#science and things that is harder

[i-love-tubbs-the-cat]

it's different too from scientific journal publications i feel like. maybe that's my own bias but i feel like those papers that language means something that can't be fully conveyed any other way. social sciences and literature type papers that is generally not true

[viktorarcanedeservesbetter]

tbh I don’t think therapy would have fixed Jayce and Viktor lmao. maybe would have softened their self-destructive tendencies but there’s no fixing that co-dependent relationship. Heimerdinger Mel and Sky are told “yeah, I can help treat their individual depressions but nothing is gonna reduce their co-dependency. I’m pretty sure separating them makes it a lot worse for not only them but much worse for everyone else. for everyone’s safety I suggest they’re not allowed to be more than a buildings length away from each other and even that is pushing it.” That therapist then quits on the spot cause now they’ve literally seen everything.

It’s like that scene in Brooklyn nine nine where all the physiatrists are observing and talking with Gina but instead it’s a whole crew of therapists and neurologists and physiologists trying to find out how these two men literally mind-melded together. They go to couples therapy but it’s literally just individual therapy held together because why tf not it’s the only way to get them to go.

[oifaaa]

I really like that old trope that's like adopted child realises they're adopted bc both their parents have blue eyes and they learn in science class that 2 blue eyed parents can't have a child without blue eyes mostly bc I used to read it and go "what an idiot how did you not notice you were adopted I mean both your parents have blue eyes haha couldnt be me" then last year I noticed both my parents have blue eyes and mine are Hazel

[sysig]

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[hylianengineer]

A side effect of all these lab and workplace safety trainings is wanting to fistfight my former employer because I KNEW they were shit at safety things but I just keep discovering worse and worse things I didn't recognize at the time.

I was supposed to have extra training before being expected to determine which waste was hazardous? Well THAT didn't happen! Do you know how much time and stress I expended on that? On not really knowing because there was no place to get the information as far as I could tell and my boss didn't know or care either? Because everyone says SDS sheets should tell you and they never do? I ended up just putting anything I couldn't figure out into haz waste for EHS to deal with. Better safe than poisoning people. But that should never have been my responsibility.

It is also so validating to see "never work with hazarous materials alone" in official rules. I KNEW that was fucked up, but it was what everybody did and I had nothing but my gut telling me it was bad. My gut is often wrong - I'm autistic and have an anxiety disorder. But I was right about this and so much else. The worst thing about safety issues in that job was how it made me feel like I was the one being unreasonable for following the rules and common sense.

And I'm still scared my new job might be like that too, when I get through the online trainings and start doing real lab work with real people. I took plenty of lab trainings before and so did everyone else, they just never followed them. I've not been in a lab where people followed their own safety rules in a VERY long time - not since high school chem. The hypocrisy is infuriating, and the way I've been treated like I'm crazy for wanting to be safe just hits all the wrong buttons.

I have an anxiety disorder which means my gut is usually wrong and I've been trained to ignore it or even do the exact opposite of what it says. I'm autistic which means I've survived by going with the flow of Normal People Interactions even when they make no sense or seem like building or even hurt me - and when I don't do that, I've been bullied and punished and treated like a space alien. The very skills that have kept me safe before are now also putting me in danger and I don't know what else to do. I don't know how to adjust. I can't just overturn all my social scripts overnight, no matter how much I want to. I have been taught to doubt myself, that when other people disagree with me I must by default assume they're right and I'm being crazy and/or oversensitive. That instinct is gonna take time to unlearn, and it's not even that simple - i need to learn what situations it still applies in and which it doesn't.

I hope I'll be safe now, in a lab that has much better safety protocols, but I won't really know if people follow them until I get to do real work. That could be a week or two, since I have a mountain of paperwork to get through first. And the suspense is awful. I wish I could just ask someone without sounding crazy: "hey you know all these trainings? Do people... actually do what they say? For real?"

[katsdynam1ght]

this is an advertisement for my discord server where you can see this kind of bullshit every day

[dead-generations]

we know about as much about momentum/acceleration generated artificial gravity, how to practically generate it, thresholds of tolerance, health effects of gravity <1g >freefall, etc today as we did 40 years ago. because no one has done any real significant testing except on spiders and mice and plants and those have been very limited. the ways in which they are limited have been quite unhelpful for practical problem solving.

we know what problems 0g causes for human health but we really have no idea what the effects of martian gravity would be on the human body for no real reason besides a lack of will to construct the necessary tests. which, to be clear, would be doable but non-trivial as they would involve significant engineering and manufacturing, but we are already wasting a lot of money doing pointless shit in LEO anyway

[corduroy-leggings]

People need to stop telling me that I should go into fashion or art. I am going into SCIENCE and I will be the most best dressed person there. I will present ASTRONOMY things and have a matching outfit to go with it!!!!

[rohirric-hunter]

*collapses to ground bloody, sweaty, and exhausted from setting up a desktop shortcut for Minecraft*

[firelise]

I desperately need a video essay that just goes through every met gala look and clocks whether or not they partnered with a black designer or a black person was at all involved in their look at all

[mbat]

i think i have this issue of not laughing enough anymore so whenever i find anything at least a little bit funny around other people, i end up laughing disproportionately hard and being unable to stop for several minutes

[mango-mya]

I finished the indigo disk.....ouhhh Kieran 😭😭😭😭😭😭 UEUE💧💧🩷🩷💔🩷YUEHEHE💔🩷🩷😕UEHUUEJUEU💧💧💧😭😕😭💧😕💧 I LOVE YOU KIERAN 💔💔🩷💔🩷🩷🩷

[erismourn]

they should have let me on the mass effect writing team. production started when I was 6 years old but they still should have put me on there to make shit actually make sense and be compelling

[red-red-spout]

God it's genuinely incredible the sheer degree to which Pact is OC-bait

Given that it was written right after Worm- guessing the whole "supernatural powers which fundamentally stem from the character of the wielder" thing was still on his mind

[tvdfan23]

I think I need to work a medical, retail, or food job (or 2 if i can swing it) and I should save money so I can booth rent and open my own esthetics business. If I don't open my own, I just dont think im gonna get an esthetics job worth doing. This last job was insane and like...all these small business owners are ruining their clients skin and they don't care because all they see are dollar signs. And yeah money's important but it's just like..it was weird.

The business owner bought into a skincare line from Dubai (which is fine but none of the ingredients were in English and apparently she asked and they refused to translate and give a full list of the ingredients in English...and people have allergies so you can't just put some unknown creams on someone's face...that's a great way to get sued). And I counted 3 people out of my 8 clients of that last day alone who had reactions to the products so I was grabbing hot towels and wiping the creams off their face.

The only reason the manager chose the line is because the business conference was in Mexico and its like...okay great you got a free Mexico trip but at this rate you could seriously get in trouble? Putting unknown creams on someone's face?

Then clients would ask for no microdermabrasion because they had Rosacea or active acne and of course that's a contraindication so I wouldn't do it...and the manager would get mad at me (she had a facial listed in steps on a paper to follow) (the esthetician I shadowed said manager was a micromanager lol) and I completely understand that but if I do a treatment that makes their face worse...then that's bad. (And they specifically asked to skip that step, so why would I force it on them and make their skin condition worse?).

And every time they were glad I didn't do microdermabrasion and made an appointment to come back next time and I upsold other treatments for them during the visit to do instead of the microdermabrasion so they ended up paying for more than just the basic facial but still in the same allotted time frame and they were more than pleased. But the manager was furious and I would explain like hey they said no and hey that's a contraindication..and she'd just stomp off.

I was there for like not even 2 weeks and im like ??? Is this how yall run a business? Does she seriously think this is business savvy?

I don't know much but after talking my esthetician friends they're like dude just booth rent and do it yourself, the manager was stupid (I talked to them about it cuz I was spiraling). And they said I could come to them with questions (two esthetician friends work in my old home state but one is in the same state so thats super helpful)

I upsold to every client, every client made an appointment to come back and most took business cards to spread the word. So I know I have the upselling skills, I will just have to build up clientele...

So I just feel like idk. I should wait and save for a few months and see how I feel but I really hate medical work and I'm really disappointed I can't just work in an esthetician spa but maybe I should just do it myself.

[sheepoftheseus]

another thing they don't tell you about art is that you rarely ever have to draw the whole guy most of the time just below the shoulders is enough