One thing that bothers me, and what everyone should know, is proper placement for defibrillator pads if you’re using an AED.

It’s not 2 pads on the chest, it’s one pad on the upper chest (almost shoulder) on one side, and the other pad goes lower on their side. You’re trying to have the current go through their heart (not skip over the top of their skin).

The AEDs found in public locations are all very easy to use and all have pictures for the proper placement. Just open it up and it will tell you everything you need to do. Have someone nearby look for one at the same time you’re asking someone else to call emergency services.

They should all have razors if you need to get a little hair off (in case the person is especially hairy for one of the pad placements).

For those who didn’t click on the link to see the actual formatting of the title:

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Or you bought his car before you saw him for what he is. Tesla’s have been around for almost 2 decades now.

I actually saw the opposite last week. It was a Tesla but on the back was a sticker that looked like this:

He does give money to politicians and the Gates Foundation does as well:

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/bill-melinda-gates-foundation/summary?topnumcycle=2024&toprecipcycle=2024&lobcycle=2024&outspendcycle=2024&id=D000031958&contribcycle=2024

https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?cand=&cycle=&employ=Gates+Foundation&name=William+Gates&order=asc&sort=N&state=&zip=

What do you have against massages? I find them relaxing.

While the goal post keeps moving, it’s the opposite of your statement. As explained in the article:

That target would represent a doubling in spending for the nonprofit, which has disbursed more than $US100 billion since it was co-founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates in 2000. Originally, the foundation was set to close 20 years after the Microsoft co-founder’s death.

“I have decided to give my money back to society much faster than I had originally planned,” Gates, 69, wrote in a statement. “I will give away virtually all my wealth through the Gates Foundation over the next 20 years to the cause of saving and improving lives around the world.”

How much would his estate taxes be vs giving up 99% of his fortune?

Same, I read enough about Trump in other communities. I’d like this community to focus on more uplifting stories.

You get ads even if you pay for the more expensive ad-free subscription.

At least those seem to be rare, only at the beginning, and they let you skip, but it’s frustrating that you have to do that at all.

From the article:

On Tuesday morning, The Liberty Hotel said it has finished an investigation into the incident and “the security officer is being suspended from their position.” It said all staff are being retrained “on inclusive practices and guest interaction protocols.” The hotel is also making a donation to a local LGBTQ+ organization.

He’s following you, about 30 feet back.

Could you imagine if they had just walked all the way to Mordor?

Found some of the footage from the rescue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIQz5RBKUsA

Yeah, that makes sense. I agree, I wish this was such a common thing that it wasn’t even newsworthy.

But for now I’m glad that some news organizations have started categories that focus on positive news stories like this. This one in particular is part of the Guardian’s “Kindness of Strangers” series. It looks like they started this series about 6 months ago.

I think these teens went above and beyond more than just “being kind to strangers”.

For the next few months, those teenagers were such a great help to me. Anytime I crutch-walked past them they would ask how I was and if I needed a hand with anything. They took my bins out for me and if they saw me at the corner store, they would let me cut in line ahead of them, so I didn’t have to stand around waiting as long.

I think my favorite quote from Richard Munoz was:

A lot of people were kind to me during that injury experience – and a few weren’t kind at all! – but by far the most helpful were those teens.

Stories like this absolutely have a place in the news (and especially in this community) as hopefully it inspires others to go above and beyond in being kind to strangers.

I know that this is an ongoing thing between these 2 countries, but it always makes me nervous when I remember that they both have a nuclear arsenal.

Some judges are allowing people to request to attend Zoom hearings because of these interruptions.

We want people to attend their hearings, but getting arrested for showing up is sending the wrong message. Especially so for for those who have a good case.

Well, they were able to lift it back up.

They should just make it so that whatever they announce as their “earnings” to their stockholders should also be the amount that they are taxed for.