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dingdongyouarewrong

i'm getting the sense some of you are not actually forklift certified.

averagejoey2000

dingdongyouarewrong

well damn . egg on my face

dingdongyouarewrong

THE PLOT THICKENS @averagejoey2000 explain yourself

averagejoey2000

I can't believe this is how I'm finding out that I got a scam forklift cert.

I took the cargo ops class at school but my teacher explained that it doesn't give a certification and I'd only be okay for ship's crane and the school forklifts. she said I could take an online exam and get my cert. I paid 60 bucks.

I'm googling and I'm seeing a lot of resources saying that the online programs cover the classroom part of the exam but not the in person practical aspect.

29 CFR 1910.178 (l)(2)(ii)

but I did the in person practical shit at school.

averagejoey2000

the back of the card even had fancy numbers on it. I couldn't have known that this isn't the one. this website sounded more official than certifyme.net, and there wasn't one with a .gov address.

averagejoey2000

so, I emailed OSHA, and they said that so long as I live and work in California, there's no such thing as forklift certification. I have to be told how to do it every time I get the job.

averagejoey2000

Update: I took a certification class in shipboard Material Handling Equipment at my federal job. *now* I'm forklift certified, but only on ships and piers and only for this company, but also rated to forklift explosives and hazardous materials. Also I'm a woman now.

behindnightmaresanddreams

Congrats on your transition and also your upgrade to explosives and other hazardous materials

eldritchdilf-deactivated2025061

Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

angelsdean

dean's perceptive eye finds them the case in 2x04 when he notices the dead tree and then the perfect circle of dead grass around a recent grave. and sam is just like, yea so? when dean points it out jdsfkdfk LIKE. hello. it's weird sammy

angelsdean

sam sees this and goes, "must be pesticides"

angelsdean

dean spitting lore and citing previous cases to prove that this could be something supernatural (it is) and sam is just

and then sam tries to act like dean is just wishfully looking for a hunt to avoid dealing with his grief, when sam is the one avoiding the fact that there's obviously a case here bc he doesn't want admit that he's not coping well with john's death and instead of dealing with his own feelings he KEEPS (it's been a running theme this whole season) projecting onto dean and focusing on micro-managing dean's feelings and ways of coping and insisting dean just needs to TALK to HIM. but sam isn't doing much talking abt his own feelings, is he?

and the kicker is the whole time dean is RIGHT abt there being a case and he's right to act with urgency abt it and sam still turns it around (very reminiscent of the MoC arc) to act like dean is uniquely being "scary" and "out of control" for....doing his job? bc sam thinks dean working a case and caring abt stopping a zombie is the wrong response. he thinks dean should be incapacitated by grief. (which is funny because in 2x02 when dean wasn't interested in looking for cases and just wanted to work on his car THAT was the wrong grief response to sam.)

and then dean takes all of this to heart and APOLOGIZES for it later in this ep like. you literally did nothing wrong, sweetie. also the way dean feels during this ep is informed by everything that's happened recently. like, he doesn't think HE should have been brought back. he thinks he's the unnatural thing that should have stayed dead. and he's also still holding on to the last thing john told him before he died. and rightfully so, dean doesn't think he can or should tell sam abt THAT. so it makes a lot of sense that dean would be avoiding talking to sam specifically abt john. but simply not talking abt it doesn't mean he's "doing grief wrong."

angelsdean

never finished this thread from yesterday but anyways so the whole ep sam thinks dean is so fixated on this case because he's avoiding his grief, and he keeps pushing dean to TALK, and he keeps acting like dean is behaving erratically and unreasonably (to sam's perspective, maybe, but once you KNOW what dean's been feeling and grappling with internally it all...makes sense)

so, at the end of the ep guess what? dean pull over on the side of the road and initiates the TALK sam so desperately wants. but sam expects dean to be broken up with grief over john. he doesn't expect dean to say that he feels Responsible for john's death and that dean doesn't think he should even be alive right now, that dean feels unnatural, like the monster they just killed, for being brought back. that what's dead should stay dead. from sam's expression it's obvious he does NOT like that at all. that's not the talk he signed up for. he expected dean to ~talk about his feelings~ and then everything would be okay. but dean tells him in this scene that there's nothing sam can say to make these feelings go away or make it better.

"I should have stayed dead. You wanted to know how I was feeling. Well, that's it. So tell me. What could you possibly say to make that all right?"

again dean is throwing curve-balls at sam, breaking sam's expectations. sam wants a logical, straightforward process and conclusion.

someone dies > expects dean to talk about feelings > move on

we see this over and over throughout the show, esp with cas's deaths. but that's not realistic or how grief works, and every time dean struggles in some way, every time his response is in some way wrapped up with feeling hopeless and/or wishing HE was dead. and that FREAKS sam out, so sam focuses on micro-managing dean's feelings. it gives him a sense of control, when everything feels SO out of control. dean's always been the rock, the one to look up to, the peacekeeper and shield growing up. so to see dean lose hope and give up? that hits sam hard every time, and his response is always to push harder, to play therapist, to try and lift dean's mood with misguided attempts (like strip clubs), etc etc. like i harp on sam sometimes for being clueless and over-bearing and not getting that his ways of coping are not a one-size-fits-all but, i find his response to grief and his freak-out every time dean is grieving differently to be so so fascinating and fun to dissect.

#supernatural

himbodiaz

would y’all ever date someone with the same name as you?

hmslusitania

I’m sorry for adding directly to a post but I went to a wedding once where the groom’s name was Loren and the bride’s name was Lauren and at the end the officiant was all “introducing Loren [surname] and Lauren [surname], husband and wife” and the entire assembled lost it

tevankinkley

also sorry for adding on but at my high school there was a Dominic and a Dominique who were dating and everyone just called them “Dom and Dommer” which is honestly the funniest shit ever

faerytale-wings

My parents are both named Terry (spelled differently) but I’m pretty sure that’s one of the reasons my mom never changed her last name.

People would call and ask for Terry and child me would be like “boy or girl?” And they’d panic and hang up. My mom found this endlessly amusing.

tungledotfuck

Why would you leave this GOLD in the tags??

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[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: no one ever spelled their names right either, and of course people assumed they had the same last name all the time, so sorting mail or phone calls was difficult, I also had a shocking number of people just assume my name was Terry too? like???, no, there are enough of them, we've exceeded the quota, used up our allotment, we can't have any more Terry's in the family for another 3 generations /End ID]

probablyasocialecologist

“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

wire-smith

I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.

#only plausible scenario where leaving earth is more viable would be at the end of the Sun's life #which if i'm not mistaken would cause it to expand enough to swallow earth whole before dying #(as far as i remember sun is not big enough to go supernova it would just expand and then cool down)#but that is so many millions of years into the future that it seems silly to speculate that humans as we are now will exist the same #(incidentally yeah that's the second episode of new who)

ampervadasz

Unmute !

uncahier

willgrahamscock

almost 9 thousand likes I can’t take it anymore, it’s gonna be illegal to ship sasuke and naruto soon

eluaofhearts

“Let’s normalize kicking people’s sandcastles over and eating their ice cream from out their hand and unbuttering their lobsters”

opbackgrounds

I suppose that Ace did change an entire era before he died, so...

#the absolute tragedy of it all is that ace didn't manage to escape his father's shadow in the end #at least not to the world at large #he did find people who loved him so much they waged a whole war to save him and that was completely on his own name and merits #but to the rest of the world he died as roger's son #and that's so damn heartbreaking #roger used his last words and his death to set the world on fire #and ace's death and whitebeard's words reignited those flames #one piece #op chapter 588 #portgas d ace #marineford arc

hussyknee

How long have you been on Tumblr?

Over 16 years (before 2010) (toddlers in the dawn of the ant colony)

16 to 14 years (2010-2012) (livejournal and Myspace refugees)

13 to 11 years (2013-2015) (you used to follow thebootydiaries)

10 to 8 years (2016-2018) (era of Russian bot conspiracy)

7 to 3.5 years (2019-2022) (post sex ban to Goncharov)

3.5 years or less (2023–2026) (Twitter refugee)

Remaining time: 4 days 5 hours

Rebagel for science pls.

#fucking called out lmao #i'm pretty sure that i did in fact follow thebootydiaries

shotofchinaco

Brian McFadden: Is Google Cooked? (via Daily Kos)

sometiktoksarevalid

aleatoryw

i’ve started looking at weight and health the way i look at class and income and it really puts a lot of things into a new perspective.

let me explain: in america at least, the lower class have significantly worse health outcomes, even when accounting for other factors. just being poor is enough to make your overall health worse. we don’t know that being fat makes your health directly worse, like the data just isn’t there, but for a moment, pretend it does.

imagine going to the doctor with a health problem and the doctor looking at your chart and saying well, this problem will be less severe if you go up an income bracket. have you thought about becoming rich? it would really help. start by saving a little money every month.

ridiculous, right?? very few people successfully go from working class to rich, it just doesn’t happen on a large scale in society. maybe for a time you pick up some overtime hours, spend a little beyond your means, and appear rich. but eventually you burn out, your car needs to be repaired, and you return to being working class.

we do have this data: only some people can successfully lose large amounts of weight, and only a tiny fraction of people who lose that weight actually keep it off for more than a year. telling people to lose weight for their health is just absurd because they almost certainly can’t do it any more than they can double their income for their health.

and yet i see it everywhere. a little poster in my work breakroom tells me to improve my blood pressure by losing weight! a psa on the radio says you need to take care of your heart by losing weight! we can’t even conclusively prove that weight is the cause rather than just correlated with a lot of these problems but here it is offered anyway: have you tried being rich?

bumbledeefumble

You hit the nail on the head. A lot of people tend to try and invalidate fatphobia as a form of oppression by saying its not an immutible quality like race or sexuality or gender. The old “you can lose weight, i can’t become white/straight/cis” argument.

That’s because fatphobia is a lot more like classism; i.e. it’s a form of bigotry that is only TECHNICALLY changeable. They’re both seen as a lot more changeable than they actually are, for all the reasons you’ve listed.

#you can tell it was never actually about making people healthier because if it was then they could just say that #improve your blood pressure by eating healthier and exercising #take care of your heart by exercising regularly and including certain kinds of food in your diet #these thing may or may not make you lose a little bit of weight at first depending on your previous habits #but like all things it'll eventually stabilize on YOUR normal #it also feels like a distinctly capitalist mindset? like the idea of eternal weight loss feels so much like the idea of unchecked growth #make the wealth line go up forever and the weight line go down forever #seems equally unsustainable

prokopetz

Some day I want to see a show that does the “no filler episodes” thing from the opposite direction. Just a whole season worth of low-stakes character pieces that seem to move the overall story absolutely nowhere, then episode 26 pulls all the triggers at once and this massive Rube Goldberg machine of a plot the show’s been quietly setting up in the background the whole time hits you like a truck.

v3rb4tim

Incredible one-liners as always

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[Image ID: Tumblr tag reading: chekhov’s firing squad /End ID]

garethwashere

ROTARY_PISTON

emoryinaboat

potemkin-guilty-gear

i have normal thoughts about the rotary piston

atomic-darth

Whatever you say, Tumblr user robotgirl-cock

fakecrfan

There are few delights in the world like having a friend start to read Jane Eyre for the first time and then as they are commenting on it you slowly realize that they don't know. They don't know Rochester's deal.

This is like the literary equivalent of meeting someone who doesn't know Darth Vader is Luke's father.

So they go "I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with this relationship! Yeah he's older and there is a class/power difference but he clearly respects her as a person and it's so refreshing!" and you just cackle, cackle, cackle behind your screen until the inevitable day you get this message.

Everyone congratulate my friend @anonymoustypewriter, they just found out one of literature's biggest 100+ year old shock twists authentically without anyone spoiling it for them.