Timwi

Not with that attitude

Are you writing like this to set yourself apart from AI/LLMs?

I didn’t say it was new. I said it is irresponsible.

Anyone else thought the headline (“bloodbath”) was saying there were actual deaths and that this hypersensationalistic reporting is irresponsible?

Sorry, why is this posted to upliftingnews that we still have people who can’t afford basic necessities and are dependent on charity from rich people?

Because without it, the DOJ would have no control over you, duh

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I assume that banning all robocalls requires new legislation, whereas the regulation mentioned here didn’t.

That assumes that they could have voted for anyone, when in fact the ruling elite preselects which candidates are even allowed to run, plus the media (also controlled by the ruling elite) make sure that you get no access to high-quality information about any candidate (least of all the “undesirable” ones).

The jurors are heros. Let’s make sure nothing happens to them.

I don’t expect him to come up with anything new. He’ll just repeat the same old things. Biden is on a witch hunt against him and the court system is corrupt and all that. He’s found his favorite tune I think

The way you equate capitalism with democracy, and then tacitly imply that Che Guevara must therefore have stood against democracy, is American propaganda.

This particular quote doesn’t even stand out. He really does sound like this. This is quite typical.

Those are all fair points. Still unfortunate that it’s still down to money even in your explanation, but it makes sense.

Not trying to get personal or anything, but it sounds like you’ve never been an employee in this kind of organization. It is absolutely the higher-ups (line managers; not necessarily the CEO) who decide whether a train conductor is allowed to delay a train for reasons like this. Employees such as these are under constant stress and pressure to perform to expectations or risk negative evaluations, which can lead to the next raise being denied or, in some cases, dismissal. In many organizations with schedules, timetables, deadlines etc., employee evaluations often depend on coldly calculated heuristics such as proportion of on-time arrivals, not on a human evaluation like how nice you are to animals. Your delayed train just drops you in the statistics and “there was a cat on the roof” simply does not factor into those statistics. This is a direct consequence of the profit motive where “productivity” or “employee performance” is considered more important than peripheral considerations like animal well-being.

Rad.

Will it make a difference though?

I do applaud your optimism. Wish I could have that same rosy view. Unfortunately company executives have shown time and again their true motives. You are of course correct that they are not robots; however, studies do show that they are disproportionately psychopathic compared to the general population, and the behavior of companies often reflects that quite visibly. Profits and the interests of stakeholders always take priority over basic human decency. It would definitely be refreshing if that is not the case here.

One, it’s not the train drivers calling the shots here; the train drivers (like all employees) are stringently controlled by management.

Two, it’s not “hate” to observe that companies just don’t care about ethics and well-being. I thought most of us agreed on this, even the company executives themselves: when ethics conflict with profits, profits are always the higher priority.

Three, this isn’t what “black and white” means.

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I just really don’t think that they would care. It’s easier to spin it as, “We didn’t know the cat was there, what a tragedy” than to appease all the passengers who are now late and frustrated.