| ▲ | bikelang 2 hours ago |
| Seems like everyone, everywhere is overworked, underpaid, and under supported. How much longer can we frogs survive the boiling? |
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| ▲ | jacquesm 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| That's true, but there are not that many jobs that have so many lives on the line as ATC. |
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| ▲ | ModernMech 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The point of the frogs boiling metaphor is the frogs in fact do not survive. |
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| ▲ | Zambyte 8 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | The point of using the metaphor is that something will have to give if we don't course correct. | |
| ▲ | gambiting an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | In reality when these experiments were conducted the frog simply jumped out as soon as the temperature started to raise, frogs will not sit there in slowly boiling water and just die without trying to escape way before the water becomes dangerous. | | |
| ▲ | ModernMech an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | We need to combine the crabs in the bucket with the frogs in the water and I think we'll have the right metaphor. | | |
| ▲ | aziaziazi 18 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Sadly most of us are hopeless lobster boiled by greater powers. Unlike the crabs through you still can save the other lobsters by refraining to eat them. |
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| ▲ | 42 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | [deleted] | |
| ▲ | adampunk an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Well, it works with humans just fine. | | |
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| ▲ | shdudns 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | fHr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| As long as we're desperate for a job and we need to finance our lifestyle to impress the Johnsons. |
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| ▲ | ExtraRoulette an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | It's not even to impress anyone, we need to keep roofs over our heads and food in our family's bellies | | |
| ▲ | jewayne 31 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Oh, look whose family has a roof over their head and food in their bellies! We get it, @ExtraRoulette. You're big pimpin'. | | |
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| ▲ | jmcgough an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I thought it was the avocado toast that was keeping us from owning a house. |
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