was explaining to my mom on the phone the concept of a cosmic horror and she hit me with the one hit k.o. of “oh you mean like horton hears a who?”
Explain???
me: yeah so basically a cosmic horror is the fear of a godlike being or entity so much bigger than yourself and your perception of the universe that your brain cant possibly comprehend it, often leading to some sort of madness in the stories because of this “break” in your perception of reality because this entity is so incomprehensible to your limited worldview. the concept is credited to h.p. lovecraft because of stuff like cthulu but the guy was also a massive-
my mom, interjecting: ah, so like horton hears a who. i get it.
I chatted with a friend of mine who was once a commercial first mate. Based on her deep experience on large commercial vessels worldwide, she had some interesting thoughts on the Suez Evergreen incident and why we should not call the captain a fuckup
1) The “Suez Authority” is nothing. Suez has a pilot system but, they are notoriously awful; preferring to stand around smoking and drinking coffee while the captain does the work
2) For this reason, companies only allow their most experienced captains to ply the canal, especially on the mega ships
3) Many of the other ships held back due to high winds but, this vessel went ahead. Why would the captain make such a reckless decision?
It was a choice between risking his career and absolutely losing his career.It was more than likely the company’s decision to go ahead with the transit. His slightly too high speed was possibly due to the fact he’d lost time waiting. If he refused, he would have been fired.He did as he was ordered and he, not the executives who ordered him to proceed, will be held accountable.
He was a veteran captain whose career is now over because of an an impossible choice.This goes to show that we don’t know the whole story as well as we think we do. For myself, I now feel for the captain rather than think of him as an idiot.
Knowing a greater number of grown adults are washing their hands. With water AND soap.
More outdoor seating at restaurants in urban areas. That needed to catch on here in America anyway
Online access to jobs which have traditionally been cited as being “impossible” to do from home, thus preventing a large percentage of disabled people from being able to work or attend online classes.
Increased availability of sick time, and a workplace culture that demands to you stay home, recover, and get paid to do so.
being able to kick customers out of stores for not following policy and being rude
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
