#Standard Ops

[mentorshelly]

Unleashing Efficiency: The 4 Indispensable Benefits of SOPs in Business

Navigating the complexities of business can be daunting, but with well-crafted Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), your enterprise can move with precision and confidence. Let’s delve into four transformative benefits of SOPs: 1. Unmatched Consistency: SOPs are the secret ingredient to uniform excellence. They ensure every product and service meets your high standards, reflecting the reliability…

[bltchkawa]

Happy birthday kiryu!!!!! (Edit: i changed the background lol)

[mistfallengw2]

OC's Background Relationships Ask Game

Send an ask with OC + emoji (or the corresponding text), get a short ramble about the relationship of that OC with the corresponding side/background characters!

🎲 - Biological parents

👑 - Person who raised your OC and/or was important during their formative years

❓ - Estranged family/relatives they've never met

📎 - Siblings/close family

✨ - Children (current or future)

💎 - Chosen family (including warband)

🧸 - Childhood friends

🏆 - Best friends (past, current or future)

💌 - First crush/love

💋 - First kiss

🌹 - First relationship

🌶️ - First intimacy

💍 - Partners (current or future)

💔 - Exes

🍑 - Notable flings

✏️ - Classmates (including other cubs at the fahrar for charr)

⚙️ - Coworkers/boss (krewe/other charr outside of warband)

🐾 - Pets

🔪 - Enemy/nemesis

💢 - Person they can't stand

⚰️ - Someone they lost (not necessarily dead)

🩹 - Someone who was a source of trauma

🗑️ - "It's complicated"

©️ - Bonus: Canon NPC important to them

[Note: doesn't have to be in-depth, and if something is not applicable to an OC, you get to reroll!]

[stars-obsession-pit]

Skulker decides that being The Last Son of Krypton makes Superman worthy prey.

Clark doesn’t understand Ghost Speech though, so he doesn’t know that that’s Skulker’s goal. All he really knows is that a random robot guy has started repeatedly showing up trying to fight him.

And Skulker’s not like, that dangerous or anything. His ability to turn intangible is a huge hassle, yes, but his weapons don’t do much damage to Superman and he (superman) is fast enough to prevent people being caught in the crossfire.

So he’s just… a really persistent but ultimately not that dangerous threat. Like a cockroach.

[watermelinoe]

that anti separatist post instantly reminded me of how boys' schools seem to turn boys into rotten hellions while they do better in mixed sex schools at the expense of the girls and i gotta say on the surface when applied to human societies as a whole that's not a compelling argument against separatism as feminist praxis. if men need women and children to be their moral compass then maybe separatism is not enough actually. they need to be put down. maybe the next feminist praxis is gangs of women killing men in the streets for bad behavior. a man catcalls a teenage girl and a posse of women descends upon him and sets him on fire. female judge sentences them all to a high five (all male judges have been executed by roving bands of women) and they go out for margaritas after.

like why is anti-separatism of all things presented on here as this shocking and brave concept. women will come on here like hey has anyone thought of this? i have this really novel idea that'll really shake up the status quo okay hear me out what if we continue to stay and have children with men? i know they've been forcing us to do that this whole time and it has never once convinced them to stop oppressing us but what if this time it was like. our idea? we need to get our best people on this. it makes me wanna be like hey you know what we actually haven't tried yet? :) "but i can fix him" wrong. you need to put that man in the ground. for feminism.

[bowenoke]

in scott's pov (ep7) he refers to scar as grian's husband. no one tells him this is not the case. this is because traffic!scott decides who is and is not married like some sort of contractually binding arbiter of love. to me anyways

[runawaymarbles]

one of the stupidest and most glaring example of science being ignored in politics is daylight savings time. every single study ever done says that standard time is better for our health and dst is actively detrimental to peoples' well-being, and yet year-round dst is the one they're all going for. it's insane. three seconds of logical thought should prevent this and YET

[elf-trash]

reposting this bc the OP blocked me (and is blocking anyone else who disagrees which means blocked people can't reblog) and i want to say this loud and with my whole chest!!!!!

another Dragon Age fic was recently outed as being AI, and this is what the writer had to say for themselves about it:

so actually, Grammarly uses generative AI and is just as bad as ChatGPT. it also objectively makes your writing worse, it sucks the voice out of your prose and turns it into corporate sounding homogenized paste. it's also unethical for all the same reasons any generative AI is unethical. get a writing group and have a real human beta read for you if you don't trust yourself to check your own grammar etc. but honestly something unpolished and written entirely by your human brain and human imagination will ALWAYS be better than AI slop.

also, the part about published authors doing this is patently untrue. i know this is a huge problem in the self-publishing space, but most publishers now are including clauses in their contracts that expressly forbid the use of AI in ANY part of the creative process. this includes using ChatGPT to generate or clean up outlines or Grammarly to spellcheck and revise. so if you're trying to publish, don't fucking do this or you could literally be asked to return an advance if you get caught.

i've posted about this in the past, but AI detectors are actually shocking accurate these days. i've tested them extensively recently and they can consistently and correctly flag individual sentences written by ChatGPT in an otherwise original passage. and they almost never flag false positives. so the argument that AI detectors can't be trusted is just flat out wrong. are they correct 100% of the time? no. but can they indicate with a high degree of accuracy if AI was used in some capacity? absolutely, especially if there is additional evidence.

and for all the people hand wringing about AI detectors flagging false positives, let me just say this: if something is not AI written it is very easy to prove. you can't write anything of any considerable length without leaving a massive paper trail of notes and drafts. almost all writing software tracks changes and makes it very easy to prove you wrote something yourself. being falsely being accused of AI isn't actually a real problem and is only being made to seem as such by people who are trying to get away with and justify using AI or who are worried about getting caught.

i think a lot of people are just lured by a seemingly easy shortcut, and to their untrained eye, what the AI is spitting out feels "better" to them than their own writing. but i promise you it's not. trust your own brain and put in the work to improve at your craft rather than outsourcing the gift of your imagination to a robot that steals from other people's work.

i will continue to die on this hill!!!!!

[lord-squiggletits]

*sighs deeply and turns to the microphone again*

I'm reminding IDW1 readers that the reason Optimus felt pain when first bonding with the Matrix has nothing to do with him being "unworthy" or the Matrix thinking he's "not a true leader" and has everything to do with the fact that when he bonded with it, he felt the collective emotion of every single Cybertronian in existence and the strongest emotion all of them were feeling was pain and suffering.

I'm further reminding IDW1 readers that the Matrix doesn't have any divine power or godliness at all and the ability to wield it is solely based on how much a person believes in their own worthiness to wield it, which is exactly how literal colonizer, mass murderer, and caste system creator Nova Prime was able to wield the Matrix back in his day.

Literally the entire climax of Lost Light by JRO is Rodimus doing a pep talk to get everyone on the ship hyped/confident enough to feel worthy to wield a bunch of Matrixes. The whole fucking point of that ending was to show that "worthiness" isn't something only to be bestowed on a single chosen hero but rather a sense of self-worth that anyone is capable of achieving with enough faith.

Can people please please please stop with these insinuations/misbeliefs that because OP felt pain upon bonding with the Matrix it's somehow a sign of his inherent sin/unworthiness/shittiness/narrative evilness and actually read the comics they're making assumptions about? I beg.

[oze511111]

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[icedteaandoldlace]

Some realizations/observations gained from reading The Outsiders after seeing the movie first:

Ponyboy doesn't actually like Dallas very much. Funnily enough, my feelings about Dally mirrored Pony's as the story progressed, and he started to grow on both of us around the same time.

Steve has more of a presence (and thus, more personality) in the book, and isn't just there as extra padding for the cast. Also, his and Soda's friendship is one of the best things about the post-fire portion of the book. I'd kill to see them embroiled in a game of Monopoly or Pit with the rest of the gang.

Dally and Johnny both give Ponyboy the opposite advice the day they die because they both want to protect him, but in different ways. Dally tells him to get tough and hardened so he won't end up dying because he helped someone, like Johnny; Johnny tells him not to change, because helping people and getting excited about things like sunsets makes life more worthwhile (and he wants him to rub off on Dally so Dally can have some joy in his life).

"I hate fights" was partially the truth, but I am convinced that the reason Cherry so quickly switched gears and agreed to leave with Bob was because she was thinking about what Ponyboy had just told her, and she was trying to protect Johnny, because she already knew that Bob was the one who had attacked him and given him his scar.

Johnny was held back a year in school and Ponyboy was bumped ahead, which puts them in the same grade.

I've already mentioned this before, but I'm still not over Ponyboy being a Pepsi addict and Sodapop being horse crazy. Boys, you had one job.

Sodapop is middle child syndrome and undiagnosed ADHD personified.

Johnny was jumped in the spring, four months before the story begins. At some point Ponyboy mentions that it's fall when the story is taking place, and this is also evidenced in the fact that it's cool out and school is in session, placing the events of the story in September. And Mr. and Mrs. Curtis died eight months prior, which would be in January, so Ponyboy's just straight up having the worst year of his life.

I could not, for the life of me, figure out why Johnny "the most law-abiding of us" Cade idolized Dally so much when so much of Dally's personality and behavior is in direct contradiction to Johnny's personal values—and of all fucking things, this post is the thing that made me finally understand it.

The newspaper article's existence makes so much more sense when you know the boys were talking to a bunch of reporters in the hospital.

The gang's dynamic makes so much more sense, too, partially because they get more actual scenes together, and partially because of Ponyboy's narration explaining stuff.

Ponyboy hates to watch movies with other people because he likes to get sucked into the plots without any distractions, and having anyone else with him feels like having someone read over his shoulder. AND YET he went to see Gone With the Wind with Johnny AND later read the book aloud to him.

Some scenes in the movie make Johnny more relaxed than he was in the book, and some make him even more of a nervous wreck, and it's interesting how he reacts to the same scenarios differently without ever seeming out of character. In the movie when Two-Bit sneaks up on him at the drive-in, he does jump out of his skin initially, but he quickly recovers and goes right to sassing him, but in the book he has a full blown anxiety attack that it takes him several minutes to recover from, because he legitimately thought he was getting jumped again. When the Socs approach him in the park in the book, Ponyboy can see that he's panicking on the inside, but to anyone who doesn't know him well, he appears calm and tough on the outside. He also stays steady after killing Bob, even while Ponyboy's screaming his head off. While in the movie, he's outwardly jumpy when the Socs show up, and he's in clear shock after killing Bob, with a lot of shaking and stammering. There are quite a few more switch-ups like this, but book!Johnny and movie!Johnny both still feel like the exact same person regardless.

[introspectivememories]

you know how the universe tries to tear itself apart whenever gumball's dad tries to get a job? the universe does the same thing whenever it looks like there might even be a chance of shank and buggy working things out.

[catenary-chad]

wacky alternate direction for Joule- make her a heated boxcar to complement Volta being a refrigerated one. They’re not as common irl but there was a famous Lionel toy based on them, and the irl basis was just as bright!

They carried potatoes, using onboard stoves to keep them from freezing in New England. Potato hauler sounds hilarious but hear me out: potato batteries are a thing. It even pairs with how citrus products are among the most famous refrigerated car products and also can be used as improvised batteries!

Not entirely sure how much they were electric-hauled irl, but they weren’t far from the northeastern electrified lines so they likely were to some degree.

(as a tragicomic bonus, these cars were lost in a yard somewhere by Penn Central and bankrupted a ton of people when most of the Maine potato crop was ruined, which fits with the popular fanon that Joule has ADHD. Losing things has a notable history with them…)

I’m partial to making the Components based on fast freight, especially if it has ties to the electric lines of the northeast US. It’s a job up there with “subway” that’s almost exclusively the domain of electric trains since the power needed to move heavier trains quickly is very hard to achieve if you’re hauling your own fuel/engine around (see how the CC 40100s were 5-6k horsepower vs “2700” and that’s low vs newer electric engines)

[falloutconfessions]

"I would give my non existent left nut to have a proper Fallout game set in the upper Midwest, or at least let us explore the post war Twin Cities, like please! I wanna see what happened to my home state when the bombs dropped and how it fared since then. We have like, little to NO info about the states around there in canon and I have a mighty need to see it filled out finally."

Fallout Confessions

[ariadne-mouse]

"And you are sure these are edible?" "Ja. Well, sort of." "What does 'sort of' mean, Caleb Widogast?"

Here is Shadowgast in the style of Scavengers Reign!

Yes, this is a transparent and blatant attempt to pspspsps my fellow fans of Critical Role into watching this series. The first season is airing now on Netflix as of May 31st. They picked it up after Max did not renew it for a second season, and will decide based on the reception now whether to continue - so I am hoping that lots of people discover the show and love it! The animation studio is Titmouse, who also produces The Legend of Vox Machina.

It's like a Miyazaki-esque Annihilation. Cosmic horror and cosmic wonder in equal and necessary parts. If you like the funky biology parts of Candela Obscura, give this a shot. There is horror. There is humanity. There is hope and connection. There are creatures of all shapes and sizes, including a wonderful amount of tiny idiots, which I have made many compilation posts about. It's a setting where you can envision David Attenborough peacefully narrating a nature documentary about it, but be horrified the same time. Just an absolutely incredible show.

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

when i was a potty training toddler 30 years ago i was placed in the middle of the kitchen on the baby potty while my grandma gossiped on the phone and washed dishes

modern toddlers get to sit in privacy in the bathroom on the baby potty and listen to the work it out wombats podcast on their parent's phones