The lever is powered by AI
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Good one
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That comic isn’t the trolly problem though. For it to be a problem you need to give a shit about both tracks. This is just an image of the real world. :(
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Accurate
except the trolley takes 75ish years to kill you.
Not always. How many people died digging the Panama canal, or building the Hoover dam? How many ships just fucking sink with all hands each year because the company doesn’t give the first two half-flaccid thrusts of an obligatory marital fuck about safety?
have you considered poetry? this was beautiful and picturesque
The secret is imagery.
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Not if we get rid of regulations and vaccines.
The lever be slackin. Let’s get this over and done with
If you’re lucky! Many die young from the prioritization of profit over public safety.
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So like a normal lifespan?
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I always thought they were tied *to* the tracks
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No, they’re attached to sleepers, and the whole lot sits on a bed of ballast (stones). You could easily move some stones aside and thread the rope through the gap.
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You don’t see all the rope so there could be a loop around the line behind them.
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It’s to the wooden whatchamacallits orthogonal to the rails
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Because for the pacing of the scene, “wrapped with ropes” is movie shorthand for “immobilized.” Most of the time, most of the audience doesn’t really care about the details of the knots.
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A bit more practical would be looping the rope under the track itself between the ties; especially if you found a viaduct or something where there is no ballast you could just loop the rope right under.
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Ties. Those are called railroad ties.
I’m very good at wiggling
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Honestly, I usually saw this alongside Wile E. Coyote style antics performed by someone literally twirling a mustache, so I was never looking for consistency!
And less charitably, the character tied rarely seemed to do more than protest delicately even when she wasn’t tied…
i think what is going on here is making an example. This is not a moral problem with some kind of inevitability. This is an execution that is trying to make a point
