This happened in Troy, Michigan so could be diversity hire related but was definitely illiterate as there was a sign on the door in big bold text saying not turn them off and how to stop the beeping.
I'm just waiting for some diversity hire to not wash their hands after working at a biolab handling smallpox at this point..
That's what you get when borders are a free for all, when few people speak the official language and when companies hire the lowest bidder.
Fun fact: here in Germany they are currently discussing dropping a bunch of subjects from elementary school and pushing more German classes because children are barely able to speak German anymore.
At the same time they have lowered language requirements for government jobs (like cops) and are even discussing dropping German requirements for immigrants and adding additional official languages to immigration offices.
The West is fucked in its quest to cater to the dumbest people in the whole world.
Speaking of which, I hit the wrong button on my controller and came across the most absurd PBS kids teaching program where a teacher was trying to teach basic arithmetic while doing jumping jacks and squats.
IE "Is 4x4=18 true? No, it's false!" And she proceeds to do squats on camera. Utterly bizarre.
I assume kids were supposed to follow along, and that the entire thing was based on some idiotic notion that adding in exercises would somehow help promote the learning process for individuals who learn... math better that way? Frankly I don't get it.
Well it didn't show any kids, it was one of those kind of education programs a teacher in an IRL classroom setting would just turn on and have the students watch or follow along with.
The "teacher" I was describing in my previous comment was the instructor in the video itself, performing the exercises while teaching arithmetic. It's really tough to describe, and unfortunately, I've not had any luck trying to dig up any similar videos online.
Closest search results I can find are called "Math Facts to Jumping Jacks". Which somehow aren't nearly as cringe as what I saw.
There are some studies that indicate incorporating a physical aspect to learning that allows it to stick in with people who have difficulty just sitting in a desk being lectured at. Which isn't too out there, the best way to learn the rules of a sport is to play it and you can translate a lot of that to most types of learning. Additionally there isn't anything wrong with getting kids to practice basic aerobic exercise so that they can do so in the future without the complaint of. "Well no one taught me how to do a push up or squat."
Oh I pretty much figured that's what the conceptual basis was centered on, it was mostly the execution and application in this instance that struck me as so totally bizarre and cringe.
I always found it funny that the bleak future where everyone was poor was full of Latinos. They probably thought that it would show how oppressed Latinos are, but in reality it just shows how the future will go to shit when the majority of the population is Latino.
At the same time they have lowered language requirements for government jobs
This is always amusing and infuriating, as the near eradication of Cajun French as a language happened because the government mandated "English is the official language, so its the only one spoken at government workplaces" and suddenly every kid had to know English so it forced the choice onto parents just enough that less and less people learned it and its nearly dead now.
I was going to say that's what they get for diversity hires, but you know no one is pulling the race card to be a janitor. So rather, they probably should have chosen a few languages other than English for their sign if they wanted it to have a chance of working
But if you're storing the lifetime achievements of an entire department in a fridge, you'd think they'd add a few steps and/or build in some redundancy. You know, just so that some inattentive (or rogue) employee can't nuke your entire professional life.
I worked at a place that had sample freezers (IT). Each freezer had multiple power sources and there was no way short of taking an axe and hacking through the cables to switch them off. Plus if anyone even looked at them funny SMS messages went out to dozens of people.
Whoever set up the freezers should be in just as much trouble as the janitor.
Sounds like the freezers were undergoing some form of repair, so they may have had those redundancies initially but the repairs required them to be taken off.
How is this an Atlas Shrugged moment at all? This isn't someone intentionally destroying research because they're sick of a corrupt society that doesn't reward intelligence or ingenuity. This is an idiot screwing up at work.
It's Atlas Shrugged in that a catastrophic decline in standards and competence is inevitable in a society that abandons (and vilifies) merit. It's not a 1:1 match with the circumstances of the book, but the spirit is the same.
Atlas Shrugged is about the rebellion of John Galt, but it's more about the ruin caused by weak, petty and jealous men with weak, petty and jealous ideas. That ruin didn't occur because the great men abandoned society - it occurred because society abandoned the great men.
It showed a civilization that destroyed itself over progressive ideals and then turned on the people who still had standards and principles, openly despising and devaluing them but parasitically living off their efforts. But most importantly, those parasites could never, ever admit that they were wrong, and that their worthless ideas had failed them. It's not a stretch to imagine that the worthless ideas of our own delusional progressives (mass immigration, affirmative action, rejecting standards as racist) directly led to this outcome.
Of all the fictional dystopias, our trajectory most closely matches Atlas Shrugged. With a heavy helping of 1984, of course.
Don't forget Brave New World. I've never found 1984 particularly compelling because living in squalor and oppression is pretty much the one thing that can get the masses off their butts and revolt.
That's why China and Russia turned to communism, because life under the Czar and warlords was so shitty. And it's why so many countries eventually through off the yoke of communism, because that's a pretty shitty life too.
What was compelling about Brave New World is that if you package oppression as comfort and a life of leisure, people eat it right up.
Admittedly I haven't read Brave New World yet, just a summary. I see what you mean about 1984, but it's scarily predictive of just how effective propaganda, the fabrication of enemies and emergencies, and the redefinition of words can be, and how effectively leveraging them (and plain old fear) can make people abandon their own interests.
People still have their bread and circuses, and without those I'm sure they would revolt, but they have been very quick to submit to their own subjugation even on things they truly hated, like lockdowns.
Getting the masses to accept squalor without comfort might not seem terribly likely right now, but I think on a long enough timeline, if you can gradually condition their expectations, tinker with their awareness until the truth is completely obfuscated, and turn them against those few who are capable of seeing through it, you can get them to accept anything.
The biggest mistake of our current overlords (aside from believing their their own propaganda and falling into the same decline of competence they're inflicting on the world at large) is moving too fast.
All that is to say I don't find a 1984 scenario particularly implausible, and it's more than a little relevant to our current circumstances. I'll make sure to read Brave New World, though.
Because the intelligent people left or don't care enough to stop the retards employing people that are not capable of the tasks to the extent they will damage the assets of the company.
It's long con sabotage than a direct form of destruction.
This happened in Troy, Michigan so could be diversity hire related but was definitely illiterate as there was a sign on the door in big bold text saying not turn them off and how to stop the beeping.
I'm just waiting for some diversity hire to not wash their hands after working at a biolab handling smallpox at this point..
Byotossin contamnayshun iz jus part o dey culcha, cracka, fr fr
Is that a drug realted to Robitussin?
Abbie Normal?
Just one more reason to be racist.
That's what you get when borders are a free for all, when few people speak the official language and when companies hire the lowest bidder.
Fun fact: here in Germany they are currently discussing dropping a bunch of subjects from elementary school and pushing more German classes because children are barely able to speak German anymore.
At the same time they have lowered language requirements for government jobs (like cops) and are even discussing dropping German requirements for immigrants and adding additional official languages to immigration offices.
The West is fucked in its quest to cater to the dumbest people in the whole world.
Speaking of which, I hit the wrong button on my controller and came across the most absurd PBS kids teaching program where a teacher was trying to teach basic arithmetic while doing jumping jacks and squats.
IE "Is 4x4=18 true? No, it's false!" And she proceeds to do squats on camera. Utterly bizarre.
I assume kids were supposed to follow along, and that the entire thing was based on some idiotic notion that adding in exercises would somehow help promote the learning process for individuals who learn... math better that way? Frankly I don't get it.
Were the kids exercising as well? If not, then I don't know what the hell the teacher was trying to do.
Well it didn't show any kids, it was one of those kind of education programs a teacher in an IRL classroom setting would just turn on and have the students watch or follow along with.
The "teacher" I was describing in my previous comment was the instructor in the video itself, performing the exercises while teaching arithmetic. It's really tough to describe, and unfortunately, I've not had any luck trying to dig up any similar videos online.
Closest search results I can find are called "Math Facts to Jumping Jacks". Which somehow aren't nearly as cringe as what I saw.
There are some studies that indicate incorporating a physical aspect to learning that allows it to stick in with people who have difficulty just sitting in a desk being lectured at. Which isn't too out there, the best way to learn the rules of a sport is to play it and you can translate a lot of that to most types of learning. Additionally there isn't anything wrong with getting kids to practice basic aerobic exercise so that they can do so in the future without the complaint of. "Well no one taught me how to do a push up or squat."
Oh I pretty much figured that's what the conceptual basis was centered on, it was mostly the execution and application in this instance that struck me as so totally bizarre and cringe.
We are at the point where having those robots out of Elysium might be the only way to save humanity
I'd rather have this on the streets than our current predicament.
Those robots are obviously racist against bald white men.
I always found it funny that the bleak future where everyone was poor was full of Latinos. They probably thought that it would show how oppressed Latinos are, but in reality it just shows how the future will go to shit when the majority of the population is Latino.
This is always amusing and infuriating, as the near eradication of Cajun French as a language happened because the government mandated "English is the official language, so its the only one spoken at government workplaces" and suddenly every kid had to know English so it forced the choice onto parents just enough that less and less people learned it and its nearly dead now.
Should've eradicated Cajuns
We called the coonass for a reason, because like the ignoble coon we will find a way to scrounge back alive and thriving.
What language are they speaking? English?
Children in Germany? Mostly Turkish and Arabic, to a lesser extent a bunch of south eastern European and African languages.
English is actually one of the classes they're planning to drop in elementary school.
It's not just children though. If you go to a supermarket and listen to people, almost nobody speaks German anymore.
I was going to say that's what they get for diversity hires, but you know no one is pulling the race card to be a janitor. So rather, they probably should have chosen a few languages other than English for their sign if they wanted it to have a chance of working
... why the fuck was the off-switch even in a place the janitor had access to?
It wasn't even an off switch, he turned off the circuit breaker....
Why the fuck was THAT accessible, makes even less sense...
Custodians having access to maintenance areas makes perfect sense. Not even shitposting.
Maintenance areas? sure.
But if you're storing the lifetime achievements of an entire department in a fridge, you'd think they'd add a few steps and/or build in some redundancy. You know, just so that some inattentive (or rogue) employee can't nuke your entire professional life.
In which case part of the blame now falls on the scientists for treating their work so flippantly that a single switch was able to nuke all of it.
Not having backups and redundancies is basically assuring this will happen to you, in any field and any type of work.
Dunno about your workplace, but the guy that mops our floors definitely can't get into the breaker room.
We know it's not black this time
what dat beep is
Considering how much of modern science is being used to enslave and sicken society, good on the Janitor.
Wait, this was three years ago?
Yep, it probably took a while to assess the full damage of this incident but it's in the news now for the multi million dollar lawsuit for damages.
I worked at a place that had sample freezers (IT). Each freezer had multiple power sources and there was no way short of taking an axe and hacking through the cables to switch them off. Plus if anyone even looked at them funny SMS messages went out to dozens of people.
Whoever set up the freezers should be in just as much trouble as the janitor.
Sounds like the freezers were undergoing some form of repair, so they may have had those redundancies initially but the repairs required them to be taken off.
How is this an Atlas Shrugged moment at all? This isn't someone intentionally destroying research because they're sick of a corrupt society that doesn't reward intelligence or ingenuity. This is an idiot screwing up at work.
It's Atlas Shrugged in that a catastrophic decline in standards and competence is inevitable in a society that abandons (and vilifies) merit. It's not a 1:1 match with the circumstances of the book, but the spirit is the same.
Atlas Shrugged is about the rebellion of John Galt, but it's more about the ruin caused by weak, petty and jealous men with weak, petty and jealous ideas. That ruin didn't occur because the great men abandoned society - it occurred because society abandoned the great men.
It showed a civilization that destroyed itself over progressive ideals and then turned on the people who still had standards and principles, openly despising and devaluing them but parasitically living off their efforts. But most importantly, those parasites could never, ever admit that they were wrong, and that their worthless ideas had failed them. It's not a stretch to imagine that the worthless ideas of our own delusional progressives (mass immigration, affirmative action, rejecting standards as racist) directly led to this outcome.
Of all the fictional dystopias, our trajectory most closely matches Atlas Shrugged. With a heavy helping of 1984, of course.
Don't forget Brave New World. I've never found 1984 particularly compelling because living in squalor and oppression is pretty much the one thing that can get the masses off their butts and revolt.
That's why China and Russia turned to communism, because life under the Czar and warlords was so shitty. And it's why so many countries eventually through off the yoke of communism, because that's a pretty shitty life too.
What was compelling about Brave New World is that if you package oppression as comfort and a life of leisure, people eat it right up.
Admittedly I haven't read Brave New World yet, just a summary. I see what you mean about 1984, but it's scarily predictive of just how effective propaganda, the fabrication of enemies and emergencies, and the redefinition of words can be, and how effectively leveraging them (and plain old fear) can make people abandon their own interests.
People still have their bread and circuses, and without those I'm sure they would revolt, but they have been very quick to submit to their own subjugation even on things they truly hated, like lockdowns.
Getting the masses to accept squalor without comfort might not seem terribly likely right now, but I think on a long enough timeline, if you can gradually condition their expectations, tinker with their awareness until the truth is completely obfuscated, and turn them against those few who are capable of seeing through it, you can get them to accept anything.
The biggest mistake of our current overlords (aside from believing their their own propaganda and falling into the same decline of competence they're inflicting on the world at large) is moving too fast.
All that is to say I don't find a 1984 scenario particularly implausible, and it's more than a little relevant to our current circumstances. I'll make sure to read Brave New World, though.
Because the intelligent people left or don't care enough to stop the retards employing people that are not capable of the tasks to the extent they will damage the assets of the company.
It's long con sabotage than a direct form of destruction.
Turns out, it's important to pay people enough to care to be good at their jobs.