PLPlum
Captain21,007 posts
11 Jan 2023, 21:48#12
Mike, your mom was smart.
The water vapour given off when burning gas makes baked goods soft and moist.
PLPlum
Captain21,007 posts
11 Jan 2023, 23:59#16
I have nothing to add other than i look forward to the day AI takes over scientific discovery and i think that makes me a closet Marxist.
Hoverboard anyone?
PLPlum
Captain21,007 posts
12 Jan 2023, 09:37#18
So, our area has suffered 7 cable thefts since 1st Jan 2023.
By yesterday at 17:00 we had been without power for 24 hours.
Residents of my area had logged many calls with City Power and then at 17:00 all our calls were updated to complete, without having power restored. I phoned City Power to enquire as to why.
The woman answering the phone told me that the calls only appeared to us to have been closed down but were in fact bundled into a single job for statistical purposes. And that our call would be attended to but was taking long due to “lack of resources “.
It’s at this part of the story where you‘ll realise why Africa is doomed.
I then asked the call centre why they would not change the system, or do whatever else was necessary, so that customers would not be confused by their calls being closed down when they actually weren’t closed down. I said that the current system causes customers to phone in needlessly and that it wastes city resources when call centre staff have to deal with pointless calls.
Her answer to me “But sir, it’s not a waste! I am mos here to answer these calls.”
I then tried to explain to her why it was a waste of resources and she simply could not understand how her spending 20 minutes on a needless call was a waste of City Resources. She ultimately said that we should agree to disagree.
This is by no means a rare situation. One encounters similar instances almost daily. It’s not a language barrier either because she spoke decent english.
The very sad fact is that Africa suffers from an staggeringly low intellectual ceiling and people are severely underestimating how difficult it will be to raise that ceiling.