The Horrifying Reality Of Contracting Rabies
Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at mid-day you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the “rage” stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.
Except you’re asleep, and he’s a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don’t even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.
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Solitary Confinement and the Descent into Madness
Whatever you think hell is, you’re wrong. You think fire and brimstone, but hell is actually white paint, stainless steel, and a cold that settles into your marrow and never leaves.
I became the nucleus of a concrete cube. It didn’t matter if I was 15 or 40, innocent or guilty; once the door slammed, I was just meat in a box. The room was 60 square feet of psychological warfare. Sometimes the walls were stark white, illuminated by a white light that hummed 24 hours a day, erasing the memory of night. Other times, it was a dungeon of filth—shit stains on the floor, nut stains on the mattress, and a smell that hit you like a physical blow: a cocktail of old urine, vomit, and fear.
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How To Escape Sleep Paralysis
For those of you who didn’t know, when we fall asleep our bodies release a chemical into the part of our brain that controls movement, the chemicals being glycine and GABA . These essentially freeze your muscles, rendering you incapable of movement. This is done to keep us from acting out our dreams and injuring ourselves. (Sleepwalkers’ bodies don’t release enough of this chemical, hence the walking).
A Day in the Life of a Hunter-Gatherer
Imagine waking up not to the buzz of an alarm clock but to the quiet stirrings of the world around you. The smell of damp earth fills the air as the sun rises slowly over the horizon, casting long shadows over the camp where you, a hunter-gatherer, live. There are no walls or doors, no separation from the natural world. You are part of it, deeply embedded in a rhythm that has existed for tens of thousands of years. Today, like every day, survival is at the forefront of your mind—but not in the way we modern humans often imagine.
Linkage
6 Historical Photos That Speak Volumes – Ned Hardy
If you need to get a gift for any guy in your life, this is a slam dunk – Amazon
The Middle Class Is Buckling Under Almost Five Years of Persistent Inflation – Archive.ph
xAI appears to be nuking posts that claimed its CEO was more fit than LeBron James and “the single greatest person in modern history.” – Engadget
Zelensky Says Peace Plan Poses Historic Choice: Lose Dignity or U.S. Support – The Guardian
Box Office: ‘Wicked: For Good’ Earns Huge $30.8 Million in Previews, Highest of the Year – Variety
30 Memes That Won The Internet This Week – Ned Hardy
It’s a must-have for every household because it turns your chaotic battery drawer into a portable, organized “grab-and-go” kit that makes emergencies easier and everyday life smoother. – Amazon
Mexico’s bullied pageant contestant gets payback by capturing Miss Universe crown – AP News
Major Labels Sign Licensing Deals With AI Music Company Klay – Pitchfork
Simone Biles Did a Boob-Job Q&A on TikTok – Archive.ph
If your spending is eating your savings, you might be experiencing ‘lifestyle creep’ – NPR
Social media destroyed one of America’s key advantages – Noahpinion
Gustav Klimt Painting Sells for $236M, Making It the Highest Price for Modern Art Sold at Auction – My Modern Met
The World’s Biggest Empires of History, on One Epic Visual Timeline – Visual Capitalist
10 Thoughts All Girls Have During Sex – Linkiest
The Dumping Grounds
14 Linemen Reveal How Much They Make Each Year
1. In CA, it’s not that hard to make 300k.
Depending on how you manage your OT, it can be a ton of effort or minimal effort.
For me, it’s easy as pie to make 260-300k. I’m not beating my body up. I choose when I work so that helps tremendously.
If you stay on top of your OT, you can pick and choose when to work. We use an evergreen to determine who gets first dibs at overtime.
Also, all OT is double time. It just makes it that much easier.
At SCE, you will make 200k without even trying. I was hitting 250-265 and hardly worked weekends. Just picking up hours during the week here and there.
My gig is even better now that I’m transmission, 300k with minimal wear and tear.
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Confessions of a Golden Gate Bridge Jumper
They tell you that you die the moment you hit the water. They talk about surface tension, about water acting like concrete at seventy miles per hour. But they are wrong. You don’t die when you hit the water. You die months before, piece by piece.
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What Should You Do If You Gets Stabbed In The Throat
I assume you mean in one of the arteries or veins, since other places in the throat wouldn’t cause the situation you’re asking about.
Not that it matters, because the first aid is the same. Pressure, pressure, pressure. First and always, apply pressure to slow bleeding.
If it doesn’t hurt like a motherfucker, you aren’t using enough pressure. Seriously.
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