Look how these Art degree morons describe the result of this rocket test by Musk… “humiliating explanation!”…
SpaceX Falcon Heavy landing explosion forces Elon Musk into humiliating explanationhttps://t.co/PSYWlohkHI pic.twitter.com/nQsiq2mQZe
— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) June 27, 2019
Here’s musk:
"The South African entrepreneur posted: “High entry force & heat breached engine bay & centre engine TVC failed.”
No biggie… make some adjustments…
That was a few years ago now today:
Amazing success for the Falcon Heavy with USSF-67 - watching these side boosters land never gets old. 👏 @SpaceX @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/0wFYXBLjQO
— Rupert Myers (@RupertMyers) January 16, 2023
These Art degree people are disgraced dummies… a humiliation of humanity…
We need to default…
9 comments:
Vapourware King had a setback...
Why he isn't in jail with Elizabeth Holmes is a mystery...
Yeah those 2 didn’t land,,,
You need to to reevaluate your life.,,
Musk is a crook who should go to jail, but he's too big to fail...
MATT: I think that it is your lack of Art degree training that makes you fail to see that the message given has nothing to with reality, and that the Art degree folk do not intend it to. You cannot have it both ways -- either the Art degree people understand that what they write is merely propaganda (I assure you they do understand that) or they simply do not understand (wrong, they know perfectly well which experts to consult to get the truth). You are like Andrei Martyanov, eh! Boris Johnson is a GREAT propagandist (the facts of the matter really are irrelevant to him). So you can criticize the "Art degree people" for dishonesty OR for stupidity and ignorance, but it is one or the other.
I think that Matt exaggerates the point, perhaps out of exaggeration, as does Andrei.
But there is definitely a problem involved and it appears to me to be in the selection process. A lot people who are unqualified for the position they occupy find themselves there anyway. Some intellectual prostitution is probably involved and that probability looks to be pretty large but something also appears to be wrong with the institutional arrangements of the system.
However, I don't think this is primarily a matter of STEM vs non-STEM training. That fits some cases, to be sure, but not all. Putting STEM trained people in positions that require other qualifications would be making the same mistake.
Neither is STEM training the be-all and end-all solution. STEM training is by field and specialists in one field or branch are not necessarily fungible with other fields, even related one, let alone across the spectrum of knowledge, experience, and skill.
I think there is a larger issue involved in addition. That is to say, not enough qualified people are being trained to occupy all the positions that require special qualifications. That is a problem with the educational system, which is supposed to transmit knowledge across generations.
There is also a further question. Has modern civilization become too complex for the population at large to handle? Could the system even be improved enough to make a significant difference? How?
These are key questions now that humanity faces major challenges with respect to its very survival — nuclear conflict, climate change, and pandemics, for example.
For example, is it even possible to have a functioning democracy without the requisite education to prepare the population for its foundational role in governance? American philosopher and education was a pioneer in this investigation, which unfortunately no longer seems to be a priority.
I should clarify this: I think that Matt exaggerates the point, perhaps out of exaggeration, as does Andrei.
What I mean here is as a matter ofhyperbole. It's a "figure of speech."
Of course, Matt may not be using it that way but rather intending it literally. Andrei too.
Andrei seems to be using it literally in that people writing about military matters that assume technological expertise are clearly out of their field and unqualified if they don't have those qualifications. Andrei's most serious indictment is that this training is no longer included in professional military training schools like West Point. Clearly, people tasked with policy and strategy analysis and especially decision making won't be adequately qualified without it. Journalists can't be held to the same standard, though, even though they are important influencers.
I think you guys are out to lunch -- there is no question that the US Fed knew what idiocy trying to ban Russian from swift, and stealing Russian financial assets, was, and apparently went around Washington pleading with the Clintonites/Bidenites not to go through with their idiot proposals, but the FED has as many "art degree" types as the White House.
NOPE! You guys got it wrong. To understand the current situation, it is better to bone up on Iago and Cassius, or conversely Banquo, to understand the present.
Nobody is disputing the turn away from STEM and evidence-based education and reporting, nor North-America's financialization at the expense of its productive capacity, but the real story is about corruption and the short-term time-horizons of Anglo-Saxon financial capitalism.
the real story is about corruption and the short-term time-horizons of Anglo-Saxon financial capitalism.
Agree and I think I have been saying that for a long time. The elite control the system and they are motivated by money and power, and they shape the system accordingly.
The actual dynamic shaping what happens down the line is the result of competition among factions of the elite, not unlike among Mafia "families."
In days of old, elites at least attempted to found or preserve dynasties, which gave them somewhat of a long-term perspective. Now it is short-term all the way.
@Tom Hickey very nicely said. What is idiosyncratic about the current situation is that financial globalization has reduced the number of gangs -- US/UK financial interests have been leading a kind of Sinaloa Cartel in almost all countries, and now that is falling apart, but those still under the Sinaloa thumb are forced/themselves desire to remain on the same page -- that is what the whole McKinsey business is about in France and Canada -- making sure everyone toes the same line, concocted in the same Washington Institutions, with some assistance from the City of London and its financial satellites.
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