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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Ford for all his flaws had plenty of revolutionary ideas that actually improved workers conditions. Even if he only did it to capture the workers and “lock them in”, it was much better than what any of the competitors were offering and it forced the competitors to improve their conditions to retain workers.

    The worst part of that ruling was that some of the minority shareholders were actually competitors and they used that money to start up their own competing factories.

    Just goes to show how focusing on the business long term is always in the shareholders interests and most of the time focusing on shareholders interests aren’t in the best interest of the shareholders themselves. Modern day short sellers being the most egregious example of this.






  • While I appreciate we’re discussing hypothetical DND scenarios, I’d just like to take a moment to highlight the dangers as it’s an actual risk we deal with in reality. (Cars and heating systems)

    CO is a very dangerous gas for a reason. Its known as a silent killer because while there are symptoms, it’s mild and easily mistaken for other medical issues. Its not uncommon to be wrongly diagnosed by medical professionals. CO works by binding to hemoglobin 200% stronger than oxygen and stays bound for hours. So unlike nitrogen hypoxia, where once you brought back to a high oxygen environment, you will start recovering, CO poisoning remains. Even a 100% Oxygen environment will not in itself save you from severe poisoning because the CO is so strongly bound to your blood that oxygen cannot displace it.

    Anyways in a (near 100%) flooded environment, the players are already dead when they feel the symptoms. Once CO is bound to their blood stream the only treatment is hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

    Good to know information:

    0-9 ppm CO: no health risk; normal CO levels in air. 10-29 ppm CO: problems over long-term exposure; chronic problems such as headaches, nausea 30-35 ppm CO: flu-like symptoms begin to develop, especially among the young and the elderly. 36-99 ppm CO: flu-like symptoms among all; nausea, headaches, fatigue or drowsiness, vomiting.

    100+ ppm CO: severe symptoms; confusion, intense headaches; ultimately brain damage, coma, and/or death, especially at levels 300-400+ ppm


  • More info for those interested,

    The main symptom of CO poisoning is sleepiness. By the time you realise it you’re just thinking to yourself I’m tired and I’m going to take a quick nap, then you never wake up.

    CO2 poisoning is easy to spot because you’re suddenly very breathless and hyperventilating for air.

    This is because our respiration is controlled by the percentage of CO2 in our blood. Not by the amount of oxygen. So we actually don’t react to most gases, we just KO and thats it. If no one removes you from that area, you’re a goner.