Everyone knows that on Uber/Lyft you should always give the driver five stars unless they, like, drive the car into the ocean or something, right? You can’t say “the ride was fine, nothing special, so I gave them three stars,” because the company will punish them for being anything less than perfect.
Well, you should know that the same rule goes for any kind of customer service survey. Unless they service you received was unacceptable, give them 5/5 or 10/10 or whatever. It’s annoying, because it ruins the sensitivity of the survey, but it’s how it’s gotta be. 9/10 gets treated like a problem and 6/10 gets treated like a disaster. Understand this and do the workers a favor by grading easy.
at a place i use to work anything less than the highest score on those surveys was actually counted as a zero
July 5th is the busiest day of the year for animal shelters, pets are terrified of fireworks and will run away. Please keep your pets indoors with plenty of hiding places and activities to keep them busy. If your pet is known to be afraid make sure you have a vet approved remedy on hand. Do not ever take your pet to a firework display the risk is just too great.
If you are still not swayed, maybe your wallet being lighter will help:
Cost of treating a pet hit by a car after running from fireworks
$2,500-$5,000 (or more!)
Cost of treating a dog for pancreatitis after eating food at a BBQ
$800-$2,5000
Emergency surgery to remove a foreign body like a skewer or firework part
$3,000-$5,000
Treating burns caused by fireworks or BBQ’s
$500-$2,500
Treating alcohol Intoxication
$1,200-$4,000
Keeping your pet at home, in a safe part of the house
FREE
I’ve already seen several missing dog posts. You MUST assume there will be fireworks and you MUST assume your pet will flee. Keep them contained. You CANT let your animals walk freely on the 4th if you’re an American. Even if fireworks are banned in your locale, people often set them off illegally (as they’ve been doing here literally all night for the past 3 days)
Today I worked out that if you were unfortunate enough to have 106 leeches attach to you and drink their fill of your blood, you would probably die of blood loss.
I looked it up because a fictional crime show had someone die of “drugged in leech pond”, and, yeah, it’s possible. Highly unlikely, that’s a lot of leeches, but it could happen. So, like, don’t let that many leeches attach to you.
Update: my “space gays” shirt from target (it’s a tank top with a print of an Astronaut ont he moon but the flag is a pride flag and I like calling it “space gays”) also frequently induced party tit syndrome
I hate when bird parents get mad at me for rescuing their children.
Don’t want me touching your kid? Fine, YOU crawl down there and use YOUR super-dexterous hands with opposable thumbs to gently lift your son out of this window-well. Oh, you can’t do that? Then shut up and stop swooping me, you ungrateful leftover dinosaurs.
Actually, it’s literally part of birds growing up to let them sit on the ground a little bit and figure it out! It’s like school for birds because they can hop around and practice taking short flights while their parents will ward off any attackers (which is you, even if you think you’re helping), so there really is no need to interviene unless you think the bird is hurt, you don’t see the parents nearby, or you’ve seen the bird on the ground for a really long period of time (we’re talking days). Often times putting the bird back in the nest will just result in them hopping out again, and all you’ve done is agitated the bird’s parents. “Over rescues” (or people “saving” baby birds from the ground and then taking them to a rehab center when they realize they can’t handle a fledgeling, which can often result in malnutrition and dehydration for the bird) is actually one of the main reasons birds find themselves in wildlife rehabilitation centers (like the one I work at), and is really sad because now a perfectly healthy bird is at risk of becoming too friendly around humans, which will hurt it in the long run.
I know. I volunteer with a bird rehab center. I did not place the fledgling into a nest or take it to a rehab. I removed it from a deep sheer-sided window well pit in a neighborhood with stray cats and unfenced dogs, and placed it in the grass nearby.
Bothering fledgelings who are perfectly fine is bad. Removing fledgelings from dangerous situations (large holes, roads, parking lots, immediate vicinity of predators, etc) is good.
Sometimes good posts are made by annoying people so I’ll help out
These are Safe Shorts. They were made by Sandra Seilz after someone attempted to rape her. If the fabric is torn, an alarm will be sounded.
This is the Rape-aXe, invented by a South African doctor by the name of
Sonnet Ehlers. After interviewing a rape victim who wished she had teeth down there, she made this. If someone’s penis is inserted and pulled back out, the teeth will sink in, and can only be removed by a doctor.
The Killer Tampon (couldn’t find a site for it), made by retired anaesthetist Jaap Haumann. When penetration takes place, the sharp end will slice the offending appendage.
The Anti-Rape Belt (also couldn’t find a site), made by a group of Swedish teenagers led by Nadja Björk. It requires two hands to undo.
Anti-Rape Underwear/Bra (once again), as made by a group of Indian students. Will deliver an electric shock when met with unwanted advances, as well as sounding an alarm.
Undercover Colours. Made by 4 male undergraduates at North Carolina U, they change colours when in contact with chemicals or drugs that cause unconsciousness. Used in case you’re wary that your drink has been roofied.
These are just tools to help, but in addition to being mindful of your situations and staying safe, they can help when the worst happens.
Stay safe.
ok, those are all kind of awesome. i wish they weren’t needed, bit still…awesome solutions.
I feel more comfortable reblogging this version
RapeAxe has a gofund me up that barely has 700 dollars. I feel like the inventions that havent even been funded yet should be linked to the page you can support them at.
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