Obviously there was some harassment in the video. However 'good morning' or 'have a nice day' is unbearable/harassment? They are obviously generic attempts at gaining an attractive person's attention for starting a conversation. What is the suggested alternative environment? A place where no stranger ever pays you this positive attention? Should suitors hold a sign that says 'I find you fetching, could you please speak to me?' Give me a break.

It's a consequence of being attractive and calling this harassment is entitled whining at best. UGH.

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I used to have a job fetching new roles of paper for big industrial printers. As best I can recall, each one contained a 22-inch wide by 90 mile long piece of paper, weighed in the neighborhood of a ton and was strapped to a palette. If you got the wheel of the palette jack stuck in the crack separating the freight elevator from the hallway, it was a problem. If you were unusually clumsy and let one topple over onto its side, it was a very big problem.

It's a clever rationalization of hypocrisy. If it's going to be taboo to observe patterns in groups of people demarcated by visible characteristics they were born with, be consistent about it. But I'd argue against that taboo.

What makes racism bad is treating people as specimens of a group rather than unique individuals. Group averages may differ slightly but there's tons of overlap. Common usage of the word "racism" unfortunately conflates a moral aspect (how to treat people) with an epistemological aspect (dogma that all groups are created exactly equal in every way). Epistemology shouldn't be moralized. I could give you lots of examples of sociological and psychological research getting muddled on account of an inflexible dogma that there couldn't be any heritable differences between groups other than the obvious superficial ones. I'd rather conceive of the word racism as a verb describing harmful actions towards people due to their group membership, not a noun denoting a thoughtcrime or speechcrime. Like church and state, or science and religion, epistemology and morality don't go together.

A priori based on generation times and mutation rates you should expect there could be 1/10 as much variation between historically isolated groups of humans as there is between breeds of dogs, since the most recent common ancestor of all domestic dogs is half as far back as humans' most recent common ancestor is (or rather was before 16th and 17th century explorers spread their sperm across the globe) but dogs breed a lot faster. Breeds of dogs demonstrably vary in many behavioral and psychological traits. It's not far fetched to suppose that a variety of environments over the past 100,000 years of humanity pushed population means of behavioral traits in various directions.

This just seems too far fetched at the moment. The number of variables and situations to consider, the speed of execution required, the level of reliability ... it just seems too much for today's processing power.

I mean, take something like speech recognition as an example. Computer processing continues to fail at even this. The visual spectrum is much more complex than the auditory, which is largely just wavelength and amplitude.

To jump straight into something like that, with life or death ramifications ... I just don't see them jumping to production any time in the next decade.

I think the notion that creators won't get paid without copyright is a bit far-fetched. Just as the notion that existence of copyright ensures creators will get paid is a bit far-fetched.

It's certainly not impossible to make money as a creator without the benefit of copyright or patent or similar concepts. WD-40 famously was never patented, for example. Many software developers give away software and charge for service agreements on the software they've written. There's no copyright or patent system protecting that income stream -- anybody could offer service for the software they've written. But, they still manage to make money. Some of them a lot of money.

It's not impossible (or maybe even harder) for a creator to make money without copyright or patent. It's just a different process.

I don't think anyone's advocating forced population control here.

I only think that people are advocating that a greater emphasis on family planning be incorporated into your prescription for everyone to "control his own activities and teach his neighbor the virtues of his infinitely sustainable choices."

Doing this too fast would be demographic suicide for a lot of complicated reasons, I don't think anyone is denying that, but a very significant organic reduction over the course of a few centuries would be beneficial for humanity and could be reasonably attained. It's certainly less far-fetched than mass colonization of Mars or Venus in the same timeframe.

And that's an important distinction here. We aren't really concerned about the environment here. We're concerned about what's best for us.

The environment is going to shrug us off and incorporate all our plastic, CO2, and evidence of narrowing biodiversity into a few more strata and continue doing its thing. It has survived mass extinctions before.

It's ridiculous to think that we can even destroy the environment. Our population size and its destructive effects would be reduced to insignificance long before we hit a point of no return and the biosphere's existence is even slightly threatened.

We should be framing the argument in terms of how to achieve an environmental equilibrium in which humanity can live in a comfortable and humane manner.

I think we're a lot closer to a point of no return with regards to achieving that goal.

For my money I'd say that exponential population growth isn't pointing us in that direction, and living - as I do - in a rapidly modernizing "second world" country tells me that bringing all eight billion of us to affluence too quickly poses its own significant dangers.

Let's not forget that this videos two main points are that we are demonstrably in a period of exponential growth, and that exponential growth from the limited perspective of the inside can be deceptive. Points of no return that seem far away are in fact very close.

(I don't actually subscribe to your 2 options theory)

Keep in mind that my OP was in regards to your statement that he 'fetched the blade and acted like nothing happened, and that makes him an SOB'.

My point was that there isn't any other action to take.
The damage was done, nobody was injured, the owner wasn't around to speak with - so continuing with work is as good an option as any. (re. what else do you want the guy to do? Cry?)

(amusing side thought : Is there a way to put back a saw 'as if something had happened'?)

I wouldn't jump to conclusions about the guy being a bad person based on a video of seemingly unintentional damage, and a description which only has one salient point : the firm is investigating the incident.

For all we know, it could be company policy for employees to report damage to management, and have management contact property owners (hence possible delays in communication).

There simply isn't enough information here to know if there was any 'sob behavior' involved.

-scheherazade

Ah, so you admit there's another option than just crying: leaving a note.

I guess you didn't get the full details of the events that transpired. The prick just fetched the blade and took off.

He didn't leave a note.

The only reason the residents there knew what happened was their exterior security camera footage.

-scheherazade

Hey China! that skirt looks really fetching on you.

What a son of a bitch to just fetch the blade and act like nothing happened.

Unbelievable.

Putins' a rabid thug with fetching smile, stolen money and style, and a monolithic propaganda machine at his disposal-The worst kind of an enemy to humanity.

(some spoilers here, although not really anything that wasn't in the video)
I thought it was quite good. Not great, but quite good.

That being said, the one thing that I was sure that an "honest trailers" spoof/take on it would include was left out: I lost count of how many times the last propulsive jet before they ran out of thrust in whatever system/mechanism they were using was just enough to get them into "precarious grab, slip and bump off into another precarious grab".

Gorgeous George jets around as carefree as can be -- fetching bolts, unhitched and drifting Sandra ... even the corpse of "man down in the first 5 minutes". He or others talk about how he is going for the record longest spacewalk many times. But then, when they really need it, "oh, sorry, I've just got enough juice left for one more burn".

Same thing repeats for the Soyuz, the Wall-E extinguisher, and conceptually in many other instances.

That is the aspect of the flick that stood out the most for me as begging for a good send-up.