babygirl i have pdfs that even i don't know about

i could never be american because whenever I get a big drink I'm like oh great now I have to drink this big drink. i have to take care of this big drink they gave me. everything is terrible in the world

too many upset americans in the notes of this post. why don't you come over and take care of that big ass drink for me then. why don't you carry it around for me. you must've built up a lot of muscle dragging those drinks around every day. why don't you help me drink it since you're oh so experienced at drinking big drinks. two straws. one cup. why don't you tenderly look into my eyes over the styrofoam rim. we could share a moment and a drink together, feel the intimacy of experiencing the same thing at the same time. at the end of the day my opinion on big drinks will have shifted. it's not the sugar on my lips that changed my mind. i love you but I'll never say. you mistake my fear for indifference and we break each other's hearts. I'm resentful towards big drinks again but it's for a far more complicated reason than just my being European. not that anyone would ever notice the difference. well, except for you, I suppose. funny to think that the only person who knows that about me is a complete stranger. who said that

A man who helped return a 140-year-old Tlingit robe to the British Columbia First Nation where it was created says it’s as if the regalia called out to its people and they are bringing it home.

The intricately woven Chilkat robe, made of mountain goat wool and yellow cedar bark, was purchased by the Taku River Tlingit First Nation in northwestern B.C. for almost $40,000 after it went up for sale online by a Toronto-based auction house last year.

The robe arrived in Whitehorse Wednesday and will travel 175 kilometres south to the First Nation’s traditional territory in Atlin, B.C., where it’s expected to go on display and may be used in future ceremonies.

While the community celebrates the return of a piece of its heritage, the First Nation said Indigenous people should not be forced to buy back regalia that was stolen from them. [...]

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

looked up if there are any donation options to support the community. there is a gofundme for this robe specifically, and also the Takhu Á Tlén Conservancy which gives support to the Taku River Tlingit First Nation and their traditional territory.

no one should have to pay out of their own pocket just to get their history back.

FUN FACT: I’m actually *further* to the left now than I was in my 20s!

I saw someone write recently (paraphrased), “They said ‘you’ll get more conservative as you get older’ and what they didn’t realize they meant was ‘you’ll get greedier and more paranoid as you get richer’ [which is true, there are psych studies] and what they didn’t count on is that no one gets rich any more”

ooh, quoting that again for emphasis:

“what they didn’t count on is that no one gets rich any more”

it should be 100% legal to go in abandoned buildings. like nobody is using it for anything why can't i go in

Isn't this how you get murdered?

no. it's how you get poisoned by mold or crushed by broken floorboards or whatever but there aren't murderers just hanging out in every abandoned building like cockroaches

tumblr users really saw redditors organizing a whole-pussy-in general strike that made the entire site indefinitely unusable and thought Hey what's the dumbest most useless low effort mockup of that idea so all the newcomers realize we're clowns

reddit's strike is dangerous because 1) it has no set date and 2) it actively removes access to all of the site's content, both current and retroactively. if you wanted to do anything remotely useful in that spirit on tumblr, you'd call for everyone to password lock their accounts, and even then it doesn't work on main blogs. the "website-wide strike" is just not a format that works for Tumblr. weren't yall here in 2018?

if you actually want to do something to cause problems for staff, you should start hacking away at all the precious PR work they've been doing lately. you should voice your disapproval of the recent changes and how much the site is no longer worth it on other platforms, and you should review bomb them on your app store of choice, where as of right now they're still sitting comfortably at above 4.0 stars ratings. you start dragging those ratings down and MAYBE we'll have a chance they start listening

I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of "people also watched" and "for you" into the results. That's not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.

"I despise your wretched little games" perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy

good evening to this guy

I can’t find it, but I once read a thing mentioning how like Mossad hitmen would wear stupid hats when committing crimes in public so that any witnesses would only focus on the hat and not be able to describe anyone’s actual physical appearance.

exclusively relying on hitmen with big tits

Born too late to be full of lead, born too soon to be full of alien parasites, born just in time to be full of microplastics

People who don't have autism: you can't self diagnose yourself with autism no matter how much research you do! You have to take 3947493 tests and pay thousands of dollars before you can call yourself autistic!!

People who have autism: yeah you're autistic. We're diagnosing you.

283,000 likes………giant meteor strike the earth rn holy shit. oh my god.

"maybe it's not your pussy" is such a funny phrase and also correct. People wonder why chores are so hard and it's like, friends we used to have a whole intergenerational team on this and now Grandma is locked in a beige box. Cooking is hard.*

EDIT: *this is to say, in the past many households had multiple hands performing the domestic labor and even with modern appliances expecting one person to do it all is ludicrous and men pulling their weight in the space they inhabit and make use of is a much more equitable norm (they live there!) and more than that, equal division of leisure time is a right

this is NOT to say grandma should return to doing all of it, I do not advocate for continued gendered division of labor or grandma-based division of labor

alright. in my tepidly professional opinion* here are the actual major red flags with the titanic submersible

first, stuff that people are clowning on that isn't actually a red flag at all

using starlink satcoms for their overall [surface] communications

• i know it's fun to clown on elon musk but starlinks are like. Fine. they work fine as satcoms. this is not the issue. none of these problems would have been solved if they'd been using KVH or somebody else instead
• also these have fuck all to do with the tiny sub, since radio waves physically do not penetrate water enough to be useful for communications lol

the stupid game controller to steer

• it's actually super common to use COTS (commercial off the shelf) parts like that instead of some bespoke steering system.
• they're easily replaceable if they break, they're designed to be integrated into larger systems, and you don't have to do a huge amount of design work before you can even steer your thing
• here's one example of this. but it's pretty common

that being said. here is the fucked up design stuff that i notice

Where The Fuck Are The Chairs

• if you don't have seats inside your vessel, you don't actually have a way of securing passengers during rough movement. i suspect that this makes it very dangerous or difficult to ascend quickly in an emergency.

they have had known issues with communication

ALT

[source: the independent]

• i will grant that underwater communications is not an easy problem to solve unless you're physically running telephone wires
• but this is fucking unacceptable lol

ALT

[source: the independent]

• ignore the video game controller thing
• i presume that they mean "messages in the form of text, sent via an acoustic signal", not "they are literally using cell phones to text each other" because obvs cell phones (and most radio) would not work
• it's actually extremely unclear to me what system the sub and the mothership are using to communicate. idk if this is a "technology reporting hard" issue or if these people are being deliberately cagey. anyway they're probably using some form of underwater acoustic communications, but what specific form it takes idk
• regardless, the fact that they've had problems with this system in the past is a red flag
• and the fact that their sub has apparently no internal navigation system is also a red flag. "not having GPS" isn't really, since GPS doesn't really work underwater (you need radio 😔), but they should have some kind of internal navigation-- at the very least "here is my speed and heading and based on that my expected position is here on a map"

in a power failure situation, they would have been SOL

ALT

[source: the independent]

• "everything is done with computers" = "nothing works in the event of a power failure"
• it seems like AT THE VERY LEAST in the event of a power failure, you need to be able to drop your ballast and ascend quickly.
• it is not clear that they had the capability to do that

something weird going on with their pressure hull

ALT

[source: nbc]

while it is "normal" for structures that are exposed to regular massive changes in pressure to have fatigue (imagine bending a piece of metal in and out over and over, eventually it will break-- you want to catch and replace that before it happens), it's weird to me that

• the vessel's depth rating was downgraded
• without any public statement about what repairs were done, it nevertheless went back to the 4000ft depth less than a year later (in 2021)

they obviously have no "black box" system or any way to locate a missing vessel

• most boats are required to have this! because most boats are required to be registered with and inspected by various authorities!
• these guys deliberately skirted that rule by launching off a boat rather than from a port and therefore avoiding the need to get registered or inspected. lmao!

ALT

[source: nyt]

Company Culture Is The Killer

complete disregard for safety is really what killed these people

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[source: the independent]

obviously if this is your CEO your company culture is totally fucked. beyond saving. you do not have a regard for human life.

for reasons unknown they didn't flag the authorities that the vessel was missing for hours and hours

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[source: the independent]

not that it likely would have helped to save these people if they had been alerted earlier, but it shows a desire to cover up mistakes

and like. obviously. you should get your shit inspected. nobody taking paying passengers anywhere should be allowed to be their own safety inspection authority.

the original sinking of the titanic was what led to SOLAS (safety of life at sea) rules being instituted. they've been updated several times since then, but they don't yet cover submersibles like this, since they are relatively new. it's likely that this incident will cause a new interest in updating the rules. as they say: every regulation is written in blood

*i'm a mechanical engineer who works in the maritime industry, but not like, a particularly related section of the industry-- i do shit with cargo containers mainly. no further info on my credentials will be given since i have no desire to doxx myself on tumblr dot edu. i've tried not to say anything too wrong or out of my depth in this post but my opinion is "guy with an engineering degree who reads news articles" level of informed. so take your maximum grains of salt