We actually live in the healthiest time in human history. People live longer and have a lower infant mortality rate than ever. There are less people being killed in wars percentage wise than ever before.

But, there are more people currently enslaved worldwide than ever in human history, which is a definite wet blanket.

 

Y'all need to watch Chappie or Planet of the Apes to see what happens when we invent something smarter than us.

 

If we accept the definition of "enslaved" to mean "trapped in virtually sub-human work environments by reason of chance," then yes, I find it intuitively obvious that these two concepts are not only mutually inclusive, but symbiotic.

Humanity, as a whole, has never* had it better in terms of prosperity, liberty, leisure time, lifespan, etc.

By definition, there must always be someone at the very bottom of the totem pole. And as he pole rises higher, the width of its base must increase. Basic materials science there.

 

What is your idea of a sub-human work environment? This is what I was referring to http://www.deliverfund.org/ and http://ourrescue.org/

 

A partial list of examples:

• Being forced to work as a prostitute.
  
• Being forced to be eaten by a bear as a form of public entertainment.
  
• Chief legal counsel to Internet Brands™.
  
• Being forced to work in an environment containing toxic chemicals, caustic materials, or imminent risk of immolation / mutilation / exposure to spallation elements, etc.
  
• Anything involving the belief that you deserve (x) amount of compensation, despite the fact that the market has determined that the value of your labor is (x/y), and being of a mindset which sees no alternative to continuing upon this path as a means of primary sustinance.
  
• Being one of those kids who lives in a little town in eastern China where the loads of electronic waste that was listed as "recycled" from the US or Europe gets dumped, and you wade through loads of transformer oil and beryllium to find the little bits of copper and iron worth saving, and then burn the rest.
  
• K-Mart (I speak to this as a former employee from my college days.)

 

that 3rd one is the real bad one

 

Egay or Ebay?

 

 

Went over to the beach this morning.

 

Then had lunch with some fish. I ate their friends while they watched.

 

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What happened to the rapper on the left?
I laughed so hard.
Looks like forgot to take his meds before going the free style rap battle or maybe he suffered a stroke from smoking super concentrated crack.

 

Engineers. Why do you use 8/16" instead of 1/2"? Explain the reasoning for this.

 

Because mixing denominators in fractions makes math hard. This is why I despise the way that SAE wrenches are labeled, and find the metric measurements much easier.

Like, "I need one size larger than 7/16, so that's obviously 8/16."


I'd never noticed this little guy before. He's perched over the entrance to the restroom at the back of my barber shop:

 

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You mean mixing denominators like this?


​​​​​​I reject your reasoning. If that were the case, why wouldn't the fractions be written out in whole numbers. Ex. 0.500"

This is the first print I've seen like this. I am not the engineer, but I will not hesitate to question.

... This engineering firm also charged our company $1200 to do dye testing. I posted about this earlier.
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Drawings should be with decimals. I would see fractions to be acceptable to call out a specific drill bit or tap size, but otherwise decimals for all measurements. If it is with fractions, I have not seen them like 8/16" before.

 

We make instruments. Have used decimal inches for at least 40 years, for everything except material thicknesses, which can be fractional or Gauge; as old methods die slowly. I welcome the shift to metric which has occurred on some of our more recent, international products. But realistically, as we rarely have dimensions that need to be feet, rather than inches, our decimal inches are as easy, or easier to use than ISO (never any confusion between mm and cm).