I know plenty of examples of stuff like this being true, including for myself (BS in Business Management from state school satellite campus)

Most people do not have the drive or desire to really “make it” in their career, so they don’t.

https://twitter.com/deedydas/status/1845694223196295587

They think they have to have a career in tech with graduate level degrees and simply showing up every day will get them promoted and rewarded. It doesn’t really work that way. The rest of the world is filled by physical things that have enormous industries around them

Hope you are enjoying the news that your government can remotely detonate pagers. Just know that your smart phone has a lot more potential power than an old pager. Here is a video of an iPhone being induced to explode. Some people don’t think it’s possible for a phone to explode in this way without the external power source. I’m not so sure of that. Whether or not it is possible to remotely hack a device and overload it in such a way to make the thermal runaway happen explosively is very much up for debate.

I can say for certain that it is possible in some use cases with similar form factor battery designs. I would also say that if this is known to phone and battery manufacturers, they will go above and beyond to keep that quiet, and for good reason.

People think that when li-ion batteries overheat they simply melt, but it’s all a matter of how fast the reaction happens. For instance, in cylindrical cell EV batteries, often the mitigation tactic to surround the cells in a medium that will slow, not stop the reaction. When a cell like that goes off, there really isn’t anything you can do to stop it.

In the case of a mobile device, they control this problem with a series of failsafes and fuses. My questions is what happens if you can remotely bypass those? Can you remotely bypass them? If you can, then I don’t think it’s outside the realm of possibility that you could rapidly overclock a battery and get an explosion.

We've all seen the videos and photos of the Patriot Front guys, who dress in khakis, polos, white balaclavas and seem, at first to be the most ridiculous fed op around. When I set off on this, I assumed it would be a lay up, like the "neo nazis" in Florida. I was wrong 🧵

https://twitter.com/Stephen19718352/status/1698211236108775594

First we need a bit of background. Patriot Front (PF) is a relatively new group. According to all the sources I can find, they are an offshoot of Vanguard America, another suspicious group that was front and center at Charlottesville.

It’s not even hard to track the Fed connection to this. This took me about 5 minutes to unravel. Pohlhaus comes out of nowhere and gets “a following.” Then he somehow starts buying property in Maine with……..

https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1698109744504840597

This guy named Fred Ramey. Who is a mutli-convicted felon (federal charges 🤔), who has spent the last several years campaigning for Pete Buttegieg and Andrew Yang?????

I was in a meeting with the President of a tier 1 automotive supplier today. He went on a rant about how the largest car companies in the world are literally losing billions solely from the incompetence of diversity hires. In the automotive world, supply chains are hyper complex. The OEMs get the sorts for cars from a cascading tier system of suppliers. They flow down requirements that may go down 6 or 7 levels

The OJ Simpson case was the point of no return for race relations in the United States. Things were slowly trending positively into the 90’s. We almost lost it with Rodney King, but OJ was the final nail in the coffin. Let me explain There was a peak of sorts in the 80’s and 90’s as white america became more accepting of black culture and famous blacks were willing to temper things to draw in white fans and audience

Boomers, as a group, would drink the blood of the young for another year of legitimacy or 5 years of life. They would end humanity for all time to survive a little longer themselves

https://twitter.com/citybureaucrat/status/1557863456082100225

I’m not joking. Feeding tubes and advanced aging care will be a weight around the neck of the world for the next 40 years. There’s never been a generation so large, rich and obsessed with themselves as the boomers. There is no limit to their collective selfishness

IQ zealots are ridiculous. Most of them have nothing in their life but their high IQ. They believe it is the driving force behind success while they shine the shoes of people 30 points below them.

It’s important, but they avoid 2 key things: 1. There is a lower ceiling to break through, which makes you capable of most things. I’d say it’s 115-120ish.

2. It is very clearly altered by background, study and test-taking aptitude.

I once had an HVAC guy in my house for 2 days. There was a lot of sitting around waiting for parts and other actions to be completed. We got to talking and he was the most content human I’ve ever met

https://twitter.com/Stephen19718352/status/1658271584409333761

He found my obsessive striving to be totally insane. Making way more money than is needed to have a decent house in a decent neighborhood and support a family seemed like the dumbest thing ever to him

Starting to think elite overproduction is the coal in this furnace that’s burning way too hot. All of this clownish cultural garbage is a result of people elevated to a station that doesn’t need to exist. Would-be housewives and store clerks are now marketing managers and profs The idea seems to be that anyone who can be taught to read be put on a track to college and white collar work. No matter their intelligence, mental makeup, or desire to do so

As someone who has spent the last 15 or so years climbing corporate ladders, I can tell you that you have no idea how morally bankrupt and socially diseased the modern American corporation is. Ive worked mostly for firms that are not explicitly woke. Here’s a quick thread on it Today, I’m a VP level at a very small company. It has its own set of issues, but at least I’ve met the guy that owns the joint and if I can make a coherent case for something, it gets listened to. But most of the practices of a mega-corp flow down to all of them