#Regulations are written in blood

[lucasdoesnotcare]

Well, the titan "submarine" is your local fucking reminder that "Regulations are written in blood" Is NOT a just a fucking saying or just a fucking joke.

#titan submersible #submarines #diy submarine #dumb ways to die #oceangate #Disaster waiting to happen #They killed themselves #Lets not lie #Regulations are written in blood #That's not just a fucking saying #Get that through your fucking thick skull #Titan #submarine

[arctic-hands]

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Alright bro. Rest In Saltwater, I guess

#oceangate #oceangategate #stockton rush #titan submersible #regulations are written in blood

[gwydionmisha]

#Regulations are written in blood #Tokyo #Airplanes #Japan Coast Guard Dash 8 #Airbus A350 #Disaster #News

[batcavescolony]

"Why do the kids in the show know everything about Greek Myths"

Well idk if I was told my parent was a Greek God and that put a target on my back for Monsters/Titans/Other God's to use to kill me, I'd learn everything I can! To Demigod's myths are lists of ways they could die, so it's in their best interest to learn them.

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo tv show #pjo #pjo series #batcavescolony watches #batcavescoloy watches the PJO tv show #they seem to know everything because its life or death for them. #like theirs a saying that regulations and safety instructions are written in blood. its the same here they gotta learn or they'll become a #a stroy used to teach the next generation what not to do.

[marzipanandminutiae]

The newest video from lab muffin beauty science seems like exactly up the alley of someone with your crusade for fact-checking. It was a wild ride of enlightenment, highly recommend.

Oh this is REALLY interesting. Thanks for the recommendation!

I first noticed the benzoyl peroxide scare when someone mentioned it in a post I made about the Radium Girls story inducing "what are they hiding from us now?!" anxiety, and I looked it up. I don't use any products with that ingredient at the moment, but it seemed worth checking into. And despite me not being a scientist, the fact that the benzene levels they cited showed up at VERY high temperatures seemed...off. Like how frequently are the products ever at those temperatures? "Maybe in a hot car?" I thought, but still wondered how often acne cream is left in a car in Australian high summer for that long.

And hey- the history professional with little chemistry knowledge was right! Seems like even ordinary laypeople can see the issue here if they just read the study even a little bit.

But because humans respond more to dramatic headlines- and, not going to lie, because we've been primed to believe in this by companies CONSTANTLY doing it for real throughout history with heavy metal dyes, radium, tobacco products, asbestos, fossil fuels, PFAs, etc. -you get "we're all rubbing cancer on our faces!!!!" reactions.

Really highlights the need for a balance between watching companies like hawks because they've proven that they will kill us if it pads their bottom line, and not falling for junk science.

#ask #anon #bad science #health #skincare #regulations were written in blood but many of them DID get written #meaning that they now exist! don't forget that! #we have to fight to keep them but they are there!

[orange-orchard-system]

Thinking about how people think retail work is "easy", the idea that "unskilled labor is a myth", and some discussion/discourse I've seen about workers preferring to do sex work over retail. And I think many people just don't realize that retail work has a physical danger to it – and no, not just from other people.

Exactly what people do in their jobs will vary depending on the business, but as for me? I work with sharp metal and plastic at high speeds. Heavy objects could be dropped directly onto my head if I'm not extremely careful, and even then, all it takes is a slip of the hand. Due to our refrigerators and freezers, I am jumping between temperatures several hundred times a day, which leaves my body suffering from the whiplash. I am thankful to have a manager that enforces breaks, but my job takes a toll on me even on the mildest of work days. I could get seriously hurt, and a lot is already being asked of me.

"Retail/fast food/etc. is unskilled labor –" okay but I am not selling expert labor to you, I am selling my well-being. I am being paid to do not just the things you don't or can't do, but to damage and risk my body and overall health in these specific ways so that your day might be a little better.

And honestly, I'd be fine with that, if I got some recognition for it (in both pay and general attitude). I am fine with a little risk and damage so long as it's for proper compensation – I don't view this work as demeaning by nature, and I take pride in my skill at doing it. It's just that I wished others around me cared more about this side of my job.

On a similar note, restaurant/fast food/etc. workers are not just being paid to make and bring out your food. They are being paid to risk oil burns, regular burns, scaldings, being stabbed or sliced, their hands being mangled by equipment, their fingers being crushed by machinery, any number of diseases that food can carry before it's prepared, and death if something goes wrong with the gas. All for your convenience.

It doesn't matter if it's unskilled, or if "anyone can do it". A good salary is one that takes into account what one is sacrificing and risking to complete this job. It takes into account the damage to one's body and the everyday dangers they are in. Salary is, as people know, payment for energy and time, but it is also a reimbursement for the expense of putting oneself in harm's way, and a person's salary should reflect that.

This isn't meant to shame customers. I think it'd be a little silly to shame people for taking on my services when I am well aware of the risks in them (although I acknowledge that gets complicated when people have to take these kinds of jobs regardless of the risks, due to desperately needing money). It's more of a perspective I don't see others talk about often. Even before factoring in shitty bosses, crappy work environments, and the like, these sorts of jobs have dangers and cause damages that should be acknowledged. And people should be properly compensated for taking them on.

#politics #retail #front soup.txt #bvie.txt #silver.txt #looking at the scrapes I got today without realizing whoops #and the injuries I've gotten from things going wrong #something something osha regulations are written in blood and this is a workspace too #blood can absolutely spill here

[snackugaki]

it reached 90°F in the house today and netflix put all three of the 90s TMNT movies on (plus 2007)

this is absolutely referencing a scene from one of them

83c

#fanart shitposting #fancomic shitposting #there are very few triggers left that incite unspeakable anger and senseless violence in me #and the mixture of arid climate and 5 degrees hotter than my city's average is one of them #tmnt 2016 #2016 Donnie having no tatts is okay but the fact that silly bitch has NO scars face or otherwise while his brothers all had at least ONE #ON THEIR FACES NO LESS #AND HE WAS USING WHAT I'M PRETTY SURE WAS AN ORBITAL SANDER #ON METAL THAT PRODUCED SPARKS #NO GOGGLES #NO MASK #JUST HIM HIS MR. MAGOO GLASSES AND THE SANDER #SAFETY REGULATIONS ARE WRITTEN IN BLOOD YOU ABSOLUTE WALNUT #also glad I can finally reference the 90s movies and people other than other elder millenials will get it #LOOK YE CHILDREN UPON THE ANCIENT TEXTS #BEHOLD AND KNOW #Keno was such a little shit #pasyensa na pero totoo 'yan lang #Ernie Reyes Jr is the ninja of my youth #the true ultimate ninja #did he plant the seeds into my eventual blossoming into a Donnie stan? #yes eh di wow

[meirimerens]

this is such a yuri thumbnail

#watching mentour pilot videos. shockingly it helps with my flying anxiety because it puts into perspective how many little things have #to go wrong to cause an accident and how many regulations are in place because they were unfortunately written in blood #also i like his insight since he's a pilot himself...

[deweydecimalchickens]

"Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC"

My siblings in Hecate, the Challenger was torn apart in flames by physics and killed everyone on board because two rubber o-rings got a bit too cold.

If someone isn't gonna follow regulations down to the letter, they need to NOT PUT ROCKETS INTO SPACE. It is not something you can wing like a maverick.

#Elon Musk #Fucking clown shoes #The regulations are there for a reason #Generally written in blood

[imperial-nuisance-rudje]

i think if your response to seeing people say they do not trust random people to be able to take adequate quality measures for many pharmaceuticals and you immediately jump to "they're brain poisoned by capitalism to think more expensive=better", you should examine your own brain poison keeping you from considering how incredibly dangerous many drugs can be if the dosage/release mechanisms are even slightly off, or that many very necessary drugs require precursors that are outright toxic (and some are even themselves toxic and require particularly strict compounding procedures to keep them from cross-contaminating to someone who doesn't specifically need medical poison). Getting a proper clean room is quite frankly not something even people with the knowledge have access to a lot of the time, people have good reason to not trust a rando to have that. And you do have to account for a rando, because if you just have one person doing it, there's a massive supply bottleneck (that a rando can exploit), and if you have a full system going you need to figure out how to supply that system and also be able to effectively investigate and handle problems and failures in any part of the chain (and a rando can exploit those failures as well).

Yes, people can say "i had good experiences with x". There are just as many if not more people being sickened by improper production and compounding of the same drugs.

#pharma regulations are *also* written in blood #bonus round of: supplying isolated and/or dangerous areas is also important and needs to be considered #some places are too small/remote for a specialist #do you let them go under/unserved because of that? #if you criticize other people for saying ''it will simply take care of itself'' it is hypocrisy to do the same for your own favored system #especially when it's something where we *historically know* it will not take care of itself #''there's no perverse incentives in this system'' people will do a lot of shit for nothing but interpersonal power. you are wrong.

[halflingcaravan]

Apparently my Boss wants a fire

The big yellow box in the room where I work says "Flammable. No Smoking. No ignition source within 3m" (about 10ft for those in archaic measurement). There's a battery charger he uses. It says on the bottom: "Caution - Explosion Risk". Guess who has a desk in a room without one of those big yellow boxes? Guess which room he decides to charge batteries with that battery charger?

#if this place burns down I'm ratting him out hard #this dude wants a fire #maybe he's incompetent or maybe its maybelline #safety regulations are written in blood before ink

[auncyen]

This sounds like a fascinating start for an absolute trainwreck

#the whole 'rules and regulations were written in blood' bit #my guess is this PROBABLY doesn't go anywhere significant #but. if it does. the next most likely way it goes is off a cliff

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

guy in disaster documentary: the ship sank because of X, Y, and Z factors, which ships weren’t required to be designed for at that time because these factors were so rare no one thought they would be an issue

me: omg those engineers should be FIRED. how dare they not account for X, Y, and Z, when they designed the ship whose sinking made people aware that X, Y, and Z was an issue in the first place and therefore made regulations to design around it in the future

#as a third year engineering student i love to watch documentary videos and scoff at the systematic failures that caused disasters #but i also recognized that if i were designing some of those systems i wouldnt have imagined some of the stuff that went wrong #all of this is to say #safety regulations are written in blood #sometimes bc it was already a problem and ppl just didnt care until a horrible disaster #but sometimes it was bc literally no one thought this would have been a problem and it happened anyway out of bad luck #shut up pandora

[fettery-fetterie]

I just believe it'd be very interesting to see how being the very first out of an entire career would do to someone.

Imagine

[imagine I write her full name her], the middle-aged woman who wants to build her career upon the thing she cherishes most. And teorija, the mother of all [yknow. The thing]

Like, for someone who hunts myths for the sake of knowledge, to become one at the eyes of her peers, yet to still be an asset for her superiors. And the power dynamic that may come out of it.

I'm sure her status would grand her great power and respect from other people on the company (and other companies - which I doubt exist), she showed them and everyone else that this can be a reliable source of livelihood, of course we gotta thank her!

She'd be put in a pedestal of idolatry as the one who brought them all here. As the one who We Must Follow. Not realizing she's in the same spot as them

And the higher up side wouldn't be that much good either, of course they wouldn't treat her most valuable asset poorly! She's the one that made them big for christ's sake! How could they ever let her go!

#perceptive little crow #it's another one of those can i buy a vowel moments. sigh #and I'm also losing my train of thought goddammit #but yeah basically I don't think she'd be having a good time #ig you could also talk about all the potential regulations that were written in blood. either hers or from others #and also about a stable source of income against freelancing and yada yada #if you wanna know what hlev's role on all this would be - potential wake-up call #like “oh. you're actually just doing your job. enjoying it too. man i wish i could do that again” #and then be like “wait a minute” #again im losing my train of thought but yeah aha #anwyays. if only we lived in a kind and fair world....

[inkandarsenic]

Image ID: [Excerpt From The Radium Girls by Kate Moore: “In the wake of Catherine Donohue’s case in 1939, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins announced that the fight was ‘far from won’ when it came to workers’ compensation. Subsequently, building on what the women had achieved in life, further legal changes were made to protect all employees. The dial-painters’ case ultimately led to the establishment of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which now works nationally in the United States to ensure safe working conditions. Businesses are required to inform employees if they work with dangerous chemicals; workers certainly won’t be told that those corrosive elements will make their cheeks rosy. There are now processes for safe handling, for training, for protection. Workers also now have a legal right to see the results of any medical tests.”]

I know that OSHA regulations are “written in blood” but they were literally founded in the blood of the radium girls.

#radium girls #osha regulations are written in blood #literally #the world will never be able to thank them for the sacrifices they were forced to make #for fighting for justice #this book is so good #haunting #and heartbreaking #but so good #kate moore #the radium girls #may they rest in peace

[feybeasts]

I’m still thinking about that “is OSHA regulations Cop Behavior” post. Like. You know who thinks regulations are for losers? People who build submersibles out of logitech gamepads and rejected carbon fibre. People who trust starlink as their only surface lifeline.

Do you wanna be like the fine film on the floor of the Atlantic that was once a billionaire? Is that the hill you’re really gonna die on?

We have an expression in my field- “Regulations Are Written In Blood”

People don’t have fucking safety standards as a power trip, we have them because somewhere in the past, NOT having those regulations killed or maimed someone.

A lot of laws out there are bullshit- safety regulations sure as fuck aren’t. I have the literal scars to prove it.