ImplyingImplications

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

Labour grinder could mean his workers (labourers) are worked (grinded) to the bone.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago

Dogs with fricken laser beams attached to their eyes

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 53 points 11 months ago

I was a funeral director in Ontario, Canada. The law here is that the contract you sign with the crematorium will have a cremation number which will be stamped into a metal disk and that disk will be placed with the remains. After cremation, the disk will be in the cremated remains. People who receive the cremated remains can check that the number on the disk matches the number on the contract they signed.

This system stops honest mistakes but nothing stops people from intentionally swapping disks. Say a funeral home worker is filling urns with a batch of cremated remains they recieved from the crematorium. They accidentally put remains A into the urn for family B and remains B into the urn for family A. The worker should swap the remains...but swaping the disks is easier. Most people I've worked with would do the right thing but the system still relies on people being honest.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

...on what?

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'll be saying the same thing to her later 😎

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

There was a study done where police K9 units where told they'd be testing the accuracy of the dog's ability to find drugs. In actuality, they were testing the handlers. Handlers were told drugs were hidden in a certain location, but there wasn't actually drugs there. Despite that, all their dogs alerted several times to the location the handlers were told about.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People really be studying linear algebra during post nut clarity

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I almost had never seen people mocking smokers for example or even people who are addicted to drugs, while it's normalized to mock fat people

I feel this is because things like smoking, drinking, and drug use are all immediately recognized as addictions people can struggle to overcome, but the same isn't true for over eating. Even anorexia is clearly thought of as an eating disorder, but do obese people have an eating disorder? I'd say they do. I think the only reason it's not thought of as a disorder is because it's so common.

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