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Diversity is our greatest strength.

But basically, it’s going to kill everyone, because women and brown people are totally incapable of maintaining the technological civilization that white men built.

NDTV:

A Virgin Atlantic flight from Manchester to New York was cancelled just before take-off after a passenger raised concerns about missing bolts on one of the plane wings. According to the New York Post, a 41-year-old British traveler aboard Flight VS127 on January 15, spotted four missing fasteners during a safety briefing and promptly informed the cabin crew. After he raised an alarm, engineers were quickly notified, who conducted maintenance checks on the aircraft.

”I’m a good flyer, but my partner was not loving the information I was telling her and starting to panic, and I was trying to put her mind at rest as much as I could. I thought it was best to mention it to a flight attendant to be on the safe side,” Phil Hardy told the Kennedy News agency.

A spokesperson with Virgin Atlantic told Fox Business the flight was ultimately canceled ”to provide time for precautionary additional engineering checks, which allowed our team the maximum time to complete their inspections.”

Why didn’t the airline’s employees notice this? And why are those guys’ faces censored?

The team that conducted the inspections found the tops of four out of the 119 fasteners on the wing panel were missing, according to Virgin Atlantic.

However, both Virgin Atlantic and Airbus, the airplane manufacturer, said that no passengers were at risk. Each of the wing panels on an Airbus A330 has 119 fasteners, so the fact that only four were missing did not impact ”the structural integrity or load capability of the wing, and the aircraft was safe to operate,’‘ according to Airbus’s local chief wing Engineer.

This is all a result of brown people and women AKA “diversity” AKA “our greatest strength.”

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Virgin Atlantic has its priorities straight

Laws, for years now, have been forcing private companies to replace their staff with brown people and women, and now you’re seeing the results – doors are blowing off planes, planes don’t have any bolts, buildings are collapsing, infrastructure projects don’t make any sense, everything is falling apart.

It’s call “The Competency Crisis.”

Last year, PALLADIUM magazine had a good piece about it, in which, while being polite, they don’t really dance around the fact that this is a result of women and brown people:

At a casual glance, the recent cascades of American disasters might seem unrelated. In a span of fewer than six months in 2017, three U.S. Naval warships experienced three separate collisions resulting in 17 deaths. A year later, powerlines owned by PG&E started a wildfire that killed 85 people. The pipeline carrying almost half of the East Coast’s gasoline shut down due to a ransomware attack. Almost half a million intermodal containers sat on cargo ships unable to dock at Los Angeles ports. A train carrying thousands of tons of hazardous and flammable chemicals derailed near East Palestine, Ohio. Air Traffic Control cleared a FedEx plane to land on a runway occupied by a Southwest plane preparing to take off. Eye drops contaminated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria killed four and blinded fourteen.

While disasters like these are often front-page news, the broader connection between the disasters barely elicits any mention. America must be understood as a system of interwoven systems; the healthcare system sends a bill to a patient using the postal system, and that patient uses the mobile phone system to pay the bill with a credit card issued by the banking system. All these systems must be assumed to work for anyone to make even simple decisions. But the failure of one system has cascading consequences for all of the adjacent systems. As a consequence of escalating rates of failure, America’s complex systems are slowly collapsing.

The core issue is that changing political mores have established the systematic promotion of the unqualified and sidelining of the competent. This has continually weakened our society’s ability to manage modern systems. At its inception, it represented a break from the trend of the 1920s to the 1960s, when the direct meritocratic evaluation of competence became the norm across vast swaths of American society.

You can read the whole thing here.

Everything is going to start breaking, everywhere. That is already happening.

It’s happening at the elite level, too, given that the State Department and really the entire government has promoted unqualified women and brown people.

Recently, the negro Secretary of Defense disappeared into a hospital for days without informing the White House.

The Russian sanctions, which massively boosted the Russian economy while destroying those of US allies, were masterminded by a brown person at the White House, Daleep Singh.

The Secretary of Treasury overseeing Bidenomics is a stupid old granny, who is very Jewish and corrupt to boot. Her deputy secretary is a negro, currently working on more Russian sanctions.

And it goes on and on.

Everywhere you look in the West, it’s nothing but women and brown people running everything – and running it into the ground.

Meanwhile, Russia and China have only men in charge of primary systems, and only competent, high IQ men of their own races.

It’s actually really good that the Evil Empire is destroying itself.

Unfortunately, many of you will die in bridge collapses, building collapses, toxic waste spills, poisoned consumer products, plane crashes, or getting hit by planes falling out of the air.

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  1. usNthem says:

    Gad, can you just imagine seeing those two on the flight deck as you’re boarding? Best bet would be to turn around and walk away.

  2. Abolition of meritocracy -> ideocracy -> negative selection / nepotism -> mediocracy -> idiocracy -> implosion.

    • Agree: 36 ulster
    • Replies: @purrturbed
    , @Drapetomaniac
  3. Why didn’t the airline’s employees notice this?

    Too busy going to United Airlines CEO’s drag shows.

    • LOL: Robertson
  4. Neshiran says:

    All part of the plan to slowly dismantle western civilization as payback for its historical “crimes” and to create a global “more level playing field” among nations and continents. In other words: slow, deliberate, willing suicide of the industrialized west, with 1/3 of the population who agree with the ideology, another third who go where the prevailing winds blow, and the last third who realize this is willful destruction and insanity but are powerless to do anything about it since all institutional organs and levers of power are in the hands of the ideologues and their lackeys. Gramsci’s “Long March” is complete and its results are coming to fruition.

  5. Anon[452] • Disclaimer says:

    From the Trenches World Report – the Bill of Rights is the law of the land….

    Real news – warning ! don’t listen if you are adverse to swearing, cussing for some snowflake reason….


  6. Hamsap Lo says:

    “No bolts on the wing” in the heading should read “bolts on the wing were missing.” There were 115 other bolts. What’s distressing is the excuses that these organizations make up for the idea that their failings are unimportant. Presumably a qualified engineer originally came up with the idea that 119 bolts were needed. It is not up to a maintenance guy, or a company media liaison, to decide that the plane can fly with 115. We will get to the point where our machines and buildings are being redesigned on the fly to the level of the lowest competence in society.

  7. anonymous[392] • Disclaimer says:

    1913 – Jews get fed reserve from Woody
    1919 – Cunts get the right to vote

    1963 – Kennedy gets whacked by Mossad and CIA
    1964 onward – US ((counter-culture)) takes over
    1967 – USS Liberty

    As a student of history, 1910s and 1960s were bad decades for the United States. We are seeing the full impact today.

    The shit show that is American incompetence is only a sad postscript. Smart White men better head to the exits now, because they will turn you into Palestinians as soon as they can.

    • Agree: Johnny LeBlanc
    • Replies: @anarchyst
    , @Pythas
    , @Plume
  8. @Passing by

    Pathocracy kind of belongs in there somewhere, as in right from the start.

    • Replies: @Passing by
  9. @Neshiran

    The latest iteration of bringing the top to raise the bottom. The West slides into mediocrity, self-deception, dishonesty, and Mass Formation Psychosis Hypnosis. Remember the Moonies and the Baghwan children?

    Mass Formation is created and increases when people are separated from each other and anxiety is prevalent. Our technological society accelerates that process. The reason people buy into the major narrative is to reduce anxiety in themselves, including the dilution and succor provided in groups of like minded people. They are huddled against the cold winds of adversary, real or imagined threats. No matter how absurd, preposterous, or beyond reason the perceived threat(s), Mass Formation has a a psychotic component (divorced from objective Reality), and a hypnotic operant where the person does not use his cognitive or sensory faculties to discern or sort out. He is in a hypnotic state of fixation on one idea, which is outside questioning, challenging, review, or challenge. If it was characterized as a type of “tunnel vision”, this would apply, although incompletely.

    Many people are incapable of ceasing to believe in narratives and beliefs that are absurd, utterly in many ways and are mentally incapable of taking a critical distance from what society believes in and fail to see that it cannot be true. This believe can be so irrational that the person becomes intolerant of any other viewpoint or opinion, and sees it as a threat to himself, and to others. In reaction and response, the effected person will often try to stigmatize and ultimately try to destroy the people who do not go along with the narrative. Evidence, contrarian information, facts, have no effect, and may cause an aggressive action of intended harm toward that person.

    This is, of course, a sickness, a grotesque maladaptive maladjustment to real or perceived threats. Whether they are real or not, while one remains under this hypnotic spell is not really relevant or inductive. Frequently, those affected will carry out actions that are immoral and destructive as if it is their moral duty to do so.

    Mass Formation is a group phenomenon that creates and substitutes the actual and objective reality with an constellation of values and ideas, all without the individual realizing it, having no perception that he is living in Unreality, and ersatz space of fictional ideas and perceptions.

    [MORE]

    Although the manifestations of this behavior is observed in pluralities of people, it is really an INTERNAL process of the individual, a process of change, warp, rearrangement and substitution for a healthy psyche and persona. The Mass Formation grouping is not held together by external power, like police, of force, but by the internal mental changes and reprogrammed ideas, ideals, perceptions, and interpretations. It’s like corrupted software, with viruses, broken coding, and a dysfunctional operating system.

    Mass Formation is a phenomenon that is intra-person based and operating from, AND the group of Mass Formation act as one organism, interconnected to the next person, and repeated on. It is a closed world of its own Reality markers and accepted inputs and processes. In many cases, this is a long lasting and permanent condition induced by finite in amount of information and time duration. Nevertheless, it keeps on ticking, refusing contrary and refutation. This fixation extreme neurosis extends to scientists, philosophers, knowledge workers, farmers, manual laborers, etc. It knows no boundary except for certain people, individually, who are not prone to this replacement of their “operating system”.

    This phenomenon of Mass Formation is related and overlaps with the precepts and conditions elucidated and explained in other works such as “The Lonely Crowd” (“Other directed-ness), and The True Believer by Eric Hoffer. These helped me to escape from the Mass Formation conditioning I was subjected to in my early formative years.

    There is much more to this disease that can be found in the following video. I consider it essential for every person who wants to be authentic and desires a healthy psyche and Self to watch, understand and meditate upon.


    Video Link

  10. Anonymous[452] • Disclaimer says:
    @Hamsap Lo

    Yeah, right out of the movie Idiocracy.

    There has been all the apocalyptic climate-change propaganda from TPTB about how the rise of a few degrees in temperature will result in cataclysmic disturbances in weather and climate. But the greater concern should be civilizationally-destructive effect of a drop of just a few points in average IQ. And it seems TPTB promote the decline in IQ in everything from the legalization of marijuana to the Great Replacement.

  11. Truth says:

    Laws, for years now, have been forcing private companies to replace their staff with brown people and women, and now you’re seeing the results

    Is that right?

    Then what happened in 2014?

    https://simpleflying.com/virgin-atlantic-flight-43/

    • Replies: @Plume
  12. GOP OFFICIAL CAUGHT ON TAPE TRYING TO BRIBE KARI LAKE



    Video Link

    • Replies: @Jim Bob Lassiter
  13. Would you shut up about missing bolts if we offered you a discount? Alternatively, a competency fee may be charged if you insist on booking a flight on a plane with our famous full bolt feature.

    • LOL: Bro43rd
    • Replies: @HammerJack
    , @Anonymous
  14. Six links for four crashes, one Russian Sukhoi with French-Russian engines due to engine failure, one twin turboprops Ukrainan Antonov due to a piloting error in extreme weather conditions, one US Boeing 737 and one European Airbus due to structural failure. So, one of the two Russian crashes is a Russian guy’s fault and neither of the two Chinese is the fault of the Chinese. What’s your point?

    • Replies: @CelestiaQuesta
  15. anarchyst says:
    @anonymous

    I would like to add to your “slippery slope” contention. You are absolutely correct. Thank you.
    A dangerous slippery slope that has already been crossed is that of police officers being trained to regard the average citizen as the “enemy”.
    Every military in the world depersonalizes (dehumanizes) the “enemy”. In a war footing this is a necessary part of combat–getting ordinarily non-violent people to attack the enemy without regard to his humanity.
    Problems arise when these tactics are used by civilian police departments.
    Although military veterans can make excellent police officers, this “depersonalization” training that they received in the military is not reversed. In fact, in most police departments, this is seen as a “plus”. This results in unnecessary citizen “casualties” often with tragic results.
    Add to that, the “israeli model” of policing is the norm for almost every American police department, trainers being sent to israel to “see how its done”, practicing on Palestinians. True “peacekeeping” has been replaced with “command and control” where the citizenry is “commanded” (ordered) to perform (comply) for the enforcers. Not good…
    In fact, in America, “we are all Palestinians now”…

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    , @anonymous
  16. Probably a government sponsored work experience project for recently arrived immigrant with fake qualification documents that the maintenance company thought would be a positive for the bottom line.

    The workshop probably gave the employee the bolts, and as it was close to lunch time threw half of them out.

  17. It’s call “The Competency Crisis.”

    The biggest competency crisis is in the boardrooms which, despite being largely won by White males, are filled with pusillanimous goobers more concerned with keeping their fat pay packets by embracing the ESG and DIE agendas rather than calling BS.

    • Replies: @Supply and Demand
  18. Hiring browns is not enough. We must make sure lower IQs and mentally handicapped are not discriminated against within each ethnic group, including Whites. MLK had a dream about contents of character trumping skin colour. When he said good contents of character he didn’t mean competence or intelligence, he meant innocence from any form of intellectual pride, and an intellect keeping content staying in the lower mean so as to mix with the new American normal. He knew damn well that Blackness and IQ were negatively correlated, he knew damn well that selecting people for IQ or competence would reestablish harsher discrimination than ever than selecting them for the very degree of skin paleness, he knew damn well the only educated whites he could have on his side were the low IQ social scientists training for jobs in advertising and propaganda, and that STEM departments were fuller of anti-Black racists than any KKK agency. When MLK meant skin colour he meant IQ, and when he meant good contents of character he meant accepting group-think without asking any questions.

  19. Magic Soil cultists are just as dangerous as Jonestown true believers and the Kool-Aid will be mandatory as part of the New Civility, comrade.
    Rubes out in the hinterlands sabotage the golden Benetton rainbow shopper’s utopia just by existing and they won’t be invited on the DEI planes which is a good thing.
    Have you seen the Virgin airlines ad with fabulous Rupual squad of stewardesses and captain Rastus?
    Look for it if you need to laugh out loud.

  20. Looger says:

    Incompetent air crews and electric cars are the same story: keep us in cities unable to travel.

    If I were a billionaire I’d invest in boat travel. So fucking what if it takes a few days. Use fucking sailboats, solar power (not solar electric but SOLAR POWER as in sunlight heats water pipes that run a boiler), use anything but hydrocarbons for now to keep the fucking parasites off.

    Build huge, wide ships that CANNOT go through canals. This is for trans-Atlantic, trans-Pacific trips. No sight-seeing. No “cruise” amenities. Catamaran-style, double hull with a large overdeck in-between, put lawnchairs and a bar on it and some pools and let people hang out up there if they want – or they can go to their ultra-simple rooms with private bathrooms.

    Economize, make simple, and do it CHEAPLY.

    Air travel is not looking good in the near future.

    • Agree: HdC
    • Replies: @Plume
  21. Nacht says:

    If it’s a Boeing,
    I’m not going.

  22. Rich says:

    The problem is, the incompetence is scattered everywhere, from the streetsweeper to the engineer. Even if you have competent Whites or Hispanics on the job, they get tired of carrying the load, and stop working as hard. If you’re a competent engineer or mechanic, you’ll be able to write your own ticket. Anyone who’s ever spent time in a 3rd world country knows how this story ends.

  23. @purrturbed

    Pathocracy / ponerocracy pertains to the character of the elites. My succession of stages pertains to the organisation of society. The abolition of meritocracy leads to system failure regardless of the character of the elites.

    • Replies: @purrturbed
  24. Pythas says:
    @anonymous

    No we will turn them into smoking ashes soom enough..

  25. @anarchyst

    A dangerous slippery slope that has already been crossed is that of…

    this one:

    my partner

    Whatever happened to “wife”? Standards begin at home.

    • Agree: anarchyst
    • Thanks: Excelsior!
  26. @James Of Africa

    Only a confirmed racist would complain about a wing falling off the plane.

  27. @Passing by

    It isn’t just the elites, but even if one wants to make that case that it is, the societal systems are organized so that dark triad varieties of people rise to the top, systematically and largely without fail, by design. Everything else tends to fall into (mis)place from there. But it’s also management derailment 101 on a more localized level, for example: https://books.google.com/books?id=ChHHmryK7fgC&pg=PA22 (with or without bringing “elites” into the equation)

    • Replies: @Drapetomaniac
  28. @usNthem

    Makes me want to buy AMTRAK stock.

    I’ll never get on a plane again.

  29. Wokechoke says:
    @Hamsap Lo

    Some of the repairs on fighter jets can get Nigger Rigged. Well no they get McGyvered. Not good on a passenger jet taking off from Heathrow though.

    • Replies: @Joe Paluka
  30. @usNthem

    also note that the current CEO of United Airlines is a

    flaming tranny.

    • Replies: @anonymous
  31. Anonymous[318] • Disclaimer says:

    Americans are now just beginning to enjoy the fruits of Sikh immigration which Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand were privileged to experience first. In my area, there’s a plague of Sikh females who infest my local hospital and doctor’s offices. Inefficiency and incompetence is their specialty, don’t expect vital medical records to be sent on to doctors after a test, you must babysit them at every turn. If the medical clerical staff are this bad, I can’t imagine how bad Sikh doctors are. When I see the name Singh anywhere, I just expect incompetence and avoid them like the plague if I can.

    • Agree: anonymouseperson
    • Thanks: Dragoslav
    • Replies: @Altai3
  32. @Wokechoke

    “Some of the repairs on fighter jets can get Nigger Rigged. Well no they get McGyvered.”

    In this case, Lamont MacGyver in this case instead of Angus MacGyver.

  33. Anonymous[245] • Disclaimer says:
    @James Of Africa

    Would you shut up about missing bolts if we offered you a discount? Alternatively, a competency fee may be charged if you insist on booking a flight on a plane with our famous full bolt feature.

    “Look, mate, will you stop moaning about the bolts missing from the left wing? We will seat you on the right side of the aircraft where you’ll be perfectly safe.”

  34. @Hamsap Lo

    “No bolts on the wing” in the heading should read “bolts on the wing were missing.”

    Those were screws used to metal skin to the airplane superstructure or frame.

    • Replies: @Avery
    , @Brad Anbro
  35. Anonymous[104] • Disclaimer says:
    @American Citizen

    Makes me want to buy AMTRAK stock.

    I’ll never get on a plane again.

    You probably won’t board another train again when you see the sort who patronise Amtrak.

  36. Biff says:

    Just glue some screw heads in those holes and we’ll be fine.

  37. Alden says:

    You forgot about the race traitor president John Kennedy’s March 6 1861 EO 10925 mandating hiring negros in every federal agency federal contractor and every state and local government agency that received federal money. About 7 weeks after his inauguration

    Brainwashed zombie men of Unz so ignorant they don’t know how anti White the Kennedys were.

    In the majority of states women could vote before 1919. Again you’re so ignorant you don’t know that

    This cunt is anti affirmative action. And this extremely well informed cunt knows that both John and Robert Kennedy were affirmative action activists from the day John Kennedy became president. Unlike the ignorant men of Unz who know nothing of John and Robert Kennedy’s affirmative action war against White men.

    1968 affirmative action law passed by 435 senators and congress critters. Everyone a White man but for about 12 women and black men congress critters. Griggs vs Duke power abd Kaiser vs Weber both cases the White men of the Supreme Court voted to deny jobs education contracts and even business licenses to White men.

    The ignorant men of Unz don’t know this, But this extremely well informed cunt knows this.

    It’s difficult to be pro White after reading the ignorance posted by men of Unz like you, anonymous.

    BTW White men, not White women rejecting Trump for Biden is what won the 2022 election for Biden.

    • Replies: @Wokechoke
    , @Truth
    , @anonymous
  38. Avery says:
    @Joe Paluka

    somewhat later in the story there is this line:

    [The team that conducted the inspections found the tops of four out of the 119 fasteners on the wing panel were missing, according to Virgin Atlantic.]

    Looks like the screws were overtightened and the screw heads sheared off.
    Sloppy workmanship.
    One has to wonder what other non-visible fasteners have not been tightened to spec, and are overstressed: ready to shear off when conditons are right.

    • Agree: Gordo, Sam Hildebrand
    • Thanks: Liza
    • Replies: @Beavertales
  39. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mind-control-secret-british-government-blueprints-shaping-post-terror-planning

    Within hours of an incident, campaigns are swiftly organised, with I “heart” posters designed and distributed according to the location of the attack. Plans are also drawn up for people to hand out flowers at the scene of the crime, in apparently unprompted gestures of love and support.
    The purpose of the operations, according to a number of people involved in their creation who spoke to MEE, is to shape public responses, encouraging individuals to focus on empathy for the victims and a sense of unity with strangers, rather than reacting with violence and anger.

  40. Anon[120] • Disclaimer says:

    Competence is competence. Any other consideration must lower competence. Politically motivated appointments are likely to introduce a good deal of incompetence if only because satisfying the appointment conditions may require appointing very incompetent people.

    I don’t see this as a racial question per se though. I suspect that randomizing selection over all applicants would also introduce into the labor force some very incompetent people. It is unfortunate that you choose to discuss this primarily in racial terms. If standards are not met whoever is appointed may not meet the standards. As a practical matter lowering standards to meet racial quotas will obviously reduce standards, period. It does not mean there are no competent people of any given race.

    Everyone wishes to win so lowering standards to permit the employment of incompetents is a time honored way to advance the cause of people you favor. There is nothing inherently racial in this. Any criteria other than competence will have a similar effect. Competence must always be the first criterion if the integrity of the system is to be maintained.

    Obviously the integrity of the interlocking systems described above is currently of no serious concern. Undermining sensible arrangements is generally of little concern to ambitious or meretricious politicians. They always expect prevailing conditions will last their time. In the meantime there is power to grabbed and money to be made.

  41. @Avery

    Four bolts in a row with the heads sheared off suggests, in my experience, that someone used an impact wrench, and the stainless steel beveled heads of the screws failed because of over torque.

    A corrective work order should have been raised with a ‘high’ priority, but someone ordered the plane into revenue service because they believed it was safe to fly until the next scheduled maintenance.

  42. Plume says:
    @anonymous

    No, smart white men simply need to be cool, proud, courageous and fight this—as “ever”.

    “In the end, there were always a few knights left to save civilization”—Oswald Spengler

  43. SafeNow says:

    “You’ve got ME?
    Who’s got YOU?”

  44. However, both Virgin Atlantic and Airbus, the airplane manufacturer, said that no passengers were at risk. Each of the wing panels on an Airbus A330 has 119 fasteners, so the fact that only four were missing did not impact ”the structural integrity or load capability of the wing, and the aircraft was safe to operate,’‘ according to Airbus’s local chief wing Engineer.

    In the same general time frame, a Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 found itself short of a nose wheel while taxiing before takeoff at Atlanta and “[the wheel] rolled down the hill,” according to an FAA preliminary report. Calm down. A B-757 has 10 wheels / tires and only uses them for a small fraction of a flight, namely taxi / takeoff and landing / taxi. Minus one is no big deal when there are nine others; even the nose wheel assembly includes a second wheel. (/sarc)

    Seriously: accidents can never be entirely eliminated, but the procedures adopted by airlines and national aviation authorities have been effective in reducing them to a residual minimum. The price of maintaining the excellent commercial aviation safety record is taking every accident very seriously and tolerating no deviation from best practices.

  45. Plume says:
    @Truth

    There are the equipment issues and the maintenance issues, and the lack of qualified staff to oversee these things down to the proper detail

  46. Plume says:
    @Looger

    I agree with this, and was thinking the same just recently

  47. @American Citizen

    Makes me want to buy AMTRAK stock.

    You can’t. Amtrak is not a publicly traded corporation, but an awkward government / private hybrid that always loses money. Despite endless management claims it will be self-supporting any year now, that never happens. Amtrak is the alcoholic bar customer with a fund of hard-luck stories. Be glad it’s unavailable for your investment.

  48. Gordo says:

    Four in a row is rather more dangerous than four randomly distributed, as any fool know.

  49. Wokechoke says:
    @Alden

    Could go back to Lincoln of course.

  50. DogZ says:

    As a former aircraft mechanic I know for a fact that four consecutive missing fasteners is a big fat NO GO! Fwd of intake zero fasteners can be missing. Aft of the intake you can be missing a faster or two but not consecutively. That’s how panels peel up in flight.

    • Thanks: SafeNow
  51. Wokechoke says:

    I don’t know if there really is a competency crisis if you have mere hobbyists like this guy

    Video Link

    Interesting to see how improvised all this skill ends up being.

    • Replies: @QCIC
    , @Looger
  52. @The Alarmist

    DEI agendas are good because they impoverish white people.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    , @The Alarmist
  53. Altai3 says:
    @Anonymous

    Sikhs are also fetishised as not just brown people but brown people in suits who also wear bright turbans. We’re “enriched” by this culturally apparently despite the fact that the people who like the pretty fashion don’t know or want to know anything about Sikhism itself.

    Video Link

    See here where the CBC went crazy when a guy was hired to be a commentator for NHL games on Canadian TV, based, one can only assume, on the premise that he was Sikh and wore a turban. (Imagine if he didn’t have the colourful turban, he’d just be some boring Indian guy, they aren’t sexy or interesting. Yeah, we’d call any Western born person with Western religious background wearing some giant symbol of their faith a religious extremist but Sikhs don’t really take it serious? Right?) I’m sure some Anglo-Scot Canadian guy would have loved to have got the job but hey, he probably just played the game and has a deep cultural connection to it, does he have a turban?

  54. Truth says:
    @Alden

    LOL!

    Y’all MOUs turnin’ Aldey into Gloria Steinem,

  55. @Joe Paluka

    Quote: “Those were screws used to metal skin to the airplane superstructure or frame.”

    What exactly is the point that you are trying to make? In my 40+ years as an industrial electrician, I never once had to do a job over because it was not done correctly or did not meet the National Electrical Code guidelines. I routinely worked with 240 volts and 480 volts 3-phase power, which are lethal voltages.

    Airlines routinely outsource their maintenance work to job shops in the Far East, in order to save on paying union wages. It is all about the Almighty Dollar – customers be damned!

    Thank you.

    Brad Anbro
    retired United Auto Workers Journeyman Electrician

    • Replies: @Joe Paluka
  56. anonymous[310] • Disclaimer says:
    @Haxo Angmark

    Might be the only way for a White male to climb the corporate ladder these days. A whole bunch of females are kidding themselves about their actual competence. The Jew mentality is discriminate against others as a way to end discrimination.

  57. Anonymous[303] • Disclaimer says:
    @Supply and Demand

    They impoverish White males, and that’s the key. But we’ll use the CBDC to force White males to fight Israel’s wars of annihilation against unarmed civilians. White men better load up because you are the new Palestinians.

  58. Snopes recently fact checked the NY Post article about the FAA’s DIE policies by saying “it’s been happening for longer than implied by Musk and others”.

    https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/01/15/faa-dei-initiatives/

    FAA Policy About Hiring People with Intellectual Disabilities Has Existed for Over a Decade

    Posts by Elon Musk and others implied that a long-standing policy was the result of a recent emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

    Published Jan 15, 2024

    On Jan. 14, 2024, Fox News and the New York Post, among others, ran a story that not-so-subtly tried to link a Jan. 5 Alaska Airlines incident — in which a Boeing 737 Max 9 lost a plug door mid-flight — to an allegedly new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives:

    The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.
    “Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” the FAA’s website states. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.” […]

    These reports were heavily shared on social media, in part thanks to a post on X by Elon Musk:

    The cited FAA text is real, but the implication that the policy is new, or that it stems from efforts that began under U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and President Biden, was demonstrably false. It has been included on the FAA’s website since at least as early as February 2013. It was present during the entirety of the Trump administration, and it remains present at the time of this reporting.

    In response to their reporting, the FAA told Fox News that their hiring policies do not negate the need for candidates to meet rigorous qualifications, depending on position:

    The FAA employs tens of thousands of people for a wide range of positions, from administrative roles to oversight and execution of critical safety functions. Like many large employers, the agency proactively seeks qualified candidates from as many sources as possible, all of whom must meet rigorous qualifications that of course will vary by position.

    Media coverage provided no evidence linking any DEI initiative with the Alaska Airlines incident. On Jan. 11, 2024, the FAA announced it would launch an investigation to look into whether Boeing “failed to ensure completed products conformed to its approved design and were in a condition for safe operation in compliance with FAA regulations.”

    Alex Kasprak is an investigative journalist and science writer reporting on scientific misinformation, online fraud, and financial crime.

  59. anonymous[422] • Disclaimer says:
    @anarchyst

    It’s not cohen-cidental that our law enforcement officers are trained by shitraelis. When the Jews bark, your local finest will gun you down before you even open your door. The fact that around 1100-1200 Americans get killed every year (expect that figure to rise) by “law enforcement” is a red flag. With all of the non-lethal tools out there, US law enforcement shouldn’t be killing around 1200 people a year. The assholes are trained by the genociders in Israel to treat you like Palestinians. That’s why the police and military are your enemies: the former are a day late and a dollar short (but a few donuts over-stuffed) every time a real crime is committed, but they’re hot for shooting private civilians to keep the pork and free donuts rolling in.

    • Thanks: HdC
    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  60. anonymous[174] • Disclaimer says:
    @Alden

    White men responding to the whining of white females destroyed the ((west)). White women have more institutional power than ever before in history, and American civilization is declining by the day. They are the tumor that White men refused to do anything about, and now it’s too late for the ((west)).

  61. Magic Negro aeronautical engineer Jonterious Jackson PhD on why using fewer bolts in passenger jets helps airplanes fly;

    “Tha less bolts used on planes, tha lighta they is, the lighta they is, the betta they fly.”

    Dat theory wuz proposez by my black colleague Senator Ron Johnson PhD, who theorized dat “tha more peepooz dat go to Guam, Tha mo likely it gonna sink in tha ocean”.

    They needs ta follow tha science and not follow plane parts following down on earf.

    • Replies: @Truth
  62. Andreas says:

    In the 1970s, American car companies were in a precipitous decline from which they never regained their former reputations. I still won’t buy one. The driving motive went from quality, craftsmanship and innovation to pure profit, building cars with the cheapest materials possible and selling them to naive and trusting consumers. This business model gave rise to terms such as planned obsolescence as people watched their American built cars disintegrate after only a few years.

    During these times, the American steel and manufacturing industries were gutted and off-shored, also for profit. This is still one of the greatest betrayals of the American people by its government. Entire regions were turned into rust-belts where once proud and prosperous towns and communities with a purpose for being were reduced to cauldrons of alcoholism, domestic abuse, meth and opiate addition.

    These are but two prominent examples out of many that always gave me an extremely uneasy sense about the American government; that I would always have to watch my back, never take anything for granted, always have a plan B and some day be prepared to take matters into my own hands.

    The American government at no time in my life has ever given me the slightest bit of confidence.

  63. Truth says:
    @CelestiaQuesta

    OK Bro, you’ve been practicing up for a few years now. I still wouldn’t say that you were “good” or even “competent” but definitely e for effort.

    Anyway, I think it’s time to put all of your practice into practical use. Old Sport, it is not time for you to start using your honkebonics, not in a farcical manner, but as part of your everyday life, with your friends, co-workers and family.

    CQ, what I am saying is that it is high time for you to become Tha Cool Whyteboi (TM)

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wets9aoA7yc

    • Replies: @CelestiaQuesta
  64. @Passing by

    The point is,

    GO WOKE – GO BROKE

    They’ll never admit their DIE WOKE policies are absolute failures.

    They would rather have countless collateral damage on society than admit they literally F*****up.

    Or did they?

    Maybe it was all part of a plan of divide and conquer.

    • Replies: @Passing by
  65. @CelestiaQuesta

    The f*ck-up was too predictable and is too big to be a mere f*ck-up. Looks more like calculated demolition.

  66. @Altai3

    I’ve always avoided 7/11 stores because I could never understand what the dot cashier was saying. I always had to look at the LED display to know what amount I owed. And this is from someone speaks Ebonics fluently.

    The All American Dinner is long gone as well. What we have in replacement are Mexican, Chinese, Indian and Burger Joints that double as Negro Robbery Stands where while you’re eating, niggaz be cheating by stealing all yo shit.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/in-n-out-closing-oakland-rcna135361

    • Replies: @Adolf Smith
  67. @Truth

    Sup Troof, I’d be confused too by that Galvanizing question as it relates to playing wif my balls.

    How duz galvanizing wif my ball playing equate wif tha process of applying a protective zinc coating to steel or iron or preventing rust since the most common method is hot-dip galvanizing by which parts are coated by submerging in a bath of hot, molten zinc.

    Axe yo self, would you galvanize yo balls?

    • Replies: @Truth
  68. @Brad Anbro

    “What exactly is the point that you are trying to make? In my 40+ years as an industrial electrician, I never once had to do a job over because it was not done correctly or did not meet the National Electrical Code guidelines. I routinely worked with 240 volts and 480 volts 3-phase power, which are lethal voltages.”

    The point I was trying to made is exactly what I said.

    As for you being an industrial electrician, good for you, the electrical trade is a fine trade to be in. As for you not ever having to do any jobs over again due to it not being done correctly or violating the NEC guidelines, you were lucky. Usually however, electrical work being what it is, it doesn’t lend itself easily to mistakes, you only get one chance. Faulty workmanship usually ends up in arc flash or fire and parts such as transformers, motors and wiring need to be replaced.

    • Replies: @Brad Anbro
  69. @Supply and Demand

    DEI agendas are good because they impoverish white people.

    Not the ones who deserve to be impoverished, brutha.

  70. Protogonus says: • Website

    Notice the manufacturer’s line is planes don’t need the parts the designers called for anyway, since everyone knows planes are super-safe even when the doors blow off at 500 knots, etc. What, me worry? You can bet the USAF and its pilots disagree!

    The truth is no amount of screws will ever make flying safe. Flight itself (except for birds, who have no choice but to leap from the nest into the cruel world) was always a questionable idea that gets riskier every year. Plus, it is no longer necessary:

    https://www.academia.edu/112046050/Complaining_Notes_on_Flight_and_Flying

    Please note that to view the article, simply SCROLL DOWN; no sign-in is necessary. Thanks.

  71. Sulu says:
    @usNthem

    I was once on a flight from Atlanta on a Dash 8. The lone black stewardess informed us that no “electronical” equipment was to be used during the flight. I recall thinking that I have heard of electrical equipment and electronic equipment but I can’t recall “electronical” equipment. I was happy she was only a stewardess. Now they are flying the planes. God help us all.

    As an aside, when I enter a commercial flight I want to see a White male pilot of about 40 with a little grey at the temples and no glasses. His co-pilot should be the same but a few years younger. Anything less than that and you are putting your life at greater risk.

    Sulu

    • Agree: usNthem
  72. Rahan says:
    @Hamsap Lo

    We will get to the point where our machines and buildings are being redesigned on the fly to the level of the lowest competence in society.

    Classical Soviet tech wot won the war and maintained a stalemate in the cold war was this.

    Designed by very smart people to need the least possible maintenance in the field and to be operated by malnourished peasants.

    Very likely today’s army crop in the US and the EU would do much better if given T-72 tanks, AK-47 rifles, MIG jets and so on.

    On civvie street, a TU-154 airliner and a Lada or Moskvich automobile would also be way easier to produce, maintain, and operate by a population with the IQ and motor skills of a 20th century Slavic peasant.

    The West no longer has the industrial smarts to shift to this type of tech, nor is it capable of admitting to the need of such a shift, nor does it have the humility to ask for assistance from the kings of such tech, such as Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran.

    Instead it will keep on trying to use more complex tech, designed to be used by an anthropological type that has been ethnically cleansed, within a system that has been dismantled.

    What will likely happen is that the imported dot indians will gradually make for the west their own versions of 1950s and 1960s Soviet tech, which will be presented as a new revolutionary way to save the planet and bring equity. “How needless technological complexity was rooted in colonial racist whiteness and what these brave companies are doing to change that. By Rachel Shekelberg and Ranjesh Gupta”

    And then the commie blocks, communal kitchens, and no private property, but in a futuristic and progressive sense, of course.

  73. Truth says:
    @CelestiaQuesta

    LOL, he meant galvanizing in the sense of combining elements into compound.

    But it’s funny, because I have always used the word in the general sense above, I knew it had something to do with metal, but I was not sure of the actual meaning of the word.

    • LOL: CelestiaQuesta
    • Replies: @CelestiaQuesta
  74. @Passing by

    The hunter-gatherer mind is not a technological mind but rather a social mind. Most liberals are of that persuasion – having the mind of the Eloi and the looks of the Morlocks.

    The settlement mind, and especially the freedom mind, are far more likely to be capable of the abstract logical thinking which creates and supports our technological world.

    • Replies: @Sulu
  75. @Priss Factor

    WTF does that have to do with the price of truffles in China?

  76. Munga Bulga [AKA "HeebHunter"] says:
    @Altai3

    Didn’t amerimutt and nigger-saxon glowniggers shill for these barbaric fuckers for the longest time?
    “Hurr durr sihks are not Indians they are based”

    Anyone who was on the chans remembers this.

    Oh well, negro-saxon, amerimutts, and kikes are not even humans anyway. They reap what they have sowed.

    Payback for 1919.
    Payback for 1945.
    Payback for 2022.
    And your countless crimes against humanity. The sooner you insects are fumigated, the better.

    • Replies: @Truth
    , @Boomthorkell
  77. @purrturbed

    The hunter-gatherer alpha male mindset rises to the top because that is exactly what it has been designed for over millions of years. It also is very successful at passing on those genes.

    Consider that they were NOT civilized and their presence in today’s world.

  78. yippie666 says:

    just a suggestion:

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  79. Truth says:
    @Munga Bulga

    Nigger-saxons, who is going to stand up for the race?

    • Replies: @Boomthorkell
  80. AceDeuce says:

    This time next year:

    Round-trip JFK-LAX: $655.

    Checked baggage fee: $30 surcharge.

    Aisle seat: $25 surcharge

    All aircraft panels fastened before flight: $100 surcharge.

    • Replies: @Etruscan Film Star
  81. @Truth

    Having purchased boxes of galvanized nails (for outdoor use to prevent rusting) I had a hunch what its meaning was. To be fair I did cheat and google its true definition.

    It’s was hilarious I must admit.

    Glad you saw the humor.

    Cheers old sport….

    • Thanks: Truth
  82. @AceDeuce

    All aircraft panels fastened before flight: $100 surcharge.

    Fully automated engine rotation (the NoYouTurn package): why spend all those hours of your flight straining on the treadmill to help keep those compressor blades whirling? For a small fee (US$40 per hour) a jet fuel system can relieve your load!

    To sign up for this incredible DEAL, grab your flight attendant … uh, no, make that notify your flight attendant during passenger loading or at the first heavy turbulence. And don’t forget to compliment him on his makeup and hairstyle! It’ll be a moment neither of you will forget. And if you do forget, well then it won’t matter — there’ll be nothing to regret, know what we mean?

    Another service yours to enjoy, from Fly by Night Airways … where you Travel with the Stars.

    • LOL: Avery
  83. @CelestiaQuesta

    Nigga goss tuh git paid,doan he?

  84. QCIC says:
    @Wokechoke

    This Canadian guy is a professional jet engine technician with a general interest Youtube channel. That said there are lots of amateur turbine builders and tinkerers.

    On a related note, there is an interesting phenomena in the West where many people in the racing community spend a heck of a lot of time and money making high power precision machinery. This is a reflection of the super prosperous era we are in where this work is affordable. It also may be evidence of widespread dissatisfaction with easy, boring or otherwise unfulfilling jobs.

    • Replies: @Wokechoke
  85. Uh oh, Andrew Anglin’s out of business.

    Someone will make a Gab.ai version of Anglin.

    • Replies: @Wokechoke
    , @anarchyst
  86. Jimmmm says:

    On the other hand, I’m a caucasian, middle-aged male, and when I was in the workforce I’m sorry to say I was incompetent on a regular basis. (Better for everyone that I’m retired now…)

  87. Sulu says:
    @Drapetomaniac

    Most liberals are of that persuasion – having the mind of the Eloi and the looks of the Morlocks.

    That’s fucking hilarious. Mostly because it’s true. Most liberal women are so hideously ugly they would induce erectile dysfunction in an iron bar. Show me a fat bitch with a face resembling a ruptured pig rectum and I’ll show you a liberal.

    Sulu

    • Agree: Drapetomaniac
  88. If they advertised these problems they can claim that it saves money to lower safety standards to a tolerable degree.These savings get passed on to the consumer, at the price of a disclaimer, no flight insurance.
    I’m beginning to think like Schwab, I imagine Diverse Airlines won’t have clearance to fly over his neck of the woods.

    Maybe they allow certain infrastructure to collapse to appease the weather.

  89. Wokechoke says:
    @QCIC

    The Sabre engine is obviously a mere hobby though. The capital he has invested rebuilding is startling.

  90. Wokechoke says:
    @Priss Factor

    Is this the AI where you ask Gab to pretend to be Hitler? How would Hitler justify this? Etc.

  91. If the plane or the parts for it were manufactured in china that would explain what’s going wrong.

    • Replies: @Etruscan Film Star
  92. Anglin is aware that NDTV, the site he’s quoting, is an Indian, ie brown, new outlet?

  93. Eric135 says:

    Rivets, not screws or bolts, should be used on aircraft wings. In this case, the only justification I can see for using screws would be repeated removal and reinstallation of that section of the wing.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  94. @anonymous

    That’s right. I have mentioned this before, with the added comment that many countries have hired Israeli security firms, not only for personnel training, but technology to spy and pry on the citizens’ privacy. I saw them in Panama 15 years ago. The FBI, aped by the local yokel police forces have subsumed and adopted these IDF tactics wholesale and in whole. Tikkun ulam.

    Notably, the Knesset on the Potomac has remained silent and compliant, with Senators doing spot videos fielding “tough” questions to the parade of DEI, quota, deliberate incompetents for Grubmint positions. Want a good laugh? Googie some of these videos and see what these nominees say and what they are.

    Summarily, what the Frankfurt School’s goal-which has been realized-is to invert society in that the least in all categories and talents ends up on the top.

    Video Link

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    Video Link

  95. @Eric135

    American airplanes are approaching junk status, and falling further behind constantly. Meanwhile, Russia has developed the finest airline airplanes in the World, and in a stupendously exclusive and exemplary manner, all components have been sourced and manufactured in Russia, not 50 different countries.

    If you look at any Russian production facility, you see people totally focused on their job. Full attention. Looking at a Boeing facility, I see DEI in action, the movement and motion of the workforce is sporadic, at varying speeds, unsure movements. In short, like a trip to the Post Office.

    Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street Kosher Board members and owners of large blocks of stock, squeezing every penny out of the enterprise, which always means starting with “increasing productivity”, where the labor force is induced to work much faster for lower wages, are not in actually or spirit a part of Russian industry.

    The balance of quality control, productivity and quality assurance are achieved with workers proceeding at a constant rate, thinking ahead, and being focused. And that’s what you see in Russia.

    • Thanks: AceDeuce, Eric135
  96. Looger says:
    @Wokechoke

    I don’t know if there really is a competency crisis if you have mere hobbyists like this guy

    “Crisis” is maybe a step too far but there has been over time quite a drop in expertise for these guys.

    One of the land-speed cars (Breedlove’s?) used a J79 engine from an old F-104 Starfighter (also the F-4 Phantom engine?) and the expert they needed to machine certain parts for it ended up being a compressor guy in (of all places) Fort St. John British Columbia.

    I worked with a machinist named Andy who worked at that shop, had a discovery channel tv episode on VHS about it. Used to golf with Andy but he moved away (high-end machinists are quietly indispensable).

    What I don’t get is how THAT guy up north ended up being THE expert, maybe because it was used on the ground and not in the sky, and that compressors and jet engines are similar technology? Or slower airspeed?

    Did all the J79 techs who worked on aircraft carriers in the Vietnam era pass away / retire etc.?

    There has definitely been a receeding retention of knowledge for the existing technology, to say nothing of the replacement stuff that should be WAY BETTER by now.

    [MORE]

    Speaking of machinists when I showed up to my first day of work, Jan 2004 at a sawmill welding shop, there was a McLaren F-1 in the parking lot. I thought “nice replica, can’t even see the fiero” and put it out of my mind. It was a machinist named Glen who’d worked there for 20 years, and bought a wrecked mclaren in vancouver. He had to receive permission from the factory to rebuild.

    One day the young guys had their music too loud and Glen asked them twice to turn it down (guy’s practically a mute). Then he packed his tools and left.

    Machinists!

  97. @Sulu

    That’s fucking hilarious. Mostly because it’s true. Most liberal women are so hideously ugly they would induce erectile dysfunction in an iron bar. Show me a fat bitch with a face resembling a ruptured pig rectum and I’ll show you a liberal.

    That’s fucking hilarious. Literally LOL.

    • Agree: Drapetomaniac
    • Thanks: Sulu
  98. @Fluffy Pancake

    If the plane or the parts for it were manufactured in china that would explain what’s going wrong.

    No, they were made in Australia. Sometimes the maintenance technicians forget they have to be installed upside down.

    • Replies: @Fluffy Pancake
  99. anarchyst says:
    @Priss Factor

    ChatGPT and AI are about to make mincemeat out of the so-called “holocaust” fable.
    When claims are entered concerning “death camp processes (supposed gassings)” and the “numbers” of people supposedly cremated, both ChatGPT and AI correctly state that if the numbers are to be taken as fact, both processes would have been running into the 1950s.
    This in itself, along with categorizing the amount of time it takes extermination processes to take place on an industrial scale proves that the so-called “holocaust” is indeed “the grift (hoax) of the twentieth century”.

  100. @Munga Bulga

    Lol, “When the Whites are Dead and filled with Blacks and Browns, the Jews will finally lose!”

    What about Strelkov and the Turks, you Kike-lover-by-proxy?

  101. @Etruscan Film Star

    There is a serious lack of trees there.

    • Replies: @Etruscan Film Star
  102. @Truth

    Take a noose and end it, Brownoid. One less Fed. One less Bugger.

    • Replies: @Truth
  103. @Fluffy Pancake

    Thanks for the delightful video. Koalas are cute and funny!

    Tell me — if you are Australian — do these delightful creatures hang out in Aussie residential neighborhoods, like cats and dogs? Or do you have to go out in the countryside to see them?

    I’d sure prefer to share territory with koalas rather than alligators, who sometimes wander into Florida suburbs.

    • Replies: @Fluffy Pancake
  104. @Etruscan Film Star

    They are never seen in any major city and you will rarely see them in the bush if ever. I’ve only seen them in the zoo.

  105. Jett Rucker says: • Website

    If 4 missing screws are OK (I’m sure they are), how many would be dangerous? 20? 30? Will anybody be counting these? At SOME number, the part will blow/fall off. Then what? And what about all those other parts (the ones passengers can’t see)?
    4 is NOT OK – visible or otherwise.

  106. Truth says:
    @Boomthorkell

    HeebHunter called you a Nigger-Saxon, not me!

    Direct comments at him!

    • Replies: @Boomthorkell
  107. @Joe Paluka

    Joe,

    Apparently you know very little about actual electrical work. First of all, I was not “lucky” in my 40+ years of doing SKILLED electrical work. I underwent on-the-job training, as well as having attended some schooling in the work.

    In once instance, I was very fortunate when I had placed my paws inside the electrical controls of an overhead hoist that was operated on 480 volts. I found out very quickly that the power was still on and that was a somewhat painful experience, to say the least!

    Arc flash can happen to equipment that is not being serviced, although very rare. Usually it is caused by someone grounding a live terminal, especially on the voltages higher than 480 volts.

    I would not characterize electrical work as “being what it is” – jobs can either be done correctly or they can be done in an incorrect (and unsafe) manner. There are “right” and “wrong” ways of even doing the simplest things, such as installing wire nuts and crimping on wire terminals. When done incorrectly, the result can be an overheated connection and a possible fire.

    After being laid off from my first electrician’s job that I had held for 19 years, I got a job at a factory that assembled truck frames. They had two completely automated assembly lines and a third that was partially automated, all using Allen-Bradley programmable logic controllers (PLCs), which are small industrial computers used for control purposes.

    One night, a I got called to a fixture that pierced the side rails for the frames. The fixture used two operators and a “light curtain” had gone bad. There was no new one in stock with which to replace it, so I had to make an “edit” to the PLC program (modify the program) to allow the fixture to be operated without the use of a working light curtain system.

    I was working third shift and had never done an edit before. I called up the head electrician and woke him up, explaining that I needed help. While on the phone, he walked me through the process of making the edit and told me to check out the operation of the fixture, to make sure that safety was NOT compromised.

    The fixture had been designed so that each operator had to press their two palm button switches to initiate the cycle and then could walk away from the palm buttons. But they had to stay out of the beams of the light curtains, or the cycle would stop. I modified the PLC program so that the one operator had to keep his palm buttons pushed continuously, otherwise the cycle would stop.

    That was a “big deal” for me, as it involved making a change to a safety aspect of the operation. I am very proud of the fact that in all my electrical work, I have never compromised anything that was safety related and had always done my work in the safest manner possible, avoiding ANY dangerous or life-threatening “short cuts.”

    Thank you.

    • Thanks: anarchyst
    • Replies: @Joe Paluka
    , @Looger
  108. @Truth

    Take a shotgun and screen your brain with it, Shitskin. You desire my people’s death and I return the favor to you, the individual.

    • Replies: @Truth
  109. Truth says:
    @Boomthorkell

    Way to put that 156 on the Verbal SAT to use, Boomhauer.

    • Replies: @Boomthorkell
  110. @Brad Anbro

    “Apparently you know very little about actual electrical work. First of all, I was not “lucky” in my 40+ years of doing SKILLED electrical work. I underwent on-the-job training, as well as having attended some schooling in the work.”

    No need to be hostile, I wasn’t taking a shot at you. Sounds like you had a long, rewarding career. Right now I’m mentoring a young guy who’s in his second year apprenticeship. He finds it tough going and has thought of quitting a couple of times. I keep on telling him to tough it out and that once he completes his apprenticeship he has career for life.

  111. Joe, I am not trying to be hostile at you; I am hostile towards “my” country, the United States and what it has devolved into. I worked my entire adult life in the Rockford, IL (90 miles west of Chicago) area. Thirty years ago, I could go into any factory in the area and get a job as an electrician.

    At last count, there are over 37 concerns in the Rockford area that are GONE or are a small shadow of their former selves. Rockford has become an industrial ghost town and no one there seems to give a damn about it. All they care about is landing a new casino, which, into someone’s private hands, the profits will go, at the expense of those who can least afford to lose the money.

    I have nothing but CONTEMPT for both political parties and every Representative and Senator now in office. I believe that they commit treason on a daily basis and should be tried, found guilty and jailed.

    I hold out absolutely no hope for the future of my country. I believe that it is too far gone to save and that the only thing which would effect meaningful change would be a revolution. But the problem with that scenario is that the resulting government would be as bad, or worse, than what we have now.

    Thank you.

  112. Looger says:
    @Brad Anbro

    To let you know where I’m coming from here: Started my career in electronics engineering (board design, acceptance testing, prototyping, sourcing), drifted over to PLCs in the sawmill industry for the 2000s.

    The fixture had been designed so that each operator had to press their two palm button switches to initiate the cycle and then could walk away from the palm buttons. But they had to stay out of the beams of the light curtains, or the cycle would stop. I modified the PLC program so that the one operator had to keep his palm buttons pushed continuously, otherwise the cycle would stop.

    All the sawmill equipment that we sold has to “Fail safe” whether the safety devices were light curtains, e-stops, etc. they all were hard-wired through a 120V “control power” which ran the contactors for the 480V or 600V supply.

    Mostly what I’m familiar with was our lumber-wrap dispenser, a dangerous machine.

    While commissioning this stuff we were asked by foremen for some “workarounds” all the time but the best we could do was give them “special codes” such as hitting an operator button five times to increase the length of a certain wrap by one inch, etc. – but mostly what they asked for was safety workarounds!

    That was a “big deal” for me, as it involved making a change to a safety aspect of the operation. I am very proud of the fact that in all my electrical work, I have never compromised anything that was safety related and had always done my work in the safest manner possible, avoiding ANY dangerous or life-threatening “short cuts.”

    Kudos to you for this. Ideally all equipment in plants / production facilities should be designed like this. Unfortunately sawmills are dangerous places and the operators themselves are the source of most trouble!

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    In 2003 we got investigated by WCB because our lumber wrap machine was cutting off too many fingers. It fed down from above, a 2nd story deck where the rolls were on spindles where they could be installed with zoom booms or overhead crane (very heavy rolls). Static was a problem but maintenance was supposed to stay ahead of this with “socks” that grounded the wrap. The problem was that a pneumatic clamp grabbed the wrap before cutting it with a 5HP motor that ran a blade along a chain. Workers were constantly sticking their hands in to smooth out the wrap.

    Instead of changing our program WCB had us raise the clamp mechanism to 92.5″, unfortunately the crews then started standing on the conveyor so they could reach the clamps and stick their fingers in. Or sometimes they fell off the conveyor when it would inch forward (as the wrap unrolled).

    I wish I could be as proud of our wrap machines but I would train crews (or the lead hands) and I constantly told them “do not stick your fingers in” yet they always did.

    Light curtains would not have been ideal, so much material would be hanging around / stuck to the underside of these dispensers.

    Nowadays that same company does burner systems which so far as I’ve heard have claimed zero fingers. Thankfully.

  113. @Sulu

    LOL! Beauty can be utility and useful.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mt1MBslpxXw

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aNRNF4LDios

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DLlUWFpqbmQ

    There is a world out there, guys. Don’t settle for moldy tacos. If you cannot compare your to-be-wife to a reliable engine or power unit, then back out booga loo.

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