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FatherPrax1841 karma

How are you differentiating people who report articles as false when they simply disagree with them?

FatherPrax19 karma

I'm interested in the cooling effects. Is it actually cooler than not wearing any, or is it just cooler than wearing the equivalent pantyhose? Do you envision people wearing these for the actual cooling effect under regular clothes, like people do when wearing cosplay outfits or mascot uniforms?

FatherPrax7 karma

My grandfather was a railroad engineer for 30+ years. Back then, I know part of the process was a color test because color deficient/blind people were not allowed to be an engineer.

He wound up buying the book they used for testing, memorized the proper answers, and cheated his way thru it. As far as I know, he never had an issue because of his color deficiency.

My question is do they still test for this? Do you think being color deficient would actually cause you problems in the modern day of engineering?

FatherPrax2 karma

Yes and no. I have a flight coming up to London in a couple weeks, and I have "upgraded" my tickets to business class the day I bought them almost a month ago. Cost $1,000 as well as 20,000 miles each way, and I still have not gotten confirmation that I actually am getting the upgrade. They won't know when the upgrade tickets will be released, so right now they're simply holding over $2,000 of my money and have been for a month for a CHANCE of being upgraded.

I was told the release of upgrade tickets can happen as late as the day before the flight.

FatherPrax2 karma

Do you think it makes sense to ban people with that problem? Have you run into many situations where someone who was red/green color deficient would have problems?

In my experience as a color deficient person, there are several jobs that I'm disqualified for because of this that it really isn't necessary.