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@DarkMessiahNF "Elitist"?
Mr. Campbell had a meltdown when I pointed out that there is an actual base of expertise needed to become a competent engineer. Here is what I wrote.
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Mr. Campbell had a meltdown when I pointed out that there is an actual base of expertise needed to become a competent engineer. Here is what I wrote.
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@DarkMessiahNF
Linking to the individual tweets, because Twitter is having the usual threading issues.
Linking to the individual tweets, because Twitter is having the usual threading issues.
@DarkMessiahNF Apparently, in Aaron's mental world, we're supposed to ignore the public safety issues posed by handing design duties over to inadequately trained "engineers" so that an obscure, willfully ignorant man-child from Ohio will be protected from his own anger management issues.
@DarkMessiahNF Somebody so ignorant that he literally thinks that the guy who pours the cement in a building's foundation not only must know how to competently design buildings, but everything else that might be designed - airplanes, spacecraft, chemical reactors, power plants ...
@DarkMessiahNF He is either trolling, insane or both.
He was well worth blocking, and I'd recommend that you block him, too. One does not owe a dialog to every random maniac who passes.
He was well worth blocking, and I'd recommend that you block him, too. One does not owe a dialog to every random maniac who passes.
@DarkMessiahNF Here's a little reading for those woke people who think that Engineering is a good thing for amateurs to get into.\
harpers.org/archive/1998/1…
Read about David Hahn, "the radioactive boy scout."
harpers.org/archive/1998/1…
Read about David Hahn, "the radioactive boy scout."
@DarkMessiahNF That was a damage a teen was able to inflict on himself, with just the resources at his disposal. Despite the pig ignorance of people like the OP to the contrary, Engineering is a collection of very deep subjects.
Get it wrong, and people get hurt.
Get it wrong, and people get hurt.
@DarkMessiahNF Get it really wrong, with more resources at one's disposal than Mr. Hahn did, and people die.
To return to the loudmouthed Mr. Campbell's example of choice, picture the carnage if a building collapses. Say, a high-rise in the middle of a major city.
To return to the loudmouthed Mr. Campbell's example of choice, picture the carnage if a building collapses. Say, a high-rise in the middle of a major city.
@DarkMessiahNF Does somebody want to support Aaron for the sake of being "sensitive" to the feelings of somebody who isn't being allowed to design airplanes "merely" because he is not qualified to do so?
How about the feelings of those who are about to die in a plane crash? Do they count?
How about the feelings of those who are about to die in a plane crash? Do they count?
@DarkMessiahNF How far should the rest of us being prepared to go, how ready should the rest of us be to sacrifice each other, just for the sake of a group of people who refuse to grow up?
@DarkMessiahNF You want to be a professional, have a chunk of an alphabet behind your name? Well, you have to do real work and you have to earn it, and that's what real scientists, engineers, mathematicians, et al. are doing, first in undergrad and then in grad school.
@DarkMessiahNF Frankly, I'm more than a little bit appalled that we're even having this discussion.
@DarkMessiahNF What kind of person would even want to put out products that would maim or kill, just for the sake of a little unearned personal validation, much less demand the opportunity to do so as if he were entitled to it.
@DarkMessiahNF How much craziness, how much death and destruction should the rest of us be expected to accept, before feeling morally comfortable with the idea of saying "no more"? Of expecting adults to act and think like adults, and not like whiny, spoiled little children?
@DarkMessiahNF Where do the rest of us draw the line, and say "this far and no more"? Because people like Aaron won't draw it, at all. They'll just push and push until they get pushed back.
@DarkMessiahNF I just took a moment and blocked all of Mr. Campbell's followers. I'd recommend that anybody reading this do the same.
If they're going to choose to follow somebody that visibly insane, there's a good chance that they're just as crazy, themselves.
If they're going to choose to follow somebody that visibly insane, there's a good chance that they're just as crazy, themselves.
@DarkMessiahNF The unroll:
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Archived copies:
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