Tar_Alcaran

Sex trafficker AND rapist

I work in workplace safety, hazardous materials/waste handling and certification. Nobody knows shit about the entire field.

The government leaves the whole thing to the certifying bodies, who audit on form and process without any technical knowledge. The actual rule-makers are either the personification of regulatory capture, or completely oblivious about how their rules will be interpreted in the real world.

The companies doing the work hire independent experts who are fully dependent on those companies and can’t afford to burn too many bridges, despite the fact that they are the only skilled people making important calls.

The majority of the companies (naturally) only care about the profits and will gladly find experts to agree with them and pressure employees to ignore the rules.

And most baffling of all: the people suffering under all the above just see the safety regulations that keep them alive and healthy as annoying and needlessly slowing them down.

I live and work in a place where these people have permanent employment contracts and get paid by the hour. They have no reason to be idiots, and yet…

I hear the FDA actually controls American food in a much healthier way than European even though the opposite is commonly thought.

What do you mean by this? Because when I look at lists of banned substances and why, or pesticide limits, the EC seems much stricter than the FDA.

Not to make anyone nervous, but dropping a fuckass big missile on a pile of very secure and safe nuclear material will still scatter that material in a wide area, and wind will make it worse.

But no, making a modern nuclear suffer a meltdown is basically impossible

The Omen, Poltergeist, The Exorcist.

Makes sense. Those were groundbreaking at the time, but the ground has been broken, repaved and built into a massive skyscraper now.

Spirited Away, and to some degree all Ghibli stuff leans very heavily on a shared cultural Mythos. It doesn’t do exposition in the same way that zombies or angels aren’t explained; everyone knows that stuff because we all grew up with a million references.

Sometimes I think back to the shit we saw, and I’m a little amazed so many of us came out so well.

And then elections happen, and well…

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