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hi, i'm courtney!!!
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Okay but the baby on board is actually there for a VERY important reason, its there specifically so when you get in a crash, the EMT/Firemen know to look for your infant/child in the wreck bc bad things can happen to tiny things and they may not see them or hear them right away and just go for the big people.

Otherwise yeah this...this sucks bc it makes u aware of how shitty and opportunistic humans can be, but its also on you for literally advertising on a car.

Sorry i just see a lot of people assuming baby on board means that the person expects you to cater to their every whim when it comes to changing lanes, but no, its the same as the "Please Save My Pet" (lists # of animals and species) sticker on peoples windows. Its to help firefighters. :')

My personal recommendation is to put Rouge the Bat seatcovers on your front two seats so people know to leave you tf alone, I saw a car with that every day on my way to work for like six months and let me tell you, you could not pay me to follow that person home.

Anyway, psa over thanks.

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apropos of nothing- have u watched shoujo kageki revue starlight

I have never even heard of it

weird ass plots are fr the best ones tho. time loops, body swaps, jumping into a new universe somehow, curses, magic use, anything fuckin buck wild makes for a good story in my book

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one popular confucius quote is "to see what is right and fail to do it is to be lacking in courage" but the first part gets cut off. the first part goes "sacrificing to ancestors that don't belong to you is to overstep" . he's also against doing too much

hey btw i learned that recaptchas have been google's way of training its AI for years. it used to be random words because it was archiving things like books and old news papers by making humans read and confirm the words. then random images to help improve google image search results. and then they switched it to more specifc images and guess what almost all of those specific images were, right at the start of self driving car technology and serious google maps updates. traffic lights, vehicles, street signs, and even address numbers. google has been using humans to train its ai to recognize traffic related things to improve maps and self driving tech. x x x x

watching a video about this cargo ship that blew up in texas in the 40’s and it’s like . i know that with a lot of incidents especially older ones like this the reason that the safety standards were so shitty was because they literally did not know that these kinds of disasters COULD happen (and in many cases these disasters are what MADE the safety standards better) but sometimes you just learn about this shit and you think. how could all these people be so stupid

- cargo of the ship consisted of twine (flammable) peanuts (flammable, oily) and cotton (FLAMMABLE) from houston and POST WAR AMMUNITION (OH MY GOD) FROM CUBA

- additional cargo they were picking up in texas city was LOOSE BAGS OF AMMONIUM NITRATE that the dock workers described as being ANOMALOUSLY WARM UPON BEING LOADED INTO THE SHIP ??????

- small fire breaks out in cargo hold, instead of putting it out with water that could damage the cargo the captain decides to close all the hatches to try to make the cargo hold airtight and smother the fire (stupid but you can kind of understand how they got there)

- the heat of the trapped smoke in the cargo hold instead causes the aforementioned LOOSE BAGS OF AMMONIUM NITRATE to undergo a chemical reaction and turn into nitrous oxide, massively increasing the pressure inside of the airtight hold

- one of the hatch covers fails

- mfw all the pressure in the cargo hold is released at once causing an explosion that fucking levels everything in the port within 2000 feet

- mfw the shockwave shatters windows up to a hundred miles away

- mfw on-fire twine and peanuts and fucking grenades are raining down over texas city

- mfw some of the pieces of the ship got launched into the sky faster than the speed of sound

- mfw they found the ship’s anchor inside of a ten foot wide crater over a mile and a half away

- mfw this was one of the largest and most devastating non-nuclear explosions in world history

- mfw this could have been avoided if they’d just taken the L and put the fire out with water

also worth a mention: the SECOND boat that exploded in a very similar manner the next day which was an even more violent explosion, but less devastating because most of the port was. you know. already leveled and evacuated

someone running rescue and recovery after the FIRST boat exploded noticed that the second boat's cargo was on fire and reported it....and this just went. ignored. for several hours. until someone was like "oh shit better get this under control" and tried to move the boat to no avail and they just gave up and evacuated

next day it started raining glowing-hot metal boat chunks all over the city. AGAIN.

Today's problematic ships are the Grandcamp (first explosion) and High Flyer (second explosion).