To quote Jimmy Snow, “I don’t care what you believe but rather how you treat other people.”
Funnily enough, that’s what Jesus said.
Even the fuckin’ livestock, mind you. Whoever they were these dudes really pissed him off.
I can easily see that you can get that from the way Jesus is portrayed in the gospels (the good Samaritan, inviting a whore to his table and washing her feet etc.), but does he really explicitly say this anywhere?
Not in those exact words, but Matthew 25:34-46 makes it pretty clear:
Those who receive the eternal reward did good for other people, and didn’t even realize that by doing so they were serving Jesus, and those who don’t, spurned other people, without even realizing that they were spurning Jesus. Both those who were rewarded and those who were punished were surprised.
Thanks, I had forgotten this passage, or rather didn’t link it to this statement/sentiment. If only all those “good Christians” would sometimes live/think/act at least a little like Jesus told them to…
From your lips …
Or as we were taught in Catholic school (and as kind of a counter to the “salvation by faith alone” argument), charity — good works — is how faith manifests itself.
Sure, I learned that too as a good Catholic boy, but that doesn’t mean that there’s not also a lot of bigotry in the Catholic church (though the bigotry there tends to be more of a problem for the clergy than the laity).
Not to mention the child rape.
(Ex-Catholic here. 12 years of Catholic school and lots of mass attendance.)
I meant to include the child rape under bigotry from the clergy, of course the most severe and damning. Also ex-Catholic, altar boy from age 9 to freaking 17. I was lucky that we had a non-pedophile priest.
A spokesperson says the operator, whose name is not being released, admitted fault, saying he “was curious to see if ATO (Automatic Train Operation) would work.”
The incident happened on March 17. Metro officials discovered the automatic mode after the train overran the station platform at Innovation Center on the Silver Line. They say the operator put his train into automatic mode several times that day.
Exactly how curious were you, operator?
I just woke up so maybe this makes sense in another world, but why do they have an automatic mode if they’re not suppose to use it?
And why does the automatic mode work so poorly?
Metro was designed to operate in automatic mode but hasn’t been used since this incident:
Train 214 had come to a stop entirely within the faulty circuit B2-304, making it effectively invisible to the automatic train control (ATC) system. Other trains had received speed commands of 0 when traveling through this circuit, but had enough forward momentum to make it to the next circuit and resume detection and receipt of speed commands from the ATC system. Train 214 was going slower than normal because it was being driven in manual mode by its operator, and it came to a stop while remaining on circuit B2-304 and was therefore invisible. Train 112 behind it was given full speed (55 mph [89 km/h]) commands by the ATC to proceed on the track. The investigation found that the emergency brakes had been applied by the operator of train 112 when train 214 came into view but it was too late to avert the collision, which occurred with a speed of about 49 mph (79 km/h).[1]
That’s what Metro aims to discover, presumably while the system is closed to passengers, before resuming automatic operation
I’m m wondering if there was a way to disable it, to prevent this sort of thing from happening. Like removing a lever/button/whatever.
If I’m understanding the linked article (and I might not be, I skimmed it pretty quickly), it sounds like the problem wasn’t the train, it was the track. Maybe they’re allowed to use it, but not in that section.
But this type of thing, ISTM, tends to end up with a ‘don’t use’ sign on it since they’re going to fix it “some day”.
They’ve had a solution since Apollo 13.
“Some day” in this case appears to be this year.