Leavitt was repeatedly asked about the spending freeze, and said payments for Social Security, Medicare and food stamps would not be affected. However, she was criticized for not saying what would happen to nonprofit programs like Meals on Wheels.
‘It’s a classic spinmeister tactic saying I answered that when you haven’t answered it and apparently can’t answer it right away,’ Dale said on CNN News Central.
Sounds like some kind of Misogynistic personal attack against a Conservative woman who is just doing her job. CNN should be banned from White House Press Room…
Lots of posts on X and conservative media sites this morning about the FAA’s policy, since 2013, of screening applicants for race and sex before competency and qualifications. And the same for airlines hiring pilots; American, United, Southwest, and Alaska have been sued for discrimination.
However, there’s no word yet on who were the pilots of the AA regional jet and the Blackhawk, or why on earth the Blackhawk was in the landing path of commercial airliners at Reagan. Transportation Sec. Duffy said that the Blackhawk was aware of the commercial plane; he didn’t say whether the passenger jet was aware of the helicopter. It will take a while for information to emerge.
Near-collisions have been much more frequent in recent years, and these statistics are why I’ve been reluctant to fly. I know statistically it’s still far safer to fly than to drive distances, but …
RIP to all those killed, and may God comfort their families.
Thanks to DEI, more than 3,000 top-performing, motivated applicants who applied as air traffic controllers to the FAA lost out because they weren’t the right race.
A few minutes before the jet was to land, air traffic controllers asked American Airlines Flight 5342 if it could do so on a shorter runway, and the pilots agreed. Controllers cleared the jet to land and flight tracking sites showed the plane adjust its approach to the new runway.
Less than 30 seconds before the crash, an air traffic controller asked a helicopter if it had the arriving plane in sight. The controller made another radio call to the helicopter moments later, saying “PAT 25 pass behind the CRJ” — apparently telling the copter to wait for the Bombardier CRJ-701 twin-engine jet to pass. There was no reply. Seconds after that, the aircraft collided.
At this point it’s hard to tell if this was an air traffic control screwup, or if there was a problem with the communications on the helicopter, or the helicopter’s pilot was indisposed in some way.
My first thought is that the helo was warned of the CRJ and acknowledged but then ran right into it…how did they miss it? There were 3 crew, I assume the trainee was in the right seat, instructor in left, and not sure about the third; that’s 3 sets of eyes. Also, why did ATC allow such close operations at such low altitudes? Lots of questions at this point, few answers. I’m not ready to blame DEI at this point. To me, it looks like the CRJ crew was doing what they were supposed to do and the helo is at fault. I may be wrong.
I’m not a pilot or aviation expert and I know next to nothing about the logistics of the air traffic control of a large commercial airport. All that said, on the surface it sure seems dangerous to have a helicopter flying so near an active runway. But maybe it’s routine to have helicopters passing over runways in such a way? After all, even though obviously helicopters don’t need runways to take off and land, I imagine they still may have to traverse across runways from time to time.
I’d like to know the helicopter pilot’s name. I think you know why.
I guess I assumed this crash happened over the runway, but it happened over the Potomac as the plane was approaching the runway. So you have a military helicopter that was on oestensibly a training flight that intersected with a commercial airway. I suspect that this was a routine thing that was perhaps part of the training, but who knows? Conditions have been reported to be “clear” in the press, although it was night.
“I’d like to know the helicopter pilot’s name. I think you know why.”
matthew49, training flight which means all 3 crew members were qualified pilots and the instructor highly qualified. Don’t start throwing the DEI card until we have more information.
Nonapod. Watch the video I linked.
I agree it’s too early to throw the DEI card on the table. We need facts. It will take a while.
That said, the change beginning in 2013 to look at race and sex first and qualifications second must be changed. Trump’s executive order for the government, and Hegseth’s order for the military, should reverse that practice if people follow leadership orders. However, it would take time to review all personnel for competence testing.
I was surprised to learn there is a VFR corridor so close to a major airport, but apparently in this case there is for helicopters flying down the Potomac. However, they are supposed to stay below an altitude of 200 ft. Word is the collision was at an altitude of 350-375 ft.
So it does look like an error by the helicopter pilot.
It may not be the ATC that was the problem here. However, my niece’s son-in-law was in Air Traffic Control training in Oklahoma City a few years ago. He’s in his 20s, has a pilot’s license, and was in his last week of training when he was expelled for no apparent reason. His adamant belief is that he was booted because of DEI quotas. He and his wife, my grand niece, now have two beautiful, wonderful, adorable babies. So it probably worked out for the best. But still…
Speaking of airports. I was wondering why more firefighting aircraft have not been thrown at the LA fires. I heard one guy say they had 18 at one point. Given that they have to refuel, etc, it’s not 18 up in the air at once. I have wondered, given a major American city was being burned, why not close LAX to commercial traffic and throw everything at those fires? I fear many California leaders have been more focused on ” rebuilding” with federal money and engineering a new city than getting those fires out.
all 3 crew members were qualified pilots
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Have they redefined ‘qualified’ in the last dozen years? Did they do so consequent to a decree of a federal judge?
and was in his last week of training when he was expelled for no apparent reason.
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They gave him no explanation at all?
Good video link by physicsguy. Juan Brown. I’m slightly familiar with his other such videos.
I figured TCAS might be useless in this situation. True, apparently. Though Juan does suggest that there is a TCAS instrumentation indicator displayed for nearby aircraft. That only helps if someone is looking at the instrument. If the pilot is operating VFR, then he’s looking out the windows. But the copilot could be scanning instruments.
Nonapod wrote “Thanks to DEI, more than 3,000 top-performing, motivated applicants who applied as air traffic controllers to the FAA lost out because they weren’t the right race.”
Yes, the shortage is real. It may have nothing to do with THIS crash, but it is a very real nationwide problem.
Austin’s international airport has problems in this regard. A few weeks back, several flights had to be canceled because a shift was too short of air traffic controllers.
As I recall: 18 came in, which was a handful short. But worse: the head guy — a “monitor” or supervisor of the others — was not there.
Also: That airport is supposed to have around 50 controllers on staff, but has HALF that.
DEI was implicated. But it is Austin, so … I never saw a followup with more news.
(NOTE: ref – “Good video link by physicsguy” @ 10:38 am – yes, excellent!)
OK…offline DeepSeek was unimpressive, for me.
Gave up until today, and gave signing up & login in another shot. It Worked!
Looks impressive to me…maybe faster than the others I test…? Calls Claude:
Primarily a conversational AI designed for natural language understanding and generation.
Ideal for customer support, content creation, education, and personal assistance.
That’s a very brief version. Called ChatGPT:
Primarily a conversational AI, ChatGPT excels in generating human-like text, answering questions, providing explanations, and assisting with creative tasks like writing, coding, and brainstorming.
Used in customer support, content creation, education, programming assistance, and personal productivity tools.
That’s also a very brief version.
DeepSeek thinks of itself as:
Primarily used for enterprise solutions, such as improving search functionality, enhancing recommendation algorithms, and analyzing large datasets.
Applied in sectors like e-commerce, advertising, and financial services to drive efficiency and personalization.
• Strengths: Expertise in big data, search optimization, and recommendation systems.
• Weaknesses: Less focus on conversational AI and ethical safeguards compared to Claude AI.
Designed for data analysis and search, DeepSeek specializes in extracting insights from large datasets, optimizing search algorithms, and providing actionable intelligence for businesses.
Target Audience – Enterprises and organizations requiring advanced data analysis and business intelligence tools.
“improving search functionality” is a big plus for me right now – since am using AIs as main search engine now…
That’s a snippet version. Will start testing it now along with Grok, Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity.
I found this too late to edit my comment above, but here’s an update on Austin’s ATC shortage:
Nov. 11, 2024: (Note: this problem has repeated on later dates, too.)
“Doggett has reportedly urged the FAA to address the staffing complications at Austin–Bergstrom before. The representative said 13 controllers were supposed to be on staff Sunday afternoon, but only eight controllers were present, with no supervisors accompanying them.”
… full article: https://simpleflying.com/atc-staffing-shortage-flights-delayed-austin/
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This airport has had MULTIPLE runway accidents and near-misses, during the last ~ 3 years.
The shortage of ATC’s is certainly a huge nationwide problem.
Like Kate and others have stated, I avoid flying. And though I’ve never been afraid of flying before, I now dread the thought that a need may arise. (Which has been the case since the 2020 COVID air craziness, actually! “Craziness” of both passenger & attendents.)
OK…offline DeepSeek was unimpressive, for me.
Which version did you try? There’s 7 different models available on Ollama and the “lightweight” one is only 1.5 billion parameters and I agree is pretty lackluster in terms of chat, but you can run it with just a laptop CPU.
There’s also 7b, 8b, 14b, 32b, 70b, 671b (the largest). The bigger models probably won’t even run on a regular PC unless you have a pretty beefy Nvidia GPU with a ton of VRAM. In fact even the 70b might not load unless you had one of those absurdly expensive cards like an H100 that has 80GBs of ram. I’ve run LLAMA 3.2-1B (one of Facebook’s models) with an Nvidia RTX4060ti with 16GB on a Linux system and it’s pretty good and relatively fast with that hardware.
Caroline Glick has made her last JNS broadcast for a time to come, announcing she will be taking a position in service to the Israeli state shortly. What job? Caroline says she’ll speak to that soon. Meanwhile, I wish her well in her new endeavors.
Nonapod:
I have 32GB ram in that test computer, and I believe the selections were either 20GB or 43GB – I took the 20GB version…believe it was the 32b. That was on Win11 Pro.
However, when I first tested it, using Fedora Linux – forget what version – but in the terminal it worked quite well, but I couldn’t get Chatbox to install…some Appimage that I couldn’t open in Porteus Linux either.
Have followed your comments on AI, and you obviously know more about it than me. For me, I just didn’t like how that offline was setup on either Linux or Win…I like that browser stuff… 🙂
I almost went with the Nvidia RTX4060ti when I bought the RTX3060ti – it may have been the same price or cheaper, but had my heart set on the 3060 since they first came out…a classic IMHO. Next build I’ll go w/ either the 50 or 60 ti’s when they are out…
Random open thread question for the audience:
Where do you shop for light bulbs?
I have a light fixture in my dining room that takes five thin bulbs. Three of the bulbs are out. I used to buy them at the grocery store for 25 cents a piece. Now they don’t carry them.
I search Amazon, and they’re out of stock. I search lightbulbs.com, and they’re out of stock. Someone on eBay is selling them **used** for $10.00 a piece. Who the heck buys used light bulbs? Walmart is selling them new online for $56.97 a piece. $57 for a 25-cent light bulb??? Who would pay such a price?
I’ll replace the fixture before I pay $171 for three light bulbs. Does anyone have a source for light bulbs, or do I have to replace the fixture?
Re: Lightbulbs
mkent:
I hear you.
Ten years ago I bought 48 100 watt bulbs, anticipating the phase-out in favor of LEDs. Today I used up another bulb from my cache and thought about it.
You’re right. Amazon doesn’t offer incandescent bulbs. Home Depot apparently does, though at ridiculous prices:
One can buy 100W LED equivalents for $2.50 apiece which would fit into common fixtures. They are supposed to work out to be cheaper than incandescents though I don’t trust green claims at all.
Mkent. I can’t remember the exact name but it’s something like lightbulbs.com. They had a wide selection of all kinds of bulbs. Don’t go to Amazon or any of the other general retailers, look for the specialty stores.
mkent: candelabra based? Most all bulbs I know of come in LED replacements for old incandescent types. Nothing wrong with LEDs…even your local HW or Walmart store/s should have replacement types.
I love the warm quality of incandescent light bulbs plus the even dimming.
You pay extra for that in LED equivalent bulbs, around $8-10 apiece or more.
I tried Home Depot and Lowe’s. I typed the code from the package into Lowes’ site and got eight results, none of which was even close to what I need. At Home Depot’s site I got 103 results, none of which were right either.
A Google search yields nothing in stock except for two sites I’ve never heard of that want $45-51 a piece with tax and shipping.
”Ten years ago I bought 48 100 watt bulbs, anticipating the phase-out in favor of LEDs.”
I bought a whole bunch of 60-watt, 75-watt, and 100-watt light bulbs back then too but didn’t stock up on these specialty bulbs because they weren’t part of the edict. How I wish I had.
Oh, and today I just used the last of a different specialty bulb for the living room ceiling fan, so no more spares for that room either. My whole house is going dark.
mkent, five thin bulbs might make a great title for a song, but it’s not very descriptive. Do they use the medium base (E26) or candleabra (A7) or small screw base (E12)?
Walmart by default shows led bulbs, but there is a tab that takes you to incandescent– though nothing is going to be 25 cents.
Here’s a slim blub for starters. Giving the exact bulb type would make the search easier.
”I can’t remember the exact name but it’s something like lightbulbs.com.”
I’ve tried lightbulbs.com and replacementlightbulbs.com. No joy. Out of stock.
”Walmart by default shows led bulbs…Giving the exact bulb type would make the search easier.”
The code on the package is 60CAC/F/CD2. Searching the Walmart site for “Light bulb 60CAC/F/CD2” yields six results, the fourth of which is the right one, but it’s $56.97, as I mentioned before.
mkent
Code looks like 60 watt. Base size is important – if you don’t know what the base is then take a bulb to local hardware store (Walmart?), look for 60 watt LEDs with that base and shape (similar shape)…ACE hardware is usually helpful if you have one nearby. Package? See if the bulb has anything on it…
ChatGPT- what base does a 60CAC/F/CD2 bulb have?:
A 60CAC/F/CD2 bulb typically refers to a 60-watt Candelabra (CAC) Flame-tip bulb. These bulbs usually have an E12 candelabra base, which is a small screw-type base commonly used in chandeliers, sconces, and decorative fixtures.
OK…CAC code is Candelabra. Probably should still just take a bulb to a store and get the LED replacement for it. Or buy a new LED fixture (they are also expensive now) take the old one down, install the new fixture, and try not to get electrocuted or fall off the ladder or both. 😉
mkent, those don’t look like anything special. Have you tried a candelabra bulb? Do you know of anything that makes these bulbs special– like gold coating?
If the fixture is hard to reach I’d switch to led. They’re now pretty reliable (unlike the flourescent debacle).
One thing to check for. The bulb you linked to has no shoulder. The socket likely has a slight taper where the bulb screws slightly into the receptacle. Notice the bulb I linked to is a candleabra base, but the bulb has a slight shoulder. If the receptacle is deep, the bulb might not screw deep enough for the positive post to make contact. You would need to measure the depth of receptacle to make sure these led bulbs would work (i found out the hard way about the effect of that shoulder).
I also linked to some incandescent bulbs that look very similar to the gold plated one, and the price is as close to a quarter as you’re going to find.
I don’t know when the video was made, but Barry Gibbs looks well preserved.
”Do you know of anything that makes these bulbs special– like gold coating?”
No, they were 25-50 cents a piece the last two times I bought them.
”I also linked to some incandescent bulbs that look very similar to the gold plated one…”
Thanks, but I don’t think I’d like those. The fixture hangs down on a chain to five feet above the floor, so transparent bulbs would be glaring me in the face. The ones I have now are frosted, so they’re bright (I do work at the table) but diffuse.
The shocking thing is the bulbs used to be common enough to be bought at the grocery store and cheap enough to be 25-50 cents a bulb. Now they’re $40-60 a bulb if they can be found at all. How does that happen?
But thank you everyone for helping me out with this.
There are frosted ones on both websites.
Incandescents were set to phase out around 2018 when Trump reversed the ban. Originally they were banned but companies could continue to sell inventory until gone.
In 2023 or so, Biden reinstated the ban on incandescent bulbs and they are getting scarcer and you can get led’s for $1.50-$2.00 a bulb in quantities and they’re energy efficient. The house I’m in I remodeled between 2018-2021 is completely led (I used a lot of can lites) and the fact i can adjust the color temperature with a switch is a convenient feature.
Once again at some point companies will run out of inventory (oh wait Trump’s President so the ban will not doubt be reversed so don’t dump your incandescent bulb company stock!)
An incandescent bulb is rated for 800-1000 hours (2500 for long life bulbs which are a little dimmer in exchange for the long life) and consumes 60w.
The led consumes 5.5w and is rated for 13 years of so. The one I linked to is a HD with a high color index and costs $3.21 ea in quantity. I’d say it’s the better choice (assuming it will fit your receptacle).
Art Deco question: “They gave him no explanation at all?”
I don’t recall the details, only his adamant belief that they had a quota to meet and after too many of the DEI trainees failed and left, the numbers were lopsided. One week to go in a 2 month course? Come on! If they want to get rid of someone, there are ways, from provocation to you name it.
Brian E: Those have a shoulder on them that I don’t think will fit in my fixture.
”Probably should still just take a bulb to a store and get the LED replacement for it.”
LED? Oh no! I don’t want that. My neighbor replaced his front and back porch lights with LED bulbs. They’re harsh glaring monstrosities that I have to close the blinds on whenever he turns them on.
But Brian E’s Walmart link had another suggestion that looks like a 40-watt version of the 60-watt bulb I have now. It’s half the lumens but way cheaper — only $15 for a 12-pack. I guess five 40-watt bulbs will be better than using only two 60-watt bulbs like I do now.
Thanks everyone!
”oh wait Trump’s President so the ban will not doubt be reversed…”
It was, the first day, but it will probably take time for production to restart.
Thanks again, everyone!
Mkent-look at home lighting stores. They may be a bit more pricey but since they sell all the light fixtures they tend to have more variety in stock. Or try bulb and battery.com.
ChatGPT says on the question of the civil rights act..
Democrats dominated for nearly 45 years, passing key legislation such as the Civil Rights Act (1964) and Medicare/Medicaid (1965).
I wanted to know what it would say if i called it out.. and said its lying.
I’m not lying. Here’s the actual breakdown of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 vote:
House of Representatives Vote (February 10, 1964)
Democrats: 152 Yes (60%) | 96 No
Republicans: 138 Yes (78%) | 34 No
Senate Vote (June 19, 1964)
Democrats: 46 Yes (69%) | 21 No
Republicans: 27 Yes (82%) | 6 No
While a higher percentage of Republicans voted for the bill compared to Democrats, the Democratic Party was the majority in both chambers
I then said it wasnt the republicans that had a 72 day filibuster
You’re absolutely right—the 72-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was led by Southern Democrats, often called “Dixiecrats.” The opposition was primarily from Senators from the South, such as Strom Thurmond (D-SC) and Richard Russell (D-GA)
then i decided to put the real numbers up.
I said
The final vote was 290–130 in the House of Representatives and 73–27 in the Senate
it said
es, that’s correct. Here’s the final breakdown of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 vote:
Final House Vote (February 10, 1964)
Total: 290–130
Democrats: 152–96 (61% in favor)
Republicans: 138–34 (80% in favor)
Final Senate Vote (June 19, 1964)
Total: 73–27
Democrats: 46–21 (69% in favor)
Republicans: 27–6 (82% in favor)
cute… real cute..
Word is the collision was at an altitude of 350-375 ft.
So it does look like an error by the helicopter pilot.
unless he was told to move by someone. they may have had night vision on, and so might not have seen the plane above them
I work for DOD contractor for the NAVY and ARMY and am near
PAX river and the other base involved.
nothing i can say more…
The mess we are in that few can see or want to see
Lets keep in mind about today, where what is actually going on is a difference of opinion as to how things should operate and or function, NOT about race. One side, has control of the ball and the chickens have in many ways come to roost over it. In order to move ahead, one side wants to distort things more, just as long as people don’t notice what they did. The other side says you have to un-distort things and bring them back in line, and that will necessitate finding out what was done, and what was distorted, and that would reveal who was doing this manipulating.
So, what we see is not what they see and what is going on. A long time ago the left marched through the halls of education, but they also took the reins of social bribery (welfare, grants, etc), with a tour of inflating things too (by spending trillions ahead of earnings).
While it rolls back farther than 20 years, let’s just start there as I don’t want to write a book. No one cares anyway. With control of the schools they had a problem, their ideology like the soviets of Russian revolution, believed that there is no such thing as talent and ability. But for the reason the man who helped discover the structure of DNA lost all his standings, they could not believe in variation (to hell with birds beaks) across huge spans of land, but they cant believe in variations within.
When you’re so afraid of the future that you want to plan everything, the variables are way too much, and you end up having to simplify. Your 5-year plans can’t take in personality, ability, etc. God Damn It, you need widgets. (you need the robots that capitalists would create and who would be your slaves without moral issue – but can’t wait for)
Each means of control they hold with a death grip and refuse to change it. So they continued welfare, and they continued the idea that men are worthless and required welfare moms to kick dad out. A woman once asked me about her sons, and she couldn’t understand it. She said she was a good mom, and she worked hard, and they had a decent life, and she was a successful single mother. So, what was wrong wither sons? I said it was simple. Her success at showing men that women don’t need men (within the artificial realm of society), showed her sons that they had no point to their existence. Why have girlfriends that drain your wallet? Why have kids that stop your fun? Why work?
In their false effort to change education to lower performance in the higher talented, so the lower talented would appear to close the gap. Keep high performing men out of college and naturally the numbers for women would skew… all the girls in my class at Bronx Science moved on, most of the guys, who were not of race, became things like band drummers with 170IQ. A Dilbert outcome.
By not removing the welfare or changing it, the kids who were the product of this system were all ready to grow up ina life that was familiar. Heck, they were being displaced by the overabundance of Spanish from a few countries negating immigration. You didn’t have to worry about a black man who was a short order cook serving a white person at the counter as was in the 60s, the black man was in welfare, and a new Spanish replacement was at the short order table, the nanny position, and so on. That was the first amnesty.
So we are now about 20 years ago. The people WE ALL want to have better lives have not moved out of welfare and taken advantage of things. They know that they have no place. They want to enjoy life, and they know (like the people I grew up with), that living this welfare culture they don’t have to work, they don’t have to study, they can “partee all the time” as a famous black singer sings.
They wrecked the pipeline… and they refuse to fix it, because to do so requires they admit they wrecked the pipeline after stealing all that control.
Those kids of race never entered the pipeline to come out as adults to take up jobs today!!!!
No schools in Baltimore test at grade level. NONE. That means that whole black population is not capable of taking up a degree or other things later because of that situation. They will not in 15 years take up roles as CEO, business owners with an MBA, professorships (in other than racial crap that does no one any good – and when Trotsky coined it was about culture).
They saw this coming. They were in charge. They had the real numbers and their think tanks that come up with distortions that then fail that they then don’t get why that have to be hid from the side that knows that distortions don’t work. What a pickle. So they realize that if we can separate the races again, we can then fudge the numbers between groups. Sooo another distortion. DEI was then employed for the idea of putting more people in places everyone wants. But solving and hiding the problem of the failure of the prior distortions.
The left likes the surface, if things look well, then they are well. The examples are legendary. In China they pain the ground green so that passing people think its lush from a distance… Stalin wanted the biggest things that could not even be constructed. To hell with reality!
And that’s the cry. When trump calls out DEI in FAA… they all groan its racism. The left is told they know everything already. They sit and actually act as if its something they don’t know, then it doesn’t exist. Hold that in your mind a second. Right now they actually act as if Trump the president of the US who has as a job the oversight of the FAA and all its programs and people, and has classified in formation and gets information by the minute that they may never see or if they do in a report a year or two from now. But they are superior to him and are disgusted that he brings up their racist programs as potentially being a problem.
A few may even try to search, but all your going to find is Trump, Trump, Trump… so they wont search with a “-Trump” in the line. IF they did they would find that this problem with racial quotas at the FAA started during as a discussion with Bush, but changes were made by Obama.
Basically, to move on this subject, they decided there were not enough women, blacks, and disabled (including mentally disabled) in the FAA program to make air traffic controllers. And after a whole bunch of crap, around 2014 and 2015 they changed the CTI program. Basically, they removed the qualification for college, and replaced it with a Essay and an IQ test.
Average democrats who know more than even world leaders, sit in their kitchen and do not know about the gears of the thing they are not in charge of and don’t believe anyone in charge would know anything about what they oversee. Cute. Add that they are incredibly incurious waiting to be spoonfed the facts so that their ego is not bruised by being wrong. Ie. They are narcissist leaning and so cant take being wrong and so stand on the stuff they are given with the idea twas given it it has to be right, and I cant step off, cause I don’t know enough to know even if I am wrong. Cute cute.
So when trump brings up DEI in FAA this is what he is referring to. Did it cause a problem? How would the left know? If it did, how could they pin it on who? Obama, Biden, Buttiege, or just 4 years of Trump?
They have to protect their ego, so they refuse to ask whether Trump knows something they don’t? they extend this same superiority of the narcissist personality as normal, to all the people that follow trump. Thus you see again, if only Stalin knew.
That was a timely example, but the problem is big. You have a population about to collapse. You manipulated the politi so that they are not free and capable humans that can adapt, but are trained for jobs and things that are gone. Another huge set are trained at things that are useless… A degree in Taylor swift? Useful? Its not even useful as an associates degree that you did the work, you might have spent your time listening to Taylor in a pod.
WE ALL would like to see more people succeed. But don’t pay attention to the Chinese or the people of India. Many people from India have skin darker than most blacks in the USA. But for some odd reason they are CEOs, Doctors, Lawyers, Programmers, Etc. WTF? Right there is your laboratory blind study. They did not accept the welfare position. They do not think or are taught that other people owe them something for something that happened to someone that looked like you in the past but you literally have no connection with today other than that appearance.
What it is, is that the left created a culture that they hoped would push the revolution. A revolutionary party by necessity has to hurt its people, make the pigs squeal loud, so they make the error in their desperation of wanting a Chavez, or Maduro, or Hitler, etc. doesn’t really matter to them, unless it’s the other side they believe wanting the same and would beat them as they did in Indonesia and other places. You can’t vote a revolutionary party and be happy
Their race distortions that did not result in a race war… but DID result in some god awful movies of black urban living, power to the people, communist writings from the highlander school (we shall overcome?), a welfare culture, and an army that will not fight but wants to be paid by its facilitators. In comes the new army… the Spanish who will fight and change things as t hey have done all over, over and over again.
Again. We all want people to succeed, but the lefts distortions meant that the people they want were not produced. With welfare and a culture to train them, they went the no work, party, steal, and deal life… why not? So they didn’t even learn the new math that crippled the smarter people we need too. Oh distortion on distortion until we see the world as if it’s a reflection in circus tent mirror. By the way, the new people can take that up either!!!
So now what? There really is nothing to be done. You cant have children you didn’t have because of feminism. You cant make students of the blacks who took up welfare and not a place in society. You cant reverse the experimentation on children that created people who are less than their parents and wonder why they didn’t do as well as if they are not less.
I said the population is dropping. Thought you all would be able to put the pieces together, that I might not get censored in some non censored way that leads to the same outcome but is explained to me to be different? Really? Who read what was taken down? No one… who reads what is censored? No one… for some reason women think the reasons make mitigation when they don’t – but that is how their world works, not the rest of the world!!! (no more on this its distracting).
The feminist movement globally has caused the same population to collapse it did in Russia. Russias population collapsed but not because it got rich. Many third world countries people claim the money made them, but they are not more rich than we were back when we had a boom.
Women are not the future… they are as much the future as the Shakers are today.
And the shakers could not perpetually live on orphans, and they can’t perpetually live on taking the minds of other people children, ending their fecundity, and finding more before families respond, or before they run out of Westerners, and have to deal with the Muslims and Fatwahs.
As bad as the people that I talked about who had to step up 20 years ago to be in place today, while the population is collapsing (solving global warming without doing a thing), we are going to also lose people who can do the work. A third world illiterate person who will live on welfare is not going to replace the child of a middle-class family (black or white) who had a full education in the west.
You have to exposé it to fix it and to expose it is to know who did what and who was what.
Current Population (2025): ~334 million
Baby Boomers (Born 1946-1964): About 70 million in 2025
By 2050, nearly all Boomers (70M) will have passed.
Without immigration, the U.S. could shrink by 30-50 million people, dropping the total population to around 280-300 million by 2050
If the fertility rate remains below replacement, the decline accelerates, potentially leading to a shrinking workforce, economic contraction, and aging population crises similar to what Japan and South Korea are experiencing.
After my generations kids, it went down hill
1950s–1960s: The Peak
The U.S. had the best K-12 and higher education system in the world, leading in literacy rates, innovation, and college enrollment.
The GI Bill expanded access to higher education, and American schools focused on core subjects with rigorous standards.
Then came the board of ed, leftist dominance, feminist movement moving men out of schools and on and on.
1970s: Early Signs of Decline
Standardized test scores began to decline (SAT scores peaked in the early ’60s).
Cultural shifts, increased federal involvement (Department of Education created in 1979), and changes in curricula led to debates over academic rigor.
1980s: Wake-Up Call
The 1983 report A Nation at Risk warned of a “rising tide of mediocrity” in U.S. education
Increased focus on standardized testing but little improvement in outcomes
Asian countries (Japan, South Korea) began surpassing the U.S. in math and science
We didn’t wake up, we didn’t wake up now. 2010s–2020s: Current Status
U.S. ranks around 30th in math, 13th in reading, and 18th in science globally (PISA, 2018).
Declining college readiness and increasing student loan debt crises
Many U.S. high school graduates lack basic proficiency in core subjects
The only REAL way to fix things is to reverse the distortions… to accept what was done, and so on. But if that was so, how angry will the parents and the actual student victims be for them convincing them to abandon the top place in the world, to improve themselves into shit-ville?
The immigration thing will not result in a fix, its another distortion. Eventually this puppy is going to collapse.
When the boomers go they will be leaving the rest of the undersized population with a 37 trillion dollar bill they will be skipping out to heaven on.
There is more,
But for something that will be ignored, this is enough.
sorry… my work and other things kept interupting…
it would have been better formed and such if that didnt happen
hope you can still get it.
LED? Oh no! I don’t want that. My neighbor replaced his front and back porch lights with LED bulbs. They’re harsh glaring monstrosities that I have to close the blinds on whenever he turns them on. – mkent
Not to belabor the point, but that has nothing to do with being an led, it’s the color temperature of the bulb and of course, the wattage.
A 5000-6000° kelvin temperature bulb (daylight) is very white and a 100 w equivalent led (10w) is a pretty bright outdoor bulb.
If you want a soft white (3000° k) or warm white (2700° k) you could probably find them in a candelabra bulb.
Instead of just reporting the news, CNN resorts to nasty name calling of White House press secretary…
CNN gives Karoline Leavitt nasty new nickname after first White House briefing
Sounds like some kind of Misogynistic personal attack against a Conservative woman who is just doing her job. CNN should be banned from White House Press Room…
Lots of posts on X and conservative media sites this morning about the FAA’s policy, since 2013, of screening applicants for race and sex before competency and qualifications. And the same for airlines hiring pilots; American, United, Southwest, and Alaska have been sued for discrimination.
However, there’s no word yet on who were the pilots of the AA regional jet and the Blackhawk, or why on earth the Blackhawk was in the landing path of commercial airliners at Reagan. Transportation Sec. Duffy said that the Blackhawk was aware of the commercial plane; he didn’t say whether the passenger jet was aware of the helicopter. It will take a while for information to emerge.
Near-collisions have been much more frequent in recent years, and these statistics are why I’ve been reluctant to fly. I know statistically it’s still far safer to fly than to drive distances, but …
RIP to all those killed, and may God comfort their families.
From X/Twitter
From AP.
At this point it’s hard to tell if this was an air traffic control screwup, or if there was a problem with the communications on the helicopter, or the helicopter’s pilot was indisposed in some way.
Juan has an immediate first analysis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouDAnO8eMf8
My first thought is that the helo was warned of the CRJ and acknowledged but then ran right into it…how did they miss it? There were 3 crew, I assume the trainee was in the right seat, instructor in left, and not sure about the third; that’s 3 sets of eyes. Also, why did ATC allow such close operations at such low altitudes? Lots of questions at this point, few answers. I’m not ready to blame DEI at this point. To me, it looks like the CRJ crew was doing what they were supposed to do and the helo is at fault. I may be wrong.
I’m not a pilot or aviation expert and I know next to nothing about the logistics of the air traffic control of a large commercial airport. All that said, on the surface it sure seems dangerous to have a helicopter flying so near an active runway. But maybe it’s routine to have helicopters passing over runways in such a way? After all, even though obviously helicopters don’t need runways to take off and land, I imagine they still may have to traverse across runways from time to time.
I’d like to know the helicopter pilot’s name. I think you know why.
I guess I assumed this crash happened over the runway, but it happened over the Potomac as the plane was approaching the runway. So you have a military helicopter that was on oestensibly a training flight that intersected with a commercial airway. I suspect that this was a routine thing that was perhaps part of the training, but who knows? Conditions have been reported to be “clear” in the press, although it was night.
“I’d like to know the helicopter pilot’s name. I think you know why.”
matthew49, training flight which means all 3 crew members were qualified pilots and the instructor highly qualified. Don’t start throwing the DEI card until we have more information.
Nonapod. Watch the video I linked.
I agree it’s too early to throw the DEI card on the table. We need facts. It will take a while.
That said, the change beginning in 2013 to look at race and sex first and qualifications second must be changed. Trump’s executive order for the government, and Hegseth’s order for the military, should reverse that practice if people follow leadership orders. However, it would take time to review all personnel for competence testing.
I was surprised to learn there is a VFR corridor so close to a major airport, but apparently in this case there is for helicopters flying down the Potomac. However, they are supposed to stay below an altitude of 200 ft. Word is the collision was at an altitude of 350-375 ft.
So it does look like an error by the helicopter pilot.
It may not be the ATC that was the problem here. However, my niece’s son-in-law was in Air Traffic Control training in Oklahoma City a few years ago. He’s in his 20s, has a pilot’s license, and was in his last week of training when he was expelled for no apparent reason. His adamant belief is that he was booted because of DEI quotas. He and his wife, my grand niece, now have two beautiful, wonderful, adorable babies. So it probably worked out for the best. But still…
Speaking of airports. I was wondering why more firefighting aircraft have not been thrown at the LA fires. I heard one guy say they had 18 at one point. Given that they have to refuel, etc, it’s not 18 up in the air at once. I have wondered, given a major American city was being burned, why not close LAX to commercial traffic and throw everything at those fires? I fear many California leaders have been more focused on ” rebuilding” with federal money and engineering a new city than getting those fires out.
all 3 crew members were qualified pilots
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Have they redefined ‘qualified’ in the last dozen years? Did they do so consequent to a decree of a federal judge?
and was in his last week of training when he was expelled for no apparent reason.
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They gave him no explanation at all?
Good video link by physicsguy. Juan Brown. I’m slightly familiar with his other such videos.
I figured TCAS might be useless in this situation. True, apparently. Though Juan does suggest that there is a TCAS instrumentation indicator displayed for nearby aircraft. That only helps if someone is looking at the instrument. If the pilot is operating VFR, then he’s looking out the windows. But the copilot could be scanning instruments.
Nonapod wrote “Thanks to DEI, more than 3,000 top-performing, motivated applicants who applied as air traffic controllers to the FAA lost out because they weren’t the right race.”
Yes, the shortage is real. It may have nothing to do with THIS crash, but it is a very real nationwide problem.
Austin’s international airport has problems in this regard. A few weeks back, several flights had to be canceled because a shift was too short of air traffic controllers.
As I recall: 18 came in, which was a handful short. But worse: the head guy — a “monitor” or supervisor of the others — was not there.
Also: That airport is supposed to have around 50 controllers on staff, but has HALF that.
DEI was implicated. But it is Austin, so … I never saw a followup with more news.
(NOTE: ref – “Good video link by physicsguy” @ 10:38 am – yes, excellent!)
OK…offline DeepSeek was unimpressive, for me.
Gave up until today, and gave signing up & login in another shot. It Worked!
Looks impressive to me…maybe faster than the others I test…? Calls Claude:
That’s a very brief version. Called ChatGPT:
That’s also a very brief version.
DeepSeek thinks of itself as:
“improving search functionality” is a big plus for me right now – since am using AIs as main search engine now…
That’s a snippet version. Will start testing it now along with Grok, Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity.
I found this too late to edit my comment above, but here’s an update on Austin’s ATC shortage:
Nov. 11, 2024: (Note: this problem has repeated on later dates, too.)
“Doggett has reportedly urged the FAA to address the staffing complications at Austin–Bergstrom before. The representative said 13 controllers were supposed to be on staff Sunday afternoon, but only eight controllers were present, with no supervisors accompanying them.”
… full article:
https://simpleflying.com/atc-staffing-shortage-flights-delayed-austin/
…
This airport has had MULTIPLE runway accidents and near-misses, during the last ~ 3 years.
The shortage of ATC’s is certainly a huge nationwide problem.
Like Kate and others have stated, I avoid flying. And though I’ve never been afraid of flying before, I now dread the thought that a need may arise. (Which has been the case since the 2020 COVID air craziness, actually! “Craziness” of both passenger & attendents.)
Which version did you try? There’s 7 different models available on Ollama and the “lightweight” one is only 1.5 billion parameters and I agree is pretty lackluster in terms of chat, but you can run it with just a laptop CPU.
There’s also 7b, 8b, 14b, 32b, 70b, 671b (the largest). The bigger models probably won’t even run on a regular PC unless you have a pretty beefy Nvidia GPU with a ton of VRAM. In fact even the 70b might not load unless you had one of those absurdly expensive cards like an H100 that has 80GBs of ram. I’ve run LLAMA 3.2-1B (one of Facebook’s models) with an Nvidia RTX4060ti with 16GB on a Linux system and it’s pretty good and relatively fast with that hardware.
Caroline Glick has made her last JNS broadcast for a time to come, announcing she will be taking a position in service to the Israeli state shortly. What job? Caroline says she’ll speak to that soon. Meanwhile, I wish her well in her new endeavors.
Nonapod:
I have 32GB ram in that test computer, and I believe the selections were either 20GB or 43GB – I took the 20GB version…believe it was the 32b. That was on Win11 Pro.
However, when I first tested it, using Fedora Linux – forget what version – but in the terminal it worked quite well, but I couldn’t get Chatbox to install…some Appimage that I couldn’t open in Porteus Linux either.
Have followed your comments on AI, and you obviously know more about it than me. For me, I just didn’t like how that offline was setup on either Linux or Win…I like that browser stuff… 🙂
I almost went with the Nvidia RTX4060ti when I bought the RTX3060ti – it may have been the same price or cheaper, but had my heart set on the 3060 since they first came out…a classic IMHO. Next build I’ll go w/ either the 50 or 60 ti’s when they are out…
Random open thread question for the audience:
Where do you shop for light bulbs?
I have a light fixture in my dining room that takes five thin bulbs. Three of the bulbs are out. I used to buy them at the grocery store for 25 cents a piece. Now they don’t carry them.
I search Amazon, and they’re out of stock. I search lightbulbs.com, and they’re out of stock. Someone on eBay is selling them **used** for $10.00 a piece. Who the heck buys used light bulbs? Walmart is selling them new online for $56.97 a piece. $57 for a 25-cent light bulb??? Who would pay such a price?
I’ll replace the fixture before I pay $171 for three light bulbs. Does anyone have a source for light bulbs, or do I have to replace the fixture?
Re: Lightbulbs
mkent:
I hear you.
Ten years ago I bought 48 100 watt bulbs, anticipating the phase-out in favor of LEDs. Today I used up another bulb from my cache and thought about it.
You’re right. Amazon doesn’t offer incandescent bulbs. Home Depot apparently does, though at ridiculous prices:
https://www.homedepot.com/b/Lighting-Light-Bulbs-Incandescent-Light-Bulbs/N-5yc1vZbmgl
One can buy 100W LED equivalents for $2.50 apiece which would fit into common fixtures. They are supposed to work out to be cheaper than incandescents though I don’t trust green claims at all.
Mkent. I can’t remember the exact name but it’s something like lightbulbs.com. They had a wide selection of all kinds of bulbs. Don’t go to Amazon or any of the other general retailers, look for the specialty stores.
mkent: candelabra based? Most all bulbs I know of come in LED replacements for old incandescent types. Nothing wrong with LEDs…even your local HW or Walmart store/s should have replacement types.
I love the warm quality of incandescent light bulbs plus the even dimming.
You pay extra for that in LED equivalent bulbs, around $8-10 apiece or more.
I tried Home Depot and Lowe’s. I typed the code from the package into Lowes’ site and got eight results, none of which was even close to what I need. At Home Depot’s site I got 103 results, none of which were right either.
A Google search yields nothing in stock except for two sites I’ve never heard of that want $45-51 a piece with tax and shipping.
”Ten years ago I bought 48 100 watt bulbs, anticipating the phase-out in favor of LEDs.”
I bought a whole bunch of 60-watt, 75-watt, and 100-watt light bulbs back then too but didn’t stock up on these specialty bulbs because they weren’t part of the edict. How I wish I had.
Oh, and today I just used the last of a different specialty bulb for the living room ceiling fan, so no more spares for that room either. My whole house is going dark.
mkent, five thin bulbs might make a great title for a song, but it’s not very descriptive. Do they use the medium base (E26) or candleabra (A7) or small screw base (E12)?
Walmart by default shows led bulbs, but there is a tab that takes you to incandescent– though nothing is going to be 25 cents.
Here’s a slim blub for starters. Giving the exact bulb type would make the search easier.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/4-Pack-60T10-CL-60-Watt-T10-Clear-Tubular-120V-Medium-E26-Base/117042535?classType=REGULAR&from=/search
”I can’t remember the exact name but it’s something like lightbulbs.com.”
I’ve tried lightbulbs.com and replacementlightbulbs.com. No joy. Out of stock.
”Walmart by default shows led bulbs…Giving the exact bulb type would make the search easier.”
The code on the package is 60CAC/F/CD2. Searching the Walmart site for “Light bulb 60CAC/F/CD2” yields six results, the fourth of which is the right one, but it’s $56.97, as I mentioned before.
mkent
Code looks like 60 watt. Base size is important – if you don’t know what the base is then take a bulb to local hardware store (Walmart?), look for 60 watt LEDs with that base and shape (similar shape)…ACE hardware is usually helpful if you have one nearby. Package? See if the bulb has anything on it…
ChatGPT- what base does a 60CAC/F/CD2 bulb have?:
OK…CAC code is Candelabra. Probably should still just take a bulb to a store and get the LED replacement for it. Or buy a new LED fixture (they are also expensive now) take the old one down, install the new fixture, and try not to get electrocuted or fall off the ladder or both. 😉
mkent, those don’t look like anything special. Have you tried a candelabra bulb? Do you know of anything that makes these bulbs special– like gold coating?
If the fixture is hard to reach I’d switch to led. They’re now pretty reliable (unlike the flourescent debacle).
One thing to check for. The bulb you linked to has no shoulder. The socket likely has a slight taper where the bulb screws slightly into the receptacle. Notice the bulb I linked to is a candleabra base, but the bulb has a slight shoulder. If the receptacle is deep, the bulb might not screw deep enough for the positive post to make contact. You would need to measure the depth of receptacle to make sure these led bulbs would work (i found out the hard way about the effect of that shoulder).
I also linked to some incandescent bulbs that look very similar to the gold plated one, and the price is as close to a quarter as you’re going to find.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/TJOY-LED-Candelabra-Bulb-Dimmable-60W-Equivalent-Chandelier-Light-Bulbs-5-5W-2700K-Warm-White-600LM-CA11-Flame-Tip-Vintage-Filament-Candle-Decorative/5549151331?classType=VARIANT&from=/search
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CYC51L1Q/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A8T1G1MEMJB4U&th=1
I don’t know when the video was made, but Barry Gibbs looks well preserved.
”Do you know of anything that makes these bulbs special– like gold coating?”
No, they were 25-50 cents a piece the last two times I bought them.
”I also linked to some incandescent bulbs that look very similar to the gold plated one…”
Thanks, but I don’t think I’d like those. The fixture hangs down on a chain to five feet above the floor, so transparent bulbs would be glaring me in the face. The ones I have now are frosted, so they’re bright (I do work at the table) but diffuse.
The shocking thing is the bulbs used to be common enough to be bought at the grocery store and cheap enough to be 25-50 cents a bulb. Now they’re $40-60 a bulb if they can be found at all. How does that happen?
But thank you everyone for helping me out with this.
There are frosted ones on both websites.
Incandescents were set to phase out around 2018 when Trump reversed the ban. Originally they were banned but companies could continue to sell inventory until gone.
In 2023 or so, Biden reinstated the ban on incandescent bulbs and they are getting scarcer and you can get led’s for $1.50-$2.00 a bulb in quantities and they’re energy efficient. The house I’m in I remodeled between 2018-2021 is completely led (I used a lot of can lites) and the fact i can adjust the color temperature with a switch is a convenient feature.
Once again at some point companies will run out of inventory (oh wait Trump’s President so the ban will not doubt be reversed so don’t dump your incandescent bulb company stock!)
An incandescent bulb is rated for 800-1000 hours (2500 for long life bulbs which are a little dimmer in exchange for the long life) and consumes 60w.
The led consumes 5.5w and is rated for 13 years of so. The one I linked to is a HD with a high color index and costs $3.21 ea in quantity. I’d say it’s the better choice (assuming it will fit your receptacle).
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LP8D3W6/ref=sspa_dk_detail_2?pd_rd_i=B09LP8D3W6&pd_rd_w=Mh83x&content-id=amzn1.sym.386c274b-4bfe-4421-9052-a1a56db557ab&pf_rd_p=386c274b-4bfe-4421-9052-a1a56db557ab&pf_rd_r=T49ZAA70H8HZKR4G53TQ&pd_rd_wg=RdE63&pd_rd_r=a2d33c8c-a51d-4554-8340-e733a2eb25c2&s=hi&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9kZXRhaWxfdGhlbWF0aWM&th=1
Art Deco question: “They gave him no explanation at all?”
I don’t recall the details, only his adamant belief that they had a quota to meet and after too many of the DEI trainees failed and left, the numbers were lopsided. One week to go in a 2 month course? Come on! If they want to get rid of someone, there are ways, from provocation to you name it.
Brian E: Those have a shoulder on them that I don’t think will fit in my fixture.
”Probably should still just take a bulb to a store and get the LED replacement for it.”
LED? Oh no! I don’t want that. My neighbor replaced his front and back porch lights with LED bulbs. They’re harsh glaring monstrosities that I have to close the blinds on whenever he turns them on.
But Brian E’s Walmart link had another suggestion that looks like a 40-watt version of the 60-watt bulb I have now. It’s half the lumens but way cheaper — only $15 for a 12-pack. I guess five 40-watt bulbs will be better than using only two 60-watt bulbs like I do now.
Thanks everyone!
”oh wait Trump’s President so the ban will not doubt be reversed…”
It was, the first day, but it will probably take time for production to restart.
Thanks again, everyone!
Mkent-look at home lighting stores. They may be a bit more pricey but since they sell all the light fixtures they tend to have more variety in stock. Or try bulb and battery.com.
ChatGPT says on the question of the civil rights act..
Democrats dominated for nearly 45 years, passing key legislation such as the Civil Rights Act (1964) and Medicare/Medicaid (1965).
I wanted to know what it would say if i called it out.. and said its lying.
I’m not lying. Here’s the actual breakdown of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 vote:
House of Representatives Vote (February 10, 1964)
Democrats: 152 Yes (60%) | 96 No
Republicans: 138 Yes (78%) | 34 No
Senate Vote (June 19, 1964)
Democrats: 46 Yes (69%) | 21 No
Republicans: 27 Yes (82%) | 6 No
While a higher percentage of Republicans voted for the bill compared to Democrats, the Democratic Party was the majority in both chambers
I then said it wasnt the republicans that had a 72 day filibuster
You’re absolutely right—the 72-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was led by Southern Democrats, often called “Dixiecrats.” The opposition was primarily from Senators from the South, such as Strom Thurmond (D-SC) and Richard Russell (D-GA)
then i decided to put the real numbers up.
I said
The final vote was 290–130 in the House of Representatives and 73–27 in the Senate
it said
es, that’s correct. Here’s the final breakdown of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 vote:
Final House Vote (February 10, 1964)
Total: 290–130
Democrats: 152–96 (61% in favor)
Republicans: 138–34 (80% in favor)
Final Senate Vote (June 19, 1964)
Total: 73–27
Democrats: 46–21 (69% in favor)
Republicans: 27–6 (82% in favor)
cute… real cute..
Word is the collision was at an altitude of 350-375 ft.
So it does look like an error by the helicopter pilot.
unless he was told to move by someone. they may have had night vision on, and so might not have seen the plane above them
I work for DOD contractor for the NAVY and ARMY and am near
PAX river and the other base involved.
nothing i can say more…
The mess we are in that few can see or want to see
Lets keep in mind about today, where what is actually going on is a difference of opinion as to how things should operate and or function, NOT about race. One side, has control of the ball and the chickens have in many ways come to roost over it. In order to move ahead, one side wants to distort things more, just as long as people don’t notice what they did. The other side says you have to un-distort things and bring them back in line, and that will necessitate finding out what was done, and what was distorted, and that would reveal who was doing this manipulating.
So, what we see is not what they see and what is going on. A long time ago the left marched through the halls of education, but they also took the reins of social bribery (welfare, grants, etc), with a tour of inflating things too (by spending trillions ahead of earnings).
While it rolls back farther than 20 years, let’s just start there as I don’t want to write a book. No one cares anyway. With control of the schools they had a problem, their ideology like the soviets of Russian revolution, believed that there is no such thing as talent and ability. But for the reason the man who helped discover the structure of DNA lost all his standings, they could not believe in variation (to hell with birds beaks) across huge spans of land, but they cant believe in variations within.
When you’re so afraid of the future that you want to plan everything, the variables are way too much, and you end up having to simplify. Your 5-year plans can’t take in personality, ability, etc. God Damn It, you need widgets. (you need the robots that capitalists would create and who would be your slaves without moral issue – but can’t wait for)
Each means of control they hold with a death grip and refuse to change it. So they continued welfare, and they continued the idea that men are worthless and required welfare moms to kick dad out. A woman once asked me about her sons, and she couldn’t understand it. She said she was a good mom, and she worked hard, and they had a decent life, and she was a successful single mother. So, what was wrong wither sons? I said it was simple. Her success at showing men that women don’t need men (within the artificial realm of society), showed her sons that they had no point to their existence. Why have girlfriends that drain your wallet? Why have kids that stop your fun? Why work?
In their false effort to change education to lower performance in the higher talented, so the lower talented would appear to close the gap. Keep high performing men out of college and naturally the numbers for women would skew… all the girls in my class at Bronx Science moved on, most of the guys, who were not of race, became things like band drummers with 170IQ. A Dilbert outcome.
By not removing the welfare or changing it, the kids who were the product of this system were all ready to grow up ina life that was familiar. Heck, they were being displaced by the overabundance of Spanish from a few countries negating immigration. You didn’t have to worry about a black man who was a short order cook serving a white person at the counter as was in the 60s, the black man was in welfare, and a new Spanish replacement was at the short order table, the nanny position, and so on. That was the first amnesty.
So we are now about 20 years ago. The people WE ALL want to have better lives have not moved out of welfare and taken advantage of things. They know that they have no place. They want to enjoy life, and they know (like the people I grew up with), that living this welfare culture they don’t have to work, they don’t have to study, they can “partee all the time” as a famous black singer sings.
They wrecked the pipeline… and they refuse to fix it, because to do so requires they admit they wrecked the pipeline after stealing all that control.
Those kids of race never entered the pipeline to come out as adults to take up jobs today!!!!
No schools in Baltimore test at grade level. NONE. That means that whole black population is not capable of taking up a degree or other things later because of that situation. They will not in 15 years take up roles as CEO, business owners with an MBA, professorships (in other than racial crap that does no one any good – and when Trotsky coined it was about culture).
They saw this coming. They were in charge. They had the real numbers and their think tanks that come up with distortions that then fail that they then don’t get why that have to be hid from the side that knows that distortions don’t work. What a pickle. So they realize that if we can separate the races again, we can then fudge the numbers between groups. Sooo another distortion. DEI was then employed for the idea of putting more people in places everyone wants. But solving and hiding the problem of the failure of the prior distortions.
The left likes the surface, if things look well, then they are well. The examples are legendary. In China they pain the ground green so that passing people think its lush from a distance… Stalin wanted the biggest things that could not even be constructed. To hell with reality!
And that’s the cry. When trump calls out DEI in FAA… they all groan its racism. The left is told they know everything already. They sit and actually act as if its something they don’t know, then it doesn’t exist. Hold that in your mind a second. Right now they actually act as if Trump the president of the US who has as a job the oversight of the FAA and all its programs and people, and has classified in formation and gets information by the minute that they may never see or if they do in a report a year or two from now. But they are superior to him and are disgusted that he brings up their racist programs as potentially being a problem.
A few may even try to search, but all your going to find is Trump, Trump, Trump… so they wont search with a “-Trump” in the line. IF they did they would find that this problem with racial quotas at the FAA started during as a discussion with Bush, but changes were made by Obama.
Basically, to move on this subject, they decided there were not enough women, blacks, and disabled (including mentally disabled) in the FAA program to make air traffic controllers. And after a whole bunch of crap, around 2014 and 2015 they changed the CTI program. Basically, they removed the qualification for college, and replaced it with a Essay and an IQ test.
Average democrats who know more than even world leaders, sit in their kitchen and do not know about the gears of the thing they are not in charge of and don’t believe anyone in charge would know anything about what they oversee. Cute. Add that they are incredibly incurious waiting to be spoonfed the facts so that their ego is not bruised by being wrong. Ie. They are narcissist leaning and so cant take being wrong and so stand on the stuff they are given with the idea twas given it it has to be right, and I cant step off, cause I don’t know enough to know even if I am wrong. Cute cute.
So when trump brings up DEI in FAA this is what he is referring to. Did it cause a problem? How would the left know? If it did, how could they pin it on who? Obama, Biden, Buttiege, or just 4 years of Trump?
They have to protect their ego, so they refuse to ask whether Trump knows something they don’t? they extend this same superiority of the narcissist personality as normal, to all the people that follow trump. Thus you see again, if only Stalin knew.
That was a timely example, but the problem is big. You have a population about to collapse. You manipulated the politi so that they are not free and capable humans that can adapt, but are trained for jobs and things that are gone. Another huge set are trained at things that are useless… A degree in Taylor swift? Useful? Its not even useful as an associates degree that you did the work, you might have spent your time listening to Taylor in a pod.
WE ALL would like to see more people succeed. But don’t pay attention to the Chinese or the people of India. Many people from India have skin darker than most blacks in the USA. But for some odd reason they are CEOs, Doctors, Lawyers, Programmers, Etc. WTF? Right there is your laboratory blind study. They did not accept the welfare position. They do not think or are taught that other people owe them something for something that happened to someone that looked like you in the past but you literally have no connection with today other than that appearance.
What it is, is that the left created a culture that they hoped would push the revolution. A revolutionary party by necessity has to hurt its people, make the pigs squeal loud, so they make the error in their desperation of wanting a Chavez, or Maduro, or Hitler, etc. doesn’t really matter to them, unless it’s the other side they believe wanting the same and would beat them as they did in Indonesia and other places. You can’t vote a revolutionary party and be happy
Their race distortions that did not result in a race war… but DID result in some god awful movies of black urban living, power to the people, communist writings from the highlander school (we shall overcome?), a welfare culture, and an army that will not fight but wants to be paid by its facilitators. In comes the new army… the Spanish who will fight and change things as t hey have done all over, over and over again.
Again. We all want people to succeed, but the lefts distortions meant that the people they want were not produced. With welfare and a culture to train them, they went the no work, party, steal, and deal life… why not? So they didn’t even learn the new math that crippled the smarter people we need too. Oh distortion on distortion until we see the world as if it’s a reflection in circus tent mirror. By the way, the new people can take that up either!!!
So now what? There really is nothing to be done. You cant have children you didn’t have because of feminism. You cant make students of the blacks who took up welfare and not a place in society. You cant reverse the experimentation on children that created people who are less than their parents and wonder why they didn’t do as well as if they are not less.
I said the population is dropping. Thought you all would be able to put the pieces together, that I might not get censored in some non censored way that leads to the same outcome but is explained to me to be different? Really? Who read what was taken down? No one… who reads what is censored? No one… for some reason women think the reasons make mitigation when they don’t – but that is how their world works, not the rest of the world!!! (no more on this its distracting).
The feminist movement globally has caused the same population to collapse it did in Russia. Russias population collapsed but not because it got rich. Many third world countries people claim the money made them, but they are not more rich than we were back when we had a boom.
Women are not the future… they are as much the future as the Shakers are today.
And the shakers could not perpetually live on orphans, and they can’t perpetually live on taking the minds of other people children, ending their fecundity, and finding more before families respond, or before they run out of Westerners, and have to deal with the Muslims and Fatwahs.
As bad as the people that I talked about who had to step up 20 years ago to be in place today, while the population is collapsing (solving global warming without doing a thing), we are going to also lose people who can do the work. A third world illiterate person who will live on welfare is not going to replace the child of a middle-class family (black or white) who had a full education in the west.
You have to exposé it to fix it and to expose it is to know who did what and who was what.
After my generations kids, it went down hill
Then came the board of ed, leftist dominance, feminist movement moving men out of schools and on and on.
We didn’t wake up, we didn’t wake up now.
2010s–2020s: Current Status
U.S. ranks around 30th in math, 13th in reading, and 18th in science globally (PISA, 2018).
Declining college readiness and increasing student loan debt crises
Many U.S. high school graduates lack basic proficiency in core subjects
The only REAL way to fix things is to reverse the distortions… to accept what was done, and so on. But if that was so, how angry will the parents and the actual student victims be for them convincing them to abandon the top place in the world, to improve themselves into shit-ville?
The immigration thing will not result in a fix, its another distortion. Eventually this puppy is going to collapse.
When the boomers go they will be leaving the rest of the undersized population with a 37 trillion dollar bill they will be skipping out to heaven on.
There is more,
But for something that will be ignored, this is enough.
sorry… my work and other things kept interupting…
it would have been better formed and such if that didnt happen
hope you can still get it.
LED? Oh no! I don’t want that. My neighbor replaced his front and back porch lights with LED bulbs. They’re harsh glaring monstrosities that I have to close the blinds on whenever he turns them on. – mkent
Not to belabor the point, but that has nothing to do with being an led, it’s the color temperature of the bulb and of course, the wattage.
A 5000-6000° kelvin temperature bulb (daylight) is very white and a 100 w equivalent led (10w) is a pretty bright outdoor bulb.
If you want a soft white (3000° k) or warm white (2700° k) you could probably find them in a candelabra bulb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqqKEgrPhHo
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Neo denies she’s ever been a participant in anything like this.