In the 80s and 90s it was possible to have faith in the country. That the current administration was just a bad actor and we’d get it right next time. That we all kinda wanted the same thing, a functioning government and to lead our lives happily and privately.

Maybe it was true then. Maybe Fox News actually did poison the well, and people who once were rational are no longer so. Fear and hate blight rationality and the media cycle feeds on it. The more angry we are, the more we engage with social media. The more ads we’re served.

It’s wild that we’ll have to explain around campfires and cook stoves in the aftermath to whatever generation follows us that this was all in pursuit of ad revenue.

Children are sex objects or racial slurs to Republicans. There is no in between and quite a bit of overlap.

BEARS!!!

“the first thing to do is to raise hell. That’s always the first thing to do when you’re faced with an injustice and feel powerless.”

-‘Mother’ Jones.

-Michael Scott

I umm… I don’t think I wanna go to the library anymore

When it’s actual news, I’ll hear about it regardless.

I’m not going to perseverate over every headline, I have a life to live. The media is actively trying to piss us off, they’ll skew and distort and all but fabricate to keep us angry and engaged.

I’m not doing it. I can’t recall a single time in my life that keeping up to date up to the hour has actually improved anything for me. Sitting around just knowing stuff is happening isn’t going to change my life for the better.

I live in a safe republican state and a leans Republican district. I could send a letter to my senator, call my representative, spend hours of my time just worried about something, and still, they’ll vote how the party wants them to. Being informed and doing the things I’m supposed to do won’t change anything.

I’ve seen a few episodes, I didn’t like them. I got this vive that I was being made fun of and didn’t really find it funny

¿Donde esta la biblioteca?

Isn’t there an “actually infuriating” community somewhere? Or maybe a “sounds like this will be used as evidence in the divorce but ok” type thing?

I occasionally run a lathe at work. The big CNC one says it will do 10,000 rpm

If you ever run it that fast, the jaws will start to separate and the part will come flying out at Mach 4, bounce around the inside of the machine for several minutes, destroying the chuck, all the tooling, and the chip conveyor in the process.

Another fun fact, these machines go from 5000 rpm (the fastest you’re assuredly safe to run it) to 10 at the snap of a finger and back up again. All of that energy has to go somewhere. So there’s a heat coil, pretty much identical to the one in your oven, that takes all that extra energy. It doesn’t normally get all that hot, but if you’re running a lot of parts with a lot of diameter changes, it can get hot enough to glow.

Basically oscillating the tool up and down while rotating the workpiece back and forth, while spinning the tool very, very slowly.

Laughs in G code S1 g54 x0y0 g0 g90. F50 M3; z-.5 a45 z0 a0 z-.5 a45 z0 a0 z-.5 a45 z0 a0 z-.5 a45 z0 a0

I found this in my app list, it hadn’t asked for any permissions. If it’s looking at every image I get, it’s doing so extremely discreetly.

Sus. Very sus.

Sounds like Kellogg’s.

Guys sleep at the plant. They have showers and beds. They’ll spend a week there, rake in an ass load of overtime, and go home for a few hours a week. Rinse, repeat. To what end I have no idea, not like you can do that forever

Deal.

Your assignment in the Union Carbide operated Hawks Nest tunnel begins in the morning.

There’s better places out there my guy. Fuck em, they don’t care about you, make every job a gap filler until you find someone you’re happy to work for

You left out the important part that actually proves my point.

“In female dominated occupations.”

Except that’s not what’s happening. Or rather, that’s not what DEI was doing.

DEI programs are just making underrepresented people more visible. No one’s being hired because they look different.

And for centuries white men have been getting jobs that more qualified people were passed for, because they were white and male. DEI was just to level the playing field.

They’ll say they just want the best person for the job to get it, and that DEI gives that job to a [insert minority group] instead of the most qualified person.

To be fair, they may actually believe that. A lot of these people don’t believe they’re racist, sexist, pigs. They are, but they don’t think they are. It’s not part of their calculus. They see a diversity program and feel victimized by it, they may relate troubles they had to getting a job to a diversity program instead of their own qualifications.

Because, these people are terminally self centered and the hero of their own story.

They will tell you that liberals just want a hand out, while sucking down every hand out they can get. But THEY earned it, no one else does, but they did. Regardless of their circumstances they worked hard to get what they have, and no one else is willing to.

There is no argument you can make that they do not have an answer for. They’re almost always misinformed misanthropes. You’re either in their group or you’re the bad guy. There’s no winning when you engage them.

Their monkeys throwing shit. You can throw shit back by the money will have a good time, and you’ll still be covered in shit.

nevermind that under qualified candidates are chosen all the time based on a variety of factors. Like nailing an interview, having an agreeable personality, available hours, or, just, you know, having the same skin color or genitals as the hiring manager. But DEI programs are a problem. Sure.