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pavedwalden
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pavedwalden
@pavedwalden
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Portland, OR
Joined November 2008
- This reminds me of a category of workplace disaster most people don’t know about. In a rarely-opened space with lots of metal, oxidation can use up all the oxygen and then people just pass out and die a few breaths after entering.been wandering for several hours now. not on any trail that appears on maps 5 likes and i go down the hatch
00:00nfpa.orgConfined Space DeathsWorkers’ deaths in the Bahamas highlight a common but sometimes misunderstood phenomenon - One of the scariest things, to me, is when people are in a deteriorating situation that progressively undermines their ability to understand it, like when nitrogen narcosis makes it harder for a diver to recognize the warning signs of nitrogen narcosis.
- Replying to @pavedwaldenI read that Murakami book with interviews of people from the Tokyo subway sarin attack and so many of them report knowing something was wrong, and seeing that other people on the train knew something was wrong, but most people couldn't think straight long enough to open a window.
if you want to think in a particular way, expose yourself to a million examples of it first. this goes for everything from writing style, mathematics, aesthetics, language, technical intuitions, embodiment, creativity, emotional expression, literally anything- Replying to @dissproportionand I wore an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time...
- Replying to @fuzzfigIt’s tragic how everyone’s natural reaction is so dangerous in this one situation. *Of course* you hurry to your dog/friend who just stumbled and suddenly stopped moving.
- we must imagine sisyphus creating contentthere's this person on tiktok kicking a rock every day until it turns into a sphere, and it's actually working. they've been doing this for 19 days straight now. i am so invested in this saga.
- Replying to @pavedwaldenI don't mean this as a simple dunk - "people are getting dumber lol" - it's more like the whole cultural machine that let us make collective decisions has become deranged, and the worse it gets the less we understand what our options really are.
- Even though I know Zuck’s wholesome image is the fruit of an army of PR consultants being paid millions of dollars, I’ve gotta hand it to him that at least he’s capable of just fucking acting like a normal human being, unlike some other billionaire website owners.
- Since the weight of all major car models is known, we could replace speed limits with a limit on overall kinetic energy, forcing heavy pickups to slow down while kei trucks can weave through traffic with the pedal to the floor.A terrific / terrifying example for teaching externalities. Folks choose heavier cars because they're less likely to die in a crash (gray line). But that choice makes it much much more likely that you'll kill the other guy (red line). economist.com/interactive/un… #TeachEcon
- *Walks up to ticket booth* Me: ....yeah “Um, are you trying to buy a ticket?” *nods* “Are you with them?” (Here, the cashier gestures toward my friends who had successfully completed their transactions) *nods again* “Ok I’m going to sell you a ticket to what they’re seeing”
- Replying to @___fryeI worked with a mentally handicapped guy in Pittsburgh who absent-mindedly hummed it to himself whenever he saw asian people, no matter how many times our manager tried talking to him about it. Extremely challenging HR scenario.
- Replying to @MamanLunettesNot for everyone, but a lot of guys do mellow out after thirty or forty years.
