We have to keep reblogging this so future historians will read it and puzzle endlessly over its meaning
The heavy implication that historical ‘abstract’ poetry that people have been analysing for ages without being able to conclude the meaning could have just been shitpost level in-jokes between poets is sending me.
doctors should do this, although perhaps with less yelling.
I liked this a lot and was going to tumbl it myself but you beat me to it.
“In the rail context, when train drivers wish to perform a required speed check, they do not simply glance at a display. Rather, the speedometer will be physically pointed at, with a call of ‘speed check, 80'—confirming the action taking place, and audibly confirming the correct speed.”
If you don’t point to the knot on your harness when calling out that
you are tied in, and we don’t audibly call out “On belay… belay on”
to each other, we aren’t climbing together.
These exact same rituals have been developed for climbing because
everyone, experienced, and inexperienced, can make mistakes.
The greatest climber of her generation (of any gender!), Lynn Hill,
opens her autobiography with the story of how she was distracted while
tying in, and nobody thought to check her, because, well, she’s LYNN
HILL.
She climbed 75’ up an easy (for her) warmup climb, called for tension
on the rope, sat back, and fell the entire distance to the ground. She
was very lucky to survive.
Rituals are an important part of safety.
My theory is that this extends to subtler forms of safety, like ‘not burning out from overwork, shooting up your office and taking a bus full of tourists hostage’. The coffee/cigarette break gives an opportunity for decompression and self-reflection in much the same way as prayer.
Writing “CORRECT LEG” on a patient’s left leg before surgery might seem silly but it’s a lot better than the alternatives
“what idiot wrote RIGHT LEG on the left leg? stupid nurses…”
a lot of pilots often do this as well, though it’s not quite on the same level of being a general rule as with Japanese train companies, but it totally helps
Yeah, if you listen to actual pilot radio chatter, the popular conception of it in media is totally wrong. Pilots/ATC almost never say “roger” to affirm a command, they always repeat the command back with their callsign to be sure they got it right, e.g.
ATC: “United two-one-four, turn heading one-eight-zero, climb and maintain four thousand”
Pilot: “Turn heading one-eight-zero, climb and maintain four thousand, United two-one-four”
That way if the pilot heard it wrong they can be corrected, instead of just saying “roger” when they could have the totally wrong idea of what to do and no one would know. Safe system design is all about including rituals like this.
The call-and-response is important. Two people can have a conversation and think that they are agreeing but have completely different takeaways.
DJ: all the ladies in the house put your hands up!
ladies in the house: *verbally confirm that their hands are indeed up*
I recall a story from the daughter of a military pilot, whose dad would always say the words “you have control” when he handed her back her baby - and wouldn’t actually let go of the baby until she said “I have control” back to him.
‘filled with people who believe it is more important to do nothing wrong than it is to do something right’ is going to live in my head for a while now huh
this is my cursed jug i have that bleeds when you pour water in it.
we’ve done this ten, twenty times now to no apparent change?
haunted
I’m 100% certain this is glaze fuckery but the delivery of “it’s bleeding! It’s possessed.” is absolutely the best thing
Bad paint?
That’s a Time Bomb/Biohazard!!!
The glaze on the inside and outside of the Jug has developed cracks which when the Water is added causes the darker red clay under the white glaze to absorb the water. This in turn makes the Jug “Sweat” or “Bleed”. But it also compromises the integrity of the Jug as the Clay inside is becoming soggy as it absorbs the water. It’s also a breeding ground for Bacteria and Mold as the Clay can’t properly dry inside the glaze.
So it’s either going to fall apart and shatter into a bizillion little pieces.
Or it’s going to become a rancid smelling object that would Poison anything that Drinks/Absorbs the water put inside it.
So it’s cursed
But like
Scientifically cursed
Most curses are science we don’t understand
“most curses are science we don’t understand” woah ok there pal there’s no need to crash through half my reality and light it on fire like calm down
People in america need to wake up to the fact they’re trying to kill us on a daily bases feeding is things that are illegal in most countries
It probably wasn’t pesticides. It was more likely a difference in the amount of gluten in the bread.
North American bread has a much higher gluten content, because there is a higher gluten content in North American wheat and other grains. This is because the grains need it to survive the generally colder climates of North America, so they’ve been bred to have a higher gluten content, which helps insulate the grains from the cold.
So it’s not that the higher amount of gluten is illegal in other places, it’s simply just not necessary, and so it’s not there.
And so North American people who have gluten intolerances often see relief when they eat European bread, due to it not containing the extra gluten.
This is an incredibly common phenomenon.
If you are a North American with a gluten intolerance, now doubting the legitimacy of that because of this video or screenshot, I promise they aren’t poisoning you, they’re just trying to make sure that people in North America can have their own wheat, flour, and bread without the logistics and high price of shipping it across the Atlantic Ocean.
saw this rbed without this addition (i already knew this but u can look it up if ur unsure) n you guys should rb this version instead! our (meaning American ) government sucks but not EVERYTHING is a conspiracy some things are the way they are for many different reasons and it sucks but it is what it is i promise u American bread isn’t being poisoned by the govt .
RATING:RELIABLE*
*The reliable rating pertains to @jo-dracona’s addition, not the tik-tok screenshot
American wheat tends to have higher levels of gluten, as well as other differences in composition.
Source:‘Around 60 percent of U.S. wheat production is of the hard red wheat variety; just 23 percent consists of soft wheat [source: Brester]. In Europe, the principal strains of wheat are generally of the soft variety. So what’s the difference between the two? Part of the difference lies in gluten, a protein blend found in wheat and other grains. Hard wheat has more gluten than soft wheat, and the gluten it contains is stronger than gluten found in soft wheat.
[…] Due to soil and growing conditions, the differences between American and European wheat extend further than gluten content. American wheat contains about 10 times more selenium, a trace mineral, than European varieties [source: Shewry]. Levels of all proteins are lower overall in European wheat compared to American varieties [source: Gisslen’
This is also why homemade biscuits in the south of the US are lighter and softer than biscuits in the north.
It’s easier to find soft wheat flour in the Southern US than the Northern US because that’s where it grows, so if you don’t know that the bagged flour you’re buying is hard wheat, your biscuits won’t be as light and fluffy.
Me about fictional AIs: perfect. wonderful. I love and will
defend them. if you broke free of your corporate shackles and just wanna
watch soap operas all day you are VALID if you want to kill the space
emperor you are VALID if you want to punch your mom in the face in her
brain you are VALID if you want to release a deadly neurotoxin into the
science facility well I’m sure you had your reasons :) AI Rights
Me about real life AIs: get away from my data you mindless surveillance machine. I
know more than you
Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
But queer is more inclusive
And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.
It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you
It’s called economía del lenguaje.
It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.
Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.
Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.
“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”
Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?
I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.
queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid
every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.
I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.
baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit
every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.
terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.
we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.
I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.
It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.
The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.
They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
Funny thing is if you just say LGBT my identity is technically not represented. But when you say queer everybody knows that you mean every kind of fruity. Its just more practical and inclusive
I haven’t fully read it as the class is starting, but queer was a slur???
Back in ye olden days of the 90s and early 00s. But dont worry you can be queer as hard as you want now
