Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[Higgenbotham]

https://youtu.be/yc-aGYLaEcQ?t=391
https://youtu.be/yc-aGYLaEcQ?t=809

[aeden]

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You know who they are and understand value.

[aeden]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afLxiMH6u2U
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[aeden]

Out of tlt we surmise demand slack labeled rope burn as noted. No clue willing to x date wait.
No confidence vote to the current regime grifters. Taliban paid billions and better than Americans on the skids.
Democrats are pox. Stumbling block of waste. Senate still awol.

[aeden]

EU demands carbon cutbacks.
They are dead. Simply clubbed fur seal dead and led by now to be extinct self centered dead skirts if they survive to slaves.
https://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/m ... avery.html
https://ziare.com/poluare-romania/comis ... ii-1836495

[Higgenbotham]

Bob Butler, in the way that he presents himself, is sort of the last vestige of liberalism not yet personally gone awry. He remains blissfully unaware. The chickens have not yet come home to roost for him. When I read Bob, I can still get that last little drop of what's left of that delusional early 1990s feeling.

Blissfully Unaware

Martin A. Yeeles (Author)

Description

Set in and around Boston and Cape Cod in the mid-nineties, BLISSFULLY UNAWARE is a light-hearted tale about a conflicted Englishman with a secret, on an extended travel visa, and a list-making young woman on her own odyssey, as they navigate through careers, misunderstandings, and budding courtship.

Product Details

Publisher
Bob's Your Uncle

Publish Date
July 01, 2023

https://bookshop.org/p/books/blissfully ... s/20611833

[Higgenbotham]

This is on the front page of this month's local Community Impact newspaper, but the article isn't on their web site.

[Higgenbotham]

The U.S. Air Force sent out a letter telling an airman booted from the service over the now-rescinded COVID-19 vaccine mandate of an opportunity to rejoin the service, mirroring similar letters sent to former Army service members, according to a copy of one Air Force letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

A former Air Force service member who was separated for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine received the letter Sunday addressed with the recipient’s name, according to a source familiar with the matter. The letter tells former airmen they can request to have their service records amended to show that they received honorable discharges and seek reentry into the service amidst the service’s failure to meet recruiting goals.

It could not be determined exactly how many letters were sent or in what window of time, and the Air Force did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

However, the Air Force letter mirrors similar notices sent to U.S. Army soldiers discharged for the same reason. The Army sent out approximately 1,900 letters to former soldiers discharged over COVID-19 vaccine refusal, a spokesperson confirmed to the DCNF.

“It is too early to determine as the letters were only recently sent out,” Uddin said, referring to the letters’ success in bringing former soldiers back into active service. Only 19 of those separated for vaccine refusal have rejoined as of Sept. 9.

Both the Army and Air Force missed recruiting goals for the fiscal year 2023 in what has become the worst recruiting crisis since the institution of the all-volunteer military.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/21/excl ... come-back/

[Higgenbotham]

I honestly do not believe there is a shortage of competent people. Competent people are usually kept hidden by their immediate management and used to make the manager look good. Incompetents are thus promoted and rewarded and get all the limelight, while competent and worthwhile people are the ones most companies regard as "low level, can't be promoted" and are first to be released in layoffs. And that is a large part of the reason why so many say there is no reward for hard work in the USA, there isn't. The rewards go to the lazy and incompetent who have been allowed to rise to the top, propped up by competent underlings who are regarded as worthless by the corporate management level, because they can't progress.

Moreover, some incompetent managers will do everything in their power to get rid of a worker they know could take their job. I've been on the receiving end of that unpleasantness myself, and it's not fun. You think there is a shortage of competent people because the structure in place does everything possible to not hire them, prevent them from advancing, and get rid of them at first opportunity so there is no more risk to the upper management chain.

To be utterly blunt about it, competent people are not a good fit in the current management structure as practiced in the USA. The current structure is friendly to those who will not make decisions, who change positions frequently (so nobody can see how badly they've screwed things up), who utterly defer to the hierarchy and who express everything in powerpoint slides. Powerpoint slides are, IMHO, a device for making people who know absolutely nothing about the subject they are discussing look like they really understand it. Beware the person who can't tell you about their job without powerpoint, they do not know anything about what they are supposed to be doing but they have tasked their competent workers to make up some slides that will make them look good. It's amazing to listen to them speak, every question will be deferred to Mr. or Ms. XXXXXX who is the person working on that project. Ahem. Just what is the boss doing, playing farmville on facebook? Ah, well, one major high end office I personally know about showed over 100 hrs of access to farmville from that location over six days by network logs, so I'd say that's not too far off the mark!

This isn't Atlas Shrugged, this is more like Atlas Broke Wind. The truly wealthy can pretty much do whatever they please, if they want to make the proper political donations (both parties) and they've go no real problems. The competent can't work, not because of government, but because we built a corporate structure that is hostile to competence, but very friendly to empire building and "good old boy" systems hidden in the workplace. It's no wonder so many simply pack up and leave, the US is a very unfriendly place to competence now. I've certainly considered it, and hang the higher taxes! I'll make twice as much in two or three years just from getting out from under this "Harvard Business School" model of business.

Why Great Managers Are So Rare
Companies fail to choose the candidate with the right talent for the job 82% of the time, Gallup finds

BY RANDALL J. BECK AND JIM HARTER

Management talent exists in every company. It's often hiding in plain sight.

Gallup has found that one of the most important decisions companies make is simply whom they name manager. Yet our analytics suggest they usually get it wrong. In fact, Gallup finds that companies fail to choose the candidate with the right talent for the job 82% of the time.

https://www.gallup.com/workplace/231593 ... -rare.aspx

[Higgenbotham]

EXCLUSIVE: Illegal Chinese Pot Grows Are Taking Over Rural Blue State And Law Enforcement Isn’t Stopping Them

JENNIE TAER
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER

November 22, 2023


PORTLAND, Maine — Illegal marijuana grows run by Chinese nationals have sprung up all across the state of Maine, and residents say law enforcement isn’t doing enough to stop their spread.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified 270 suspected Chinese illegal marijuana grow operations in the state that could be making an estimated $4.37 billion in revenue, which are often used for more criminal activities or are sent back to China, the DCNF exclusively reported in August. The DCNF visited dozens of properties identified as suspected Chinese marijuana grows by the DHS memo, as well as other locations reported to be possible Chinese marijuana grows by The Maine Wire.

Maine offers marijuana legalization, making it the perfect place for such operations, according to experts and officials who spoke with the DCNF. The lax laws, combined with record illegal immigration to the U.S. under the Biden administration, which has also limited deportations, provide cover to the grows.

“This is a failure I believe of both the state government and the federal government, and it’s time people start taking this more seriously,” Republican Maine State Rep. Austin Theriault, who is vying for Democratic Rep. Jared Golden’s seat in Congress, told the DCNF. “This is a lack of political will, there’s many other areas the government’s not afraid to get involved, but for some reason they’re not willing to put their foot down and start to crack down on some of these illegal operations and I want to see that happen.”

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/22/chin ... nts-maine/

These are my top 3 general characteristics of a civilization that is on the cusp of entering a dark age/has just entered a dark age (in other words, where I think we are right now):

1. Decline in societal standards
2. Functional failure of government
3. Lack of accountability

Each of these should be prefaced by the word extreme, which also applies to the present situation, in my opinion. Once the society is well into the dark age the top 3 characteristics are different.