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Source: Bandcamp
Anonymous asked:
"Anarchist" but gets triggered when people voluntarily don't wear bicycle helmets.
Me when I know what anarchy is
Gravity legally cannot hurt you if you scream "NO GODS NO MASTERS" immediately before impact
I'm so fucking tired of this bicycle helmet discourse. Bike helmets aren't going to do shit to protect you if you get hit by a car
Most of the time... Bike accidents.... Involve things.... Other than cars...... like the ground....also it's safety gear..... Wearing it is non negotiable.... You are one accident away from being permanently disabled..... You need to protect your brain
Not towards OP
Is OSHA and other safety regulations also cop behavior?
*sigh* The belief that OSHA and other safety regulations are cop behavior are common opinions that people have, anarchist or not. Wearing PPE is annoying and often uncomfortable, sweaty, and cumbersome. People also generally hate being told to be careful, because they believe that "be careful" is synonymous with "hey, you're too stupid to do that without hurting yourself".
But all it takes is one time for you to slip up and suddenly the grinder disk that would have gotten stuck in your safety glasses is in your eye, or you're getting treated for lung cancer because you didn't want to wear your respirator while you welded. These are decisions that you were free to make, but might seriously regret later on.
People will scream until they're blue in the face about how oppressive it is to have to wear a safety vest and hard hat on a construction site, but do you really think that the hammer that slipped out of your buddy's hand is going to take that into consideration when it collides with your skull?
No political theory will save you from an accident. You can either wear your PPE, or can die, unexpectedly, painfully, and slowly. The choice is yours. Go argue with a lathe if you feel so strongly about it.
Go argue with a lathe if you feel so strongly about it
@breelandwalker it is criminal to leave this scorching point in the tags
a few points:
• every safety rule is written in blood
• OSHA exists so the boss can't force you to die for their profits. it was started as a result of union action, as a direct response to the triangle shirtwaist factory fire. OSHA is constantly fighting for worker's rights and protection. whistleblower laws protect any employee who makes an OSHA complaint against their employer, and anyone who reports is guaranteed anonymity and aggressive legal support against retaliation. there is also a separate health and safety administration for miners in the USA called MSHA.
• the people most likely to get hurt on the job are not apprentices or senior workers approaching retirement. the new hire is careful because they're green, and still learning, and still unfamiliar with the tools and the work. the old hand is careful because retirement is within sight and they want to make it there. the person who gets hurt is usually the journeyman at the peak of their career—in their 30s-50s, an expert at their trade, their tools feel like an extension of themselves, and they're so comfortable they forget to be careful. they've gotten lucky cutting corners or using something incorrectly or taking off a guard or leaving off some safety equipment 1000 times but one day they're tired or distracted or too comfortable or too confident and the luck runs out.
• some accidents you cannot just avoid with skill, or you have no personal control over them. sometimes you have to trust your coworkers with your life. the big blue crane collapse killed three ironworkers who were on an observation platform, doing other work, far from the crane, with no ability to prevent or escape the collapse. the crane collapsed as a result of being operated despite adverse conditions, despite the normal crane operator refusing to run the crane due to adverse conditions making it unsafe, and was filmed because a safety inspector was recording the violation and attempting to stop it. the operator of the crane got out safely, but three ironworkers who were hundreds of feet away, who didn't know the crane would be operating despite unsafe wind speeds, and who were trapped in midair anyways with no way to avoid or escape the collapse, and who above all just had to trust that everyone on the job site would be working safely and doing their jobs correctly, died. that footage has been used in every OSHA training i have ever been in.
• every safety rule is written in blood.
remember when you were 10 and you would hang out with your friends in order to Look At The Computer together like you went to their house and experienced the information superhighway together. and then leave
How fucking old are you people?
normal amount
free him!! 😢
What did he DO? Why must he be blindfolded? SIR!? What crimes have your eyes committed?
Oo I work next to that site :D
Here's a nice explanation I found on Reddit (have not fact checked myself)
okay who was in charge of the social media feed in Goodbye Volcano High bc you're a comedic genius and a keen observer of the human? condition I'm
Salvador Dali, The Eye of Surrealist Time, 1971
*INCREDIBLY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER*
Another #paleostream sketch
Euoplocephalus, walking across the bottom of a lake, being approached by a curious baby elasmosaur.
Some time ago it turned out that ankylosaurs were, similar to hippos, negatively bouyant.
Another traditional piece by me, this was for a paper that showed that Lufengosaurus produced soft shelled eggs. I would do this quite a bit different these days but back in the day I just started painting landscapes.
Staring down the toothy jaws of a wolf, you might not imagine it’s an animal that needs the help of us bald apes to get by – but across the world, we’ve seen that predator populations are declining. Protecting these species isn’t just crucial for their own survival, but also for the continued healthy function of ecosystems, as new research has pinpointed the irreplaceable role they play.
The study was inspired by how wolves alter wetlands by killing beavers, co-author Tom Gable explained to IFLScience. Gable is a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, and project lead for Voyageurs Wolf Project, and says the paper isn’t just about wolves, but rather “a large synthesis on the ecological role of predators in myriad ecosystems across the world.”
It reveals how predators create “ecological hotspots” that support a diverse range of plants and animals across the world, both directly and indirectly. At a time when rewilding is high on the agenda, it's a good reminder that if we want to encourage biodiversity, we need to consider both ends of the food chain.
We caught up with lead author of the study Sean Johnson-Bice, a PhD candidate at the University of Manitoba, to find out more about the many ways predators influence ecosystems, and why humans alone could never replicate the work they do.
November 8, 2021 at 04:45PM
Karl Wirsum (1939-2021) — Rabbit Double Gyro with Windshields [acrylic on canvas, 1981]
I helped with a study of local freshwater mussels today. They're doing transect studies of the river and tagging and releasing the mussels they find. Later they come back and do it again to see where the mussels are moving to over the course of 10 years.
They glued stickers to a mussel and called it science
These are called heel splitters. That's not even the biggest one we found
I know the big oblong one in the middle is called a pistol grip and the green warty ones are pimplebacks, but I don't know how to ID the rest
They can live for decades and are parasites as juveniles. I should do a Wet Beast Wednesday post on mussels because there's some interesting stuff about them
Anonymous asked:
what do you think the snl episode after the yeerks were defeated would be like?
Common flavors of SNL joke, immediately post-Animorphs:
A. Librarian reveals midway through a conversation with a customer that what appears to be one person is actually a yeerk and host swapping control back and forth. Lots of "So Linda—" "Not Linda, this is Ekkris 032" "Oh, okay, Ekkris—" "Actually this is Linda again."
The final punchline would be the customer going "Linda, or Ekkris" and the librarian going "Well now I'm Artrem-Illiack-Ferishth", causing everyone to realize the librarian never actually said they're a controller, and to wonder what the hell just happened.
B. Fake trailer for an alien invasion movie, evoking Independence Day and Contact, but it's shot in a Krispy Kreme and the alien invaders are hordes of andalite tourists.
C. Marco hosts, and in every sketch he plays a character who refuses to believe aliens exist. Sometimes it's meta-humor: he walks into a sketch about a hork-bajir arguing with an arborist long enough to pull the costume off the "hork-bajir" and reveal the human actor. Sometimes it's generational humor: he insists that a thought-speaking dog is just "one of those kids" wearing a "silly fad outfit."
It culminates in a sketch where Marco is dressed as Agent Scully and Gillian Anderson is dressed as the Governor of California delivering her now-famous speech about the yeerk invasion. The governor presents Marco with increasingly obvious evidence, only to have Marco dismiss her, until finally Gillian Anderson goes, "Explain THIS!" and demorphs into Cassie. Marco just rolls his eyes, goes, "Everyone can do THAT" and also morphs Cassie before walking off the set.
and, of course...
D. Aliens Made Me Do It. Overused as a punchline to the point where it kind of, arguably, circles back around to being funny again.
@ ohthat1 Can you imagine if the SNL actors played\parodied Jake as much as they did Shatner? Eeugh
Yeah, I really couldn’t come up with anything for Jake or Ax. Jake’s like the least-funny person on the planet, especially post-war.
Ax has potential — he does have that wicked-dry sense of humor. I could see a sketch where he tries to teach Earth history to a human kid, because it’s entirely possible he’s never heard of World War I but can also go on for 20 minutes about the literary impact of “MMMBop,” ending with a throwaway comment about what color underwear Zac Hanson wears. HOWEVER, “Ax” and “improv comedy” are never going to coexist. Our boy literally cannot freestyle to save his own life (#11, #36, etc). Your show can have Ax, or it can have a semi-scripted live format; trying to do both at once is like trying to force two positive-charged magnets into the same bag.
And Jake? Fuhgettaboutit. He can’t tell jokes, he can’t be the butt of jokes, and even Marco admits he makes for bad TV viewing (#54). I got nothin’.
@sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel #Let Jake star in a bunch of cowboy movies like Audie Murphy#He would like that and he deserves it
That I can see. Especially if he does it like Daniel Radcliffe or Macualay Culkin, where he has a bunch of bit parts that are soft parodies of his own younger self. From there SNL could parody his parody, and yeah this could work.
basically the entire tumblr user base
It me
Holy shit you guys Divine is on Tumblr
apparently netflix is ending their dvd rental service at the end of september and letting people keep whatever dvds they got so. if anyone wants up to 10 free dvds uhh
wait if there's anything niche on there. might be good to order it in case it gets destroyed