Man? Lmao this isn't the lucky chance of single person.
This is decades worth of work by thousands upon thousands to bring about political change and opportunities for their varying ideologies, albeit central around profiteering, control, and unitary power.
Not even nearly the end of their work either.
I like a challenge as much as the next guy but damn is it disheartening at times.
What did anyone expect anything different?
I've been lucky enough to see the real deal in deposition layering testing and research for chip making. From clean-room methods stricter than bio and radiological test lab standards to seeing the wafers with a shimmer even more gorgeous than diamonds to me. It's so far beyond
We just ain't going to manage to make that a nation-wide mainstay. We might be able to have started to approach the technical side of things if investments and education were started in the early 90s, but our culture just isn't up to snuff to keep it going. So much of a society's culture bleeds into business, and damn do they have it locked down where it needs to be.
Could anything else ever be expected with these guys?
Let's see:
On one hand, you could put money into new and nearly well established technologies that get more per dollar return on investment.
Or...
Just keep patting your buddies on the backs and continue to give people black lung. Not-so-fun-fact, modern coal industry workers are getting black lung and retiring faster than the older workers in more senior positions in the mines. Why? The newer machinery is so much more powerful and efficient at the job, the younger works literally cannot avoid literally getting black lung.
Are they going to be investing in more remote controlled robotics and ppe for this? Lmao who am I kidding of course not.
Really makes you wonder just how absolutely vile these folks are behind closed doors if this is what's facing the public.
You know, from a policy and leadership standpoint I can sort of enjoy the process behind working to combat racially prejudiced policy, adopting new and better cultural shifts in existing organizations, being able to foster real appreciation for the American ethos of appreciation of our neighbors, the real melting pot our society is.
Being able to meet someone where they are and enrich their lives through real exposure of different ideas, these their beliefs, and work with them to bring themselves into the modern world is an honestly wonderful experience. One of my favorite memories was a student I had helped to learn half a decades worth of missing reading skills. Young man went from constantly belligerent to anyone and everything around him, slowly to being self confident, more open with people around him, and just be himself. Sure, not the universal experience with the ignorant, can't teach and old dog new tricks and all that.
But this shit? It's just so deeply demonstrative of a small man.
If I was a writer having a political administration encourage literal toxic sludge pits, and yet further paying for those toxic sludge pits to be increased, and poisoning wells for miles around, I probably would have ever publisher I even glance at drop my number.
I recall something I recently overheard from a very excitable young man the other week: "Bro those cop shows were psyops for real"
Not quite the way I would've put it, but considering the change in attitude towards automatic presumption of guilt, and simple guilt by association, I think there's strong merit.
What's the old metrics?
Private industry costs three bucks to do what public does for one.
The Department of ~~Defense~~ War hasn't passed an audit for 8 years straight, high percentage of contract deliverables being immediately retired, resold domestically, or outright never delivered.
Of course they're going to stuff their pockets as much as possible. It's the only thing they're actually able to do, and barely competently at that.
Modern internet for you.
It may be far from perfect, but it's why I have such a soft spot for alternative to modern social media. If I'm going to put my through a slog of keeping these sorts of official social media accounts ip and running, I might as well make it a nicer experience.
And they say taking up D&D as a hobby is weird lmao