Firefighter test asked job candidates how many 60-foot hoses they'd need to bring if a fire was 350 feet away

[Hollie]

Just asking not relative questions. https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/la-math-exam.html

question 1. Is malformed. An AK-47 is magazine fed. No clip.

 

[evenflow1969]

No, no .
You are assuming a straight line distance only with a spare ten feet when you answer 6.

But the building has a depth of , say , another sixty feet

Now you are in trouble .

No job . Sorry .

Yep not really enough information to answer the problem. Need to know depth and width of building, also water pressure. Then even then not enough information. Also need to know the type of fire. Water can makes some types of fire worse.

 

[evenflow1969]

So dimocrap scum are stupid? Next news flash; WATER IS WET

Lol, evidently you are stupid. Seems an easy question. First question is what type of fire is it. Add water to some fires all you do is spread it.

 

[Missourian]

 

[WEATHER53]

No, no .
You are assuming a straight line distance only with a spare ten feet when you answer 6.

But the building has a depth of , say , another sixty feet

Now you are in trouble .

No job . Sorry .

You are adding additional parameters

 

[Edgetho]

This is often what it takes for people to learn. The 'Hard Way'

I don't know why certain people can't learn from the wisdom and experience of others. It just seems like they can't stand it when they are instructed or told things they don't want to hear or do.

So they have to learn. The Hard Way

The "Young" Turks' Ana Kasparian: Yes It's True, I've Left the Left​

—Disinformation Expert Ace​

If you don't know who Ana Kasparian is, she's part of the "Young" (they're not young) Turks podcast. The podcast consists of people who are simultaneously very hard-left socialists, but also unrepetentantly assholish 'Vote Blue No Matter Who' Democrat Party shills.

She was sexually assaulted by a homeless man a few years ago. This caused her to start reconsidering the nonsense she'd been parroting for years about letting all of the criminals out of the jails.

The left responded by calling her a racist (they assumed the attacker was black, like good anti-racists; in fact, he was white) and a Trump shill.

She now confirms what many critics had accused her of: Yes, she's left the left.

Literally mugged by reality.

Independent and Unaligned You're right, I've changed.
After Trump came onto the political scene, and especially after he was elected in 2016, the us-vs-them mentality immediately took shape. Anyone who refused to "resist Trump" was seen as a threat to the country, and I was fully on board with that mindset.

It all felt righteous at first. But eventually, the tactics deployed to fight Trump became repetitive, boring and ultimately fruitless. Polling shows that he has increased his support among Black and Latino voters despite wall-to-wall coverage on his unsavory, racist or bigoted remarks. Several years of media raising alarm over Trump's threat to democracy has only resulted in a tight presidential race between himself and Kamala Harris.

I can't help but acknowledge that the only thing that was accomplished by resisting Trump was less understanding and more division among Americans. I personally became reluctant to challenge my "side" or engage with voters who disagreed with me. In turn, I became less knowledgeable about the people and world around me. I saw Republican voters as an evil monolith and that was a big mistake.

My evolution started in 2022 when I was sexually assaulted by a homeless man in my neighborhood as I was walking my dog. That horrible experience alone didn't change me politically, but the treatment I received from the far left and some progressives after sharing the story did.
I was told that by publicly sharing what had happened to me, I was stigmatizing my "unhoused neighbors." Others accused me of feeding into racist tropes because they assumed that my attacker was black. But I had never even disclosed the man's race.

He was white.
Not only did I suddenly see the flawed thinking of some on the left, I also witnessed their cruelty and hypocrisy in real time. These terrible traits that I had associated solely with my political opponents were obviously not exclusive to their tribe. I was stupid for ever thinking that was the case.
That doesn't mean everyone on the left thinks or behaves in the way this small group of lunatics do. Far from it. But it does mean that there are factions and flaws on both sides of the aisle and no one has a monopoly on truth.

Then there was the insane reaction to one of my tweets in March 2023:

All hell broke loose after I posted those words. Most "friends" in left-wing media didn't bother reaching out privately to discuss their disagreement with my personal preference. Instead, many self-described socialists took it upon themselves to profit from conflict by publicly attacking me with monetized videos.
A smaller leftist YouTube show put out five separate videos skewering me about the tweet, while conveniently erasing the advocacy I had done on behalf of the transgender community throughout my career.

They even went as far as drawing a link between my tweet and trans suicides, which sadly wasn't the most unhinged outcome of the debacle.

TYT's volunteer YouTube chat moderators quit over the tweet, and someone reported me to Human Resources. An on-air transgender contributor even resigned from the company after being urged by online mobs and leftist shows to do so. Curious that not one of those shows hired her after she took their advice.
I never apologized for the tweet and I never will.

That whole experience forced me to come to terms with the intolerance on the left and it allowed me to publicly reject the ideological shackles that kept my world small and less informed.
Today I'm less certain and more curious than I was four years ago.

 

[Edgetho]

This is often what it takes for people to learn. The 'Hard Way'

I don't know why certain people can't learn from the wisdom and experience of others. It just seems like they can't stand it when they are instructed or told things they don't want to hear or do.

So they have to learn. The Hard Way

The "Young" Turks' Ana Kasparian: Yes It's True, I've Left the Left​

—Disinformation Expert Ace​

If you don't know who Ana Kasparian is, she's part of the "Young" (they're not young) Turks podcast. The podcast consists of people who are simultaneously very hard-left socialists, but also unrepetentantly assholish 'Vote Blue No Matter Who' Democrat Party shills.

She was sexually assaulted by a homeless man a few years ago. This caused her to start reconsidering the nonsense she'd been parroting for years about letting all of the criminals out of the jails.

The left responded by calling her a racist (they assumed the attacker was black, like good anti-racists; in fact, he was white) and a Trump shill.

She now confirms what many critics had accused her of: Yes, she's left the left.

Literally mugged by reality.

P.S. dimocraps are the scum of the Earth

 

[Edgetho]

 

[Dekster]

back in the day, I tested to be above the 12th grade level across the board on some standardized test. I think I was in 8th grade at the time. I was more shocked that there were people who didn't. The questions were idiotic like "The doctor gave Bob a prescription to take 1 pill every 8 hours. What is the most number of pills Bob should take in a day?"

 

[d0gbreath]

6 Hoses for me. When I was changing careers, my Mom suggested that I become a fireman. I'd been in construction for 20 years, so the physical aspect would've been a cinch. Then I told her that I'm scared to death of fire, when it's where it's not supposed to be.

I don't care how deep the building is, because I'm not going to go inside of it.

 

[Hollie]

6 Hoses for me. When I was changing careers, my Mom suggested that I become a fireman. I'd been in construction for 20 years, so the physical aspect would've been a cinch. Then I told her that I'm scared to death of fire, when it's where it's not supposed to be.

I don't care how deep the building is, because I'm not going to go inside of it.

I suspect the question regarding the number of hose sections was intended as a basic reasoning / basic math problem.

 

[Woodznutz]

6 hoses.

It was a math question. If it was a logic question the answer would be "as many hoses as are needed to fight the fire."

 

[Edgetho]

I suspect the question regarding the number of hose sections was intended as a basic reasoning / basic math problem.

This may seem off-topic but -- It is not.

Do you have any idea how many people are not aware of this? I would guess 30% of Normies and 70% of dimocrap scum.

Know why? Because the DISGUSTING FILTH hates Musk now that he's in it for OMB.

 

[Winco]

So dimocrap scum are stupid? Next news flash; WATER IS WET

Water makes things WET.

Am I wrong?

 

[ColonelAngus]

Meh, who cares if firefighters can do basic math as long as they are not white.

You left wing cult fucks should stop any white people from putting out your home if it is on fire.

 

[Woodznutz]

No, no .
You are assuming a straight line distance only with a spare ten feet when you answer 6.

But the building has a depth of , say , another sixty feet

Now you are in trouble .

No job . Sorry .

The math test aside, if you can't pass the physical you have no business being a firefighter.

 

[justoffal]

Possibly the most absurd end result of leftist DIE politico-religious ideology.

"Math is racist". What would be a reasonable question to ask of a firefighter, except in the DIE infected ideology of the left.

DOJ Tells Four Police, Fire Departments That It’s Racist To Expect Employees To Know Basic Math

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Firefighter test asked job candidates how many 60-foot hoses they'd need to bring if a fire was 350 feet away

Please don't tell me most of them couldn't get the answer! Is that what this is about? They actually did not know the answer to that question?

 

[justoffal]

Meh, who cares if firefighters can do basic math as long as they are not white.

You left wing cult fucks should stop any white people from putting out your home if it is on fire.

Yeah don't play my music, don't use my image.... And please don't put out my fire! I don't want any of you Trumpsters anywhere near my precious, progressive fire! And make sure you use the proper pronouns when you refer to my fire!

 

[Independent thinker]

Possibly the most absurd end result of leftist DIE politico-religious ideology.

"Math is racist". What would be a reasonable question to ask of a firefighter, except in the DIE infected ideology of the left.

DOJ Tells Four Police, Fire Departments That It’s Racist To Expect Employees To Know Basic Math

The Biden-Harris Department of Justice has undertaken a slew of lawsuits against local police and fire departments alleging that it is racist to require hires entrusted with public safety to know basic math.The lawsuits undermine Kamala Harris’s attempts to brand herself as a moderate in the...

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Firefighter test asked job candidates how many 60-foot hoses they'd need to bring if a fire was 350 feet away

To the left everything is racist. Last I remember blacks made up about 15% of the population and if something like firefighter tests made it so that only 14% of blacks were firefighters, then it is automatically racist. Hell, I think it was Oregon who made tests in high school easier because the harder tests led to less blacks graduating high school. Yes, lets dumb everything down.

 

[justoffal]

To the left everything is racist. Last I remember blacks made up about 15% of the population and if something like firefighter tests made it so that only 14% of blacks were firefighters, then it is automatically racist. Hell, I think it was Oregon who made tests in high school easier because the harder tests led to less blacks graduating high school. Yes, lets dumb everything down.

Geezus.... Can you imagine a fire hydrant 360 ft away and they only bring five hoses? Why? Because they thought five was enough!