i disrespect the grind

“hey bruh lemme stuff this toilet with ps1′s. im gone kill the tumblr game with this one”

What?

doctors should do this, although perhaps with less yelling.

I liked this a lot and was going to tumbl it myself but you beat me to it.

“In the rail context, when train drivers wish to perform a required speed check, they do not simply glance at a display. Rather, the speedometer will be physically pointed at, with a call of ‘speed check, 80'—confirming the action taking place, and audibly confirming the correct speed.”

Reginald Braithwaite:

Rituals are an important part of safety.

My theory is that this extends to subtler forms of safety, like ‘not burning out from overwork, shooting up your office and taking a bus full of tourists hostage’. The coffee/cigarette break gives an opportunity for decompression and self-reflection in much the same way as prayer.

Writing “CORRECT LEG” on a patient’s left leg before surgery might seem silly but it’s a lot better than the alternatives

“what idiot wrote RIGHT LEG on the left leg? stupid nurses…”

a lot of pilots often do this as well, though it’s not quite on the same level of being a general rule as with Japanese train companies, but it totally helps

Yeah, if you listen to actual pilot radio chatter, the popular conception of it in media is totally wrong. Pilots/ATC almost never say “roger” to affirm a command, they always repeat the command back with their callsign to be sure they got it right, e.g.

ATC: “United two-one-four, turn heading one-eight-zero, climb and maintain four thousand”

Pilot: “Turn heading one-eight-zero, climb and maintain four thousand, United two-one-four”

That way if the pilot heard it wrong they can be corrected, instead of just saying “roger” when they could have the totally wrong idea of what to do and no one would know. Safe system design is all about including rituals like this.

The call-and-response is important. Two people can have a conversation and think that they are agreeing but have completely different takeaways. 

DJ: all the ladies in the house put your hands up!

ladies in the house: *verbally confirm that their hands are indeed up*

I recall a story from the daughter of a military pilot, whose dad would always say the words “you have control” when he handed her back her baby - and wouldn’t actually let go of the baby until she said “I have control” back to him.

In scouts we had several rules around knife use, but the subtlest one was -- when handing someone a knife, you don't let go until they vocally confirm they have it ("Thank you"). You'd also generally close the knife for any such hand-off, etc, but the "thank you" stuck with me. A lot of the leaders were pretty lax, but I had one who was a hard-ass about that ritual almost more than any other part, honestly; and if a leader found you relaxing the protocols, they were empowered to revoke your rights to use and carry until you re-certified, which he did to multiple guys in my troop, so it really did drill the procedure into all of us pretty well.

They say you die three times, first when the body dies, second, when your body enters the grave, and third, when your name is spoken for the last time. You were a normal person in life, but hundreds of years later, you still haven’t had your “third” death. You decide to find out why.

You sold some shitty copper, man, I don’t know what to tell you

beastie boys music is funny as hell one of them will say a line and then the other two will say a completely unrelated line

"met with a girl and she sucked my COCK. sedimentary is a type of ROCK"

You can skip to the next post instnatly with the J key

... this was supposed to be a helpful tip on another post, now it looks like I'm being really aggressive about a random post about the beastie boys

Tumblr conversations are funny as hell one of them will say a line and then the other two will say a completely unrelated line

THEY'A TRIMMED THE HERBS!

Source

Okay I'm gonna add some context in case anyone doesn't know or remember

There's been a group of people on the internet called "Team 0%" (link it to their website, where you can also find this info), who've been working towards making the original Mario Maker for the Wii U have every level cleared

They though this level, named Trimming the Herbs, would be impossible for a human and would stay uncleared, because it was clear tested using a hardware cheats, something though to be impossible for the Wii U until the creator admitted to using them 7 years later, so the team decided to not count the level due to this

However, the person playing in this video, Sanyx91SMM2, after 100 hours of practice and attempts, managed to beat it without any tools on April 5th 2024, becoming the first to ever truely clear the level, days before the servers shut down

To signify this, team 0% decided to make the completion percent on their website say 101%, treating it like the secret final boss of Mario Maker

Reblog if you want anon messages of what you would be the patron saint of

I’m

i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

fabulous 

i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.

#HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY

What if we had a plagiarism scandal here on tumblr, kinda annoyed at the youtubies having all the fun

What if we had a plagiarism scandal here on tumblr, kinda annoyed at the youtubies having all the fun

you cant do this to my post

Friendly reminder as we head into tax season (for US Americans), that the major tax preparation companies are fully prepared to lie and mislead you into paying for their tax preparation software when you might qualify for free software through the IRS.

Don’t fall for their bullshit. Visit IRS Free File and see what services are available to you. The requirements vary depending on your household status and income, but if you make less than $79,000/year (which is nearly everyone I know), you probably qualify for something.

why do people have to qualify for this? why is it not just automatically available to everyone who has to file taxes in the US?

So, we've got two different things here, for clarity: First let's talk IRS Free File, which was mentioned in greatpoetryfun's post -- it's actually an older program, in which the old prep vendors were forced to offer a free version of their services to people with simple tax situations under a threshold (I think it's like, the bottom 70% of earners? is where the $79k threshold comes from). That was the industry's "compromise" to justify continuing to be allowed to pull their rent-seeking behavior nonsense -- out of the "goodness of their hearts", they'd do it for free for the lower end (many of whom wouldn't be able to justify their normal service anyway), but because they did that, hey, IRS, you better not make a competing product! It'd be the government encroaching on business to do so, obviously!

And that was enshrined in law: The IRS, for a very long time, was banned, from developing a better, free alternative, because lobbying from a massive industry that... mostly shouldn't exist. The same lobbyists have fought tax code simplifications (to justify the need for their products) and other changes like no-return processes (which would be even simpler for taxpayers, and could result in savings at the government level as well). Big industry, lotta money, lotta incentive to keep themselves necessary.

The new thing is IRS Direct File. It is exactly the "competing product" that Intuit, et al were trying to avoid -- a free alternative, from the government, that does guided prep and filing. It's new. Why does it finally exist now? A combination of a ton of effort, and also a less and less credible argument from TurboTax, etc. The lobbying companies were pretty much all found a few years ago to have been basically not making their free filing tools clear and easy to access to those who they were supposed to be providing it for -- blocking them from coming up in search results, etc -- and engaging in other dark UX practics to make it so that people who should have been eligible for zero-cost filing would end up funneled into their paid products, primarily by misleading and confusing languages and workflows.

"We already provide people a free offering at no cost to the government, so don't compete with us" stopped being believable when it was clear that they were making sure nobody could find the free offering.

The good news is... as far as I can tell, there's no qualification, at least income-wise, for IRS Direct File. It's in pilot so it's not in every state, and it doesn't (yet?) handle more complicated types of preparations, but AFAIK they don't turn you down if you're making more than some arbitrary threshold, unlike with IRSFF "partners". And the limitations of the pilot are already being expanded (I believe it's available to all filers in CA now, whereas it was only a subset when first announced because "pilot"), and it should go wider each year, and hopefully capture more and more "complicated" filing situations (different types of secondary income, etc.) It's early, but the results are looking good and it's an extraordinarily popular concept, so I'm really really hoping that it won't get undercut and will continue to expand until automated tax prep isn't an industry anymore. Even if it only subsumes the "simple filing" end of the market, that'd be a huge win, since people eligible for IRSFF will have a better solution that's not trying to upsell them on a paid service, but I'm hoping it'll improve beyond that still.

Oh sunk-cost fallacy, we're really in it now. We are in fact so really in it that if we quit now then everything we did would have all been for nothing and so we have to keep going in