so I was curious and read a few studies myself. It seems that every case study I could find included atypical circumstances. Things like accidental hanging, or asphyxiation due to bags etc being over the head.

This paper includes a 50 year review of cases for anyone interested. https://benthamopen.com/contents/pdf/TOFORSJ/TOFORSJ-1-1.pdf

It is also worth noting that loss of consciousness due to cutting off blood flow to the brain (cerebral hypoxia) is not dissimilar to the hypoxia experienced by pilots, who even train with repeated exposure to hypoxia in hyperbaric chambers.

I would be curious to know if there were any studies of the long term effects of this on pilots. (My dive into the rabbit hole is done for the day, lol.)

I actually have a real, studied, easy thing you can try!

I found out by accident because I was taking b vitamins daily and started taking them at night, and noticed I was suddenly having very vivid dreams.

So much so that I googled it and it turns out that taking b6 before bed can cause vivid dreams and dream recall!

Here’s a study, there are a few.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29665762/

It’s happening here in Australia too. I’m watching the slow rise after being lucky enough to escape the US.

I wrote about my experience going to a racist rally a month or so ago with my husband and children.

It was supposed to be peaceful and I wouldn’t have expected to be putting my kids in danger.

Horrible.

WHAT??!

I see DarkAri has deleted their comment, but I think it’s important that everyone can see what was written.

This is the kind of unhinged nonsense we are up against. Accusations and ramblings that aren’t even relevant to my comment.

The mass immigration has been by far the strongest reason that right wing politics became so popular. Dont delude yourself. The left fucked up. It’s not right to force half the country to tolerate mass immigration just because you think you are smarter then them. That is the shit that ruined democracy. Most democratic things are not about what is right or wrong. If another citizen doesn’t want to have a million Indians or muslims living in his hometown thats none of your business. It is his right to have a state that represents him so long as he isn’t advocating to take away anyone’s rights. You are lucky the Republicans are incredibly corrupt and stupid and are doing all the other things that the right hates,like censorship, taking away freedom, stuff like this. Your pathetic state is so desperate to micromanage everyone’s lives and monitor them that they just cannot help themselves to not ruin their own position again. The racism is strong, but half of the reason people voted for the right is because they perceived the left as being the side of censorship and mass surveillance and fascism, but they are getting a wakeup call now. Lucky for you their politicians are incredibly stupid and also many people who are actually right wing do have some decent values and character and will reject the Republican politics completely for this bullshit they are trying to pull. Don’t ever sell out your fellow citizens to the state and corporations again. We do not need them telling us what we can watch and read, and what we can vote on, we don’t need them or you policing our speech. We are free people just like you, not subjects and not slaves. If the leftists can actually learn to take responsibility for their shitty tactics they might actually get power again. The day they stop trying to ignore half the country is the day they will start getting popularity again. After the 2016 election with Hilary it’s pretty obvious how extremely corrupt they were, but now people are seeing how much more corrupt the right is. We got lucky this time but if the left doesn’t wise up they are going to lose everything for a few decades until right wing politics become lame again.