railway692

It must be a rite of passage for middle managers to say “if you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.”

Yes

At about 5 p.m. on 7 October, a train was stopped at Otaru Station, when a passenger spotted the driver reading a book and reported it to the company.

This was a “local” train, meaning a train that stops at all stations along a line, as opposed to an “express” train, which only stops at major stations. Because of this system, sometimes local trains will stop for extended periods of time at lesser-used stations while express trains get the right of way to zoom through. In this case, the train was scheduled to wait at Otaru Station for eight minutes before setting off again, so the driver decided to kill some time with a book.

Not only that, but the book he brought in to read was about railways. The driver admitted that he had done so before in the past too, and that he takes the opportunity to relax for a moment when he has the time. No incidents or delays occurred as a result, but JR Hokkaido apologized for the concern it caused among passengers.

Readers of the news online were largely defending the driver in their comments and condemning the person who tipped off JR Hokkaido about the reading. However, there were a few who felt what the driver did was inappropriate for a workplace.

What an absolute, unnecessary dickhead.

Fascists don’t like sharing, even with other fascists.

The problem with that, of course, is that one MIT study found that many enterprise organizations have so far seen zero return from their AI efforts.

Buyers are also changing, McKinsey believes. It says purchasing decisions are shifting from the IT department to line-of-business units. These leaders are increasingly making budget trade-offs between head count investment and AI deployment, and expect vendors to engage them on value and outcomes, not just features.

That could be a tricky sell, when trials of AI tools such as Microsoft’s Copilot by a UK government department reveal no discernible boost in productivity. Still, the AI firms have to recoup all those billions they’ve already invested somehow, don’t they?

They don’t. They don’t have to recoup those billions.

They can go bankrupt like businesses that create no value are supposed to.

Oh, I understand now.

I thought the claim was “the weather made it unlikely that he smoked a cigarette”.

Investigators later ruled out cigarettes as a possible cause based on weather conditions at the time, according to the complaint.

‘It was too [insert weather here] for a cigarette’ sounds like bullshit.

That just sounds like normal news.

Not “I’m surprised this isn’t satire.”

The mistake is assuming this decision was based on anything resembling principles or values.

Why is this in nottheonion?

Can they just skip to the step where they start eating each other and leave the rest of us alone?

Oh? Are we giving them privacy?

since he started sniffing the exhaust of steam decks

Brother why?

So what did he actually say?

“Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get canceled,” Chappelle told an audience of 6,000, according to The New York Times. “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m gonna find out.” He then added, “It’s easier to talk here than it is in America.”

Well, that sounds… accurate. Doesn’t excuse the other things he’s said, but… yea.

Edit: I stand by the first part of my comment. I was not paying enough attention to the second half (“it’s easier to talk here…”). That part, not so much.

!nottheonion@lemmy.world. Sigh… 😞