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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (7 children)

except the trolley takes 75ish years to kill you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Not if we get rid of regulations and vaccines.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Not always. How many people died digging the Panama canal, or building the Hoover dam? How many ships just fucking sink with all hands each year because the company doesn't give the first two half-flaccid thrusts of an obligatory marital fuck about safety?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

have you considered poetry? this was beautiful and picturesque

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The secret is imagery.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Not always. How many people died digging the Panama canal, or building the Hoover dam?

How many lives were saved as a result of the canal and the dam? These were public works anyway. Profitable for a few, sure. But publicly bankrolled and broadly beneficial for the continent at-large.

the company doesn’t give the first two half-flaccid thrusts of an obligatory marital fuck about safety?

One one track is a pile of money and on another is a collection of workers without hardhats and safety boots, perhaps.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

The lever be slackin. Let’s get this over and done with

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

If you're lucky! Many die young from the prioritization of profit over public safety.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's ok, guy at the lever and the rest of his buddies are working to accelerate that process

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

So like a normal lifespan?