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  • Skipper_the_Eyechild@lemmings.worldtocats@lemmy.worldProtesting for tuna
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    6 months ago

    Why on earth would a train operator care about timetables over basic ethics? They are human beings, not robots, you know?

    The controller and driver both get paid either way, and I’m sure the train driver is used getting home late on occasion - and I expect they get overtime pay, so he may well be laughing anyway.

    And the controller, or whatever they’re called, will just be seeing it as a PR issue. The slight lost money on the refunds (that passengers actually bother to put through) is easily worth the good PR.

    Edit: Missed random words, impatient brain running too fast for fingers.





  • Also… I’m all for the language evolving and words changing their meaning over time, as they’ve always done, but that one is crazy. Hopefully common use will, in time, fix that and get that new definition changed… but ehh, I don’t hold much hope.

    Bring on the AI overlords? Reading the Polity (Sci Fi) series at the moment, and it really doesn’t seem like a bad option!



  • The title correcting it to further is what caught my attention, but no, I’m not seeing people taking huge issue with it either.

    And there’s nothing wrong with being correct, I like to be eloquent too.

    I was just saying farther is just as correct as further, and found it interesting is all. They may have been misused a hundred years ago, but not for a long long time, they have identical meanings nowadays!