14 thoughts on “Colleges”

  1. “Colleges are turning/have turned into hate-crime hoax mills.”

    And they aren’t even very good at it! There are 19.9 million students enrolled in American colleges and universities this year (source: national center for education statistics), and the city-journal article reports that are “dozens” of hate crime hoaxes originating at colleges, giving examples from 2013, 2016, and 2018 as well as this year. Dozens? That’s pathetic. What sort of mill has such low productivity?!

    1. The bigger issue is the culture behind it that negatively impacts people’s lives. It is an unhealthy culture that produces fake hate crimes, the fake hate crimes are just a symptom of a culture that negatively impacts the everyday lives of everyone on campus. Often times these events lead to innocent groups and individuals being punished but also campus wide re-education programs even when they know the events were fake. This is on top of the existing re-education programs students are forced to participate in.

      To make things even worse, the people who make the false claims get rewarded for their behavior. It also creations problems like Warren claiming to be a native American, Dolezal and King claiming to be black.

      The same is true for allegations of sex crimes. It is a larger issue than just a few dozen innocent men getting their lives ruined or colleges losing lawsuits. It impacts every single interaction between the sexes.

      These Marxist population control policies that Democrats have enacted in colleges create a climate of fear, suspicion, distrust, and antagonism.

    2. Oberlin was effective enough to get a $25 million fine. That’s probably 250 full tuitions lost, because faculty decided to make a incredible accusation against an innocent person. I think they deserved the full $44 million levied against them. Far more than a dozen people believed the faculty.

      1. They deserve a lot worse than they got. Payback’s supposed to be a bitch, but I don’t think it’s going to be enough of one. They’ll probably be hit with a dip in donations and enrollments, but will continue to double down on crazy.

    3. “Dozens? That’s pathetic. What sort of mill has such low productivity?!”

      LOL! +42, Bob-1.

  2. Senator Warren is beyond that. She is now claiming to be a working-class white person (Honey, would you like a beer?)

  3. After the first debate, I referenced SNL’s 1999 “Enchilada” skit, with Jimmy Smits. He was working for some news network and the staff were enamored with pronouncing Spanish words like “enchilada” with thick Spanish accents. It was mock worthy then as now. I guess Beto missed that episode.

    In other news, aside from discovering a completely different way a 737 system could nose the plane into the ground, unrelated to MCAS, it turns out Boeing had fired tons of senior engineers, reasoning that they were no longer needed because Boeing’s aircraft were mature, and were farming the software out to recent graduates from India who were making $9 an hour.

    This was apparently harder than just having the US engineers write the code themselves, but resulted in some major aircraft sales to Indian airlines.

    I think maybe too many managers there have been reading “How to Destroy a Great Company in Six Easy Steps”.

    It makes me wonder if the astronauts on the CST-100 are going to end up saying “Houston, we have a problem. Can you connect us to technical support in Bangalore?”

    1. This is what happens when you put MBA types in charge of an engineering company and let them make engineering decisions. MBA schools teach that higher next quarter profits over ride everything else.

    2. Six Easy Steps? Six? You don’t give them credit on efficiency. Even United is more efficient.

  4. If I understand the fractured accounts that I’ve read, the failure was at a much higher level than code jockeys. There had to be a whole series of design errors and test design failures for it to happen. If something so basic was missed, what else is there, waiting to crash an airplane.

    Why should anyone believe that Boeing aircraft are safe? It’ll take more than sincere pronouncements and a new set of posters in the lunch rooms to convince me.

    1. No mode of transportation is “safe.” Someone wrote a book about that. I think that Boeing aircraft are highly reliable, and unlikely to crash, based on their track record. I think the issue of the MAX is a design flaw that most competent pilots can work around, but needs to be fixed to improve the safety to acceptable levels. But I also think that it was a mistake for the FTC to allow Boeing to have no domestic competition in airline manufacturing, and that McDonnell Douglas should have been sold to someone else.

  5. So he did. The problem is that risk is so close to zero. To have two planes out of only a few in service and in such a short period of time crash from the same flaw represents a huge spike. When the problem is systemic and to all appearances partially caused by a deliberate decision to conceal information from the pilots that need to work around it, it rises orders of magnitude above a common accident. The culture that accepted this is rotten.

    I don’t see how the latest issue doesn’t affect the entire recent 737 fleet, and I wonder if it ends there. It’s really hard to tell what is the problem from the reports I’ve read, but I’m pretty sure that large parts of the control software and processing is common between different models.

    I wasn’t paying attention to McDonnell Douglas when they were sold but I wonder how many other viable offers there could have been. They had ceased being a competitor long before.

    We’ll have to wait and see if China can become competitive.

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