Maybe not you personally but whoever sees this and thinks “hey maybe I can try” this is to encourage them to take that first step

If you’re one of the ones that are already trying, all I can say is continue to persevere, seldom does it not yield results, even if not necessarily noticeable at a moments glance

Voyager is very much Apollo reincarnate

The beautiful thing about the fediverse is that you can be the change you want to see in the world

Also works as aromatherapy.

Correct, yelling and chanting does nothing, they slapped him to a functional enough state that he managed to regain control of his faculties

The video is showing something called a freediving blackout, it’s a condition that gets triggered in divers such as the one shown, plus other factors such as hyperventilating prior to the dive.

What happens in this case is the person loses consciousness because they don’t feel the need to breathe as they have purged a lot of the CO2 the body has prior, giving them “room” to not feel the urge to breathe.

Again, as specified previously, assuming the person doesn’t die of anything immediate in the water, the body simply stops breathing.

The problem is when it starts again.

Your body, once “jolted awake” by the involuntary nervous system, will try to breathe, and it doesn’t know or care that you might still be underwater since you stopped swimming and didn’t get out of the water in time or weren’t rescued or washed ashore on some deserted island.

If you’re out of the water at this point, you’re fine, usually. If you’re still underwater, you breathe in (involuntarily) a bunch of the water (or a bunch of “nothing” if you got your holes plugged) and that’s what kills you.

Kind of ironic that in an attempt to preserve your life, your own involuntary bodily function is what ends up being the final nail.

No. You can sorta do it until you pass out and then your involuntary nervous system takes over and your body breathes on its own because you’re not conscious anymore.

Don’t know who needs to hear it, but here’s some advice that my philosophy professor left me with a long time ago:

Sometimes you can only save one person, and it’s okay for that person to be you.

The programming team that is working hard on your project is just one dude and he smells funny. The programming team you’ve met in your introductory meeting are just the two unpaid interns that will be fired or will quit within the next two months and don’t know what’s happening. We don’t do agile despite advertising it. Also your project being a priority means it’ll be slapped together from start to finish 24 hours prior to the deadline. Oh and there will be extra charges to fix anything that doesn’t work as it should.