BubbleMonkey

Yeah well they have degrees or something that says it’s a good idea for profits or whatever and damn the consequences, so checkmate, prole.

I mean personally I fail to see how this whole… thing… is better than like.. adding a half inch or whatever to each of the stair rises in the flight on the way up.. as long as it doesn’t surpass 7 3/4 inch per-stair rise, which I imagine this doesn't come close to just by the way it looks, you could probably kill a lot of that weirdness with just super basic alterations..

No, I think this hazard was a conscious decision, or at least the architect who drew it up sucks.

I’m surprised it meets code tho, tbh. This is just begging someone to tumble down the stairs in the middle of the night.

At your recommendation (with your post being 9 hours old - the thing is really long) I read the whole thing start to finish, and just finished. It’s been a hard (emotionally) read and I’ve had a headache since I started it, but it was worth it, and I’m glad the dude is doing at least passably well in life, all things considered.

And at the end when he mentions he was sent in 98 at just past 16.. I was sent to a military boarding school at almost 14 in 00, essentially for having adhd, mild autism, and a single parent who swung between negligence and authoritarianism, and I’m just really lucky my mom found one of the less bad places. A legitimate school that was only a bit abusive (but really not a super appropriate environment for most children either way). Because I could have met that person in hell if things had played out a bit differently. And that’s a really sobering thought. I’m glad I didn’t have it until the end.

This makes me wonder what would happen if someone ignited large explosives by some of these hydrocarbon pools… since there’s plenty of water ice, there’s oxygen tied up to react with…

New Lemmy motto just dropped!

The extra arm and hand many of them seem to have is to clear a hole in the trash so they can come up for breath. It’s an adaptation that really took off when the first mutant family to develop the trait won a swimming competition with it. Much better than the people who developed gills, since that just caused intense tissue burning and subsequent suffocation.

To be fair, they are still around in a heck of a lot of places.

As old abandoned building husks slowly deteriorating in a very late-stage-dystopia sort of way.

Mid 30s in the US. Have lived in 4 states since getting my license. Never seen a conveyor-driven. Maybe as a kid and I don’t remember it at all, but certainly not that I’ve ever knowingly encountered as a driver.

It was in the 90s. It was bad then but not nearly as bad as it is now.

640k was worth a lot more.

You’re right about cyber insurance, I wasn’t thinking about that, and should have put insurance in quotes.

What I was referring to is when they just set aside some money for the inevitable lawsuit or fine, and do nothing about it.

Eye contact aversion isn’t necessarily poor body control, it’s been studied quite a bit from various angles and found that people with autism who avoid eye contact do so because they feel actual discomfort, which can be found with fmri in combination with eye tracking software. In milder cases, the aversion is like an inversion of normal social sensations (that is, NT people feel similarly uncomfortable avoiding gaze as ASD with mild aversion do meeting it). In worse cases, it appears to be an over activation of a facial recognition system that produces intense distress.

https://www.sciencealert.com/for-those-with-autism-eye-contact-isn-t-just-weird-it-s-distressing

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5645367/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71547-0