

aside from harvesting stuff from the seafloor i can’t think of any situation where holding your breath for more than 5 minutes is particularly helpful
but on the flipside being able to hold my breath for 5 minutes would be real neat
aside from harvesting stuff from the seafloor i can’t think of any situation where holding your breath for more than 5 minutes is particularly helpful
but on the flipside being able to hold my breath for 5 minutes would be real neat
you’re thinking of like, being choked, i presume. the difference is that choking directly cuts off bloodflow to the brain, but if the bloodflow isn’t disturbed then there’s a decent bit of oxygen stored in the air in the lungs and in the blood itself.
this is how animals like whales can dive for hours at a time, they store oxygen in their blood.
The thing that actually makes you feel the need to take a breath is buildup of CO2, not lack of oxygen. My understanding is that holding your breath isn’t really about the amount of oxygen you have but rather how long you can resist the urge to breathe, though presumably at these extremes they do have to pay attention to how they feel and abort if they start feeling tired or whatever low oxygen does to you.
so this is how i learn that gmail has AI shit integrated, lmao
it also just makes more sense in general, no one would say “hi i’m from the EU”, so why on earth do people say “hi i’m from the US” or “hi i’m from canada”?
the divine voice of the lord booms down from the heavens: “CRINGE”
a clap of thunder vaporizes the blasphemer where they stand, leaving nought by a smouldering pile of ash
at least the EU mandates the warning
because it makes psychopaths a huge amount of money to scam the shit out of your grandma
european milk is definitely pasteurized and refrigerated, not sure where on earth you’ve seen room temperature milk…
we do however also have extra pasteurized milk, which is more tolerant of storage conditions and time
i feel like there’s a lot of astroturfing in the comments here, how depressing
are you being intentionally obtuse? obviously they wouldn’t ban all vehicle, that wasn’t suggested in the OP either.
“this is our best product yet”
yeah i’d fucking hope so, otherwise why the fuck are you making a new version?
the fact that you’re doing it during lunch makes it not weird, IMO, because that’s just the convenient place and time to do it.
it would be weird (not bad) to leave home and go to the park to do it
i believe toothache would be the least of your problems, chronic exposure to white phosphorous will give you fossy jaw which… just straight up kills the jaw and makes it fall off, at least they don’t have to go out of their way to remove it! yay…
afaik travel wasn’t even particularly rare, it was just rare that you’d travel very far. Certainly in england it was expected that you’d travel to london or whatever for legal reasons at least like once or twice in your life, and of course merchants existed.
but also a really significant travel no one tends to mention is going on a pilgrimage to jerusalem! to my knowledge most people managed to do it once, and that’s a massive journey to undertake without modern vehicles!
thankfully since religion was so important back then, pilgrims were afforded quite significant privileges like guaranteed free food and housing and iirc travel from anyone, to the point that pretending to be a pilgrim was quite a severe crime.
you can use wood ash, it won’t be a very wholesome or good soap but it gets the job done and is easy to make. Though of course if it’s easy to make then why would people buy much of it from you?
I think it wouldn’t be too hard to convince people to use it for cleaning off obvious messes, way harder to convince them that “oh you see actually diseases are caused by these tiny creatures you can’t see, but trust me they’re there and my product will get rid of them!”.
afaik one person is far from enough to set of an entire pandemic, especially with a much lower population density and no rapid transport.
it’s feasible that they doom a village and get hunted down, though.
the real trick is to find some appliation for the technology that is easy enough to build that you don’t need later advancements to pull it off, yet useful enough that anyone is actually going to bother doing it.
or like, be really good at marketing
to be fair i think the fact that it started in the US is quite vital to it taking off, if you tried it in mainland europe the local priest would come over like a mafioso and politely explain that if you were to have an unfortunate accident then your soul would be spending eternity in hell.
that’s not viewing history search though?