Vampires ain't gonna want to drink that. You noticed that when they take your blood, the tubes having different coloured tops, and some are put to the tilting machine, while others are not. This is because they contain different kind of chemicals, designed to enchance or preserve certain aspect or property of the blood, along with having the precursor chemicals in them.

The resistance to exhaling and inhaling adds more rhythm to your breathing. Hyperventilation is you breathing in and out too fast, leading to bad gas exchange. The bag forces you to breathe slower. The bag doesn't actually do anything more, than someone looking in to your eyes, and commanding you to "inhale... exhale.... inhale... exhale..."

This is why people with panic disorders (like me), are taught some breathing rhythm thing we can exercise. I myself use "breathe only through the nose and fully exhale and inhale" (Harder than you think, and I played the french horn and tuba for +10 years - I got good capacity). Full inahle and exhale also activates you parasymphatic nervous system and calms you down.

It is just about the feeling of gaining control, giving you something to focus on that keeps you present.

The bag tricks isn't even recommended anymore, since people forgot that they'd actually also need to breathe oxygen in. Leading them to be more likely to pass out from lack of oxygen. Also doesn't actually teach you methods. of controlling your emotions, but instead forcing you to rely to a tool. And if you don't have that tool to get comfort and control from, it makes things worse.

So... About this thing called "Roman Empire". Before you go on about how in Rome wealthy class held power and there were classes that weren't allowed to vote, along with disfranchised areas - this is the case with USA right now.

Well you just posted two things which got media attention.

You know what the extinction rebellion did in Finland last summer at a Rally? They peacefully protested. https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12565745

What was done to them? Slurry made of cowshit was shot at them.

Care to explain what was so bad that they deserved such actions that the police arrested those people who shot shit at them?

Now I'm not part of extinction rebellion, but I am worried of climate change.

But you want solutions? I have some for you. Carbon tariffs at the EU border. Severe penalties for fossil fuel use. More nuclear power. Ban combustion engine cars for personal use and have a buyout program. Add tariffs to fossilfuels. Equally share carbon credits to everyone living in EU, which can be traded against cash and limit consumption against these; since wealthy people consume and emit more emission, they have to buy the right to emit - no more riding on the backs of poor people while you get to spoil in luxury even if you can afford the taxes.

Now present to me your solutions to this issue.

Because I can tell you that it is a fucking inconvienience when summer temperaturs keep going up and weather gets drier to the point that rivers are running dry around the world. But I assume this is not an inconvience?

The thing is that anger is a powerful emotion - it makes people do things.

Tell me... Would you be for more consumption of oil products because of this event? Would you be for less use?

Because here is a thing: Disgust is a destructive emotion, it makes people do stupid things like protest fuel regulations by wasting fuel. Anger however flares up when they are at the pump fueling, it digs deep in to your psyche.

But lets analyze what you said just a bit more:

Is your problem with the act, or who did it? Would you be equally angry if a homeless person without a penny would do this same act for the same reason? Or is it because "Rich kids and tiktok trends"? Because I sense that your problem is more with class than the act.

But you fail to see the problem that they are trying to address since you admit that you know there is a problem. However there are plenty of people who don't.

Tell me: Is there a issue that you'd care so much about that as a protest you'd be willing to risk jail time? Because these people are. How about, when was the last time you noticed a quiet peaceful protest about a thing you didn't know was an issue?

I can tell you exactly when was the last time I did. It was over 5 years ago, where one person was sharing a pamflet about an organisations demanding changes to the adoption regulation allowing there same-sex couple to be registered as the parents to a biological child of one of them.

What was the last protest I noticed because they made noise? The hijab related protest about Masha Hamin. A thing I hadn't even known about having had happened for I been avoiding news past few years and being in Finland articles about foreign matters been especially something I avoid.

The reason they keep doing stuff like this because it is the only way to get any media and public attention. And it is working!

Would you care about a climate protestor throwing can off soap at an oil executives car? Would you even care to open a news article about that? Assuming it would even get an article.

And this is the exact reason protestors attack things that are unrelated but gets them the headlines. They want the headlines. They want journalists to come asking who they are and why they are on about.

They want there to be a bitter fights on opinion collumns and comment sections. Because then if one of the thousands actually realised what the message is and take it to heart, they have managed to convert one more person to the cause.