i can't stand these new fountain machines they dispense watered down piss

i actually think it's rly cool for people getting an abortion to joke about the abortion, and it's not tasteless or bad. btw. they are allowed to joke about it. and it's funny.

ok this post is about this tweet i saw and found fucking hilarious:

I feel like I would have been diagnosed with OCD a lot earlier if the vast majority of screening questions (for mental illnesses in general) weren't based on the person's perception of their own behavior, in isolation. and what i mean by that is asking someone with OCD "do you wash your hands excessively?" is not a good question.

a person with OCD believes they are washing their hands the correct number of times. it's not excessive. we believe we're exhibiting best practices and helping to keep everything clean.

better questions might be, "does it seem like you wash your hands a lot more than your friends or family?" "do you get dry patches or cuts on your hands from washing your hands?" "do you find it deeply distressing, more so than how you've seen other people react, when you get something on your hands that you can't clean off right away?"

being asked "are you overly preoccupied with bugs, symmetry, and contamination?" also got "no" responses from me years ago in my life. what they didn't ask for, and didn't know, was what *exactly* I was doing in my day to day life that genuinely ate up my time and mental space to a concerning degree, but I *didn't know* that other people don't do this.

"do you spend a lot of time cleaning?" -> no, it's not a lot. it's a good amount. why?

"do you become frustrated because it seems like no one else meets your organizational and cleanliness standards - do you often 'take over' for other people because they can't do it right - do new friends seem surprised by how strict you can be about your living space?" -> oh. yeah. yeah I get it now.

if the screening questions on the mental illness test sound at all like "are you already aware you're mentally ill?" then, shocker, it's not going to work all that well!

Needed work

+colormatching

It needed to be done

Fixed the lighting

i’m gay but i’m always gonna choose the well developed straight ship over the 2 bland and incompatible white dudes that have 500,000 fanfics written about them. you guys just hate women.

tell me my prof didn’t upload the reading by photocopying his kindle reader page by page

bruh

like if you actually looked into any modern antifascist scholarship on this you would very quickly realise that facebook is the beating heart of the global fascist movement and people have been sounding the alarm on this for years

you don’t gotta tell me to boycott the Nintendo prices by not buying bc i don’t have the money to get them anyways

‘guys don’t spend 600-700 dollars on the new nintendo products to send a message’ im way ahead of you man

I feel like ODD being an official disorder in the DSM should be the thing that makes everyone go “hm” about how psychology is practiced

[looking a child directly in the eye] i diagnose you with Shitty Bitch Syndrome. this makes it legal to do medieval german tortures to you by the way

cmon man

squeezing my pussy and concentrating all the microplastics in my body to print a perfect tiny figurine of a fruit bat

The more I read into reports about industrial and transportation accidents the less I feel like “operator error” actually exists

Ok so “doesn’t exist” may be a slight overstatement. A better way of phrasing it might be “operator error is often used as a way of warding off close examination of how systems fail.”

You read about airlines accidents attributed to pilot error, and almost universally you find overworked, overtired people who have to deal with inadequate training, and poorly maintained equipment. Often investigations uncover a pattern of management ignoring problems that pilots regularly have to deal with. Out-of-date terrain data, false sensor readings, confusing systems presentation, fatigue.

The cargo airline industry fights to keep its pilots exempt from crew rest requirements and a fatigued crew crashes a mile short of the runway. Only the two crew on board die, so really it’s no big deal, right?

Amtrak builds a new bypass to cut 10 minutes off the travel time from Portland to Seattle but doesn’t give the engineers enough training to prepare them for it, nor installs adequate signage to warn of a 30mph curve, so on the inaugural run the engineer hits the curve at 80 mph.

Construction on a nuclear power plant runs into trouble and so to make a key pressure-bearing component fit, they install an S-bend around a pipe, which causes falsely water level readings. Operators open a valve to reduce what they think is excessively high pressure in the reactor and it melts down.

And all of these get simplified, either initially, or in perpetuity, as operator error. Because operators are cheap and easy to replace. Firing someone and laying the blame on them is cheaper than reassessing and restructuring a management culture built on passing the buck.

This is an extremely valuable addition thank you selky ❤️

related pet peeve as someone who used to work on industrial machinery: blaming the technique of the person that fabricated it, specifically (nine times out of ten) blaming the welder. Plane crashes, structural failures, car accidents, pressure vessel explosions, nuclear incidents, and even the loss of entire ships and submarines have all been blamed on "bad welds" (i.e. poor welding technique, or welds not conforming to the print) when that's simply a bad way to look at it; it's finding one worker to blame and then not doing anything to fix the problem. In critical applications, there should simply never be a situation where a bad weld causes a catastrophic failure, for three reasons:

so if that's the case, if there are supposed to be reduncancies, why do welders keep taking the blame?

a) Welds are most often made by human welders, especially in critical applications like nuclear reactors, aerospace parts, pipelines, bridges and buildings, and repair/retrofitting of existing parts (e.g. automotive repair, though mostly not auto fab anymore) where the use of robots is unfeasible. this means that all the above issues re: "operator error" apply. There's a human being you can pass the buck to and say "he did it."

b) Welds (or, more often, the surrounding HAZ) are almost invariably the point of failure when a welded part is subjected to extreme stress. If you find your big important contraption (plane, boat, bridge, nuclear reactor, whatever) in pieces and it's cracked along the welds, the welder is going to logically be the person you blame. Not the engineer (or lack thereof), not the QC department (or lack thereof), not the boss that didn't provide adequate time, materials, or conditions to make a cleaner joint, not the fitter who left a huge gap in the fitup nor the project manager who didn't budget for redoing mis-cut parts, not the malfunctioning machine with dodgy voltage controls that the shop refuses to replace because "it still works," not the foreman who was rushing the workers to reduce the amount of billable time spent on each task so that his team metrics would look better - when you see a part fail, it's easiest to blame the person who physically made it, so that's who gets blamed.

Looking for someone to blame is never a good way to deal with the results of a whole system going wrong, because you will definitely just be pointing fingers at the last guy to touch it.

I highly recommend reading There Are No Accidents by Jessie Singer, it’s all about this. When a negative outcome happens consistently and can be predicted, that’s not an accident or user error, that’s a failure in safety measures, policy, and engineering, most often done for the sake of profit.

Crazy how many people want characters in fiction to speak and act like they’ve had 20 hours of intensive therapy. Could NOT be me I want these bitches fucked up insane

my friend briar and i lovingly call this one ‘therapy speak joker’ and it almost caused her to drop biological samples one time