Yeah, I've had similar experiences to yours, nordic ski racing on a team all throughout college. We'd all get coughs the first few cold days, but that was it. We would avoid doing interval workouts if it was below 0° F though.
Yeah, when it was really cold (<= 0F) were were required to wear facemasks (those neoprene masks with the nose fold, paper-punch holes at the mouth, and velcro in the back[1]) to prevent frostbite on the face, and they definitely helped with breathing as well.
Agreed. I would wager that in any sport where technique is important/difficult (swimming, nordic skiing, and to a lesser extent running), efficiency will improve over time, even for elite athletes.
The previous poster was saying that in response to storming the US Capitol building, Twitter can either: 1) ignore it, 2) respond to this specific instance (right wing extremism), or 3) respond to all inappropriate uses of their platform (which would include left wing extremism).
I've never heard "quiet" used to describe a high signal to noise ratio before. I can't decide whether the tech writer thinks "noise" means "sound" in this context, or just came up with a clever title.
Interesting. I've never experienced sleep paralysis; my body tends to err in the other direction. I have woken myself up before because my muscles accidentally do still move while dreaming, most often because I will physically flinch when surprised by something.
Yikes. Would you want to work in an environment where all your coworkers acted like this? Your suggestion may be necessary in a cut-throat workplace, but I'd be more inclined to GTFO and work somewhere that my team members actually try to help each other, instead of always acting in their own self interest.
Of course you should be helpful, but you should also be smart. You want to be seen as valuable AND as difficult to replace. Help your employer succeed and help yourself succeed at the same time.
What would you rather hear in management meetings?
"We can't let Bob go, he's the expert on X, everyone goes to him for help and we need him" or "Sure Bob is an expert on X, but he wrote down all he knew so we'll manage".
See, it's not about not helping, it's about helping while building and retaining leverage.
That's why companies want to encourage "knowledge sharing". It's not to foster a friendly atmosphere, it's to be robust against someone leaving and to prevent someone from having too much leverage. Most experienced engineers know that and tend to be wary when asked to document what they know in details and/or to train others.
As to act in one's own self interest, well sorry to be the one to break it to you, but that's how the world works in general and that is especially how the workplace works. And in fact that's how everyone works when there's a choice to be made. The sooner you realise that the better off you will be.
As someone who has waxed with HF wax several dozen times in the past (collegiate nordic ski racer) with no face mask and mediocre room ventilation, how worried should I be about long-term side effects?
The average US citizen has a large load of PFAS in their blood[1] from clothing, carpet, water and other sources. The levels have dropped a great deal in the last 20 years but it's unlikely you've increased your levels much beyond what you already had from other sources.
The blood serum levels reported by CDC are staggering. As an example, I have a well and it's in a contamination plume of PFOS and PFOA. The EPA certified laboratory measured level two years ago was 11 ppt (parts per trillion.) The CDC measured 2.1 ug/L of PFOA (only) in the blood of over 2000 people in 2014. That's 2,100,000 ppt; 5 orders of magnitude higher than my 'contaminated' water.
> In 2018 a draft report from an office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said the risk level for exposure to the chemicals should be up to 10 times lower than the 70 PPT threshold the EPA recommends. The White House and the EPA had tried to stop the report from being published.
If it makes you feel any better, we're all in the same boat with you. Like really, all of us. We're all swimining in the stuff. Almost all water-repellent outdoor clothing, and all clothing, furniture, and carpeting that's marketed as "stain repellent" is coated with PFAS's. Those of us grew up in the 70's, 80's, or 90's crawled, played and slept on rugs and carpets that were coated with the original formula of ScotchGard, which was pretty much straight PFOS.
