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Yeah, they’ll be singing a different tune when they’ve worked 60 hour weeks and the only one who has any money is their boss.

Also, most factories are fucking clean rooms these days Mark, you’re not gonna be able to pop a zyn. It’s called fucking quality control Mark.

They have been fine. They understand, as do we all, that we are in the middle of a huge fog of war rn. That said, they don’t believe, and no one they talk to, believes it’s going to go well for the U.S.

Something happened, so the head of the ‘Nothing ever happens’ gang has gone into hiding.

Ehhh, Gen X alt and grunge culture is still a basic mainstay in mainstream bullshit. It’s a different kind of nostalgia. Like there are a lot of genres, like reality TV, which are all just Gen X bullshit for the modern era.

They usually don’t make the same mistake twice, I will give them that, but I have seen younger mechanical engineers do some pretty silly shit.

I was specifically talking about tanks and stuff like that, not like a standard bracket material selection. Most piping and tanks and stuff is either a team of mechanical and chemical or purely chemical, sometimes with a process or controls engineer thrown in depending on how much money is floating around.

That said, my father tells me all of that stuff used to fall within mechanical engineering, with chemical engineering really being limited to Petro, pharma and agriculture.

These days, those kinds of jobs go to chemical engineers.

Mechanical engineers usually are the kind of ‘jack of all trades, master of none.’ engineers, which unfortunately means that they fall right into the Dunning-Kruger gap for alot of specific complex technical issues. For me, it is incredible to watch them make a design in Solidworks and yet completely neglect to leave space for hoses and cables. If it isn’t simple, they want no part of it. lol

Respectfully, even most geology falls into the realms of the theoretical. We have theories of how a sandstone gorge is formed, but no one has been doing the measurements for long enough to know for sure. We have simply created a model that fits the observed phenomena available to us and have created theoretical abstractions based on that model. Now, mind you, these models tend to be extremely accurate, but that doesn’t mean something could change in the future or be different in the past. We are just working from our currently available data.

Otherwise, theoretical physics relies on a creation of predictions that could be mathematically true, based on inferred extrapolation of the current, contradictory, models but ultimately haven’t actually been able to square enough circles in the field of experimental physics to be widely taken as whole scientific.

For example, there are aspects of string theory, such as long distance quantum pairing, that have been shown to be true experimentally, however, overall experimental data does not demonstrate to a statistically significant degree that the actual reason for this phenomena is because the universe works through a string theory model, there are too many other things that fit other, contradictory theoretical models.

Gotta love referencing rfa. Really sells the inflammatory bit you seem to have committed yourself too lol

If you are an actual leftist (of any particular stripe) who reads theory and isn’t just LARPing some fictional revolutionary vision in your head, then what you are against are ‘unjustified’ hierarchies.

Hierarchies that are created through trial and error of revolutionary attempts are justified hierarchies. Hierarchies based on whose daddy owned what business, are not justified. Hierarchies based on people being chosen by a group to centralize and coordinate activity, and having more privileges associated with their increased responsibilities is a justified hierarchy. Giving people more power arbitrarily, through no consultation with the community, and then allowing them to use that power to avoid responsibility, is an unjustified hierarchy.

The major problem is that these people have little actual interaction with the industrial base in our own country, let alone experience of industry in other countries. They are under the impression that we are, despite years of underfunding, merging and stripping for parts, at the forefront of manufacturing technology, when we are at least a generation and a half, of not more, behind in our domestic capacity.

And it is the domestic capacity that is actually where the expertise and knowledge of efficiency comes from, as the MIC has no such competitive drives going on.

It very much seems like nursing a personal grudge more than anything else, which given our personal history, is not that surprising.

DB has been noticably more irritable since his ‘I’m being polite because I think you are stupid, but if I am unable to control the conversation I will just use every excuse in the book rather than just admit that I was wrong.’ ass got slapped here about oh idk two years ago?

Probably more going on than just that, but that definitely was the start of the specific bad relations.

College is for woke, why would that appeal to them?

Edit: yeah some people will join for GI, but like, what if you die or, more realistically, gain a lifetime disability from your time in the military? Most people I know who were in the military, who necer even served in a combat role, have horrible back problems from rucking, riding in shitty trucks with no suspension, and sleeping on awful mattresses for years. And this isn’t a secret, everyone around here knows that, so even if you are getting someone, they are going to be extremely anti-social, out of the loop and likely incompetent.

The U.S. military has been missing their recruitment targets by over 10% for almost a decade now. And most of those people are going to be support staff, loaders, unloaders, truck drivers. Why would you drive a truck for the military when you can do so straight out of high school and make three times as much?

I mean, they probably can’t. Factories are trying to expand rapidly, but all of the money and engineering talent is going into AI bullshit. MIC is still a good place to go if you have the connections, but otherwise, there is much better and easier money to be made elsewhere.

It’s the classic inability for the free market to actually rationally distribute and prioritize the most important input, labor, into the system.

The hat is such a weird choice. It makes him look extremely sick.

It’s an image from the infamous (in leftist spheres) Nayirah testimony.

If that is true, then what people were saying was cope about Operation True Promise was true, Iran was testing the extent of the ADS systems to repel drones before sending in any large ordinance.

Correct.

The domestic policy aspect of this trade, particularly for cocaine, is mostly speculation on my part, cobbled together from both historical accounts, anecdotal evidence, and personal experience.

However, my personal hypothesis is that a byproduct of the cocaine trade being illegal domestically is that it technically serves the same purpose as Jeffrey Epstein did, binding together members of an elite class through shared usage and performance of, what would outside of that class, be an illegal activity. Kind of like how people used to smoke weed to prove they were cool, before everyone and their mother got high all the time.

Cocaine usage is rampant among the financial and governmental class, and being ghouls, they have the best and most pure shit. Having a hit of flour with some cocaine in it is completely different than having the shit near raw. Basically isn’t even worth it in the Midwest anymore, especially with some fiend’s insistence of cutting with fent. But it also speaks to a tightening of access and usage. There used to be enough cocaine around for crack (differently processed cocaine) to be epidemic, but that shit is not nearly as common, to my understanding.

Point is, the systemic policies and policy objectives are the issue, not anything from the production side.

The “cartels” (in reality extremely loosely related production and smuggling operations) are pretty much entirely a product of a combination of U.S. foreign and domestic policies, that serve to control money and drug flows within the Americas, providing the U.S. with convenient scapegoats to destabilize trust in governments that don’t exactly toe the U.S. line by providing them with guns and money, while also allowing the U.S. to simultaneously tar states that try to exert control over these actors through their own means as ‘narco-states’.

Unless these policies, both acknowledged and secretive, are dealt with, there is very little chance that any product brought to domestic market will have a real impact. Policies will simply be changed to continue these foreign and domestic policy objectives.

It’s not as though coca is extremely difficult to grow in these tropical regions. It is an artificial scarcity problem already.