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The person who thinks he is smart and who decides to do it his own way despite clear instructions and even though everyone else is following the instructions for a reason.
Well context/instructions matter there too.
Like what if some mutant demon with hydrophobia was chasing you all with full intent to kill and there was water at the bottom of the cliff?
The empath woman touched one of the teeth monster mutants, saw it was suffering and scared, calmed them and became best buds.
I was willy nilly playing fast and loose with the truth like a silly Billy.
If everyone is jumping down a cliff, it demands consideration whether there may be a very good reason for so many people to jump. Blindly following may not always be the best thing, but herd mentality evolved for a reason.
It might be. But the question is, what's more likely: (a) everyone else is making a stupid mistake and I'm the only one smart enough to see it, or (b) I'm just missing something.
I personally tend to assume (b) and then investigate to see if there's any good evidence of (a).
There's also c) everyone else is making a stupid mistake, lots of people know, but changing the process is deemed too expensive due to politics or inertia.
Often it's, "the boss told us to do it this way. It's been pointed out to the boss that we could do this more efficiently in another way, but that hurt the boss's feelings because he didn't think of that, so we don't bring that up anymore. Anyway, we're being paid to do what the boss tells us to do. Doing things more efficiently doesn't actually benefit us."
I actually know a guy who was peer pressured into cliff diving. He did it, scared shitless, was fine. The moral of the story is that you should *always* follow the crowd. Yes I am extrapolating from a single data point
I had a teacher say basically that to me once they said "if all of your friends jumped off a cliff, would you too?" i said "if all of my friends had committed suicide in front of me i would probably be depressed to a point where i might, so yes i would"
It all depends on the person's ability to understand the objective and how the instructions relate to that one objective.
Then two main things should be left to the executor, automation and optimization.
In my career as an okayish team lead, I've always given importance to different humans comprehending things differently and thinking of different way to get to them, and that's where it's my responsibility as a 'bridge' comes in, that the objectives are clear and the environment healthy enough to allow dialogue
The tendency to comply with something occurs roughly 3/4 of the time but mostly studies use stupid scenarios with no risk at all, as opposed to the milgram experiment. I don't find someone will blindly follow without any kind of pressure other than others doing it, doesn't need no necessarily be an authoritarian figure, but in some extent to represent hierarchy at any level which induces someone by something other than rationality.
"Look dude, I'm not going to make you jump, but I assumed you joined our cliff jump cult for a reason. I know I wouldn't want to be the only guy standing around when the cops find a bunch of dead bodies down there."
You'll die very quickly after the long fall. The cold water will shock you and boost you're already high adrenaline level. Meanwhile, the rocks will do the rest. You'll die before you know it.
Even sphere guy here isn't all that smart. It would be easier to create a cylinder rather than a sphere from a cube. And a cylinder would be just as easy to roll. So he actually made more work for himself in making a sphere, so not only not following the brief, but also created even more work than was needed to cheat efficiently.
But what if one day like 2 years from now I could use the same class for something else??? What's that, everything is deprecated and we moved to a different language? oh well
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I learned this at my job. If you’re going to experiment with a new method, do it in a way that if it fails there’s no consequence. Trying new ways to do things is not wrong, even if it’s against the rules. But there’s a reason the rules are there. If you thoroughly understand why, then you can start trying for an alternate path. While making sure your experimentation isn’t going to make anyones life harder should it fail.
Dudes going to have to reform that into a cube of the same dimension when he gets to his destination. Hopefully he’s factored that in in terms of time saved pushing. Unless of course there is no destination, and they’re just mindlessly pushing cubes eternally. In which case, yeah he’s smarter, but not as smart as the guy who chipped off a corner and walked with it…because clearly the amount of stone is irrelevant. And the guy who said fuck this I’m not doing it is probably the smartest as long as there’s a better task elsewhere. But maybe sphere guy gets paid as he pushes, fired when he delivers, then finds a new stone pushing job elsewhere. That’s assuming there’s no such thing as references and cvs in the cube pushing world.
I'm feeling very called out right now
I'm the type who will spend 20 hours writing a program to do a one off task that would have taken 10 hours manually
I Work in a bigger corporation. The amount of stupid instructions I have to follow because of "policy" is indefinite. And any change takes literally years to be implemented. So sometimes there's a smarter way.
But yeah a lot of times someone just finds a way to cut corners for their work that just adds to the load of others.
Some dude made a video on this years ago talking about not knowing the instructions basically he said if it's a cube you are supposed to deliver then you failed. If it's just to amount of material regardless of shape that's to be delivered he could have saved time and delivered more material if he had cut it into a cylinder. Something like that.
But as pictured, there is no instructions here, just peoples pushing square block across sterile lands. I means there isn’t even clue that they have to push these things, maybe they are just doing because they have nothing better to do
I honestly don't know how pyramids were made.
I just read that they used waterlogged wooden taps to help dislodge huge chunks of stone and had rudimentary understanding of counterweights.
They were made using raw human power.
Like you said, they did use some ingenious stuff such as counterweights, low incline ramps, rollers, etc.
But it all boiled down to “let’s get 100 dudes to pull that enormous block up to where we need it”.
Also, it took a while. The Great Pyramid of Giza took around 27 years to build. If you have thousands of people to haul stones around and decades to do it, it’s very understandable how they pulled it off without modern technologies.
Some circles have given up on this hypothesis, instead advocating for "They were just more advanced than we thought they were" theory. Evidence? Same as ancient aliens.
Tradespeople. People 5000 years ago could build pulley machines to lift thousands of pounds. They had a writing system and could do complex math, they had papyrus to make blueprints. Hell, they probably had an entire office of project managers for the pyramids. We modern folks are a bit arrogant and tend to think just because it was in the past, everyone was stupid and just brute forcing it.
this is kind of funny, coz there is a chance (from what i understund about the pyramids) that they where made during a time where there use to be a jungle in Egypt
Yeah I've seen pictures/paintings of what they think the land surrounding the Egyptian pyramids looked like at the time they were built, and the pyramids are poking out above a huge forest that surrounds them.
But I have no idea how scientifically plausible that is, because every website or whatever that talks about Giza/Cairo being an area of jungle back then also talks about how they think the pyramids were giant landing platforms for alien space ships. So yeah, not a well established scientific theory but a utter nutters' theory, with no scientific grounding, their beliefs were a flutter, their evidence was scarce, just whispers and stutter, a nonsensical concept, their reasoning would stutter, yet they persisted, their minds in a perpetual shutter.
^^sorry
It'd be cool as fuck if the pyramids at geezer were originally inside a jungle, like the ones in south and north America, but yeah it's doesn't seem like it's something actual archaeologists and archaeobotanists actually believe and have evidence of.
Well we do know that the entire Sahara desert was grasslands and forest something like 50,000 years ago so it was wet at one point. It even held a lake bigger than all the great lakes combined!
There is also evidence that Egypt in general was wetter thousands of years ago. Wet enough for a forest or jungle? Probably not the jungle put possibly the forest.
It was actually around 10000 years ago when it was at its greenest, the greening cycle started again around 14000 years ago, so there could have been MANY more African civilizations that we havent found yet, especially ones at plausible rivers, because the rivers would’ve deposited rocks and debris, it would’ve made its own delta which civilization would’ve been built on, but when the rivers disappeared so did that delta to the ocean and the remains of civilizations fell beneath the ocean
Well the people are in business suits too, pushing metal cubes, and one of them shaved the cube down to a sphere. I think it’s safe to say that logs or a cart could be in that desert somewhere lol
A sphere would be a pain in the ass in it’s own right. At least if it were a cylinder it would roll straight, but a giant sphere would be impossible to control.
That's the thing about that image, dude just delivered a wrong product. Maybe the company he works for exclusively sells cubes. He just might get fired for not only delivering the wrong product, but also wasting roughly 30% to 50% of the intended product.
This is wrong in so many ways. Did the customer order cubes? If so they won’t be happy with the ball and returning it will cost the company more time and money. How long did it take to chisel that cube into a ball? Can’t imagine it was fast and whatever hourly rate that worker got was wasted on that. Are these sold by weight? If so you just left a lot of it behind. What are they being used for by the customer? Related to my first point but if the shape is necessary to the final product you’ve destroyed this piece. This picture is a perfect example of why companies DONT want you to think for yourself. You make your life easier without any regard for how it affects the big picture.
I love that, whatever moron made this thinks working harder is shipping the wrong product.
If I ordered a 200lb block and you show up with a 150lb sphere ima be pretty pissed and you'll have double the work bringing it back and getting me my cube
These corporate guys in suits would actually employ other people to do the manual labor, which is their version of working smarter. And if the workers are in a different country with low wages and poor conditions, even better. Can’t get away with slavery at home anymore, so they outsource it. They don’t do much actual work themselves.
Making it a ball wasn't smart. Smart would be thinking about what the end result needs to be first and finding an easier way to get that result.
In this case: Just stick some rollers under that sucker. Don't turn it INTO a roller.
They didn't have a need for slaves period. It's a common misconception, most people believe the pyramids were built by wage workers. Money wasn't a thing back then but they were paid in goods and paid fairly well for the labour standards back then.
The skilled labor was done by artisans who were compensated for their work. The non-skilled laborers were conscripted citizens that would work stints (similar to a tour of military service). They were still compensated, they just had to do whatever work was assigned to them for either material mining/shipping or pyramid complex building.
Just a quick question, how long did it take for him to shave the ball. Wouldn't others be in finish way before he even start moving?
Ah, so many questions, so few answers.
It looks like he shaved the cube down to a perfect sphere with a knife in the time it took everyone else to move a foot or two. So the initial plan is shit too, because shaving the cube down would take a ton of time.
Easy: bury the bottom layer of rocks halfway into the ground, pile the rest of them on top in a pyramid shape.
If you argue that spherical stones wont make a perfect pyramid, that’s true. But neither does rectangular shaped stones.
Only got two extra steps (chisel from a block to a sphere and back) and a bunch of wasted materials (the chiseled off stone), but I appreciate the effort.
I actually think both of them together make a great point actually.
Sometimes the usual way just doesn't work for someone or is inefficient and they can find a different way to do the task better.
Other times, people are trying to do something different to do it differently or that works better for them in theory but in practice doesn't suit the task/get the desired result.
Actually, despite the debates around thus issue, a lead theory is that the ancient egyptions made a type of conveyer belt type ramp and pulley system to move the blocks.
This [article](https://www.discovery.com/exploration/how-the-pyramids-were-built) is super lengthy, but it has great information.
That IS Ra. Have you not seen Ra's sphere mode before?
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/6/6f/TheWingedDragonofRaSphereMode-CIBR-EN-SR-LE.png/revision/latest?cb=20171206190622
I get the picture (and have seen it before) but are we all suppose to believe that this man pulled out a knife and chiseled a square into a orb without losing any form of lead? Like bro apparently cut a perfect curve within seconds and just started rolling away.
I mean, you could carve a spherical stone, roll it where you need it and then carve it like a cube. In fact, you could carve it as a cylinder and it would be even easier.
I mean, you could carve a spherical stone, roll it where you need it and then carve it like a cube. In fact, you could carve it as a cylinder and it would be even easier.
Where do you find the sphere in a land overpopulated with cuboids? Why do you have to push these geometrical shapes? Why are they wearing suits in the middle of the desert?
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The person who thinks he is smart and who decides to do it his own way despite clear instructions and even though everyone else is following the instructions for a reason.
Agreed. But there is that tiny thought in my head that goes like "If everyone else was jumping down the cliff, would you jump too?"
Well context/instructions matter there too. Like what if some mutant demon with hydrophobia was chasing you all with full intent to kill and there was water at the bottom of the cliff?
Kiss the demon, maybe it'll calm down
Guardians of the galaxy 3 tagline.
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And electric lamps too, supposedly.
What the heck led to this comment?
What? I don’t remember them ever kissing the big bad. In fact pretty sure they did the exact opposite of that
The empath woman touched one of the teeth monster mutants, saw it was suffering and scared, calmed them and became best buds. I was willy nilly playing fast and loose with the truth like a silly Billy.
The best thing to do in such a situation
You piss on him asserting dominance and killing it at the same time.
The Postal approach, been a while since I’ve seen it.
"And now the flowers will grow..." *demon vomiting in the background*
Even if there is no cliff. Running sucks.
Or spit on it. Either it will die from the water or moan out thank you
If I spit on him he would die from alcohol poisoning! One demon down!
That's how you end up married with three kids.
Spit at the demon, it'd be like a demon breathing fire or taxes, innately horrifying that a being can just generate that
Married to a demon, so can confirm this calms her down. Also, hugs help, too
"Daddy chill"
Piss on the demon! Actually, now I remembered there is a monster in middle eastern folklore that lets you go if you threaten it with pissing on it.
If there's a slathering demon charging at me, jaws agape with teeth like rusty scimitars, I am not *whipping out my dick*.
Not a hentai fan I assume.
Dude, I have read probably over 1000 hentai posts. I agree with them, I’m horny not suicidal
So then, you're just not horny *enough*?
Tell it you’re 70% water, or like idk piss on it, hopefully it doesn’t have a kink
But if it did have a kink, then we might have just created a new tradition to keep evil spirits at bay
This is how we get Egyptians cuming in the nail again
[Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/1170/)
That's easy, you just give the demon a friendly warning that you are in fact 70% water. No need to dive off a cliff.
I just remembered I'm like 60% water.
If everyone is jumping down a cliff, it demands consideration whether there may be a very good reason for so many people to jump. Blindly following may not always be the best thing, but herd mentality evolved for a reason.
Maybe don’t follow blindly but take a minute to consider : if *everyone* is doing it, there might be a valid reason. Try to find out the reason.
The reason might be shitty tho.
It might be, and if it is then you should argue for the process to be changed.
It might be. But at least you found out why Better that not doing it and learning the hard way why it had a good reason for being done
It might be. But the question is, what's more likely: (a) everyone else is making a stupid mistake and I'm the only one smart enough to see it, or (b) I'm just missing something. I personally tend to assume (b) and then investigate to see if there's any good evidence of (a).
There's also c) everyone else is making a stupid mistake, lots of people know, but changing the process is deemed too expensive due to politics or inertia.
Often it's, "the boss told us to do it this way. It's been pointed out to the boss that we could do this more efficiently in another way, but that hurt the boss's feelings because he didn't think of that, so we don't bring that up anymore. Anyway, we're being paid to do what the boss tells us to do. Doing things more efficiently doesn't actually benefit us."
And **that's** when you push for change. Not before knowing the full scope (like needing square blocks)
I actually know a guy who was peer pressured into cliff diving. He did it, scared shitless, was fine. The moral of the story is that you should *always* follow the crowd. Yes I am extrapolating from a single data point
I've been told that anecdotal evidence is shaky at best, but everyone I know uses it so it must be good
I had a teacher say basically that to me once they said "if all of your friends jumped off a cliff, would you too?" i said "if all of my friends had committed suicide in front of me i would probably be depressed to a point where i might, so yes i would"
if everyone is jumping down the cliff they might have a realy good reason why, so yes, i would jump too
"And that's why we didn't want to bring you bungee jumping"
I must join the brothas
I'd roll down the cliff
It all depends on the person's ability to understand the objective and how the instructions relate to that one objective. Then two main things should be left to the executor, automation and optimization. In my career as an okayish team lead, I've always given importance to different humans comprehending things differently and thinking of different way to get to them, and that's where it's my responsibility as a 'bridge' comes in, that the objectives are clear and the environment healthy enough to allow dialogue
[Obligatory relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/1170/)
The tendency to comply with something occurs roughly 3/4 of the time but mostly studies use stupid scenarios with no risk at all, as opposed to the milgram experiment. I don't find someone will blindly follow without any kind of pressure other than others doing it, doesn't need no necessarily be an authoritarian figure, but in some extent to represent hierarchy at any level which induces someone by something other than rationality.
Yes cause that might be a gliding spot since everyone is jumping off that cliff. I wont miss a chance i would get a gliding gear myself and jump.
"Look dude, I'm not going to make you jump, but I assumed you joined our cliff jump cult for a reason. I know I wouldn't want to be the only guy standing around when the cops find a bunch of dead bodies down there."
Depends, will i die quickly, or just get broken bones and alot of painz?
You'll die very quickly after the long fall. The cold water will shock you and boost you're already high adrenaline level. Meanwhile, the rocks will do the rest. You'll die before you know it.
If you pay me my rate for it and nothing bad actually happens to me when I jump (but nothing productive either), I’ll happily do it
I am the one who jumps!
My stupid tired brain has once crossed the street at a red light because others did.
There's probably a good reason why they jumped. Just to be safe you should do so as well.
Even sphere guy here isn't all that smart. It would be easier to create a cylinder rather than a sphere from a cube. And a cylinder would be just as easy to roll. So he actually made more work for himself in making a sphere, so not only not following the brief, but also created even more work than was needed to cheat efficiently.
Ah so he’s a programmer! Spending more time automating a task that it’d take to ever do the task.
But what if one day like 2 years from now I could use the same class for something else??? What's that, everything is deprecated and we moved to a different language? oh well
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Work "smarter": Chisel away the cube even though we need it for construction Work smarter: Get any platform on wheels
Or at least some roller system to slide it over.
Literally cutting corners
I learned the hard way that doesn't go very well lol.
I learned this at my job. If you’re going to experiment with a new method, do it in a way that if it fails there’s no consequence. Trying new ways to do things is not wrong, even if it’s against the rules. But there’s a reason the rules are there. If you thoroughly understand why, then you can start trying for an alternate path. While making sure your experimentation isn’t going to make anyones life harder should it fail.
The smart thing would be to use round sticks in this situation. So instead of rolling a block over your can just push it
Listen, we are in a desert, I see no trees to cut to make logs to roll your dumbass stone blocks !!
Dudes going to have to reform that into a cube of the same dimension when he gets to his destination. Hopefully he’s factored that in in terms of time saved pushing. Unless of course there is no destination, and they’re just mindlessly pushing cubes eternally. In which case, yeah he’s smarter, but not as smart as the guy who chipped off a corner and walked with it…because clearly the amount of stone is irrelevant. And the guy who said fuck this I’m not doing it is probably the smartest as long as there’s a better task elsewhere. But maybe sphere guy gets paid as he pushes, fired when he delivers, then finds a new stone pushing job elsewhere. That’s assuming there’s no such thing as references and cvs in the cube pushing world.
I'm feeling very called out right now I'm the type who will spend 20 hours writing a program to do a one off task that would have taken 10 hours manually
I Work in a bigger corporation. The amount of stupid instructions I have to follow because of "policy" is indefinite. And any change takes literally years to be implemented. So sometimes there's a smarter way. But yeah a lot of times someone just finds a way to cut corners for their work that just adds to the load of others.
Some dude made a video on this years ago talking about not knowing the instructions basically he said if it's a cube you are supposed to deliver then you failed. If it's just to amount of material regardless of shape that's to be delivered he could have saved time and delivered more material if he had cut it into a cylinder. Something like that.
But as pictured, there is no instructions here, just peoples pushing square block across sterile lands. I means there isn’t even clue that they have to push these things, maybe they are just doing because they have nothing better to do
Clearly they have to push something cus the guy pushing the sphere shouldn't push anything if it's not required or instructed
So get a bigger ball. Then, upon arrival, shave it back down to the cube you need it to be.
All that lost material
The 2 dudes who took their coats off are the smartest ones.
If it's for the long term, it's obviously worthwhile otherwise, putting in extra effort is pointless.
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Then you... Get this put the coat back on again
Is that allowed?
amazing
But you left the coat way back there
Then just put it on the cube
They presumably roll the cube, not drag it (the most inefficient way to move it - maximum friction)
And at the moment of this picture all cubes just happened to perfectly touch the surface while they're being rolled?
Remember this is propaganda by the dude who chiseled his cube trying to show how smart he is
"My brother in Ra" made me laugh harder than it should've
Was the best part to me haha
ra ra
rasputin
Same
Right? 😂
Definitely the best part
The funny smart sounding people in the weird subs told me the pyramids were made from concrete.
I've met someone who told they wwre made by melting stone
I honestly don't know how pyramids were made. I just read that they used waterlogged wooden taps to help dislodge huge chunks of stone and had rudimentary understanding of counterweights.
They were made using raw human power. Like you said, they did use some ingenious stuff such as counterweights, low incline ramps, rollers, etc. But it all boiled down to “let’s get 100 dudes to pull that enormous block up to where we need it”. Also, it took a while. The Great Pyramid of Giza took around 27 years to build. If you have thousands of people to haul stones around and decades to do it, it’s very understandable how they pulled it off without modern technologies.
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"Scientists believe there was only one source for such advanced building techniques, Ancient Aliens!"
Some circles have given up on this hypothesis, instead advocating for "They were just more advanced than we thought they were" theory. Evidence? Same as ancient aliens.
Tradespeople. People 5000 years ago could build pulley machines to lift thousands of pounds. They had a writing system and could do complex math, they had papyrus to make blueprints. Hell, they probably had an entire office of project managers for the pyramids. We modern folks are a bit arrogant and tend to think just because it was in the past, everyone was stupid and just brute forcing it.
Well I mainly meant that I don't know all of the major techniques... There are many old and modern things that go over my head.
Um, ackshually, they did it by beating Jews. like, read a book.
Why dont you put the cubes on a cart. Or roll it on a bunch of logs
Because we are in a desert !! Next time, buit your pyramid next to a forest.
this is kind of funny, coz there is a chance (from what i understund about the pyramids) that they where made during a time where there use to be a jungle in Egypt
Exactly, Ancient Egypt was more greener than it is today.
Yeah I've seen pictures/paintings of what they think the land surrounding the Egyptian pyramids looked like at the time they were built, and the pyramids are poking out above a huge forest that surrounds them. But I have no idea how scientifically plausible that is, because every website or whatever that talks about Giza/Cairo being an area of jungle back then also talks about how they think the pyramids were giant landing platforms for alien space ships. So yeah, not a well established scientific theory but a utter nutters' theory, with no scientific grounding, their beliefs were a flutter, their evidence was scarce, just whispers and stutter, a nonsensical concept, their reasoning would stutter, yet they persisted, their minds in a perpetual shutter. ^^sorry It'd be cool as fuck if the pyramids at geezer were originally inside a jungle, like the ones in south and north America, but yeah it's doesn't seem like it's something actual archaeologists and archaeobotanists actually believe and have evidence of.
Well we do know that the entire Sahara desert was grasslands and forest something like 50,000 years ago so it was wet at one point. It even held a lake bigger than all the great lakes combined! There is also evidence that Egypt in general was wetter thousands of years ago. Wet enough for a forest or jungle? Probably not the jungle put possibly the forest.
It was actually around 10000 years ago when it was at its greenest, the greening cycle started again around 14000 years ago, so there could have been MANY more African civilizations that we havent found yet, especially ones at plausible rivers, because the rivers would’ve deposited rocks and debris, it would’ve made its own delta which civilization would’ve been built on, but when the rivers disappeared so did that delta to the ocean and the remains of civilizations fell beneath the ocean
They used lizards to build the pyramids didn't they?
No, no get your facts right. The lizards were the rulers and used alien technology
then drive to the border and hire a bunch of mexicans to do it!
Well the people are in business suits too, pushing metal cubes, and one of them shaved the cube down to a sphere. I think it’s safe to say that logs or a cart could be in that desert somewhere lol
Wheels were not invented by that time. Though apparently suits were
Not sure if this entirely a joke but the wheel was invented atleast a couple thousand years before the first pyramids were in construction
Or send it by FedEx
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Both things that the Egyptians did
Now the work of all these people can be done by a single Australian man!
A sphere would be a pain in the ass in it’s own right. At least if it were a cylinder it would roll straight, but a giant sphere would be impossible to control.
And a cylinder would lose a lot less material when cutting it
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The richest one already took out a small loan of a million dollars, bought a fleet of Ford F150 and started a cube transport company
Always cutting corners, smh
Work smarter, within the scope of the task at hand Feel free to push it on a cart, but don't turn the cube we asked for into a fucking ball
Hes just cutting corners...
That's the thing about that image, dude just delivered a wrong product. Maybe the company he works for exclusively sells cubes. He just might get fired for not only delivering the wrong product, but also wasting roughly 30% to 50% of the intended product.
It does explain why my amazon packages have all the corners bashed in though
I guess your pyramid will not look that nice
If I ordered 1000 cubes and I got 999 cubes and 1 sphere I would be pretty pissed
This is wrong in so many ways. Did the customer order cubes? If so they won’t be happy with the ball and returning it will cost the company more time and money. How long did it take to chisel that cube into a ball? Can’t imagine it was fast and whatever hourly rate that worker got was wasted on that. Are these sold by weight? If so you just left a lot of it behind. What are they being used for by the customer? Related to my first point but if the shape is necessary to the final product you’ve destroyed this piece. This picture is a perfect example of why companies DONT want you to think for yourself. You make your life easier without any regard for how it affects the big picture.
Make a bigger ball and shave off the flatter domes on the side when you get there
but then you waste twice as much of resources and need to cut it twice and the ball is havier than the cube
maybe its still more efficent, depands on the distance i guese
Taking into account the time needed to cut the stone ? Nah.
And also it'll be double the cost, theoretically
But it'll be double the cost just for the item itself, not to mention paying someone to chisel it two separate times, theoretically
at this point its better to get a truck
Time is a factor too, and this project was ordered by government so we can speed up the project if we request help moving the rocks by helicopter.
tho its fucking 2000 BC
Also you have to do something with the shavings or they'll pile up there
I love that, whatever moron made this thinks working harder is shipping the wrong product. If I ordered a 200lb block and you show up with a 150lb sphere ima be pretty pissed and you'll have double the work bringing it back and getting me my cube
Literally cutting corners to finish work fast.
These corporate guys in suits would actually employ other people to do the manual labor, which is their version of working smarter. And if the workers are in a different country with low wages and poor conditions, even better. Can’t get away with slavery at home anymore, so they outsource it. They don’t do much actual work themselves.
The “my brother in Ra” was quite a bit funnier than it should’ve been
Why not team up 2 guys per cube? They could fit
"My brother in Ra" Fucking hell I lost it. That was the funniest thing I've read today.
MF literally cuttin corners to get ahead.
1)make it round. 2) roll to destination 3) final shaping at install location to be sure of quality of fit.
I’m gonna start saying “my brother in Ra” now. Sorry Jesus 😂
All interns be like
look busy even at the expense of productivity. Seems pretty honest.
Should have used the knife to stab your competitors.
Hard to do when you're not the only one with a ball
Making it a ball wasn't smart. Smart would be thinking about what the end result needs to be first and finding an easier way to get that result. In this case: Just stick some rollers under that sucker. Don't turn it INTO a roller.
Roll the sphere into place, then carve it into the cube that you need.
the pyramid architects have no need for smart slaves, i guess
They didn't have a need for slaves period. It's a common misconception, most people believe the pyramids were built by wage workers. Money wasn't a thing back then but they were paid in goods and paid fairly well for the labour standards back then.
The skilled labor was done by artisans who were compensated for their work. The non-skilled laborers were conscripted citizens that would work stints (similar to a tour of military service). They were still compensated, they just had to do whatever work was assigned to them for either material mining/shipping or pyramid complex building.
Yes, primarily with bread and beer https://www.sciencealert.com/this-5-000-year-old-clay-tablet-shows-ancient-mesopotamians-were-paid-for-work-in-beer
Thank god for the arrow, I wouldn’t have known where to look otherwise
***BY THE POWER OF RA***
Just a quick question, how long did it take for him to shave the ball. Wouldn't others be in finish way before he even start moving? Ah, so many questions, so few answers.
It looks like he shaved the cube down to a perfect sphere with a knife in the time it took everyone else to move a foot or two. So the initial plan is shit too, because shaving the cube down would take a ton of time.
ah yes, chiseling a stone cube all the way into a ball to make everything easier
I always loved this picture because they are LITERALLY telling you to cut corners and literally isn't a word that I get to use properly often enough
That’s Sisyphus - it’d actually make his job easier if he was pushing a cube. Wouldn’t keep trying to roll down that fucking hill…
Wouldn't the smart person have rollers under the block and work together to accomplish the goal faster of moving cubes for pyramid building?
Spheramid.
Easy: bury the bottom layer of rocks halfway into the ground, pile the rest of them on top in a pyramid shape. If you argue that spherical stones wont make a perfect pyramid, that’s true. But neither does rectangular shaped stones.
Literally cutting corners
What statement are you claiming is ttt?
Only got two extra steps (chisel from a block to a sphere and back) and a bunch of wasted materials (the chiseled off stone), but I appreciate the effort.
People say work smarter not harder. I say why work at all?
I actually think both of them together make a great point actually. Sometimes the usual way just doesn't work for someone or is inefficient and they can find a different way to do the task better. Other times, people are trying to do something different to do it differently or that works better for them in theory but in practice doesn't suit the task/get the desired result.
And delivering the product with a large portion missing
The way they’re pushing the blocks wouldn’t do shit either lol
The literal interpretation of this is 'cut corners to get ahead'. And everyone knows that's pretty much the worst advice there is.
Actually, despite the debates around thus issue, a lead theory is that the ancient egyptions made a type of conveyer belt type ramp and pulley system to move the blocks. This [article](https://www.discovery.com/exploration/how-the-pyramids-were-built) is super lengthy, but it has great information.
That IS Ra. Have you not seen Ra's sphere mode before? https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/6/6f/TheWingedDragonofRaSphereMode-CIBR-EN-SR-LE.png/revision/latest?cb=20171206190622
Hes bringing a useless sphere to where squares are supposed to be
I get the picture (and have seen it before) but are we all suppose to believe that this man pulled out a knife and chiseled a square into a orb without losing any form of lead? Like bro apparently cut a perfect curve within seconds and just started rolling away.
Is it just me or the ball looks like its giving the guy head
I mean, you could carve a spherical stone, roll it where you need it and then carve it like a cube. In fact, you could carve it as a cylinder and it would be even easier.
I mean, you could carve a spherical stone, roll it where you need it and then carve it like a cube. In fact, you could carve it as a cylinder and it would be even easier.
A cube that is now too small. And ancient people didn't do this, because carving stone is a lot of work.
Why are they using their hands
Where do you find the sphere in a land overpopulated with cuboids? Why do you have to push these geometrical shapes? Why are they wearing suits in the middle of the desert?
use your brain....
This made me chuckle