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Opened the link thinking the article was about how to move on from a company that's probably going to shut soon. Learned something nonetheless.
Opened the link thinking the article was about how to move on from a company that's probably going to shut soon. Learned something nonetheless.
Should have been titled "How to escape the Titanic using your seer git to know everything that's going to happen down to the minute (in which case you probably wouldn't have boarded the ship at all)". But interesting anyway.
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I remember being in Anson, when it was reported a Korean Ferry going to Jeju hit a rock and started taking on water. The captain reported on the radio," everyone stay put." and for the most part they did, even while the captain was escaping the ship. 299 people drowned that day, many of them the local school in Anson. I remember walking past the highschool that very night and seeing the crowd of the bereaved. If more…
> In everyday life, I definitely notice that people do not take say, fire alarm seriously and act quickly enough. Don't be a deer caught in the spotlight, forge your own path and take these things seriously your life may depend on it (even if its 1% chance that that alarm is a real one). Problem with things like fire alarms is they go off _so_ often, yet are almost never a true alarm. In my experience, it's not even…
That is my observation anyway.
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According to the resource linked to, third class women had a higher survival rate than first class men. Not that it would necessarily turn out that way now.
> Not that it would necessarily turn out that way now. I doubt it would, and that is a good thing. The whole “women and children” thing was part of the whole “women are weak creatures that need to be looked after and protected like children” mentality.
In the US, at least, union wages would have brought in $20-30 or so per week. [1] Looking through [2], you could get a whole gentleman's outfit for roughly $50 or so. Even still, you'd be spending 2-3 weeks' wages on a single set of clothing - not to mention that you'd need somewhere to store all that, and you'd probably also need additional stuff to maintain it so that it looked half-presentable for your daring escape.
It's much more likely that, as someone in steerage, even your "finest" wouldn't have passed muster for the keenly class-conscious Brits on the upper decks. The fabrics and cuts would be different, you'd be missing fashionable accessories and key pieces of the outfit, nothing would be tailored, and everything would be in worse wear. (Not to mention your lower-class accent and diction would likely give you away, unless you'd somehow had the benefit of a pricey elocution tutor.)
[1] https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/union-scale-wages-hours-... [2] https://vintagedancer.com/1900s/edwardian-1910s-historical-m...
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Without knowing how representative the 18 shipwrecks they picked are, it’s hard to know whether their conclusions are widely applicable. Also, from their research paper, some of the ships they mentioned had been torpedoed or ran aground, SIX collisions, etc. A first guess would be that men sometimes survive more than women and children simply because they were more physically able to overcome the dangerous environmen…
> If a group of average men and average women are thrown into the ocean and left to their own devices, after a few hours more men will be left just because of physical strength. Is that true? I believe women survive longer in cold water, because on average they have a higher body fat proportion.
> [1] No significant gender differences in total metabolic heat production normalized for body mass or surface area were found among subjects who completed 90 min of immersion (9 women and 7 men). Nor was there a gender difference in the overall percent contribution ( approximately 60%) of fat oxidation to total heat production.…On the basis of the above findings, we accept the first hypothesis that women and men exhibit similar changes in body cooling and M˙ during cold water immersion at rest when subject responses are corrected for BF and size.
[1] https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jappl.2000....
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Actual feminists don't want to be given preferential treatment. They just want a level playing field.
I wish I'd see more of those actual feminists call out against the misandrists that usurp their name. It's not fair on them, but they need to if they want to stop the growing trend of equaling feminism with misandry. I'm just a random guy in the internet, living in a country where I don't see much of either, but because of the internet I thought for a long time that modern feminism was indeed hatred of men rather tha…
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I was in the Ritz-Carlson in DTLA last year for Anime expo. Waiting on the third floor for a convention with atleast 200 people just in that one smaller area, all of the sudden, a live voice came over the intercom with instructions to immediately evacuate the building, all but essential staff. In my mind it seemed as serious as if there was an active shooter somewhere. I was literally the only person in the group to…
Don't know about you but in my country they test and test those system relentlessly so you get "boy who cried wolf" situation. Not sure how to avoid that.
There are scientific practices behind the above. I suggest you get your country on board with those so that people take the alarm seriously.