What’s the arbitrary line between avoiding people who use slurs vs people who annoy you and make your online experience worse?

I think it’s mega presumptuous to judge what other people should tolerate online.

Ew

We’re going to run out of pvc soon 😥

Not an expert but I am a chemical engineer and that means everyone thinks I know how to make meth.

I think the main reason is that fires in stills are self limiting. The process is creating the fuel (ethanol vapours) and once the still goes boom it’s not creating more vapor. So explosion, but no ongoing fire.

Chem lab fires come from the reagents, like red phosphorus and lithium metal. So you have stashes of this stuff sitting around so if it catches fire the fire has lots of fuel.

*Etobicoke

(I kid, I love Etobicoke. I’m an Alderwood/Long Branch girl)

For everyone else, this is either the Up Express (the train from downtown to the airport, with a few stops along the way) or the actual airport train. So yeah, the area at the airport is spaghetti highway hell.

What’s wrong with blockers users when you don’t like what they say? If someone is spewing slurs you bet I’m blocking them. I don’t need that in my life.

No I don’t

I want safely designed plants and people who work at them to know how to work safe

Now imagine a contract manufacturing plant that hires line workers through temp agencies and you can understand why I am yearning for a safe chemE job

(I walked out of that place btw)

Just going to vent into the void

I have a coworker (peer, different trade) who constantly disagrees with me about things but it’s really clear he doesn’t understand what I am saying so he’s disagreeing with his inaccurate interpretation. It’s exhausting. I spend so much time pushing back on things I shouldn’t have to.

It’s 50/50 if I am communicating poorly or he doesn’t have the technical background to understand. He does not need to know these things! That’s why I have my job and he has his! If it’s something that needs to be put into practice I will walk him through it and get his buy in. He could just ask for clarification rather than sending me long emails telling me he won’t do what I’m asking (I wasn’t asking??? Or telling!!!)

As an example, something is happening outside of the normal parameters it can be expected to happen at. I write a report and mention it, and I say “x standard calculation may not be applicable to this system” and he reads it as me saying his staff has to take extra measurements 😭😭😭

Firstly, those measurements wouldn’t solve the problem and where did I say that?

I’ve been a chemical engineer for 13 years, it was a joke about it being safe. One of my first jobs was with hydrofluoric acid 😂

Lmao where can I get one of those chemical engineering jobs? Please

Damn, I am manifesting this energy for myself in 2026

There is nothing more canadian than being smug about not being american.

Mitigating factors for me:

• it’s signed by Hitler and he had the signature authenticated
• he decided to call the person who publicized that he owned this book a communist for some reason? Presumably with negative connotations.

I don’t know fuck all about this guy, but it’s not a good look.

You’re right about that! I just thought the controversy in BC was about safe supply, but I am out of the loop and not doing a good job googling.

I worked at Dundas and Victoria for years, just around the corner from the safe injection site for years and the only way you could tell it was there was the sign. I know they were never without controversy but it would suck if they were facing increased backlash.

Can you confirm you mean safe injection sites and not safe supply?

Help me understand.

What is not toxic to you:

• A person has a disability which makes task x difficult to perform.
• Everyone agrees that this person has this disability and that this disability makes it hard to perform task x
• If they try to perform task x they may not understand they are doing it incorrectly, again because of the disability that everyone agrees is real and this person has.
• no one is expected to create an environment where task x is made easier
• when this person fails at task x, it is treated as a moral failing
• inability to perform task x puts access to fundamental needs at risk

What is toxic:

• being told that you do not understand the experience that someone is trying to express

Is this accurate?

I feel this in my chest lol

Lol sob 😭

“You need to learn to say no, because you are working well beyond your capacity and you need to take care of yourself”

Literally every time I say no it’s seen as the beginning of a negotiation. I’m not being vague either. “Here is some data. I don’t have time to review it with you today. Have a look and we’ll discuss next week.” Somehow that is interpreted as “Waltz into my office right now and ask about the data”

Or “I am not looking after that, go speak to (other engineer)” becomes 'Potato is handling it"

And like, these people are peers at best. They aren’t trying to politely tell me I’m not doing my job or something.

The absolute worst is “I’m going to need to sit with the info you gave me before I can respond” becomes them just repeating themselves or trying to tell me what my response might be. Or when I say “I actually can’t remember, but I can look it up” becomes them guessing. Not only have they completely ignored what I said to them, I’m now 100% checked out and every last drop of executive function is gone.

…doing rocket science for the nazis.

He wrote of Hitler:

Yet, he also wrote that “to us, Hitler was still only a pompous fool with a Charlie Chaplin moustache”[31] and that he perceived him as “another Napoleon” who was “wholly without scruples, a godless man who thought himself the only god”.[32]

And

Later, von Braun said: “I have very deep and sincere regret for the victims of the V-2 rockets, but there were victims on both sides…A war is a war, and when my country is at war, my duty is to help win that war.”[1]: 351

Further, he knew how to flee when his life was under threat:

Nearing the end of the war, Hitler instructed SS troops to gas all technical men concerned with rocket development.[70] Upon hearing this, von Braun commandeered a train and fled with other “technical men” to a location in the mountains of South Germany. After some time, von Braun and many of the others who made it to the mountains left their location to flee to advancing American lines in Austria.[33]

Von Braun and several members of the engineering team, including Dornberger, made it to Austria.[74] On 2 May 1945, upon finding an American private from the U.S. 44th Infantry Division, von Braun’s brother and fellow rocket engineer, Magnus, approached the soldier on a bicycle, calling out in broken English: “My name is Magnus von Braun. My brother invented the V-2. We want to surrender.”[17][75]

Yeah fuck this guy and fuck everyone working on weapons to this day.

I’m an engineer. I solve problems. But I don’t solve problems that involve killing people and ignoring my fucked up government.