TheRealKuni

Though comically, in Iceland they got the populace to convert to Christianity by saying it was okay to worship Thor in private.

Transmission failure seems likely, but I’m faaaaaar from an expert.

I don’t think so. If you watch Blancolirio’s video you can see the transmission is still attached to the main rotor. That shouldn’t happen in a mast bump as I understand it.

I don’t think this was a Jesus Nut situation. Blancolirio’s video shows a frame where the transmission is still clearly connected to the main rotor, which says there was a failure in the transmission. If the Jesus Nut failed or there was a mast bump, the transmission would’ve stayed attached to the helicopter (as I understand it).

In most places in the US that’s exactly what we do. Literally the only place I’ve seen this is on the single-lane east-west streets in midtown Manhattan. I’m sure it happens elsewhere in Manhattan, because the streets are narrow as hell and there are far too many cars. (Which is insane to me, if I lived here I’d never drive.)

Not sure what to tell you, only reporting what I’ve seen. On the avenues they’re fine, it’s just the east-west streets in midtown I’ve seen them struggle with.

I’m in Manhattan this week, and have watched an ambulance slowly move down a street as cars struggled to get out of the way. Even with congestion pricing, there just isn’t much room on the narrow one-way streets.

an executive from European automation company Siemens . . . rich leeches who were getting rich from putting poor people out of work.

Are you saying that automation is a bad thing? Like, categorically?

Automation does reduce the number of people needed for some tasks, but in a way that improves dramatically the lives of those still doing those tasks.

I would much rather have automated storage and retrieval systems bring powering a goods-to-person station rather than making people run up and down shelves to retrieve stuff people ordered like we used to have. We used to hear horror stories of Amazon workers not being able to go use the restroom because they couldn’t keep up with quotas. Now robots bring the shelves to them, making the job significantly easier and reducing stress. Obviously reduction of quotas or hiring more workers could also have worked, but this way throughout remains high without the insane amount of burnout for human beings.

I would rather see conveyor systems bringing those picked goods to other stations in the warehouse rather than a person having to run or drive those goods from place to place. I’d rather see automatic sortation systems shuttle totes to their proper destinations than have a person have to take them individually from a source to destination conveyors.

Automation isn’t bad. Stymying advances in automation to protect jobs purely for the sake of the jobs is akin to breaking windows so the window makers have work.

The real issues arise because in most countries few people reap the full benefits. That issue isn’t because of automation, but because of our faulty systems.

Check out this video. I know this is about South Korea, and it’s Kurzgesagt which I understand there are some issues with, but the stuff laid out in this video applies to Japan, too. Not quite as badly or as soon, but it’s a grim picture.

I’m not sure the analogy works, because the movie’s message is pretty xenophobic and xenophobia is contributing to the terrifying population decline of Japan.

Exactly.

Edit: though I’m sure that ratio is exaggerated.

Depends. At like, rest stops and gas stations I’d believe it because the clientele will skew male, so just by sheer number you’re more likely to get people who won’t treat the bathroom with respect.