I work in 911 dispatch, it drives me nuts how many people lose consciousness for various reasons, and then when they come to they say they're fine and don't need to be checked out.
There's maybe some very narrow exceptions for people with known conditions that they're already managing with the help of a doctor and they know exactly what's causing it.
But in general, if you're losing consciousness that's a bad sign and you need to see a doctor about that ASAP
I flip flop back and forth, I'm not totally sure if there's a specific rhyme or reason to my choices, it may just come down to a subjective feeling about which I think sounds better in the sentence.
My wife is a dayta analyst, and she analyzes dahta.
Definitely, normally my skin is pretty resilient, never really been someone who needs to spend money on moisturizers and such, I could probably just about wash my hands with acetone and steel wool and be none the worse for it.
But there were a few times when I worked there that my hands were getting noticeably dryer than usual, pretty sure if my skin were any more delicate I would have been in pretty rough shape.
We definitely called them cardboard cuts, can't say how universal it is but every job I've where I've handled a lot of boxes it seems to be in pretty common use
Cardboard cuts are absolutely a thing, like a paper cut on steroids.
I used to work in a warehouse and spent most of my day opening, resealing, making, and breaking down boxes. Spend enough time around them and the boxes will get you.
What you're most likely looking for is amateur (ham) radio. The exactly regulations will vary by country, usually there's some sort of testing/licensing required (at least if you want to transmit, you can listen without a license)
I didn't look too far into it but it looks like the app you linked is basically a tool to let you use your phone as a controller for other radio equipment. You'd probably need to be licensed to actually use it, and there's a good chance the equipment needed is pretty pricey. Ham equipment can kind of run the gambit from handhelds that run from about $20 up to thousands of dollars depending on what you want to do with it. You're probably better off starting with some more standard equipment before you start trying to rig together other stuff controlled by an app.
There's a lot of info out there for free on the internet and plenty of books have been written about how radio, so there's a lot of resources out there to learn from, or if there's a radio club in your area (there usually is) you can show up to a meeting and ask some questions.
Assuming you're in the US (different countries again have different laws) there's a few other radio options if all you want is to talk to people who are local to you. You can get a CB radio (think Smokey & the Bandit or truckers talking to each other) some places have more or less people actually using CB radio. The range and capabilities are more limited than a lot of ham options, but you can usually count on a few miles of range, and sometimes it's nice to get a heads up from truckers about traffic issues and speed traps and such. I personally like to use them with friends in different cars when we're on a road trip.
There's also FRS radios, you can pick them up pretty cheap at Wal Mart, pretty basic walkie talkies.
Many of those FRS radios are also GMRS radios, there's a GMRS license needed to use the GMRS capabilities, not test, just a licensing fee, so that's something to be aware of.
MURS radios also exist, I honestly don't know too much about it, but it's another free, no-license radio service you can use.
Each of those have their own limitations and restrictions on what you can do with them, but in probably 99% of cases you're probably not gonna run afoul of the law if you don't try to modify the radio or do something obviously stupid and use it in a way that's not interfering with other people's uses.
If you have enough people, bulldozers, and money to throw at the problem, sure.
Does Israel have that available? I can't really say.
Some of the things that would factor into how many people, bulldozers, and money you'd need to do so
How big of a city?
What kind of construction are we dealing with?
How much are we willing to ignore worker safety and such?
How much of that city has already been partially demolished by other means the time the bulldozers get there?
How bulldozed does it need to be? There's a spectrum here that goes from something "crashing a bulldozer into every building enough times to make it unlivable" to "everything completely leveled, and all the debris cleaned up, neatly pushed into piles, loaded into trucks, buried, etc." Do we need to bulldoze the entire city? Or just most of it? Or maybe just enough that pretty much every block is looking pretty wrecked? Or maybe just all of the structures and we can leave parks, parking lots, streets, and other open spaces intact?
Do we have to be picky about using specifically bulldozers? If the end result is essentially the same, you could also use excavators, guys with sledgehammers, cranes, wrecking balls, explosives, airstrikes, artillery fire, etc. there's plenty of other options to work into the mix if we don't limit ourselves to just bulldozers.
I understand your meaning but saying that those east coast cities were built to European standards is maybe not the best way to phrase it.
Philly in particular, is a standout for being one of the first planned cities. Not that there weren't attempts at city planning before then, but they tended to be more of an attempt to straighten out the wacky stuff that had grown organically. With Philly most of the city was pretty much laid out from the beginning, which was fairly unique at the time. You'd be pretty hard-pressed to find something totally comparable to that in Europe at the time.
What they do share with European cities though, is that they (relatively) old, and from the era before cars were a thing, so the city planning happened with the assumption that people would be walking pretty much everywhere.
Side note- I remember reading an article about one of the older assassins creed games set in the American revolution, and one of the reasons they decided to not set it in philly was because Philly, even back then, was too orderly of a grid with lots of long straight streets that you can look a long way down and the graphics engine had a hard time rendering that far.
So first of all, the US is big and diverse, if you hop in a car and drive from New York to LA without stopping, taking the fastest route, mostly on major highways, averaging out to something like 60+mph (about 100 km/h) you're still going to be spending just about 2 days in the car.
And in between, you're going to see a little bit of everything, mountain, plains, forest, farms, huge dense urban cities, towns small enough you can barely even call them a town, suburban sprawl, massive industrial facilities, you name it you're going to see it.
Overall, if you live in an urban area, the situation may not be too bad, cities are somewhat walkable, there's public transportation that will usually get you fairly close to where you need to go, there may even be protected bike lanes, etc. although the situation will vary wildly from one city to another.
It will even vary from one part of the city to another. You can have large sections of the city where there's no real grocery stores or other places to get your basic necessities, and you're pretty much limited to whatever you can get from corner stores, bodegas, convenience stores, etc. (mostly pre-packaged and processed foods, and if you're lucky maybe a couple pieces of fresh fruit) and if you want anything more than that you're probably looking at taking a few hours out of your day to walk a significant distance to a store or take public transit that may not go exactly where you need it, may be slow, expensive, or just a pain in the ass to deal with, etc.
Getting out into the suburbs, it's again kind of a crapshoot. There are some walkable suburbs, with wonderful shopping options, there's some that are a maze of residential developments and gated communities that come off of major roads with no sidewalks or even shoulders worth speaking of and you're taking a significant gamble trying to walk anywhere from there. There may be little or no public transportation and if there is it may not be going anywhere you need to go, or be convenient to get onto
Personally, I live towards the rural end of the suburbs, about an hour or less from a major city depending on traffic.
Damn near everything I could ever want or need is within about a half hour drive, and most of I commonly need is covered within about 15 minutes.
If I don't have a car though, my options drop off significantly. I'm looking at an hour walk one way to get to a grocery store, mostly along a long winding road with little or no shoulder and few streetlights. The only things I would really feel safe to walk to are 2 pizza shops, a small hardware store, a bar, a CVS, and gas station/convenience store, those last 2 are going to be about a half hour or longer walk, and along that winding road, but it's a stretch that at least has a half decent shoulder and some lawns to walk on for most of the way.
If you have a bike, there's a decent bike trail that will get you to some more shopping options, but it's about an hour's ride one way.
If you need to catch public transit, you'd have to walk about 2 hours to catch a bus, that line basically runs straight up and down a main road between the city and a larger, urban-ish town further out in the suburbs. There's not many options to transfer to anywhere else along the way but there's a lot along that route so if you can get to that bus most of your needs will be covered, but it doesn't run super frequently and it's not going to get you anywhere in a hurry.
Getting out into rural America, you have some small towns that are functionally self-contained, with their own grocery stores and other shopping options in-town within walking distance. Your options are limited but for the most part everything you really need is right there in town.
If you don't work in town though, and often people in these areas don't, they may be involved in farming, logging, oil/natural gas, construction, etc. and may work many miles from town, you're pretty much screwed if you don't have a car, or at least can count on carpooling with a coworker.
There's other small towns where there just isn't much of anything at all, maybe they have a gas station and a liquor store, and if you need anything else you're SOL, in some cases you may be looking at an hour or more drive to get to anything else so you can forget about walking.
Regardless of where/what kind of area you find yourself in, transportation between cities is often going to be an issue. You can probably catch a Greyhound bus or maybe Amtrak or similar between most major cities, though you may have to get a little creative with figuring out your route, but if you're trying to get to the smaller towns in between you may not have much luck.
There are, of course, nearly as many exceptions and special cases to everything I said as there are individual towns and cities.
I understand that I come from a place of pretty significant privilege, but it is wild to me that when faced with these kinds of situations anyone is gambling on the kinds of medical care they might/might not be able to receive in these red states with restrictive abortion laws.
I know that if any of my friends, even if we're not particularly close, came to me and said they needed me to drive them halfway across the country for an abortion because they may not be able to get life-saving medical care in our state if something goes wrong, we're going, right then and there, no questions asked, I'm calling out sick from work, running up my credit cards on gas and hotel rooms and whatever else we may need and we're hitting the road, and if needed I won't ever breathe a word of it to anyone.
The fact that people are in a position where they feel like they can't do that or don't have people they think they can trust to do that for them is maddening.
Yeah, astonishingly if you don't wander into the crowded center city areas that are packed with people and bars, things are a lot more subdued.
There's something 1½ million people in the city, a lot of whom are watching the game, either at home, in a friends house, or at one of the 1300 or so bars in the city, all spread out over about 140 square miles. If you don't go seeking out the craziness, it's easy to not see it in person.
Not to mention all of the eagles fans in the surrounding suburbs.
And take a good look at your video, how much actual violence or destructiveness are you seeing there? I'm seeing mostly a big crowd of people milling around outside chanting and yelling at no one in particular. Creating a nuisance or impeding traffic? Sure, hardly a riot or anything of the sort though.
You have, being generous, maybe a couple thousand people (I'm pretty sure I've seen more people turn out to ride in the Philly naked bike ride) gathering around city hall, a major landmark located in the very heart of the city, and doing what? yelling? Maybe 2% of a city where "go birds" passes as a greeting, wandering around outside being a bit rowdy.
Same goes for a lot of generic-sounding "A" business names- Acme, Apex, Ajax, A+, American-whatever, etc.