Signs of Idiocracy and Decline in Society
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It's not just an American phonemenon. I have seen such mugs in Europe too. There was one in my office, written in gold letters "Queen B**ch". Great, thanks for the warning.
I think people use the terms "gentleman" and "lady" far too liberally, without considering the meaning. Those are titles that have to be earned.
Not a peep from me
What really ticks me off is when a woman is acting out towards a man she doesn't know at a bar, etc. But when the man puts her in her place, a white knight tells the guy that he shouldn't treat a lady like that. Uh...if she was a lady, she wouldn't be picking fights with men that are complete strangers to her.
I've heard whispers that when people are "bought out", it's often for paltry amounts of money.
There's an old expression "he'd sell his grandmother for a nickel". I bet there's a lot of truth to that.
The story of Judas comes to mind. That silver wasn't even enough to make him a rich man.
Although this is not the official reason, I heard that a factor for the decision to retire the Concorde a few years after the crash was that there were not enough engineers left who were smart enough to maintain it.
I don’t know how to break this? We pay a lot more than 1 trillion in interest .
You guys are on to something here. There is a slow degradation in things that follows what you are saying, of course. That's why we talk about the 3rd world and the racial hatred (bias toward incompetency) so much on the forum.
It will be a slow reckoning as incompetent minorities and women slowly move up the ranks of industries.
Story Time:
A few years ago I worked for a large Fortune 500 company.
One day we had a panel discussion, for new hires, with a few senior employees who made it into executive positions.
Each executive gave us a short story of how they got to their position.
Many of them had the expected; work hard, long nights, sAcRiFicE time with friends/family, be assertive, win contracts, make connections, etc.
Anyway, one of the executives was a woman who gave us her story.
She started out as a software developer but admitted that she was not very good.
So she moved into test engineering, and then management, and then contracts, etc.
Over the years, she performed well, and kept climbing and climbing, all the way up to her senior executive position.
It sounded like everything was going well for her… until she started crying…
While crying, she admitted to turning down lots of time with family and friends, the usual for a corporate executive, which she regretted.
She regretted missing lots of birthdays for her nieces and nephews.
She also admitted to turning down dates and had no romantic life whatsoever.
For her, it was always work, work, work!
You could hear in her voice that she wished to be married and have kids.
In summary, this woman was in her late 50’s, a senior executive in a Fortune 500 company (Top 100 as of today), easily making 7 figures and still climbing, and deeply unfulfilled.
All of us new hires were staring at each other like deer in headlights thinking what do we do??
The moderator chimed in and thanked her for her input and moved onto the next panelist.
She collected herself and went back to work after the panel.
A few years ago I worked for a large Fortune 500 company.
One day we had a panel discussion, for new hires, with a few senior employees who made it into executive positions.
Each executive gave us a short story of how they got to their position.
Many of them had the expected; work hard, long nights, sAcRiFicE time with friends/family, be assertive, win contracts, make connections, etc.
Anyway, one of the executives was a woman who gave us her story.
She started out as a software developer but admitted that she was not very good.
So she moved into test engineering, and then management, and then contracts, etc.
Over the years, she performed well, and kept climbing and climbing, all the way up to her senior executive position.
It sounded like everything was going well for her… until she started crying…
While crying, she admitted to turning down lots of time with family and friends, the usual for a corporate executive, which she regretted.
She regretted missing lots of birthdays for her nieces and nephews.
She also admitted to turning down dates and had no romantic life whatsoever.
For her, it was always work, work, work!
You could hear in her voice that she wished to be married and have kids.
In summary, this woman was in her late 50’s, a senior executive in a Fortune 500 company (Top 100 as of today), easily making 7 figures and still climbing, and deeply unfulfilled.
All of us new hires were staring at each other like deer in headlights thinking what do we do??
The moderator chimed in and thanked her for her input and moved onto the next panelist.
She collected herself and went back to work after the panel.
I am reminded of what Jesus said: "Those who try to save their lives will lose it." And while He was talking about eternal life, there's also a certain way that resonates with this type of situation. So desperate was this executive to 'save' her life by making as much money as possible that in her quest to 'save' her life, she belatedly stuck her head above the water to discover that she had failed to live her life. What good is all that money going to do for her if she has no husband or children to spend it on?
A busy material life results in the neglect of richer, immaterial lives. Family life and spiritual life. She lived like a queen materially, only for her family and spiritual life to rot.
It's a lesson in priorities.
Imagine being able to climb to those heights yet possess such low self-awareness.
I've been to the airport several times over the summer picking up and dropping off. I think "they" have ruined air travel like they've ruined everything else.
Speaking of planes...
Boeing Cuts 737 Delivery Guidance Just One Month After Boosting It Due To Improperly Drilled Holes
Boeing Cuts 737 Delivery Guidance Just One Month After Boosting It Due To Improperly Drilled Holes | ZeroHedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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'...there is always something wrong with the plane that was "designed by clowns, who are in turn supervised by monkeys."'
Douglas Quaid
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Yeah flying is awful. I hate being in an airport and airplane, or having anything to do with the airlines (especially American ones). Taking the Amtrak is so much better if you have the extra time. Even driving is better.
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Speaking of planes...
Boeing Cuts 737 Delivery Guidance Just One Month After Boosting It Due To Improperly Drilled Holes
Boeing Cuts 737 Delivery Guidance Just One Month After Boosting It Due To Improperly Drilled Holes | ZeroHedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
'...there is always something wrong with the plane that was "designed by clowns, who are in turn supervised by monkeys."'
Sarcasm - Yeah but they have a female as their senior engineer, so, who cares about some mis-drilled holes?
I'm a big fan of Dr. James Lindsey. He recently did an episode on "degrowth", which is part of the whole sustainability/agenda 2030 thing. Degrowth means exactly that - instead of constant growth we have to "moderate" growth and, in fact, decrease it. This relates to air travel because James says "they" are going to basically get rid of air travel. They use terms like "stakeholder capitalism" or "circular economy" or "sustainability". Its all baloney. What it means is air travel is too dirty for our fragile environment, so, it must go. But, it won't go completely. Naturally our "elites" will still fly whenever and wherever.
That said, I very much sense this and can feel the groundwork being laid. Little things like instead of medium/wide-body aircraft to do transcontinental flights (767s, A330s, A340s, 777s) they're switching to 737s or A320s/A321. Note: my least favorite aircraft is the A320/321. Obviously, A320s use less fuel. But they also carry less people who offset the incremental difference in fuel costs. I think it's for "sustainability" reasons. Meanwhile, the duopoly that is the aircraft production industry in the West (Boeing and Airbus) has both given way to "social justice", which means more wrongly drilled holes and a lot of other mistakes will be made. Oh, and diversity is going to be a priority for air traffic control.
