Oddiblurr @oddiblurr - Tumblr Blog

australian sour patch kids have gluten in them i am truly at my fucking limit im crashing out im waging war against wheat idgaf anymore

amvs

oh is that one of those things where ableist companies put in traces of common allergens so they can just avoid the cost of making it safe

deadsetagainst

WHAT

amvs

A trend we predicted in 2016 continues.

US based but it’s similar reasons in other countries. and of course many companies have international locations. idk if that’s why it’s happening with sour patch kids but this is a thing

rosetintmyworld84

I cannot even explain how ANGRY I am at this.

My nephew is very allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Last year my sister discovered all hot dogs and hamburger buns now contain sesame. Not "may contain", but listed in the ingredients. This year basically every brand of sliced bread also now contains sesame, making it very difficult to find bread items he can eat.

They're just adding it to their products, so they can just list it as an ingredient and not bother with worrying about cross contamination. And they aren't even bothering with telling anyone. Capitalism is going to kill us all.

"Which brings us back to Kellogg’s. Back in 2016, the company found a way around the added burden and expense of complying with the FSMA: they simply began adding trace amounts of peanut flour to their cracker products. Doing so allowed them to list peanuts as an ingredient of the product, freeing them from having to prevent cross-contact.

At the time, Kellogg’s notified Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) about the impending change and left it to them to warn the allergic community. In this case, Pearson’s didn’t even bother as near as we can tell."

blurds

this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks

luxshine

The “Thunk” will always kill me.

falconratesbirds

14/10 doing his best

littleguysdaily

filyahehh

recommend me other games where i can die repeatedly

beatrice-otter

vullen

future archaeologists will know you were (not) a boy

vullen

i've seen countless kind and emotional replies in the year or so since i posted this comic, but this particular tag set has squeezed me unlike any other. thanks

dirt-secret

Trailcam footage

nyxxiedaffodil

Libraries should get enough funding to be equipped with gaming computers and I'm not fucking kidding.

nyxxiedaffodil

Expanding on this, that post i reblogged just now made me think about how piracy is like a library for video games. The library buys and stocks books (person buys and cracks the game), patrons come in and borrow them (torrents the games), doesn't matter why they do it (broke, don't like spending money on books, want to test the waters of a series before committing to spending, etc) no one says libraries are killing book sales, they're just making it so people who wouldn't otherwise have books get to read. Much like torrenting gets people to play games they otherwise wouldn't. Maybe they can't afford every game they buy, maybe they end up not liking it, maybe they do and end up buying it to support the dev. Either way it's just more people playing games.

And that ended with me thinking it would be sick to have communal gaming computers. It might be hard with some games, but with account-dependent save files or arcade games it could be possible. Not everyone can afford to buy beefy PCs, much like not everyone can afford to buy every book they want to read.

championofdnd

Theres also a lot of old games (and books) that can be legally purchased anymore, but often Libraries have access to these.

ms-demeanor

Okay so my actual assigned-by-my-boss potentially revenue generating job for today was supposed to be updating a simple quote and sending it to the client.

Reader, it was not simple.

ms-demeanor

The rest of this post needs a dramatis personae:

UPS - Uninterruptable Power Source

SR(1-6) - Server Rooms 1-6

LSF - Another server room but with a different name

PSA - Software that includes client management and hardware management tools, plus ticket tracking and history

RMM - Software that includes remote management tools

Documentation Platform (DP) - software that hosts documentation about client passwords and other information

IP address - location of a device on a network

Serial Number - Unique hardware ID, in this case it must be noted that the manufacturer serial number includes the device production date.

There are seven UPSs, SR1-UPS, SR2-UPS, SR3-UPS, SR4-UPS, SR5-UPS, SR6-UPS, and LSF-UPS. The names should, in theory, correspond to the Server Rooms they are placed in and the documentation in the PSA, RMM, and Documentation platform should match.

alexseanchai

that last sentence smells like foreshadowing

mockiatoh

I think it’s important to be able to recognize the different between our emotional response, our moral response, and what we believe should be our legal response.

For example, emotionally, I genuinely think less of someone who buys into stupid conspiracies about organ donation. I think that morally, if you are unwilling (unwilling, not medically unable) to donate organs, you should not be an organ candidate. I don’t think you should be able to say ‘If I’m dead I want all of my organs to rot, even if they could save lives. But I also want to benefit from other people’s sacrifice.’ Fuck you.

But I do not believe it would be ethical (or practical) to legislate that. I think it would be a horrible ethical violation and medical coercion. I recognize that, even as I’m disgusted by people who would let someone die when saving lives would cost them nothing.

Legal codes and ethical guidelines shouldn’t be based around our feelings.

mockiatoh

Not long ago, there was an attempt to pass a law where if a baby was born sick and addicted to drugs, the mother could face child abuse charges and have parental rights terminated. Stepping back from any emotional response—either to the criminalization of addiction or to the suffering of newborns—is extremely difficult. I don’t know if it’s a subject that I could have that level of clarity on because it’s such an emotional topic.

But what I want to highlight is the political bloc who were most effective against the law, and led to its defeat: community healthcare workers who were on the frontlines, whose careers very often were at that intersection of drug abuse and child suffering.

Their argument wasn’t primarily about the parental rights of the mothers, or about the criminalization of substance use disorders. Instead, it was about what public health policies work in the real world, and what policies cause more harm. They argued these women would be afraid to access resources for harm reduction during pregnancy. This would result in heavier drug usage during pregnancy than if they were able to access harm reduction strategies and resources. There would also be an increase in abandoned infants, babies who are very sick and need immediate medical help. Fear of punishment wouldn’t help anyone.

In a practical manner, this legislation would likely do more harm while not addressing the actual problems. Several different policies were instituted instead, ones that had been proven effective in practice. I think that there are some situations that we can only find solutions if we can step away from our immediate emotional response to think, or understand that we aren't the right person to try to fix this problem, and focus on where we can make a positive impact instead.

mens-rights-activia

I would like to note that I left flowers for her afterwards, just as a “sorry for using your grave for content”

vullen

future archaeologists will know you were (not) a boy

vullen

i've seen countless kind and emotional replies in the year or so since i posted this comic, but this particular tag set has squeezed me unlike any other. thanks

spacecowboywhit

I deeply, deeply love how GURPS Transhuman Space just says "Fuck you, do physics."

"Gamified physics?" You ask, hopefully.

No! ❤

(This is the simple chapter, where you only need to know rocket science. We'll get into orbital mechanics, relativity, nuclear physics, and the three-body-problem later.

Apropos of nothing: How's your calculus?)