Thought-provoking stories (whether true or not)

[GaryA]

Floor Cleaner

An unemployed man goes to apply for a job with Microsoft as a janitor. The manager there arranges for him to take an aptitude test (Section: Floors, sweeping and cleaning).

After the test, the manager says, "You will be employed at minimum wage, $5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send you a form to complete and tell you where to report for work on your first day. Taken aback, the man protests that he has neither a computer nor an e-mail address. To this the MS manager replies, "Well, then, that means that you virtually don't exist and can therefore hardly expect to be employed.

Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having only $10 in his wallet, he decides to buy a 25 lb flat of tomatoes at the supermarket. Within less than 2 hours, he sells all the tomatoes individually at 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 before going to sleep that night. And thus it dawns on him that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes. Getting up early every day and going to bed late, he multiplies his profits quickly.

After a short time he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again so that he can buy a pick-up truck to support his expanding business. By the end of the second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks and manages a staff of a hundred former unemployed people, all selling tomatoes.

Planning for the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the telephone conversation, the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically. When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned, "What, you don't have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to amass such wealth without the Internet, e-mail and e-commerce? Just imagine where you would be now, if you had been connected to the Internet from the very start!"

After a moment of thought, the tomato millionaire replied, "Why, of course! I would be a floor cleaner at Microsoft!"

Moral of this story:

1. The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life.
2. If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a millionaire.
3. Since you got this story via e-mail, you're probably closer to becoming a janitor than you are to becoming a millionaire.
4. If you do have a computer and e-mail, you have already been taken to the cleaners by Microsoft.

 

[GaryA]

Please feel free to add any good stories you may find!

 

[GaryA]

Good stories are hard to find...

 

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What stories have you found "floating around the internet" - that may or may not have actually happened - that are nonetheless thought-provoking?

Here is one to kick off the thread:


It snowed last night...

8:00 am: I made a snowman.

8:10 - A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn't make a snow woman.

8:15 - So, I made a snow woman.

8:17 - My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman's voluptuous chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere.

8:20 - The gay couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it could have been two snowmen instead.

8:22 - The transgender man... woman... person asked why I didn't just make one snow person with detachable parts?

8:25 - The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and not to decorate snow figures with.

8:28 - I was being called a racist because the snow couple is white.

8:31 - The middle eastern gent across the road demanded the snow woman be covered up.

8:40 - The Police arrived saying someone had been offended.

8:42 - The feminist neighbor complained again that the broomstick of the snow woman needed to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role.

8:43 - The city council equality officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.

8:45 - The TV news crew from ABC showed up. I was asked if I know the difference between snowmen and snow-women? I replied "Snowballs" and am now called a sexist.

9:00 - I was on the News as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather.

9:10 - I was asked if I have any accomplices. My children were taken by social services.

9:29 - Far left protesters offended by everything marched down the street demanding for me to be arrested.

By Noon it had all melted

Moral:

There is no moral to this story. It is exactly what we have become.....all caused by Snowflakes.

I do not know if this is the right place to post, but the best story I have ever read is a story called: The story of the three trees.


Once upon a mountain top, three little trees stood and dreamed of what they wanted to become when they grew up.

The first little tree looked up at the stars and said: “I want to hold treasure. I want to be covered with gold and filled with precious stones. I’ll be the most beautiful treasure chest in the world!”

The second little tree looked out at the small stream trickling by on its way to the ocean. “I want to be traveling mighty waters and carrying powerful kings. I’ll be the strongest ship in the world!”

The third little tree looked down into the valley below where busy men and women worked in a busy town. “I don’t want to leave the mountain top at all. I want to grow so tall that when people stop to look at me, they’ll raise their eyes to heaven and think of God. I will be the tallest tree in the world.”

Years passed. The rain came, the sun shone, and the little trees grew tall. One day three woodcutters climbed the mountain.

The first woodcutter looked at the first tree and said, “This tree is beautiful. It is perfect for me.” With a swoop of his shining axe, the first tree fell.

“Now I shall be made into a beautiful chest. I shall hold wonderful treasure!” the first tree said.

The second woodcutter looked at the second tree and said, “This tree is strong. It is perfect for me.” With a swoop of his shining axe, the second tree fell.

“Now I shall sail mighty waters!” thought the second tree. “I shall be a strong ship for mighty kings!”

The third tree felt her heart sink when the last woodcutter looked her way. She stood straight and tall and pointed bravely to heaven.

But the woodcutter never even looked up. “Any kind of tree will do for me,” he muttered. With a swoop of his shining axe, the third tree fell.

The first tree rejoiced when the woodcutter brought her to a carpenter’s shop. But the carpenter fashioned the tree into a feedbox for animals.

The once beautiful tree was not covered with gold, nor with treasure. She was coated with sawdust and filled with hay for hungry farm animals.

The second tree smiled when the woodcutter took her to a shipyard, but no mighty sailing ship was made that day. Instead, the once strong tree was hammered and sawed into a simple fishing boat. She was too small and too weak to sail on an ocean, or even a river; instead, she was taken to a little lake.

The third tree was confused when the woodcutter cut her into strong beams and left her in a lumberyard.

“What happened?” the once tall tree wondered. “All I ever wanted was to stay on the mountain top and point to God...”

Many, many days and night passed. The three trees nearly forgot their dreams.

But one night, golden starlight poured over the first tree as a young woman placed her newborn baby in the feedbox.

“I wish I could make a cradle for him,” her husband whispered.

The mother squeezed his hand and smiled as the starlight shone on the smooth and the sturdy wood. “This manger is beautiful,” she said.

And suddenly the first tree knew he was holding the greatest treasure in the world.

One evening a tired traveler and his friends crowded into the old fishing boat. The traveler fell asleep as the second tree quietly sailed out into the lake.

Soon a thundering and thrashing storm arose. The little tree shuddered. She knew she did not have the strength to carry so many passengers safely through with the wind and the rain.

The tired man awakened. He stood up, stretched out his hand, and said, “Peace.” The storm stopped as quickly as it had begun.

And suddenly the second tree knew he was carrying the king of heaven and earth.

One Friday morning, the third tree was startled when her beams were yanked from the forgotten woodpile. She flinched as she was carried through an angry jeering crowd. She shuddered when soldiers nailed a man’s hands to her.

She felt ugly and harsh and cruel.

But in the morning of the first day of the week, when the sun rose and the earth tremble with joy beneath her, the third tree knew that God’s love had changed everything.

It had made the third tree strong.

And every time people thought of the third tree, they would think of God.

 

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My thinking was that Newsweek was an 'honest' broker of newsworthy information and then this! My take is 'skewing' the headline attracts readers. The article goes on to mention possible infection caused by bacterium as cause of death. However no mention of other potential 'unusual' causes. i.e. Selenium poisoning or Carbon Monoxide 'asphyxiation' or '?'. I may have missed something?

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Dozens of Cattle Slaughtered by Mystery Creature That Left No Tracks
Story by Robyn White • 31m ago
Dozens of cattle have been slaughtered by a mystery creature in Colorado that left no tracks.

A stock photo shows a dead cow in a rural area. Around 40 cows have been found dead and officials do not know why.© Adil Abdrakhmanov/Getty
In October, 18 dead cows were found near the town of Meeker, Steamboat Pilot & Today reported on Sunday. Some, but not all, had injuries consistent with wolf predation, but officials from Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) have found no tracks or evidence of them in the area.

But whatever is killing the cows appears to still be on the rampage. Since October, as many as 40 dead cows have been found around the same area.
Wildlife officials have done everything they can to try and find the animal. They have set up trail cameras and aerial flights and still have found no trace of the culprit, the newspaper reported.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) Northwest regional director Travis Black said on November 17, according to Steamboat Pilot & Today: "It's perplexing; it's confusing; it's frustrating, trying to figure out exactly what occurred in this incident. We have no evidence of wolves in that area. That doesn't mean they are not there."
Further investigations into what may be killing the livestock are still underway. Cows can develop a number of fatal diseases.
Wildlife officials believed it could be the Clostridium bacteria, which can cause gut distress and subsequent death in cows. But veterinarians have ruled it out, Sky-Hi News reported.
"We're scratching our heads," Black told the CPW.
Although wolves may still be the cause for the deaths, there is little evidence to establish this.
"What we're lacking in my opinion, is that typical feeding behavior that we would see... typically wolves would come back and feed on a carcass," Black said.

The incident comes as gray wolves slowly make a comeback to the state. Gray wolves used to be abundant in the state before they were completely eradicated by the 1940s.
Colorado is also aiming to implement a wolf reintroduction program, approved by voters in 2020. The plan, which aims to reintroduce more wolves to the state by the end of 2023, is to be presented to the CPW Commission on December 9, according to Steamboat Pilot & Today.
Wolves sometimes migrate into Colorado from nearby states. They are likely populations from the Northern Rockies, across Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.
If wolves are the predators responsible for the killings, it would mean that they are passing through into Colorado earlier than is seasonally expected, Steamboat Pilot & Today reported.
The decision to reintroduce the species has not always been popular. Some farmers were concerned about the wolves taking their livestock, but biologists have said the reintroduction is vital for the state's ecosystem, as it would restore predator-prey balance in the area.
Executive director of the International Wolf Center, Grant Spickelmier told Newsweek: "The presence of wolves can bring many benefits to wildland ecosystems, but their ability to thrive is directly dependent on how well they are tolerated by local human populations."
Colorado is home to a variety of other species, such as the mountain lion. But officials have not confirmed whether the species is a potential suspect.
It is not certain how many wolves are in Colorado but in 2020 wildlife officials established there were as many as six. And in 2021, one of them gave birth to six pups.
But it remains unclear how many remain. In October, three female wolves were found dead in Wyoming, near the Colorado border. Officials believed they belonged to Colorado's only wolf pack.
"Unfortunately, wolves can't see state boundaries and it is easy for them to cross borders into zones where they are less tolerated," Spickelmier said.
In Wyoming, it is legal to hunt the species any time without a hunting permit. In Colorado however, wolves are a protected species and hunting them is illegal.
Do you have an animal or nature story to share with Newsweek? Do you have a question about wolves? Let us know via [email protected].

 

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VERY STRANGE

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Country singer Jake Flint dies at 37 years old, hours after wedding
Story by Julianne McShane • 4h ago
Country singer Jake Flint has died at 37 years old, just hours after getting married, according to his publicist, former manager and now-widow.

Flint's publicist, Clif Doyal, told the Oklahoman that Flint died in his sleep following his wedding on Saturday.

His now-widow, Brenda Flint, wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday: "We should be going through wedding photos but instead I have to pick out clothes to bury my husband in. People aren’t meant to feel this much pain. My heart is gone and I just really need him to come back. I can’t take much more. I need him here."

Brenda also posted a video of the two at their wedding. "I don't understand," she wrote.

 

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Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential and agency of human beings. It considers human beings the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.

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Take an ordinary deck of 54 cards.

Shuffle it thoroughly.

That’s all. The order of the cards in the deck you are now holding is (barring a vanishingly small probability) absolutely unique. Nobody has ever held a deck with cards in the exact same order, and nobody ever will. (Except if you record the order to recreate it later, of course.)

An ordinary deck of cards do not seem much, but each card is unique, which means that there are 54!54! possible orders. 54! expands to 230843697339241380472092742683027581083278564571807941132288000000000000 A number with 72 decimal digits.

If all currently living humans lived forever and started doing nothing else than sequentially explore all the possible orders of decks of cards, and took an average of five seconds to try an order, they would still take 3.5×10443.5×1044 times the age of the universe to explore all possible orders.

That’s a simple illustration of what is a combinatorial explosion.

Edit: A lot of people commented about decks of cards containing 52 cards and not 54. All the decks I bought contained 54 cards - the 52 regular cards + the two jokers. Still, if you want to omit the jokers and use a 52 cards deck, you just have to divide all numbers in this answers by 53×54=286253×54=2862. This reduces the expressions by three orders of magnitude, but does not fundamentally alter the results.

Edit 2: You can also ask the “birthday problem” version of the same question, i.e. if it is plausible that two people ever shuffled a deck the exact same way, in general (which is a distinct, and much more probable event that reproducing a specific order). The probability is complicated to compute exactly due to very large numbers, but an approximation for a small number of shuffles (compared to 54!54!) would be 1−e−n22⋅54!1−e−n22⋅54!, where n is the number of shuffles (see the birthday problem wikipedia article). Even with the current world population continuously shuffling decks, at a rate of 5 per second, since the beginning of the universe (6.19×10266.19×1026 shuffles), the probability is only about 8.3×10−198.3×10−19. Less than one chance in one billion billions. That’s absolutely huge compared to the other probabilities mentioned here, but it’s still vanishingly small.

 

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Nick and I told Sophia that after 1 whole month of going poop on the potty, she could pick out a special prize at Target. She, of course, picked a new doll. The obsession is real.
While we were checking out, the cashier asked Sophia if she was going to a birthday party. We both gave her a blank stare. She then pointed to the doll and asked Sophia if she picked her out for a friend.
Sophia continued to stare blankly and I let the cashier know that she was a prize for Sophia being fully potty trained. The woman gave me a puzzled look and turned to Sophia and asked, “Are you sure this is the doll you want, honey?”
Sophia finally found her voice and said, “Yes, please!” The cashier replied, “But she doesn’t look like you. We have lots of other dolls that look more like you.”
I immediately became angry, but before I could say anything, Sophia responded with, “Yes, she does. She’s a doctor like I’m a doctor. And I’m a pretty girl and she’s a pretty girl. See her pretty hair? And see her stethoscope?” Thankfully the cashier decided to drop the issue and just answer, “Oh, that’s nice.”
This experience just confirmed my belief that we aren’t born with the idea that color matters. Skin comes in different colors just like hair and eyes and every shade is beautiful.
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