plinky comments on So apparently the Air Force had a guy die after falling to death in a pointless fast rope demonstration, the game still went on, and the Navy honored his loss by losing the game.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 13 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 child)

Aside from career serial killer getting his due, those type of decisions pop up in train operations (especially in japan), i dont think there is any reasonable time frame outside of “be done with it”, when it’s 10000s people waiting. well worse that it’s for entertainment, but still, this sort of stuff (time-constrained disrespect for the dead i mean) happens a lot, the society just hides it from you well.

*and that ignoring big corpos protocols for handling dead workers

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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 15 points 2 hours ago*

japan is a ridiculous place, but a train delay is logistically a whole problem theoretically affecting 10s of millions of people as it cascades.

this is a televised american football game of two trash teams where the broadcaster forces play to stop routinely for +15 "TV timeouts" so the folks at home to be told about a new type of bacon flavored toothpaste. the end time of an american football game has like 30-45 minutes of flex to it. there is no logistical problem with taking a delay. it is entirely a strategy to paper over it and diminish how much of a screw up it was. that dude free fell the entire height of the stadium. he didn't slip the last 20 feet and land bad, but i guarantee any mention of it will frame it that way. lots of emphasis that he didn't die on the field immediately, but instead was pronounced dead later at a facility. the way disney does when somebody gets killed at one of their theme parks.

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