Comments by "" (@obsidianjane4413) on "Plainly Difficult" channel.

  1. No doubt inspired that in the film. Also featured in "WALL-E".
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  2. They (the Filipinos) would not have had that equipment. That was a big part of the problem. All of the material was loose and uncompacted.
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  3. The cause wasn't the trash. The direct cause was directly the poor management and control of the dump site, and larger, the failure of business, government, and social institutions to provide better alternatives or at least organize the 'reclamation' activity.
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  4.  @neilkurzman4907  Wouldn't matter. Did you not watch the video? Watch again, or any of the dozens of videos, web articles on this case. The assembly wasn't fit for service even before it was finished. As the video mentioned, the engineers told the company as much and management overruled them. The contract margins were such that if they had to rework the structure, they would lose money on it. So the company decided to roll the dice that it would hold together long enough to get signed off and paid. And a bunch of people died.
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  5.  @joemccallister4883  This made international headlines at the time, 2000. Idiocracy was written in 2001, but the movie wasn't actually edited for release until 2005. "Bevis and Butthead" seems mindless but it is social commentary and satire. It very clearly referenced this.
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  6. Its a "high power distance" social cultural thing. The people that could organize that don't have any incentive to do so. Poor people don't "donate" to politicians and rarely vote. The wealthy and powerful are all busy being wealthy and powerful and its "not their problem".
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  7. So did your parents.
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  8. Same, when I was a kid my dad lived in an unicorporated town, so you had to take your own trash to the dump. On one such visit, I found this cool looking wired remote control. Pulling on it to find what it was connected to.... revealed a poop encrusted very large dildo. Threw the controller back and never went dump diving again.
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  9. Not really. Most don't even think of the "us" at all. Those that do realize that poor people make poor customers.
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  10.  @LetsTalkAboutPrepping  He never went into the bigger sociopolitical context of why this could occur. Which is fine and outside of the scope his videos. Because otherwise you start making social and political commentary that that will always piss someone off no matter what.
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  11. Jus to givve u somting to post bout.
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  12. But still a lot of money in the Philippines.
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  13. Only a 1/3 Darwin award.
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