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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • I work in a lab that handles radioactive material, and was working in an area where it’s really easy to accidentally contaminate the floor (which is a huge pain because you have to quarantine the contamination, lay down plastic sheeting, check everyone’s shoes, etc.)

    While I’m working there one of my coworkers begins approaching me and I say “oh hold up, don’t come over here.”

    She sighs and says “I’ll go get the plastic sheeting…”

    I reply “Oh wait no the floor’s not contaminated. I just ripped a real nasty one.”

    Never seen her laugh harder lmao


  • I used to work at a snack foods factory and was checking on some equipment (that actually wasn’t the equipment I was supposed to be checking–I got my lines mixed up). It was adjacent to a conveyor that had crumbs from a different product on it, which was supposed to be turned off since we weren’t producing it that day. Said crumbs were spilling into another conveyor below it* that was in use delivering a currently-running product. These two products had non-overlapping allergenic ingredients (soy-containing crumbs were spilling into a soy-free product).

    I alerted management to get the batch scrapped since it was contaminated.

    If I hadn’t mistakenly checked the wrong equipment, it’s unlikely anyone would have noticed and A LOT of contaminated product could have been shipped. All products from that factory are labeled “MAY contain X, Y, Z” so in theory nobody with a severe allergy to X/Y/Z should be eating anything from there anyway, but consumers make mistakes and even a non-severe dietary allergic reaction is an unfun time I wouldn’t wish on anyone.

    *It didn’t just always spill into the conveyor below it, it was supposed to have a catch pan but someone had forgotten to replace the catch pan after cleaning it.











  • Isn’t defending a viewpoint with evidence kinda important even if you think the viewpoint is a “no brainer?”

    Nobody owes anyone on the internet a well-researched argument, but those who are up to the task of making them can be pretty influential. Maybe even start to chip away at the corruption of people who have fallen to intolerance propaganda… not all of them are doomed.

    One of my best friends is a former manosphere incel. I’m a former perpetually-offended Tumblr SJW. Both of us changed our viewpoints because people pointed out flaws with them. Not everyone changes their viewpoints but some do—though likely not when confronted only with “fuck off”