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[–] [email protected] 169 points 8 months ago (8 children)

i can't find it online, but im reasonably certain i heard an interview with this guy on Canadian public radio several years ago that really shook me. he talked basically about how he wouldn't fly on a Boeing plane, knowing what he knows and having seen what he'd seen, stuff like quality rejected parts getting taken back into inventory to meet quotas. the takeaway for me was that the quality control system that had previously worked so well was an invention of equal or possibly higher importance to any kind of aerodynamic innovation present on those planes. i work in an analogous role (in a different industry) and i really do take it more seriously after having heard the interview. nobody likes the work of quality assurance and you'll never see someone doing a non-conformance report on TV but it's a necessary condition for planes to stay in the sky. RIP to a real one and if he got murdered then i hope the industry burns

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

obviously Epstein killed himself to protect the secret technique of disabling security cameras and putting guards to sleep with his mind

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

the amount that I got better at noita is higher than for any other game and/or bachelor's degree

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

i dunno if he does scans but there's this guy, https://www.instagram.com/theneverendingprint/

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

even setting aside the guys personal qualities he's just a real turd of an actor. in recent memory he's ruined or attempted to ruin suicide squad, blade runner 2049, and house of gucci. his performance in house of gucci is possibly one of the worst accents ive ever seen an actor commit to, hes literally doing a Mario impression for two hours.

plus he's a method actor, which is frankly ridiculous given the quality of his output, so whenever you see him on-screen playing like, a sea captain, you have to suffer with the knowledge that real people in his life probably had to watch him try to order hardtack and salt pork from a benihana's

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

im still on a pixel 3a

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

glad to see the secret art of reading comprehension remains closely guarded

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago (11 children)

i was confused by the signs you sometimes see on escalators that are apparently warning you of their own existence for a good few years as a child

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

yeah same for me, about five years.

it's not just that i can still get what i need. it's also that i just 'need' way less shit.

i think i realized i had a problem when my brother in law made fun of me for having an 8-port USB charger on my bedside table (with a single cable for my phone plugged into it).

[–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago (15 children)

i dunno, the premise of this question seems to me like homelessness is a riddle that homeless people just have not figured out. im pretty sure that if the answer could be crowdsourced in eight hours from eighty sysadmins on the toilet, it wouldn't be such an intractable problem

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