Tar_Alcaran

Can’t pull someone for “driving while brown”, but you can pull someone over for “driving while not speaking English, which I just concluded from you being brown”

IT, like say, Maintenance, doesn’t bring in any money, but they sure save a LOT of it.

Because, god forbid, then we’d actually have to do something

It’s an awesome book! I LOVE the angle the writer takes on alien life

I was doing an audit a while bit, and the guy I was asking questions was super cute, and basically just my type, so you know what I did?

Nothing, because I’m a functioning adult human and not an idiotic maniac in heat.

See, drones don’t have much ammo, so you fly it to a place that DOES have a lot of ammo, and then you push the button

I especially when sports teams are routinely decimated, yet somehow all play again in the next game.

a young Muslim guy from India

Well there’s your problem. The rest is just an excuse

I’ve been stuck in customs for “not having enough money on me”, despite credit cards and ATMs existing. It depends HUGELY on which individual you get in the US.

It’s not entirely unwarranted, they WERE planning to work on a tourist-visa, which specifically and clearly not allowed in pretty much any country.

The horrible treatment is, of course, completely unwarranted, but denying entry isn’t.

But whatabout…

Yeah, if you speak the truth, soon you’ll have 20 tractors in your street

but you still have to get the things to burn with fossil fuels.

Well, the people selling coal are telling me solar is bad, and they’re renting 61 out of 17 available rooms in my tower.

and/or given weeks of notice of his arrival.

And the examples I listed ARE from places that had advanced notice. It’s why most auditors get pretty anal about small stuff, we know it’s 10 times worse when we’re not there.

I love this dedication, but as someone who works in hazardous materials and workplace safety, he sounds rather naive in some areas.

“I don’t know of a single farmer who’s doing things purposely wrong,” Bloem says. “They’re just following the rules. The problem is, the rules are wrong.”

I can only conclude he doesn’t know many farmers. I don’t visit farms very often, because there aren’t a lot of safety or materials certificates farmers need to have, but I’ve still seen some shit you wouldn’t believe

Mixing things in water by sticking your arms in to the shoulder and swirling them around, working in the dust without PPE when that dust contains known heavy metals from the streams they dredged themselves, working downwind of pesticide spray… And those aren’t even uncommon.

I fully agree a lot of safety are stupid, either because they’re too lax, or unworkably strict and unneeded, but there are FAR more issues that arise from people ignoring the rules that come out of the rules being too lenient. And when it IS the latter, it’s mostly because we just don’t know stuff.

When is the last time you followed the instructions on your cleaning spray to the letter? Or paint? Never? Yeah, exactly.

“Chemical companies need to show their chemicals are safe”

And how would that work? How can you show a chemical is safe, ever? How can you test for interactions you don’t know about, or chronic effects that probably won’t even show up in animals?

And even if you DID show it was safe under circumstances, how can you make sure people handling it will stick to those circumstances? This shit is hard, and people suck at risk assessment, so they’ll fuck up even if they know better.

Apparently there is. From the article:

In France, a nationwide study found that Parkinson’s rates were significantly higher in vineyard regions that rely heavily on fungicides. Another study found that areas with higher agricultural pesticide use — often measured by regional spending — tend to have higher rates of Parkinson’s, suggesting a dose-response relationship. In Canada and the U.S., maps of Parkinson’s clusters track closely with areas of intensive agriculture.

I saw a survey of small town watertowers in the US. There were a terrifying amount of dead birds in there, and living birds shitting.

Most cannonballs were quite small, the really big ones, the 32 pounders, have a 16cm diameter.

Sometimes to my despair, as I get older, it would be easier to not have such a strong preference.

Being bi only doubles your likes, your odds stay roughly the same

Honestly, it really is. I’ve lived in the Netherlands, UK and US, and worked in Belgium and its by FAR the most straightforward and accessible here in the Netherlands.

Sincerely, stroopwafel lade (with a little Worcestershire sauce on top)