Oh trust me, I know.

It's why they have an "asset protection" department, but not an "employee protection" department.

This is very interesting, pathologically rather than medically. Perhaps the milder or socially aware subjects find that grandiosity is enough to counteract their feelings of shame- the commonly understood cause of narcissism. It may very well be that depending on the level of shame, some narcissists might need to employ the more destructive strategies. While grandiose narcissists find that egoism is adequate to counteract their shame, vulnerable narcissists might need more aggressive strategies.

Grandiosity does not result in the more socially destructive effects, among all the known strategies. Many narcissists devalue those in their surroundings, to suggest a favorable comparison of themselves to others. That along with domineering control, like gaslighting, deceptions, manipulations, are the more socially destructive strategies. Understanding the strategic differences through measurable stress response could help psychiatry better understand the spectrum of the disorder and resulting strategies more completely.

My fiancee had this quite badly, and would get migraines quite badly almost every day. She went on a keto diet, which completely eliminated her migraines, but it took her almost a month of feeling terrible to get adapted on keto (much longer than most people). It's been a few years, but now she only gets migraines if she has a cheat day.

All of that ‘safety’ is used to replace another word. Liability. I have worked for companies that have actually killed people and the most important thing those companies learned was to make sure employees signed all the appropriate paperwork to protect the company. Safety is there to protect employees about as much as Human Resources is there to protect employees.

They absolutely are in any warehouse situation. Try running over your foot with a 2000 pound pallet or worse, crashing into an ankle, or getting a leg caught between the load and an obstacle. They may not be required by law in grocery settings but I can’t imagine why

That’s a fair argument for streamlining the required training.

It’s been a while since I read the studies, but in every state that licenses barbers and cosmetologists, the safety aspects of training typically took up between 5-15% of the required training.

Instead of 1000-2000 hours of training at a typical cost of $15k-20k, you could probably do it in a few weeks for a couple hundred dollars.

Many states required you to spend more time being trained on how to market your trade than they required for safety.

High speed trains are the future. Why are we all driving cars? They coukd put trains on the roads and everybody has to use them. Let's go. We all donate the cars and they sell em and make trains. I'm in.

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This might be closer to the actual reason for the injuries.

Safety is held in front of every company in this country like a shield. You're overwhelmed with mountains of safety videos when you start just about any job, now, and you'll probably hear things like "culture of safety" being thrown around.

That's the corporate side. On the job, you quickly find that your workplace's culture is more about presenting the illusion of safety, while cutting every corner possible.

Amazon is absolutely notorious for this. I worked for them for a few months last year. Safety videos, initializations, and acronyms for days. Yet, my first day, I was placed with a trainer whose first words to me were: "I'm the guy they send to show you all the shortcuts".

Safety is a magic word, now, in the corporate world. I know there are some places that really do take it seriously, but by and large, it's lip service paid to keep their insurance costs down.

I agree that on a country scale, Australia could do it. It is a lithium rich country. On a world wide scale, we need new tech. And I'm optimistic that in 10-15 years there won't be anything holding us back on electrifying transportation except for policy making and greed.

Australia has enough lithium to replace all our cars if we would actually manufacture batteries and cars ourselves instead of just exporting raw material so we can buy back finished products at exorbitant rates, but in principle I agree with you, except again this is a question of political will and our politicians are all just greedy corporate schills. There's tonnes of potential in graphene and sodium batteries, we just aren't putting in the effort.

We are already. There are many technologies being developed. Battery storage, new fission technology, fusion technology, more efficient infrastructure and devices, lab grown meat, new shipping technologies, more efficient planes. I'm optimistic on that side. What I'm afraid of are conservative policies and people's unwillingly to adapt.

we have 8 billion people in the world. Time to "multitask"?

Great in theory, but there is only so much lithium. There is only ~50M tons of lithium somewhat easily available. That is not enough to replace all cars. Maybe enough for 40% of all cars. Just cars. And that is if we put all lithium into cars. We still need it for other kinds of power storage and for other industries.

We need new tech before we can even discuss it as an option.

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I used to get headaches alllll the time, only some migraines. When I was 20ish, I looked back at my life and during high school I figured I had a headache about 75% of the time. College was pretty stressful but I personally believe the hedaches/migraines became far less frequent because I was out of my abusive home environment.

At this point I very rarely get headaches at all and migraines are maybe a few times a year. They're more frequent when work is so stressful I'm afraid of losing my job. So I believe mine are directly correlated from stress/abuse. I have not been formally diagnosed with migraines, but one of my siblings has. They still get semi frequent migraines and have medication for them.

I'm just glad research is being done on migraines. They're an interesting (when not debilitating) thing as there's apparently a neurological component unlike tension headaches.

This is exactly how I am too. I just had blood work done to see if there was any underlying condition for the migraines, but no

You only have to spend 5 minutes with your window down in peak hour traffic to see that cars are the immediate problem for those of us who live in cities. No one is burning coal within 100km of my house but every day I am exposed to fumes from cars. It's not just C02 by a long shot either. Australia has some of the worst emissions standards so we are getting dumped with all the dirtiest burning cars, not to mention all the old cars on the road here that you see just billowing black smoke. The best thing for air quality here would be to replace as many of these as possible with electric cars.

Yes. But it is not as simple as that. Coal is extremely bad. Oil and wood are much better for different reasons, but they are still bad for health. Natural gas is pretty neutral for health reasons, but you could argue that global warming caused partially by gas burning is killing millions.

There should be a list of priorities as we can't handle it all at once.

Car dependency is killing us.

I was definitely abnormally stressed at the time and the first migrane was accompanied by an aura, I was getting those rainbow colours and flashes in my vision with a worsening headache on one side of my head. It got so bad that I vomited. The second one I didn't have any auras but the pain was just as bad.

The reason I correlate the migraines with salt is because since then despite being stressed I haven't had any migraines. I think the salt combined with the stress resulting in higher blood pressure might have been the catalyst.

I feel for anyone who gets them on a semi-regular basis, migraines are debilitating.

Steel toe boots are not required for operation of either.

It is impossible with current battery technologies and energy infrastructure. There is only so much lithium in areas in which we are willing to devastate the environment to mine it.

We should definitely invest in electrification, but priority should be more efficient transportation (public transport, biking infrastructure, and walkability).

And in the end, traffic is not even close to the top of the air pollution causes. Burning coal is much worse, and burning wood is also pretty bad in regard to PM10 particles. Not to mention industrial pollution. Cars are pretty bad for co2 emissions, but a modern car emits 100x less nox and particulants than a gas-powered lawn mower or a chainsaw per minute.

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I used to work at a grocery store that had the kind of forklift you walk behind so you don't need to be an adult to operate them. One day the store manager goes around to everyone handing out a sheet of multiple choice questions and a sheet with the answers, then when they fill out the questions he gave them a little slip of paper that said they were "forklift certified".