and the universe said i love you

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[mchi22]

i fuckin hate games where u furnish/decorate a house because it reminds me i truly have no fucking idea what youre supposed to have in a room

[mchi22]

[nintendometro]

Dr. Stewart’s ending from ‘F-Zero GX’ on the Gamecube.

[christianstepmoms]

Jerma off the shits

[silvermoon424]

This tweet read me to filth

[json-derulo]

having the Aviation Accident Investigations Autism™️ has actually done wonders for the way I process and respond to my own fuck-ups

[json-derulo]

And I don't just mean "oh, my little work mistake is actually nothing compared to a fiery crash that kills people," either. The reason commercial flight is so many orders of magnitude safer than any other form of transportation is because after every accident and incident, an independent regulatory body investigated it with the express goal of figuring out exactly what happened, why, and how to prevent the same thing from ever happening again—not to root out which person deserved the blame or the liability.

It's a simple, shockingly effective idea. It's also worlds away from how most people approach their own mistakes and the mistakes of others.

[json-derulo]

Because it’s never just one person’s fault. And even when it is, it still isn’t. 

The sharpest, best-trained pilots make worse decisions when they're tired or sick or stressed out, so there's two of them. The most dedicated and experienced air traffic controllers garble an instruction over the radio sometimes, so pilots are trained to always repeat clearances back to catch misunderstandings quickly. The best and brightest maintenance mechanic still overlooks a screw or misconnects a wire once or twice in her career, so aircraft systems are built with two or three or four layers of redundancy, and pilots are exhaustively trained to deal with failures safely. 

Everyone eventually has a bad day. Every component breaks down. Every computer gets a bad a Windows update and spirals into a reboot doom loop. If it’s possible for one person’s mistake to domino into a mushroom cloud of a fuckup, then that task is too critical to be one person's sole responsibility. The accident sequence starts with the design of the system—so how do you improve the system to keep it from happening again?

[json-derulo]

oh yeah. The “modern commercial aviation is the safest form of transport” thing only applies to planes, btw. A helicopter is a beautiful metal horse that wants to break its legs and die so so so badly

[suspiriously]

this time i’m really gonna do it

[lesvegas]

passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

[lesvegas]

literally how it feels

[welpnotagain]

[enki2]

[hylianengineer]

@copperbadge this seems up your alley

[copperbadge]

If the system ain't broke, don't fix it, I guess! Accounting may not be the oldest profession, but someone had to keep the books for them.

I mean, in theory I know that Excel is based on the structure of earlier accounting technology that's been around for hundreds of years -- what do we think we did to track commerce before computers? -- but it still kind of blows my mind to, for example, look at my ancestor's journal from a whaling voyage in 1770 and see spreadsheets in the back.

[charaznablespeteevee]

[pjackk]

Since when i did since do i do something a make you to eat think you i eat puppy wuppy dawgs..? All a twisted dream

[cxd9542gb]

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[misophonie]

sharing a full screenshot uncropped is kind of like bending over in a little skirt and pulling it up a little

[contemptible-scoundrel]

tch... so it's an alliance out of necessity, huh...?

[coelii]

[pathologising]

[snapscube]

I know you're still figuring things out about it but what do you think of the steam machines operating system? All i have is a laptop that could die at any moment and i was thinking about a steam machine instead of a gaming laptop but idk if it would work like that

Talking purely software and OS: If your main concern is gaming, SteamOS is genuinely one of the best choices assuming you are okay with the occasional bit of tinkering and researching how to do specific stuff online if you ever run into an edge case. It has a ton of customizability and the only real major downside is that there are a selection of games which require a level of anti-cheat that Linux is not currently permitted to translate through Proton, which is how a vast majority of games run on SteamOS/Linus to begin with. The games that tend to not work are usually limited to modern online games like your Call of Duty's and your Destiny's and your Fortnite's. But otherwise the overall performance benefits, lack of bloat, severence from Microsoft entirely, and wide community support are incredible benefits. And if push REALLY comes to shove and you absolutely require windows for something, it is fully possible to install Windows on the system as a separate bootable partition or just replace the OS with it altogether. But I wouldn't personally recommend the Steam Machine if you don't intend to use SteamOS haha, there are more sensible options for sure.

If your focus isn't very specifically the likes of simple stuff SteamOS is good at like gaming and web browsing and discord calls and whatnot, you may need to look into what's possible for your specific needs. Linux is definitely not one-size-fits-all unfortunately. But man I've been in love with the Steam Deck and now the Steam Machine for so long now, the whole ecosystem is in a very good spot (pricing aside)

[houndmother]

many of you just. genuinely don’t believe that people can grow and change.

[houndmother]

this is about the death penalty and its also about call out posts about people who have already apologized for things they did a long time ago and it’s also about using ‘toxic’ or ‘abuser’ as if its an immutable class of person, and its also about any other circumstance with permanent consequences or wherein you assume someone is still the same person they were.

[secretgarden]

[guerrillatech]

[lemoncat101]

[ericvilas]

[orcboxer]

by disagreeing with me on this topic, you're aligning yourself with everyone else who disagrees with me, which includes the Chaos Death Cult, and they chaos kill people so....

[lokaror]

we dont chaos kill that many people.

[orcboxer]

Well If You Say It's Not That Many

[iamthemaestro]

found this at an antique shop the other day and was immediately like oh this belongs on tumblr. sniles sneetly. fwowns fwangry.