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A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (4 children)

That's most industries. Society is falling apart lol. Look how the secret service responded to an assassination attempt on trump. It was absolutely pathetic. These people are supposed to be the best of the best of the best. It doesn't surprise me that other industries are also experiencing this.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated

NOFX wrote about the rise of ignorance in America and the song "The Idiots Are Taking Over" is more appropriate now than ever before.

full lyrics below. link to song for anyone not familiar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sNWDfryyMk

It's not the right time to be sober
Now the idiots have taken over
Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?
Mensa membership conceding
Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding
Watson, it's really elementary
The industrial revolution
Has flipped the *removed* on evolution
The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized, what a bummer
The world keeps getting dumber
Insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason
Darwin's rolling over in his coffin
The fittest are surviving much less often
Now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
Now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule
And I'm starting to feel a lot like Charlton Heston
Stranded on a primate planet
Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
With generals and the armies that obeyed them
Followers following fables
Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard
There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred
Majority rule, don't work in mental institutions
Sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions
What are we left with?
A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists
Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland
Pass on traditions
How to get ahead religions
And prosperity via simpleton culture
The idiots are taking over
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm still thinking they send the "barely qualified" secret servicemen to protect Trump

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Lmaooo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Look how the secret service responded to an assassination attempt on trump. It was absolutely pathetic

it was perfectly fine??? They shot and killed the guy within like 3 seconds of the event happening???

Sure it's weird that he was up there, but i'm not sure that's a failing of SS specifically, but they certainly did their job in regards to neutralizing the threat.

Also trump isn't even the current president, so it's not like he's going to get all the coverage in the world.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The fact he even got shots off while laying on literally one of the only spots a sniper could get a shot off is absolutely bad enough. They should have had minimum one sniper looking at that roof constantly. That's like step one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

i believe they did, though it's worth noting, you're constantly scanning rooftops as a sniper, so there's always going to be a small amount of time before targeting and shooting.

I've heard, havent verified but apparently local police were working the grounds and apparently maybe that roof? So it might have been their responsibility entirely. I'm guessing the kid only peaked the roof shortly before shooting though, that's the only way he would've gotten a shot off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't see how the secret service is relevant to this in literally any way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Read the comment again lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Apon rereading, your comment isn't any more coherent. It's like a vague "what is this world coming to?!", drawing disparate concepts together as if they form some grand pattern, but there's nothing there.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago

Sorry you're dumb then.