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Went to the cardiologist the other day, the POTS meds have worked so well that apparently I no longer meet the diagnostic requirements for POTS when Iâm on them. Heart rate is much healthier, and so is my blood pressure.
Iâve 100% felt the difference since getting onto them, so thatâs why I havenât been venting here as much lol
Kenji Tsuruta
Iâm just an easy mark for dumb pilot humor. Today the captain was like âweâre now at altitude, feel free to move around, my one rule is you must stay inside the planeâ and I lost it. Itâs funny because you would die a horrible death akin to standing unencumbered on Pluto
Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:
1. Do not do age verification.
2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.
i think completely pre transition trans people should be able to wear one tiny little pronoun pin and get gendered correctly every time. i think cis people should be transitioning just for the fun of it if they want to. i think you should be able to walk into any pharmacy and just buy hrt. i think that little boys should be able to sit in circles and play with dolls and paint each other's nails and make friendship bracelets. i think that little girls should be able to play with flaming monster trucks and play football and get competitive over video games. i think that arson (he/it/paw) should have paw's identity respected and treated as completely normal. i think that we should normalize neopronouns and weird genders and being weird or unusual in general. you should be able to explain your weird one of a kind xenogender to the least queer person on the planet and they should say "oh that's cool!! haven't heard of that gender before". you should be able to wear a tail in public you should be able to make out with your computer if you want i don't fucking care. i love transgenders i love neurodivergent people i love furries i love everyone outside the norm i love freaks i love nerds i love everyone.
i do feel somewhat ruined forever. but itâs okay we stay silly
Doing some late training shifts at work this week, they fit perfectly into my sleep schedule which is lovely!
On the other hand, I have early shifts next week. Guhhhhhhhhh
Shoutout to airport security cus they always end up accidentally affirming my weird ass gender (they tend to be unsure if Iâm a masculine girl or a feminine guy)
Oh Libre Office... We're really in it now.
Everyone in the reblogs saying something along the lines of âfactsâ but no oneâs addressing that this came from a fucking beer company
You've activated my special interest trap card, Yugi!
This guy had a pivotal role in the development of Project Cybersyn! It was an attempt at cybernetically managing the democratic economy of socialist Chile under Salvador Allende.
Their goal was to help coordinate the production of major industries across a multitude of factories using fucking TELEX machines connected to one central computer in near-real time.
If engineering cybernetics covers self-regulating and autonomously driven mechanical or electrical systems (such as robotics), then management cybernetics covers those same principles in an organization, company, nation, or any place where people work together in different roles and relations.
For Cybersyn, it could be used to help coordinate the distribution of limited raw resources to factories with limited workforces. Integrating this data upwards could help national leaders forecast economic activity and identify key policy areas to advance. Mean, disseminating information downwards could help factory workers be more democratically self-regulated and practice collective decision-making instead of a top-down command economy. It was built fully to facilitate a more participatory economy in the entire nation; direct
This was based on Beer's "Viable Systems Model", which was meant as a model for how any organization acts as a self-regulating informational organism, with nested feedback loops all the way down, all to facilitate interaction with the outside world. It's crazy stuff to get into. A lot of modern management practices have picked up on Beer's work, but conveniently dropped all the emphasis on how democratic decision making and access to information are critical.
Unfortunately, Cybersyn was only partially implemented and had a very limited run. As usual, the US had direct opposition to the success of a socialist economy in their sphere of interest and continued domination over Latin America. Therefore, the CIA heavily influenced a series of owner-operator trucker strikes and a military coup d'Ă©tat. Decades of Chilean democratic legacy were crushed by harsh dictatorship under the Pinochet regime.
Beer and Allende envisioned an economic alternative that we've never seen materialized âone based on freedom in the workplace and a direct stake in national politics. It is a future that could have been and could still be! In the meantime, its legacy has impacted socialist theory, science fiction, and modern management.
This MIT article is a great start to giving into the crazy details of this project and the people behind it.
For nerds that enjoy socialism, democracy, economics, technology, and management: I suggest reading 'Designing Freedom' for a starter before trying 'Brain of the Firm' or 'Heart of Enterprise'.
Addendum: I think it's so important to note that when people question whether our lives could be any different than our current affairs under non-democratic capitalist hegemony, people have already decided YEARS into figuring out alternatives. It's not a question of "how would it work under socialism?" but of "who doesn't want to see this future realized and why?".
In his words:
is okay you do not need hard drive. i remember computer for you.
cant stop thinking about this video
For context this was in response to someone saying their cybertruck was heavy duty
oh no no NO no no I am sorry my dear @thebirdtm you are NOT underselling one of the most seminal pieces of television of my entire childhood like that on MY watch.
"How is claiming they drowned a Hilux possibly underselling it" GREAT question.
To start with a little disclaimer, Top Gear's Hilux did not start off, as in the video above, in pristine condition. It started off with nigh-on 300k kms (for you yankees, that's about 8.4 million Boeing 737 wingspans) and a condition to match.
And it's only once careless driving around town yielded zilch in given shits...
(look, I found a local newspaper picturing it being driven around!)
...that they decided to drown it. Now, the underselling part: if you told me that they drowned a pickup the first place my mind would go to would be "driving it through a river a bit too deep for it, perhaps as deep as its height, until it stalls and then tugging it back out". You will concede that's rather different from tying it down on the seashore with the second highest tide in the world...
...and leaving it there until it engulfs the whole truck...
...only for the ropes to snap...
...and for the truck to be lost to the tides for FIVE HOURS.
(and for those wondering, yes, just as promised, well within an hour and the mandatory limits of basic tools and no spare parts, up the mechanic made the thing fire and away the presenter drove it - I must imagine doing a number on his clothes in the process.)
Oh also I would have mentioned the caravan.
Or at least the wrecking ball.
But hey, at least the fire was mentioned.
Still, I feel it's criminal to leave out how they celebrated it surviving all it did: by parking it at the top of a 23 story building for all to see! :)
Wait NO-
Well, that was uncalled for. Given what it survived, it deserved to rest in a museum instead of being unceremoniously cleared out with the other chunks of public housing that buried it.
Or at least, given that buried it wasn't...
...to be tumbled down from the rubble utop which it sat...
...and be fueled up.
"be fueled up", pfft, what for?, I hear you say. And you are right.
Look at that thing, you say.
Let's be serious now, however pretty of a story it would be that's not a truck that will do anything remotely in the ballpark of firing up, let alone running.
And again, you are right.
The battery was disconnected.
Sorted that, tho
"You can't be serious." Oh darling I sure can! "Well the presenters can't then" no no, I assure you, it lived. Go see it for yourself! It's at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieau, England!
I grew up watching Top Gear and it shaped me in many ways. My adoration of old Toyota Hiluxes is one of them.
thank you for talking in depth about this fucking thang whereas i did not! large appreciation
You're right, why not post the full clips while we're here!
