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Is there a name for the phenomenon where an overly-cautious alert system will actually have the reverse effect and make people under-cautious from the desensitization?

Given the choice of an over-sensitive smoke detector or an under-sensitive one, you'd reason the over-sensitive one is better. Except if it's TOO over-sensitive to the point of constant false alarms, all it does is train an entire building's worth of people to ignore the fire alarm.

A pedestrian walk-light that only turns green when in the absolute safest configuration even when there are ample other times for the pedestrians to walk is a walk-light that trains all the locals to walk when the pedestrian light is red.

A doctor's emergency pager that goes off for every even-maybe-potential-emergency is not an emergency pager anymore. An email that gets CC'd for every single potentially relevant email becomes a useless email address. A console output with 1,000 warnings is just as useful as a console output with 0.

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huge shoutout to everyone who started their blog when they were teenagers and now they are in their 20s and 30s

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✨The Beauty of Jupiter ✨

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the idea that people experiencing severe pain should be screaming, crying, flailing, and otherwise seeming to be in pain is largely unsupported by reality. is this a response that some people have to some kinds of pain? absolutely. should people who don't respond to pain in this way be dismissed or disbelieved? absolutely not.

ask anyone who deals with chronic pain. it would be exhausting to constantly project our pain in that way, and in some cases, it would make it worse. when i have a migraine, my voice becomes monotone and quiet, my movements slow down, and i don't emote much. this is my natural response to the pain, and doing helps me avoid making it worse.

i become that clip of captain holt saying, completely monotone with a deadpan delivery: "I am in... incredible pain." screaming, emoting, rapidly moving, even crying only make my pain worse. and when i'm experiencing a level of pain that would send abled people to the emergency room, the last thing i want to do is make it worse.

i shouldn't have to perform pain in order for you to believe me.

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i love when boomers complain about shit like this because as a fast food worker i would literally rather walk out into the lobby and shoot myself in the head than suggest more than one menu item to a customer

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Exploring beautiful gardens of Ribeira dos Caldeirões. 🏡🌿

© Ilya Ivanov, July 2022 📷 Photo by: @ilyaivan0v — instagram

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scenario where someone tries to out clark as superman to his colleagues and clark’s daily planet team look over their shoulder to clark and he’s just standing like this

immediately they just begin shouting this person down like are you HEARTLESS. superman stopped a waylaid bullet train on tuesday. you’d put this guy [gestures wildly at clark] in front of a BULLET TRAIN? why i oughta….

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I love you cellulite . I love you strech marks. I love you laugh lines. I love you crows feet. I love you scars. I love you birthmarks. I love you graying hair. I love you body that has been lived in.

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I think an important instinct you have to build up when you read/watch sci-fi is discerning which things are givens. If Arrival tells you that the alien language is atemporal, it is, that's not a puzzle for you to pick apart, it's a prerequisite to getting the rest of the story. When I talk sci-fi with people who don't consume a lot of it this seems to be a thing they get hung up on.

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Putting this here because apparently Tesla wants it taken down and the og post was already deleted.

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Met this lady on a hike recently, and she reminded me autumn is close

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The worst thing ever is when you can tell someone's a youngest/only child