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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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ihatelawyers

Genuinely don’t get people who dislike Ema in aa4 she’s an asshole but like that’s part of her charm. She’s supposed to be a starry eyed hope filled teenager who turns cynical after her life didn’t plan out the way she wanted so now she’s at a dead end job getting shitty pay with shitty coworkers.

She’s like the detective version of that guy working at a gas station. How do you not like her.

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lemon-wedges
bonesandpoemsandflowers

glimpsed some booktok discourse from a distance about the stalker romance genre...no skin in the game here EXCEPT that these stalker protagonists are never actually doing anything useful or cool ever. DOES THIS MAN HAVE ANYTHING GOING ON? ANYTHING? WHY DOES HE HAVE INFINITE TIME TO STAND OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW? JOBLESS BEHAVIOR. bereft of hobbies as well as bitches behavior.


the phantom of the opera is often reduced to a stalker romance or at least something that romanticizes stalking and, one, it does not. but also, two, THAT MAN'S GOT SHIT TO DO. he's writing an opera! he's extorting the managers! he's tipping the ushers handsomely! also apparently has a prior career as a traveling stage magician and architect? HE'S BRINGING SOMETHING TO THE TABLE, SUSAN. it's not the same.

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json-derulo

having the Aviation Accident Investigations Autism™️ has actually done wonders for the way I process and respond to my own fuck-ups

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And I don't just mean "oh, my little work mistake is actually nothing compared to a fiery crash that kills people," either. The reason commercial flight is so many orders of magnitude safer than any other form of transportation is because after every accident and incident, an independent regulatory body investigated it with the express goal of figuring out exactly what happened, why, and how to prevent the same thing from ever happening again—not to root out which person deserved the blame or the liability.

It's a simple, shockingly effective idea. It's also worlds away from how most people approach their own mistakes and the mistakes of others.

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Because it’s never just one person’s fault. And even when it is, it still isn’t. 

The sharpest, best-trained pilots make worse decisions when they're tired or sick or stressed out, so there's two of them. The most dedicated and experienced air traffic controllers garble an instruction over the radio sometimes, so pilots are trained to always repeat clearances back to catch misunderstandings quickly. The best and brightest maintenance mechanic still overlooks a screw or misconnects a wire once or twice in her career, so aircraft systems are built with two or three or four layers of redundancy, and pilots are exhaustively trained to deal with failures safely. 

Everyone eventually has a bad day. Every component breaks down. Every computer gets a bad a Windows update and spirals into a reboot doom loop. If it’s possible for one person’s mistake to domino into a mushroom cloud of a fuckup, then that task is too critical to be one person's sole responsibility. The accident sequence starts with the design of the system—so how do you improve the system to keep it from happening again?

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oh yeah. The “modern commercial aviation is the safest form of transport” thing only applies to planes, btw. A helicopter is a beautiful metal horse that wants to break its legs and die so so so badly