• over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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…

      • geekworking@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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.

  • formergijoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.”

  • Quik@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is a rare example of a situation in which an ad blocker would maybe have saved a life…

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Depends if you believe in life by statistics…

      Just using the data from sponsor block, the community crowdsourced video embedded ad skipper…

      There are currently 13,033,165 users who have submitted 15,198,718 skip segments, which have saved a total of 2001 years and 38.56 days of people’s lives.

      2001 years / 75 years average per life equals 26 lives saved

      Sponsor block alone has saved 26 lives worth of time…