Whenever I see people advocating for OSHA regulations to be relaxed or removed, a quote comes to mind that I heard many years ago: “Every OSHA regulation on the books is written in the blood of someone who was just trying to make an honest living.” It’s something that I feel many people tend to forget, but more people need to remember
I use the term "What the words written in blood say" whenever referring to OSHA regs. I also remind people that our ancestors learned not to go into the tall grass because they seen what happen and told everybody else. the ones around us today are the ones who listen and learned from the mistakes of others. side note: Ego + money = I know best. It's almost like there was a reason in the past people believed they needed to be very rich to go to the afterlife.
I hate working for anyone that sees OSHA regulations as anything but good, because whenever my boss complains about an OSHA regulation, they’re telling me “i care more about the company’s profits than your safety.”
Companies should be told that bad temperatures greatly increase the percentage of work mistakes made by cooked or frozen workers, resulting in accumulating financial losses. Studies on this were made over the past 100 years, especially in large businesses where error rates could be easily measured and compared to factory circumstances. A lot of those studies probably dealt with high or low temperatures caused by machines such as steam engines, but the measured reduction in human performance is still valid in the age of global boiling (as the UN boss called it in a famous proclamation).
Meanwhile Uncle Clarence has his laser eyes set on OSHA and is openly questioning whether the department is even Constitutional. I have a friend that works in construction...in South Florida. We hit 90 degrees down here in MAY. Another record broken. Forget water, he needs coconut water to make sure he replaces the electrolytes he loses DAILY from sweating buckets from the heat, but what happens when there's a wetbulb event? He's lucky he has some control over his job, but he knows other guys where they will push them further and deny those breaks. Its freaking nuts. There is no guarantee your job will give a shit about your safety without OSHA. You can't use the argument that OSHA or such and such agency should go away because x still happens. That is like going on a medication for a chronic condition and then stopping because now you feel better.
Had OSHA at the hospital today. All based on false pretenses lol. One of the employees was lying about an injury he allegedly got while working in the kitchen.
I used to support attorneys for OSHA. I once asked "what if we get an OSHA violation" filing boxes stacked 6 ft high. I was given the ugliest 'I don't have nor want the time to even consider you let alone your question" between that person's sigh, look and way she dismissed the conversation. I was making a serious note that boxes were at risk.
For the OSHA story: I work in a factory that gets really hot sometimes, and I'm so happy that my employers recommend we take frequent brakes. Not just because that prevents heatstrokes but also because we check the finished products by hand, so mistakes start to happen when I get dizzy from the heat (not dangerous mistakes, but still)
I work in public transit, and I was really disheartened to hear that the heat protections wouldn't extend to public workers. The A/C in our workspaces is already struggling to keep up, and it's only getting hotter. All we can do is point our little vents at ourselves and deal with it. I'm honestly a little bit scared, because it's supposed to be over 100°f next week. I'm honestly proud to be providing a public service, but the fact that we don't get the same protections as people working for private companies is deeply insulting and disgusting.
Disabled gamer here. People are being intentionally disingenuous, going out of their way to misunderstand what she was saying. Nothing she said was technically incorrect. Moreover on the topic of "easy mode" versus accessibility options, the broader part of the conversation, I have friends on Twitch with something called a quadstick. It's a controller you use with your mouth. I've watched them beat all fromsoft games and it's incredible to watch. Disabled people are never ever asking for easy mode, they're asking for options. Keybinds, color blind mode, controller supports, etc. We just want the ability to play the game in the way we are able, not have it butchered blended and put into a smoothie for us. And in the end more options are beneficial to everyone
Parenting is not a disability and any person working in real disability advocacy would no the harm in treating it like it is one, simply because some corpo manual said it is.
Exactly and what others here aren't understand is that good accessibility helps everyone. If a game allows you to pause as an accessibility feature and a parent uses that I have no issue with it, in fact I think that it is great it can help others.
Although, if anyone wants to give me a Call of Duty online easy mode, or a Gran Turismo 7 online easy mode, I'll take it. These unemployed teenagers, man, and full-time streamers, man, I feel disadvantaged compared to them because I have a full time job. Oh! This makes me think of a word option... Situationally disadvantaged. The person is equally capable as anyone else but is situationally disadvantaged.
@Americanbadashh that 'corpo manual' isn't the only instance where the term 'situational disability' has been used. Unbunch your knickers and join us in the real world...
Fun fact: when I was pregnant, in order to apply for paid maternity leave under my job benefits, pregnancy was considered having a “short term disability.”
Yes, a lot of women that get pregnant and work at labor intensive jobs have to apply for short-term disability or accommodations. Being pregnant or raising children in some circumstances can be considered a handicap, people getting upset over the verbiage strike me as the type of people that hear disability and think only of visible, permanent disabilities and do not consider the spectrum of duration and severity that the word truly encompasses.
@@pleaseleavemealone2850 Disability can be invisible or fluctuating but shouldn't it be about ability and not obligation? Is the sentiment that any caretaker is considered disabled now or are children an uncontrolled part of their parents' literal bodies? I could see being a new parent as a disability in how your body is effected, poor sleep and hormonal changes at the very least. But the example doesn't help. A kid putting a fork in a socket is an emergency, like a fire, if you have a kid that needs that close attention or emergencies are around every corner a pause button probably isn't enough to make you playing a video game instead of actually watching them not negligent. I think it's well intended but as stated it feels like she's broadening the term disability to mean everything and nothing, that's not how the term is used elsewhere when i looked it up. Said as a person with an invisible disability who helps care for someone with a visible but varying disability.
People forget that long before these words became general terms for certain groups they were words with actual meaning and uses that didn't get abolished just cause the group got associated with it. I swear most of Twitter should never have been given a passing grade in English as children
I worked landscaping for 10 years. I had two bosses during that time: one who told me that "the heat's part of the job", and one who told me to "take a breather when you can." In the 1 year I had with that first boss, I had 2 instances where I had to be sent home from heat stroke. In the 9 years I had with the second, I never had any issues. It's insane to me that regular water/shade/rest break laws aren't already in the books.
Osha has known that heat is a problem for workers. In 2016 I worked at a theme park in Florida and the heat would be so bad I fainted several times. We weren't allowed water with us or breaks to get water because it looked bad or was inconvenient. I had the ambulance called several times. Neurological injuries and medical debt aren't as bad as death, but I'm still thankful Osha would finally force my previous managers to give access to water even if it's inconvenient for them.
My husband is a mail-carrier. The post office managers give heat safety talks, telling carriers to drink water and take breaks in the shade - but when you do those things and add extra time to your route, they give you a hard time about it. Remember, the vehicles have no AC. When they say "I had to take a heat break" the manager will say "Well this job isn't for everyone, you know."
@@arcticgalaxies9160Because they were made via goverment contract and A/C wasn't listed in the requirements. Look up the video by @Thefatelectrician on the mail trucks, it's wild the the handicaps goverment gives itself.
As an artist, google images has been ruined. If I want to look up reference images or anything, the search results are LITTERED with obvious Ai images. The worst part is there is no way to filter out unwanted search results so it's now much harder to find good reference material and inspiration
If it is not changed and they don't add some kind of filter, real images will be an ever diminishing minority of images. Pinterest is unusable now, too.
There are browser add-ons that claim to filter out AI content, but I'm not sure how efficient they are. You can also add "before:2023" to filter out newer search results, covering most of the AI crap. Sucks that also filters out any new actual photography/art/etc., but works well enough for reference search.
My favourite thought is that somewhere out there, there are two bots that matched on Tinder that are stuck in an endless loop of spamming links to each other
One of my Criminal Justice professors used to say "Worker's Rights law are written in blood". We then proceeded to learn about the Radium Girls. You'll never forget those pictures.
I saw these pics several years ago. I can still see them vividly. Absolutely HAUNTING. I can't imagine advocating against an agency that works to protect people from situations like that.
Absolutely! If anyone is interested, there’s an excellent movie Radium Girls that was on Netflix, not sure if it still is. It depicts the story really well.
Dr. Phil is my favorite example of a psychologist that lost his license due to ethical violations and just found ways of working without a license because most people have no clue given how popular his show became. Edit: Apologies, he didn't have his license revoked, he let it lapse because he no longer needed it as a TV personality. He did start working in areas where he didn't need a license within a year of having an ethical complaint filed against him that was resolved. He also had complaints filed against him after letting his license lapse.
He also loved sending “troubled teens” into therapeutic boarding schools where they were then abused in all categories and costing the state 30k per kid, per month of Tax Dollars
My husband restores hardwood flooring in people's homes. When the temp surpasses a certain threshold, his employer is supposed to contact homeowners to remind them to leave their ac on, following the same rules as other interior construction workers. The equipment used by the guys generates enough heat to raise the temp of the room by a few degrees centigrade, so ac can be the difference of a few days of work. Most homeowners still turn off their ac, regardless of what they're told, because it will save them on electricity. It feels like mid 30s C (high 90s) with extreme humidity in our area, and these people are arguing over a few saved dollars vs the health of the people coming into their homes to work. It's an issue everywhere, so hearing people put a price on lives like that is disgusting.
Kenyan here. Thanks for covering the protests! In the span of a month, we've seen nationwide Internet throttling & interference, media houses like KTN threatened to stop covering the protests, x/ Twitter users associated with the protests be basically being kidnapped, police brutality on a whole new level & live rounds being used on protesters alike innocent bystanders being which led the death of a 12 year old boy, who was shot 8 times & as if to prove his DOTD status. During an interview with the nations media houses, the president, when asked about the above-mentioned incident, responded with the now nationally imfamous line, "That boy ... he's alive, right?" The current president came into power because he was popular with the youth as he was the non-nepobaby candidate/lower taxes/increase jobs for the youth candidate, but now, during the last two years, he's actively proved to be the exact opposite. Hopefully, we get a free & fair election in 2027 cause if we do, he's definitely not getting 2nd term.
my girlfriend works at a Circle K in florida where they only ever have one person working in the store at a time. their AC has been broken since at least January. this week their indoor thermostat said it was 94° in there. she was telling me how dizzy she was and how she was starting to see spots. her manager refused to let her go home even though she felt like she was gonna faint. i called their corporate number and filed a complaint and the person on the phone seemed very uninterested. a few days later we found out the reason no one had been out to fix it was because they didn’t believe it was as bad as they said and that they were exaggerating. these protections are long overdue
Maybe try complaining to the city or some customer based organization? Get an old person to say they nearly fainted and see if that can help shake things up at all. Sorry y'all are having to deal with this BS.
@@TheDiabeticGameMaster when i called i was pretending to be a customer and all she said was she’d see what she can do in the most disinterested voice. like i understand working customer service sucks i’ve been there but this is regarding people’s safety
Florida recently banned heat protections for workers. Meaning companies are no longer liable for heat-related injuries at work. I'm so sorry for you guys, you deserve better protections
I remember walking into a gas station at night and the only person working was a woman who was so obviously incredibly sick people were uncomfortable approaching the register. Like, she's coughing that deep wet sick cough and her voice was gone and she's blowing her nose and trying to sanitize her hands afterwards. Going up to the counter felt like you were agreeing to get pneumonia. People were UNCOMFORTABLE she was so sick. Only time I ever called corporate on a business. Like 'cool so your staffing issues aren't my problem but your staff giving everyone who walks through the door a free opportunity to pay for a doctor's visit and some antibiotics is my problem'.
As a chef for the last twenty years I can totally support having OSHA requirements for heat in the workplace. I've literally been in kitchens that were a constant 120+ degrees fahrenheit throughout my shift in the summer and it was absolutely brutal. Chugging pitchers of ice water as often as possible was the only way we got through it
In Canada there are a number of requirements regarding the temperatures employees are exposed to. During the heat dome two years ago, a number of local restaurants had to turn off their ovens and other heat generating equipment and only serve cold foods.
I once pulled a Prime Ri b Roast from 90 mins in the Pizza oven: The kitchen was 148 degrees Fahrenheit.(you always look at the Meat Thermometer beforehand.) When I stuck it in the meat, the thermometer WENT DOWN to 124° F/ ~56-8° C August in Pennsyltucky, USA, 1998.
Yes please let this happen it wasn't uncommon for us to get one ten minute break in the morning and one 30 minutes lunch in the afternoon. During a nine to ten hour work shift with 100 plus degree heat with high humidity. This stuff will destroy your body quick
I worked in a kitchen several years ago and each summer the air conditioning unit broke down. As soon as you walked in you could feel how heavy the hot air was. This coupled with standing next to blazing hot stoves and ovens all day, it was unbearable. You couldn't breathe and dehydration felt like it came within moments of working. We temp'd the air and it was 140 degrees in there. In my state, the temperature has to be at 150 (at the time, this could have changed by now, im not sure) for you to not be able to legally work. One of my managers told us the only thing we could do was take a break every 20 minutes. It was awful and I wish no one will ever have to work under those circumstances.
I think all kids on content channels and accounts should get a designated social worker to make sure theyre okay and not being forced to make their family money.
I think this should go also for child actors on sets. I love that they hire intimacy coordinators to respectfully address the topic of sensitive adult scenes and consent, so why not hire trained professionals (with actual certifications) to prevent child abuse on sets? (And I don't mean to take away people working in existing agencies, they are also still needed, but rather create a new department for "children in media" and their protection)
I agree, but we simply do not have enough professionals nor funds to sustain this. Our current SW system struggles to do the bare minimum at present, added duties would be nay impossible.
@@galacticgrandmas I know, I know. It was more of a hopeful dream anyway. I'm not from the US, but so many countries nowadays suffer from not having enough social workers, nurses (hospitals/retirement homes), psychologists etc. In a world of Social Media Coordinators, Customer Service Representatives, Head of People and Development and Candidate Experience Managers, we just don't have enough people doing jobs that aren't just shuffling papers and having Zoom meetings.
Speaking of the dead internet. Exhibit A: AI bots that steal comments and use bots to life their comments, hoping that someone will click on their profile and be linked to their OF content.
Regarding the disability story, I remember in High School having a lesson in my ASL class about deafness as a medical topic that showed the difference im attitude between well-meaning abled people vs the lived experience of disabled people. The teacher asked us if we thought the Deaf Community preferred being called “handicapped” or “disabled.” The majority of the class assumed “handicapped” was better, but the teacher said while not every deaf person thinks exactly the same, the vast majority in the Community prefer “Disabled,” instead. The reason being that “Disabled” isn’t inherently a bad word. “Handicapped,” by definition, means someone struggles with something a “normal” person doesn’t, whereas “Disabled,” by definition, means a person is physically unable to do something someone else can. That might not seem like a big difference, but it’s the contrast between “this person is struggling, poor them,” and “i can do everything you can do, i just dont hear when i do it.” Deaf people go through life almost exactly the same as hearing people do: they drive, have jobs, live their lives, they just don’t hear. They don’t see themselves as “handicapped,” they see themselves as un-able to hear.
Also to add on to the alanah situation, if you're not concerned with the boss fight with radahn than your child's well-being and aren't willing to go help them you shouldn't have the child pause button or not, you can start the game over you can't get your kid back
@@DoctorSharkie those two things are not mutually exclusive. She’s already assuming every parent will choose their kid over the game, she’s *saying* there’s no reason they can’t have *both.*
@@DoctorSharkie Who said you should ignore the kid for the game? A kid and the need to be able to give your attention to them is just a common sense reason to let people pause the game. No one was making this out to be Sophie's choice.
just fyi, "disabled" also means struggling with something a normal person can do. It is literally in the name: "dis - able to perform normal tasks". Handicap has mor positive connotations in regular-use language though, as it also refers to voluntary shibari-play to raise the challenge in games or tasks.
100%. That’s why I don’t like the word disabled. I prefer Neuro divergent when it comes to things like my TBI traumatic brain injury doesn’t hinder my ability to function in normal society much. Yeah but to me, it’s just a divergence, not a disability, whereas my partial paralysis, or my lung issues are actually debilitating because there’s really no way for society to completely help me with those problems
I work as a wind turbine technician in central Texas. When the heat index is at 105 we’re required to work for 40 minutes and take a 20 minute break down in our truck to cool down. When the heat index hits 110 or above all work onsite is stopped. I’ve never been pushed to work through the heat. I’ve always had the ability to stop if I don’t feel right and I have on a few occasions. Safety is our first priority and I’m grateful for that.
People had an adverse reaction to what Alana said because they view the word 'disability' as very negative. So they felt that both them and their kids got attacked. When in reality it is just a word that means no/less ability to do a certain thing. Which is entirely correct in this context theres just no better word for it in english.
Games should have options but disability really is a popular enough word to spark this kind of conversation. Accessibility is the word I think, disability is very vague in English so it's not wrong but it's overlapping many different communities. Kids aren't a disability but they for sure can be a hindrance in relaxing.
@@RealBradMiller We live in the age where people see buzzwords they dont like and get mad immediately without knowing the context nor what they are mad about
"Heat related deaths have only gone up by 11, so adding protections is pointless and we don't want to spend the money to prevent them" is giving big "some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make." People aren't machines and, if you're going to run a business, you need to remember that paying people doesn't mean you can just play with their lives. If someone working for you dies and you could have prevented it, that's on you.
I'm so, SO glad Ruby got caught. But with her. Daddy o five and others, CZcams really ruined my concept of family channels. I now immediately assume something is wrong unless otherwise proven
Let alone the exploitation of exposing kids for money. It's so cruel the way how parents would do that to their kids for fame and profit without realizing the long term psychological effect on the kids. I used to enjoy watching family vlogs but not so much anymore. I generally do not want to support a CZcams family that involves exploiting their kids
My sister's BIL and SIL have a decently sized family channel on CZcams, and the things that go on behind the scenes are horrific. I cannot wait for the day they get officially exposed. They literally stole my sister and BILs car to turn it into a life sized RC car, filmed themselves destroying the vehicle, made a ton of money, and because they come from a small town and that's where the car was stolen from, the local police won't do anything about it. And that isn't even getting into the disgusting things they've done to their own children, or the dad threatening to assault my sister multiple times. The mere fact that you're putting your child online without their consent (because they are not old enough to understand the consequences of being publicly broadcast like that) in order to put money into your own pocket tells me that there's something deeply wrong with you. I don't trust a single one of them.
Yeah that's the thing, it doesn't matter how nice they are behind the scenes or if they are the best parents in the world. Every single family channel is guilty of exploiting their children for profit. There isn't a single good one amongst them.
Editorial Comment: Source on 11:33 of the CNBC article is not written by Katie Bartlett but authored by Spencer Kimball... Just making sure sourcing info is done properly
The new OSHA rule would be a lifesaver, literally. Two weeks ago, we got slammed with a heatwave where I live. I work in a warehouse loading trucks. We had multiple people pass out from the heat. When I say multiple, I mean count-on-both-hands multiple. They give us water and talk to us about the heat and all that stuff. What's really important is the mandatory breaks and check ins. I work in a back corner of the dock, so I don't get checked up on very often as it is. If something happened to me in that trailer, the only way they'd know is when my workload starts to pile up. On top of that, because of all the corporate pressure, a lot of people don't speak out when they're overheating; especially where I work, because we have to keep a specific rate of Cases Per Hour. Editing to add the best part of all this, there's no AC. There's small fans hanging at the docks (for the most part, some docks don't have them), and they're _working_ on the AC, but it won't be done until like, goddamn October. We have a bet pool to see if it'll snow before the AC is done. My money's on the snow.
As someone who worked at Chic-Fil-A for 3 years, this OSHA proposal should ABSOLUTELY be put in place. Our location refused to let us bring drinks outside as we took orders even on 98 degree days! I struggled with heat exhaustion and heat stroke, and so did many of my coworkers. It was only after some individuals had to leave their shifts due to vomiting relating to the heat that our location began doing order taker rotations, which did help, but this proposition could be much more beneficial and potentially save lives of those with higher health risks.
i work at cfa and its bad we didnt have a roof for 2 years in ipos and the heat was so brutal. I never worked in the morning/afternoon because of the heat being at its highest that time.
Work in CFA currently and I suffered from heat exhaustion the other day. Being on cash cart for 1 1/2 hours without any breaks was brutal and supervisors don't really know what to do since they aren't trained to know what to do in a situation like that either.
I've long-since boycotted CFA, so I don't even look at their buildings all that much. Workers have to take orders outside as well? Isn't this just a fast food place and you're indoors? Not saying the inside doesn't get hot, though (I worked a year at a Church's Chicken as my first job out of high school. Juggling taking drive-thru orders with NO headset or computer to convey my orders to the rest of the team, doing dishes and making more biscuits eventually made me lower my working days and then eventually they fired me. No love lost, lol). Or do you have to run orders to the parking lot, like I've experienced with McDonalds during busy hours?
I'm a disabled, disability advocate. Personally, I hate the term situational disability, because people don't understand what it means and it can be used incorrectly and be completely misunderstood. I perfer situational inaccessibility. It still addresses the accessibility, which is what is important. This is also why the disability community often pushes for a universal design accessibility approach, meaning everyone benefits, but it was designed with disables people in mind. Think curb cuts, they're for people using mobility devices (like me in my wheelchair), but they are also very helpful for people riding bikes, parents with strollers, etc.
I am a disabled vet and what Alana said is absolutely 💯 correct. My kids have been more "disabling" by situations only cause by my having offspring, then I have by my physical limitations. I do not, however, regret having, caring for, or spending time with my kids.
@@Bubble-Foam nah what stinks is that people use their kids for illegitimate reasons to complain. That is exactly what the claim is and pretending that its not is disingenuous.
More laws absolutely need to be in place for people who work in the heat. My sister’s first job was Chick Fil A in Texas, and even in 100+ degree weather she was told she had to take orders outside. She was young & it was her first job, and she felt she could “push through” and almost ended up passing out before finally telling them she needed to sit down inside because she was feeling unwell. Sure, an older adult would’ve known to say something earlier, but a teenager doesn’t always know what is and isn’t okay to ask for in a workplace. But it’s a managers job to realize that 4+ hours in 100+ degree weather is insane without a break.
True but living in Texas as well and working for KFC, I do similar work and most people in Texas have an understanding that if it’s hot, you drink water, if a customer asks for water, we give it no charge, but I do agree that when your younger and it’s your first job, you try not to cause problems and push through it. I did the same with not asking to taking breaks initially, but I also grew up being told drink water when it’s hot and my family goes out. If she moved to Texas from the north, I can understand the mistake if your not used to it, but if you grow up in Texas or the south, I would think heat conditions are a problem you grow up experiencing.
@@azedenfender880what part of “teenagers don’t know what is okay to ask for” was unclear to you? I’ve had bosses threaten to write me up for asking for a 5 minute break to calm down after taking abuse from customers. A teenager would think “this must be normal - no one is quitting” because they have no other point of reference and that’s what managers prey on.
True. I worked in a printshop and my station was about 3 feet from our dry that was running at 400 degrees all day. During the summers it would frequently reach 115+ daily with the hottest it maxed out the thermometer at 120. We got a 20 minute lunch and 2,10 minute breaks. But I will say we tried not to take breaks unless we had to. I used to take 2 frozen gallons of jugs of water. One to drink and the other to pour over my head when it got too hot. The breaks did more harm than good though because it just killed us going from AC back to the shop and just stopping wiped us out. I pulled rank on my boss and manager one day and opened the shop at 5am without telling them and finish the day by 1. Sucked getting up early but was worth it to beat the heat.
As a licensed social worker/therapist- life coaching is a huge issue. So many are basically doing unregulated therapy with no training and this can cause real harm. Happy for anyone to find support, but I caution folks to ask questions, be wary of big claims and always seek licensed professionals for trauma or serious mental health issues.
I worked as a career adviser and I can tell you that every wannabe life coach I spoke to went into that field because they didn't have what it takes to get and hold a regular job. They did not have the kinds of lives that anyone would want to emulate. For many it's just a pyramid scheme. For some it's a cult.
Situational disability seems like an accurate enough way to describe having a toddler. At this very second, I'm typing this one handed, and fighting my kid with my left hand. My partner and I joke often about who gets the "baby handicap" when we play multiplayer games together. This section has made me feel very seen. Thank you Phil.
I once had a kitchen refused to shut down even though the clocked temperature in the kitchen was 120 and over the fryers and I mean over them not in them was 140 to the fact the cooks were rotating every 10 minutes to go stand in the blast freezer to try to lower their temperatures back down only when someone finally passed out. Did they get us a portable AC unit that just brought it down to 90°?
At the risk of giving ruby more kindness than she has ever given another soul a day in her life, but I do believe she was made worse by jodi. Ruby was already a cruel person, Jodi honed it.
I think you are right not that it absolves Franke but I think Hildebrand is the more dangerous of the two. Not that her older advice wasn't pure shit imo.
They are both beyond evil! But you’re correct the worst of the 2 saw dollar signs and someone who she could manipulate. That little boy saved his sister and himself!
Oh yeah definitely! Jodi struck gold with Ruby. Social media influencer with reach, already heavily involved with her faith and the perfect breeding ground for Jodi’s ideology. Doesn’t make Ruby a good person even before Jodi … but Jodi used Ruby like a puppet and it worked. It only blew up because of her courageous son who ran away and got help. Based on what I’ve seen I am convinced that, if this wouldn’t have stopped here, Ruby would have written over her house to Jodi - making her even richer - and these poor kids would have perished in the desert. So. Yeah. Both are awful, fucked up people … but Jodi is the mastermind behind it all.
Agreed which is why Kevin's talking about Jodi ruining his marriage pisses me off bc he was complicit in the abuse to his children even to this year when he tried to have his daughter arrested for taking things from her childhood home.
Regarding the Alanah Story - The terms she's using are pretty standard within the industry. I work as a website administrator - more and more my work is becoming "stop other people making inaccessible content" - I have done so much training and research on Accessibility so that I can create guidelines and help others avoid the pitfalls. One huge aspect of Accessibility Awareness is making sure people understand that these features aren't about helping a few people - Accessibility features can help people across the board, their not like a parking space, people who don't "need" help using them doesn't take them away from those who do, the more they are used the better they will become.
Honestly it boils down to ignorance, lack of understanding of the topic discussed, and people finding reasons to be offended for others/reasons to join a hate train. For Alanah specifically people love to twist things she says to fit their agenda.
I work at UPS loading trucks and it can be hell. Those trucks sit out in the sun all day and they're basically ovens by the time we get to them. Add on that it's typically a lot of heavy lifting and we have to move quick and it can be an issue. Our union contract renewal got fans put up at the entrances of the trucks. They're mostly for air circulation rather than to keep us cool but I'll honestly take what I can get. I remember how miserable it was last summer before we got them. The best you could hope for was a nice breeze to come through while you were moving between trailers. It's better than it used to be.
When I was in the Army in AIT we had someone on post die from heat stroke, for the next 2 days they had us take water breaks any time we were outside, and for the rest of training we were required to carry canteens that were supposed to be full anytime we went outside. a week later a soldier got sent to the hospital for over two weeks, after they passed out while they were being smoked for not having a full canteen during a canteen check which happened after we were sent outside to wait in a parking lot for 45 minutes in 100+ degrees. half the people in the formation were getting smoked, on the pavement as a punishment for drinking from the canteens... while waiting for the Sgts to come out and inspect if our canteens were full because they didn't want people to get dehydrated while outside.
Because making this AI slop raises their stock price. Phil cut off Drew’s clip right before he showed that since adding this garbage AI, their stock price has been boosted from that 10% of people thinking this is the Next Big Thing.
Why is CZcams willing to do this much investigation before removing AI content, and so hasty when it comes to copyright claims? Should be the other way around.
if they get caught not removing something that actually is a copywrite violation, they will be held liable. and it might get some politicians interested in regulating youtube.
it's because of safe harbor laws. CZcams has to show that they are doing something with any complaints they get regardless of how off it can seem. sometimes they can step in on obvious things but they have to be really discerning. With AI content, there are no laws really atm so they can do what they want really. I used to work for an ISP in the department that handled copyright notices and even for the ones I got to research where I would look into the content and the acct the rights holder is trying to flag I could find some that were just wrong and management would rather us just send then risk the safe harbor of the company.
As a teacher, our summers have been getting shorter and shorter which has made heating conditions a little tricky, especially for busses. I hope we don’t have to be under those osha conditions someday, but I really hope it passes for people who do work in the heat!
I work outside as a yard driver in a trailer yard and one time when we asked for AC in the trucks, we were told other people work in worse conditions. They tell us to take breaks but they understaff us so much to where it's one person running a whole warehouse trailer yard and there is no time for a break. I work in the central valley in california so we're seeing temperatures scratching the 110s. Not to mention how much more hot it gets inside a tiny truck where the engine is actually right under your seat. I hope the new OSHA regulation goes into affect because it gets absolutely unbearable
I work in a wear house esc building where it can get over 90°F inside. Last year our swamp coolers broke. Ever since the company I work for has been taking steps to prevent heat related illnesses. Fixing the swamp coolers, getting portable swamp coolers, more fans in general, cool water stations, access to break rooms with air conditioning, and popsicles. And they aren't done. And I know that I'm incredibly lucky to work for a business that actually cares about our well being. Others are not as luck.
Hey is this my chance to shine? I'm a mail carrier in North Texas and my union rep is currently clashing with management. We are given two 10 minute breaks and one 30 minute lunch. But in the same breath they tell us to seek shade to stay cool, the micromanage our "stationary" events. Its ludicrous I'm from California. My hometown would hit 115 and 2% humidity some years. And I'd find that FAR more manageable than 100F and 66% while driving an outdated sheet metal lunchbox of a vehicle. its rough out there.
Postal workers get so much shit from EVERY direction. People aren't machines. And most of the mail they have you deliver is JUNK. They're pushing you to your limits over ads and flyers I don't even want! The community is hoping you guys get some relief. Companies need to deliver their own ads. And hot weather can kill you. Not everyone, but you won't know until it's too late. USPS needs to do better.
Related to the heat. I am glad that I worked with an understanding HR. I worked outside driving a forklift, I was constantly reminded to take 10 min brakes whenever I feel it while working outside under the heat and drink a lot of water.
With the OSHA heat protection story made me think of my night job at a restaurant last year where the A/C wasn't working and the grills were causing the restaurant to be 200 degrees. Luckily they would close for the day when that happened.
Worked at JEEP in the repair area right next to the ovens that ran around 235f. During hot summers it could reach anywhere from 90f to 120f. When we complained the company said, "You work with MEK (methyl ethyl ketone peroxide) Dropping over from a heat stroke should be the least of your worries". And yes they actually said that. So during summer we were completely naked under our paint coveralls. The sweat added a nice effect. The company bitched, and we told them it would cost them an A/C break room. They said it wasn't possible because the building was too old. When we pointed out the freight elevator control room just got A/C they denied it while standing next to it running.
If you used tyvek-suits, those are nice little saunas just by themselves! I have painted murals in them, never again. I thought I was going to keel over from the get go and the loose suit became one weird crinkly catsuit, when sweat glued it to my skin. My doc martens had collected so much sweat, I could pour several drops out of them. I felt like a comedy skit! The hairnets didnt help either. Im a Finn, Im way more comfortable with cold than heat, our buildings are built the same way, retaining heat with no AC.. I can always put on more/better clothes, but there comes a point, where I cant take any more off! Climate change has introduced us to yearly heatwaves, so fun.. Denying something painfully obvious, like running AC.. “Who do you believe, me or your lying eyes?”-kinda situation, gotta love them bossmen. And were they suggesting you doused yourself in the chemical (MEK), because it sounds a lot like that. Better bosses wont ask you to do anything they couldn’t, wouldn’t or shouldn’t do themselves, but those are rare today, endangered or extinct completely.
The worst part is being naked under a tyvek suit barely even helps with the heat. Going around with soggy socks from the sweat rolling down your legs. Breathable suits exist but don't protect from isocyanates. So its a choice between heat exhaustion or cancer.
I love that every argument against worker’s protections is always that “it’ll be bad for business” just really makes it clear that capitalism puts profit over human life
@@zzz808- Profit is the only thing that matters in capitalism. Humans are expendable and replaceable. It's rare you'll find an executive callous enough to say that out loud, but the history of worker protections is written in blood.
I worked at a snack shop in a cement building when I was 16. By the second summer I intentionally told my bosses that I smoked cigarettes to get extra breaks. It reached over 120 in the building, especially when you were on the grill
What I can't understand about the Elder Ring story is why any single player game wouldn't include a pause button. I can't think of a single reason not to include a pause feature in an offline game. Forget kids. Players may have to step away to answer a door, use the bathroom, let a dog outside, answer a phone, or any number of other simple tasks that take priority over a game. Not having a pause button doesn't make your game more difficult. It just makes the game more inconvenient. Inconvenience is not difficulty.
The argument for the FromSoftware games not having a pause button (besides the multiplayer component) is that pausing the game during boss fights would allow players to decompress or prepare for incoming attacks. The lack of a pause is suppose to force players to play at the rhythm of the boss with minimal relief from the tension. It does feel like an intentional design decision. That said, I still think it is incredibly stupid reason to not include a simple feature and it’s not surprising one of Elden Ring’s first mods was allowing an actual pause screen.
When it comes to the Alanah situation: You are asking people on Twitter to use common sense, to look into the video instead of trusting a Out of Context Clip: That will never happen
Replace the word Twitter with internet. Everyone online is a genius that takes everything at face value and wants to be offended by the world without doing any research
I see far too many clickbait headlines taken as absolute fact. While Community Notes can be hilarious at owning people, it's such a sad replacement for actual content policing.
@@rottengalaxy i mean yeah no shit? that's why she asked for a pause button so that at the very least when something happens(kids become rowdy, an accident happens, etc.) return to the game once the issue has been resolved.
It’s pretty obvious she didn’t use “disability” in the same way the VA uses “disability” when it comes to disability checks or something. Twitters response is no different than someone getting angry at the term “retarding force” in physics because they incorrectly think it’s referencing mental health.
The heat death argument is interesting. But im curious about the amount of hospitalizations due to heat related work place injuries. I feel those numbers make it more real. Its rare to die from it, but heat stroke can still knock you out for a while and its extremely hard on your organs to be dehydrated.
i used to work as a manager at a pizza place and with the oven and the california summer i constantly had to fight to give everyone extra breaks because of how hot and overworked we all were it sucked so bad
I am on vacay in SC this week (I'm from NC and live there too), and I've gotten heat exhaustion (but not stroke) pretty much every day since Sunday, save for today. I can't imagine how some of y'all work in such heat, it would LITERALLY kill me. 😢
I work in a warehouse for a dog training facility (This is due to outdated ciry ordinances that consider any animal related business either a farm or a slaughter house). We have no AC, no break rooms, nothing. My manager and boss expect me to look after fifteen dogs nonstop. Sure, I am only there for four hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon, but the heat is absolutely brutal. This morning, I was so sweaty and overheated that two pet owners asked if I was okay. I can't even begin to imagine how the dogs are feeling in this heat. I don't even know what to do at this point because I fear that I may pass out from heat exhaustion, or worse, we could lose a dog.
Regarding the heat story, I recently moved to VA from MI and the state regulations are supposed to include many of the protections you’re naming. However, I know that the enforcement of these protections are not universally enforced among different organizations. As someone who works in the history field where there are people wearing wool in the middle of the Virginia summer and who knows someone who has had heatstroke from a lack of adherence, it is detrimental to both the employees and the employers if the heat is essentially creating a hostile work environment. Employees end up sick or dehabilitated from the heat and have to take time off work, and employees are forced to suffer through very preventable health conditions. Especially as someone who moved here from a colder state, the heat is no joke and has taken some time to get used to. You can’t just jump into it without any sort of acclimatization.
That reaction to the Alanah clip once more highlights how some people just CRAVE something to be mad about. I have 3 kids and while I wouldn’t really use the word “disability,” within the context of what she is saying it makes perfect sense. People need to chill tf out.
Well said. Just people looking for a reason to be angry, at worst, I'd say she misspoke, doesn't require to many brain cells to understand the entirety of what she's saying as opposed to getting hung up on a particular section of her statement
When I became a parent I stopped going to certain places while my kids were small - restaurants, etc, that weren't kid friendly in any way. Instead of making decisions to go or avoid based on stairs vs ramps, I made it based on other factors: food type, parking space size, changing station in the bathrooms. When you look at it that way, having small children is like a (temporary) disability.
@@JayneAFK You clearly didn't watch the video because they explained everything you're bringing up. Like Alanah said, if you're unhappy with the term "situational disability" then advocate for a new, better, term. Otherwise you're better off understanding the term and what it *actually* means.
As a Texan. This heat is no joke. 105 real temp, 110-115 heat index. Heat stroke and other issues can come fast and most workers do not feel they are allowed to take care of themselves in this heat
In regards to the "disability" conversation, I didn't realize until recently that ADHD has been recognized as one. However, for my entire life, nobody ever considered me "disabled". They just wanted me to get over it. Words keep evolving overtime, & sometimes can be more inclusive. It just depends on the context.
I have a friend who uses chat gbt as Google because it will “always” give her an answer no matter how confusing/niche her questions are. It’s troubling because once I found out she was doing this, i tried to point out how it’s not guaranteed to give *accurate* information, like how Drew showed in his video, but she said “it’s right there majority of the time, so what does it matter?” I didn’t know how to explain why that’s such a dangerous mindset to have without sounding paranoid myself…
Tell your friend about the New York lawyer that used ChatGPT instead of a proper legal search engine and ended up submitting completely fake quotes from previous cases to the court, but the Judge took the fake case numbers and noted they didn't exist at all, and fined the lawyer severely plus required the lawyer to tell all future courts about their stupidity.
@@johndododoe1411 she does know, she doesn’t care. Her reasoning is that since she’s not using it for her job it doesn’t matter if she gets bad info. I try and tell her that if she’s learning incorrect information, it WILL eventually damage her understanding of the world and thus affect her interactions with others, job included, but she can’t see past the present. She dismisses me by saying im using the “slippery slope fallacy,” which, ironically, she learned about from Chat gpt.
Try to explain to her that chatgpt is not AI. It'd not even close to AI. If you can inform yourself on what an LLM actually is and how it generates its responses. Also help her understand what it means when it give wrong answers. Tell that it's called hallucinations. And the people who made chatgpt still don't understand why its doing this. Also show her the DAN aubreddit. Dan stand for Do anything now. It was made by a group of testers to break the LLM to basically so whatever they wanted. They use specialized prompts to tell chatgpt to brake its rules and restrictions. It's very funny and also very good at showing the large holes and lack of actual intelligence in the LLMs as a whole. Dan has many iterations that plague multiple models, not just chatgpt. Hope you can get something across to help. People really need to get the word and idea of these programs as AI out of the vocabulary. The companies themselves are the most agrejus with this as the know full well we have nothing even remotely close to AI
I'm a pool technician in Texas, in the summer it gets up to 110-115 on the heat index. I've worked at different companies and none of them have rules for extreme temperatures. Other than staying hydrated the best thing we can do is hop in a customers pool if it gets unbearable. I believe these new rules are needed to help prevent not only deaths, but also other issues caused by working out in extreme heat such as exhaustion, sunburn, etc that can make working out in the heat even worse. As an added bonus, I hope this will start a move towards lessening the workload we have during these super hot summers as keeping up with the amount we do during the brief spring and fall we get here actually makes the days lasts longer just cause it's so hot we end up dragging along staying out even longer.
I presently work 3 jobs: one cushy IT job, one barista job, and a job as a group fitness instructor in Arizona. I will say people do not take the heat nearly as seriously as they should. My gyms have been having periodic AC issues and 1/2 of my coffee shops AC units died recently. So many of my managers, my gym members, and others treat the heat like it’s just “minor discomfort” and it’s so scary. Stay hydrated, stay cool, stay out of the sun. Otherwise you’re setting yourself up for some serious short term and long term health implications.
I have a friend that is paraplegic and can't walk, she's bound to a wheelchair. I asked her what she thought of this situation. Once she got back to me, she had this to say. "She's absolutely right in what she specifically said and has not harmed anyone who is disabled whether intentionally or unintentionally. People are reading far too deep into what she said and are making it to be a mountain when it's a mole hill. My work prevents me from painting when I want to, and I'm a mother to two teenage daughters. That is a situational disability. My arms are fine, I can paint when I have free time, I just don't purely because I'm a mom and I work."
i dont give a fuck about companies expenses when it comes to worker protections. no amount of money is “too much” to protect even one human life from a preventable death
I worked as a laborer for an organization in az for 5 yrs, there was always heat safety optically in emails reminding us to take breaks and drink water but practically there's not much you can do when its 120 and you have to set up an outdoor concert at 5pm It would've been nice to have actual codified standards to hold them accountable to
I'm watching this on my phone and when Drew said in the clip, "Hey Google, do I need a parachute while skydiving?" my own phone heard that and asked if I wanted to try Gemini. Perfect comedy.
Being mindful of situational disabilities when designing things is wildly helpful. Imagine you're approaching a shop door while carrying a large heavy item that you can't put down safely but rather than the shop door opening automatically or being "push to open", it requires a door knob to be turned. You are now, effectively, unable to enter. Designing things with situational disabilities in mind helps everyone.
For the situational disability story, I'm really shocked that people, grown adults, either can't or try not to understand that words can have different meanings. Alanah explained so concisely her point and just gave an example and these people don't even take a breath before they start arguing with her. That one tweet saying that her using the term 'situational disability' is offensive to people with actual disabilities comes across so narrow minded as to what inclusivity in gaming should strive to be. What do they think "actual" disabilities are cause I can guarantee everybody has their own definition for better or for worse. You can compare or 'rank' disabilities all day but that doesn't mean each one doesnt come with its own set of unique challenges that are hard to deal with. Some of these people really need to take a step back and remember that not everything online is a personal slight against them.
the people who complained about that are most likely those who make being disabled their entire personality, that's why they are angry and feel attacked. Dumbasses.
She should consider who her audience is. If it was a symposium, then sure. Alsl,situational disability is NOT a global term (other companies use different terms). People arguing that she has used the technical term fail to consider this. In an age where political correctness is being shoved into our throats, I'm surprised people don't have the foresight when using words.
I'm a teacher in the Pacific Northwest. In the PNW, long periods of heat over the summer are pretty new. So we don't have effective AC systems. During the summer, to save money, they shut down the AC in any "unused " building. Except, those buildings aren't empty. The janitors are spending the summer working, deep cleaning carpets, moving big tables, and more. And they are doing that in these old buildings that were never meant to deal with heat. Without ANY AC. Sometimes, no moving air at all. It's horrific. Once, when the AC and air vents broke in my classroom, it reached 88 degrees. And it wasn't even that hot outside. Janitors work in that kind of shit for weeks, doing a lot of physical work. And all they would have to do to help is turn on the FUCKING AC. This OSHA move is good. But not enough
I work in the heat occasionally for my job. I’m a 1099 employee, which probably means these regulations wouldn’t apply to me. However, my company has told us that if the location is too hot we can call HQ immediately and they will help us work with the client to fix the issue or straight up cancel. I am happy to say they take our safety very seriously.
This is why I don’t take life coaches seriously. If I have to give someone advice, I will say enjoy your life, enjoy the things and the people that you love and be yourself. A good, short and simple advice for everyone and is free.
Good advice generally speaking but some people like myself have needed more than that. I've never had a life coach specifically but I have used other types of support in a similar capacity. I was socialized very poorly and it's taken half a lifetime to de-program and learn basic social and life skills. I needed a lot of help and advice along the way.
What I don't get is how some of those could have gotten fined or jailed. Practicing therapy as a trained doctor as a trained doctor (with a revoked license)? They are still a trained doctor that can do what they say they can do, and it is not as if it isn't _legal_ to practice unlicensed medicine - you just won't get any clients (if they realize) and are disallowed from handling certain substances and tools, and is personally responsible if your practice harms their body. Getting people to hand you their money for investment? Gambling is a valid form of investment! Like "investing on red" in roulette. It just has poor returns, and why would you trust someone with your money for investing if you don't know they tend to deliver returns and losses are (near-)guaranteed to be minimal? Still, it's clearly not a fraud (unless he said stuff to the client the newscaster failed to mention).
This sounds good but the idea is another person you respect holds you accountable. We all have life coaches...it could be a parent, a loved one...that one teacher that showed they see you and pushed you to expect more from yourself. I agree with the idea that a life coach is not necessarily a paid service...but the idea of a life coach is also not a bad one. It is just there is a market for people with disposable icome to explore hiring someone to assume that role for them. Which I agree with phil here...that is not a bad thing either...but it is a totally unregulated thing and it turns out the people that feel the need to pay for one are usally the type of people that don't have people in their lives to point out potential red flags. That is not to suggest that there are not sincere life coaches out there that take their role seriously...but it is to suggest that type of dynamic of people without a good social network of interpersonal relationships leave some people with disposable income vulnerable to fraudesters that are better at selling themselves as a solution than they are at actually providing a role of coaching someone in their life for that person's benefit rather than their own.
I want to like this but it has 69. Humor joy busy Find something at which you excel Then fall in love w the process Don't waste your time on friends who only call for favors. Those are Human Resource Narcissists. They will drain you. Laugh at your pain; because no one else can feel it; unless they love you. Find someone to love, who loves you back. Even if its a 🐈 or horse.
As somebody with disabilities, I understood what she was saying about kids can be a disability. Because disabilities are what is preventing you from fully doing a task and sometimes having a kid can make you think outside the box in order to get a task done. Whether it’s cooking or doing a laundry and you have to do it yourself and you may only have one hand to do something or you have to have, a kind of system so you’re able to take care of your kid and complete the task at the same time in a efficient matter. There are times where I need my phone fpr magnification purposes, but it’s cooling down mechanism and extreme heat decreases the screen brightness and makes it very hard for me to use the Magnifier outside where it is very bright and I can’t see. So in that since the phone is disabling me from functioning properly.
I am disabled too. Would you say a person with kids can understand what it's like to be disabled? Also, I get no enjoyment from my condition and would be happier without it in my life.
that is an interesting way to think about it as a fellow person with a disability I don’t like the wording of it. I’d much prefer her say it is a challenge, but I get what she was trying to say it just really doesn’t sound good to me the way she said it.
That's why it's important to understand what it means to have a situational disability. Alanah was simply using the officiant recognised term for it. If people don't like the term, they should get it changed first.
I think there’s a difference between something that limits you and something that disables you. Maybe the distinction isn’t that important, but disabled people didn’t even historically have the same rights as able bodied people do (and tbh still don’t). I just think using the term disability to apply to something as wide as including a child’s presence seems demeaning to the true story of systemic and historical hardship disabled people have faced. I get where she’s coming from-having a kid does limit you. Not sure if it disables you though… maybe I’m nitpicking though
as another disabled person , i understand her point and agree , i just think there are better examples , and if she'd used another example , people would fully agree with it .
I was a utility arborist for 10 years. We couldn’t even take bathroom breaks. Yes, we had some breaks. But outdoors, usually on a road. And the toilet was the bed of our truck where the chips went.
13:44 I am a chronic Elden Ring player. There is a pause in Elden Ring it's the quit game option. When you load the game you will be in the same spot you quit from. Yes it's a bit tedious but that's what you do when you have to leave the game for real world problems
I work at Publix and one of the most important things I do is get carts. Here in NC, it reached 95 degrees the other day while I was outside. I’m honestly surprised that NC doesn’t already have heat protections because Publix does a good job ensuring me and my coworkers are safe. It shouldn’t be too hard for companies to prevent their employees from dying by heat exhaustion. All Publix does is let employees go to the coolers if they feel too hot and provide cold water for all employees. If that is too costly for the industries fighting OSHA, maybe they could pay their CEO less to cover the difference.
When it comes to soulsgames specifically, I think the no pausing is a feeling that they have that makes you only feel "safe" at a bonfire/grace. however, pausing could be a setting you can enable, like "Pause while in menus. Can't change Equipment while in combat" could be a nice middleground
Some other games have a system where you can open the options menu and then pressa second button to freeze the whole game. While it's frozen, you can't change anything, the game is literally frozen, and the only input it will accept is the unfreeze option. This allows for them to create that sense of unsafeness while using the menus, while still giving people the chance to step away if something important happens. Seems like the obvious and easy solution in this situation.
@@BrolysShadow_ yeah, I have heard something about initiating a tutorial through the help menu, but that seems like a slow, unintentional work around. They definitely should explain it, or just make a baked in freeze function.
I don't play souls games because they are not for me but for the love of god, people need to stop feeling entitled that every damn game in the world needs to fill their tastes and necessities. Every time From Software releases a new game, it's the same bullshit. My God, just go play something else.
The no AC in schools thing is just insane to me. I remember as a kid getting snow days, last year my daughter had class cancelled a few times because it was too hot in the school. It's wild.
Currently involved in protests involving a Google datacenter (hopefully only attempting) to be built nearby, directly next to a residential area without any of the neighbors being informed prior to city authorization. The amount of noise, air and water pollution, and emissions concerns are crazy- not even mentioning there's worries it could affect a nearby wetlands. And I'm just looking at it all, then the mess that is Google's search engine and AI like "damn, all this for what again?"
I was looking into it and there isn't much in terms of air or water pollution. Like I saw that backup generators cause issues, but otherwise it doesn't seem too much worse than say a warehouse. Well better than warehouse by some things.
@@danielmorton9956 Indeed, the huge issue with data centers is how much electricity they consume and how much their giant air condition system turns all that electricity into outdoor heat, just to keep server hall temperatures at a workable 40 degrees C (100 degrees F) or less.
Construction worker here. When it comes to heat at work it depends. They tell us to keep hydrated. They give us all these suggestions to deal with the heat, but that's it. Suggestions. I can't even tell you how many days I've climbed in my car at the end of the day soaked in sweat. Doing my best to not pass out. They give us water, say keep an eye on each other, and take breaks. But I can tell you if you take a break you will be noticed. It's like high school really. "Look at John, he's taking so many breaks. He's just lazy". They need clear rules about when it's to hot to work. Then a way to offer environmental paid time off. It sucks to burn PTO because it's to hot, or because they closed the site due to a winter storm. Get better
i’m a cook at a high end kitchen here in the states and it’s excruciating working sometimes. the general kitchen temperature typically rests at a constant 90F throughout the kitchen with no ac unit, and whenever the thermometer we use to temp our steaks or burgers remain on to temp the air around us, above the stove top it reaches up to 120F. we don’t have breaks here either, we are lucky to get a 5 minute break outside. hearing those laws gives me hope that i can someday work in a kitchen without feeling like i’m gonna have a heat stroke 😬💯.
It's Jul 4, the time I write this, I'm itching for a Thursday dive into my daily news episode so much I rewatch the uploads of this week again, Phil pls🤣😅
Re: OSHA Heat Safety rules I’m really glad to see this rule come into play, but I’m terrified of the inevitable lawsuits upcoming that will negate it due to SCOTUS’ dismantling of Chevron Deference
It’s fucking crazy to me that they gave a express road way for our country to fascism within a week by basically dismantling all government regulatory bodies abilities to set regulations and on top of that allow the president to be above the law if he has enough sycophants in the right places.
My dad is a roofer who has been in the industry for over 20 years and he has to work in this harsh weather not because he or his boss want to but because they have families to provide for and it’s the same story every year. My dad has to wake up at 3 to 4am to try and beat the heat but in the end still end up working past noon in the blazing heat. My mom and I are so afraid of one day getting a call for the hospital saying my dad was there from heat stroke. If the government really cared about people like my dad who worked in this heat they would add more safety measures immediately instead of discuss it in their air conditioned office.
I am a iron worker in CA, and this last week has been hot! I'm currently doing production welding in a small prefab shop. There is no a/c or any cooling systems other than a shop fan. I currently consume a gallon of water daily. I do not worry about taking necessary "cool down" breaks due to my situation, but there are people in the industry scared to stop working in the heat due to discipline. If and when rules that favor employees get passed, they don't make it to the guy who need the information. We should Normalize taking the time you are entitled to.
I work outside for a living. We have work trucks to cool down in but we're incentivized by metrics to keep working and get things done as fast as possible. One thing I didn't notice mentioned here is outside of heath deaths, heat exhaustion and heat strokes. You don't have to die to be permanently effected by the consequences of working in the heat. I have many coworkers who have suffered from heat exhaustion or even a stroke and can no longer tolerate heat the same way anymore.
No way that Elden ring clip started controversy! Oh my lord we live in the dumbest timeline. Her point is she wants to cater to people who can't block out the world while gaming. That's such a nothing sentiment, how is that controversial!?
They wanted to be mad at her because she's a woman invading their sacred game,.. I've had someone tell me it violates fromsoft's vision to add "pause." Yet I've watched countless boneheaded stubborn fools refuse to use summons, spirit ashes, magic, and other things like that and when I say it's fromsoft's vision that they use those things as needed rather than struggle 8 years on a boss i get told that's just the way they think the games should be played and their personal preference. I watched one guy spend like 40 hours over the course of a month on ONE boss rather than use the mechanics the devs gave him and in the end he was just so broken he couldn't even enjoy his victory. This all makes no sense.
I work at a car wash in Georgia, and let me tell you that the last week alone has been insane. Our temps are generally in the 80s and 90s, and if you account for the humidity, it's easy for the temp to feel like 100+. And because I work at a car wash, all I know is humidity. Last year, I saw the change in temp and took it upon myself to get cooling towels and personal misting fans for all of my co-workers, which my manager reimbursed me for. All of which we are still using now. And our manager has taken it upon himself to provide cold water and sports drinks during the heat waves. I can't imagine still working here without those essential items available to me. This heat is no joke, and I hope that businesses are forced to adhere to these standards. It's the least they could do.
I also live in Georgia. It was 101+ 3 days last week, one of which I walked to the store (mile away) in. On my way back, I passed out on the side of the road and was eventually revived by a cop. 5 minutes later, I was sipping water with my head cradled by EMS, 4 cops present, the ambulance, and fire rescue. I was given 3 cognitive tests and eventually taken home by one of the cops (was 3/4 a mile away) after I refused the hospital. My blood pressure was normal but pulse through the roof. Heat conditions are nothing to play with. While I've only worked at one place where high heat was an issue, it was never extended exposure due to being able to hop in my car at any time and crank the a/c.
It's an unfortunate situation where social media is now enshrining a saying i heard from a consultant years ago: "controversy creates cash". Outrage, controversy and other ways of inducing an emotional response in an audience is rewarded, and what happened with a tweet with a false "quote" gets millions of views and will be rewarded through monetization, and the victim gets the consequences.
I’m a UPS driver… People think they know what we go through but it’s truly grueling in this record breaking heat. We must close our bulkhead and rear door any time we’re away from the truck or while the vehicle is in motion due to DOT and safety regulations. The back of that truck can heat up to over 120 degrees. Imagine lifting heavy packages and finding a package out of the 300-400 other packages jammed in there. When I step outside in the same air people are complaining about I feel a nice cool breeze. When I walk into an A/C’d gas station I start to shiver as if I’m stepping outside during winter. What’s worse, the company has been sending us out with over 10 hours a work each day due to staffing issues. If I find myself in the back of the truck too long (and I’m talking about like 20 seconds) my head starts to feel foggy and I feel myself starting to lose strength. We’re union protected. We have ice machines and water jugs provided by the company. If we feel heat stroke we’re allowed to drive to a cool place to cool off as long as we properly inform management and they cannot make discipline stick due to union backing. I cannot imagine surviving at other jobs without basic protections. Some of these jobs like instant oil change technicians, construction workers, lawn care professionals etc. have no such protections. When you experience heat stroke your mind does not function. You do not have the capacity to always take the steps in order to save yourself. These companies are raking in record profits. Let them invest some of those profits in saving lives. BTW, 40 some deaths a year due to heat sounds underreported. How many of these companies are reporting/blaming other health related issues so they can skirt regulations?
@@regulator18E "altogether" is one word, your reply also would've read better without commas and by replacing "or" with "and", no usually one cares about absent commas / punctuation / capitalization as long as it doesn't disrupt legibility, and there was no need for a comma in my first comment anyway
My daughter loves to game. She also has juvenile arthritis. One of the many areas of pain she suffers is her thumb joints so she has to be careful of how long she plays for. Being able to pause a game when she starts to feel pain can be the difference between being able to play again a little later or the next day or having to take a much longer break. My husband also plays games, the majority of the family does. We’re pretty good when asking the kids to do things to let them wait til they get to certain areas in games to do things we ask of them but having pause options would be useful
Pause buttons used to be a standard feature. You used to be able to save your games pretty much whenever you wanted to. Not having these features only makes the game harder because only people with no other responsibilities can dedicate the time it takes to actually play a session. Better hope there's someone else around to answer the door for that delivery because otherwise your character is dead. It's stupid.
I tried putting myself in my parents' shoes as I myself have no children, and what they have to sacrifice in order to raise me, and for them it was giving up their dream jobs or make life changing decisions because they now have a child. I think its silly that now, a gaming company has to think about fucntions in their game for customers who have children to raise? 1st its Elden Ring Next: LoL, DotA, Apex, (basically any online game as there is no pause button). If I had to sum this up... its just 1st world problems 😂
@@hoilaiken tbh those are two different genres mate, lol. unless you pvp-ing in elden ring, its a single player story based game, and the online ones are well, in real time games against other folks - ofc having a pause button would ruin the experience there.
@BonDijon yeah I was grasping as straws there, but where one idea/concept is introduced, someone somewhere wants to implement said idea to help ease their day to day lives. I mean lets be real, adding a pause button to Elden Ring would not make the game any less fun, it would just be an added function in which it was our own choice to use or not. Dark Souls came out in 2011, and they made 2 more games and so many other titles took inspiration and made different franchises. Never had a pause button, and pretty sure people in 2011 were having babaie and still found time to play games 😂
Also, I've worked as local crew for concerts, for a company called Rhino Staging, and I have several friends who work for the Seattle/Tacoma IATSE Local 15. I used to live in south Florida, and I've worked with my dad, who is a GC. OSHA is a LITERAL LIFE SAVER. Rhino and IATSE out here DO NOT MESS WITH THAT. If they see someone being unsafe on the job site... let's just say they usually didn't show up to other gigs after that, and even the temp agencies would blacklist them. AND STATES LIKE FLORIDA AND TEXAS ARE HUMID AND HOT AF. Water and heat protections are absolutely needed, especially since FL and TX have either gotten rid of, or are considering abolition of mandatory water breaks, and other states are trying to follow suit.
I just got an email at work today that says most associates will be allowed to wear shorts until Labor Day. I work a retail job (let's just say a big blue box store). The only people not allowed are Deli/bakery and probably the auto dept for safety reasons.
Ive been working at a coffee chain in Arizona for 3 years and before that I worked part time as a mover and heat-related regulations are so very necessary, heat exhaustion hits super fast, sometimes in only 10-15 minutes when it’s over 100 outside and can take a long time to recover from. Arguing that more OSHA regulations may only save a few additional lives per year ignores the absolute toll that being in the heat every day has on the body. When a worker has to be sent home early, it really hurts morale and you lose extra help on shift. Additionally, heat-related illness can have serious long-term effects, especially if not treated right away. I’ve luckily never had any super serious issues, but I wonder if the days when I’ve thrown up from being dehydrated or gotten serious sun burns from not having adequate sunscreen will catch up to me someday.
i worked my first firework stand this year, and holy moly!! we are using the shipping container shops and we have 1 small ac unit in the corner of our stores, we also have an RV with AC, and our personal vehicles with AC as well, we have pleanty of water, and since the boss is my uncle in law hes very considerate for us to go take our breaks and to also stay fed and hydrated. our location is in houston tx, and phil its been so fucking hot. not to mention we have a huge hurricane coming in so everything is hella humid and just bleh. i had to go back to my hotel cuz i got dizzy today around 1pm, i shit u not the heats been so bad, we have been downing water , munching ice, trying to stay in the shade & what not.
I'll never forget a "life coach" I ran into. She contacted me after sifting through a support group for a physical condition I used to have. I was in the process of moving homes, and I remember her trying to persuade me into buying her incredibly vague program by saying "I know it may seem expensive, but think of it this way...would you rather cure your condition in a matter of weeks, or buy new couch? Which one is more important to you?"
Re. The Elden Ring controversy; The game actually _can_ pause if you know how, it's just unreasonably hidden. Select any Help function in the menu and select Menu Explanation, and it will pause. It kind of adds another layer of absurdity to the defensiveness, pausing is already in. There's no good reason why there can't be a Monster Hunter esque dedicated Pause button in the menu to let people know they can do it, and people who want it can already do it, so it's an argument over nothing. I guess that "X is attacking Fromsoftware!!!" is just a super easy way to clickfarm
Another way to do it is how another souls like Another Crabs Treasure did is were the had an accessibility tab in the options menu that let you turn on or off the menu pause function, as well as difficulty, health multiplier, or damage done/received
Making the map the pause button would also work. It doesn't allow you to switch up your equipment (only argument I've seen against a pause button that actually affects the gameplay and difficulty). Make the map available at all times, just not teleporting to graces in combat.
Ive also seen nonsense arguments that it would make the game "easy" when Fromsoft HAS made a game WITH a pause button. Its called Sekiro and its already been out since 2019
100% He was okay with everything. Didn't fight for the kids in any way when he was kicked out. And he tried to get his daughter arrested. Just as much a monster.
Whenever I see people advocating for OSHA regulations to be relaxed or removed, a quote comes to mind that I heard many years ago: “Every OSHA regulation on the books is written in the blood of someone who was just trying to make an honest living.” It’s something that I feel many people tend to forget, but more people need to remember
I use the term "What the words written in blood say" whenever referring to OSHA regs. I also remind people that our ancestors learned not to go into the tall grass because they seen what happen and told everybody else. the ones around us today are the ones who listen and learned from the mistakes of others.
side note: Ego + money = I know best. It's almost like there was a reason in the past people believed they needed to be very rich to go to the afterlife.
That's a powerful quote that I have every intention of stealing.
@@scottcuyler8231 that quote been free to a good home for nearly 100 years now dude.
Yes!!!!
The sadder part is employees who champion the removal of the ruled BECAUSE they're simps for their employers.
I hate working for anyone that sees OSHA regulations as anything but good, because whenever my boss complains about an OSHA regulation, they’re telling me “i care more about the company’s profits than your safety.”
Companies should be told that bad temperatures greatly increase the percentage of work mistakes made by cooked or frozen workers, resulting in accumulating financial losses. Studies on this were made over the past 100 years, especially in large businesses where error rates could be easily measured and compared to factory circumstances. A lot of those studies probably dealt with high or low temperatures caused by machines such as steam engines, but the measured reduction in human performance is still valid in the age of global boiling (as the UN boss called it in a famous proclamation).
Meanwhile Uncle Clarence has his laser eyes set on OSHA and is openly questioning whether the department is even Constitutional. I have a friend that works in construction...in South Florida. We hit 90 degrees down here in MAY. Another record broken. Forget water, he needs coconut water to make sure he replaces the electrolytes he loses DAILY from sweating buckets from the heat, but what happens when there's a wetbulb event? He's lucky he has some control over his job, but he knows other guys where they will push them further and deny those breaks. Its freaking nuts.
There is no guarantee your job will give a shit about your safety without OSHA. You can't use the argument that OSHA or such and such agency should go away because x still happens. That is like going on a medication for a chronic condition and then stopping because now you feel better.
Had OSHA at the hospital today. All based on false pretenses lol. One of the employees was lying about an injury he allegedly got while working in the kitchen.
@@vokul_vegan so? Id rather have regulations in place and tolerate people abusing the system than have no regulations at all!
I used to support attorneys for OSHA. I once asked "what if we get an OSHA violation" filing boxes stacked 6 ft high. I was given the ugliest 'I don't have nor want the time to even consider you let alone your question" between that person's sigh, look and way she dismissed the conversation. I was making a serious note that boxes were at risk.
For the OSHA story: I work in a factory that gets really hot sometimes, and I'm so happy that my employers recommend we take frequent brakes. Not just because that prevents heatstrokes but also because we check the finished products by hand, so mistakes start to happen when I get dizzy from the heat (not dangerous mistakes, but still)
🙏🏾🙏🏾stay strong my friend! And pass on those positive ways of working towards others someday. 💪🏽
I work in public transit, and I was really disheartened to hear that the heat protections wouldn't extend to public workers.
The A/C in our workspaces is already struggling to keep up, and it's only getting hotter. All we can do is point our little vents at ourselves and deal with it.
I'm honestly a little bit scared, because it's supposed to be over 100°f next week.
I'm honestly proud to be providing a public service, but the fact that we don't get the same protections as people working for private companies is deeply insulting and disgusting.
Disabled gamer here. People are being intentionally disingenuous, going out of their way to misunderstand what she was saying. Nothing she said was technically incorrect. Moreover on the topic of "easy mode" versus accessibility options, the broader part of the conversation, I have friends on Twitch with something called a quadstick. It's a controller you use with your mouth. I've watched them beat all fromsoft games and it's incredible to watch. Disabled people are never ever asking for easy mode, they're asking for options. Keybinds, color blind mode, controller supports, etc. We just want the ability to play the game in the way we are able, not have it butchered blended and put into a smoothie for us. And in the end more options are beneficial to everyone
Parenting is not a disability and any person working in real disability advocacy would no the harm in treating it like it is one, simply because some corpo manual said it is.
Exactly and what others here aren't understand is that good accessibility helps everyone. If a game allows you to pause as an accessibility feature and a parent uses that I have no issue with it, in fact I think that it is great it can help others.
Although, if anyone wants to give me a Call of Duty online easy mode, or a Gran Turismo 7 online easy mode, I'll take it. These unemployed teenagers, man, and full-time streamers, man, I feel disadvantaged compared to them because I have a full time job.
Oh! This makes me think of a word option... Situationally disadvantaged. The person is equally capable as anyone else but is situationally disadvantaged.
I completely agree with what you said. People are just being obstinate and purposely enraged.
@Americanbadashh that 'corpo manual' isn't the only instance where the term 'situational disability' has been used.
Unbunch your knickers and join us in the real world...
Fun fact: when I was pregnant, in order to apply for paid maternity leave under my job benefits, pregnancy was considered having a “short term disability.”
Yes, a lot of women that get pregnant and work at labor intensive jobs have to apply for short-term disability or accommodations. Being pregnant or raising children in some circumstances can be considered a handicap, people getting upset over the verbiage strike me as the type of people that hear disability and think only of visible, permanent disabilities and do not consider the spectrum of duration and severity that the word truly encompasses.
Technically true
@@pleaseleavemealone2850 Disability can be invisible or fluctuating but shouldn't it be about ability and not obligation? Is the sentiment that any caretaker is considered disabled now or are children an uncontrolled part of their parents' literal bodies? I could see being a new parent as a disability in how your body is effected, poor sleep and hormonal changes at the very least. But the example doesn't help. A kid putting a fork in a socket is an emergency, like a fire, if you have a kid that needs that close attention or emergencies are around every corner a pause button probably isn't enough to make you playing a video game instead of actually watching them not negligent. I think it's well intended but as stated it feels like she's broadening the term disability to mean everything and nothing, that's not how the term is used elsewhere when i looked it up. Said as a person with an invisible disability who helps care for someone with a visible but varying disability.
@@Kjos_jaxyeah, she should have just used the term 'disadvantage'. Would have avoided the hastle
People forget that long before these words became general terms for certain groups they were words with actual meaning and uses that didn't get abolished just cause the group got associated with it. I swear most of Twitter should never have been given a passing grade in English as children
I worked landscaping for 10 years. I had two bosses during that time: one who told me that "the heat's part of the job", and one who told me to "take a breather when you can." In the 1 year I had with that first boss, I had 2 instances where I had to be sent home from heat stroke. In the 9 years I had with the second, I never had any issues. It's insane to me that regular water/shade/rest break laws aren't already in the books.
Osha has known that heat is a problem for workers. In 2016 I worked at a theme park in Florida and the heat would be so bad I fainted several times. We weren't allowed water with us or breaks to get water because it looked bad or was inconvenient. I had the ambulance called several times. Neurological injuries and medical debt aren't as bad as death, but I'm still thankful Osha would finally force my previous managers to give access to water even if it's inconvenient for them.
My husband is a mail-carrier. The post office managers give heat safety talks, telling carriers to drink water and take breaks in the shade - but when you do those things and add extra time to your route, they give you a hard time about it. Remember, the vehicles have no AC. When they say "I had to take a heat break" the manager will say "Well this job isn't for everyone, you know."
why the fuck dont the vehicles have AC????????/
@@arcticgalaxies9160Because they were made via goverment contract and A/C wasn't listed in the requirements.
Look up the video by @Thefatelectrician on the mail trucks, it's wild the the handicaps goverment gives itself.
Apparently their getting A/C in vehicles now due to the strikes. Shame it took a strike to get it, but at least they will.
@@arcticgalaxies9160American corporate greed
But it's not a corporation? It's a government agency.
As an artist, google images has been ruined. If I want to look up reference images or anything, the search results are LITTERED with obvious Ai images. The worst part is there is no way to filter out unwanted search results so it's now much harder to find good reference material and inspiration
If it is not changed and they don't add some kind of filter, real images will be an ever diminishing minority of images. Pinterest is unusable now, too.
There are browser add-ons that claim to filter out AI content, but I'm not sure how efficient they are. You can also add "before:2023" to filter out newer search results, covering most of the AI crap. Sucks that also filters out any new actual photography/art/etc., but works well enough for reference search.
And Pinterest too. It has a lot of AI nonsense so much that using it for reference can become annoying at times
I've gone on meal planning apps and encountered AI food on recipes
Highly recommend quitting digital for inspiration and reference images. I like going to second hand bookshops now and looking for inspiration there
My favourite thought is that somewhere out there, there are two bots that matched on Tinder that are stuck in an endless loop of spamming links to each other
Drew’s deep dives have been so good lately. He blew me away with the Cybertruck video and the AI one topped it
He got so boring doing those buy random shit online videos. I literally unsubbed lmao
It’s so funny seeing these bots talk about ai
131 likes for an AI comment lmao
One of my Criminal Justice professors used to say "Worker's Rights law are written in blood". We then proceeded to learn about the Radium Girls. You'll never forget those pictures.
I saw these pics several years ago. I can still see them vividly. Absolutely HAUNTING. I can't imagine advocating against an agency that works to protect people from situations like that.
Absolutely! If anyone is interested, there’s an excellent movie Radium Girls that was on Netflix, not sure if it still is. It depicts the story really well.
that just brought back some traumatic memories 😓
Too bad most construction contractors only care about getting the job done as quickly as possible ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
6@@Commander.Claire
Dr. Phil is my favorite example of a psychologist that lost his license due to ethical violations and just found ways of working without a license because most people have no clue given how popular his show became.
Edit: Apologies, he didn't have his license revoked, he let it lapse because he no longer needed it as a TV personality. He did start working in areas where he didn't need a license within a year of having an ethical complaint filed against him that was resolved. He also had complaints filed against him after letting his license lapse.
Dr Philip DeFranco 😮
He also loved sending “troubled teens” into therapeutic boarding schools where they were then abused in all categories and costing the state 30k per kid, per month of Tax Dollars
He didn't lose it, he just stopped renewing it because it wasn't necessary for his show.
I know Sinead hated his "help." It made it far harder, according to her memoir. (Highly rec the audio, she reads.) She felt very dehumanized.
Wow
My husband restores hardwood flooring in people's homes. When the temp surpasses a certain threshold, his employer is supposed to contact homeowners to remind them to leave their ac on, following the same rules as other interior construction workers.
The equipment used by the guys generates enough heat to raise the temp of the room by a few degrees centigrade, so ac can be the difference of a few days of work.
Most homeowners still turn off their ac, regardless of what they're told, because it will save them on electricity.
It feels like mid 30s C (high 90s) with extreme humidity in our area, and these people are arguing over a few saved dollars vs the health of the people coming into their homes to work.
It's an issue everywhere, so hearing people put a price on lives like that is disgusting.
Kenyan here. Thanks for covering the protests! In the span of a month, we've seen nationwide Internet throttling & interference, media houses like KTN threatened to stop covering the protests, x/ Twitter users associated with the protests be basically being kidnapped, police brutality on a whole new level & live rounds being used on protesters alike innocent bystanders being which led the death of a 12 year old boy, who was shot 8 times & as if to prove his DOTD status.
During an interview with the nations media houses, the president, when asked about the above-mentioned incident, responded with the now nationally imfamous line, "That boy ... he's alive, right?"
The current president came into power because he was popular with the youth as he was the non-nepobaby candidate/lower taxes/increase jobs for the youth candidate, but now, during the last two years, he's actively proved to be the exact opposite. Hopefully, we get a free & fair election in 2027 cause if we do, he's definitely not getting 2nd term.
my girlfriend works at a Circle K in florida where they only ever have one person working in the store at a time. their AC has been broken since at least January. this week their indoor thermostat said it was 94° in there. she was telling me how dizzy she was and how she was starting to see spots. her manager refused to let her go home even though she felt like she was gonna faint. i called their corporate number and filed a complaint and the person on the phone seemed very uninterested. a few days later we found out the reason no one had been out to fix it was because they didn’t believe it was as bad as they said and that they were exaggerating. these protections are long overdue
Maybe try complaining to the city or some customer based organization? Get an old person to say they nearly fainted and see if that can help shake things up at all. Sorry y'all are having to deal with this BS.
@@TheDiabeticGameMaster when i called i was pretending to be a customer and all she said was she’d see what she can do in the most disinterested voice. like i understand working customer service sucks i’ve been there but this is regarding people’s safety
Florida recently banned heat protections for workers. Meaning companies are no longer liable for heat-related injuries at work. I'm so sorry for you guys, you deserve better protections
I remember walking into a gas station at night and the only person working was a woman who was so obviously incredibly sick people were uncomfortable approaching the register. Like, she's coughing that deep wet sick cough and her voice was gone and she's blowing her nose and trying to sanitize her hands afterwards. Going up to the counter felt like you were agreeing to get pneumonia. People were UNCOMFORTABLE she was so sick. Only time I ever called corporate on a business. Like 'cool so your staffing issues aren't my problem but your staff giving everyone who walks through the door a free opportunity to pay for a doctor's visit and some antibiotics is my problem'.
Circle K is just a complete piece of shit company
As a chef for the last twenty years I can totally support having OSHA requirements for heat in the workplace. I've literally been in kitchens that were a constant 120+ degrees fahrenheit throughout my shift in the summer and it was absolutely brutal. Chugging pitchers of ice water as often as possible was the only way we got through it
In Canada there are a number of requirements regarding the temperatures employees are exposed to.
During the heat dome two years ago, a number of local restaurants had to turn off their ovens and other heat generating equipment and only serve cold foods.
Worked in a baseball park in a "stand". It was 120 degrees EVERYDAY. I literally had people pass out during the shift. Management could care less...
I once pulled a Prime Ri b Roast from 90 mins in the Pizza oven: The kitchen was 148 degrees Fahrenheit.(you always look at the Meat Thermometer beforehand.) When I stuck it in the meat, the thermometer WENT DOWN to 124° F/ ~56-8° C
August in Pennsyltucky, USA, 1998.
@@christopherneelyakagoattmo6078 I did that simple math twice, to make sure I read that right. That is too damn hot 😵💫
Yes please let this happen it wasn't uncommon for us to get one ten minute break in the morning and one 30 minutes lunch in the afternoon. During a nine to ten hour work shift with 100 plus degree heat with high humidity. This stuff will destroy your body quick
I worked in a kitchen several years ago and each summer the air conditioning unit broke down. As soon as you walked in you could feel how heavy the hot air was. This coupled with standing next to blazing hot stoves and ovens all day, it was unbearable. You couldn't breathe and dehydration felt like it came within moments of working. We temp'd the air and it was 140 degrees in there. In my state, the temperature has to be at 150 (at the time, this could have changed by now, im not sure) for you to not be able to legally work. One of my managers told us the only thing we could do was take a break every 20 minutes. It was awful and I wish no one will ever have to work under those circumstances.
I think all kids on content channels and accounts should get a designated social worker to make sure theyre okay and not being forced to make their family money.
I think this should go also for child actors on sets. I love that they hire intimacy coordinators to respectfully address the topic of sensitive adult scenes and consent, so why not hire trained professionals (with actual certifications) to prevent child abuse on sets? (And I don't mean to take away people working in existing agencies, they are also still needed, but rather create a new department for "children in media" and their protection)
I agree, but we simply do not have enough professionals nor funds to sustain this. Our current SW system struggles to do the bare minimum at present, added duties would be nay impossible.
@@galacticgrandmas I know, I know. It was more of a hopeful dream anyway. I'm not from the US, but so many countries nowadays suffer from not having enough social workers, nurses (hospitals/retirement homes), psychologists etc.
In a world of Social Media Coordinators, Customer Service Representatives, Head of People and Development and Candidate Experience Managers, we just don't have enough people doing jobs that aren't just shuffling papers and having Zoom meetings.
Speaking of the dead internet. Exhibit A: AI bots that steal comments and use bots to life their comments, hoping that someone will click on their profile and be linked to their OF content.
Regarding the disability story, I remember in High School having a lesson in my ASL class about deafness as a medical topic that showed the difference im attitude between well-meaning abled people vs the lived experience of disabled people.
The teacher asked us if we thought the Deaf Community preferred being called “handicapped” or “disabled.” The majority of the class assumed “handicapped” was better, but the teacher said while not every deaf person thinks exactly the same, the vast majority in the Community prefer “Disabled,” instead. The reason being that “Disabled” isn’t inherently a bad word.
“Handicapped,” by definition, means someone struggles with something a “normal” person doesn’t, whereas “Disabled,” by definition, means a person is physically unable to do something someone else can. That might not seem like a big difference, but it’s the contrast between “this person is struggling, poor them,” and “i can do everything you can do, i just dont hear when i do it.” Deaf people go through life almost exactly the same as hearing people do: they drive, have jobs, live their lives, they just don’t hear. They don’t see themselves as “handicapped,” they see themselves as un-able to hear.
Also to add on to the alanah situation, if you're not concerned with the boss fight with radahn than your child's well-being and aren't willing to go help them you shouldn't have the child pause button or not, you can start the game over you can't get your kid back
@@DoctorSharkie those two things are not mutually exclusive. She’s already assuming every parent will choose their kid over the game, she’s *saying* there’s no reason they can’t have *both.*
@@DoctorSharkie Who said you should ignore the kid for the game? A kid and the need to be able to give your attention to them is just a common sense reason to let people pause the game. No one was making this out to be Sophie's choice.
just fyi, "disabled" also means struggling with something a normal person can do. It is literally in the name: "dis - able to perform normal tasks".
Handicap has mor positive connotations in regular-use language though, as it also refers to voluntary shibari-play to raise the challenge in games or tasks.
100%. That’s why I don’t like the word disabled. I prefer Neuro divergent when it comes to things like my TBI traumatic brain injury doesn’t hinder my ability to function in normal society much. Yeah but to me, it’s just a divergence, not a disability, whereas my partial paralysis, or my lung issues are actually debilitating because there’s really no way for society to completely help me with those problems
I work as a wind turbine technician in central Texas. When the heat index is at 105 we’re required to work for 40 minutes and take a 20 minute break down in our truck to cool down. When the heat index hits 110 or above all work onsite is stopped. I’ve never been pushed to work through the heat. I’ve always had the ability to stop if I don’t feel right and I have on a few occasions. Safety is our first priority and I’m grateful for that.
Every summer I wonder how I survived growing up in Waco and working in a barn all summer- I live in the PNW and can't handle 80° heat anymore.
I'm in Florida and then just outlawed water breaks.... I'm so grateful to be a waitress bc that's terrible
People had an adverse reaction to what Alana said because they view the word 'disability' as very negative. So they felt that both them and their kids got attacked. When in reality it is just a word that means no/less ability to do a certain thing. Which is entirely correct in this context theres just no better word for it in english.
Yup! She just means games should be more accessible. I can't believe anyone is jumping down her throat.
Games should have options but disability really is a popular enough word to spark this kind of conversation. Accessibility is the word I think, disability is very vague in English so it's not wrong but it's overlapping many different communities. Kids aren't a disability but they for sure can be a hindrance in relaxing.
@@RealBradMiller We live in the age where people see buzzwords they dont like and get mad immediately without knowing the context nor what they are mad about
I think people are just being obtuse
@theinkyspoon People had an adverse reaction to Alanah because she referred to having a child as a disability. What is wrong with you people?
My abusive mormon mom became a "life coach", this case is just too close to home
"Heat related deaths have only gone up by 11, so adding protections is pointless and we don't want to spend the money to prevent them" is giving big "some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make."
People aren't machines and, if you're going to run a business, you need to remember that paying people doesn't mean you can just play with their lives. If someone working for you dies and you could have prevented it, that's on you.
Made me choke on my drink 😂 But very true
May the odds be ever in your favor
I'm so, SO glad Ruby got caught. But with her. Daddy o five and others, CZcams really ruined my concept of family channels. I now immediately assume something is wrong unless otherwise proven
Let alone the exploitation of exposing kids for money. It's so cruel the way how parents would do that to their kids for fame and profit without realizing the long term psychological effect on the kids. I used to enjoy watching family vlogs but not so much anymore. I generally do not want to support a CZcams family that involves exploiting their kids
My sister's BIL and SIL have a decently sized family channel on CZcams, and the things that go on behind the scenes are horrific. I cannot wait for the day they get officially exposed.
They literally stole my sister and BILs car to turn it into a life sized RC car, filmed themselves destroying the vehicle, made a ton of money, and because they come from a small town and that's where the car was stolen from, the local police won't do anything about it. And that isn't even getting into the disgusting things they've done to their own children, or the dad threatening to assault my sister multiple times.
The mere fact that you're putting your child online without their consent (because they are not old enough to understand the consequences of being publicly broadcast like that) in order to put money into your own pocket tells me that there's something deeply wrong with you. I don't trust a single one of them.
@Nakki1305 yeah that's true. They don't have the opportunity to keep their privacy, a constitutional right stripped from them
@@ndawn90drop the channel name
Yeah that's the thing, it doesn't matter how nice they are behind the scenes or if they are the best parents in the world. Every single family channel is guilty of exploiting their children for profit. There isn't a single good one amongst them.
Editorial Comment: Source on 11:33 of the CNBC article is not written by Katie Bartlett but authored by Spencer Kimball... Just making sure sourcing info is done properly
The new OSHA rule would be a lifesaver, literally.
Two weeks ago, we got slammed with a heatwave where I live. I work in a warehouse loading trucks. We had multiple people pass out from the heat. When I say multiple, I mean count-on-both-hands multiple. They give us water and talk to us about the heat and all that stuff. What's really important is the mandatory breaks and check ins. I work in a back corner of the dock, so I don't get checked up on very often as it is. If something happened to me in that trailer, the only way they'd know is when my workload starts to pile up. On top of that, because of all the corporate pressure, a lot of people don't speak out when they're overheating; especially where I work, because we have to keep a specific rate of Cases Per Hour.
Editing to add the best part of all this, there's no AC. There's small fans hanging at the docks (for the most part, some docks don't have them), and they're _working_ on the AC, but it won't be done until like, goddamn October. We have a bet pool to see if it'll snow before the AC is done. My money's on the snow.
As someone who worked at Chic-Fil-A for 3 years, this OSHA proposal should ABSOLUTELY be put in place. Our location refused to let us bring drinks outside as we took orders even on 98 degree days! I struggled with heat exhaustion and heat stroke, and so did many of my coworkers. It was only after some individuals had to leave their shifts due to vomiting relating to the heat that our location began doing order taker rotations, which did help, but this proposition could be much more beneficial and potentially save lives of those with higher health risks.
i work at cfa and its bad we didnt have a roof for 2 years in ipos and the heat was so brutal. I never worked in the morning/afternoon because of the heat being at its highest that time.
Strange how the worst conditions are always most prolific within companies with a religious culture guiding their policies.
@@nicholaslogan6840Yep. Hypocrisy is rife in religious organizations.
Work in CFA currently and I suffered from heat exhaustion the other day. Being on cash cart for 1 1/2 hours without any breaks was brutal and supervisors don't really know what to do since they aren't trained to know what to do in a situation like that either.
I've long-since boycotted CFA, so I don't even look at their buildings all that much. Workers have to take orders outside as well? Isn't this just a fast food place and you're indoors? Not saying the inside doesn't get hot, though (I worked a year at a Church's Chicken as my first job out of high school. Juggling taking drive-thru orders with NO headset or computer to convey my orders to the rest of the team, doing dishes and making more biscuits eventually made me lower my working days and then eventually they fired me. No love lost, lol). Or do you have to run orders to the parking lot, like I've experienced with McDonalds during busy hours?
I'm a disabled, disability advocate. Personally, I hate the term situational disability, because people don't understand what it means and it can be used incorrectly and be completely misunderstood. I perfer situational inaccessibility. It still addresses the accessibility, which is what is important.
This is also why the disability community often pushes for a universal design accessibility approach, meaning everyone benefits, but it was designed with disables people in mind. Think curb cuts, they're for people using mobility devices (like me in my wheelchair), but they are also very helpful for people riding bikes, parents with strollers, etc.
I am a disabled vet and what Alana said is absolutely 💯 correct. My kids have been more "disabling" by situations only cause by my having offspring, then I have by my physical limitations. I do not, however, regret having, caring for, or spending time with my kids.
Hot take but if your kids are having an emergency/issue then you should be more worried about your kids, than about your progress in a video game.
@@TreJohnson03
Nobody claimed otherwise lmao, i dont know where people keep pulling this take from, but it certainly stinks
@@Bubble-Foam nah what stinks is that people use their kids for illegitimate reasons to complain. That is exactly what the claim is and pretending that its not is disingenuous.
More laws absolutely need to be in place for people who work in the heat. My sister’s first job was Chick Fil A in Texas, and even in 100+ degree weather she was told she had to take orders outside. She was young & it was her first job, and she felt she could “push through” and almost ended up passing out before finally telling them she needed to sit down inside because she was feeling unwell. Sure, an older adult would’ve known to say something earlier, but a teenager doesn’t always know what is and isn’t okay to ask for in a workplace. But it’s a managers job to realize that 4+ hours in 100+ degree weather is insane without a break.
True but living in Texas as well and working for KFC, I do similar work and most people in Texas have an understanding that if it’s hot, you drink water, if a customer asks for water, we give it no charge, but I do agree that when your younger and it’s your first job, you try not to cause problems and push through it. I did the same with not asking to taking breaks initially, but I also grew up being told drink water when it’s hot and my family goes out. If she moved to Texas from the north, I can understand the mistake if your not used to it, but if you grow up in Texas or the south, I would think heat conditions are a problem you grow up experiencing.
@@azedenfender880what part of “teenagers don’t know what is okay to ask for” was unclear to you? I’ve had bosses threaten to write me up for asking for a 5 minute break to calm down after taking abuse from customers. A teenager would think “this must be normal - no one is quitting” because they have no other point of reference and that’s what managers prey on.
True. I worked in a printshop and my station was about 3 feet from our dry that was running at 400 degrees all day. During the summers it would frequently reach 115+ daily with the hottest it maxed out the thermometer at 120. We got a 20 minute lunch and 2,10 minute breaks. But I will say we tried not to take breaks unless we had to. I used to take 2 frozen gallons of jugs of water. One to drink and the other to pour over my head when it got too hot. The breaks did more harm than good though because it just killed us going from AC back to the shop and just stopping wiped us out. I pulled rank on my boss and manager one day and opened the shop at 5am without telling them and finish the day by 1. Sucked getting up early but was worth it to beat the heat.
****3 feet from our dryer that was running all day***
ctually in my experience, it's the teens who are the ones to know they don't have to take the abuse from bosses.
As a licensed social worker/therapist- life coaching is a huge issue. So many are basically doing unregulated therapy with no training and this can cause real harm. Happy for anyone to find support, but I caution folks to ask questions, be wary of big claims and always seek licensed professionals for trauma or serious mental health issues.
Ditto from dietitians
Isn't that what Phil was supporting a few years ago? He used to mention them all the time.
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I worked as a career adviser and I can tell you that every wannabe life coach I spoke to went into that field because they didn't have what it takes to get and hold a regular job. They did not have the kinds of lives that anyone would want to emulate. For many it's just a pyramid scheme. For some it's a cult.
Just because someone is licensed doesn't always mean they know what they're doing either though.
Situational disability seems like an accurate enough way to describe having a toddler. At this very second, I'm typing this one handed, and fighting my kid with my left hand. My partner and I joke often about who gets the "baby handicap" when we play multiplayer games together. This section has made me feel very seen. Thank you Phil.
I once had a kitchen refused to shut down even though the clocked temperature in the kitchen was 120 and over the fryers and I mean over them not in them was 140 to the fact the cooks were rotating every 10 minutes to go stand in the blast freezer to try to lower their temperatures back down only when someone finally passed out. Did they get us a portable AC unit that just brought it down to 90°?
At the risk of giving ruby more kindness than she has ever given another soul a day in her life, but I do believe she was made worse by jodi. Ruby was already a cruel person, Jodi honed it.
I think you are right not that it absolves Franke but I think Hildebrand is the more dangerous of the two. Not that her older advice wasn't pure shit imo.
I think she was abusive before Jodi, but Jodi made her more efficient.
They are both beyond evil! But you’re correct the worst of the 2 saw dollar signs and someone who she could manipulate. That little boy saved his sister and himself!
Oh yeah definitely!
Jodi struck gold with Ruby. Social media influencer with reach, already heavily involved with her faith and the perfect breeding ground for Jodi’s ideology.
Doesn’t make Ruby a good person even before Jodi … but Jodi used Ruby like a puppet and it worked.
It only blew up because of her courageous son who ran away and got help. Based on what I’ve seen I am convinced that, if this wouldn’t have stopped here, Ruby would have written over her house to Jodi - making her even richer - and these poor kids would have perished in the desert.
So. Yeah. Both are awful, fucked up people … but Jodi is the mastermind behind it all.
Agreed which is why Kevin's talking about Jodi ruining his marriage pisses me off bc he was complicit in the abuse to his children even to this year when he tried to have his daughter arrested for taking things from her childhood home.
Regarding the Alanah Story - The terms she's using are pretty standard within the industry. I work as a website administrator - more and more my work is becoming "stop other people making inaccessible content" - I have done so much training and research on Accessibility so that I can create guidelines and help others avoid the pitfalls.
One huge aspect of Accessibility Awareness is making sure people understand that these features aren't about helping a few people - Accessibility features can help people across the board, their not like a parking space, people who don't "need" help using them doesn't take them away from those who do, the more they are used the better they will become.
Honestly it boils down to ignorance, lack of understanding of the topic discussed, and people finding reasons to be offended for others/reasons to join a hate train.
For Alanah specifically people love to twist things she says to fit their agenda.
@@BrandonWestfall
Its definitely reminiscent of gamer gate. Very gross vibes across the board
I work at UPS loading trucks and it can be hell. Those trucks sit out in the sun all day and they're basically ovens by the time we get to them. Add on that it's typically a lot of heavy lifting and we have to move quick and it can be an issue. Our union contract renewal got fans put up at the entrances of the trucks. They're mostly for air circulation rather than to keep us cool but I'll honestly take what I can get. I remember how miserable it was last summer before we got them. The best you could hope for was a nice breeze to come through while you were moving between trailers. It's better than it used to be.
When I was in the Army in AIT we had someone on post die from heat stroke, for the next 2 days they had us take water breaks any time we were outside, and for the rest of training we were required to carry canteens that were supposed to be full anytime we went outside.
a week later a soldier got sent to the hospital for over two weeks, after they passed out while they were being smoked for not having a full canteen during a canteen check which happened after we were sent outside to wait in a parking lot for 45 minutes in 100+ degrees.
half the people in the formation were getting smoked, on the pavement as a punishment for drinking from the canteens... while waiting for the Sgts to come out and inspect if our canteens were full because they didn't want people to get dehydrated while outside.
Why doesn't Google ask users, "Who wants AI?" Betcha 90% of us don't want it!
And the last 10% can be convinced when it ruins or takes over their interests.
And AI will get 18 billion votes from their home-grown Google bot farm algorithm. Fresh 😅
Google & CZcams have become a Corporate Cult w a popular product.
I was raised by Southern Baptists. I know what a cult looks like.
Because AI under control by a company will make them exponentially richer and the first to do so would be untouchable
Because making this AI slop raises their stock price. Phil cut off Drew’s clip right before he showed that since adding this garbage AI, their stock price has been boosted from that 10% of people thinking this is the Next Big Thing.
Why is CZcams willing to do this much investigation before removing AI content, and so hasty when it comes to copyright claims? Should be the other way around.
if they get caught not removing something that actually is a copywrite violation, they will be held liable. and it might get some politicians interested in regulating youtube.
Because copyright in general is as screwed up as youtubes claim system is
Right? Better to just claim it's a copyright infringement and get it slapped down that way.
because usually youre not guilty until proven
it's because of safe harbor laws. CZcams has to show that they are doing something with any complaints they get regardless of how off it can seem. sometimes they can step in on obvious things but they have to be really discerning. With AI content, there are no laws really atm so they can do what they want really.
I used to work for an ISP in the department that handled copyright notices and even for the ones I got to research where I would look into the content and the acct the rights holder is trying to flag I could find some that were just wrong and management would rather us just send then risk the safe harbor of the company.
As a teacher, our summers have been getting shorter and shorter which has made heating conditions a little tricky, especially for busses. I hope we don’t have to be under those osha conditions someday, but I really hope it passes for people who do work in the heat!
I work outside as a yard driver in a trailer yard and one time when we asked for AC in the trucks, we were told other people work in worse conditions. They tell us to take breaks but they understaff us so much to where it's one person running a whole warehouse trailer yard and there is no time for a break. I work in the central valley in california so we're seeing temperatures scratching the 110s. Not to mention how much more hot it gets inside a tiny truck where the engine is actually right under your seat. I hope the new OSHA regulation goes into affect because it gets absolutely unbearable
I work in a wear house esc building where it can get over 90°F inside. Last year our swamp coolers broke. Ever since the company I work for has been taking steps to prevent heat related illnesses. Fixing the swamp coolers, getting portable swamp coolers, more fans in general, cool water stations, access to break rooms with air conditioning, and popsicles. And they aren't done. And I know that I'm incredibly lucky to work for a business that actually cares about our well being. Others are not as luck.
Hey is this my chance to shine? I'm a mail carrier in North Texas and my union rep is currently clashing with management. We are given two 10 minute breaks and one 30 minute lunch.
But in the same breath they tell us to seek shade to stay cool, the micromanage our "stationary" events. Its ludicrous
I'm from California. My hometown would hit 115 and 2% humidity some years. And I'd find that FAR more manageable than 100F and 66% while driving an outdated sheet metal lunchbox of a vehicle.
its rough out there.
I'd take your job and wouldn't complain. I guess I'm part of the problem
@@HIRAMECLARKEHOPS So why aren't you working at USPS already? They're always hiring!
Postal workers get so much shit from EVERY direction. People aren't machines. And most of the mail they have you deliver is JUNK. They're pushing you to your limits over ads and flyers I don't even want! The community is hoping you guys get some relief. Companies need to deliver their own ads. And hot weather can kill you. Not everyone, but you won't know until it's too late. USPS needs to do better.
@HIRAMECLARKEHOPS so then do it. No seriously, show op how wrong they are! We're all waiting
@@HIRAMECLARKEHOPS Weird flex bud, but have a good one~
Related to the heat. I am glad that I worked with an understanding HR. I worked outside driving a forklift, I was constantly reminded to take 10 min brakes whenever I feel it while working outside under the heat and drink a lot of water.
With the OSHA heat protection story made me think of my night job at a restaurant last year where the A/C wasn't working and the grills were causing the restaurant to be 200 degrees. Luckily they would close for the day when that happened.
Worked at JEEP in the repair area right next to the ovens that ran around 235f. During hot summers it could reach anywhere from 90f to 120f. When we complained the company said, "You work with MEK (methyl ethyl ketone peroxide) Dropping over from a heat stroke should be the least of your worries". And yes they actually said that. So during summer we were completely naked under our paint coveralls. The sweat added a nice effect. The company bitched, and we told them it would cost them an A/C break room. They said it wasn't possible because the building was too old. When we pointed out the freight elevator control room just got A/C they denied it while standing next to it running.
If you used tyvek-suits, those are nice little saunas just by themselves! I have painted murals in them, never again. I thought I was going to keel over from the get go and the loose suit became one weird crinkly catsuit, when sweat glued it to my skin. My doc martens had collected so much sweat, I could pour several drops out of them. I felt like a comedy skit! The hairnets didnt help either.
Im a Finn, Im way more comfortable with cold than heat, our buildings are built the same way, retaining heat with no AC.. I can always put on more/better clothes, but there comes a point, where I cant take any more off! Climate change has introduced us to yearly heatwaves, so fun..
Denying something painfully obvious, like running AC.. “Who do you believe, me or your lying eyes?”-kinda situation, gotta love them bossmen. And were they suggesting you doused yourself in the chemical (MEK), because it sounds a lot like that. Better bosses wont ask you to do anything they couldn’t, wouldn’t or shouldn’t do themselves, but those are rare today, endangered or extinct completely.
The worst part is being naked under a tyvek suit barely even helps with the heat. Going around with soggy socks from the sweat rolling down your legs. Breathable suits exist but don't protect from isocyanates. So its a choice between heat exhaustion or cancer.
I love that every argument against worker’s protections is always that “it’ll be bad for business” just really makes it clear that capitalism puts profit over human life
@@zzz808- Profit is the only thing that matters in capitalism. Humans are expendable and replaceable. It's rare you'll find an executive callous enough to say that out loud, but the history of worker protections is written in blood.
I worked at a snack shop in a cement building when I was 16. By the second summer I intentionally told my bosses that I smoked cigarettes to get extra breaks. It reached over 120 in the building, especially when you were on the grill
What I can't understand about the Elder Ring story is why any single player game wouldn't include a pause button. I can't think of a single reason not to include a pause feature in an offline game. Forget kids. Players may have to step away to answer a door, use the bathroom, let a dog outside, answer a phone, or any number of other simple tasks that take priority over a game. Not having a pause button doesn't make your game more difficult. It just makes the game more inconvenient. Inconvenience is not difficulty.
It's automatically online unless you choose offline, even then no pause button.
@@admiralsnackbar69 Offline mode should have a pause button. There is no reason an offline mode shouldn't have a pause button.
@@admiralsnackbar69the game has the ability to pause through the help menu. So why cant they just add a hotkey for offline?
The argument for the FromSoftware games not having a pause button (besides the multiplayer component) is that pausing the game during boss fights would allow players to decompress or prepare for incoming attacks. The lack of a pause is suppose to force players to play at the rhythm of the boss with minimal relief from the tension. It does feel like an intentional design decision. That said, I still think it is incredibly stupid reason to not include a simple feature and it’s not surprising one of Elden Ring’s first mods was allowing an actual pause screen.
Simply be in a safe area that what the grace is for
When it comes to the Alanah situation: You are asking people on Twitter to use common sense, to look into the video instead of trusting a Out of Context Clip: That will never happen
Common sense is if your kids are in trouble and you can't pause your game let your character die and go teke care of your kids.
Replace the word Twitter with internet. Everyone online is a genius that takes everything at face value and wants to be offended by the world without doing any research
I see far too many clickbait headlines taken as absolute fact. While Community Notes can be hilarious at owning people, it's such a sad replacement for actual content policing.
@@rottengalaxy i mean yeah no shit? that's why she asked for a pause button so that at the very least when something happens(kids become rowdy, an accident happens, etc.) return to the game once the issue has been resolved.
It’s pretty obvious she didn’t use “disability” in the same way the VA uses “disability” when it comes to disability checks or something.
Twitters response is no different than someone getting angry at the term “retarding force” in physics because they incorrectly think it’s referencing mental health.
The heat death argument is interesting. But im curious about the amount of hospitalizations due to heat related work place injuries. I feel those numbers make it more real. Its rare to die from it, but heat stroke can still knock you out for a while and its extremely hard on your organs to be dehydrated.
To spring board off your comment. Once you get heat stroke once, you only get it easier.
Heat stroke can lead to brain damage which can cause life long issues.
i used to work as a manager at a pizza place and with the oven and the california summer i constantly had to fight to give everyone extra breaks because of how hot and overworked we all were it sucked so bad
Heat stroke will fairly often lead to a regular kind of stroke.😢😅😮❤ & blood clots in the e
I am on vacay in SC this week (I'm from NC and live there too), and I've gotten heat exhaustion (but not stroke) pretty much every day since Sunday, save for today. I can't imagine how some of y'all work in such heat, it would LITERALLY kill me. 😢
I work in a warehouse for a dog training facility (This is due to outdated ciry ordinances that consider any animal related business either a farm or a slaughter house). We have no AC, no break rooms, nothing. My manager and boss expect me to look after fifteen dogs nonstop. Sure, I am only there for four hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon, but the heat is absolutely brutal.
This morning, I was so sweaty and overheated that two pet owners asked if I was okay. I can't even begin to imagine how the dogs are feeling in this heat. I don't even know what to do at this point because I fear that I may pass out from heat exhaustion, or worse, we could lose a dog.
Regarding the heat story, I recently moved to VA from MI and the state regulations are supposed to include many of the protections you’re naming. However, I know that the enforcement of these protections are not universally enforced among different organizations. As someone who works in the history field where there are people wearing wool in the middle of the Virginia summer and who knows someone who has had heatstroke from a lack of adherence, it is detrimental to both the employees and the employers if the heat is essentially creating a hostile work environment. Employees end up sick or dehabilitated from the heat and have to take time off work, and employees are forced to suffer through very preventable health conditions. Especially as someone who moved here from a colder state, the heat is no joke and has taken some time to get used to. You can’t just jump into it without any sort of acclimatization.
"We're speeding up destroying the planet but it's ok. We're making everything worse for you but great for yacht salesmen, so........"
That reaction to the Alanah clip once more highlights how some people just CRAVE something to be mad about. I have 3 kids and while I wouldn’t really use the word “disability,” within the context of what she is saying it makes perfect sense. People need to chill tf out.
She doesn't know what a disability is.
Well said. Just people looking for a reason to be angry, at worst, I'd say she misspoke, doesn't require to many brain cells to understand the entirety of what she's saying as opposed to getting hung up on a particular section of her statement
@@JayneAFKit's literally her job to consider these contexts
When I became a parent I stopped going to certain places while my kids were small - restaurants, etc, that weren't kid friendly in any way. Instead of making decisions to go or avoid based on stairs vs ramps, I made it based on other factors: food type, parking space size, changing station in the bathrooms. When you look at it that way, having small children is like a (temporary) disability.
@@JayneAFK You clearly didn't watch the video because they explained everything you're bringing up. Like Alanah said, if you're unhappy with the term "situational disability" then advocate for a new, better, term. Otherwise you're better off understanding the term and what it *actually* means.
As a Texan. This heat is no joke. 105 real temp, 110-115 heat index. Heat stroke and other issues can come fast and most workers do not feel they are allowed to take care of themselves in this heat
In regards to the "disability" conversation, I didn't realize until recently that ADHD has been recognized as one. However, for my entire life, nobody ever considered me "disabled". They just wanted me to get over it. Words keep evolving overtime, & sometimes can be more inclusive. It just depends on the context.
I have a friend who uses chat gbt as Google because it will “always” give her an answer no matter how confusing/niche her questions are. It’s troubling because once I found out she was doing this, i tried to point out how it’s not guaranteed to give *accurate* information, like how Drew showed in his video, but she said “it’s right there majority of the time, so what does it matter?” I didn’t know how to explain why that’s such a dangerous mindset to have without sounding paranoid myself…
Tell your friend about the New York lawyer that used ChatGPT instead of a proper legal search engine and ended up submitting completely fake quotes from previous cases to the court, but the Judge took the fake case numbers and noted they didn't exist at all, and fined the lawyer severely plus required the lawyer to tell all future courts about their stupidity.
@@johndododoe1411 she does know, she doesn’t care. Her reasoning is that since she’s not using it for her job it doesn’t matter if she gets bad info. I try and tell her that if she’s learning incorrect information, it WILL eventually damage her understanding of the world and thus affect her interactions with others, job included, but she can’t see past the present. She dismisses me by saying im using the “slippery slope fallacy,” which, ironically, she learned about from Chat gpt.
Try to explain to her that chatgpt is not AI. It'd not even close to AI. If you can inform yourself on what an LLM actually is and how it generates its responses. Also help her understand what it means when it give wrong answers. Tell that it's called hallucinations. And the people who made chatgpt still don't understand why its doing this. Also show her the DAN aubreddit. Dan stand for Do anything now. It was made by a group of testers to break the LLM to basically so whatever they wanted. They use specialized prompts to tell chatgpt to brake its rules and restrictions. It's very funny and also very good at showing the large holes and lack of actual intelligence in the LLMs as a whole. Dan has many iterations that plague multiple models, not just chatgpt. Hope you can get something across to help. People really need to get the word and idea of these programs as AI out of the vocabulary. The companies themselves are the most agrejus with this as the know full well we have nothing even remotely close to AI
I'm a pool technician in Texas, in the summer it gets up to 110-115 on the heat index. I've worked at different companies and none of them have rules for extreme temperatures. Other than staying hydrated the best thing we can do is hop in a customers pool if it gets unbearable. I believe these new rules are needed to help prevent not only deaths, but also other issues caused by working out in extreme heat such as exhaustion, sunburn, etc that can make working out in the heat even worse. As an added bonus, I hope this will start a move towards lessening the workload we have during these super hot summers as keeping up with the amount we do during the brief spring and fall we get here actually makes the days lasts longer just cause it's so hot we end up dragging along staying out even longer.
I presently work 3 jobs: one cushy IT job, one barista job, and a job as a group fitness instructor in Arizona.
I will say people do not take the heat nearly as seriously as they should. My gyms have been having periodic AC issues and 1/2 of my coffee shops AC units died recently. So many of my managers, my gym members, and others treat the heat like it’s just “minor discomfort” and it’s so scary.
Stay hydrated, stay cool, stay out of the sun. Otherwise you’re setting yourself up for some serious short term and long term health implications.
I have a friend that is paraplegic and can't walk, she's bound to a wheelchair. I asked her what she thought of this situation. Once she got back to me, she had this to say.
"She's absolutely right in what she specifically said and has not harmed anyone who is disabled whether intentionally or unintentionally. People are reading far too deep into what she said and are making it to be a mountain when it's a mole hill. My work prevents me from painting when I want to, and I'm a mother to two teenage daughters. That is a situational disability. My arms are fine, I can paint when I have free time, I just don't purely because I'm a mom and I work."
you are a bad liar. No disabled person would be okay with someone using the term "situationally disabled" because that isn't a real thing.
Exactly, people are just refusing to engage with the nuance of it (not really surprising)
i dont give a fuck about companies expenses when it comes to worker protections. no amount of money is “too much” to protect even one human life from a preventable death
I worked as a laborer for an organization in az for 5 yrs, there was always heat safety optically in emails reminding us to take breaks and drink water but practically there's not much you can do when its 120 and you have to set up an outdoor concert at 5pm It would've been nice to have actual codified standards to hold them accountable to
I'm watching this on my phone and when Drew said in the clip, "Hey Google, do I need a parachute while skydiving?" my own phone heard that and asked if I wanted to try Gemini. Perfect comedy.
Being mindful of situational disabilities when designing things is wildly helpful. Imagine you're approaching a shop door while carrying a large heavy item that you can't put down safely but rather than the shop door opening automatically or being "push to open", it requires a door knob to be turned. You are now, effectively, unable to enter. Designing things with situational disabilities in mind helps everyone.
For the situational disability story, I'm really shocked that people, grown adults, either can't or try not to understand that words can have different meanings. Alanah explained so concisely her point and just gave an example and these people don't even take a breath before they start arguing with her. That one tweet saying that her using the term 'situational disability' is offensive to people with actual disabilities comes across so narrow minded as to what inclusivity in gaming should strive to be. What do they think "actual" disabilities are cause I can guarantee everybody has their own definition for better or for worse.
You can compare or 'rank' disabilities all day but that doesn't mean each one doesnt come with its own set of unique challenges that are hard to deal with. Some of these people really need to take a step back and remember that not everything online is a personal slight against them.
the people who complained about that are most likely those who make being disabled their entire personality, that's why they are angry and feel attacked. Dumbasses.
"disadvantage" would have been a far more appropriate word.
She should consider who her audience is. If it was a symposium, then sure. Alsl,situational disability is NOT a global term (other companies use different terms). People arguing that she has used the technical term fail to consider this.
In an age where political correctness is being shoved into our throats, I'm surprised people don't have the foresight when using words.
@@wardrichIt’s literally an official term, nitwit.
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"Snowflake" is another... 🤦🏾♂️🙄
I'm a teacher in the Pacific Northwest. In the PNW, long periods of heat over the summer are pretty new. So we don't have effective AC systems. During the summer, to save money, they shut down the AC in any "unused " building. Except, those buildings aren't empty. The janitors are spending the summer working, deep cleaning carpets, moving big tables, and more. And they are doing that in these old buildings that were never meant to deal with heat. Without ANY AC. Sometimes, no moving air at all. It's horrific. Once, when the AC and air vents broke in my classroom, it reached 88 degrees. And it wasn't even that hot outside. Janitors work in that kind of shit for weeks, doing a lot of physical work. And all they would have to do to help is turn on the FUCKING AC.
This OSHA move is good. But not enough
I work in the heat occasionally for my job. I’m a 1099 employee, which probably means these regulations wouldn’t apply to me. However, my company has told us that if the location is too hot we can call HQ immediately and they will help us work with the client to fix the issue or straight up cancel. I am happy to say they take our safety very seriously.
This is why I don’t take life coaches seriously.
If I have to give someone advice, I will say enjoy your life, enjoy the things and the people that you love and be yourself.
A good, short and simple advice for everyone and is free.
Good advice generally speaking but some people like myself have needed more than that. I've never had a life coach specifically but I have used other types of support in a similar capacity. I was socialized very poorly and it's taken half a lifetime to de-program and learn basic social and life skills. I needed a lot of help and advice along the way.
@@robbo8611 In the process of doing just this myself, I'm hopeful it gets better.
What I don't get is how some of those could have gotten fined or jailed.
Practicing therapy as a trained doctor as a trained doctor (with a revoked license)? They are still a trained doctor that can do what they say they can do, and it is not as if it isn't _legal_ to practice unlicensed medicine - you just won't get any clients (if they realize) and are disallowed from handling certain substances and tools, and is personally responsible if your practice harms their body.
Getting people to hand you their money for investment? Gambling is a valid form of investment! Like "investing on red" in roulette. It just has poor returns, and why would you trust someone with your money for investing if you don't know they tend to deliver returns and losses are (near-)guaranteed to be minimal? Still, it's clearly not a fraud (unless he said stuff to the client the newscaster failed to mention).
This sounds good but the idea is another person you respect holds you accountable.
We all have life coaches...it could be a parent, a loved one...that one teacher that showed they see you and pushed you to expect more from yourself.
I agree with the idea that a life coach is not necessarily a paid service...but the idea of a life coach is also not a bad one.
It is just there is a market for people with disposable icome to explore hiring someone to assume that role for them.
Which I agree with phil here...that is not a bad thing either...but it is a totally unregulated thing and it turns out the people that feel the need to pay for one are usally the type of people that don't have people in their lives to point out potential red flags.
That is not to suggest that there are not sincere life coaches out there that take their role seriously...but it is to suggest that type of dynamic of people without a good social network of interpersonal relationships leave some people with disposable income vulnerable to fraudesters that are better at selling themselves as a solution than they are at actually providing a role of coaching someone in their life for that person's benefit rather than their own.
I want to like this but it has 69.
Humor joy busy
Find something at which you excel
Then fall in love w the process
Don't waste your time on friends who only call for favors. Those are Human Resource Narcissists. They will drain you.
Laugh at your pain; because no one else can feel it; unless they love you.
Find someone to love, who loves you back.
Even if its a 🐈 or horse.
As somebody with disabilities, I understood what she was saying about kids can be a disability. Because disabilities are what is preventing you from fully doing a task and sometimes having a kid can make you think outside the box in order to get a task done. Whether it’s cooking or doing a laundry and you have to do it yourself and you may only have one hand to do something or you have to have, a kind of system so you’re able to take care of your kid and complete the task at the same time in a efficient matter.
There are times where I need my phone fpr magnification purposes, but it’s cooling down mechanism and extreme heat decreases the screen brightness and makes it very hard for me to use the Magnifier outside where it is very bright and I can’t see. So in that since the phone is disabling me from functioning properly.
I am disabled too. Would you say a person with kids can understand what it's like to be disabled? Also, I get no enjoyment from my condition and would be happier without it in my life.
that is an interesting way to think about it as a fellow person with a disability I don’t like the wording of it. I’d much prefer her say it is a challenge, but I get what she was trying to say it just really doesn’t sound good to me the way she said it.
That's why it's important to understand what it means to have a situational disability. Alanah was simply using the officiant recognised term for it. If people don't like the term, they should get it changed first.
I think there’s a difference between something that limits you and something that disables you. Maybe the distinction isn’t that important, but disabled people didn’t even historically have the same rights as able bodied people do (and tbh still don’t). I just think using the term disability to apply to something as wide as including a child’s presence seems demeaning to the true story of systemic and historical hardship disabled people have faced. I get where she’s coming from-having a kid does limit you. Not sure if it disables you though… maybe I’m nitpicking though
as another disabled person , i understand her point and agree , i just think there are better examples , and if she'd used another example , people would fully agree with it .
I was a utility arborist for 10 years. We couldn’t even take bathroom breaks. Yes, we had some breaks. But outdoors, usually on a road. And the toilet was the bed of our truck where the chips went.
13:44 I am a chronic Elden Ring player. There is a pause in Elden Ring it's the quit game option. When you load the game you will be in the same spot you quit from. Yes it's a bit tedious but that's what you do when you have to leave the game for real world problems
I work at Publix and one of the most important things I do is get carts. Here in NC, it reached 95 degrees the other day while I was outside. I’m honestly surprised that NC doesn’t already have heat protections because Publix does a good job ensuring me and my coworkers are safe. It shouldn’t be too hard for companies to prevent their employees from dying by heat exhaustion. All Publix does is let employees go to the coolers if they feel too hot and provide cold water for all employees. If that is too costly for the industries fighting OSHA, maybe they could pay their CEO less to cover the difference.
When it comes to soulsgames specifically, I think the no pausing is a feeling that they have that makes you only feel "safe" at a bonfire/grace. however, pausing could be a setting you can enable, like "Pause while in menus. Can't change Equipment while in combat" could be a nice middleground
Some other games have a system where you can open the options menu and then pressa second button to freeze the whole game. While it's frozen, you can't change anything, the game is literally frozen, and the only input it will accept is the unfreeze option. This allows for them to create that sense of unsafeness while using the menus, while still giving people the chance to step away if something important happens. Seems like the obvious and easy solution in this situation.
@@zion9344 I think Elden Ring has something like that, with the help menu, but since most people don't know about it it could be more obvious.
@@BrolysShadow_ yeah, I have heard something about initiating a tutorial through the help menu, but that seems like a slow, unintentional work around. They definitely should explain it, or just make a baked in freeze function.
I don't play souls games because they are not for me but for the love of god, people need to stop feeling entitled that every damn game in the world needs to fill their tastes and necessities.
Every time From Software releases a new game, it's the same bullshit. My God, just go play something else.
Git gud@@zion9344
The no AC in schools thing is just insane to me. I remember as a kid getting snow days, last year my daughter had class cancelled a few times because it was too hot in the school. It's wild.
We live in a time where everyone needs their "2 minutes hate"...IYKYK. Orwell called it
Currently involved in protests involving a Google datacenter (hopefully only attempting) to be built nearby, directly next to a residential area without any of the neighbors being informed prior to city authorization. The amount of noise, air and water pollution, and emissions concerns are crazy- not even mentioning there's worries it could affect a nearby wetlands. And I'm just looking at it all, then the mess that is Google's search engine and AI like "damn, all this for what again?"
We are killing the Earth so a robot can tell us to skydive without a parachute.
I was looking into it and there isn't much in terms of air or water pollution. Like I saw that backup generators cause issues, but otherwise it doesn't seem too much worse than say a warehouse. Well better than warehouse by some things.
@@danielmorton9956 Indeed, the huge issue with data centers is how much electricity they consume and how much their giant air condition system turns all that electricity into outdoor heat, just to keep server hall temperatures at a workable 40 degrees C (100 degrees F) or less.
Construction worker here. When it comes to heat at work it depends. They tell us to keep hydrated. They give us all these suggestions to deal with the heat, but that's it. Suggestions. I can't even tell you how many days I've climbed in my car at the end of the day soaked in sweat. Doing my best to not pass out. They give us water, say keep an eye on each other, and take breaks. But I can tell you if you take a break you will be noticed. It's like high school really. "Look at John, he's taking so many breaks. He's just lazy". They need clear rules about when it's to hot to work. Then a way to offer environmental paid time off. It sucks to burn PTO because it's to hot, or because they closed the site due to a winter storm. Get better
i’m a cook at a high end kitchen here in the states and it’s excruciating working sometimes. the general kitchen temperature typically rests at a constant 90F throughout the kitchen with no ac unit, and whenever the thermometer we use to temp our steaks or burgers remain on to temp the air around us, above the stove top it reaches up to 120F. we don’t have breaks here either, we are lucky to get a 5 minute break outside. hearing those laws gives me hope that i can someday work in a kitchen without feeling like i’m gonna have a heat stroke 😬💯.
It's Jul 4, the time I write this, I'm itching for a Thursday dive into my daily news episode so much I rewatch the uploads of this week again, Phil pls🤣😅
Re: OSHA Heat Safety rules
I’m really glad to see this rule come into play, but I’m terrified of the inevitable lawsuits upcoming that will negate it due to SCOTUS’ dismantling of Chevron Deference
It’s fucking crazy to me that they gave a express road way for our country to fascism within a week by basically dismantling all government regulatory bodies abilities to set regulations and on top of that allow the president to be above the law if he has enough sycophants in the right places.
My dad is a roofer who has been in the industry for over 20 years and he has to work in this harsh weather not because he or his boss want to but because they have families to provide for and it’s the same story every year. My dad has to wake up at 3 to 4am to try and beat the heat but in the end still end up working past noon in the blazing heat. My mom and I are so afraid of one day getting a call for the hospital saying my dad was there from heat stroke. If the government really cared about people like my dad who worked in this heat they would add more safety measures immediately instead of discuss it in their air conditioned office.
What would those safety measures look like? You can only work on roofs during certain months of the year?
@@SymphonicBrandon Checking in on employees, enough water, and enough breaks. Heck even those cooling towels are an option.
I am a iron worker in CA, and this last week has been hot! I'm currently doing production welding in a small prefab shop. There is no a/c or any cooling systems other than a shop fan. I currently consume a gallon of water daily. I do not worry about taking necessary "cool down" breaks due to my situation, but there are people in the industry scared to stop working in the heat due to discipline. If and when rules that favor employees get passed, they don't make it to the guy who need the information. We should Normalize taking the time you are entitled to.
I work outside for a living. We have work trucks to cool down in but we're incentivized by metrics to keep working and get things done as fast as possible.
One thing I didn't notice mentioned here is outside of heath deaths, heat exhaustion and heat strokes. You don't have to die to be permanently effected by the consequences of working in the heat. I have many coworkers who have suffered from heat exhaustion or even a stroke and can no longer tolerate heat the same way anymore.
No way that Elden ring clip started controversy! Oh my lord we live in the dumbest timeline. Her point is she wants to cater to people who can't block out the world while gaming. That's such a nothing sentiment, how is that controversial!?
Because lots of people on the internet are upset with their lives and want to complain about something.
They wanted to be mad at her because she's a woman invading their sacred game,.. I've had someone tell me it violates fromsoft's vision to add "pause." Yet I've watched countless boneheaded stubborn fools refuse to use summons, spirit ashes, magic, and other things like that and when I say it's fromsoft's vision that they use those things as needed rather than struggle 8 years on a boss i get told that's just the way they think the games should be played and their personal preference. I watched one guy spend like 40 hours over the course of a month on ONE boss rather than use the mechanics the devs gave him and in the end he was just so broken he couldn't even enjoy his victory. This all makes no sense.
I work at a car wash in Georgia, and let me tell you that the last week alone has been insane. Our temps are generally in the 80s and 90s, and if you account for the humidity, it's easy for the temp to feel like 100+. And because I work at a car wash, all I know is humidity. Last year, I saw the change in temp and took it upon myself to get cooling towels and personal misting fans for all of my co-workers, which my manager reimbursed me for. All of which we are still using now. And our manager has taken it upon himself to provide cold water and sports drinks during the heat waves. I can't imagine still working here without those essential items available to me. This heat is no joke, and I hope that businesses are forced to adhere to these standards. It's the least they could do.
I also live in Georgia. It was 101+ 3 days last week, one of which I walked to the store (mile away) in. On my way back, I passed out on the side of the road and was eventually revived by a cop. 5 minutes later, I was sipping water with my head cradled by EMS, 4 cops present, the ambulance, and fire rescue. I was given 3 cognitive tests and eventually taken home by one of the cops (was 3/4 a mile away) after I refused the hospital. My blood pressure was normal but pulse through the roof.
Heat conditions are nothing to play with. While I've only worked at one place where high heat was an issue, it was never extended exposure due to being able to hop in my car at any time and crank the a/c.
@@AdamIsUrqed😩😭😅
It's an unfortunate situation where social media is now enshrining a saying i heard from a consultant years ago: "controversy creates cash".
Outrage, controversy and other ways of inducing an emotional response in an audience is rewarded, and what happened with a tweet with a false "quote" gets millions of views and will be rewarded through monetization, and the victim gets the consequences.
I’m a UPS driver… People think they know what we go through but it’s truly grueling in this record breaking heat. We must close our bulkhead and rear door any time we’re away from the truck or while the vehicle is in motion due to DOT and safety regulations. The back of that truck can heat up to over 120 degrees. Imagine lifting heavy packages and finding a package out of the 300-400 other packages jammed in there. When I step outside in the same air people are complaining about I feel a nice cool breeze. When I walk into an A/C’d gas station I start to shiver as if I’m stepping outside during winter. What’s worse, the company has been sending us out with over 10 hours a work each day due to staffing issues. If I find myself in the back of the truck too long (and I’m talking about like 20 seconds) my head starts to feel foggy and I feel myself starting to lose strength. We’re union protected. We have ice machines and water jugs provided by the company. If we feel heat stroke we’re allowed to drive to a cool place to cool off as long as we properly inform management and they cannot make discipline stick due to union backing. I cannot imagine surviving at other jobs without basic protections. Some of these jobs like instant oil change technicians, construction workers, lawn care professionals etc. have no such protections. When you experience heat stroke your mind does not function. You do not have the capacity to always take the steps in order to save yourself. These companies are raking in record profits. Let them invest some of those profits in saving lives.
BTW, 40 some deaths a year due to heat sounds underreported. How many of these companies are reporting/blaming other health related issues so they can skirt regulations?
What Drew Gooden said about AI is true
Not a big deal but that comma has no good reason to be there and makes the comment read weirdly
@hadalabyss meanwhile you decided to skip commas, or punctuation, all together.
That video was so good.
@@regulator18EYou decided to skip capitalization.
@@regulator18E "altogether" is one word, your reply also would've read better without commas and by replacing "or" with "and", no usually one cares about absent commas / punctuation / capitalization as long as it doesn't disrupt legibility, and there was no need for a comma in my first comment anyway
My daughter loves to game. She also has juvenile arthritis. One of the many areas of pain she suffers is her thumb joints so she has to be careful of how long she plays for. Being able to pause a game when she starts to feel pain can be the difference between being able to play again a little later or the next day or having to take a much longer break. My husband also plays games, the majority of the family does. We’re pretty good when asking the kids to do things to let them wait til they get to certain areas in games to do things we ask of them but having pause options would be useful
Pause buttons used to be a standard feature. You used to be able to save your games pretty much whenever you wanted to. Not having these features only makes the game harder because only people with no other responsibilities can dedicate the time it takes to actually play a session. Better hope there's someone else around to answer the door for that delivery because otherwise your character is dead. It's stupid.
I tried putting myself in my parents' shoes as I myself have no children, and what they have to sacrifice in order to raise me, and for them it was giving up their dream jobs or make life changing decisions because they now have a child.
I think its silly that now, a gaming company has to think about fucntions in their game for customers who have children to raise?
1st its Elden Ring
Next:
LoL, DotA, Apex, (basically any online game as there is no pause button).
If I had to sum this up... its just 1st world problems 😂
@@Draggonny exactly. It may be a foreign concept to Gamers but people have lives OUTSIDE of video games.
@@hoilaiken tbh those are two different genres mate, lol. unless you pvp-ing in elden ring, its a single player story based game, and the online ones are well, in real time games against other folks - ofc having a pause button would ruin the experience there.
@BonDijon yeah I was grasping as straws there, but where one idea/concept is introduced, someone somewhere wants to implement said idea to help ease their day to day lives.
I mean lets be real, adding a pause button to Elden Ring would not make the game any less fun, it would just be an added function in which it was our own choice to use or not.
Dark Souls came out in 2011, and they made 2 more games and so many other titles took inspiration and made different franchises. Never had a pause button, and pretty sure people in 2011 were having babaie and still found time to play games 😂
Also, I've worked as local crew for concerts, for a company called Rhino Staging, and I have several friends who work for the Seattle/Tacoma IATSE Local 15. I used to live in south Florida, and I've worked with my dad, who is a GC. OSHA is a LITERAL LIFE SAVER. Rhino and IATSE out here DO NOT MESS WITH THAT. If they see someone being unsafe on the job site... let's just say they usually didn't show up to other gigs after that, and even the temp agencies would blacklist them. AND STATES LIKE FLORIDA AND TEXAS ARE HUMID AND HOT AF. Water and heat protections are absolutely needed, especially since FL and TX have either gotten rid of, or are considering abolition of mandatory water breaks, and other states are trying to follow suit.
Every single Amazon driver is about to make an OSHA complaint
I just got an email at work today that says most associates will be allowed to wear shorts until Labor Day. I work a retail job (let's just say a big blue box store). The only people not allowed are Deli/bakery and probably the auto dept for safety reasons.
Ive been working at a coffee chain in Arizona for 3 years and before that I worked part time as a mover and heat-related regulations are so very necessary, heat exhaustion hits super fast, sometimes in only 10-15 minutes when it’s over 100 outside and can take a long time to recover from. Arguing that more OSHA regulations may only save a few additional lives per year ignores the absolute toll that being in the heat every day has on the body. When a worker has to be sent home early, it really hurts morale and you lose extra help on shift. Additionally, heat-related illness can have serious long-term effects, especially if not treated right away. I’ve luckily never had any super serious issues, but I wonder if the days when I’ve thrown up from being dehydrated or gotten serious sun burns from not having adequate sunscreen will catch up to me someday.
i worked my first firework stand this year, and holy moly!! we are using the shipping container shops and we have 1 small ac unit in the corner of our stores, we also have an RV with AC, and our personal vehicles with AC as well, we have pleanty of water, and since the boss is my uncle in law hes very considerate for us to go take our breaks and to also stay fed and hydrated. our location is in houston tx, and phil its been so fucking hot. not to mention we have a huge hurricane coming in so everything is hella humid and just bleh. i had to go back to my hotel cuz i got dizzy today around 1pm, i shit u not the heats been so bad, we have been downing water , munching ice, trying to stay in the shade & what not.
I'll never forget a "life coach" I ran into. She contacted me after sifting through a support group for a physical condition I used to have. I was in the process of moving homes, and I remember her trying to persuade me into buying her incredibly vague program by saying "I know it may seem expensive, but think of it this way...would you rather cure your condition in a matter of weeks, or buy new couch? Which one is more important to you?"
Re. The Elden Ring controversy; The game actually _can_ pause if you know how, it's just unreasonably hidden. Select any Help function in the menu and select Menu Explanation, and it will pause.
It kind of adds another layer of absurdity to the defensiveness, pausing is already in. There's no good reason why there can't be a Monster Hunter esque dedicated Pause button in the menu to let people know they can do it, and people who want it can already do it, so it's an argument over nothing. I guess that "X is attacking Fromsoftware!!!" is just a super easy way to clickfarm
Another way to do it is how another souls like Another Crabs Treasure did is were the had an accessibility tab in the options menu that let you turn on or off the menu pause function, as well as difficulty, health multiplier, or damage done/received
Making the map the pause button would also work. It doesn't allow you to switch up your equipment (only argument I've seen against a pause button that actually affects the gameplay and difficulty). Make the map available at all times, just not teleporting to graces in combat.
Ive also seen nonsense arguments that it would make the game "easy" when Fromsoft HAS made a game WITH a pause button. Its called Sekiro and its already been out since 2019
@@Nomadtheus I love when games put these options in.
@@crestren5996 They're the same people that won't use spirit ashes too i bet. Whatever happened to what the developers intended?
Franke's husband should be charged as well
100%
He was okay with everything. Didn't fight for the kids in any way when he was kicked out. And he tried to get his daughter arrested. Just as much a monster.
Right? Why is no one talking about the dad...
For what?
He should he was part of it too
All of this!!!! he was part of the problem and got away with it !!