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  • Hi everybody! But only ever in Dr. Nick’s voice.

  • Yeah one of the things you learn in lifeguard class is that it’s a wrestling match against the person you’re trying to rescue if they aren’t compliant (many aren’t and you can’t assume they will be).

    LIFESAVING

    The lifesaving portion at BUDS is a little bit of wrestling, a little bit of swimming, and a little bit of weight lifting.

    It’s all procedural - it is pass or fail - it is not timed. You do not need to rush.

    You start by jumping into the pool using a stride jump - or what I like to call a very slow step into the water. A stride jump is basically spreading your legs as far apart as possible like your taking one giant step. You are trying to create as much surface area as possible so your head doesn’t go under the water. Your arms do the same thing, out to your sides. You must maintain eye contact on your victim the entire time.

    From there, you will swim head up freestyle to your victim, maintaining visual on your drowning victim.

    For a compliant, non combative victim, you’ll simply grab them by the wrist and pull them into your tow. This is the wrestling portion of lifesaving and should be fast and aggressive. For an uncompliant, combative victim, you need to dive under the water, grab the victim by the hips and turn them so that their back is facing you. Now crawl up there back and get them into your tow. You must be aggressive.

  • Weak works best or frail maybe.

  • I’m just wondering how nobody in the Maritimes noticed 1960s land fill washing away. I also wondered why the people in the Orkneys would expect 80s and 90s trash after 60s and 70s trash, when the newer trash would be on top and would have washed away first.

  • We need data portability laws to really untie people from these platforms.

  • Or maybe frozen in ocean ice after collecting in a bay.

  • I wonder if any of the older plastic was previously frozen in icebergs?

    Sounds like Nova Scotia had coastal land fills that are eroding into the sea. Seems like containing it there before it washes away would d be easier.

  • Now I’m trying to figure out what you name spells with the same keys on qwerty vs dvorak

  • Like speedrunning a game with no players.

    That’s all any of these Redbull stunts are. That and a collection of YouTube shorts to sell more sugar water.

  • I don’t know how expat works with state and local elections, but federal elections should still be allowed because as longer as you are a citizen, you are still affected by the laws and taxes are still due every year.

  • Yeah, I’m ok with small spaces I know I can leave, but not in the middle of an ocean.

  • Most of the old V8s had been replaced with Lada 4 cylinders by the 90s.

    It wasn’t romantic that they were stuck with 50s cars, then forced to keep them running with Soviet spare parts.

  • Fascist non blonds works.

  • If they could add a flap and slight airfoil shape to the panel it could be an advantage in the wind.

    Also if it can propel itself up post the clouds it wouldn’t have to land for days.

  • Have them ask why ICE and CBP are still getting paid.

  • Olympic Skelton racer. I was watching curling right before though. Which might be safer, but looks like RSI and sore backs for life to me.

  • People do that here. They go from New York to Florida every year. But they only get to vote for a governor, senators, representatives etc. of one of those states.

    So what of someone moves to a new state every 2 months, lives in short term rentals and ever up in 6 states/countries. Is there a limit?

  • The starter motors are better, and the oils are thinner now in all vehicles, but there is still more wear in start stop vehicles than In the same ones where it’s been disabled.