Haha nice! There was no way to know that from your previous comment 😃

What kind of frame?

That misspelling means you’ve been mispronouncing it, too. (Not in a way that would be noticeable.)

Pro skub, and I am willing to die on this hill. You anti-skubbers are just misinformed, and honestly, bigoted. Come take my skub away, I dare you!

It’s a terrible date but I can see how it creates a bond.

What? You guys are all a bunch of letters on a screen, lol

I’m also pretty jelly that you have three cats who like each other this much!

Kitty feet curled up like that are my greatest weakness

What a weird thing to worry a child about.

Right, but the practicality? It would still be hard and expensive to catch every outlier case such as this one with drug testing.

[edit] I’ve looked it up and in the Netherlands, drug testing is only legal for some very specific professions where there is a risk of serious, large-scale harm such aa for instance pilots, like you mentioned. Other than that, it’s illegal because it’s medical information, and considered too invasive.

What are you suggesting? That they should run a urine test for magic mushrooms on every pilot before every flight? Obviously this was a very bad situation. But what scenario would have prevented this?

I don’t know, I guess so? Most drug tests are severely flawed, because many don’t test if someone is under the influence right now, they can test positive even when it’s longer ago and outside of worktime.

So in essence, you can get fired for being under influence at work, even though you’re not, because these tests are not good enough. And I think that’s nuts, aside from the massive invasion of privacy of giving an employer a claim to you bodily fluids.

Sure, you’re not supposed to use drugs. But is it your employer’s task to enforce the law? No, they’re not the police, and it’s none of their business what people do at home.

The whole workplace drug testing thing is so wild to me. An employer can actually lay claim to your bodily fluids? Absolutely mental.

In the Netherlands, it’s very simple:

• if there are performance problems, then you address your employee’s performance problems.
• if there are no performance problems, then there is no problem and what your employee does in their free time is none of your business.

Ryan?

Such fascinating creatures! Subjectively barely an animal, almost a plant, especially in polyp phase. But so beautiful, and able to navigate, feed and survive, despite not having a brain and barely any nervous system to speak of. They must be very efficient, that they can survive with such low grade hardware.

Thanks for the links, those are great! That first one is very sensory for me - I immediately hear the echoing emptiness of the space, and have the smell of that old linoleum in my nose.

The one with the three cubicles is very strange, one of those pictures that you have to wonder about for a while.

Malls, what a strange cultural artefact to be disappearing.

That was super interesting, thanks for linking that!

I can’t find those, do you have a link to them?

Very cool. I’ve looked at some more of your pictures. I like the ones the most that have buildings but no people, and that have that strange, but not threatening, emptiness.

Your pictures give me a feeling that I can’t describe. Odd but not unpleasant.