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Cake day: May 17th, 2024

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  • Oh, jesus.

    I work aerospace (non Boeing company), which is basically space technology for babies. The least competent guys in our building have done three year training courses specifically tailored to assembling planes. There are people on our shop floor who can explain the entire build inside out from start to finish who are just considered above average competency.

    Space technology, where everything somehow costs even more than aerospace and requires precision the likes of which could make your eyes bleed. I shouldn’t be surprised Boeing would skimp out on things at this point, and yet… I am. It’s literally unthinkable to me that you would take a job which needs more technical skill than aerospace assembly, and leave THAT to an untrained workforce.

    Any ‘savings’ you might get by laying off the people who were qualified and rightfully asked for higher pay for their skills would quite frankly be burned through by one single mistake from a cheap untrained worker. I handle parts worth more than triple my yearly pay every single day in Aerospace. Even if you have very good insurance for your rocket parts, a few completely innocent mistakes by your workers is going to totally fuck up your finances.






  • I can’t say I’m especially pro-military, but I think it’s worth noting that a simple budget increase like this is definitely going to be vastly more effective at strengthening our armed forces than what Rishi Sunak BASED HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN ON, which was mandatory service for young people.

    Budget for good weapons, equipment and vehicles is way more important to a modern army than just having a lot of warm bodies to throw at a target- just look at Russia’s atrocious waste of lives in Ukraine.










  • This isn’t just cruel, it’s actually actively disadvantaging Russia in a huge way.

    Anyone can be a scientist, and autistic people can go into any profession, but statistically speaking, autistic people tend to be the ones willing to obsess over data enough to get into science and make technical breakthroughs.

    Sure, a lot of other countries aren’t exactly saintly when it comes to treating people who act a bit different, but good fucking luck building a tech industry that can compete with the world’s dominant powers if you’re actively removing people that aren’t perfect little obedient clones of the ideal citizen.