In industrial maintenance, an important axiom is: "every time you walk up to a working machine and do maintenance to it, there's a chance even a great technician will break it". Therefore in order to achieve the greatest reliability in your equipment you must strive to find the right balance so you're spending the best dollars and spending the best time to deal with potential problems without introducing more problems as a result.
This concept came about on the Boeing 747 project because they needed to get higher reliability and it turned out that aircraft maintenance was dramatically over maintaining aircraft and causing more equipment failures. Today aircraft have orders of magnitude better reliability because they're doing the right maintenance instead of just more.
It seems to me that medicine is about 60 years behind the curve in this regard. We think more treatment is better, even if nothing is ostensibly wrong.
This concept came about on the Boeing 747 project because they needed to get higher reliability and it turned out that aircraft maintenance was dramatically over maintaining aircraft and causing more equipment failures. Today aircraft have orders of magnitude better reliability because they're doing the right maintenance instead of just more.
It seems to me that medicine is about 60 years behind the curve in this regard. We think more treatment is better, even if nothing is ostensibly wrong.
I mean, Hollywood's idea of "diversity" is entirely performative.
30 years ago, movies and television shows written, acted, and produced by black people existed. There were a number of fairly big names that came from that, including the Wayans brothers and Wil Smith (and let's not rewrite history here, he was considered very cool for a very long time). Family Matters had a time slot right next to Full House on TV. Saturday morning cartoons had Static Shock alongside batman. Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan did a buddy cop movie that as I recall had some sequels.
So what do we have today?
We have a bunch of stories from the whitest parts of europe but now we dipped the main characters in tea (looking at you, black snow white). Every character is just the same southern california stereotype. You can swap in anyone -- black, white, muslim, christian, asian, gay, straight -- and it doesn't matter, it's surface level. The same character dipped in certain strengths of tea or rainbow or "foreign religion", but in reality they're just the same southern California writer who lacks any ability to write anyone but themselves. The idea of acknowledging that people are different in any way other than the food they eat or the most superficial of traits is in stark opposition to their entire ideology.
Things are far worse than they've ever been. They say "Oh, blazing saddles! That could never be made today!" Why not? The movie is fundamentally about racism, making a mockery of it. Despite that, it's the left that wouldn't let it get made, not the right. And guess who dominates Hollywood?
It can't be made today because it doesn't represent perfect orthodoxy, and so it can never be allowed. This isn't a matter of ignorant writers, it's about writers who know exactly what they're doing -- they're doing what they're told and following the script they've been given perfectly.
30 years ago, movies and television shows written, acted, and produced by black people existed. There were a number of fairly big names that came from that, including the Wayans brothers and Wil Smith (and let's not rewrite history here, he was considered very cool for a very long time). Family Matters had a time slot right next to Full House on TV. Saturday morning cartoons had Static Shock alongside batman. Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan did a buddy cop movie that as I recall had some sequels.
So what do we have today?
We have a bunch of stories from the whitest parts of europe but now we dipped the main characters in tea (looking at you, black snow white). Every character is just the same southern california stereotype. You can swap in anyone -- black, white, muslim, christian, asian, gay, straight -- and it doesn't matter, it's surface level. The same character dipped in certain strengths of tea or rainbow or "foreign religion", but in reality they're just the same southern California writer who lacks any ability to write anyone but themselves. The idea of acknowledging that people are different in any way other than the food they eat or the most superficial of traits is in stark opposition to their entire ideology.
Things are far worse than they've ever been. They say "Oh, blazing saddles! That could never be made today!" Why not? The movie is fundamentally about racism, making a mockery of it. Despite that, it's the left that wouldn't let it get made, not the right. And guess who dominates Hollywood?
It can't be made today because it doesn't represent perfect orthodoxy, and so it can never be allowed. This isn't a matter of ignorant writers, it's about writers who know exactly what they're doing -- they're doing what they're told and following the script they've been given perfectly.
Tbf the world wasn't destroyed by gen z or gen alpha. Both are living in the ashes of a civilization their parents and grandparents burned to the ground.
My favorite was during the pandemic they claimed was caused by the Chinese eating random animals they found, they suggested we should eat cicadas we found on the ground.
Idea for a youtube video based on some of the clickbaity stuff I see:
"TRANSFORM the curb appeal of your home with 78 bags of garbage and a 1985 k-car with no wheels or doors"
Since it's always implied that a transformation is an improvement, we'll transform the curb appeal of your home into being a lot worse by making your whole lot look like the ghetto.
"TRANSFORM the curb appeal of your home with 78 bags of garbage and a 1985 k-car with no wheels or doors"
Since it's always implied that a transformation is an improvement, we'll transform the curb appeal of your home into being a lot worse by making your whole lot look like the ghetto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLZ3YmwSU44
Absolutely incredible video. Skilled people are the means of production, and it's dangerous for us to forget that fact.
Absolutely incredible video. Skilled people are the means of production, and it's dangerous for us to forget that fact.
"I hate women so much I'm gonna buy a badly tuned 1957 Pontiac and drive it all around town!!!"
Printing is a really strange thing.
We have laser printers that reliably print thousands of pages after being left untouched for years, but people keep buying inkjet because it's slightly cheaper.
It would be like being at a baseball game and you can get water for 3 dollars or cyanide for 1 dollar and everyone buys the cyanide because it's cheaper and complains the drinks make you sick. Spend the extra on the water!
We have laser printers that reliably print thousands of pages after being left untouched for years, but people keep buying inkjet because it's slightly cheaper.
It would be like being at a baseball game and you can get water for 3 dollars or cyanide for 1 dollar and everyone buys the cyanide because it's cheaper and complains the drinks make you sick. Spend the extra on the water!
In canada it's been a meme for decades that we don't vote people in, we vote them out. At that point it's the opposition's election to lose (and often the opposition loses for longer than you'd really like)
Americans occasionally fall in love with candidates like Obama, Clinton, or JFK. But it's a different beast.
Americans occasionally fall in love with candidates like Obama, Clinton, or JFK. But it's a different beast.
If there's something we should know from history, it's that any one ideology alone is not enough to help a society thrive.
Liberalism standing on its own is useless and arguably evil, but is not useless and evil in combination with other ideological viewpoints that provide a limiting framework by which you would channel that freedom into something productive.
The problem is that most other ideologies have been slowly stripped away, and just like Wang Mang in 48ad in China trying to be the most confucian ruler and causing catastrophe (since China has typically had at least 4 ideological viewpoints at odds in confucianism, meritocratic bureaucracy, Buddhism, and daoism) or later with the great leap backwards, you can't strip all the other ideologies away without suffering the consequences of their absence because in a successful civilization the different ideologies being different and important stuff to the table.
Liberalism standing on its own is useless and arguably evil, but is not useless and evil in combination with other ideological viewpoints that provide a limiting framework by which you would channel that freedom into something productive.
The problem is that most other ideologies have been slowly stripped away, and just like Wang Mang in 48ad in China trying to be the most confucian ruler and causing catastrophe (since China has typically had at least 4 ideological viewpoints at odds in confucianism, meritocratic bureaucracy, Buddhism, and daoism) or later with the great leap backwards, you can't strip all the other ideologies away without suffering the consequences of their absence because in a successful civilization the different ideologies being different and important stuff to the table.
All heil der fuhrer Trudeau!
Btw, this is a reminder for all the "Canada doesn't have a first amendment" folks -- the charter of rights and freedom that is part of the 1982 constitution explicitly protects "freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication"
It Does. Not. Matter.
The courts just found a month or two ago that what was done to the freedom convoy was illegal, 3 years after one of the most egregious violations of human rights in Canadian history that shocked the conscience of the entire world, so by the time this is properly challenged in the courts there can be years of destruction of our basic human rights.
And the Americans who would gloat over Canadians should ask themselves whether they think they're being spied on by their government right now(violating the 4th amendment), whether they have unlimited freedoms to get a firearm (as the 2nd amendment suggests), whether their government is leaning on social media companies to censor inconvenient messages (violating the first amendment) -- the law is just a piece of paper if the people in power refuse to follow it.
Btw, this is a reminder for all the "Canada doesn't have a first amendment" folks -- the charter of rights and freedom that is part of the 1982 constitution explicitly protects "freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication"
It Does. Not. Matter.
The courts just found a month or two ago that what was done to the freedom convoy was illegal, 3 years after one of the most egregious violations of human rights in Canadian history that shocked the conscience of the entire world, so by the time this is properly challenged in the courts there can be years of destruction of our basic human rights.
And the Americans who would gloat over Canadians should ask themselves whether they think they're being spied on by their government right now(violating the 4th amendment), whether they have unlimited freedoms to get a firearm (as the 2nd amendment suggests), whether their government is leaning on social media companies to censor inconvenient messages (violating the first amendment) -- the law is just a piece of paper if the people in power refuse to follow it.
Back in the early 2000s, there was an Onion article about the war in Afghanistan, and it was like "While you have a shrinking number of targets, we have many targets!", and this press release reminds me of that.
"I can still win this!"
"I can still win this!"
