People who conflate funny with edgy/offensive are exhausting.

It has taken me 41 years to learn that it’s ok to spend some time doing something that just makes me happy rather than something that will have a significant impact on the rest of my life. It’s been incredibly refreshing to not feel like everything I do MUST be somehow useful going forward.

I can’t speak for all of my industry, but at our facilities if it’s anything more dangerous than water the valves are typically ABVs (Automated Block Valves) with remote actuators from the panel systems in the control rooms. Our pumps are typically not located that close to any process fluid tanks though, they’re…

Fuck no, don’t pull it. Leave it out there on the record for all to see. History can judge it, and examples of what not to do can be made with it.

I wonder if the 2021 results will look different.

Ok, thanks, that makes sense. As far as I’m aware we don’t use anything like direct mixers in any of our storage tanks, likely for reasons like this where lack of isolation would lead to us putting far worse stuff than crude oil on the ground.

Working in the chemical industry I’m curious why a seal leak would lead to a spill that lasts long enough to be captured on video by air. There should be an isolation valve between the tank and the pump(s), typically a valve on either side of the pump. 

And shit like this is how we’ll lose pillows not being counted.

Omegalul

Yeah I don’t answer calls from anything that’s not already entered into my phone. They can leave a voicemail, or send a text with their name and I’ll put them in if needed. Otherwise any call that pops up with an unknown or a number just gets ignored and blocked.

Look Omarosa/Everyone, if you’ve got something then put it out there, otherwise stop with this performative bullshit.

To be fair we’re losing the days where you could actually troubleshoot and fix something in your living room or garage. A lot of these issues are becoming technically challenging and/or software and programming related in terms of fixes, which dramatically limits the options for real troubleshooting outside of RMA.

When I was a kid I had a fear of needles, but that wore off somewhere round 8 or 9 for the most part, and I’ve been getting flu shots my whole life. It’s really, really easy and painless.

Always has been, always will be!

I think the problem is that reality has shifted so much toward absurdity now that normal headlines have replaced Onion headlines and rendered them toothless.

He doesn’t have any, because it’s a lie.

The last 5 years have genuinely felt longer than the entirety of my grade school memories. I think I’m paying attention to too much shit these days.

Imagine if we’d lost 3/4 to 1 million people in the last 18 months and were desperately short of employees in many sectors where people could be brought in so they could earn money and enjoy what the rest of us do.

And by the time we get to the mid-terms there’s likely to be even fewer voting republicans alive in these districts.

I live in Houston as cyclists are around quite a lot. I think the most any of them have ever held up traffic for me or anywhere within my eyesight has been like, 2 seconds delay in changing lanes. The cyclists are not the problem, the giant truck douchebros, people staring at phones and hateful assholes (synonymous…