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Seeing much younger versions of myself wearing the goth stuff I kept for nostalgia reasons made me try it on again.

Turns out my parents were right, it was a phase. Damnit.

Exactly. I’d rather see Russia building Dachas than bombs

Also, Russia technically isn’t at war right now either.

This is great news for Ukraine

Yo dawg, I heard you like ads, so I put some ads in your ads so I can sell toys while I sell toys

Workplace safety is quickly turning from a factual and risk-based field into a vibes-based field, and that’s a bad thing for 95% of real-world risks.

To elaborate a bit: the current trend in safety is “Safety Culture”, meaning “Getting Betty to tell Alex that they should actually wear that helmet and not just carry it around”. And at that level, that’s a great thing. On-the-ground compliance is one of the hardest things to actually implement.

But that training is taking the place of actual, risk-based training. It’s all well and good that you feel comfortable talking about safety, but if you don’t know what you’re talking about, you’re not actually making things more safe. This is also a form of training that’s completely useless at any level above the worksite. You can’t make management-level choices based on feeling comfortable, you need to actually know some stuff.

I’ve run into numerous issues where people feel safe when they’re not, and feel at risk when they’re safe. Safety Culture is absolutely important, and feeling safe to talk about your problems is a good thing. But that should come AFTER being actually able to spot problems.

I do (workplace) safety, compliance and hazardous waste handling.

I’m a bit more pessimistic. I fear that that LLM-pushers calling their bullshit-generators “AI” is going to drag other applications with it. Because I’m pretty sure that when LLM’s all collapse in a heap of unprofitable e-waste and takes most of the stockmarket with it, the funding and capital for the rest of AI is going to die right along with LLMs.

And there are lots of useful AI applications in every scientific field, data interpretation with AI is extremely useful, and I’m very afraid it’s going to suffer from OpenAI’s death.

you will never be able to eliminate your attack surface, and employees with good will can be your eyes and ears on the ground.

All the good will in the world won’t make up for ignorance. Most people know basically next to nothing about IT security, and will just randomly click shit to make the annoying box go away and/or get to where they think they want to go. And if that involves installing a random virus they’ll happily do it, and be annoyed that it requires their password.

I wonder if this is what it felt like for the first people who thought “you know what, instead of this horse carrying my spare food and spears, I bet I could sit on it DURING the fight!”

That’s impressive!

Even Russia would probably have netting and sonar bouys in place around their own major naval base. It seems extremely unlikely that Russia wouldn’t take those super basic measures, which means this drone was stealthy enough to avoid sonar systems AND able to Dodge Submarine/torpedo netting while inside a shallow port.

The column is Ionic, but don’t let that detract from the joke!

Doric is straight, Ionic has scrolls, Corinthian is with frills and leafs.

The links seemed like decently recent data so you wouldn’t expect someone in my percentiles to be so strangely missized unless sizing was just flat wrong or targeted to certain body shapes in the last 10-ish years.

Ehhh sorta kinda. The charts used are intentionally outdated, since they’re supposed to model healthy weight and are used for population scale statistics.

https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/information-for-healthcare-professionals.htm check under “why haven’t the growth charts been updated”

Currently, more than 30% of kids fall in the 95th percentile, for example. Which is statistically a stupid thing to say, but it allows for better tracking if you don’t change your measuring tool.

75th percentile in weight for the US

Seeing how 30% of the US is morbidly obese, I’m rather shocked you’re were in a size L at all.

Or you’re using an outdated chart.

You could swap the suspension, and upgrade the supports to deal with the weight, but there comes a point where you’re just lifting the body and putting it over an entirely new car.

Fair. I guess you could read my reply as “they don’t flee to Europe at all”, but I intended it as “they don’t flee to Europe all that often”.

I guess I could have been more clear there, but in my defense, I did elaborate.

I loved Control, it had such a great setting and amazing world building that was constantly reinforced in your surroundings.

The Oldest House was an amazing place. I hope they can match it with the new area, a city just isn’t the same.

I am not interested in a political discussion nor in the overly-common mud-slinging that desperately attempts to label everyone either a hateful nazi or a moronic lefty.

Aren’t you in luck then, because I did neither. Your reaction is pretty over the top though.

Also, seeing how Ukraine is already in Europe, it would take a lot of effort for them not to flee to (elsewhere in) Europe.

Since people from war-torn nations often flee to Europe where they tend to get all kinds of help and support

They don’t do that at all. That’s a deceitful right-wing talking point meant to create xenophobic reactions.

People from war torn nations move to non-war torn parts of their own county, or their direct neighbors. Only a tiny fraction go further, and only a fraction of those go all the way to Europe.

I took a year of civil engineering in uni, then decided I didn’t like it, switched to chemistry.

When I finished my PhD I decided I never wanted to be in a lab ever again, and that academia is absolutely not for me. But it was in the middle of the housing bubble collapse, so my first job was in QA for a factory.

That taught me a LOT of “how things actually work”, completely unrelated to anything in chemistry. It was also fucking shit.

Second job was a major contractor, doing asphalt and concrete development. I started to quickly accumulate side jobs, in quality, safety, compliance etc etc. And since I was still in a damned lab, I jumped at the opportunity to not be. Leaned into the safety and regulation aspects, and they paid for all the certifications and educations. And when I was done, then they reorganized and didn’t need me anymore, which was fine by me because I was off the hook for all the education costs.

So I started my own consulting company in safety and compliance, mostly workplace safety, waste handling, soil remediation etc etc. I do audits from either end of the table and get to handle a lot of tricky problems with a lot of variation, it’s pretty fun. And being self employed in an in-demand field is great!