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Like even if there were no ads you’d learn how to help in a timely manner.

“What’s up guys! It’s me, your boy, MikeyMedic here with another video of a standard first aid technique, the Abdominal Thrusts!! Now the Abdominal Thrust is a standard first aid trick that is used to help someone when they’re choking 5 minutes on things you can choke on Speaking of food to choke on, our sponsor this week is FoodBox! 3 minutes of FoodBox ad Abdominal Thrusts used to be called the Heimlich Maneuver! Henry Heimlich was… 5 minute history on the Heimlich Maneuver and now I’m going to perform an abdominal thrust on my friend, Someguy420! Check out his videos on another 2 minutes for a partner plug and then 1 minute on how to perform abdominal thrusts And that’s how you perform an abdominal thrust! Be sure to check out my other videos. 3 minutes on other video content, liking and subscribing and hitting that bell.

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I would like to shill Sponsorblock, an extension where users can select sections of a video, mark them as “introduction” “non-music” or “sponsor” and it automatically skip those sections for other users who arrive at that video. It has made using Youtube so so so much smoother.

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I would’ve read your comment l, but I’m using sponsorblock and it automatically blocked your comment.

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6 points

I actually cannot stand watching YouTube without sponsorblock now…

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No, how about you let creators make the little money that they can. Oh wait, you support piracy, that’s right.

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15 points

Creators get their sponsor money when the video goes up. Skipping that part doesn’t hurt them at all

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6 points

They wouldn’t make money from me either way because I never buy stuff based on video sponsorships.

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Truth is, they get paid whether you watch the sponsored segment or not. Unlike pre-, mid- and post-roll ads which do not pay creators if they’re blocked (doesn’t stop me from blocking ads, but I support where I can, such as via merch purchases, using sponsor codes or watching exclusively on Nebula for creators who are on Nebula)

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2 points

Damn right, fuck capitalism

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29 points

It’s not called Heimlich anymore? I guess i have to watch some MikeyMedic videos…

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22 points

Heimlich started trying to discredit back blows without any evidence and was being kinda a dick about it, so the Red Cross renamed the “Heimlich Maneuver” to “Abdominal Thrusts.”

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11 points

Sounds like the title of a weird and intense Grey’s Anatomy fanfic

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Thoracic surgeon and medical researcher Henry Heimlich, noted for promulgating abdominal thrusts, claimed that back slaps were proven to cause death by lodging foreign objects into the windpipe. A 1982 Yale study by Day, DuBois, and Crelin that persuaded the American Heart Association to stop recommending back blows for dealing with choking was partially funded by Heimlich’s own foundation. According to Dr. Roger White of the Mayo Clinic and American Heart Association (AHA), “There was never any science here. Heimlich overpowered science all along the way with his slick tactics and intimidation, and everyone, including us at the AHA, caved in.”

Heimlich’s son, Peter M. Heimlich, alleges that in August 1974 his father published the first of a series of fraudulent case reports in order to promote the use of abdominal thrusts for near-drowning rescue.

In May 2016, Henry Heimlich, then age 96, claimed to have personally used the maneuver to save the life of a fellow resident at his retirement home in Cincinnati. It was alleged to be either the first or second time Heimlich himself used his namesake maneuver to save the life of someone in a non-simulated choking situation. According to Heimlich’s son, Peter M. Heimlich, “both ‘rescues’ were bogus.”

…well, damn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdominal_thrusts

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If I remember correctly from my first aid training, the Heimlich family themselves asked for it not to be called that, possibly to avoid being implicated in instances of it going wrong! Or possibly my first aid instructor was full of shit… :-)

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11 points

Literally what youtube has become.

Friends, if you haven’t already done so: Adblocker + Sponsorblock = sanity.

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10 points

Don’t forget the 5 minute request before you’ve even seen the start of what you’re interested in that you like, subscribe, and request notifications

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7 points

Damn, it’s like i just finished watching pretty much any YouTube video.

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7 points

Abdominal Thrust is a standard first aid trick

I would have switched off and gone to find another video at this point.

Abdominal thrusts are not recommended for choking due to considerable evidence that it can cause harm.

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4 points

What do you propose? As far as I know (the consensus changes alle the time but) they are recommended if you have no other options.

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The linked page recommends chest thrusts and back blows.

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5 points

I appreciate the content creators who at least mark the sponsorship segment on the timeline so I know where to skip to.

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8 points

There’s SponsorBlock, which is community-driven and autoskips pretty much every big youtuber’s sponsors.

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193 points

“Sorry your gran’s dead, but you can get YouTube Premium for £12.99 a month for an ad-free experience.”

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64 points

Cyberpunk isn’t too far off…

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Of course not. Cyberpunk and tech noir usually isn’t just about the future, it’s arguably about now. More generally, science fiction is often used as a ‘safe’ way to criticise existing society or say what can’t otherwise be said.

Prime example: Tarkovski’s science fiction films (Stalker, Solaris, …), which smuggled very religious themes past the soviet censor, because ‘it’s only science fiction’.

Make a movie glorifying terrorism? Likely jail sentence and on a list. Make a movie glorifying a terrorist that blows up parliament in a dystopian future? Cult classic.

Make a movie which compares American nationalism to the nazis? You’ll never work in Hollywood again. Make it about humans fighting space aliens? Would you like to know more?

Make a movie about how capitalists indoctrinate us all via advertising? You filthy communist! Make a movie about how aliens indoctrinate us all via advertising? They Live, John Carpenter, cult classic.

Make a movie about transitioning? No thanks. Make a movie about freeing yourself from the Matrix with the help of a red pill which looks a lot like the hormone pills the directors used to transition? Become a millionaire.

Make a tv episode where one of the main cast has a sexual relationship with a trans character, who is later forced to undergo gender reaffirming therapy in 1992? Impossible. Make it about Riker having a relationship with an alien who’s not androgynous because her race finds gender weird? Prime time tv.

Make a tv programme about the guilt of a Nazi who worked in a camp while the Jews were being exterminated? No way that’s happening. Make a tv programme about the guilt of a space alien who worked in a camp while other space aliens were being exterminated? That particular Star Trek episode was broadcast in prime time, to wide acclaim.

For this reason, and on a related note, anyone who complains about a science fiction show or movie being ‘too political’ is more often than not a moron and/or disingenious.

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13 points

Scifi has always been about sociological commentary.

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This is a very well written take. Have my upvote.

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1 point

The Matrix comment there gave me a moment of sudden clarity. Literally never considered that interpretation until now.

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29 points

I remember when cyberpunk’s vision of the future was grounded in ridiculous cynicism instead of a charitable assessment of reality.

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21 points

Your grandmother is choking. YouTube believes in preventing elder abuse. You are an unfit guardian. Your grandmother will be put in the custody of YouTube. YouTube: “Fuck you, I’m streaming.”

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5 points

I hate that I read it in the exact voice from the movie. Thanks

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6 points

Would you like to watch another EPIC IPHONE 15 PRO MAX DROP TEST FAIL video?

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4 points

“Welcome to X.com. I love you”

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3 points

I like X too, we should hang out!

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2 points

Lol I can’t tell if that was a real reply. I assume it’s a satire account?

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87 points

The real Mildly Infuriating is that someone directly copied one of Stephen Merchant’s tweets word for word.

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YouTube is not Wikipedia or fucking EMS

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As true as that is, in an emergency people don’t always have time to seek out professional help, and it ain’t like calling 911 will magically make an ambulance appear in 30 seconds.

Also, the Institute Of Human Anatomy actually has a YouTube channel…

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911 dispatchers are trained and certified to provide concise and accurate medically reviewed instructions over the phone so that you are not just standing there waiting for the ambulance.

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Kids hate talking on the phone so much they’d rather get help from YouTube than call 911.

That’s only partially a joke.

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They should also be able to rapidly provide instructional video in the year 2023

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I think they mean that EMS will guide you through it over the phone.

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True that. Some people happen to be better visual learners though. Not saying I’d jump straight to YouTube, I’d most likely be calling 911 myself, but yeah when people go into panic mode they don’t always think clearly.

I actually asked my roommate what he’d do, and he suggested eating a piece of bread to help it go down. I dunno, makes sense to me, seems like that should do the trick.

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Not to mention that some people post an instagram status first before calling an emergency number. Seems to happen often with car accidents

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You know what would magically appear in 30 seconds tho? A Google images search. Not sure why people need a video when Heimlich posters have been doing the job for decades and are easily found online

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Google would just as soon post a page of sponsored content first and try to sell you a poster, so we’re kinda back to the same sort of problem.

If anything for an online search, DuckDuckGo…

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1 point

Don’t ads only show on monetized video?

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One would think that that’s the case, but youtube will happily show you ads on videos they themselves deemed not advertiser friendly. The creator simply doesn’t receive any money.

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Sometimes they show even if you don’t monetize your videos

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5 points

“hold up a minute, I need to support Wikipedia with my yearly $3 donation. it just popped up and I will forget.”

dies

(though you should help keep the lights on at wp so I guess gran had a good run)

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If you can’t scroll past the ad I doubt you’d be able to scroll to the section with instructions

I think the correct answer might actually be Wikihow

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But if you scroll past, you’ll forget and Wikipedia will die.

It’s granny or the wiki. The fate of humanity is in your hands. You know what you have to do.

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Third party websites fix that problem. Also why are you looking up videos. Call emergency services.

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Sorry Gran, EMS is 20 minutes out. Hope you’ve been practicing holding your breath.

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Yes, but 911 will provide pre-approval instructions for you and also start EMS

Source- am a 911 dispatcher

That said, a lot of our instructions fall a bit short of what you would learn from pretty much any first aid class, and we’re not really allowed to deviate from our approved instructions for liability reasons. So if you’re able to, everyone take some first aid classes. At the very least, you don’t want the first time you’re learning something to be in an actual emergency situation

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3 points

How’s the pay? Enough to make up for probable trauma?

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I posted that as a joke but being serious, I got my Wilderness First Responder cert last year and honestly believe that these are skills I should have learned in high school. It was only a three week course but it gave such great information and preparation that it should be standard in education. The 911 operator I engaged with relayed information to and from the EMS that was heading to the site and I don’t think anyone is really going to use YouTube or similar for this purpose. Chances are, if they need YouTube, they are probably panicking and if not, then the operator can relay basics. Good on you for doing a damn hard job I know I couldn’t pull off.

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Ah, someone with knowledge and experience in the field 👍

Can we ask, what would you suggest, assuming the Heimlich Maneuver has already been tried but didn’t work because the bone is sharp and stuck?

Needle nose pliers? Running out of time here…

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To be fair, the people at 911 probably give better instructions than a Youtube Video.

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They can give you directions over the phone

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“Here’s a cool Veritasium video with techniques on holding your breath – learn fast, gran!”

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Then Gran will die anyway as soon as she sees the bill

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