2 months seems like a reasonable timeline for a large infrastructure project halfway across the earth from the us. ofc its a horrible situation and they could save a lot more lives if they could just truck aid in.
I’m curious to see what happens when “cop attacking innocent person” collides with innocent person’s “stand your ground” gun laws if they’re fearing for their life.
Does anyone know what type of shockwaves leads to these kinds of damages? I was both in the infantry and a part time fireworks technician who would always get as close to the booms as possible.
That’s pretty much it, yup. Think about it this way, if you can feel rhe blast it moved some of your cells. If you feel the blast right through you it moved, and possibly damaged, cells right through you, including in your brain. As we’re learning from TBIs in sport, sometimes just one hit is enough to do permenant damage. From other sources I’ve read, it does seem to take a lot of blasts, but no one’s actually sure as it hasn’t been studied properly.
Do you know why fundamentally it would be different with sound? If a shock wave is enough to damage cell structures, surely loud music would as well, no?
Music has nowhere near the same ‘impulse’. The shockwave from an explosion has the presure jump from atmospheric to massive in an incredibly short timeframe, before falling back over maybe a few tens of milliseconds. It’s this sharp transition that’s likely to be causing the damage, but as I said, there’s not enough research in the area.
Interesting. I know very little about fluid dynamics. This paper is also right in the vein of what I was thinking about. I spent a lot of my youth skanking and raving and a lot of my adult life… also skanking and raving. I have probably done a shit ton of damage to myself.
I think this is one of the more recent and comprehensive summaries of research on the topic, but in general as I (not a doctor) understand it, the other commenter is right, impacts of any kind are not good for brains, and I think impacts that occur while the brain is already healing from a prior impact are especially not good. Moreover, TBIs can be really minor and have symptoms that are slight enough they’re hard to notice, but that’s when that “impacts that occur while the brain is already healing” thing becomes such a problem - temporary injuries that people don’t realize they have become more permanent.
However, all that being said - with the right therapeutic interventions and given enough time for neuroplasticity to have an effect, physically damaged brains can regain a lot of their function. It’s kind of a scary thing to contemplate when you really start thinking about how fragile the hardware that supports our minds is, but a brain injury is not an insurmountable thing people have to be stuck with the rest of their lives.
ISIS exists because Taymiyyan Salafists forced out of power by the dissolution of the Iraqi army joined with their Jordanian counterparts to create a caliphate and force everyone in the Greater Syrian region to live in it, which has been the goal of Taymiyyans since at least the 14th century in spirit, if not name. Are you saying that is a reaction to European colonialism?
I can’t tell if you’re implying the Ottomans, the Hashemites, the Ba’athists, or the United States are European colonizers, or someone else? Maybe the Hashemites, since they were allied with Britain and France in WW1 against the Ottomans?
Who do you think ought to have sovereignty in Iraq? The Ba’athists? That’s who helped ISIS gain control in the first place.
The British Mandate that lasted less than 2 decades between Ottoman imperial rule and Iraqi independence? Yeah, it has something to do with Iraq’s existence, but it doesn’t define it, and isn’t the sole explanation for it, especially in its current form. Do you feel at all like you minimize the agency, relevancy, and life experiences of millions of people who lived in or ruled that region over millenia when you focus only on European colonization of a place that has never been an actual colony of a European nation? At least, none of my Iraqi coworkers believe it was, and one just got annoyed at me for even proposing it. But that’s an anecdotal appeal to authority, I suppose, so maybe I should discount their views and knowledge of their own history. Do you answer questions, or only ask them?
A man staying with the family stabbed the entire family – 4 kids 7 years old and younger, both parents, and another person. Only the father seems to have survived. What a tragedy it is for him.
Is this LGBT discrimination? Of course it is. OTOH, does every interest group get a pass? Serious question. I want my liberal gun owners flag flown on government property. I’m 100% certain NONE of you will take issue.
Yep, sure is. You’re a much-maligned and misunderstood minority who wishes to have a voice. Very different. (Well, maybe a tiny difference or three. When liberals come into our space with questions and arguments, we engage in good faith. If I come into LGBT spaces with questions and arguments: BAN HAMMER.
When they start loading trains, I’ll do what I can for you, but it’ll be hell defending my family. I’ll try.
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