excerpt from the original post: this is dictamnus albus—commonly called gas plant. on hot days, it emits a citrusy, flammable oil that briefly ignites when exposed to flame. it’s completely harmless to the plant, but incredible to witness.
i might be a video game masochist but i will always defend ppl who mod their games to be easier 🙏🙏 videogames are quite literally made to be fun. if you’re not having fun you should do everything in your power to make it fun again
watching Trump’s press conference and yes he is blaming autism on Tylenol. I hope Tylenol lays down the craziest lawsuit on Earth. I hope it makes their reaction to the 1980’s Tylenol murder look like child’s play
#the 80s what
the 80s tylenol murders. tl;dr: you know that tamper seal on new bottles of medicine everyone hates? those are there because in the 1980s, some freak went into a pharmacy and poisoned a bunch of tylenol. 7 people died in the initial crime, more in subsequent copycat crimes. they never caught who did it.
Another thing here is that the company’s response to the crisis is, to this day, frequently taught in business classes as a model of how to handle a crisis.
Even though they weren’t doing anything differently from other medication companies that made them vulnerable to this–and it remains unclear whether the tampering was happening in the factory, the stores, or some other part of the supply chain–they moved very quickly to recall products and develop tamper-resistant packaging, and as a result they regained the public’s trust a lot more quickly than you might guess. (And the new packaging they developed also became the industry standard.)
So part of the comparison here, is that if Tylenol manages to pull off a similarly effective response to this, it could be a playbook for other companies and organizations to resist Trump’s baseless attacks.
CUZ THATS WHAT YOU DO WITH A PRODUCT THAT ACTUALLY CAUSES HARM
Former Chicagoland kid here who had several Halloweens ruined by the Tylenol Killer. The authorities are 90 percent sure they know who did it and how, but they were never able to prove it. But they do know it was tampering after the fact, not a manufacturing issue.
That’s why everything comes “safety sealed” today. The “safety” is to prevent crazy people from taking OTC medicines off the shelf and poisoning random people like the Tylenol Killer did.
While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers.
It’s never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.
One of which being they take screenshots from what you’re watching and send them to third parties to identify it.
Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn’t a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??
Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?
‘The Bear’ writer, Alex O'Keefe was arrested on a train for sitting while Black;
I was arrested on the @MTA train to Connecticut today, pulled off, handcuffed, and detained. An old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting. I refused so she went to the conductor and complained. The conductor called the police and stopped the train. While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said “You’re not the minority anymore.” The police told me to leave the train, I refused and asked what was I doing illegally. They said I was disturbing the peace by not leaving the train. They pulled me off the train and arrested me without even talking to the Karen who reported the one black person on the train. On the platform, the police detained me and interrogated me. Only black folks stayed nearby and recorded the arrest. When I demanded a lawyer and reminded them they didn’t even take a statement from the woman who complained they eventually released me. This country is growing more psycho by the day. What will you do about it?
Disheartening to know that not only did the conductor called and helped the pigs, the non-Black people also just sat by in silence. And yet, it’s utterly unsurprising. Grandma snitching on a Black man for sitting unproperly is pure Carolyn Bryant behaviour and she deserves to die a slow, painful death.
I’m at a diner for breakfast. There’s a post-club girl here in yesterday’s makeup and sweats. Her friend says “Oh my God it’s the 31st.” This girl lifts her head off the table and says ’….. of what?’
The friend orders her breakfast. Recovery girl just kind of stares at the menu.
Friend: “…. She’ll have breakfast potatoes and wheat toast.”
The waitress looks so sympathetic and brings them more water.
I get the feeling that this is a first week of college, freshly 21 thing. They are discussing going to the Dollar Tree for painkillers and Gatorade like it’s a long walk to Mordor.
I need y'all to know that the Dollar Tree is across the street.
Recovery girl is eating potatoes with a spoon and her cheek still on the table. It is a Process. All of a sudden she sits up and declares that “Kermit needs new water.”
It’s unclear who that is, but her friend is very patiently convincing her that Kermit can get new water after Recovery Girl finishes *her* water.
While I was typing this it became somewhat clear that Kermit is a fish? Or some other aquatic pet.
As I’m heading out, Recovery Girl is convincing her friend that she can “definitely handle a cheeseburger.”
May we all have a friend like hers, steadfastly reminding us “you’re a vegetarian, babe” in our darkest hours.
