Debt Rattle February 1 2024
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Wassily Kandinsky Clear connection 1925 • Let Me Get This Story Straight (Teslaconomics) • A Cult Whose Demise Should Probably Be Regretted (Ka
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 1 2024]I have two Kandinsky paintings hanging on my walls. I’ve studied his works extensively, yet I’ve never seen the Kandinsky you are displaying. Yet I am sure it is genuine. Can you say where it is?
The implications of these failures, that are only on the surface mechanical, may be colossal. They go to the core of Amiel’s observation about the cult of excellence that once upon a time reigned in the West. The question is: what has happened to it, what explains its disappearance?
In a word: Greed!
As a master machinist for more than 30 years; I witnessed the destruction of standards of excellence destroyed by poor; no, rotten/corrupt management over that period of time.
What caused this? Look no further that your overloards of that time…
The U.S. is dying by thousands of cuts; bail while you can…there are no viable alternatives in the view askew as far as I can see…………..ram: Can you say where it is?
Sponge cake the cat sure is racking up those carbon offset obligations. Is that Greta Thunberg carrying her?
V. Arnold how would you consider the thought that prediction has replaced measurement in management? The immediacy of Rent seeking and the narrowing of the planning window to hours from years is plain to see and even applauded. Looking at western culture from business to physics prediction appears to have replaced measurement and the outcome is visible across the board. The observation problem, The Uncertainty Principle, and entropy are completely ignored, and as you observe, have been replaced with greed driven by prediction. A connection to The Bloomberg High Speed Terminal is all that is needed in the most sophisticated Rent seeking. The ability to skim from every transaction at the small broker level. The ability to see a transaction and respond before the transaction reaches the trading desk. Greed.
Copernicus as part of his observation of helio centricity maintained the “stars are fixed in the heavens”. The mindset of western thought remains at that state as the verse and information expands away at a frightening speed. The astrophyisicists used to maintain “there is no center to the Universe” i see this is not accurate, almost everyone i know is the center of the verse.
I still have faith in the deplorables, the under educated, and my heart will not allow me to throw in the towel. A little styptic pencil and a wipe of vaseline and back into the ring.
Take care V. Arnold“Boeing Faces Tricky Balance Between Safety and Financial Performance” — New York Times
You’re kidding right? How’s their “financial performance” doing when everyone cancels their planes for the next 20 years? Was bribing OSHA worth it now? Making people not want to run away from you screaming is the Opposite of “Tricky”. That’s just “normal humans”. Not to the Columbia, Brown, and NYU graduates at the NYT: not having planes fall out of the sky by doing what you did the last 80 years is difficult and confusing. You know, like “Spelling” and “Grammar”. Who can understand their mysterious ways?
“A 339-page Department of Labor rule – you can always count on the federal government to keep it pithy – would make it much harder to be an independent contractor or freelance worker in America. Created to replace a simpler Trump-era rule, it’s modeled on AB5, a disastrous 2019 California law that made independent contracting and freelance work so hard to do that it effectively outlawed it in the Golden State.
That law was so calamitous, despite its advertised intent of ensuring more employment benefits for more workers, even California had to admit it, scrambling to make fixes and hand out hundreds of exemptions to the law. Those exemptions are, of course, based on lobbying and political clout, leaving smaller, unconnected people to languish or leave the state. The list of exemptions is now more than 20 times longer than the original law.
So, why export it to the rest of the American work force”??
“ hand out hundreds of exemptions to the law. Those exemptions are, of course, based on lobbying and political clout, leaving smaller, unconnected people to languish or leave”
Speaks for itself. Why is Walmart open, with 300 people meeting there during Covid, but Pa’s Harware store exposing only four people is closed? Cause: Reasons. “I followed the Science that followed the money.”
“ Those exemptions are, of course, based on lobbying and political clout, leaving smaller, unconnected people to languish or leave”
That is the PURPOSE of laws. That is WHY we regulate. It brings da money. IT’S AN EXTORTION RACKET.
“California Becomes First State to Ban Heterosexual Marriage” — BBee
“• Let Me Get This Story Straight (Teslaconomics)
That’s really interesting, you’re right. So according to the contract, the risk is 100% Elon’s: if he misses, he gets nothing. 80% vote for this. He did not miss, for whatever reason, that’s not the point. So now that the risk has passed, and they know the outcome, they want backsies. That’s just not paying up. If I say you bet $1M if I make this bull’s eye Robin Hood shot from 100 yards, and if I miss you can shoot me, then I make it and you say, “No I actually meant $50.” How does that work?
A: “We Make S—t Up!!!” I made it up just now! That’s the Purpose of Power™. To get More Power. Always take, never pay, never voluntary.
Not keeping your word, aka “Contracts” is the #Opposite of “Capitalism.”
“The Founding Fathers (sorry, there were no Founding Mothers,”
Actually there were several. Abigail Adams was one, not reaching too deep into the non-board room side of history. Dolley Madison was another, although she was young and her heroism wasn’t apparent until later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolley_Madison
““I may not agree with what you say, but I’ll defend to my dying day your right to say it.”
America is made up of a lot of these people. Maybe most. They’re just not in D.C. because they’d be blackmailed (Haskert) or shot (Seth Rich, Anthony Bordain).
They are the kinds you clutch your pearls and don’t invite to dinner.
“Thirty-two thousand troops in New York harbor
(Half a million in one place in today’s scale)
“But the elephant is in the room
The truth is in ya face when ya hear the British cannons go…BOOM
Goes the cannon, watch the blood and the shit spray and…
Hamilton won’t abandon ship
— Yo, let’s steal their cannons —”
That is, their “Assault Weapons” “Of war”.“strategic cooperation between Moscow and Beijing is a pillar of maintaining peace around the globe,”
Haven’t we had enough of this sort of thing? I don’t want to replace the new boss same as the old boss.
“The US and Germany are resisting calls by NATO allies to invite Ukraine into the bloc at a major summit later this year,”
Because NPR writers at RT, this is a lie. Okay, WHO? WHO is “calling” to add them? And the US and Germany are not also calling for it? Because they are, all over, and always have been. So what you’re saying is, “Some people are calling for Ukraine-NATO now, some Later, and some for never.” “Some of those people are in the US, some in Germany, and Some in other countries worldwide.”
Yeah, we know: Because that sentence says nothing but “People have opinions” and those opinions vary. Each of those opinions are present in each country. Your words mean nothing to me. Hand wavy-wavy. Feely-feelz.
“Kiev’s push to join NATO, which was enshrined in its constitution as a strategic objective in 2019,”They paid RAND corporation a million dollars to write a paper on what would make Russia start a war. It was this. So when they got the paper back, they then pushed every line item listed in the “Go to war with Russia” paper. It also isn’t JUST a move in a free-zone. To do this, the West had to break all three treaties (or four) governing the very existence of Ukraine as a free state. Oops! NPR writers “forgot”. “I FORGOT to mention the Treaty of Versailles when I wrote about WWII” Oops!
““I imagine we’ll start seeing Russian tanks with fuel tanks fitted for extended range appearing and Russian airborne troops making air assaults in the Ukrainian rear within weeks.”
It is a problem that they’re carefully breaking everywhere, as then you don’t know which hole to plug. Military Summary had a bit of an ominous question: Russia is making arms, right? Bunch of new jets, very proud. So why does Russia need 1,500 helicopters they seem to have newly built? Those guys are expensive and they are NOT used in this type of war. AND not for us dorks, but for military people, they each need 20-50 trained people surrounding them? Not just pilot, crew, but mechanics, logistics, trucks, etc?
What’s all THAT for? Czech? Denmark? Or just Lviv?
““Ukraine sought to prove that the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic are terrorist organizations..”
This is an interesting case, because they were clearly rebels and separatists. But “Terrorism” is a tactic, as we’ve forgotten as words have no meaning except whatever I made up a minute ago. Are they firebombing kindergartens in Kiev to make their point? No. It never got to that. Relatively surprising, actually, as they were shelling markets and schools in Donbass for 8 years. Imagine if they had fought back like that, and how it would look different for PR and the West. …But as we see, they didn’t really care. It would have made it worse, but not doing it didn’t make it better, an Anglo PR special.
“• US Troops Told to Prepare For War in Gaza – Media (RT)
They don’t have an army, they use ours. Since there’s a 20:1 advantage in Gaza and there are 100,000 fighters, they need 1-2 Million Americans from Arkansas to die defending racism.
“Iran will not let any threat from the US go “unanswered,” the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said”
That’s weird because you seem to have let all of them go unanswered for 50 years til now.
“will the Hegemon accept a new geopolitical reality, or will it go Captain Ahab on [us]?”
Half or 90% of America is very CLEARLY not Captain Ahab and is fighting these guys tooth and nail everywhere. Problem is, Ahab is locked in the nuclear control room with a Praetorian guard shooting anything that moves.
“Homer, if you could shoot some people on the way out – that’d be a big help to me.”The CIA is self-funding by running oil from Syria to Turkey, and $10k a pop to import African mercenaries to Cleveland, and they WANT us all to point, accuse them, and start shooting to cause a U.S. Civil war. Got it?
Honest, babe: It’s not Me, it’s YOU. It’s not 90% of Americans, not even the Blue ones. It’s like 3,000 specific people who have home addresses and we know your name. Amy Pope. Mary McCord. James Boasberg. These are the real dangers, since they shove the puppet-dummies like Bolton out in front to get shot at, like scarecrows with no brains, and keep these ACTUAL worker bees safe and private.
“Ms. Jones has been paid $2.6 million in her 14-month period as an independent monitor..”
Yeah, I’ll BET she recommended to keep monitoring him every year forever while posting both factual and mathematical inaccuracies without asking for clarification like an actual accountant. I would too. That’s $200,000 a month or $10,000 a day.
Buddy, guy…I can make up stuff at HALF that price. And I’m not even an accountant. Neither is she from those mistake made.
“Trump’s nomination is considered valid as it was submitted by a member of a national assembly or national government.”
However, the Peace Prize for 2024 is going to Benjamin Netanyahu, as Obama is killing some folks but isn’t in office right now.
““..the methods that NOAA employs to try to reduce this don’t work because the bias is so overwhelming..”
Which we told them in writing 100,000 times for 30 years in a row. But they didn’t notice and can’t change. When the satellite data conflicted with the stations parked on hot tar roofs in downtown Manhattan, and proved the non AGW case, they then erased and hid the satellite data and we haven’t seen it since. That’s “Science”: no data, no discussion. It’s settled.
V. Arnold: Like I said, if only it were greed, you could reason with it. You know as a machinist it’s cheaper to do things correctly. So they were NOT doing things “cheaper” and “saving money,” they were losing money by the fistfuls. Why?
Look at it this way: as we came UP through the golden era of the machine age, some blacksmith would have told you to hand-hammer it into being as the “best” way. But we, America, picked the “Cheaper” way, so we didn’t have to blacksmith a Model A one by one with a hammer. BUT THAT WAS BETTER. The cheaper way WAS the better way. Both in making more, letting more people own them, selling more and making more money for the worker, AND a better end product, things made and invented that could never be smithed with a hammer. Win-win-win-win-win-win. Win for the company, win for the customer, win for the worker, win for the profits too. That’s Capitalism. You did it better, you should get paid. That’s only just.
…But they’re doing the #Opposite of all that and calling it the same thing. Whatever “it” is, and I’ll let you decide, it’s not “greed”. Greed would do the opposite and there was plenty of greed in 1910 – 1970.
“FDA Makes It Official: Informed Consent Not Required for ‘Minimal Risk’ Studies”
They finally “passed a law,” or the FDA equivalent (which is not a law, and the people who pass it are not elected.) But still. Finally they half-passed a half-law that they were already meting out widespread punishments for, with every board enthusiastic to disbar everyone they could find, and insure far fewer doctors. Disbarring for the non-law they never wrote down. Now that’s what I call #Winning.
“makes it legal for clinical researchers to conduct research on human subjects without obtaining informed consent”
Ah, the final dream is realized: human experiments with no knowledge or consent. Yes, “Consent” means they have to ask and tell you. If they don’t have to ask, they don’t have to tell you. So now they can put the medical experiment in corn flakes. Why not? Everything here encourages it.
Emo: As Tim Pool, similar, actual post punk, actual skater boi has to say every day, they are now “Rage in Service of the Machine”. The Offspring Drummer, FIRED FROM HIS OWN BAND, so they could lick Pfizer’s butthole. Oh wait, FIRED FROM HIS OWN BAND because he HAS A DISEASE, and his DOCTOR SAID SO. #TrusttheScience. So his band – Core Post-Punk, like TOP name (although a bit poppy, granted) were such rebels they tried to KILL THEIR OWN FRIEND, against his long term doctor’s express orders, for a know, long-term disease he had, in order to adore and profit multi-billionaire international corporations? Well nothing says “Punk” more than that, my dude.
Meanwhile, who is actually Punk? Um, like, the Sex Pistols? Sid Vicious? Johnny Rotten? In a way considered the inventors of it? Yeah, Johnny Rotten is wearing a MAGA hat. That’s Punk. And maybe not even as earnest support. But the POINT OF PUNK is to piss people off, DGAF, and shake them hard enough to make them THINK for a second, by FORCE. Even as that’s a useless task, as they never will, as per maybe “Daria” points out. That’s why they put safety pins as earrings. They’re making you THINK: what’s the difference? It’s metal in your ears, so? Is it because you didn’t pay a corporation profits that makes safety pins weird and wrong? They’re scaring and offending you. That’s why they wore Nazi things: not that they were Nazis, they were anti-Nazis, the wanted YOU to cry, flap around, scream, run in circles, be scared, and they could say: “This is a PIECE OF CLOTH, you sheepless dolts. And I’m not even a Nazi. Duh. Why does your corporate programming trigger you?” Because it’s not me with the problem: it’s you.
Rage in Service of the Machine. So anyway, where’s the REAL post-punk gone now? Into bluegrass? Tyler Childers Oliver Anthony or something? Being a hard-core rebel now is just being a man who can lift more than ten pounds? Weak sauce out there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj-us7CI-RQ
Anyone who goes to a gym and is healthy is an insurrectionist.
John Cleese seems to be doing the same thing. Like Punk who stays punk, he’s comedy that stays comedy. The loveless lemon-sucking nags and scolds of our present #StateReligion wag their fingers and do not approve. “That’s not Funny!”
As in, “How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?” A: “That’s not funny!” Blue-haired nags, and tattooed fingers.
“Puritanism.—The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be having a good time.” — Mencken.
These guys are Puritans that would put Cromwell to shame. I’m not saying I’m punk, but I’m way more punk than these guys.
Wassily Kandinsky Clear connection 1925 is evocative of the newly invented electronic schematic symbols
[Translation by Dr. William Makis]
“Ladies and gentlemen of Progressive Slovakia and the Opposition parties, have you seen the statistics on how our deaths have risen from various cardiovascular events due to vaccination?
But you reject it, of course you reject it, while you claim that (COVID-19) Vaccination was the best thing in the world.
What do you know about how many vaccines we have left over that expired and how much money was thrown away into the air? What do you know about purchases of medical equipment and tests? You know that we demonstrated very clearly the connection of one company from Trnava (Slovakia) to the chairman of one of the opposition political parties.
Hundreds of thousands, millions worth of purchases, completely useless. What do you know about management? What do you know about what was going on in terms of taking various measures which, in our view,significantly increased the morbidity than was perhaps the case in other countries?
And you all laughed at the other states, other countries. You laughed at Russia, where they stood on the principle of individual visits of patients by doctors, and they managed it significantly better than we managed it here in Slovakia.
We have 21,000 deaths, which we connect with the fact that the governments that were here since 2020 were not capable of managing (the pandemic) and cared only about economic gains and of course made sure they were bowing to pharmaceutical companies from which they bought huge quantities of useless medical equipment and often also vaccines.
I don’t even want to talk about the European level, you know that I have been very open and I said it to Madam President of the European Commission (Ursula von der Leyen) openly that the suspicions that are connected with her and to the purchase, the largest purchase in the history of the European Commission, of vaccines, when she literally exchanged secret SMS text messages with CEO of Pfizer (Albert Bourla), and when, to the ridicule of Members of the European Parliament a report was issued that was completely blacked out, we will simply never be able to find out the truth of what role pharmaceutical companies played and who actually organized this whole circus around COVID-19.
Under these conditions, ladies and gentlemen, the government of Slovak Republic has decided that it will include into the Government’s Program Statement, a commitment that it will settle this issue. The Slovak public simply needs an answer, needs an answer in regards to vaccination, what it actually was. Why were people vaccinated with various experimental Vaccines without any trials? Why were all sorts of drugs forced into people? Why was there state wide testing? Who was buying? Why were they buying? What quantities were being bought? How much money did it cost?
And we’ll end up at billions, at billions, you can grin all you want because you don’t even know anything other than showing disrespect for another opinion. You know democracy is about sometimes respecting another opinion. When you are here discussing for the third week talking about the Criminal Code, nobody is swearing at you, we are listening to you, you are talking, so please be kind enough if we have a different opinion, then please respect it even if you disagree with it.
Under these conditions, we have decided that we will create an Office of the Government Plenipotentiary which will be dealing with these questions. Today, we have not only appointed the Director of Plenipotentiary, but we’ve also empowered him when it comes to obtaining information from various Institutions, in particular we will be obtaining information from the Chief Hygienist, we will be asking questions at the National Health Information Center. We still want to know, based on what we currently have available to us, what actually happened.
I think that Dr.Kotlar, Member of the National Assembly, is sufficiently equipped in terms of information. I see that he is also prepared in terms of assembling a team. I have requested from him that before we make any public statements, that we have first gone through everything at the government, and I am absolutely convinced that his work will lead to results that we will make public and we will tell the Slovak public what in God’s name happened during COVID.
We know today one thing for sure: previous governments completely failed to manage COVID properly and have around their necks 21,000 dead people and apparently they made a huge amount of money on the unnecessary purchases of various medical equipment and vaccines.
Thank you very much.”
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My Take…
A few weeks ago, newly elected Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico clearly outlined his governing party’s position on rejecting the WHO Pandemic Treaty. I translated his speech here.The original emoji’s:
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/karnak-egypt-wall-art-hieroglyph-1538712998
“Entirely Counterfeit”: Harvard’s Chief Diversity Officer Plagiarized At Least 40 Times According To Complaint
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/entirely-counterfeit-harvards-chief-diversity-officer-plagiarized-least-40-times
all of the negative talk about “managed economies” as the brilliant capitalists whistle past the Federal Reserve Bank. The entire western global economy managed by central banks. The elite SDWBs gorging on the starving, poisoning, maiming and murder of children and the “educated wannabe” clamoring at the gate for a place at the table.
D league softball players with a carbon fiber bat believing they are bound for The Majors. Please completely disregard the fact that the carbon fiber bat made existing fields obsolete. The infield became so dangerous no one wanted to be there. Stand 45 feet away from a microwaved RED DOT launched from a carbon fiber bat. Human reflexes are inadequate to the moment. The total and callous indifference to one’s fellow man is that microwaved RED DOT and you are not ready to respond.
if we can just murder another 500 thousand victory is within reach, please remind me again how stupid I am. The axiom “Man Know Thyself” predates Delphi, who cudda knowed.
Biden has a plan, not too far in the distant past The Republicans had a plan. Did you listen the other day when Larry Johnson stated The Islamic Republic of Iran used Stinger missles supplied to them by Oliver North in one of their earlier military operations? Do you remember the School of the Americas? Now THAT was a plan, teach terrorism to an entire continent directly south of your nation. WINNING!!!!!
Ignorance comes with many attendants, quite frequently a diploma among them. What did the Wizard give the Straw Man?
@Oroboros: It’s nice to see vacuum tube heiroglyphics on TAE. I can read tube schematics for relatively simple applications, like audio. I used to design and build them for fun before the world changed so much.
Top White House Cyber Official tells O’Keefe in Disguise “they can’t say it publicly” the White House wants to replace Kamala Harris and Confirms President @JoeBiden mental decline: “Biden is definitely slowing down.”
Harris was unable to retain black staffers, who “quit on her en masse”
Hair Sniffing Degenerate Freak Passing the Torch@johnday
Arduino
I friend gave me one for a birthday present. They have many different kits, lots of fun and affordable
Modular connections
Arduino Braccio
All programable
Make your own Robot
Maybe a Terminator
Or a Predator Drone with thermal imaging
Or an Autonomous Self Learning Vacuum Cleaner that can also bring drinks and snacks from the kitchen!
There are cool sites that features abandon places.
just one:
https://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2015-11-18/the-most-stunning-abandoned-places-on-earth
Give a good understanding that “All Things Pass”
Shelley’s:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!Abandoned and forsaken amusement park ride
@Oroboros: I use 1920s-1960s vacuum tubes, and special military and NASA components from a surplus store that is no more. I packed it all up in boxes almost 20 years ago, and am schlepping it to the place I made in Yoakum, looking into boxes. Speaker parts, too.
@V.Arnold: My union machinist college friend paints the same picture. Extraction of value killed good engineering and manufacturing by competent Americans, and the culture was crushed and bled out of existence, like with Boeing…
Greed. Gordon Gekko’s speech recreated the 1980’s “thinking” the best way to revive great American companies’ fortunes was by aligning management interests with shareholder interests. Put stock price valuation ahead of product development and manufacture. The way to align management with shareholder value was to pay managers by stock market options in addition to regular salary. And thus the looting began.
Congress’s ability to regulate was anesthetized by their ability to do stock trading while in office. Oddly enough (or not) Congressmens and womens stock trading gains were and are so far ahead of regular peoples’ it looks like they could have some kind of inside information.
If that’s not enough to keep Congress quiet there’s always campaign “contributions”, including from FTX (which illegal campaing contributions Friedman will not be charged with). And so the banks are bailed out, Wall St. is bailed out, and the destruction of once great enterprises continues.Prepare. Its failing.
A way of thinking, a culture, a system..Its falling apart.
Everything is bad and getting worst.Not my fault.
Don’t blame me.Its interference.
Its war.Incentivized with a compensation package.
He hit all the milestones.
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• A Cult Whose Demise Should Probably Be Regretted (Karganovic)Exhibit A: Political corruption.
Exhibit B: Academic corruption.
Exhibit C: Mechanical breakdown.It may be premature based on these random examples, to which many more could of course be added, to draw bold conclusions about an imminent chute finale. But a compelling prima facie case for decadence can certainly be made. The cultural matrix is severely damaged, whether or not irreversibly we shall soon see. Previously inconceivable departures from long established cultural canons, in this case of efficiency and professional integrity, are now becoming increasingly common. Their impact is felt from Ivy League academy to manufacturing plants, and presumably encompasses much that lies in between.
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During the Cold War the Soviets still had tube radios in their tanks because they wouldn’t be affected by an EMP from a nuclear detonation. It was getting harder in the late sixties were I lived to get tubes for old radios and amplifiers.
The old hardware stores uses to have a tube tester vending unit with dozens of different tube sizes to fit your tube in and test and spares for sale stored underneath. They were pretty much gone by the 70’s
I had a pair of beautiful Macintosh amplifiers, best audio sound you’ve ever heard but they were tube amps and tubes were getting hard to find.
So someone said you could still get new ‘contraband’ tubes from behind the Iron Curtain, like Cuban cigars.
They were called “Virgin Commies” and they were very well made but it was like buying pot in the 60’s, you had to know a guy who knows a guy…..
Competence? The fish has been rotting from the head for decades now.
For the first time in my life, I quit a job effective immediately just recently.
I figured, working for a small business, I would be working in/with competence because a small business simply doesn’t have resources to spare for anything else. Boy was I wrong.
I’ve seen EVERY bad thing that can be done in call center operations several times each, so I recognize it when I see it. I have never ever seen so MANY bad things stacked simultaneously nor with such vehemence from leadership to never ever change – There Will Be No Discussion.
I’ve never seen such poor service levels, in terms of abandoned calls, turnaround times for working or even answering requests, etc. Well, actually I have, but typically with a 3-6 month lag before the manager responsible sends out an email that they choosing to spend more time with their families, goodbye.
And seemingly all their processes are to keep as many dishes spinning in the air as possible. Processes with as many back and forths and transition points as possible – each time is a potential failure point, like putting a bunch of unnecessary o-rings in your booster.
Documents covering what or how to do things are either entirely absent or conversational, how you’d explain your job to an unusually interested person next to you at a dinner party but no A to B for a customer or the rep serving them. The worst sup/lead combo I ever worked under never took 4-5 hours to answer a basic question in chat.
They would say words like “first call resolution” but clearly be doing everything they could to prevent first call resolution. For no gain. I think because it just sounds business-y to say the words??? Total grind, total boiler room stuff, 3-10x the work that you can do at all times, like a neverending hotdog eating contest with more hotdogs always on your plate forever. Couldn’t get them to understand that if they can’t hire more people, they at least need to start bootstrapping themselves into a better situation by streamlining each of their processes, one by one, to actually reach first call resolution so unresolved problems, requests, etc don’t keep stacking up. Like they would occasionally say the WORDS
first call resolution” but didn’t seem to understand what it actually meant or why it was important, what benefits could be drawn from it.Training that didn’t speak to actual, practical A-B activities helping customers followed by almost no practical support/instruction after the fact. No documents that you could use to just train yourself.
Because they functioned on a purely oral tradition and the manager had a memory like a swiss cheese – or maybe an inverted swiss cheese with only the holes present – she would tell you to do one thing, then the opposite, month to month, week to week, with a strong implication you were being lax, defective. Moreover, she would fail to remember things, conflate several different interactions into a single event with a different meaning, remember the opposite of what actually happened, or “remember” things happening that never, ever happened. And you could be written up or given a bad review solely based on her memory.
Not to mention she invariably would coach whatever you said or did as bad. You could not talk shop with her nor even make idle chitchat because literally anything would be wrong. I made a list of like 12 nuts and bolts customer care priorities, did a call, made sure to tick each one off, reported back on her, listing off the things I did and she coached every single one as wrong
It got absurd by the end of that coaching session because I described determining the purpose of the customer’s call, proposing a specific path to resolution, and then getting their buy-in. She said no, you should not be asking the customer what their goal is. WE will review the situation and then tell THEM. What!?!?
When I pointed out the fractally fucked nature of the job- as politely and professionally as I could possibly muster – she asked what I wanted. I asked for the most basic bare-bones thing – that our interactions be congruent with reality. After that, the magical thinking and memory of things happening that never happening went up a few notches, so I guess she was at least listening I guess, calibrating on my request? Just in the wrong direction?
So just EVERY possible facet of call center operations was absolutely fucked. For this small business that needed everyone pulling the maximum weight they could. And the one thing that they started repeating was “NOTHING WILL CHANGE”
A bunch of different awful snafus affecting customers happened in my 5 months there. They cheerfully said things like “this happens every year” or ‘this happens all the time” Just totally fucked, working hard as I can, bringing as much professionalism as I could, trying to avoid complaining, and getting written up on incredibly petty and somewhat imagined offenses.
I realized the write-ups were probably trumped up because they were for employee retention purposes – you can say an employee is not eligible for rehire if they are on a writeup. Therefore you can say that to prospective employers contacting you for job verification. I realized they would never let me go in peace, that it would be either not rehirable while working for them or not rehirable while not working for them. Last straw. Fuckem.
I come away bewildered. Didn’t they need me? Didn’t they need someone? Didn’t they need the work done? Every aspect of the work was suffering for… something. Something that had nothing to do with competence. wtf was it??? Why would they create an environment that drives off their workers, forcing them to go through the hiring and training process over and over? (VERY high turnover) Why wouldn’t they want the customer experience to be smooth, efficient, and problem free???
SOMETHING else was more important than basic competence god knows what. Being the bestast evar girlboss possibly but it is really difficult to say. A mole essentially engaged in worse sabatoge than burning down a food processing facility? Dunno.
These headlines are intertwined and not just ‘talking to the hand’…
• Chinese Defense Chief Promises Support To Russia On ‘Ukrainian Issue’
• NATO’s Big Hitters Oppose Ukrainian Membership
• Breakthrough On All Fronts Ahead Of Schedule
The dam is showing signs of bursting
That’s why the Empire of Lies desperately needs a diversion.
Anything will do to catch the teeny tiny attention span deficit of Duh’mericans
Look, Squirrels!
Duh’mericans have absolutely zero idea of how the global power arrangement has shifted and they are not ‘number one’ no more.
The Satanist Cabal is counting on ‘memory-holing’ mediawhore coverage of important world topics and Duh’merican ASD.
People were completely baffled and confused that the Empire of Lies had troops in Jordan. WTF = mouth breathing
jb-hb
Depopulation in action
You made me happy that I’m not working and that I’m retired.
You made me sad for my young grandchildren that will be experiencing that future.Priority # 1
Path to peace and prosperity
Preventing WWIII
Detecting launching site, destroying of launching sites, destroying attacking missiles and dronesSince drones with a strike range of over a thousand kilometers are in usage now this means that the demilitarized zone has to eventually stretch across the whole of Ukraine.
In early November the whole earth will tremble-
The cracks will reveal what’s below.
The columns start sprouting;
The waters rerouting;
Let’s hope we go on with the show.@Oroboros: Yes, I have high performance Russian military tubes in some of my designs
The Russian 6c45Pi, about $20 when you could get them, was used as a radar tube in fighter jets,
It is a “supertube”, a copy of the Western Electric 437A, the highest transconductance tubes ever.
https://store.triodestore.com/6c45pi.htmlSound Practices Magazine illustrates the genre, within which I participated, modern takes on pre-WW-2 vacuum tube designs, using trick parts and old parts when we could get them. Japanese style 1970s homebrew audio included. https://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/sound_practices/
It was my buddy Joe’s magazine until the internet put it out of business.Swiftonomics
Special Report: Taylor Swift’s Impact on the Economy in Los Angeles County
Think about it: … those not fortunate enough to get tickets directly must pay an average resale price of U$1,611 per SeatGeek. U$1,611 just gets you in the doors!
… more: Call it a gold rush: Taylor Swift is adding billions to the U.S. economy.
The Economy (Taylor’s Version)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/13/taylor-swift-eras-tour-money-jobs/F.S.
@jb-hb: Sorry to hear about the problems at the Christian prepper-supply company. Nobody is immune to idiocracy. ;-(
Revolt in Europe.
Food vs Gunshttps://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/29/us-foreign-arms-sales-russia-china-00138390
US weapons exports up 50 percent in 2023 as Washington challenges Russia, ChinaThose of you who follow science and technology may have noticed that famed physicist Sabine Hossenfelder has been going off the rails recently, pontificating on subjects that are WAY outside her claimed field of expertise. Most recently she has touted the validity of the Covid-19 “vaccine” pharmacology, attacked challengers to the human caused Climate Change Theory, and sarcastically ridicules the entire academy of non-deterministic physicists (of which there are thousands of highly educated adherents, including numerous winners of the Nobel Prize.)
I will not subject you to the tooth jarringingly twisted logic of Sabine’s original video disavowing the existence of free will. That would just be too cruel. Instead I will link to a video in which her pathetic attempt is rebutted. That video is here: https://youtu.be/sylX-jd_h9s?si=H8UY11Cwrav-yW8f
The Scientific Method (and thus all Scientific principles and procedures that derive from that method) ITSELF literally proves the existence of a God from which the Universe and everything in it was created (including science). This proof is quite simple. So simple in fact that when stated it almost sounds like a joke or comedy gag. It is that since Science cannot describe or define or even identify the cause which (per the Scientific Method) MUST precede the first effect then that preceding cause MUST exist before the first effect, and that placement puts it OUTSIDE of the entire body of Science. In other words, that “preceding causative entity” (let’s use the word “God” as a name for it) both MUST exist, and MUST be outside the realm of science. And that logic is valid as per the Scientific Method itself. To word this joke-like truth in yet another way it would be like some uber authoritative big shot scioness of Science (like Sabine Hossenfelder, for example) standing up and solemnly stating as fact, “The very first effect at the origin of the Universe was preceded by a cause that science by its very definition and nature cannot possibly explain, and would thus be outside of the purview of Science which is constrained by having to follow the Laws of Science, which mandates that all effects are preceded by a cause. BUT, despite that absolutely unwaverablly “factual” founding principle of Science, in this special case (i.e. , the origin of the Universe) does NOT exist because such an entity cannot exist in compliance with the Laws of Science, and therefor does not exist, even though our own Laws of Science demand that it does. And so on, and so forth, forever, Amen, oops, I mean ipso facto.”
Ms. Hossenfelder might as well look straight into the camera and say, “I don’t really understand or believe a single word of the gibbersh that is coming out of my mouth.”
So what’s the problem here, is Science all just bunk? Well, yes and no. It’s not complete malarkey in so far as one remains strictly and totally WITHIN the realm of PHYSICAL science. In that case (WITHIN that ultra severely limited aspect of reality called “physics”) it seems to make what appears to be good sense. The evidence of this allegedly good sense is the observation that the technology around us does seem to work, usually, and albeit in a janky and extremely limiting fashion, most of the time. BUT don’t forget that most of that allegedly “high” tech was built by MORONS who believe with religious fervor that there is NO FIRST CAUSE (no Creator) OF THE UNIVERSE that they are claiming to be so smart and know so much about. How could one POSSIBLY be so wrong? Easy. They are idiots. Intellectually speaking, they are virtually automatons, mere AI’s posing as thinking beings, who have been programmed with a ludicrously false core datum: that there is no non-material primal cause of reality, and thus reality is exclusively material and subject only to materially energetic processes.
Like I said, morons. I wouldn’t trust any of them to make a sandwich because it would probably contain poison. Come to think of it, they do.
There is a consequence for designing and building “science” technology while one’s cognitive functions are being continually crippled by the idiotic notion that reality itself is limited by so-called “laws of physics” which laws themselves violate their own foundational first principles by officially and explicitly forbidding acceptance of the fact that that there exists a First Cause as the creator of the First Effect (and thereby ALL subsequent effects!)
That is moronicity taken to the level of sheer lunacy. It is akin to someone looking you straight in the face and saying, “Trust me, I’m lying.” Like a tragic inversion of Jim Carry in his character in the film “Liar Liar”, as a lawyer who is condemned to always and only tell the truth.
Another consequence of such retarded thinking is that any “Science” which precludes and excludes the existence of the only thing that actually does exist (Primal, or “divine” causation), is that such a body of reasoning could not then deign to describe any of the ACTUAL qualities or characteristics of that Primal, or “divine” causation, because that knowledge would be explicitly forbidden from being any part of that body of reasoning.
In other words, having got the first step so catastrophically wrong, it is unreasonable to expect that the steps deriving from that misstep to be any better.
The world is a far more interesting and beautiful place than our dingbat “scientists” have (or would) lead us to believe. So much so that anyone who seriously tries to lead people to a saner way of looking at things is going to get smacked down, HARD, by those idiots, because they’ve got a hell of a lot riding on their bet that there ain’t no God. And by the phrase “a lot riding on their bet”, I mean to say that with the great emphasis. Don’t expect many of those silly atheists to see the light or acknowledge the error of their WRONG primary assumption. Most of them are all in on a bad bet.
Lies Are Best https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/lies-are-best
Israeli tanks opened fire at Gazans waiting for much-needed aid, killing at least 20 and injuring 150.
According to the Cradle, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tanks fired in the direction of Gazans lined up to receive humanitarian aid. The incident happened at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City on Jan. 25. Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra confirmed the incident, describing it as a “massacre.”
Al-Qudra continued that the number of casualties might increase due to the severity of injuries, overwhelming the limited medical capabilities of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, which has been subjected to bombardment and raids by Israeli troops since the start of the conflict.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-01-31-tanks-fired-gazans-at-least-20-killed.html New Israeli war crime uncovered: 30 decomposed bodies in Gaza school
The bodies of 30 Palestinians executed by Israeli occupation forces were found on Wednesday inside a school that had been besieged by the occupation’s tanks.
The school located in the northernmost town of Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip was being restored to house forcibly displaced Palestinians on Wednesday, when bodies of 30 martyrs were mistakenly found in the facility, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS).
PPS said the dead bodies had their hands cuffed and their eyes blindfolded, with some being stripped of their clothes before being executed by Israeli occupation forces.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/new-israeli-war-crime-uncovered–30-decomposed-bodies-in-gaz By Hurting UN Agency, the West Sides With Genocide
Israel has long plotted the downfall of UNRWA, aware that it is one of the biggest obstacles to eradicating the Palestinians as a people, writes Jonathan Cook.
The funding cut — which has been also adopted by Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Netherlands, Italy, Australia and Finland — was imposed even though the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Friday that Israel may be committing genocide in Gaza.
The World Court judges quoted at length U.N. officials who warned that Israel’s actions had left almost all of the enclave’s 2.3 million inhabitants on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe, including famine.
The West’s flimsy pretext for what amounts to a war on UNRWA is that Israel claims 12 local U.N. staff — out of 13,000 — are implicated in Hamas’ break-out from the open-air prison of Gaza on Oct. 7. The sole evidence appears to be coerced confessions, likely extracted through torture, from Palestinian fighters captured by Israel that day.War on Gaza: Netanyahu says UNRWA mission ‘must be terminated’
Prime minister’s comments follow Israel’s claim that 12 of UNRW’s 30,000 staff members were involved in Hamas-led 7 October attack
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-on-gaza-unrwa-mission-must-be-terminated-netanyahu
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