Yes, please kill it! *bugs

Also, I smashed a tiny non-cartwheel spider on my computer desk earlier.

That poor desk.

@ChaosEngine
@poolcleaner

I live in Japan and if I were to dive under my desk every time there was an earthquake, I'd be under there at least 3 times a day. Since the 2011 earthquake we've had constant aftershocks, some as strong as 5 and 6 on the Richter scale (which makes the panic seen over California's most recent quake somewhat amusing).

ChaosEngine is correct, you can gauge how bad the earthquake is by the amount of shaking. On March 3rd, 2011--the only time I have actually dived under a table during an earthquake--plates were flying off my kitchen shelves and shattering on the floor.

That said, Japan is a country that is truly prepared for quakes. Any big items you buy like refrigerators or big screen TVs usually come with fasteners to bolt them down so they don't fall over during a quake. The buildings here are incredibly well-engineered to survive a severe quake--very few people during the 3.11 quake were killed by collapsing structures.

Most other countries aren't that prepared. If I were vacationing in a developing country and a quake struck I would probably get the hell out of the building as soon as possible regardless of if it seemed small because I wouldn't trust the engineering to be as sound as it is here.

tldr:

You're both right. You need to use your experience and critical thinking to decide the best course of action in an emergency. And if you don't have any experience with that particular emergency, then you need to trust the people who do have experience to know what they are doing and follow them. For example, if I were ever in an airplane crash the first person I'd look for is the flight attendant to see what they were doing and follow their lead.

F that S. I'm the first to react even when it's not life threatening. srsly... WTF is wrong with people! I know I'm a person too, so inextricably linked with everyone else, but I just don't understand this...

About a month ago there was an earthquake here in California and NO ONE in my office except for me reacted. Literally no one except for myself... that's crazy. WHY!

One guy was from out of state and this was his first quake. Everyone from the leadership of my team was sitting in a conference room nearby my desk, talking about how used to them they all are now; and this ignorant out of state man was saying similar things like "I was watching you guys to see how to react."

After crawling from under my desk, I ran into their room and yelled at them saying they were NOT being very smart and told the guy from (Pennsylvania?) that he should go under a desk if he's in doors and yada yada yada. He scoffed at me.

He scoffed my good advice. Ooooh, ignore the crazy person who actually knows what to goddamn do in an emergency. Why? Well, mostly because I'm an asshole -- but that's the thing, I'm an asshole when I'm right (or believe I'm right -- I am always ready for education when I am wrong).

Of course, as always, for being a contrary and vocal minority I was ridiculed. Office politics and trying to be part of the swarm will get you KILLED. God, you'd think working in a creative industry would weed out fools, but it doesn't. Same dumb asses every where you go.

I'm considering becoming a reasonable person, but goddamn high blood pressure. I need to calm down or I'll die from a heart attack -- caused by fools! Ahh, how fitting.

Ridicule me after I save your fucking life, ingrates.

Man, school looks different from when I attended.

Cups of coffee on desks and laptops and cellphones... but they still have a green board and write with chalk. How quaint.

Too small and far me. I slept through it!!

Under a glass desk?

One you might like:

Jake Bugg NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Never saw it once come near the man's eye? Most idiots knows not to point a laser into someone's eye (be it red green of blue, etc.), and this doesn't look like a couple of idiots.

Easily? Quite the stretch there, Smokey Bear.

Someone who leaves a laser on their desk for the sort of people who will pick it up without asking and stare into it well, who's that sort of person??

You used the word jackass, I'd use another.

Somewhat disturbing that they did this with a green laser. These are just the sort of people who should not be allowed to have one. Reminds me of a coworker worker of mine who saw I had a laser on my desk; she immediately picked it up, pointed it into her eye, and turned it on, while exclaiming "Ohh! laser." Thankfully it was a red laser, and she suffered no real damage.

Anyway the jackass with the green laser could have easily damaged the sleeping guy's vision.

I want a desk that makes the Keno brothers need to change their pants

title is misleading. The message is clearly about porn addiction. It's a very real and serious thing.

And yes, BYU-Idaho has strict standards. Everyone who registers knows about it and agrees to it before they attend. No-one forces those standards on you. If you don't like it there's plenty of other choices. Where you go to college is completely up to you.

I dropped off my niece for freshman semester and they sent her away at the photo-id desk because she was wearing flip-flops. She went back to her room, changed shoes, and got her photo-id.

I have a smartphone, but I dont use it much. Well I do use it much, but 99% of the time as a desk clock/alarm clock. Much prettier and far less power consuming than one of these radio clocks, plus a bigger display and many more options as a clock. Of course I also use it as a smartphone, but very rarely. For example I dont use it to spend my time in the doctors waiting room. I do check my emails when I am out, but only when I have free time, as in taking a break. The most important uses for me on a smartphone are not really usable anyway. Surfing on the Internet is far too clunky with a tiny touch screen and having to turn on GPS and waiting 10 mins for it to get a fix makes using it stupid too. I wont keep GPS on permanently after all this NSA crap and because it simply sucks the battery dry even quicker.

Man, I dunno. Hudson Hawk isn't that much better than this desk.

it's hard to believe this desk and the film Hudson Hawk were made by the same species.

Sweet desk! But the way those side drawers pop out makes my balls nervous.