Tales of the Competency Crisis - How do I into anything?

[NerdShamer]

Why would a fusion reactor be bad? It does not make nuclear waste.

Are they against nuclear processes as some form of haram against Gaia? If so they better go to the Brussels courts and sue the Sun.

It's being conflated with nuclear fission, for some reason.

Regarding EV as grid storage, these people somehow don't understand that if like 3TWh storage is needed

But regarding grid storage with EVs, just how long do those batteries lasts? Because I haven't exactly heard much of anything good for their longevity if they're constantly exposed to winter weather. But everyone else is just coping by saying that it'll last either an decade or 100,000 miles in less extreme conditions. Plus, actually draining it overnight on a constant basis might actually kill the battery a lot faster than this (biased) article is stating.

 

[Meriasek]

It's being conflated with nuclear fission, for some reason.

But regarding grid storage with EVs, just how long do those batteries lasts? Because I haven't exactly heard much of anything good for their longevity if they're constantly exposed to winter weather. But everyone else is just coping by saying that it'll last either an decade or 100,000 miles in less extreme conditions. Plus, actually draining it overnight on a constant basis might actually kill the battery a lot faster than this (biased) article is stating.

It depends on charge cycles. I think car batteries as grid storage wouldn't usually charge and discharge fast and hard, so it'd be fine.
As for why greenfags don't like nuclear fusion, well, it's not renewable. That's it. They don't care that building up battery capacity will take 20 years and cost hundreds of billions and then nearly a billion per year just to replace the aging batteries. Taking too long and being too expensive is only an argument against nuclear power, no matter the kind.
I think it is realistic that by the end of the decade we can see fusion being demonstrated in a way that is commercially viable. I think in ten years there'll be a prototype plant, and can then be rolled out at a significant pace. That is too long and, according to them, can never be a viable solution for decarbonisation. Renewables taking 30 years to be fully decarbonised on the other hand is totally fine and a short term solution.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

I fell through a floor when inspecting some of the companies I was working for his work. Apparently the brilliant speck didn't have the. Idea that once you put down the plywood, the floor should be 100 percent secure.
I didn't break anything. Because I was able to catch myself on the. Floyd Joyce, but gave me a good scare.
I then threw my hard hat directly into that Spix face. Thicket broke his nose. Not sure. Don't care. He was an illegal immigrant and he probably got deported. Nearly fucking killed me.

Another time, this spic delivery driver blew up a transformer because he used his boom truck incorrectly and slammed directly into the power lines. Fuck these goddamn specs.

 

[kim foxx]

Schumpeter actually predicted this ages ago with chilling accuracy, also figuring out that people would become hostile to private ownership - even though it is a very good thing and necessary to a well-functioning economy - because their perception of it would be distorted by the ugly status quo.

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy is a classic and it's a shame people aren't taught great books like that anymore. It's also interesting that Schumpeter was writing about the decay of industrial capitalism in 1935 and everything he decries (reduced fertility from contraception, the destruction of the 'bourgeois family') is still true today. WW2 was a blip on the radar that temporarily reversed the decline of industrial society.

 

[CryptoHermit]

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy is a classic and it's a shame people aren't taught great books like that anymore. It's also interesting that Schumpeter was writing about the decay of industrial capitalism in 1935 and everything he decries (reduced fertility from contraception, the destruction of the 'bourgeois family') is still true today. WW2 was a blip on the radar that temporarily reversed the decline of industrial society.

Same with Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft by Ferdinand Tönnies. One of the first writers who really drove sociology as a discipline by contrasting Gemeinschaft - the world of kinship to Gesellschaft - the world of contract with Gesellschaft overtaking and dominating traditional society. I've linked a recent reprint since most copies go back to the 1960s.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Why would a fusion reactor be bad? It does not make nuclear waste.

Are they against nuclear processes as some form of haram against Gaia? If so they better go to the Brussels courts and sue the Sun.

Cheap, abundant energy is a barrier to implementing their technocratic nightmare society. People who have access to heat and light, and the ability to travel at relatively little cost, are far less likely to want to overthrow society. People who are cold, hungry, and stuck in their homes are much easier to manipulate and control.

 

[Audit]

Cheap, abundant energy is a barrier to implementing their technocratic nightmare society.

Unless some miraculous breakthrough in multiple branches of physics occurs, nuclear fusion is nothing more than a pipedream that even if possible will not be cost effective, assuming any net-positive reactor can be made.

Green energy was the scam to implement totalitarian control over the population. And even there, I'm not convinced that this isn't just another instance of europeans being absolute retards trying to save the planet. Sometimes, white people with suicidal empathy for browns are just white people with suicidal empathy for browns.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Unless some miraculous breakthrough in multiple branches of physics occurs, nuclear fusion is nothing more than a pipedream that even if possible will not be cost effective, assuming any net-positive reactor can be made.

Possibly, but that's not why they oppose it. They oppose any form of intensive, efficient energy production and always demand low density solar panels and wind, or boondoggles like ivanpah solar thermal, flying turbines, and giant wave harvesting machines.

I'm not convinced that this isn't just another instance of europeans being absolute retards trying to save the planet.

It originated in America though. The Eurocrats ran with it, but only after intense propaganda efforts over multiple decades.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Then just kill yourself nigger. Idk what to tell you, if it’s all hopeless then put the barrel of the gun in your mouth and pull the trigger. But you won’t, not because you’re a coward, but because you know that there is in fact, a chance for you to improve your life. This frustrates me endlessly, because I had this same thought process, and I wasted my early 20’s on it, I could be a millionaire by now if I didn’t waste years doomposting with my loser fucking friends in Discord. and if you literally just, stop injecting toxic, bitter, awful venom into your head, it gets way way easier to just grind. And I also know you, or zoomers, or whoever the fuck else thinks that way doesn’t want to hear it, it makes you mad because you think “does this fucking retard just ignore everything around him???? Does he just think this is gonna go away if he ignores it???” And no I don’t, wanna know what I do? I go on Internet forums, and call people the N word, then I go back to doing my best to get as far away from niggers and jeets as I can. You’ve got to learn to just, shut your brain off, and I know it’s hard, and it seems counter productive, but the nagging miserable blackness that is constantly thinking about how fucked everything is, will only drag you down. Grind or die, but don’t sit there and act like you thjnk all is lost, because your still breathing

Zoomer here, and I actually agree with this. I think grinding would also help if you gave yourself to a good cause in your free time. Sincerely, some of the happiest moments of my life came from volunteering

 

[Waffle Iron]

The Eurocrats ran with it, but only after intense propaganda efforts over multiple decades.

By design the EU is only supposed to work on topics that cannot be solved on national level. As a result they're constantly on the prowl for things that can label as international issues so they can pull it to their level. Global warming is a very good target for this. It is international, very big, a just cause, a something that would require a lot of regulation, Germany loves it, morally superior. Only now the German economy is going to shit and the German manufacturing industry is dying, do they start to struggle. Germany is their piggybank, Germany was the one always giving support. Now their car manufacturing is revolting (and unable to pay taxes) do they have a problem.

 

[Male Idiot]

By design the EU is only supposed to work on topics that cannot be solved on national level. As a result they're constantly on the prowl for things that can label as international issues so they can pull it to their level. Global warming is a very good target for this. It is international, very big, a just cause, a something that would require a lot of regulation, Germany loves it, morally superior. Only now the German economy is going to shit and the German manufacturing industry is dying, do they start to struggle. Germany is their piggybank, Germany was the one always giving support. Now their car manufacturing is revolting (and unable to pay taxes) do they have a problem.

Possibly, but that's not why they oppose it. They oppose any form of intensive, efficient energy production and always demand low density solar panels and wind, or boondoggles like ivanpah solar thermal, flying turbines, and giant wave harvesting machines.



It originated in America though. The Eurocrats ran with it, but only after intense propaganda efforts over multiple decades.

Trvthnvke alert.

Yeah, that's why they dislike it, and without German industry the EU is in deep trouble. They just haven't realised yet because the Internet Lumberjack isn't here anymore to tell them.

 

[Attempt Turd]

The flynn effect suggests otherwise.

I can see the problem with competency if the average kiwifarmer cannot understand concept of a quotient.

The Flynn effect has reversed since about 15 years. Probably due to immigration but might be dysgenics from reverse selection where the gibs class outprocreate the intelligent.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Zoomer here, and I actually agree with this. I think grinding would also help if you gave yourself to a good cause in your free time. Sincerely, some of the happiest moments of my life came from volunteering

I've done some light volunteering and as someone who's already the kind of "I don't trust the quality of my work so I put in the extra time and energy" fella, it fits perfectly in. I've had a rough time finding work and it really picks at your confidence, so the thought alone of sending a mail to a small event-to-be and going "Hey can I help in any way?" seems alien. They'll think "We'd need to get to know you and teach you and shit, can't be fucked, bye". Reality is they'll go "Yea sure, show up and we'll plan something". If you don't show, no skin off their back. If you do, maybe they just landed a 18-year deal with you.

You can go volunteer at a soup kitchen but it's not guaranteed to be worthwhile it in a social capacity. There's a lot to be said about the quality of where you volunteer, ie. a hobby space you wanna get into or a community you think sound interesting but lack the actual 'member' skills or interests. I played a lot of competitive FPS games but I'd rather enable others to do that from the sideline. Help set up a local fighting game tourney or whatever, but reality is, those things are small enough that they don't need volunteers as such. They pick from the existing membership pool who feel like I did about competitive FPS.

You’ve got to learn to just, shut your brain off, and I know it’s hard, and it seems counter productive, but the nagging miserable blackness that is constantly thinking about how fucked everything is, will only drag you down. Grind or die, but don’t sit there and act like you thjnk all is lost, because your still breathing

On a more normie scale, I feel this way with American politics. Yall mfers won't shut the fuck up about it, placing it further up the introductory ladder than even occupation or hobbies, yet not half of the US even voted between trump and clinton. It's not about not ranting and venting about life sucking, it's about boiling it down to one sentence among 4 you send to a friend after work, and once you've gotten used to diluting it like that, you realize how much more doom'y your friends are, and you tire of it. "Oh fuck my friend finally messaged me; show as offline going on 3 months. What are they saying?", "ughh my work is so tiring...." *boots up a game they could be talking about with you instead*.

It's better to sit alone, bored, depressed and lonely than to surround yourself with fake activity, which is something I struggle with. I still install random MMOs, imagining it'll lead to friends and socializing, or watching streams because "at least I don't sit in silence", but literally nothing comes from either of them. So what's left? "Grinding" at a job. Okay, now you got money. Can't buy a house, no hobbies, no friends or family. Die with a bit of money to your name? You could be spending that money on a compound bow and equipment, shooting in your local club in which you might meet someone who also hunts with his bow, and suddenly your saturday is spent in the forest from 6AM waiting for a deer to appear.

I watched a random video of two dudes hitchhiking across the US and they got into high-end luxury parties and drughouses alike just from being out there in the street and talking to people. Extroverts are insane to witness and there's a bunch of PoV shorts on tiktok/youtube about it. A dude just going around social-maxxing and it rarely goes well but the times it do, wowee buddy. That could be your wife right there. It's scary and addictive to try new things. Zoomers are gooning over japan yet their bestie and wife could live 3 mins away - if they actually went the fuck outside.

 

[GayRapistWithAIDs]

It's better to sit alone, bored, depressed and lonely than to surround yourself with fake activity, which is something I struggle with.

It is absolutely not, it’s hard to stop doing that, I understand believe me, but it’s quite literally the worst possible state of being you can have. It will lead to one of two things if you don’t escape it, you will either kill yourself, or worse, you WILL find a group of “friends” who will either troon out, or troon YOU out (it’s happened to better men)

So what's left? "Grinding" at a job. Okay, now you got money. Can't buy a house, no hobbies, no friends or family.

you absolutely can and will own a house, NACA and USDA loans will let you buy a house with 0 money down and below a 5% interest rate, it’s harder then a conventional loan yeah, but even if you are on a fixed income (NEET bux, or just totally disabled) they absolutely are an option. And you wanna know how you meet people? You go outside. Also, the housing market is heading towards correction, take a look at the numbers anywhere that isn’t prime LA, NYC, or Miami.

Die with a bit of money to your name?

try “not being tortured to death by Jamaican nurses in a state run nursing home” worst case scenario, you truly are a fundamentally unloveable CHUD (you aren’t, but your miserable, and it unironically is a feedback loop, that is presented in your physiognomy, you could be Clavicular, and if you are truly unhappy, then it will project that energy) then you can at the very least escape the worst fate imaginable.

You could be spending that money on a compound bow and equipment, shooting in your local club in which you might meet someone who also hunts with his bow, and suddenly your saturday is spent in the forest from 6AM waiting for a deer to appear.

you absolutely could, and you can be happy that way, meet people, build a family. Are you going to do it? Also consider you will be doing it in the middle of no where, which IS absolutely fine, you won’t even necessarily have to grind as hard. BUT you are still going to have to grind to do that. You could be a welfare goo person, and I don’t know the circumstances you grew up in, but it won’t be a middle class life, any kids you have will have a harder time, and maybe you don’t want that, and it’s fine, but consider that if you do, every financial action you take once you know you do should be one that aims to leave your children in a better position then you were.

I watched a random video of two dudes hitchhiking across the US and they got into high-end luxury parties and drughouses alike just from being out there in the street and talking to people. Extroverts are insane to witness and there's a bunch of PoV shorts on tiktok/youtube about it. A dude just going around social-maxxing and it rarely goes well but the times it do, wowee buddy. That could be your wife right there. It's scary and addictive to try new things. Zoomers are gooning over japan yet their bestie and wife could live 3 mins away - if they actually went the fuck outside.

you can also just go do shit, “freewillmaxxing” is real, but you have to go do it, if you just sit around thinking about doing something your just making yourself miserable. Also keep in mind all social media is fake, those people aren’t as happy as you think they are, there lives are not glamorous, it’s there job to make you think they are happy.


Your clearly not an idiot, your just miserable dude, and that’s not an insult, or something to be ashamed of, most young people are. But you’ve got to shake yourself out of it, it’s fucking HARD. But you will eventually, and you don’t want it to be when you’re 32, and you wasted your 20’s not even trying different things to find something you might enjoy. If all your doing is the bare minimum, then fuck it, why not try as many different BS jobs as you can find (which I know is hard, but it is possible, the longest periods I’ve ever been unemployed in my life was 3 months during COVID, and a 1 months stretch after I moved back home after a breakup, and that only only happened because I was retarded and forgot to change my address from where I was previously on my resume) and find one you don’t hate, once you find one that doesn’t make you fantasize about doing a mass casualty attack, talk to guys, shoot the shit, make connections, and you will be shocked at the doors that open. I can’t tell you exactly how, or what to look for, because it’s spontaneous, but if you show up on time, and you’re friendly, people WILL notice. Hang in there dude, and I’ll pray for you, and if you persist you can pull yourself out of the mental rut your in.

 

[DSHK]

Apparently 54% of Americans read at or below a 6th grade level. How is that possible? That means that reading The Hunger Games or Artemis Fowl would be as difficult for them as reading Moby Dick or Dracula is to me.

 

[Ygolonac]

My parent company is having a panic attack ( which amounts to the CEO having a meeting saying this is a problem, not that anything will be done) because they have realized they don't actually have anyone who can do any engineering anymore. They replaced all the Germans with Turks and Indians. We haven't actually had any new products since 1999, but we are literally talking applications engineering here ... Like literally look at a calculation sheet. All the jeets just play hot potato with it because it goes to some general mailbox, and they wonder why they aren't finding new customers.

"German engineering" as a marketing point it completely dead.

 

[NerdShamer]

Apparently 54% of Americans read at or below a 6th grade level. How is that possible?

Kids are lazy and retarded, to an certain extent. Their parents are a larger part of the problem. You can't really blame the schools if everything else has been optimistically standardized to an functional degree of competence. Which brings us back to some of the kids acting like a feral pack of animals.


And even when they "graduate" high school, there's hardly any excuse for them not to turn to self-educ-Oh, wait. That requires self-discipline

 

[DSHK]

Kids are lazy and retarded, to an certain extent. Their parents are larger part of the problem. You can't really blame the schools if everything else has been optimistically standardized to an functional degree of competence. Which brings us back to some of the kids acting like a feral pack of animals.


And even when they "graduate" high school, there's hardly any excuse for them not to turn to self-educ-Oh, wait. That requires self-discipline

When I did research into the "Gen Alpha cant read" thing I discovered that students academic performance is actually K shaped. The top 20% do better and better as time goes on, the bottom 20% do worse and everyone in the middle is stagnant. What is going on with Americas bottom quintile?

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

What is going on with Americas bottom quintile?

I'll give you a hint:

 

[Waffle Iron]

Apparently 54% of Americans read at or below a 6th grade level. How is that possible? That means that reading The Hunger Games or Artemis Fowl would be as difficult for them as reading Moby Dick or Dracula is to me.

Look at demographics below <20 yo. That and the absolutely terrible modern teaching methods.