The “plug or fill” translation was a user submission, not a real translation.I didn’t know if i should go with or i wish we could do two!
The “plug or fill” translation was a user submission, not a real translation.I didn’t know if i should go with or i wish we could do two!
That’s ok i was just laughing in general.The “plug or fill” translation was a user submission, not a real translation.
Names rarely are. The translation of "mouth" does make it even more funny though.not a real translation.
Today's under-30's only want to live in the world created by those who came before them, not maintain it.
Thanks for the real experience here. The White Noise movie is a crazy coincidence, indeed.What’s absolutely bizarre is they filmed the movie white noise around the same spot and even used locals as extras. Movie starts out with a train wreck spewing a toxic cloud that wreaks havoc. Sure seams like predictive programming. I work for another railroad, they absolutely cut corners with hazardous materials when it benefits the company. Skeleton crews, forced overtime, four scheduled days off a month, good luck asking for a day off. When I hired one ten years ago it was a highly in demand job, I was one of 35 in my class with hundreds of applicants. Now we can’t even hire a class of 20, and retain less than half of that when training is over. Word is out railroads are a horrible place to work.
Hell yeah. I'm 35, and the world I need to function in is vastly different than the world my parents had. I work my ass off. My partner has a PhD, and it took her 20+ years of 70hr work weeks just to be able to buy a modest house. She did everything our parent's generation told her to do...and still struggled.Oh God, that is rich. Baby boomers were born into a strong economy they inherited from the real heroes, the Greatest Generation followed by the Silent Generation. Boomers didn't build squat - they slowly sort of maintained while easing up on the quality because it was more profitable that way. All the WW2 love babies did was squander everything and take what wasn't nailed down. Environmental capital and regulations built around fair treatment being their chief spoils.
Being born Gen X or later is like starting Monopoly mid-game. The terms of the game have changed since the 40s and the 50s. No longer can a single middle class earner purchase a home and support a family on their one salary while saving a nest egg and going on one or two vacations per year. Those days are dead and we're playing a new game now.
I'm not sure he even knows what his point is, other than he sees anyone who's angry about a massive chemical spill is just whining cause grandpa got electrocuted...or, something.I'm sorry to admit that I'm completely missing the point you've been trying to make in this thread, George. From what I've read, @Jaylotw is not asking us all to believe more strongly in the hopes that will change reality. He seems to be calling for awareness of and outcry over the historic trend of industry leaders and politicians prioritizing profit over safety, while skirting as best he can the specific calls to action this forum might shun as overtly political. There are numerous examples over the years of movements to regulate industry for the better or enhance worker's rights/safety, so I can't imagine you're suggesting that's just wide eyed optimism on his part.
Again, I don't understand your point. No one here is suggesting you lobby your congressman to repeal physics. Sure, people today still die in car accidents because we can't vote against momentum and the general squishiness of our bodies relative to metal, but are seatbelts and airbags somehow empty gestures because of human nature? I'd say most of the success of the human race over time has been because of our efforts to make things safer, more efficient, and just generally better.
And here's where I really lose the thread. Are you suggesting that the problems with our national infrastructure are because 20-somethings are too busy on their iPhones to get their hands dirty? The oldest of them have only been able to vote for 11 years and hold jobs for 13. I have pants that have been around longer than they've been in any position to "influence" the state of our country's railroads, bridges, and roads. I'll admit that might be an issue 20 years from now, but when the problems we're facing today were brewing these kids were in diapers or yet to be born.
That brings me to this point:
I'd put it to you that plenty of under-30s
aren't exactly thrilled with this gift wrapped planet we've created for them. We've allowed for a culture of deregulation in which trains derail and rain burning cancer from the sky, and I don't fault them for blaming us when our collective response seems to be "sh*t happens". We should be trying as hard as we can to make the world better for them, and instead we're romanticizing their "badass" great grandfathers who were electrocuted racing to build Hoover Dam in time so six companies wouldn't have to pay a fine that might eat into their profits.
The fire started as soon as the train derailed, as a wheel caught fire at least 20 miles before the site of the wreck. They decided to do a controlled burn, and Vinyl Chloride is incredibly volatile and there was a risk of explosion if it was left in the tanks.I generally feel like I don’t have my head in the sand all the time but yesterday is the first time Iv heard of this. I imagine a number of people know exactly what was in that perfectly safe cocktail of chemicals that spilled out of the trains and the decision to set them on fire is miraculously, probably, better than having done something else to it, which is fun to consider.
So how many years do I need to ride my bike to work instead of my car to offset this safe for human contamination?
One group already knows, the shyster lawyers solvating over this.Thanks, you've distilled a few points in a rational way that I'm still too enraged to really articulate. Please tell people about this, if you can.
Yes, I agree that people are generally not great. I'm not really a big fan of us, on the whole. I still don't really understand why you're making that point, though.Campaign all you want. Feel all you want. Be outraged and pissed off all you want. None of those things will change the fundamental situation, which is that humans are hardwired to grab short term personal profit/gain/advantage without regard for any long term consequences that may come about from doing so.
I saw what you did there. but I believe I read that he is a bottom.I'm sure the secretary of transportation is on top of this no problem.