Use jack stands for your car. If your body will be under the car for even a second, there should be jack stands. There were five different people at my high school who were in a wheel chair because they thought the jack was enough.
I don’t care if your jack costs $100,000 made of pure titanium; do not trust it.
There was a waiter at my second job who was crushed by a car that fell off a Jack. Same, he was in a wheelchair. But then he (probably partially from continuing to do meth) had a heart attack and died 6 months later.
Taking a wheel off of a car, and you don’t have jack stands? You have jack stands and are taking a wheel off as part of your work? Does it involve being under the car? Throw that wheel on the ground under the frame rail / pinch weld. If something horrible happens and the jack kicks, dropping the car on you, it may save your life, and you have to put that wheel somewhere anyway
I lost a coworker when his beloved 70s Camaro fell on him while he was alone at home. His partner had to come home and find him, and he was never quite the same. I tell everyone to use jack stands or a block or a wheel.
Related pro tip, if you’re changing a flat tire and don’t have any jack stands, place the spare/damaged wheel under the car while you’re working on it. Better to have the car fall on the wheel then potentially your leg
I do this anytime I take a wheel off, even with jack stands. Doesn’t hurt anything and I’ll take anything extra between the chassis and my head I can get.
I just posted elsewhere in the thread, neighbor had his car roll off his jack stands because he was, let’s face it, dumb enough to be working on a sloped driveway. Crushed his head and killed him. His parents found him.
If you’re only using two jack stands get chocks too, not just a log from the wood pile.
People seem to think nothing bad will happen to them because it never has before. This is wrong.
People are way too comfortable with getting underneath unsecured loads, especially cars. I feel bad for the kid, but damn, don’t get under a car on a slope.
I need to buy some chocks now that you mention it. Parking brakes aren’t enough
People are way too comfortable with a lot of dangerous situations. There were two sanitation engineers in my city just a week ago who died trying to replace a pump in a subsurface pumping station (read: one of those big manholes that had a pump inside it). One dude went down to secure a rope around the pump, didn’t come back up, his buddy went in to save him, also didn’t come out. This is an almost identical event to one that happened 6 years ago in the same city, for the same sanitation department.
Similar to this, once you have a vehicle on jack stands, shake it lightly to make sure it doesn’t fall easily. Better to find out now by shaking the car before being under it.
Fuck, for sensual, a long and hot shower is sovereign. Just kick back and enjoy the muscles unkinking (shower chairs ftw?)
Climbing into fresh sheets after said shower.
A hot cup of beverage on a rainy day, looking out over the back yard.
Cuddling with our hen. No, that’s not a typo. She’s not as cuddly as she used to be, but every now and then, she’ll nestle into my beard and trill while she gets her neck petted. Pure, simple joy right there. When she was smaller, it was every night. Now, it’s maybe once a month.
Finding a new band/performer that resonates with me on an emotional level.
Used to take joy in baking, but that’s kinda fallen off what with arthritis interfering more, but every now and then, I can pop some NSAIDs and knead a dough, or make something sweet that fills the house with that smell.
At least in the United States, there is a ton of misinformation about circumcision. Long story short, it's routinely done to infant boys, and is commonly thought to be healthier. In truth, there is little to no evidence of any medical benefits from circumcision.
Even further, many doctors, including pediatricians, aren't taught proper care for foreskins. A classic example is that in young boys the foreskin is fused to the head of the penis. It loosens as they get older, and usually is retractable around puberty. It's important not to forcibly retract the foreskin until this happens, or it can cause complications, including phimosis. Many pediatricians don't know this, and will retract the foreskin during a checkup, or will give the parents bad advice and tell them to clean under the foreskin during bath time.
Having experienced it, I could pull it back a little and would clean under there after having had an infection. Def not a good idea to yank it back. It’d be excruciating. I even distinctly remember I could cum before I could pull the skin all the way back. Either way there should be education about it, I thought I was weird until it came all the way back.
This is the one that is so very delicate and depends on genetics and individual development a lot.
Lack of prepuce motility can also lead to phimosis. And lack of hygiene can also make the foreskin a locus of infection. It is not like a vagina that can stay clean and discharges on their own. Any debris or substance that lodges under the prepuce can cause infection so you do have to keep it clean. This is particularly problematic with diaper use that concentrates humidity for too long in genital area. Also, some kids make it to puberty with a fused prepuce and have to have it manually and painfully mechanically separated. While gentle normal washing rub during showers usually helps with the gradual and natural separation.
Like a lot of things in human health, it’s not that black and white. Fuck circumsicion for aesthetic reasons though, that’s genital mutilation, amounts to child abuse and I have seen too many families lose babies to circumcision related complications.
The Addams family was a genuine departure from most sitcom families, It depicted a Family who loved each other, parents who I weren’t afraid to openly I show love for each other and actively supported their children’s endeavors.
[off topic] One of the best ‘ask science fiction’ questions I ever read. What would have happened if baby Kal-El had been found and raised by the Addmas Family?
Well, one thing I see is that the Addams and the Luthors must be frenemies before the crash. Lex is super competitive and Gomez is one of the few rich guys he sees as being his equal.
If you party around people who do hard drugs (festivals, shows, etc), get a narcan inhaler and know how to administer it. It’s very simple, and there are orgs that will give you one for free. Fent is way too common, and there’s other bad shit out there. You could save a life.
Check that the electrical power is off with a meter. Don’t trust that you shut the switch. Some really creative wiring or frayed wires can cause them to be unexpectedly live.
And don’t let anyone close to the breaker box while you are working, my grandfather nearly died when some idiot turned the power back on for an industrial machine he was repairing. In his case both the elecrricity and the machine itself could have killed or disabled him.
I was walking someone around once who basically asked “it looks like you could cut it”. I mean yeah… I guess. The point isn’t to make it literally impossible, it’s to make sure it doesn’t happen accidentally. The person driving the excavator could just decide to chase me with it to if they really wanted.
They are called death sticks for a reason. Always use a known working 2 point meter, and know how to use it correctly. That is the live saving tip here.
They’re also notoriously unreliable. Fine for casually looking for powered circuits, but if you’re going to touch the conductors at all, use a meter.
As an electrician; it’s drilled into your head to use an actual physical-contact meter that you’ve just tested for function on a known good power supply.
Some courses even demand you re-test the meter after you’ve checked the circuit you’re testing.
I heard a story of a guy working on a high voltage, high current piece of equipment. He confirmed that the power was off. Just to be sure, he threw a big wrench at the terminals so they would short if they were still live. His wrench evaporated. Then they actually turned the power off. He lost his wrench, but saved his life.
I have a habit of shorting “dead” wires with a screwdriver every time, before touching them. In theory, it should never be impressive, due to the other checks I do. It has saved me from a shock or two though.
I would say at least 20% of the water heaters I’ve replaced were not wired to the breaker labeled “water heater”. I only had to learn that lesson once.
House or apartment, make sure carbon monoxide detectors are installed NEAR GROUND LEVEL.
So many slumlords do not even give a fuck, and many homeowners think they are just some other kind of smoke detector.
EDIT: bus_factor has pointed out to me that this is actually a common misperception. CO actually more or less evenly dissipates in a room and does not settle near the floor.
Were you expecting consumer protections in the only country on earth that allows advertisements for brand new poorly tested drugs of all kinds on all forms of media?
Yeah the density of carbon monoxide is very close to the density of N2 so it stays fairly well mixed unless you have extremely still air. What matters most is having the detector near where you sleep.
Google also links to a dead url, and when you search the NFPA for their most recent Carbon Monoxide Safety Tips it says that you should follow the manufacturers guidelines for the height you should install a CO monitor at.
My whole life, including when the Fire Department came to school and did a presentation and had us run through the simulated burning trailer, every instruction manual I have ever read for a CO alarm and everyone I have ever talked to about this all insisted CO alarms be installed near ground level.
How is that possible? Did CO Alarm manufacturers just get it wrong when CO Alarms were becoming more widespread and everyone just parrotted what they were saying without checking? I can even remember news segments on CO danger and needing to install the alarms near the ground.
At least where I am from they are common in more urban areas (mandated technically, but as mentioned SLUMLORDS so its not sctually done in practice) as they have more cars and are nearer to restaurants and other stuff that can have a CO leak.
My stepdaughter at 12 years old accidentally bumped into our gas stove and turned on one of the gas burners and then went to bed. Our cat came into the bedroom and started howling at 2AM and woke us up, alerting us to the smell.
Little dude saved our lives. The whole house was filled with gas.
Used to do property preservation (cleaning out foreclosed homes), and would use a male-male to get power from the generator around the house. I’ve never felt so much fear as when hooking those things up. I was as safe with it as possible, which is, obviously, not safe enough. But my dad now knows that’s possible, and I’ve caught him trying to do similar since, and it scares the shit out of me, because he’s the type that thinks some duct tape around a frayed extension cord is good enough.
That works great until you accidentally connect one side of the split-phase service with the other side… Your male-to-male cable becomes a short across 240vac.
Also: if you don’t turn the main breaker off first, you are now back-feeding power into lines the local linemen expect to be dead, potentially electrocuting them… This is why specific receptacles connected with a generator interlock kit (breaker that can only be turned on while the main is off) are used.
I do. My parents did a ton of building our house themselves, and my dad also fixed the car all the time including removing and repairing the engine. So I think I get the tendency from seeing that behavior modeled.
Issue is I don’t have the same drive, and realistically I think it’s not entirely healthy because there’s not enough time in the day. It can cause issues when something needs to get done but you won’t pay for it or allow someone else to do it.
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