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

I think you need to take your meds.

Not that long ago, after the first big exodus from Reddit to Lemmy, there was a group that decided to mess with Lemmy any way they could.

They spent weeks DDoS-ing it and when that failed to get a reaction there were sudden posts of extreme gore and very explicit child pornography across the front page.

Free speech is nice in theory, but for true anarchist style freedom of speech to exist we would have to tolerate the intolerable.

This is hilarious, you have a gift with words!

Thank you for the context! I never knew about the land of Samaria. We really have been labelling anyone outside our tribe as “degenerates” for as long as we have recorded history haven’t we…

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/

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.

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.

WHAT??!

This, for the person doing the binding, there should be constant focus and attention as binding in the wrong way can cause nerve damage.

It’s… Less sexy and more… Satisfaction with creating art, especially of turning your property (sub) into art - amplifying their objectification.

This type of bondage is called shibari, and it’s different in the way you described. Regular bondage is about restricted movement, maybe cuffs or topless around wrists and ankles.

Shibari is a Japanese form of rope bondage, it is a very slow and methodical approach, where the person being bound must (generally) submit quietly the whole time it’s being done.

The aesthetics of the binding are important, it should look good, and also should work with the mechanics of the body.

It can be used as a pleasant and beautiful decoration on top of clothing, as here, or can use the mechanics of the body to bind in such a way that the body’s own movements cause stress.