I may not have the most time in the workforce of any person on the planet, but I have to say, the meeting I was at yesterday will probably be amongst the strangest thing I will ever see at work.
One of my many job sections at my other job includes running the AV gear for our large public meetings. We are trying to pick a design for a new bridge to replace the Columbia river I-5 bridge. So last night was one of the milestone meetings. Lots of public, Lots of government and politicos. Very tiny room (offsite so we had to haul all the 1 + tons of equipment over there. That is literal by the way.)
So we get set up, the meeting starts, and all the sudden, 40 honest to goodness hippies show up. Protest signs, Peace signs, Flower face paint, the works.
I was not the only person struggling to keep from rolling on the floor laughing.
So, some idiot decided to put a public comment microphone out, and allow signups. Guess how many of the bridge hippies decided to sign up?
Yeah. All of them.
So, 2 hours later I came to the conclusion that hippies are indeed idiots, do not understand basic environmental principals, and should probably be fiored out fo a cannon at the earliest oppertunity.
Now the two old briges are not eco friendly. They dump car runoff directly into the river, they are coated with rusty paint chips that fall off and kiull fish, and they cause congesition, which means many more idling cars at slow speeds putting out gasses. A replacement bridge will fix most of those things.
Now these hippies apperently have decided that the two old bridges are somehow, by causing congestion are somehow helping the environment by causing all these cars that would have taken the bridge to magicaly turn people into bus commuters. The same busses stuck in the same congestion.
Are we really this stupid as a species?