opossumoDec 8

TIL: Australia was the first to use it and is leading in autonomous mining

https://lemmings.world/post/38052209

TIL: Australia was the first to use it and is leading in autonomous mining - Lemmings.world

I was reading how China had started to test unmanned trucks [https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-unmmaned-trucks-world-highest-mine], and in researching found that Australia was already a decade ahead. (2014) Rio Tinto: rolling out the world’s first fully driverless mines [https://www.mining-technology.com/features/featurerio-tinto-rolling-out-the-worlds-first-fully-driverless-mines-4831021/] (2018) World-first autonomous trains deployed at Rio Tinto’s iron ore operations [https://www.riotinto.com/en/news/releases/2018/world-first-autonomous-trains-deployed] - This one is also apparently the ‘worlds biggest robot’ (2021) Rio Tinto to deploy world’s first fully autonomous water trucks at Gudai-Darri [https://www.riotinto.com/en/news/releases/2021/rio-tinto-to-deploy-worlds-first-fully-autonomous-water-trucks-at-gudai-darri]

Show threadCTDummyDec 9
Nice. Now we can ship our minerals and resources overseas with less of our workers being paid to do so.
Show threadopossumoDec 12

Nice now people won’t have to risk their lives a bit more.

Now work on getting your government to tax them and take back your money You are a democracy right?

Show threadCTDummyDec 13
Right, it’s totally reasonable that the burden be on citizens and not corporations who consistently attempt to capsize the economy with greed. Are you American because it’d tempting to be equally condescending about their “democracy”.
Show threadopossumo

Corporations are evil, you cannot expect them to do the right thing voluntarily.

It is up to the people to defend themselves from the corpos. And in theory a democracy should be a giant representation of the people, capable of fighting said corporations at scale.

Dec 17 at 7:40amWeb
Show threadCTDummyDec 17
So my first remark highlighting this being obviously done to reduce expenses on employee wages is met with a remark about “”safety”” because surely that’s why corps are trying to automate jobs, and dripping condescension. Now you’re presuming to lecture me on democracy and corporations being evil. Not to be rude, but you seem like someone that doesn’t socialise outside social media very much.
Show threadopossumoDec 17
Ad hominems say more about you than anything.