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This is a parody, right?

Surely no-one that dumb could operate a phone let alone be a "CEO"


The opposite. CEOs necessarily need to trust others to do things because CEOs themselves don't have the ability to do the day to day work of a company.

So the first people who'd be overly trusting of things they don't understand would be exactly a CEO.


I would assume the competency of a CEO is in knowing who to trust and what tasks to delegate to whom. They appear to have failed in this regard.


They may even have the ability. But unless you're running a very small company, they don't have the time to do actual things.


This is still the way it works in San Francisco on the buses and light rail.


Improved fare gates for BART have increased revenue and dramatically reduced maintenance costs:

"Comparing the six month period before the 'next generation' fare gates debuted, to the six months that followed, Embarcadero station saw a significant reduction in the need for maintenance work — from 112 hours to two hours. "

...

"When you see how dramatically these maintenance requests fell, the numbers tell us that these fare gates are preventing unwanted behavior that impacts the station environment," BART spokesperson Alicia Trost told the Chronicle. "Those people are no longer entering BART."

https://www.transittalent.com/articles/index.cfm?story=BARTs...


One of the later, not as good, seasons of Westworld has that as an app


>"A DOT spokesperson told NPR in an emailed statement on Wednesday that the department "continuously reviews its policies to ensure each promotes safety, efficiency, and common sense."

>"Since nearly 80% of the population uses cars to get to work and their important medical appointments, we are taking a closer look at federal guidance to ensure American families have the infrastructure they need," the spokesperson said. "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda."

The stupidity, it burns.


They only have rhetoric, no actual policies.


Destroying things is very much a policy


Not even so much the stupidity, but apparently we’ve normalized unprofessional responses to media questions. Ignore the message, as a DOT representative I would personally be embarrassed to response like such a partisan assclown.


> to eat crickets

… Wait, is this what they think vegans do, or something?


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