Predictive programming

I’ve been waiting for someone to talk about this. Literally just watched this last month - couldn’t believe it when I saw the news. Wild

Immediately made me think of the China Syndrome.

We all helped to make.

We allowed corporate capture of any regulatory functions of railroads, letting the industry self-regulate and dictate legislation, and we haven't repealed Taft Hartley. We allow our political leaders to strongarm rail workers because they're still in the pockets of the robber barons. We bail out troubled companies, and put the burden of losses on the taxpayers if there's a spill.

It's another example of American progress: socialize the risks, privatize the profits.

This isn't a surprise. The book that movie was based on was written in 1985.

By "the plot of a movie they helped to make" the article is talking about a real movie that real people from Ohio acted as extras in. Not that they metaphorically "helped" create the actual accident. I don't think anyone is blaming Ohio voters for the fact that national regulators sided with railroad lobbyists.

The right is having a field day with this and the UFO's. its funny watching them meltdown.

Pretty impressive how quickly we're witnessing the results of our government crushing the railroad union a couple months ago

By "we all helped to make" the comment you replied to is talking about the larger context that goes beyond the simple irony of a movie and discusses the tragic irony of the current regulatory state of this sector of the transportation industry.

It is similar to the literary device of motif, where a recurring theme or element is present that helps to explore themes.

Perhaps you could pay closer attention to context clues. It might help you relate to your world and others in it more positively. Speech and language therapy often is beneficial to those with ASD.

edit: and u/ghloperr, you're more committed to your ignorance than I thought. But hey, do what feels good.

It's been building for years with deregulation and corporate greed.

I get what you are saying, we all had high school English classes (you also use way too many words to make your point so I bet you might have even had an AP class or two), but it is incredibly stupid of you to think that the author of the article is saying that the regular citizens of Ohio "helped make" this disaster. Nobody would ever imply such a thing because it makes no sense.

Half of the article is literally just talking about how the current situation is similar to the plot of the movie.

I watched it last week and then I see the news!

The movie is White Noise (2022) on Netflix. It stars Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig and is written and directed by Noah Baumbach. It's an absurdist comedy and I thought it was aight.

Wow, calling someone autistic as a defense for you misinterpreting a headline is an unexpected turn of events.

It’s an adaptation of a novel from 1985.

I just spent about 10 minutes scrolling through your post history, because I found your first comment appropriate but somewhat off topic, and your second comment suuuuper condescending for no reason.

Come to find out, you're just super condescending most of the time. Like subjectively 80% of your comments.

Just an observation no one asked for, but I felt the desire to point out.

Further unsolicited opinion: most of what you say is factually correct, and not actually bad takes. But your phrasing comes across as elitest and, again, condescending. Future interactions with you would be more pleasant if you put work into coming across nicer. Just rephrasing most of what I read would have changed the tone enough not to have given me a brief (albeit consistent) negative impression of you.

The Airborne Toxic Event

I wouldn't put it past American journalism

As is tradition

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That certainly changed the world.

i think there's another one about a runaway train in (very) roughly the same area...

Unstoppable...with Denzel Washington and Chris Pine

The good ole USA!! Do you feel that freedom?

There’s a /r/LeopardsAteMyFace thread doing exactly that.

Edit: lol it’s one that’s also linking this story.

I am, they vote for the party that espouses deregulation and "big government"

This fucking sub lately.

Is it based on don delillos white noise?

That one dude really into hitler probably feels like a main character rn

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I'm in PA and I could smell it.

My own private Idaho?

> Norfolk Southern is funding a phone line for residents

"Don't worry mam, everything is completely harmless, but I recommend not to eat fruit or veg from your garden in the next twenty years, and better leave the cat inside, too."

Couldn't they just like... still not go to work? I don't understand people.

They and their union could have been fined and arrested. Isn't freedom great?

Yes.

Before the 1930s, that was par for the course in all industries, especially the railroad. It didn’t stop workers from striking. On the contrary, that’s how workers (in other industries) won the right to strike—a right which is currently being degraded.

EDIT: Autocorrect

Yeah I don't think you can fine or arrest people who quit.

And be unemployed? How is that going to be better in any way?

What do you think a strike is?

Are you serious? You think that people on strike just quit their job and walk away? I mean, I know Americans are pretty ignorant on these matters but this is a whole new level of dumb.

My point is you aren't employed when you strike. You aren't paid. If your biggest issue with a strike is that you'll lose wages.. you're striking wrong Thanks for the insult though. Your inability to think is surely my fault.

>My point is you aren't employed when you strike.

Dude, what on earth are you on about?

Which company is paying you when you're outside picketing?

Cause that's literally what unions do. So fine, you're "employed" but making no money and your company is wanting to fire you.

That's much better than being "unemployed" and having all the exact same effects.

Uh, companies cannot fire you for striking. That's kind of an important detail. At this point I must assume you're just a kid who never spent a day in the real world. But please do inform yourself for the future. The less you know about your rights and the easier it'll be for the powers that be to strip them.

They can fire you for refusing to come back from a strike. But you can also quit and find a new job that respects you. hah, I kid.