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No Expertise

29 Wednesday Nov 2023

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The Guardian released an article about the GAE’s lack of nuclear weapons readiness. It waffled all over the place and bent every number it included. One part did jump out at me:

In 2018, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) produced a plan to meet the defense department’s goal of 80 pits a year by maximizing production lines at Los Alamos and converting a plant near the Savannah River in South Carolina originally built to dispose of 34 tons of cold war-era plutonium deemed unneeded by nuclear weapons programs . But the project was unsuccessful and cancelled in 2020.

According to the Scientific American report, the first 800 new pits would go to the Sentinel program, and then all 1,900 US submarine-launched missiles would be refreshed. The new warheads would also be shock-resistant, or “insensitive” to accidental detonation that could disperse plutonium.

But there is now no pit-production expertise at the South Carolina facility and cost estimates have already grown from $3.6bn to over $11bn for a third fewer pits. In January, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) warned that the NNSA’s plutonium modernization program had not developed “either a comprehensive schedule or a cost estimate that meets GAO best practices”.

All of this coming on what Military Times deemed a crisis over a decade ago in a field that has been steadily sliding since the 1990s. The admission there is no plan and, more importantly, no expertise in the very technical engineering area dovetails with what I have observed and what I’ve been saying for some time now. Tom Ironsides even specifically addressed this issue regarding SRS/P in THE SUBSTITUTE.

As the decline of all things truly becomes terminal, the GAE will slowly drop out of the nuclear arena. With the GAO now admitting the lack of competence and expertise it is likely that the empire has passed the necessary generational skills gap meaning those who knew how to make and use tritium and reforge plutonium cores are no longer around to explain the process to those who do not know. The very good news is that in the unlikely event of a nuclear exchange, the GAE’s participation will be severely limited in the near future and practically impossible in a decade or so.

Cyber Cickness and “Love”

29 Friday Sep 2023

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This story is another headache for ‘Murican and Werewestern demographics, already feeling the pinch and bite of postmodernity. The cult of death and insanity strikes again:

The rise of virtual artificial intelligence (AI) girlfriends is enabling the silent epidemic of loneliness in an entire generation of young men. It is also having severe consequences for America’s future.

How is something that seems so ridiculous — a virtual AI girlfriend — causing a future crisis among Americans? Well, with millions of users, apps have created virtual girlfriends that talk to you, love you, allow you to live out your erotic fantasies, and learn, through data, exactly what you like and what you don’t like, creating the “perfect” relationship.

It creates the perfect storm of demographic collapse and sociopathic lunacy. And, as it was formerly constituted, America is dead; it has no future. The silver lining for any remaining real American men is that they will have a wider choice in real women. In general, however, it looks more and more like all technical advancement beyond the steam engine was a mistake. Remember, for future historians to look back and ask, “How stupid were those people?”, there has to be people for the future. Pull the plug on the AI “relationships” for humanity’s sake.

Bureaucratic Gerrymandering

08 Friday Sep 2023

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I observed several years ago that the Census was approaching the point of unreliability. Therefore, it is no surprise they have been using their rigged numbers to rig elections.

The 2022 midterms will likely shape the future of the country for years to come, and just as the FBI appears to have influenced the 2020 election, liberal bureaucrats have “made mistakes” that just happen to benefit Democrats. As Nancy Pelosi worked diligently to try and take over elections to tilt them in her favor and liberals pretended gerrymandering doesn’t benefit them, the Census Bureau was busy “accidentally” giving Democrats more seats in the House of Representatives and more votes in the Electoral College.

In a stunning report, the U.S. Census Bureau recently revealed mistakes that will shape federal elections and funding over the next decade. Liberals in the federal bureaucracy don’t even seem to be trying to hide this one. Of the eight states that were overcounted, all but one were blue states. Among the states that were undercounted, all but one were red states.

The Census Bureau did not explain how it made such a costly mistake.

They’re probably not able to explain anything, being too incompetent. But their weakness in doing the one thing they are legally required to do is a great benefit to the dark state. Going forward, ‘Muricans are just going to have to vOaT much much harder. You’d better start stretching and practicing for 2024 now.

A Love Lost

05 Tuesday Sep 2023

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Read Peter Hitchens’s excellent review of the changes in the USSA he’s observed since 1977. It all kind of goes to this one observation: “I actually won a competition, in (of all places) the Economist, and so was able to go, in some style, to a country most British people seldom saw in those days, when England was much more English and America much more American.”

Fly Me Outrageous

01 Friday Sep 2023

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An unusual file for the nothing works anymore folder:

As Idalia hit Florida, all of NOAA’s hurricane-hunting planes were grounded

As Hurricane Idalia rapidly approached Florida’s Big Bend region early Wednesday morning, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had to ground its last remaining “hurricane hunter” plane due to a generator failure.

Read the whole thing. With all the increasing talk about outright war between the GAE and Russia, know that the USSAF is in only slightly better shape than NOAA’s fleet. The big difference is that hurricanes can’t fire interceptor missiles nor level air force bases and supply infrastructure (not directly in their path, I suppose). Hurricane’s don’t normally destroy satellite ISR either. Little things like that.

Fewer and Shunned

05 Saturday Aug 2023

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An update of sorts on this week’s column. Joseph Bronski notes the geniuses left in fading Western society are generally shunned by their lower-IQ peers to the detriment of society as a whole.

Two immediate causes suggest themselves: fewer geniuses, and less public willingness to recognize and celebrate genius. Some data support the first hypothesis, at least in so far as general intelligence is declining and having high cognitive ability is a precondition for being a creative genius. However, there are countervailing forces, such as more people and more mobility, which allow people to maximize their potential. Thus, this is likely not the predominant cause. Instead, the more important cause is that we are failing to recognize genius.

Also, pay close attention to the part about purging competence.

Richard Hofstadter once observed the thin difference between intelligence and intellect in his Anti-Intellectualism In American Life. He was somewhat correct about the long-standing suspicions of Americans against the educated academic types. This has continued, being compounded by an outright hostility to V/UHIQs. The process is accelerating and will continue to worsen for the foreseeable future. This means, in addition to lack of advance, there will likely be some form of reversion and societal regression. It’s already observable as it starts. This will be compounded by other related matters. Again, there is no voting this problem away.

Reverse Imperialism and Europe

08 Monday May 2023

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Elements posted an interesting take on the slow slide of post-modern Europe. Mechanical translation:

The decline of Europe

For Julien Freund, decadence is an inevitable historical phenomenon. To use the subtitle of his work Decadence, of a « category of human experience ». The philosopher thus recalls that « every great civilization has its Barbarians, which it tries to conquer, with the more or less firm will to assimilate them until the moment when it finds that the relationship has been reciprocal and that it is itself exhausted in this game ». In fact, « its decadence is already part of its expansion ».

As Vox has said, empire is the art of choosing which foreigners will rule over one’s grandchildren. Europeans chose very poorly.

The solution, beyond the obvious need to remove the reverse conquerors, may come from some of the ideas in Terry Hulsey’s new book. Crisis, perhaps recovering a little from its COVID-Ukraine stupor (now do V2!), has an interesting defense of monarchy by Robert Shaffern:

The French monarchy has often been described as absolute, but that word poorly describes the actual regime. Many government responsibilities lay beyond the authority of the throne. While the French king was the only source of legislation for the entire realm, the king’s decrees only became efficacious when they were registered by the Parlement of Paris; thus, at the very least, the wishes of the king could be delayed. Both the British and French monarchies had to obtain the approval of the Parliament and Estates General, respectively, to collect new taxes.

The Enlightenment notion that king = bad, and muh democracy = good is part of what has led Europe, the USSA, and the rest of the West to the brink of utter disaster. Here’s hoping our future may look a little more like our past.

Lowering the Risk of Nuclear War

28 Friday Apr 2023

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If one side can’t fight, then there isn’t much chance of an atomic exchange.

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NSAA), an agency in the Department of Energy, delivered its latest Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan to Congress on Monday.

The Associated Press (AP) pointed out the absence of the deadline for ramping up production of plutonium pits – basic components of thermonuclear weapons – at the historic New Mexico facility. Last year’s report said Los Alamos would be manufacturing 30 pits per year (ppy) by 2026.

The NSAA seeks to produce 80 plutonium pits annually, with the Savannah River Site in South Carolina scheduled to ramp up production to 50 ppy by 2030.

No pits, no boom. This isn’t a bad thing. And the USSA should probably go ahead and give up on nuclear ideas, weapons and power, and concentrate on maintaining running water and petroleum.

Iran Knows

06 Thursday Apr 2023

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks the plain truth.

“Facts show that America was weaker under Obama’s administration than Bush’s administration. The US was weaker under Trump’s administration than the way it was under Obama’s administration. The US is weaker under [Joe Biden’s] administration than it was under Trump’s administration,” Khamenei proclaimed, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency.

The whole world knows now, and things are moving so fast it’s getting hard to keep track of them. After the war, all of this will be good news for any Americans who survive.