blogalias msbidoof
Aug 07
  • depsidase

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  • seymour-butz-stuff

    Oddly I don’t see a single occupation listed besides the last where they’ll murder you just because they’re having a bad day and automatically get away with it.

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  • adruze

    I have only love for the USPS.

  • roach-works

    reminder that cops have also been logging covid deaths (after refusing to comply with masking orders nationwide) as on-duty fatalities, as well as everything from heart attacks to car crashes to friendly fire. a really significant amount of cop deaths aren't actually due to Criminal Violence, but it's significant that the cops act as though *all* of them are.

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    • blogalias duladear
    Aug 07
  • longsightmyth

    Here's the thing I keep trying to articulate and possibly failing: I don't actually mind characters who are terrible people. I have enjoyed many. What I mind is characters who are terrible people while the narrative keeps trying to say that they are wonderful, often contradicting what the narrative shows us, with no self awareness

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    • blogalias duladear
    Aug 07
  • hellyeahscarleteen

    For things to really change, you will also have to start to let go of wanting their approval so badly. I know it can sound weird to think strategically like this with family, but if they can tell you’re really hungry for it, you give them a pretty easy in to control or manipulate you. Caring less about our parents approval is part of our development into adults, but that doesn’t mean it happens automatically or easily. This is just another one of these things, like setting boundaries, where you start working on it, and it will become easier over time.

    I’d also try and remember that approval and support aren’t the same thing. If all we’ve ever gotten is approval or disapproval, we may have approval confused with support (or go for approval because we feel that’s the only way we’ll get something resembling support), but I assure, you, they’re very different. Support feels better and is more substantial and meaningful than approval. Support also tends to come with far fewer conditions than approval. Often, when we want approval very badly, what we actually want is support, which can happen with or without approval, and is a lot more emotionally nourishing than approval can ever be. Odd as it may sound, when we let go of seeking approval with people, that’s usually how we find out who really is or isn’t going to give us support.

    Heather, from Parental Controls

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    • blogalias dogwithablogofficial
    Aug 07
  • castellankurze

    The Gimli Glider is one of those stories where every aspect sounds more fake than the last and yet it all actually happened.

    -A passenger plane was underloaded with fuel because Canada had just converted to the metric system and everyone supposed to double check their numbers got it wrong.
    -When the plane ran out of fuel they were too far away to make it to an in-service airport and had to head towards the Gimli military base.  Which was shuttered.
    -They were coming in to fast due to a lack of flaps control and had to perform a series of slips (as shown in the video above) to slow down, basically drifting a giant passenger plane.
    -As they come down they realized that just because Gimli’s been decommissioned doesn’t mean it’s abandoned because a bunch of people are having drag races on the runway they’re about to need.
    -Despite everything they managed to land safely and no one was killed or even hurt which is why it’s one of the best air disasters to meme on.

  • zanmor

    The Wikipedia page on this is fantastic and my favorite line from it is “Flying with all engines out was never expected to occur, so it had never been covered in training.”

  • lesferatu

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    Nice

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