What role does industry culture plays in transportation safety? In aviation, crashes are bad for the brand (flying). With motordom, the automobile industry worked for a century to make road deaths acceptable and shift blame from those doing the killing to those doing the dying.

Atrios every day I see supporters of this war whine and complain that they are being asked to adhere to extremely basic human rights like it's a burden nobody has ever been asked to shoulder in history

AI: Sorry, Im not allowed to speculate upon the sexuality of 1970s game show hosts
ME: This is like talking to the smartest man in the world

My grandpa who is 85 started making this rock map of Scotland in 1992.He collected rocks during amateur geology trips over 30 years. He says it had to be geologically correct and also aesthetically pleasing.He asked if I could share online as He wants to go viral so please share

A doctor earning $500k+ / year asking why health care in America is so expensive answers his own question when he mentions how much damn money he makes

The other day my friend was making bad arguments he would’ve seen through in any other context. “I could die whenever I drive!” But that’s why you drive safely/wear a seatbelt! “Something’s gonna kill me!” Don’t help it!

But “it’s safe now” is an emotionally load-bearing belief.

A lot of people who don’t mask associate masks with the fear we all felt at the start of the pandemic. I get it! But we need to adjust our mindset to the reality: you should feel SAFER when wearing a mask—because YOU ARE. I’m much less fearful of Covid when I’m protecting myself!

Isn't it a bit on the nose that all of the children are following a worker of false miracles named 'Mr. Beast'

One of the wildest true conspiracies of our lifetimes is that plastic isn’t actually recyclable in any meaningful way and they all lied to us about it theguardian.com/us-news/2024/f…

the extent to which this followed the exact same pattern as the cigarette and fossil fuel lie machines is pretty astounding. it’s almost as if we can’t rely on industries to police themselves and protect the public.

I continue to think the bigger threat of deepfakes is not in convincing people that fake things are real but in offering plausible suspicion that real things are fake

The AME Church Council of Bishops calling for a immediate and complete withdrawal of US Government support of Israel. This is major. A very strong stance.

Grey-goo AI destroying internet content as a concept will free us all from phone addiction. We'll be back to flip phones by 2030. Trust the plan

The real moral of that article is: people who are well-rewarded in our current system all have a doglike submission to authority

Mormonism is the Ted Lasso of religions

democrats talk about joe biden the way you talk about a sick old dog before it dies. 'he is so sharp & alert' yea okay, my condolences

I found 1000 stranded abandoned dogs and gave them $1,000,000 please can I have more money

I myself do not believe that either Comrade Andropov or Comrade Chernenko is too old to serve, and more than this I believe that the state as a whole is in excellent condition