My husband wears a 6E. I highly recommend wide load boots, which are the only safety boots we have heard of that actually got a safety toe certified above 2E. Many brands claim to have 4-6E, but use the same 2E toe.

They came out with a line of casual boots last year and they are great, he wears them every day in the tropics, and last winter wore them for a month in snow, and they still look good as new.

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.)

Yes! I posted about this a while ago when some environmental activists were sitting in the middle of train tracks to stop trains and got arrested. You don’t have to do that, just toss a molly at the control boxes that line the tracks. Depending on the location and how many you can get to, you can have trains stopped for weeks.

Yes, when I was a kid in school in the 90s we learned logo and qbasic.

http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/felix_qb_for_kids.htm

Logo uses a little turtle to draw, it was a blast!

https://turtleacademy.com/lessons/1

Depends on girth as well, 6 inches but thick I consider a “big” dick. 7 inches but skinny would look average.

It’s also one of the few nights of the year where entire neighbourhoods get together, meet each other. Families get dressed, make costumes, go door to door.

We set up tables and chairs on our front porch here in Brisbane, and have tacos or pizza while we watch Halloween movies and wait for trick or treaters.

We hang out with parents, hand out bottles of water, some candy, and I prefer giving out some useful treats like themed pencils, erasers, this year we gave out stickers for potion bottles, so when kids get home they can clean out an old jar and make cool potions to decorate for next year.

It is the only time a year when we see all of our neighbours and I would say it is the one holiday we all feel most connected.

The Halloween celebrated in the UK is literally just kids getting dressed up and going door to door for free candy. They have been doing that in the UK for hundreds of years before the US started doing it when Irish immigrants brought it over.

This isn’t some whacky theory dude, it’s fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating#Guising

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

No one is saying the modern Halloween is meant to be a Celtic tradition, it’s just a bit of fun.

It’s also probably the least commercialized holiday as well. You buy some candy and put the porch light on, or don’t and leave the porch light off.

Get a costume, or throw something together, grab a pillowcase and off you go.

It’s a far cry from Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day, etc. which are far more commercialized worldwide.

And yet BOM website seems to have no Brisbane warnings. 🤦‍♀️

Halloween has been celebrated in the UK and Ireland for hundreds of years, and the Irish brought it to America.

There has been dressing up and going door to door for hundreds of years too, and even jack o lanterns have been around for ages.

The holiday is much more a UK thing than it is an American thing, it’s rather surprising actually that it’s not as much a thing in Australia…

This is hilarious, you have a gift with words!

In osrs there is a PvP mini game “soul wars” that I love playing absolutely incorrectly.

I follow teammates around and rapidly use kits on them to heal them, use weapon specs to stun whoever they’re fighting, that kind of thing. I don’t usually try to attack anyone.

While osrs does have some healing mechanics and spells, almost no one uses them, which I find really sad.

I’m fact, in soul wars they actually blocked the healing spells from working at all, a fact I learnt only after getting level 94 to cast them.

After all these years, no one had ever tried I guess, I had to have a friend edit the wiki so no one else would be surprised.

Anyway, a friend looked me up and apparently I was pretty high in the high scores for someone who doesn’t kill anyone.

Yeah… I don’t think there are as many of those as you think.

No Aussie drivers licence, no healthcare, most places won’t rent to you, can’t build a life really.

It’s hard enough to build a life while minimising the data you spread around, but with the sheer number of services that require id and proof of right to be here I can’t imagine there are a ton of these people.

Absolutely. My family and I want to the Brisbane “March for Australia” … I won’t bother retelling our experience again, check my post history if you like - but it wasn’t peaceful.

One of the lines we heard often from that screaming jeering pushy crowd was “I don’t mind immigrants, I’m not racist, I just don’t want the illegal immigrants here.”

Mate, we’re a fucking island, this isn’t America. We put the illegal immigrants in an offshore detention centre ffs. It’s not like they’re hopping the border.

Ah yes, the Gympie Gympie tree. It is truly horrible.

It is the most horrible tree in the world, people have been known to commit suicide the sting is so bad.

Not only that but it stings for months or years and the trichromes stay in the skin and release the toxin whenever triggering events happen, such as touching the affected skin, contact with water, or temperature changes.

For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldn’t work or sleep… I remember it feeling like there were giant hands trying to squash my chest… then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower…There’s nothing to rival it; it’s ten times worse than anything else.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides

Yeah that’s what’s so shocking about it, these bags would be $5 only a few years ago. And I remember how painfully impoverished large swaths of the country were then.

I cannot imagine how the average American in the Midwest is surviving at the moment.

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.