OQB @TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world

Cybersecurity

radio access network (cell coverage)

Road asphalt/concrete/whatever the fuck it is these days.

You might notice it immediately after a stretch has been repaved/freshly paved, but once you're driving over it daily, you tend to not notice it.

However... if it's badly done with bumps or dips or mounds, it's definitely noticeable.

Finally, if it's not done at all and the road is a mess of potholes is impossible to not notice.

Basically, everything involving IT

Plasterboard joins.

Basic personal hygiene

Painting cars is the ultimate job of invisibility. Your biggest triumphs as a painter are jobs that go entirely unnoticed.

Government.

Schooling, common public services.

Idk. A lot of shitty infrastructure that works can go by unnoticed for a long time. So not everything in IT. Just when it breaks or isnt maintained.

Yes, you're absolutely right. I was thinking more about maintenance, so that the infrastructure doesn't break down in the first place, which would definitely be noticeable.

Disease prevention.

Everyone hates on disease prevention when it works (“Why should we wear masks?!?”) but wants to know what went wrong when it doesn’t work (“10,000 people died from a disease that was preventable. Why didn’t you tell us to wear masks?!?”).

Wiping.

You gotta wash your ass, if you must / You gotta wash your hair, if you must / You gotta brush your teeth, if you must / Or else you'll be funky

Data backups.

Finger banging.

niche example, Science paper writing+ research experiements, might be only for people who are into the type of research your reading. it looks GOOD on paper, but its very noticebale by the lack of followthrough research for those who look for details in your experiment and cant replicate it. if something sounds too good to be true like certain research from china, and they couldnt back it up, yea something is really wrong, like how they allegedly changed the dna of babies.

good on paper, as the stuff you read in magazine articles for the lay person, but none of the technical data that are from Research papers.

autoclaving, i remember i was watching someon yt how they worked in a hospital and they had to destroy surgical instruments of PRION- disease patients, rather than cleaning it

epidemiology of diseases, yea when china hid both news and data of sars 1 and 2 something was wrong when it was showing up magically in many countries at once.

Unironically steak.

Dishes

Makeup and plastic surgery