Just bringing back white men is not enough, because the education system has been systematically refusing to invest in teaching and training white boys and young men for two generations. Yes, male traits and average IQ play a significant role in competency, but those things alone are not enough to solve the competency crisis. We need to invest in training the people who are capable of being competent, and we need to set expectations high enough that they are actually motivated to achieve at the level they are capable of.
On top of that, the plague of fatherlessness has effectively ruined a huge number of young men in the West, and that phenomenon is growing in white communities as well. Boys need fathers to enforce discipline and help them learn the skills they need to be successful. Without that, they're left adrift and aimless, often angry and frustrated, and totally unmotivated.
Combine all those factors, and I'm not certain that the young men of my generation or the Zoomers are really capable of solving the competency crisis even if they're given the opportunity. And as for the Alphas, the lockdown chickens are coming home to roost in a big way. We took a generation of kids and locked them in their houses, denied them access to peers, socialization and anything resembling a decent education during some of the most important formative years of their lives. The damage we've done to their development may be irreparable.
It's almost as if socially conditioning people into being stupid and never training them to be competent might be the cause of a competency crisis.
Frankly, the damage isn't irreparable, they'll actually be fine as they get left alone and build parallel systems. It takes time, but don't be surprised when all the innovations come around rural farming efficiency and gun manufacturing, rather than aerospace.
Diversity and quota bullshit will degrade performance no matter how you slice it. It could literally be by hair color and it'll still happen. Because you want the best people for the job, but now you have to take the best people from a super limited pool of "qualified" diversity hires (and other companies are also trying to draw from the same well).
So what you end up with is paying a premium for mediocre candidates just to fill the quota. The best of a subgroup may not be the best overall.
Also - the person you hired because he has the correct hair color - KNOWS that was why he was hired. He will be planning his lawsuit against the company from day 1 as insurance.
And every one of his coworkers knows why he was hired and can also see him manufacturing grievances and label him a “walking lawsuit”.
I was watching a cooking show on SBS Australia - one where they have a 'celebrity' guest who gets interviewed as they cook their signature dish. Her name was Karen. She told about how she did Engineering at Uni and there were only 2 women on the course - both called Karen. Both passed and went on to big things. She then said she had 2 friends also called Karen who although both were admittedly outspoken and the types to bring grievances to Managers - it was only because they had a lot of experience. My wife's best friend is also called Karen and is also outspoken but Intelligent. They are all sick of the slur and very eloquent in their arguments. I agree with them because 'karen' slur is an attack on White people . White people have standards.
Yes, it certainly doesn't have anything to do with all higher education being Leftist madrassas.
If only more of the communists were white men, surely the authoritarianism intrinsic to Leftism, which seeks to propagate incompetency as a form of loyalty, would have never taken place.
Oh yeah we are fucked. A lot of the tech from yesteryear, the current generation has no clue how to maintain, replicate or upgrade.
The US has many Minutemen nukes that they have no clue how to upgrade to make them usable. We see how this shit has made airline travel worse and you just have to remember shit like the Costa concordia to realise ships aren't safe either.
People have skated FAR TOO long of the back of the ones competently doing the work and now that most have retired, been driven out or just worked to an early grave, their lazy ass is now holding all the work..
Can confirm. I have enough to say on this topic to fill a dissertation, and I won't spill that out in an anonymous forum comment.
But suffice to say I just quit a job because my boss (a black lady) was functionally illiterate. It was made very clear to me very early that I was not to mention this or complain about it (because emails would get ignored and I would get an angry response when I pushed the issue).
I'm now the supervisor of a similar department with another agency and -- I have to say I'm relieved that my workplace conversations are less about spelling and grammar and more about... actual things that matter.
It's one thing to work with/for people that are drastically less competent than you are, it's another thing entirely to see those people be protected.
It should be discussed. I was naive enough to think years back this affirmative action nonsense wouldn’t affect engineering or medicine. I was wrong. I would expect if everything was by merit you’d have a large number of white and Asian males. So be it. The smaller amount of blacks/women/hispanics you would have at least wouldn’t have the perception of being diversity hires since they would’ve had to meet the legit standards.
Whenever I hear about the need for an honest discussion of race, this is what needs to be talked about. Dont even want to think of all the great engineers, doctors, etc that we could’ve had but were passed over
What annoys me is that nobody thinks to ask “well how many women apply in the first place or how many blacks apply”. Or in entertainment you have IP’s trying to cater to groups who don’t read or watch their material in large numbers
Probably why games are expensive. Why games run like shit and are barebones. Most of the budget going towards paying salaries of useless people and marketing/advertisement. Yeah. 1 billion budget where 1/2 goes into marketing? 1/4 towards useless employees, and only 1/4 /towards employees that actually make the game.
I wouldn't agree that NASA had "many failures" like the article is claiming. They had setbacks, sure. Apollo 1 is the most well known but Gemini 8 also counts.
But those were in a time when NASA was doing completely unprecedented things and setting spaceflight records left and right. Of course things are going to go wrong occasionally. It's a far cry from today when NASA hasn't put a human into space in over a decade.
it's easier when you have someone present to make quick adjustments on the fly
Even in Apollo the humans were pretty far out of the loop. They had landing site selection and some variable thrust control. Their option was to trip an abort switch which would then automate the abort procedure.
The Russian probe that got pancaked last year might have been saved if someone had been on board to realize the automatic system was not functioning.
It might have not crashed into the moon. The ultimate result would have been the same. They wouldn't have had fuel for a second chance, the abort procedure prevents you from slamming into the moon, but it doesn't care about your ultimate orbit, so tons of station keeping would be required just to try a second time, and there's no recovery mission that's going to go get the thing.
It slammed into the moon because there was no point in adding an abort system and it was the most cost effective solution given the above.
That's why I said putting a craft on Mars is relatively easier. I was referring to a side by side comparison, not the trips required to get there.
To put something somewhere you have to get it there. You can ignore that as an engineering challenge if you like, but then your analysis will be wrong.
Even more retarded than that. Even if you completely set aside distance, Mats is a pipe dream to sell to idiots.
Why?
Because Mars has no magnetic dynamo. Molten core in layman's terms. The metal core of the planet is cold. What holds our atmosphere in place? Our magnetic dynamo.
The new atmosphere would not decay for a long time. If you had some way to generate atmosphere at all, at any rate (let's call this "magic") you would be able to maintain it indefinitely with the same "magic". Probably not even running continuously, you'd just give it periodic refills like you charge your car AC.
I noticed major websites don't work now. I find bugs and asinine behavior all over people's "apps."
That was always common for the smaller services. But I always figured huge megacorps, like Delta, were losing money during downtime. Their websites used to basically always work for that reason.
Competent people just need to "Go Galt" and set up their own enclaves and parallel economies at this point. Then be ready to say "fuck off" when the goofs that voted for this nonsense show up at the gate.
The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No.”
Nobody talks about it because it’s a bipartisan issue, and I mean that in the sense that “the free market” is just as guilty as DEI initiatives. You don’t need to cultivate a capable workforce or strong R&D to prosper anymore. All the money is concentrated in purchasing the rights to orgs that do… or at least seem to because those fucking companies are all caught up in the mindset that deliverables and the bottom line take priority over great design for the sake of design.
So I guess business dress is out at NASA too. Jeans and t-shirts on every one of them. I'm surprised they're not wearing pajamas. Compare that to pictures of mission control in the 1960s. Starched shirts and ties all around.
It seems like such a trivial thing, but professionalism really does begin with your clothes. If you're dressed like you're lounging at home, you will treat your job with the same relaxed attitude.
The real problem is that even if you are highly optimistic on fossil fuel reserves - say there's 300 years left - all of the most easily accessible reserves have already been consumed. You need high technology for off shore drilling, deep mines, and tar sand processing. With 1800s technology, the amount of oil you could extract today would be zero. If there's a collapse now, there will be no way to recover. This is it. This is our shot. It's the stars or bust.
I really hope the answer to the drake equation isn't "every advanced civilization is brought down from the inside by a cult of incompetency"
Ok so if there's infinite oil then why do they build expensive off shore rigs instead of just drilling on land where it's easy? Why process difficult tar sands when you could just drill a hole? Regardless of source, the rate of extraction clearly outpaces the rate of replenishment. If you think it's subduction of sea floor carbon into the mantle that's hundreds of millions of years. If you think it's bubbling up from deep within the crust, that's still hundreds of thousands to millions of years.
And when we're talking about the hundreds of years of known energy reserves, a lot of that is considering coal - which is clearly and evidently a fossil fuel.
Abiotic would mean a geological process taking place over geological time scales. A little bit of leaching in is not enough to counteract the speed at which you can pump down a fresh well.
If merely living in Texas imparted some spiritual knowledge of oil to you, you'd know that entire industry now relies on unconventional extraction from shale, which would not be possible with primitive technology. Again, if oil regenerated on a timescale relevant to humans, they would not need to do this. They go after the shale oil because the normal oil is depleted.
Even if the entire core of the earth is filled with oil put there by god, the easily accessible oil is still being depleted at a rate faster than it is replenished (if it is replenished at all). If you think off shore drilling and shale oil and tar sands processing are all a magic show to keep up artificial scarcity, there's no hope for you.
Just bringing back white men is not enough, because the education system has been systematically refusing to invest in teaching and training white boys and young men for two generations. Yes, male traits and average IQ play a significant role in competency, but those things alone are not enough to solve the competency crisis. We need to invest in training the people who are capable of being competent, and we need to set expectations high enough that they are actually motivated to achieve at the level they are capable of.
On top of that, the plague of fatherlessness has effectively ruined a huge number of young men in the West, and that phenomenon is growing in white communities as well. Boys need fathers to enforce discipline and help them learn the skills they need to be successful. Without that, they're left adrift and aimless, often angry and frustrated, and totally unmotivated.
Combine all those factors, and I'm not certain that the young men of my generation or the Zoomers are really capable of solving the competency crisis even if they're given the opportunity. And as for the Alphas, the lockdown chickens are coming home to roost in a big way. We took a generation of kids and locked them in their houses, denied them access to peers, socialization and anything resembling a decent education during some of the most important formative years of their lives. The damage we've done to their development may be irreparable.
It's almost as if socially conditioning people into being stupid and never training them to be competent might be the cause of a competency crisis.
Frankly, the damage isn't irreparable, they'll actually be fine as they get left alone and build parallel systems. It takes time, but don't be surprised when all the innovations come around rural farming efficiency and gun manufacturing, rather than aerospace.
Diversity and quota bullshit will degrade performance no matter how you slice it. It could literally be by hair color and it'll still happen. Because you want the best people for the job, but now you have to take the best people from a super limited pool of "qualified" diversity hires (and other companies are also trying to draw from the same well).
So what you end up with is paying a premium for mediocre candidates just to fill the quota. The best of a subgroup may not be the best overall.
Also - the person you hired because he has the correct hair color - KNOWS that was why he was hired. He will be planning his lawsuit against the company from day 1 as insurance.
And every one of his coworkers knows why he was hired and can also see him manufacturing grievances and label him a “walking lawsuit”.
They decided that participation and representation were more important than merit.
Actually Karen can. I watched something the other day that opened my eyes.
I was watching a cooking show on SBS Australia - one where they have a 'celebrity' guest who gets interviewed as they cook their signature dish. Her name was Karen. She told about how she did Engineering at Uni and there were only 2 women on the course - both called Karen. Both passed and went on to big things. She then said she had 2 friends also called Karen who although both were admittedly outspoken and the types to bring grievances to Managers - it was only because they had a lot of experience. My wife's best friend is also called Karen and is also outspoken but Intelligent. They are all sick of the slur and very eloquent in their arguments. I agree with them because 'karen' slur is an attack on White people . White people have standards.
Yes, it certainly doesn't have anything to do with all higher education being Leftist madrassas.
If only more of the communists were white men, surely the authoritarianism intrinsic to Leftism, which seeks to propagate incompetency as a form of loyalty, would have never taken place.
Oh yeah we are fucked. A lot of the tech from yesteryear, the current generation has no clue how to maintain, replicate or upgrade.
The US has many Minutemen nukes that they have no clue how to upgrade to make them usable. We see how this shit has made airline travel worse and you just have to remember shit like the Costa concordia to realise ships aren't safe either.
People have skated FAR TOO long of the back of the ones competently doing the work and now that most have retired, been driven out or just worked to an early grave, their lazy ass is now holding all the work..
I would argue this is why there is the push for "AI", when really it's just data scraping the past folks who knew what they were doing.
The thought by the technocrat trans humanists is they can just replace the lost functions and knowledge with their silicon god.
In before they make a Skynet that eliminates humanity as fuck being the left/globalists serf bitch...
I'm only semi joking, the risk of AI is not it being made but WHERE it is being made as it'll inhabit the ideas and morality of that place.
If a California or East coast AI surpasses all others, we're fucked. Texas, midwest, Japan or Taiwanese we're ok. Chinese and we have a new Overlord.
AI having coded positive opinions of Abortion is already done.
AI is a weapon, as such, decentralization is going to be the likely answer. You will have your own AI, you won't be subservient to another.
I think I mentioned this before, but they've lowered the competency bar so low that it's a tripping hazard in hell.
And yet, instead of realizing what they've done to the world, you still have some trying to limbo with the devil.
Can confirm. I have enough to say on this topic to fill a dissertation, and I won't spill that out in an anonymous forum comment.
But suffice to say I just quit a job because my boss (a black lady) was functionally illiterate. It was made very clear to me very early that I was not to mention this or complain about it (because emails would get ignored and I would get an angry response when I pushed the issue).
I'm now the supervisor of a similar department with another agency and -- I have to say I'm relieved that my workplace conversations are less about spelling and grammar and more about... actual things that matter.
It's one thing to work with/for people that are drastically less competent than you are, it's another thing entirely to see those people be protected.
It should be discussed. I was naive enough to think years back this affirmative action nonsense wouldn’t affect engineering or medicine. I was wrong. I would expect if everything was by merit you’d have a large number of white and Asian males. So be it. The smaller amount of blacks/women/hispanics you would have at least wouldn’t have the perception of being diversity hires since they would’ve had to meet the legit standards.
Whenever I hear about the need for an honest discussion of race, this is what needs to be talked about. Dont even want to think of all the great engineers, doctors, etc that we could’ve had but were passed over
What annoys me is that nobody thinks to ask “well how many women apply in the first place or how many blacks apply”. Or in entertainment you have IP’s trying to cater to groups who don’t read or watch their material in large numbers
If you argue that they'll just say the reason they don't apply or consume was some other imaginary racism/sexism down the chain.
Similar to how marvel and dc will tell you that there are waves of teen girls just dying to buy comics but evil men won’t let them.
He's probably playing solitaire
Normies can't talk about it, and the people who know already know.
It'll have to get worse before it gets better.
Lawl.. i bet 10 dudes can do the work of all those women.
Before Elon, I remember women at twitter were recording tiktok videos about the wine bar in the office etc.
They were all fired overnight and nothing was lost.
Probably why games are expensive. Why games run like shit and are barebones. Most of the budget going towards paying salaries of useless people and marketing/advertisement. Yeah. 1 billion budget where 1/2 goes into marketing? 1/4 towards useless employees, and only 1/4 /towards employees that actually make the game.
All the fiat currency they were paid with was.
I wouldn't agree that NASA had "many failures" like the article is claiming. They had setbacks, sure. Apollo 1 is the most well known but Gemini 8 also counts.
But those were in a time when NASA was doing completely unprecedented things and setting spaceflight records left and right. Of course things are going to go wrong occasionally. It's a far cry from today when NASA hasn't put a human into space in over a decade.
No they don't. You just need retro rockets.
No they don't. You just need a descent engine.
Yea, so you just use rockets.
Round trip light time to the moon: 2 seconds. Round trip light time to mars: 18 minutes.
One way journey time to the moon: 3 days. One way journey time to mars: 2 years.
Solar power per m^2 available at the moon: 100% of earth. Solar power per m^2 available on mars: 68% of earth.
Going to mars is retarded.
Even in Apollo the humans were pretty far out of the loop. They had landing site selection and some variable thrust control. Their option was to trip an abort switch which would then automate the abort procedure.
It might have not crashed into the moon. The ultimate result would have been the same. They wouldn't have had fuel for a second chance, the abort procedure prevents you from slamming into the moon, but it doesn't care about your ultimate orbit, so tons of station keeping would be required just to try a second time, and there's no recovery mission that's going to go get the thing.
It slammed into the moon because there was no point in adding an abort system and it was the most cost effective solution given the above.
To put something somewhere you have to get it there. You can ignore that as an engineering challenge if you like, but then your analysis will be wrong.
Even more retarded than that. Even if you completely set aside distance, Mats is a pipe dream to sell to idiots.
Why?
Because Mars has no magnetic dynamo. Molten core in layman's terms. The metal core of the planet is cold. What holds our atmosphere in place? Our magnetic dynamo.
Mars is unlivable unless you invent magic.
The new atmosphere would not decay for a long time. If you had some way to generate atmosphere at all, at any rate (let's call this "magic") you would be able to maintain it indefinitely with the same "magic". Probably not even running continuously, you'd just give it periodic refills like you charge your car AC.
It's not about how fast it decays, it's that it does so st all. Unfixable radiation hazard right there.
I noticed major websites don't work now. I find bugs and asinine behavior all over people's "apps."
That was always common for the smaller services. But I always figured huge megacorps, like Delta, were losing money during downtime. Their websites used to basically always work for that reason.
Competent people just need to "Go Galt" and set up their own enclaves and parallel economies at this point. Then be ready to say "fuck off" when the goofs that voted for this nonsense show up at the gate.
They'll show up in brand new Toyota's...
Nobody talks about it because it’s a bipartisan issue, and I mean that in the sense that “the free market” is just as guilty as DEI initiatives. You don’t need to cultivate a capable workforce or strong R&D to prosper anymore. All the money is concentrated in purchasing the rights to orgs that do… or at least seem to because those fucking companies are all caught up in the mindset that deliverables and the bottom line take priority over great design for the sake of design.
So I guess business dress is out at NASA too. Jeans and t-shirts on every one of them. I'm surprised they're not wearing pajamas. Compare that to pictures of mission control in the 1960s. Starched shirts and ties all around.
It seems like such a trivial thing, but professionalism really does begin with your clothes. If you're dressed like you're lounging at home, you will treat your job with the same relaxed attitude.
The one black guy there probably doing all the work.
Black guys work lmao?
The real problem is that even if you are highly optimistic on fossil fuel reserves - say there's 300 years left - all of the most easily accessible reserves have already been consumed. You need high technology for off shore drilling, deep mines, and tar sand processing. With 1800s technology, the amount of oil you could extract today would be zero. If there's a collapse now, there will be no way to recover. This is it. This is our shot. It's the stars or bust.
I really hope the answer to the drake equation isn't "every advanced civilization is brought down from the inside by a cult of incompetency"
We will never run out of oil.
Never.
John D. Rockefeller coined the term "fossil fuel" in 1892 at the Geneva Convention, to introduce the idea of scarcity, and thus name the price.
It's not dead dinosaurs.
Old wells are finding new oil every day.
It is the second-most-prevalent liquid on Earth after water.
Because it replenishes.
We will never run out of oil.
Never.
Ok so if there's infinite oil then why do they build expensive off shore rigs instead of just drilling on land where it's easy? Why process difficult tar sands when you could just drill a hole? Regardless of source, the rate of extraction clearly outpaces the rate of replenishment. If you think it's subduction of sea floor carbon into the mantle that's hundreds of millions of years. If you think it's bubbling up from deep within the crust, that's still hundreds of thousands to millions of years.
And when we're talking about the hundreds of years of known energy reserves, a lot of that is considering coal - which is clearly and evidently a fossil fuel.
Abiotic theory.
I'm from Texas, born & raised, and I can tell you that the drillers cap a well, wait a few years, come back and uncap it...
Oil.
Oil is a renewable resource.
Wells refill.
Abiotic would mean a geological process taking place over geological time scales. A little bit of leaching in is not enough to counteract the speed at which you can pump down a fresh well.
If merely living in Texas imparted some spiritual knowledge of oil to you, you'd know that entire industry now relies on unconventional extraction from shale, which would not be possible with primitive technology. Again, if oil regenerated on a timescale relevant to humans, they would not need to do this. They go after the shale oil because the normal oil is depleted.
For your consideration.
We live in a world filled with smoke and mirrors.
Even if the entire core of the earth is filled with oil put there by god, the easily accessible oil is still being depleted at a rate faster than it is replenished (if it is replenished at all). If you think off shore drilling and shale oil and tar sands processing are all a magic show to keep up artificial scarcity, there's no hope for you.
All we can do is wait and see. Cheers to the apocalypse. Where're fucked one way or another.