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What burns me, what really chaps my ass, is that we aren't allocating a single cent to replacing our defense reserves right now. There is also no talk of increasing the next financial year's budget to account for this shit. We are putting out replenishment contracts for Ukraine, but we aren't opening up any new production lines so we can supply ourselves as well.

This latest push to strip everything we have and send it to Ukraine comes from a few things:
  • Ukraine is having to go on a a self-proclaimed "ammo diet" because of various munitions shortages.
  • We got a whole bunch of articles this last week slamming the west, and the US in particular for not having any deliverables actually sent to Ukraine in the past month.
  • The Russians are slowly grinding through the Donetsk defensive line.
So the Biden Admin is hitting the panic button and deploying advanced resources from combat units. We are trying to unilaterally supply a proxy war against another great power, but we don't want to actually increase production beyond what can be done by adding another shift and deferring maintenance.

My people on the lines know this is stupid. I know it is stupid. My bosses know this is stupid. I am hearing all sorts of shittalking about this from my contacts in the Military. You fuckers understand that this is stupid. But the motherfuckers in the State Department, the Joint Chiefs, and the White House think this is a brilliant idea. Christ Alive, This feels like what I assume the atmosphere was like in the military production departments of Pre-Revolution WW 1 Russia.
 
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BONE_Buddy said:
What burns me, what really chaps my ass, is that we aren't allocating a single cent to replacing our defense reserves right now. There is also no talk of increasing the next financial year's budget to account for this shit. We are putting out replenishment contracts for Ukraine, but we aren't opening up any new production lines so we can supply ourselves as well.
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Not going to happen, the US is a depleted nation, as is NATO. As an example, the US builds and launches 10 ocean going ships for commerce a year, 4 military ships. The entire commercial fleet of US flagged ships is 200 across the globe, the US navy fleet total runs somewhere around 250-280 with delusions of getting the fleet to 350. This is just one sector where the entire knowledge base is gone, an industry that could literally assemble Liberty Ships in a day is down to 10 a year. This brain drain is present across all industry, the US just doesn't have the institutional knowledge to build up production lines with proper workflows from top to bottom, the worker knowledge doesn't exist, the managers don't exist and the manufacturing line architects largely do not exist. The shit being sent over to Ukraine took decades to build up, the Russian and associated forces are picking up pieces from various munitions lobbed by the Ukranians and they have soldered in battery packs dating back to the Bush Sr administration. Once this shit is gone its effectively gone for good, the Europeans are in worse shape than the fucking US Military. NATO got exposed back in 2011 when it couldn't handle a campaign in its back yard: https://archive.ph/z3lZ3 they ran out of munitions and had to beg an overstretched US military to enforce the no fly zone over Libya, had the US not intervened there is a real chance that Gaddafi could have suppressed the rebellion because European NATO was literally incapable of doing anything. Worse, all of NATO is going through a massive energy crunch that is going to absolutely gut all heavy industry with merciless efficiency.

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Biden has been releasing stores from the Strategic Petro Reserve to just keep the market from imploding, this ends in October, whether its beginning or end of the month I cannot remember. I'd like to say October 31st which is closer to the elections.
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The SPR is probably going to be halved by the end of this supplemental and from there the market is going to fucking dive into oblivion. You've had massive droughts across all NATO nations and energy crunches early in the year which will spike the price of food to insane levels, this is entirely discounting the rarity and expenses of fertilizer this year as well which is a wild card depending on region. So we're looking at a massive fucking spike in food prices, energy and a Fed that is trying to put the breaks on investment in the economy, replete with an ideologically fucked administration in the US and I suppose West in general that wants to prevent any sort of expansion of the oil industry, and in the case of Canada and the Dutch, actively trying to destroy their own agricultural sector.

Its literally impossible under these kind of circumstances to expand any sort of business enterprise, even if the US government offered to pay for literally every expense of trying to set up a factory and staffing it for a year I think some of these companies would still refuse the offer, once the government loses attention because the whole country is imploding they'd be fucked with the expenses of this shit ball factory and property they now have to grease the palms of every environmental group to tear down or attempt to sell to some other gormless fucks.

The witches brew of stresses going on and will escalate in the next year or two will make you glad the US and NATO gave all of these weapons away to the Taliban or Ukraine, even orderly people like the Germans are going to be a fair bit tilted over their energy bill increasing by 1000% this month. Yes, One thousand percent.
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Gehenna said:
This view is understandable but I have to disagree. In my a bit over half-century on this Earth I have seen more and more of this push to believe that the only way one can be successful is to get a degree, any degree. Alongside increasingly ignoring trade schools or methods of employment.

Children are basically indoctrinated to believe the only possible way to have success in life is to get a degree, and that any degree will open up opportunities for you. That kind of propaganda has a lot of effects I cannot fully lay the blame at their feet for. Its hard to argue they should have first planned out for exactly what kind of job they want when what they are told from grade school to high school is that the important thing is to simply have -a- degree.

I'd argue this systemic failure is deliberate though, the goal of much of the forces pushing it is to get kids into college to be indoctrinated into left-wing ideology.
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It’s not just indoctrination of the children before going to college. For some reason a good chunk of boomers with a (D) next to their name just hate seeing their kids find success off the approved path, even if it is being employed within their majors before getting their bachelor’s degree (“It will drop your grades!!!”). Let’s just say I have some personal experience with this kind of idiocy without going into detail.

I think the core issue is that while it might be partly for the sake of left wing indoctrination, the other part is simply to try to control who learns what and how. It is much easier to squelch upcoming talent that could threaten your hold on power if you force certain rules into play. Rules that can be changed and molded by your cabal.
 
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BONE_Buddy said:
What burns me, what really chaps my ass, is that we aren't allocating a single cent to replacing our defense reserves right now. There is also no talk of increasing the next financial year's budget to account for this shit. We are putting out replenishment contracts for Ukraine, but we aren't opening up any new production lines so we can supply ourselves as well.

This latest push to strip everything we have and send it to Ukraine comes from a few things:
  • Ukraine is having to go on a a self-proclaimed "ammo diet" because of various munitions shortages.
  • We got a whole bunch of articles this last week slamming the west, and the US in particular for not having any deliverables actually sent to Ukraine in the past month.
  • The Russians are slowly grinding through the Donetsk defensive line.
So the Biden Admin is hitting the panic button and deploying advanced resources from combat units. We are trying to unilaterally supply a proxy war against another great power, but we don't want to actually increase production beyond what can be done by adding another shift and deferring maintenance.

My people on the lines know this is stupid. I know it is stupid. My bosses know this is stupid. I am hearing all sorts of shittalking about this from my contacts in the Military. You fuckers understand that this is stupid. But the motherfuckers in the State Department, the Joint Chiefs, and the White House think this is a brilliant idea. Christ Alive, This feels like what I assume the atmosphere was like in the military production departments of Pre-Revolution WW 1 Russia.
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Byeaaa we’re done if we actually go to war. Boomers and /k tards will say we’ll beat anyone because we have the most advanced equipment and biggest boats but funding this proxy war is killing the nation(the west overall) and all our manufacturing and raw material capabilitys were hauled overseas decades ago to the people we sperg about being enemies.


They don’t even need to stop doing buisness with us just a hiccup from the demand of little stuff we take for granted like antibiotics or stool hardners will have most of what little infantry and combat arms MOS’ we have die from little cuts and diarrhea.
 
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namelessoracle said:
You are wrong though? Most undergrad STEM degrees are considered insufficient knowledge for employment in their respective fields.

If you think you will find an easy 6 figure job with Chemistry, Physics, Geology, Biology, et cetra you are wrong. Most of those jobs want a Masters now.

Most physics major and chemistry majors go to IT to make money. Even the "easy" job to make money like software engineering has about half the people struggle to find an entry level job.
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You have to find the jobs yourself at least a year before graduation or work on a college STEM team (robotics, speedboat, etc.). If you’re talking with a company employee that works in your field of work they’ll usually work out way for you to meld into their company while you work on your finals. You just have to pregame like mad before graduation day.
Sad thing is, if you would ask your professors for help with figuring this stuff out, they will actually help you if they like either you or your work ethic.
 
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attractive_pneumonia said:
Not going to happen, the US is a depleted nation, as is NATO. As an example, the US builds and launches 10 ocean going ships for commerce a year, 4 military ships. The entire commercial fleet of US flagged ships is 200 across the globe, the US navy fleet total runs somewhere around 250-280 with delusions of getting the fleet to 350. This is just one sector where the entire knowledge base is gone, an industry that could literally assemble Liberty Ships in a day is down to 10 a year. This brain drain is present across all industry, the US just doesn't have the institutional knowledge to build up production lines with proper workflows from top to bottom, the worker knowledge doesn't exist, the managers don't exist and the manufacturing line architects largely do not exist. The shit being sent over to Ukraine took decades to build up, the Russian and associated forces are picking up pieces from various munitions lobbed by the Ukranians and they have soldered in battery packs dating back to the Bush Sr administration. Once this shit is gone its effectively gone for good, the Europeans are in worse shape than the fucking US Military. NATO got exposed back in 2011 when it couldn't handle a campaign in its back yard: https://archive.ph/z3lZ3 they ran out of munitions and had to beg an overstretched US military to enforce the no fly zone over Libya, had the US not intervened there is a real chance that Gaddafi could have suppressed the rebellion because European NATO was literally incapable of doing anything. Worse, all of NATO is going through a massive energy crunch that is going to absolutely gut all heavy industry with merciless efficiency.

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Biden has been releasing stores from the Strategic Petro Reserve to just keep the market from imploding, this ends in October, whether its beginning or end of the month I cannot remember. I'd like to say October 31st which is closer to the elections.
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The SPR is probably going to be halved by the end of this supplemental and from there the market is going to fucking dive into oblivion. You've had massive droughts across all NATO nations and energy crunches early in the year which will spike the price of food to insane levels, this is entirely discounting the rarity and expenses of fertilizer this year as well which is a wild card depending on region. So we're looking at a massive fucking spike in food prices, energy and a Fed that is trying to put the breaks on investment in the economy, replete with an ideologically fucked administration in the US and I suppose West in general that wants to prevent any sort of expansion of the oil industry, and in the case of Canada and the Dutch, actively trying to destroy their own agricultural sector.

Its literally impossible under these kind of circumstances to expand any sort of business enterprise, even if the US government offered to pay for literally every expense of trying to set up a factory and staffing it for a year I think some of these companies would still refuse the offer, once the government loses attention because the whole country is imploding they'd be fucked with the expenses of this shit ball factory and property they now have to grease the palms of every environmental group to tear down or attempt to sell to some other gormless fucks.

The witches brew of stresses going on and will escalate in the next year or two will make you glad the US and NATO gave all of these weapons away to the Taliban or Ukraine, even orderly people like the Germans are going to be a fair bit tilted over their energy bill increasing by 1000% this month. Yes, One thousand percent.
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Not for nothing, but US power companies quietly set the same price hike system up the past year in the US. My power company announced "tiered pricing" based on usage and availability caps. Variable rate power bills, that is to say. Just waiting on that particular shoe to drop.
 
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namelessoracle said:
STEM is actually a huge scam too. Lots of people get STEM degrees and struggle to find a job. The real value in those degrees is the internship pipeline and being eligible for internships to get your foot in the door.
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The Ugly One said:
This was already true 20 years ago. If you got a BS in engineering and did zero internships, good luck getting hired.
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NeoGAF Lurker said:
This is accurate. These days I get applications for engineers of all disciplines with over 3.5 GPAs, internships, and extracurriculars for entry level positions. STEM, at least engineering, is fully saturated. As far as I recall, engineering was one of the last STEM degrees that had considerable growth. The idea of a guaranteed job is no longer a reality for STEM. I don’t think that’s going to change, which changes the value proposition of STEM degrees. Of course, there’s lots of effort to add more diversity and any nigga with an engineering degree will jump to the front of the line. It’s gotta be frustrating to pull all nighters, working your ass off, and see Shitavious who got a 2.1 GPA get a job offer before you. I don’t know how current huwhite engineering students take it so well.
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Shitavious is too lazy to get onto the engineering teams. Even if you are a chemistry major, get on the F1 team and help with the fuel mixtures. It will get you hired because you will have work experience. Don’t just focus on internships, do anything that requires you to build from scratch or from a frame built the year before.
 
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John McAfee said:
If anything it helps the farms. Everything she touches turns to shit in the eyes of the democrats and establishment. She gave us immunity, because what is bad for the gop must be good for the dnc.
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Keffals fucked up by tricking a frothing at the mouth right-winger into her fight. No one on the right gives a shit about places like kiwifarms, save for easily excitable loudmouth tards like MTG, and they have the attention spans of gnats. However, libshits will reactively refuse to do anything about something MTG gets worked up about. By making the highest profile person in the fight against kiwifarms a MAGA right-winger, she's undid all her work in making any leftist not a psychotic troon want to take down something MTG is all worked up about.
 
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I am going to suggest bullshit. The US has more than 500 himars vehicles and is still manufacturing more for the international arms market. Ukraine has less than 30 of them. Money from the big fat grift bill will be going to the mic to build brand new shiny ones for the military, while Ukraine gets the ones that were due to retire.

Carl gustavs are cheap. The US would just buy a bunch if it wanted to send them out.

Anything sourced from Twitter (especially from someone who has been repeatedly wrong about the topic on which he expounds) should be mistrusted until it can be verified.
 
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Kane Lives said:
So who exactly is supporting sending billions to Ukraine while denuding the military of their equipment? Anyone? This can't be a popular move.
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I know this sounds silly but I now kind of understand that Fallout 3 guy who forces the wastelanders to work in the Pittsburgh factories, if just to make sure those skills aren't lost forever. I still remember Ross Perot warning about outsourcing our manufacturing and what it would do, and every single thing he said is true.

Who is supporting sending billions to Jewcraine and stripping us of our weaponry? I don't know, take a guess.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
I am going to suggest bullshit. The US has more than 500 himars vehicles and is still manufacturing more for the international arms market. Ukraine has less than 30 of them. Money from the big fat grift bill will be going to the mic to build brand new shiny ones for the military, while Ukraine gets the ones that were due to retire.

Carl gustavs are cheap. The US would just buy a bunch if it wanted to send them out.

Anything sourced from Twitter (especially from someone who has been repeatedly wrong about the topic on which he expounds) should be mistrusted until it can be verified.
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Sir, how can you prove Twitter even exists?
 
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