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  • Snowclone@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldHubris
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    6 days ago

    This looks like a management photo op death trap to me. I’m not worried about a scissor jack being used on a flat floating surface in a pool, it’s that it isn’t secured to anything at all that really seems non OSHA compliant here. I just have really strong personal ethics about not eating shit 12+ feet off the ground in an hourly position. now IF the floatation device is rated for this use, and it’s actually secured in place, sure, fine, but that’s not what’s happening.











  • There’s no evidence it’s generic at all. It’s very difficult to access ‘intelligence’ or make usable data about intelligence. You really can’t test how intelligent people are, most of what we can test with repeatable results is skills, which famously can be improved over time reliably. To the point there’s time estimates on how long it takes to be a skilled person in one ability or another. I work with special needs kids, and let me tell you, you learn real quick working with these kids that there’s close to zero differences between them and their same age peers. People are very similar, and even people you’d consider rather foolish on a lot of metrics interacting with them, can be quite brilliant at what they are interested in and skilled in.



  • Yes, and it was shown as a huge internal conflict in TNG, and honestly even TOS had a bunch of inconsistent morality that didn’t quite fit a utopian society, you have a lot of state secrets, a lot of espionage, paranoia, and a cold war that includes violating the prime directive on a regular basis as long as they think the Klingons will also violate around the same degree, and that’s really not a very good idea, I really doubt the Vulcans would arm a bronze age civilization on a developing planet with muskets if they thought the Klingons might also do That.