Screwball

No argument. I don't watch any TV news, or read any of the major publications as my first choice of news. I see what headlines are trending, pick which ones are interesting, then go see what people are saying about it. The "perception" or "narrative" one might say, and how people are reacting. Then pursue how they came to that conclusion. Many times I find, I think, it is because they have built their own silo, and are happy to live in it. It's human nature to avoid "negative vibes" as "Oddball" of Kelly's Hero's fame said. That's why they can't look in the mirror. Then there is the follow the crowd thing. All interesting stuff. Then there is the question of what America wants right now, since fighting for years over a bunch of inept, crooked, and bought off assholes who want to **** us next. It's a big club, and we ain't in it. And we hate each other. Giddy up!

A year or so ago our college changed the signs on the restrooms to "Men" and "Gender Exclusive." Last year about this time, a late afternoon class, so not as many at the school in our wing, I had a women who was around 50 I'm guessing. We were walking out around 6:45 and she told me she wanted to go to the bathroom before she had to drive all the way home, but was afraid to go in the bathroom. What do you tell her?

Around here, no. Shop class, and what used to be called home ec, has been outsourced to vocational schools. Many offer shop type classes with machining, welding, robotics. There is also carpentry, auto body and mechanics courses, along with some medical and cosmetology and hair salon stuff. As a few examples. It sounds good on paper as they offer these skills for those who are not interested in college prep courses. The local school I taught at was fueled by 14 different public school districts in this part of the state. There is little learning going on there. It is complete joke. Kids come to school and play video games and play on their phone. The administration is a complete and utter joke. They are good at PR but bad at education. But then again, you can only work with what you have. If little Johnny and sister Jessica have parents who doesn't stress education - then you are behind the curve before you even start. But in general it was widespread ineptness on the part of the administration. Plenty of wasted money too. And they have no answer for those boondoggles either.

That's about where I was too. You should also remember the nuclear bomb drills we went through. They told us to get under our desks. Yea, that will help... Wild times, as the threat of nuclear war was was real. And here we are, 61 years later and wondering about nuclear exchanges. I truly hope the current idiots in charge don't get us all killed before they are done ****ing up the world.

I kind of equate it to science. And maybe free speech too. Throw all the **** on the table and let's have an adult conversation about the pile in front of us. What is true, and what isn't. Pretty simple IMO. The KISS rule once again applies. And don't hide from what you don't want to hear. Too bad it doesn't work that way today.

Which has nothing to do with what I said. I would expect more from you.

I really don't understand the point of that article, but it doesn't matter. Coming from someone who has spent the last 5 1/2 years teaching for a state college, and being whored out to a vocational setting (STEM class) which I eventually refused to enter, I can tell you this; our educational system, at least where I am, and I don't really think that matters, is a massive cluster **** of ineptitude.

Probably not.

Musk buying Twitter changed many things, but many have no idea because they live in their own created information bubble oblivious to what goes on outside that bubble. It's like the digital equivalent of parking your head up your ass, but they like it that way.

Speaking of engineering mistakes; ask one of those geniuses who thought it was a good idea to put fuel pumps inside gas tanks? Only one example of stupid designs by so-called smart people.

Exponents are a bitch

On the Sanders/Trump thing on interest rates. So much to pick over in that article, but I'll go with this one. FTA: They have been saying that **** since these very banks blew up our financial system back in 2008, which ruined lives of millions, while the bankers got richer. They must think we are still that stupid. Maybe they have a point. If they wanted to fix it, they would have done it a long time ago. I wonder if Bernie thought he was being clever by using the word usury.

Jerome Powell's term as Fed Chair expires May 2026. Board post ends Jan 2028. He will not be fired because the president cannot fire him. He will be the Fed chair until May 2026 unless he resigns, or congress ends the Fed itself. Powell isn't going anywhere, nor any of the rest of them, regardless of what the idiots in these echo chambers try to feed the gullible.

Still two different issues, that's my point. This isn't difficult.

Adding; your cherry picking what you think are structural design issues to build a strawman about corrosion that IS preventable by using a different grade of stainless.

That proves nothing. I'm glad your not a car designer.

I don't think it's stainless. Mixture of steel and aluminum. Either way, welds easy and sound. If there is any stainless, using a different grade solves the corrosion problem.

At this point where I live a horse would be faster. I wonder why he decided to make some of his cars so ugly? Jokes about they look like a pinewood derby car in 1950. From a manufacturing standpoint, it makes a bunch of sense. Deming might be proud. ON EDIT: Marketing department, not so much.

They have thrown money at the system for years, but they don't spend it wisely. They have turned education into an assembly line instead of a job shop. Too many kids are shoved into a position to fail, not succeed. If you see it up close and personal it is heartbreaking. That's the system they have built and it's shameful.

I didn't know the DOE started in 1980. Jimmy Carter was part of it, but it looks like there was some standards before. Graduated in 1974. Spent 35 years in corporate America living in the belly of the beast (engineering). Large multinational companies. The movie Office Space comes to mind. Retired 6 years ago, now teach school at a local college, part of which included high school/trade school students. Our educational system is a mess from top to bottom. It should be called acadummiea. If nothing else comes out of this debate, I hope some adults sit down at the table and have a much needed and honest conversation.

That wasn't what I was talking about, but thats interesting anyway. A good start to see how the whores operate can be found here; Open Secrets dot org - shows the above board contributions to DC creatures. They also cash in on insider trading, which is illegal, but quite profitable. https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1742207287966777673

The billionaires are the party The rest is bread and circuses for those falling down drunk on blue and red bull****

I hate to break this to you, but those are the people pulling the strings of the democratic party.

That's hilarious.

You need to be foot nimble at times. What really kills your time is getting stuck behind two trucks that take 5 miles to pass each other. Then you run into packs, and it gets worse. Out in the West is, or used to be, pretty wild. I know some lifelong truck drivers who ran coast to coast. They let it rip when possible. I saw it once. I worked for a transmission company and drove a test truck (just the cab) from Toledo, Ohio to Midland Texas. It had a special transmission with a really long gear. Somewhere in Oklahoma the road was as flat and straight as the eye could see, and nobody around. Let's see what this prick will do. I got it up to about 95. I looked in my rear view mirror and saw another truck. What? I kept it peeled and the next thing I knew this guy went by me like I just left a stoplight - with a trailer. Impressive. My buddies tell me some could get it up to 120 mph. Be a hell of a crash. Depends on where you are obviously.