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[–] 13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Yes it does, sadly. Our trains are basically set up to fail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN7e38Q7e1U

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  • [–] 54 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Wait you just posted a video about how the system was intentionally designed to fail.

    If it can intentionally be designed to fail then it can be redesigned to succeed. There is no reason it has to be the way it is

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    There are billions of dollars aligned against fixing the problem though so its going to look bad on paper to start fixing things, at least at first. You'd need to fix the political system to allow that kind of multi election cycle thinking to exist.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, but money has lost elections before.

    It’s not money controlling the issues. It’s hatred of minorities and mistrust of the government (that people voted in), as well as of course a slew of other issues. But it starts with mentalities, not dollars.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Wait 'til you hear about the ice cream machines at McDonald's

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Probably an intenet myth. But I have somewhere in my memory, that the machines are hard to clean. So enployees mark them out of order to not have to clean them.

    Urban Legend. Probably.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    No, it is a real phenomenon

    It doesn't happen to ice cream machines at other fast food franchises nearly as frequently, and the machines at McDonald's give unhelpful error codes and are generally designed to require pricey field technician visits (that are helpfully provided by the manufacturer) to resolve.

    There was a third party device that was created to get around the error code issue, providing actual details of what was wrong and saving franchise owners thousands of dollars. So naturally the manufacturer sued the creator and petitioned McD's corporate to disallow its use.

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