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| Category | September 2020 | September 2021 | September 2022 | September 2023 | % Change | Employment % |
| Black Employees | 397,587 | 398,560 | 397,896 | 416,517 | 4.76% | 18.44% |
| Asian | 137,980 | 142,274 | 146,017 | 153,594 | 11.32% | 6.80% |
| Hispanic | 204,695 | 208,888 | 212,599 | 228,189 | 11.48% | 10.10% |
| Caucasian | 1,345,534 | 1,340,870 | 1,319,676 | 1,344,813 | -0.05% | 59.54% |
| Female | 961,846 | 973, 604 | 980,508 | 1,034,736 | 7.58% | 45.81% |
| Male | 1,219,204 | 1,217,393 | 1,199,783 | 1,224,083 | 0.40% | 54.19% |
| All Employment | 2,181,106 | 2,191,011 | 2,180,296 | 2,258,821 | 3.56% | 100% |
Source: Office of Personnel Management
From FedSmith:
Biden Racial Equity Policies Working: Minority Groups Growing in Federal Workforce
The Biden administration has focused on racial equity. Recent data indicate the policies are working as minorities in the federal workforce increase and whites decrease.
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OT — Steve, have you seen this?
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/was-nuland-fired-for-her-role-in-the-ukraine-debacle/
Birth of a Nation was too kind.
We are in some oddball zone where things that were comedy in the 1970's and 80's are now deadly serious policy and social norms.
"The Jerk" where it's funny Steve Martin thinks he was going to turn black when he grew up? Then it was funny because it's a ridiculous idea. Now you can pick your race.
"Tootsie" where Dustin Hoffman pretends to be a woman for career and romance purposes, and of course it's humor? Now we have uniformed transvestites in the military, and your taxes pay for it.
How much of this is the workforce, and how much the warm-bodyforce? Who’s pulling the wagon? Which of these jobs are real?
“Asians” and “Hispanics” are very broad categories as well. Koreans and Philippines and Gujaratis, Dominicans and Guatemalans and Spaniards. Maybe not the Spaniards from Iberia, but certainly the Spaniards from Mexico and Peru and the Southern Cone.
As usual, probably not many.
“racial equity” = racial discrimination = things that are illegal
but not when the “good” people do it.
Whites went from 1,345,534 to 1,344,813 which is a “-0.05%” change.
But as a percentage of all employees whites went from 61.69% to 59.59% which is a drop of 2.1% in 3 years or 0.7% per year.
Great news for all of the Biden voters here.
“Workforce”???precious little work being done at most gov’t jobs—just visit one sometime—jokes about the DMV and Social Security just write themselves.
Before COVID my local MVC office used to have a policy where they didn't want you waiting inside their offices before you conducted your business. Therefore, you would have to wait in line outside before you could talk to the ironically named concierge who would make sure your paperwork was in order before you could take your number and sit in the waiting room before you could talk to the clerk who could actually process your paperwork. It's really like they went out of their way to make your life difficult.Replies: @Seneca44
As a federal government accounting worker for the DoD for forty years I see this up close. It is being helped along by mostly White Boomers all retiring. It would be difficult to replace them with an equal number of younger Whites just because of demographic changes in the younger population.
Also helping is the spreading Wokeism in the federal government which is encouraging the stampede of Whites for the exit. I switched out of plans for a journalism career over to accounting because of a refreshing lack of political correctness in accounting. This is no longer true. In recent years I have gone to speeches by upper management where I was told diversity is our strength, the Covid vaccines they were mandating would stop the spread of the disease and that we were helping the Ukraine in fighting for freedom and democracy.
The newly hired minorities think they are lucky but it is really akin to getting hired on to the crew right before the last voyage of the Titanic. The federal government is now running a trillion dollar deficit every hundred days. There will be major contractions in the federal workforce in future years as the fiscal crisis deepens.
-RoosterReplies: @Sick n' Tired, @SFG
For example, I live in a city where the older employees are overwhelmingly white, but young people fresh out of high school or college are about a 50:50 mix of white: non-white. So younger workers tend to be less white on the average than their elders.
Also, government work has often been skewed towards non-white workers. The Post Office was seen as a way for African Americans and immigrants to get a stable job. And not just the Post Office. Quite a few of the older non-white workers I know are government employees of some sort.
Given that, the most remarkable thing about these statistics is that the number and percentages of white workers isn’t falling faster.Replies: @Travis
The white-white ("non-Hispanic" white) population peaked sometime probably in the late 00s and has been slipping away--in absolute decline--since. Asians have even lower fertility but have the highest immigration rate per citizen. Blacks and even now Hispanics have sub-replacement TFR but blacks are just holding population share, and of course Hispanics are exploding.
If anything, I would have thought the white share would be dropping even more dramatically, as the huge late Boomer cohorts retire out.
You may be correct there will be significant federal layoffs coming. There will be some kind of bending down of the current projections which are pretty bad as Boomer retirements finish. But that's a question of politics--higher taxes, cuts here or there, or just hunting down us boomers and killing us off?
But again, I caution Steve's readers who believe some sort of fiscal crisis is going to just finish off the regime and bring on the crisis that is going to save us ... that is not what is going to happen.
Bet on high inflation, higher taxes, lower standard of living a lot of painful muddling through like a Latin American nation ... which is what we increasingly are.Replies: @Anonymous
Consider, say, Argentina over the sixty years. Has the number of government employees actually declined -- or has inflation merely become the norm?
What about LGBTQ employees? Is Biden hiring them also? Do they get hiring preferences?
“Competency crisis” is coming along as planned….
Don’t forget the skyrocketing increase in puppet employment,, as Elmo and Cookie Monster sadly have become confirmed Biden shills
I wonder if this includes the USPS, which is kind of quasi-federal
Can’t tell if you are joking or not. White Federal employment fell by 0.05% in 3 years, so a 1% reduction would take 60 years and, at this rate, the last white Federal employee will retire 6,000 years from now, in the year 8024. Chances are, Biden will be out of office by then.
Also helping is the spreading Wokeism in the federal government which is encouraging the stampede of Whites for the exit. I switched out of plans for a journalism career over to accounting because of a refreshing lack of political correctness in accounting. This is no longer true. In recent years I have gone to speeches by upper management where I was told diversity is our strength, the Covid vaccines they were mandating would stop the spread of the disease and that we were helping the Ukraine in fighting for freedom and democracy.
The newly hired minorities think they are lucky but it is really akin to getting hired on to the crew right before the last voyage of the Titanic. The federal government is now running a trillion dollar deficit every hundred days. There will be major contractions in the federal workforce in future years as the fiscal crisis deepens.Replies: @Anon, @Paleo Liberal, @AnotherDad, @AnotherDad, @Colin Wright
What gets me is all the speeches and keveching by higher-ups in management about diversity in the workforce. What the hell does diversity have to do with accounting?
-Rooster
O/T. News item in today’s War Street Journal business section. The National Transportation Safety Board is frustrated because Boeing is stonewalling the production of the names of the mechanics who worked on the faulty reinstallation of the door plug that flew away. Boeing says the documents do not exist, but I have watched all of the air-disaster-investigation programs, I love these, of course, and such records always exist. There were security cameras recording the mechanics’ work, but these automatically erase themselves after…30 days! …plenty of time. My money is on the scenario in which it was an affirmative-action employee who messed up. It’s really brazenly in your face to say there are no records and golly no tapes. Thus is new. The usual procedure in the case of the negligent minority employee or military serviceman is to say who messed-up, but place all the blame on the whites who did the training and the supervision.
I know this because I have worked in refineries, airports, shipping ports, military bases, and various federal buildings where security clearances & background checks are required, and need to be passed before you can even set foot on the property.
However, in this case, the door plug was originally installed in KS but when it got to Washington, there was some sort of repair that needed to be done on the rivets of the door plug. This apparently happened a lot - there were Spirit employees stationed in Washington to do this sort of rework because the output of the Spirit plant was often less than perfect and would get picked up by Boeing inspectors when the fuselage arrived in Renton and then the Spirit employees would fix the defect because Spirit is supposed to deliver a non-defective fuselage.
For this repair it was not necessary to REMOVE the door from the plane. You would loosen the bolts and then the door would tilt outward on its hinges at the bottom but it would remain mounted to the plane - the hinges are sort of like vertical posts that fit into sockets in the door so to remove the door you would have to not only unbolt it but lift it up vertically maybe a foot to get it off the hinge posts. The missing bolts don't actually hold the door on, they just stop you from lifting the door off of its posts (this is why the plane was able to fly a long time before the door fell off). Technically the door was not considered REMOVED since it was still mounted to and never left the hinge posts. (Why did they remove the bolts then? IDK - maybe they had to lift the door part way up the rails in order to work on it at the bottom.) This is considered as opening and closing a door and does not have to be documented in the same way as a door removal.
Anyway, so when Boeing told them this, the NTSB said, okay give us the names of all 25 people who work on this crew so we can figure out which one worked on this door and Boeing said no at first (they don't want 25 people being harassed and all losing time from work) but then after pressure from Congress they said yes and gave them the 25 names.Replies: @AnotherDad
Once the plane is ready everyone involved in the maintenance, even the wing polishers and upholstery cleaners, jump on board for a test flight.
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President Trump in his victory speech yesterday was – again – bragging about all the amazing things he’s done and will do for the black mexican asian females of America when he’s re-reelected. I’m sure he will continue Diaper Joe’s hiring policies bigly.
We don’t live in the country that movie was based on.
We are in some oddball zone where things that were comedy in the 1970’s and 80’s are now deadly serious policy and social norms.
“The Jerk” where it’s funny Steve Martin thinks he was going to turn black when he grew up? Then it was funny because it’s a ridiculous idea. Now you can pick your race.
“Tootsie” where Dustin Hoffman pretends to be a woman for career and romance purposes, and of course it’s humor? Now we have uniformed transvestites in the military, and your taxes pay for it.
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OT -- Steve, have you seen this?
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/was-nuland-fired-for-her-role-in-the-ukraine-debacle/Replies: @Corpse Tooth
Don’t worry, JR. Vicky’s fat arse will achieve a soft landing somewhere within the MIC she so dutifully served. Another Zionist will take her place.
-RoosterReplies: @Sick n' Tired, @SFG
The same it has to do with most all other jobs…absolutely nothing.
People are not talking about this 0.40% leap in Toxico-Americans now handed fed employment, which I find problematic, our values who we are
I still don’t know what “equity” is, though the more I see it I suppose the more it doesn’t matter. I’ll get accustomed to it without the need for understanding. But in the meantime it makes news outlets sound like they accidentally printed a “blah-blah-blah” in the middle of their headlines.
A great deal of recent “employment growth” has been government jobs. Steve’s table shows 77,000 new feds in just three years.
Also helping is the spreading Wokeism in the federal government which is encouraging the stampede of Whites for the exit. I switched out of plans for a journalism career over to accounting because of a refreshing lack of political correctness in accounting. This is no longer true. In recent years I have gone to speeches by upper management where I was told diversity is our strength, the Covid vaccines they were mandating would stop the spread of the disease and that we were helping the Ukraine in fighting for freedom and democracy.
The newly hired minorities think they are lucky but it is really akin to getting hired on to the crew right before the last voyage of the Titanic. The federal government is now running a trillion dollar deficit every hundred days. There will be major contractions in the federal workforce in future years as the fiscal crisis deepens.Replies: @Anon, @Paleo Liberal, @AnotherDad, @AnotherDad, @Colin Wright
Important perspective here.
For example, I live in a city where the older employees are overwhelmingly white, but young people fresh out of high school or college are about a 50:50 mix of white: non-white. So younger workers tend to be less white on the average than their elders.
Also, government work has often been skewed towards non-white workers. The Post Office was seen as a way for African Americans and immigrants to get a stable job. And not just the Post Office. Quite a few of the older non-white workers I know are government employees of some sort.
Given that, the most remarkable thing about these statistics is that the number and percentages of white workers isn’t falling faster.
"Asians" and "Hispanics" are very broad categories as well. Koreans and Philippines and Gujaratis, Dominicans and Guatemalans and Spaniards. Maybe not the Spaniards from Iberia, but certainly the Spaniards from Mexico and Peru and the Southern Cone.Replies: @Guest007, @Prester John
As Steve has pointed out many times, the categories are self-reported. As a joke, I have always said that a university could increase the graduation rate and academic performance of Hispanic students but just having all of the white students think about their ancestry and maybe redefine themselves as Hispanic.
Doubtful that is does. It also does not count government contractors.
Jack, shut up, you’re so damn annoying.
Btw, the other day I ran into Steve at Monster Jam at SoFi and I asked him, “Why do you allow Jack D to post his insufferable bullshit on your blog??” After cheering on the El Toro Loco monster truck he turned to me and said, “Well, because I feel so damn sorry for that pathetic dumb bastard.”
His words, not mine. 🤷♂️
Everyone knows Fed jobs are the #1 Affirmative Action tool. Like welfare, anther way to pay them to do nothing.
Jazz isn’t dead, it just smells funny.
— Frank Zappa
Every time there’s a government shutdown it is noted that if the shutdown were to continue past a certain point, large numbers of non-essential workers would become permanently unemployed. But, for some reason, the Republicans always cave to the Democrats’ demands before this happens.
Most recently, President Trump had such an opportunity to downsize a large number of his enemies, but didn’t take that simple victory. Sad.
You are 100% correct. All of these companies track parts, installation dates, work orders, and know who worked on/installed what. The employee who installed it most likely had to fill out a safety form about what their work task was, the safety risks involved, and how they would mitigate them. If the repairs were done at any airport or off site facility, with a landing strip large enough to land a 737, everyone with access to the hanger and air strip have been thru an extensive background check. Everyone on site that day had to check in/badge in, and most likely pass thru a security check point.
I know this because I have worked in refineries, airports, shipping ports, military bases, and various federal buildings where security clearances & background checks are required, and need to be passed before you can even set foot on the property.
lol. Shut up, inbred.
Meanwhile… Gold is at record highs. I’m glad I put a substantial chunk of my capital into it, physically. There are murmurs that the big gold buys are coming now from China. All I know is that the Chinese have liked gold for a very long time — like many of the world’s people.
The dollar? LOL. It is fake, and it buys foreign wars for people who are not really even Americans.
We here in this beautiful land, between two oceans, do not really have a country. We live on a great land, conquered by our ancestors. It is no longer ours.
Gold, on the other hand, does not change. The alchemists tried to make it, and in the process they helped create chemistry. But they could not produce gold. It is the standard to this day, and I own a lot of it — happily.
Just finished a bottle of Mionetto Prosecco, and I don’t give a fuck, sitting here by the fire. Love you guys. Hope you eventually solve the world’s problems.
How is this even legal?
I saw the story and I think there is less to it than it sounds. Generally speaking, the procedures for inspecting work on a plane are rather elaborate . In the case of REMOVING a door plug, one person would have to reinstall the bolts and then another person would INSPECT the work of the 1st person and it would all be documented.
However, in this case, the door plug was originally installed in KS but when it got to Washington, there was some sort of repair that needed to be done on the rivets of the door plug. This apparently happened a lot – there were Spirit employees stationed in Washington to do this sort of rework because the output of the Spirit plant was often less than perfect and would get picked up by Boeing inspectors when the fuselage arrived in Renton and then the Spirit employees would fix the defect because Spirit is supposed to deliver a non-defective fuselage.
For this repair it was not necessary to REMOVE the door from the plane. You would loosen the bolts and then the door would tilt outward on its hinges at the bottom but it would remain mounted to the plane – the hinges are sort of like vertical posts that fit into sockets in the door so to remove the door you would have to not only unbolt it but lift it up vertically maybe a foot to get it off the hinge posts. The missing bolts don’t actually hold the door on, they just stop you from lifting the door off of its posts (this is why the plane was able to fly a long time before the door fell off). Technically the door was not considered REMOVED since it was still mounted to and never left the hinge posts. (Why did they remove the bolts then? IDK – maybe they had to lift the door part way up the rails in order to work on it at the bottom.) This is considered as opening and closing a door and does not have to be documented in the same way as a door removal.
Anyway, so when Boeing told them this, the NTSB said, okay give us the names of all 25 people who work on this crew so we can figure out which one worked on this door and Boeing said no at first (they don’t want 25 people being harassed and all losing time from work) but then after pressure from Congress they said yes and gave them the 25 names.
Seems like an obvious--obviously bogus--bug as if the plane is not configured for high-capacity it is not actually a "door".... well unless you fly it with the bolts off.Replies: @Jack D
Obnoxious Jimmy Buffett-ism.
Gold?
66,924.85 BTC
5,157.36 S&P 500
A lot of irrational exuberance out there. Those Gaza child sacrifices to Baal must be working.
Also helping is the spreading Wokeism in the federal government which is encouraging the stampede of Whites for the exit. I switched out of plans for a journalism career over to accounting because of a refreshing lack of political correctness in accounting. This is no longer true. In recent years I have gone to speeches by upper management where I was told diversity is our strength, the Covid vaccines they were mandating would stop the spread of the disease and that we were helping the Ukraine in fighting for freedom and democracy.
The newly hired minorities think they are lucky but it is really akin to getting hired on to the crew right before the last voyage of the Titanic. The federal government is now running a trillion dollar deficit every hundred days. There will be major contractions in the federal workforce in future years as the fiscal crisis deepens.Replies: @Anon, @Paleo Liberal, @AnotherDad, @AnotherDad, @Colin Wright
Thanks Mark. I was going to point out the same.
The white-white (“non-Hispanic” white) population peaked sometime probably in the late 00s and has been slipping away–in absolute decline–since. Asians have even lower fertility but have the highest immigration rate per citizen. Blacks and even now Hispanics have sub-replacement TFR but blacks are just holding population share, and of course Hispanics are exploding.
If anything, I would have thought the white share would be dropping even more dramatically, as the huge late Boomer cohorts retire out.
IDK, maybe they will be able to make it some day or tow home asteroids filled with thousands of tons of the stuff. One 500-meter-wide platinum-rich asteroid could contain nearly 175 times the annual global platinum output, or 1.5 times the known world reserves of platinum group metals.
https://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2016/finalwebsite/solutions/asteroids.html#:~:text=Asteroid%20composition%20varies%20widely%2C%20from,such%20as%20iron%20and%20nickel.
Diamonds were once thought to be rare and not capable of human production, but now they can produce gem grade diamonds like candy. A few years ago lab grown diamonds cost $300/carat to produce but this has already fallen by an order of magnitude and may soon fall by ANOTHER (i.e $3/carat). Diamond pricing was always bullshit (the cost at the mine was maybe $45/carat) but now it is EXTRA bullshit.
A diamond ring was a sort of potlatch that women demanded in order to demonstrate how much you loved them but somehow instead of giving them cash directly (too transactional like that OTHER profession) you gave a big pile of cash to DeBeers (one month’s salary suggested!) and DeBeers would give your woman a little hunk of sparkly carbon crystal. The greatest mind fuck of all time and like all truly great mindfucks you didn’t even think of yourself as being mindfucked. You were just showing your woman how much you loved her! (And just try skipping it and see what your woman says).
https://www.inc.com/associated-press/lab-grown-diamonds-sway-gen-z-millennial-buyers-but-wreak-environmental-damage.html
per evolutionary psychology , being able to afford waste is a sign or marker of status. So a woman wants a man who has enough resources that he can afford to waste some.
Perhaps the bright colors of a peacock dont help with hunting , but the energy that goes into their production signifies healthReplies: @Jack D
Also helping is the spreading Wokeism in the federal government which is encouraging the stampede of Whites for the exit. I switched out of plans for a journalism career over to accounting because of a refreshing lack of political correctness in accounting. This is no longer true. In recent years I have gone to speeches by upper management where I was told diversity is our strength, the Covid vaccines they were mandating would stop the spread of the disease and that we were helping the Ukraine in fighting for freedom and democracy.
The newly hired minorities think they are lucky but it is really akin to getting hired on to the crew right before the last voyage of the Titanic. The federal government is now running a trillion dollar deficit every hundred days. There will be major contractions in the federal workforce in future years as the fiscal crisis deepens.Replies: @Anon, @Paleo Liberal, @AnotherDad, @AnotherDad, @Colin Wright
I don’t know where the “trillion every hundred days” thing comes from. The numbers I’ve seen are more like 1.6 for the year. But agree it’s big.
You may be correct there will be significant federal layoffs coming. There will be some kind of bending down of the current projections which are pretty bad as Boomer retirements finish. But that’s a question of politics–higher taxes, cuts here or there, or just hunting down us boomers and killing us off?
But again, I caution Steve’s readers who believe some sort of fiscal crisis is going to just finish off the regime and bring on the crisis that is going to save us … that is not what is going to happen.
Bet on high inflation, higher taxes, lower standard of living a lot of painful muddling through like a Latin American nation … which is what we increasingly are.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/03/04/us-dollar-collapse-bank-of-america-issues-shocking-1-trillion-every-100-days-warning-amid-huge-bitcoin-ethereum-xrp-and-crypto-price-boom-to-rival-gold/
U.S. Dollar Death Spiral ‘Crisis’ Fears Grow After Bank Of America Issues Shocking ‘$1 Trillion Every 100 Days’
I read somewhere that base metal was successfully transmuted into gold some time in the 60s, but the process was so monstrously expensive nobody wanted to pursue it.
Oh yes, diamond prices are silly, and man can make some pretty good ones now, but hey, as you know, a market is a market.
I bought the engagement diamond for my fiancé from a Jew across the street from my office. He was independent, traveled to mines, cut his own stones locally right there. The rich people of that town knew who he was. I paid him cash, and he gave me a great price. No tax, you know. People still stare at the ring. Even I do sometimes.
A few years later, my diamond cutter friend was murdered by a man who had arranged to meet him and make a big buy. That man was later apprehended in Spain. We attended my friend’s funeral service at his synagogue. It was the first time I put on a yarmulke. They had a basket full of them, and the place was absolutely full of people like me who knew that man.
My friend’s shop was across the hall from the same Jewish charity that sponsored the two Israeli spies (“art students”) that I met before 9/11. I knew the folks there too.
Some people have wondered what was going on in that hallway, and where all that cash was going, and perhaps why a beloved diamond cutter was cut down, but my wife has one fucking amazing diamond — thanks to him.
Brazil and rest of Latin America still holds up “whiteness” as aspirational whether it be beauty or making Embraer airplanes
Were Boing to succeed in buying out Embrarer, then the “DIE” standards that Boeing would impose on its Brazilian subsidary would worsen efficiency and quality. Such a statement would have been absurd 20 years ago …
https://www.embraer.com/relatorio_anual2016/en/mensagem-do-conselho.htm
OT — Last one — Follow-up to the question of Chinese cranes: yes, they do have spy hardware that has no discernable connection to their proper function. That’s not surprising. What requires explanation is how the geniuses who were going to protect the Earth from Putin and Xi did not see that coming.
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Eat Pray Love girl traveling alone in India stops updating her online journal; last few entries describe her guide Arjun becoming increasingly creepy. Are there women who do not get raped and/or killed on these trips?
https://boards.4chan.org/lit/thread/23158039
It’s my understanding that this isn’t an uncommon female sexual fantasy (well probably not the killing part).
Sorry Alden…Replies: @J.Ross, @Frau Katze
lab grown gems
https://www.inc.com/associated-press/lab-grown-diamonds-sway-gen-z-millennial-buyers-but-wreak-environmental-damage.html
per evolutionary psychology , being able to afford waste is a sign or marker of status. So a woman wants a man who has enough resources that he can afford to waste some.
Perhaps the bright colors of a peacock dont help with hunting , but the energy that goes into their production signifies health
Just yesterday I saw a fat black guy napping in a Water Department truck in SF. This was disturbing because historically in SF, the Water Department was where you saw only whites.
But you think it will remain at that rate? Think harder.
For example, I live in a city where the older employees are overwhelmingly white, but young people fresh out of high school or college are about a 50:50 mix of white: non-white. So younger workers tend to be less white on the average than their elders.
Also, government work has often been skewed towards non-white workers. The Post Office was seen as a way for African Americans and immigrants to get a stable job. And not just the Post Office. Quite a few of the older non-white workers I know are government employees of some sort.
Given that, the most remarkable thing about these statistics is that the number and percentages of white workers isn’t falling faster.Replies: @Travis
The decline in Whites is more significant in our military. The US army was 62% White in 2010 and by 2020 had declined to 54% White.
In 2010 we had 347,000 White soldiers in the US Army and in 2020 we had 259,000, a decline of 25% White army soldiers in a decade. Our military will be majority non-white in a few more years, but it will take longer before the majority of the officers are non-white.
The former consists of state-level employees, so they are not included in the table, but I can tell you directly that in New Jersey the MVC is mainly staffed by black women. Heaven help you if you need to go in person to conduct business. The last time I needed to go I purposely drove to a more rural part of my state just to beat the crowds and to increase my chances of interacting with semi-pleasant white people. This worked because the MVC offices in New Jersey are evenly distributed across the state, instead of having proportionately more in the more densely populated areas.
Before COVID my local MVC office used to have a policy where they didn’t want you waiting inside their offices before you conducted your business. Therefore, you would have to wait in line outside before you could talk to the ironically named concierge who would make sure your paperwork was in order before you could take your number and sit in the waiting room before you could talk to the clerk who could actually process your paperwork. It’s really like they went out of their way to make your life difficult.
A little off topic.
Matt Taibbi humorously eviscerates White Rural Rage. No paywall. Includes amazingly relevant Sam Kinison clip.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/taibbi-msnbc-paul-krugman-panic-over-white-rural-rage
OT: But not really.. borrowed from the perfesser
I bet you didn’t see this coming. Effects of The Spanish Inquisition Can Still Be Seen in US Hispanic Healthcare
https://www.sciencealert.com/effects-of-the-spanish-inquisition-can-still-be-seen-in-us-hispanic-healthcare
I guess it’s true; Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
This lack of Jewish physicians (and Arab ones, often very knowledgeable) somehow affects the current "Hispanic" population.
Even 200 + years later.
That's quite a causality chain.
So that explains the problem with African origin "people of color" too. Lack of good doctors in Africa prior to 1800s still results in subpar health outcomes now.
Thank heaven European health care was so much better (other than in Spain) up through the 18th century. Those leeches, bloodletting and avoiding bathing really paid off for us northern Europeans! There must have been tons of Jewish doctors too!Replies: @J.Ross
Trump is going all in on the urban black vote. He knows the reason he lost in 2020 is because high IQ whites hate him, and he won’t win those people back. His best chance to win the election is to try and peel off the lower middle class black and Hispanic voters that are disgusted by the dysfunction they seen in their own communities. The Republicans are increasingly a class based party not a race based party.
Class prejudice. A phenomenon whose name dare not be uttered.
Also helping is the spreading Wokeism in the federal government which is encouraging the stampede of Whites for the exit. I switched out of plans for a journalism career over to accounting because of a refreshing lack of political correctness in accounting. This is no longer true. In recent years I have gone to speeches by upper management where I was told diversity is our strength, the Covid vaccines they were mandating would stop the spread of the disease and that we were helping the Ukraine in fighting for freedom and democracy.
The newly hired minorities think they are lucky but it is really akin to getting hired on to the crew right before the last voyage of the Titanic. The federal government is now running a trillion dollar deficit every hundred days. There will be major contractions in the federal workforce in future years as the fiscal crisis deepens.Replies: @Anon, @Paleo Liberal, @AnotherDad, @AnotherDad, @Colin Wright
I wonder about that. Will it happen — or will inflation simply worsen, as government employees vote to keep themselves employed and the government prints money to pay them?
Consider, say, Argentina over the sixty years. Has the number of government employees actually declined — or has inflation merely become the norm?
British Airways do all their major maintenance at a facility in South Wales.
Once the plane is ready everyone involved in the maintenance, even the wing polishers and upholstery cleaners, jump on board for a test flight.
Not so difficult to make them work. The hiring is controlled to favor the minorities and disavow the White population. It is blatantly racist yet no one does anything about it.
No f,in way. Not the Cookie Monster. Elmo, no surprise, but not my man Cookie.
Before COVID my local MVC office used to have a policy where they didn't want you waiting inside their offices before you conducted your business. Therefore, you would have to wait in line outside before you could talk to the ironically named concierge who would make sure your paperwork was in order before you could take your number and sit in the waiting room before you could talk to the clerk who could actually process your paperwork. It's really like they went out of their way to make your life difficult.Replies: @Seneca44
Here in The People’s Republic of Maryland, the Motor Vehicle Administration shenanigans like you describe has spawned a number of independent businesses with name like “Tags n Title” where you pay them an extra $10-$20 to submit the forms for you. If your time is even worth minimum wage, it’s money well spent.
If conservatives were competent, they would make an issue that blacks are overrepresented in the Civil Service and that Hispanics were underrepresented. If Democrats really believe in equity, the the federal governments needs to start laying off blacks and hiring more Hispanics.
Why are people worried about Blacks given a leg up in Federal employment?
I am much more worried about being invaded by a multi-million man (single, young adult male) army. I don’t care about their skin color. I care that if they don’t share my cultural values. If they come here to form model train clubs or join their parish Knights of Columbus to engage in community betterment, I am OK with that.
It also bothers me that cars have just about doubled in price. It bothers me that owing to Federal regs and trade policies, refrigerators, dishwashers and soon to be water heaters are expensive junk that “lasts about the same as a Kardashian marriage” (from an appliance-advice Web site).
And shall we talk about the price of food? And rent?
I bet you didn't see this coming. Effects of The Spanish Inquisition Can Still Be Seen in US Hispanic Healthcare
https://www.sciencealert.com/effects-of-the-spanish-inquisition-can-still-be-seen-in-us-hispanic-healthcare
I guess it's true; Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Muggles
Now I know why I’ve always had a soft spot for Torquemada.
"Asians" and "Hispanics" are very broad categories as well. Koreans and Philippines and Gujaratis, Dominicans and Guatemalans and Spaniards. Maybe not the Spaniards from Iberia, but certainly the Spaniards from Mexico and Peru and the Southern Cone.Replies: @Guest007, @Prester John
“Which of these jobs are real?”
As usual, probably not many.
“He knows the reason he lost in 2020 is because high IQ whites hate him…”.
Class prejudice. A phenomenon whose name dare not be uttered.
And the US of A will have been long since consigned to the dustbin of history as a failed experiment.
-RoosterReplies: @Sick n' Tired, @SFG
It keeps you in good standing with your politicslly appointed superiors.
However, in this case, the door plug was originally installed in KS but when it got to Washington, there was some sort of repair that needed to be done on the rivets of the door plug. This apparently happened a lot - there were Spirit employees stationed in Washington to do this sort of rework because the output of the Spirit plant was often less than perfect and would get picked up by Boeing inspectors when the fuselage arrived in Renton and then the Spirit employees would fix the defect because Spirit is supposed to deliver a non-defective fuselage.
For this repair it was not necessary to REMOVE the door from the plane. You would loosen the bolts and then the door would tilt outward on its hinges at the bottom but it would remain mounted to the plane - the hinges are sort of like vertical posts that fit into sockets in the door so to remove the door you would have to not only unbolt it but lift it up vertically maybe a foot to get it off the hinge posts. The missing bolts don't actually hold the door on, they just stop you from lifting the door off of its posts (this is why the plane was able to fly a long time before the door fell off). Technically the door was not considered REMOVED since it was still mounted to and never left the hinge posts. (Why did they remove the bolts then? IDK - maybe they had to lift the door part way up the rails in order to work on it at the bottom.) This is considered as opening and closing a door and does not have to be documented in the same way as a door removal.
Anyway, so when Boeing told them this, the NTSB said, okay give us the names of all 25 people who work on this crew so we can figure out which one worked on this door and Boeing said no at first (they don't want 25 people being harassed and all losing time from work) but then after pressure from Congress they said yes and gave them the 25 names.Replies: @AnotherDad
Thanks Jack. I get a lot of aviation and Boeing news in my feed, and saw the gist of this, but had not read this key piece of info. Everyone would have expected that the plane records would have a entry for rivet repair on the door, and replacement with signoff of mechanic and inspector.
Seems like an obvious–obviously bogus–bug as if the plane is not configured for high-capacity it is not actually a “door”…. well unless you fly it with the bolts off.
Boeing is now in the process of reacquiring Spirit which they never should have sold in the 1st place. It was some kind of bullshit financial manipulation type thing that made sense to MBA's in term of how it would improve the balance sheet and increase earnings but from an engineering/ quality control POV it made no sense to lose control over the building of the entire fuselage which in effect IS the airplane.
Looks like the drop in whites is mostly explained by the drop in white military recruits. Indeed, whites are now a minority of military recruits, which is very bad news for the Global American Empire (GAE).
Besides the loss in technical and combat personnel, there’s the simple fact that being a minority in a hostile organization sucks. For the same reason whites don’t move to black and Hispanic neighborhoods or go to non-white bars, whites will increasingly avoid a military that’s majority blacks and Hispanic.
Now, obviously, a less effective US military means nothing to America. I mean, no foreign power has been a threat to the US since probably around the 1830s. But this is definitely bad news for our neocon overlords and their various ethnic grudges.
He is the first incumbent to lose a primary since 1980. That was the only one south of the Equator, so no one was paying attention. The only one where you drive to the polls on the left doesn’t come until August. I’m sure Joe has that one in the bag… unless he’s in the bag by then.
Nikki Haley prevailed in DC and Vermont. That was so embarrassing she bowed out.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-loses-primary-jason-palmer-american-samoa-jimmy-carter-1876315Interesting tidbit.It is funny how the media is touting Biden's string of primary victories as significant when he has essentially no opposition (though it does seem like a nice representative of Biden "success"). The only delegates not for Biden at this point are 20 uncommitted and 3 for Jason Palmer (BTW, I would say getting this kind of press makes Palmer's $500k campaign a good investment). More on the uncommitted delegates.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/6/minnesotas-stunning-uncommitted-vote-reveals-enduring-problem-for-bidenLooks like Hawaii accounts for the other seven uncommitted delegates.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/uncommitted-biden-protest-votes-winning-delegates-dominates-democratic/story?id=107893114Some uncommitted numbers for Obama in 2012 there as well.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
In the same way almost every “immigrant” is documented. Just not here.
* I was going to say "that's how you can tell they're lying", but there are lots of ways.
https://renovardesigns.com/rdinc/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Personalized-Spanish-Baptism-Certificates.jpgReplies: @a Newsreader
That’s one way* to tell they’re lying. If they actually cared about immigrants being undocumented, they would push to acquire the documents.
* I was going to say “that’s how you can tell they’re lying”, but there are lots of ways.
Not in your lifetime, Jackie Boy. And because the guys doing all the heavy lifting in space now are rich, the goal for the first asteroids captured for use will be of the water-bearing type to support lunar and Arean exploration.
I know it violates your beliefs, but the gelt ain’t as important to some as it is to you.
as you could see from the National Guard unit in that video from the NYC subway. literally every single person was vibrant except for the guy who looked like the XO. an old, career military pale person supervising the colorful machinegun troops. kind of like the Democrat party itself.
it’s surprising NYPD has held out this long. probably because it’s one of the few jobs left there where it’s still majority blue collar WASPs and Italians. and they don’t accept the transition of America to total woke nonsense, at least not the police force. could be one of the few employers where the majority of the Irish officers also vote Republican.
Really? 1.5x the known world reserves would be around 100,000 tons. There are 32,000 ounces in a ton and platinum is around $1,000 per ounce so around $32M per ton or $3.2 TRILLION worth of just the platinum in ONE asteroid. (Never mind that this would crash the price.) Space rockets are becoming increasingly cheap. Even if it cost $1 trillion to tow an asteroid into earth orbit and send down the pieces, you’d still have $2 trillion of profit. This sounds awfully tempting.
I have never known any billionaires who say that they have enough $ already. I would bet you that Musk or Bezos would be interested in becoming trillionaires now that billionaires are a dime a dozen.
Matt Taibbi humorously eviscerates White Rural Rage. No paywall. Includes amazingly relevant Sam Kinison clip.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/taibbi-msnbc-paul-krugman-panic-over-white-rural-rageReplies: @res, @J.Ross
Thanks. Can anyone think of another group which better qualifies for this “most” title?
I liked the connection to the anti-populist tradition. Well observed.
Nikki Haley prevailed in DC and Vermont. That was so embarrassing she bowed out.Replies: @res
Thanks. I had missed that.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-loses-primary-jason-palmer-american-samoa-jimmy-carter-1876315
Interesting tidbit.
It is funny how the media is touting Biden’s string of primary victories as significant when he has essentially no opposition (though it does seem like a nice representative of Biden “success”). The only delegates not for Biden at this point are 20 uncommitted and 3 for Jason Palmer (BTW, I would say getting this kind of press makes Palmer’s $500k campaign a good investment). More on the uncommitted delegates.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/6/minnesotas-stunning-uncommitted-vote-reveals-enduring-problem-for-biden
Looks like Hawaii accounts for the other seven uncommitted delegates.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/uncommitted-biden-protest-votes-winning-delegates-dominates-democratic/story?id=107893114
Some uncommitted numbers for Obama in 2012 there as well.
https://www.mnopedia.org/sites/default/files/styles/multimedia/public/J2%201936%20a33.jpg?itok=ozL9cH6Y
(That's an awfully Nordic ticket!)
Speaking of uncommitted, did you know that Richard Nixon won, by any honest count, the so-called "popular vote" in 1960? The only way the total can go to JFK is by attributing all of Alabama's Democratic votes to him, which is cheating. Yet that is what almost all printed sources tell us.
We keep hearing about 1876 and 1888, and now 2000 and 2016. But never about 1960.
https://cdn.britannica.com/40/73740-050-50C89ED8/election-Results-Candidate-American-Political-Party-Votes-1960.jpg
Matt Taibbi humorously eviscerates White Rural Rage. No paywall. Includes amazingly relevant Sam Kinison clip.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/taibbi-msnbc-paul-krugman-panic-over-white-rural-rageReplies: @res, @J.Ross
That was so freaking good, I have always loved Taibbi, he’s one of the people I did not drop when I went from being an Obama Democrat to being an Evil Russian Nazi, like Glenn Greenwald, whom check out.
Seems like an obvious--obviously bogus--bug as if the plane is not configured for high-capacity it is not actually a "door".... well unless you fly it with the bolts off.Replies: @Jack D
The rivet repair itself was probably documented (and done by Spirit personnel) but opening the door for them so they could work on it would have been done by Boeing mechanics (and not documented because it was just a door opening). Then (I am guessing) when they were done the Spirit personnel reclosed the door and forgot to call the Boeing guys back to put the bolts on to secure it. And then some other crew came and installed the interior panels without noticing that the bolts were not there.
Boeing is now in the process of reacquiring Spirit which they never should have sold in the 1st place. It was some kind of bullshit financial manipulation type thing that made sense to MBA’s in term of how it would improve the balance sheet and increase earnings but from an engineering/ quality control POV it made no sense to lose control over the building of the entire fuselage which in effect IS the airplane.
Something doesn’t seem right about your story. Don’t rough diamonds get traded in Antwerp? Aren’t 99% of diamonds cut and polished in Surat and Shenzhen?
Meanwhile the Governor of NY has crafted old and new strategies to combat the Negroes of New York City, including the deployment of the national guard and…
Stop & Frisk is back!!
It’s good to be the boss
I bet you didn't see this coming. Effects of The Spanish Inquisition Can Still Be Seen in US Hispanic Healthcare
https://www.sciencealert.com/effects-of-the-spanish-inquisition-can-still-be-seen-in-us-hispanic-healthcare
I guess it's true; Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Muggles
So, Jewish doctors killed, went into hiding or driven out of Spain in the late 1400s though roughly 1830s. Also Spanish colonies.
This lack of Jewish physicians (and Arab ones, often very knowledgeable) somehow affects the current “Hispanic” population.
Even 200 + years later.
That’s quite a causality chain.
So that explains the problem with African origin “people of color” too. Lack of good doctors in Africa prior to 1800s still results in subpar health outcomes now.
Thank heaven European health care was so much better (other than in Spain) up through the 18th century. Those leeches, bloodletting and avoiding bathing really paid off for us northern Europeans! There must have been tons of Jewish doctors too!
This lack of Jewish physicians (and Arab ones, often very knowledgeable) somehow affects the current "Hispanic" population.
Even 200 + years later.
That's quite a causality chain.
So that explains the problem with African origin "people of color" too. Lack of good doctors in Africa prior to 1800s still results in subpar health outcomes now.
Thank heaven European health care was so much better (other than in Spain) up through the 18th century. Those leeches, bloodletting and avoiding bathing really paid off for us northern Europeans! There must have been tons of Jewish doctors too!Replies: @J.Ross
A Brazilian years ago, the BBC published an article online about the bones of Jews who had been thrown into a well in medieval England, and the quoted researcher went on about how she could tell from the arrangement of the bones that the victims suffered terribly for hours and hours (no word on if we know if they died in the well or were killed first and then thrown in). During an earlier Intifada, there was a talking point, “the hatred in their eyes,” and multiple quoted Israelis went on and on about “seeing the hatred in their eyes.”
You may be correct there will be significant federal layoffs coming. There will be some kind of bending down of the current projections which are pretty bad as Boomer retirements finish. But that's a question of politics--higher taxes, cuts here or there, or just hunting down us boomers and killing us off?
But again, I caution Steve's readers who believe some sort of fiscal crisis is going to just finish off the regime and bring on the crisis that is going to save us ... that is not what is going to happen.
Bet on high inflation, higher taxes, lower standard of living a lot of painful muddling through like a Latin American nation ... which is what we increasingly are.Replies: @Anonymous
Incorrect. Why make things up?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/03/04/us-dollar-collapse-bank-of-america-issues-shocking-1-trillion-every-100-days-warning-amid-huge-bitcoin-ethereum-xrp-and-crypto-price-boom-to-rival-gold/
U.S. Dollar Death Spiral ‘Crisis’ Fears Grow After Bank Of America Issues Shocking ‘$1 Trillion Every 100 Days’
Ivanka gets her neb antidote on the DL in Harlem
Read my first sentence again, Jackie Boy, and stop pounding the table.
Using your own economic argument, given the lack of water on the Moon and Mars (and the paroxisms of joy in the space exploration community when a little ice is found there), water-bearing rocks will be the most valuable things around. Nobody is towing any palladium-laden asteroids without a Mars base of operations. As Elon Musk knows better than you do, just as he knows that the ability of a small crew to share the enclosed area of a spacecraft for 24 months is still uncharted territory.
It’s all academic and, as I said, not occurring in our lifetime without a stupendous breakthrough in propulsion technology.
https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/study-reveals-map-of-moons-water-near-its-south-pole/
The moon's north and south poles contain over 1.3 trillion pounds of water ice. The idea that the moon has no water is old science.
I agree with you that it's not happening any time soon but when it does happen the riches will be incredible.
24 month on a spacecraft is not the problem you make it out to be. People have spent 24 months in all sorts of confined quarters. Provided that they select people who are mentally sound they are not going to go nuts and kill each other like in some science fiction movie.Replies: @Brutusale
They think there may be water at the moon’s south pole. This is one reason why everyone is trying to rush there now.
https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/study-reveals-map-of-moons-water-near-its-south-pole/
The moon’s north and south poles contain over 1.3 trillion pounds of water ice. The idea that the moon has no water is old science.
I agree with you that it’s not happening any time soon but when it does happen the riches will be incredible.
24 month on a spacecraft is not the problem you make it out to be. People have spent 24 months in all sorts of confined quarters. Provided that they select people who are mentally sound they are not going to go nuts and kill each other like in some science fiction movie.
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2024/03/08/NASA-VIPER-lunar-rover-ice/8521709837606/
The professionals are not as sanguine about the long-term issues involved.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11865866/
A lot of research there. To me, it will always boil down to a line from an SF writer whose name escapes me at the moment about a subject in the mind of every space traveler: it's a long way to the repair shop if something goes wrong.Replies: @Jack D
https://www.inc.com/associated-press/lab-grown-diamonds-sway-gen-z-millennial-buyers-but-wreak-environmental-damage.html
per evolutionary psychology , being able to afford waste is a sign or marker of status. So a woman wants a man who has enough resources that he can afford to waste some.
Perhaps the bright colors of a peacock dont help with hunting , but the energy that goes into their production signifies healthReplies: @Jack D
Yes, that is why I mentioned potlatch. At least in a potlatch you would give away useful items and share them among the community (although sometimes they would destroy stuff instead of giving it away) whereas in modern potlatch it’s just a piece of carbon crystal and only 1 woman gets it.
The guy who took her place was in charge of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
It can be done at the atomic level, at ridiculously high cost, and only yielding laboratory-level quantities. Other than that, you need a supernova. Iron is the heaviest element produced inside stars during their lifetimes. Then, when they go supernova, the conditions are extreme enough to produce every heavier element that we know, including gold
Any element heavier than iron has been produced by exploding stars. What we find on Earth, or in asteroids, or anywhere else, came about via supernovae.
I took a class in college called The Evolution of the Elements. It was taught by an astronomer in the physics department where George Gamow had taught. Gamow was one of the people who discovered how elements came into being during the evolution of the Universe. If you could do college algebra, you could do the class and calculate stars’ characteristics and all kinds of neat stuff, including how much of such-and-such a star will produce.
For an amateur astronomer like me, it was a natural fit.
Nobody is going to make gold in any significant quantity any time soon, and nobody is going to tow an asteroid full of the stuff to Earth until Elon Musk’s and Grimes’s greatest grandchildren are the kings and queens of Mars. I will be sure to sell my reserves before then.
Traded? 99% ? LOL !
He went to small mines and bought rough stones, brought them back, and cut them himself. As I said, he was independent. Or at least he was what passes for independent in a monopoly business that Jack correctly knows is one big “mind fuck.” He had nothing to do with the retail market, aside from the fact that he too could still reap great gains because of that market’s ridiculous prices.
Who knows, maybe that had something to do with his murder. Maybe that also had something to do with why I got a fabulous stone that otherwise I could not have. I don’t know the ins and outs of his business, nor do I want to. The shady operations in his hallway with the charity and the little spies are enough to make me glad I don’t know.
He was popular in a rich town, and he produced some amazing diamond jewelry. You had to have heard about him, then a phone conversation with him, and then get buzzed in by him through a locked door with a camera. This was not a jewelry store. It was upstairs in an office building, and his cutting room was adjacent to it.
He was a nice character, BTW, what I imagine a man like that would be if portrayed in Fiddler on the Roof. I came back months later to buy my wife some diamond stud earrings, and he advised me thus: “Don’t spoil her!” (I bought the earrings anyway.)
You see, the modern world is more efficient and more abstract. Why bother with all that potlatch business when you can just pay some Jewish monopoly to condense it all into a small crystal for you — and to provide their most expert marketing and mass psychology to make it work — so you don’t have to? You guys really are brilliant. Thanks!
I remember reading Ames’ and Taibbi’s Exile back in the late 90s when I lived in China. I was kind of jealous of them for having the freedom to publish that rag. Never would have flown in China.
[WHAT YOU SHOULD THINK] is that the eXile was eXcellent. Ames wrote the only serious book about the workplace shooting phenomenon.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-loses-primary-jason-palmer-american-samoa-jimmy-carter-1876315Interesting tidbit.It is funny how the media is touting Biden's string of primary victories as significant when he has essentially no opposition (though it does seem like a nice representative of Biden "success"). The only delegates not for Biden at this point are 20 uncommitted and 3 for Jason Palmer (BTW, I would say getting this kind of press makes Palmer's $500k campaign a good investment). More on the uncommitted delegates.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/6/minnesotas-stunning-uncommitted-vote-reveals-enduring-problem-for-bidenLooks like Hawaii accounts for the other seven uncommitted delegates.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/uncommitted-biden-protest-votes-winning-delegates-dominates-democratic/story?id=107893114Some uncommitted numbers for Obama in 2012 there as well.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Well, it is the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Sometimes the old farmer or laborer wakes up. Often in wartime.
(That’s an awfully Nordic ticket!)
Speaking of uncommitted, did you know that Richard Nixon won, by any honest count, the so-called “popular vote” in 1960? The only way the total can go to JFK is by attributing all of Alabama’s Democratic votes to him, which is cheating. Yet that is what almost all printed sources tell us.
We keep hearing about 1876 and 1888, and now 2000 and 2016. But never about 1960.
How did blacks come to be so overrepresented in the civil service? I can understand how they could be proportionate to their share of the population, but why would there be so many compared to others?
Another joke about getting a civil service job is one needs to already have a job to get a civil service job.
Is the Exile website still up?
https://i.postimg.cc/KcW3806N/1709857917487778.png
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Eat Pray Love girl traveling alone in India stops updating her online journal; last few entries describe her guide Arjun becoming increasingly creepy. Are there women who do not get raped and/or killed on these trips?
https://boards.4chan.org/lit/thread/23158039Replies: @fish
Are there women who do not get raped and/or killed on these trips?
It’s my understanding that this isn’t an uncommon female sexual fantasy (well probably not the killing part).
Sorry Alden…
I’ve always been very cautious about avoiding potentially dangerous situations. There is no way I would have ever gone travelling alone in a place like India.
Of course, I read lots of true crime books growing up (my parents had them around) and I’ve always been cautious. Some young women may be a lot more naive.
http://exiledonline.com
Because they’re so good at subtlety, playing the long game, rising above their moods and thinking five moves ahead. They should do a reboot of Yes Minister with an all-Black cast.
Getting a civil service job is a slow complicated process. When one talks to a civil servant under 35 y/o, they almost always have a relative who was/is a civil servant. When the great society expanded in the 1960’s, blacks were living in urban center and could be hired by the federal government to be clerks, typist, and low level administrators. Blacks stuck around and now help other blacks get jobs.
Another joke about getting a civil service job is one needs to already have a job to get a civil service job.
https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/study-reveals-map-of-moons-water-near-its-south-pole/
The moon's north and south poles contain over 1.3 trillion pounds of water ice. The idea that the moon has no water is old science.
I agree with you that it's not happening any time soon but when it does happen the riches will be incredible.
24 month on a spacecraft is not the problem you make it out to be. People have spent 24 months in all sorts of confined quarters. Provided that they select people who are mentally sound they are not going to go nuts and kill each other like in some science fiction movie.Replies: @Brutusale
Today’s news.
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2024/03/08/NASA-VIPER-lunar-rover-ice/8521709837606/
The professionals are not as sanguine about the long-term issues involved.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11865866/
A lot of research there. To me, it will always boil down to a line from an SF writer whose name escapes me at the moment about a subject in the mind of every space traveler: it’s a long way to the repair shop if something goes wrong.
No white or male jobs will be hurt during this production – that’s probably what the administration told the union whose main subscription base is white and male. And lo, as you ironically highlight: there was no statistically concrete differences between the Current Year and way back in the beforetimes, in those separate categories.
All they did was hire 3.5% more employees – “make sure you equalise the white and male categories retiring or leaving” – and boost the other categories that way.
What would be even more nerdy to know, is whether white and male stayed steady – whether eg there was a reduction in specifically white males, counterbalanced by more white ladies on the one hand, and hombres or fellows of colour on the other.
It’s my understanding that this isn’t an uncommon female sexual fantasy (well probably not the killing part).
Sorry Alden…Replies: @J.Ross, @Frau Katze
With handsome blonde sailboat-owning doctors named Jeffrey (cf Gilda Radner), not Indians, and not because they want to be raped but because it’s a kind of laziness, the other party not only wants to do what you already want them to do, but is compelled by your beauty to insist, so their initiative relieves you of social shame for having wanted it.
Click on the White Papers telegram channel to “look at this/these graph(s)”.
https://web.telegram.org/k/#@HuWhitePapers
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2024/03/08/NASA-VIPER-lunar-rover-ice/8521709837606/
The professionals are not as sanguine about the long-term issues involved.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11865866/
A lot of research there. To me, it will always boil down to a line from an SF writer whose name escapes me at the moment about a subject in the mind of every space traveler: it's a long way to the repair shop if something goes wrong.Replies: @Jack D
Meh, it was a long way to the repair shop on the Mayflower. Every time you cross the Pacific on a jetliner it’s a long way to the repair shop. The ISS is a long way from the repair shop.
I worked for Boeing. Everything done in the manufacturing process has to be approved by an inspector and documented–of course. For any individual airplane they should be able to learn who did the work and who signed off on it in minutes. It strains credulity for them to say they don’t know. Of course, things might be so effed up there now that even the paperwork is crap.
It’s my understanding that this isn’t an uncommon female sexual fantasy (well probably not the killing part).
Sorry Alden…Replies: @J.Ross, @Frau Katze
I’d say it’s not common, to go by myself and my female friends and relatives.
I’ve always been very cautious about avoiding potentially dangerous situations. There is no way I would have ever gone travelling alone in a place like India.
Of course, I read lots of true crime books growing up (my parents had them around) and I’ve always been cautious. Some young women may be a lot more naive.
I know, Cookie Monster has been an inspiration to me, so sad. Like seeing Lance Armstrong go down
Great comment JD. Had to say that. Couldn’t just click AGREE.
As far as the linked article goes, it actually, and of course unwittingly, directs attention to the heart of the problem – Quantity Over Quality.
Instead of managing what they control, they are controlling what they can’t manage, and what they can’t manage are the social institutions that their power controls. This is why I remain convinced that they are going to lose it all.