Forklift Driver Next Human Evolution

I’ve been trying so hard to explain this to people ever since I got promoted to forklift driver. How quickly my body map integrated this five ton machine into a natural extension of my being. I’m actually better at guessing the battery charge on my truck by the minute sluggishness in my lift actuators than I am at assessing my own hunger. I can clear turns around shelving units within an inch of my sideboards easier than I can avoid tripping over my own feet out of truck. It doesn’t just make me stronger, faster, able to reach higher, it also makes me more graceful, more agile, more aware of my self and my surroundings. Perhaps even more human. Exactly! Getting forklift certified makes you the next state of human evolution!

A dark-mode social media screenshot shows a long post about a forklift driver whose body has adapted to a five-ton forklift as if it were a natural extension of the body. A reply enthusiastically claims that forklift certification is the next stage of human evolution. The joke exaggerates workplace skill and machine embodiment into absurd pseudo-philosophy, making it useful as a reaction to becoming unusually competent or dependent on a tool. EN: A dark-mode social media screenshot shows a long post about a forklift driver whose body has adapted to a five-ton forklift as if it were a natural extension of the body. A reply enthusiastically claims that forklift certification is the next stage of human evolution. The joke exaggerates workplace skill and machine embodiment into absurd pseudo-philosophy, making it useful as a reaction to becoming unusually competent or dependent on a tool.

• @rzeczyzabawne / 16655 2024-05-22