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SophisticatedHillbilly
2m ago
I will jump in on the “I’ll take this problem off your hands” idea.
Is your concern here just taxes? If so just sell it and make a reasonable guess as to the basis, file the taxes, stick the money in an investment account, and give it a year or two to see if the agency wants their money. Or just do the zero basis thing and pay full taxes. Either option results in you coming out better than nothing.
DeanoBongino
7m ago
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by human incompetence. Unfortunately, industrial explosions are rather common (see r/CatastropicFailure for proof). I imagine this is another industrial accident rather than some sort of hostile attack.
My friend is an industrial welder, he's told me our town has multiple large chemical plants which are basically bombs ready to explode.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
8m ago
All of the above, and the more contracts get diverted to small, minority owned businesses, the sloppier it gets. I saw my share of Certified Women/Minority Owned Businesses that just bid on contracts, any contract, and then aggressively staff up with questionable contractors to meet the letter of the contract. More or less the only permanent employees they have are project managers. Everyone else is from temp firms, H1B, and maybe a few private contractors with actual experience for the lead roles.
HereAndGone
8m ago
But WHY AREN'T THEY TALKING ABOUT THE REALLY REALLY LIKELY RUSSIAN SABOTAGE THAT JUST HAPPENED IN TENNESSEE KILLING 16 AMERICAN CITIZENS AND DESTROYING AN INDUSTRIAL DEFENSE CONCERN?
Because "blast in explosives factory" is not necessarily "OMG, the only possible explanation is Russian sabotage"? Flour mills blow up, too, as do cement plants, and they're not even deliberately making things that go "boom!"
SaltCheck
11m ago
Regarding the origins of wokeism, recently I chanced upon the concept of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (MTD), it also has a Wikipedia entry. Basically there are people who argue that general wokification of institutions is an internal development of some of the American elite's religion, via Unitarianism and then Unitarian Universalism, and the general "be nice, don't judge, don't harm" morality of Oprah with a deistic God you can occasionally call upon for some encouragement but doesn't demand much, just to be kind, there are many equally valid paths etc. This is of course not the same as the mandatory activism required by woke, not merely a lack of judging etc. But it is the basis for the willingness of simply nice decent people to obey such demands.
I would also consider post-WWII Boomer morality, incl John Lennon Imagine, etc, which doesn't seem all that influenced by the postmodern writers like Foucault or Derrida.
Another set of people point to a merger of a mutated American Civic Religion and German Guilt Pride (the phenomenon where Germans feel superior and proud of how well they have done the processing of the past, the Vergangenheitsbewältigung).
I don't think there needs to be a single origin.
ChickenOverlord
11m ago
9 times out of 10 I assume it is "woman owned" because the owner gave 51% of ownership to his wife specifically for the purpose of gaming such contracts. My brother-in-law works at a factory where the owner did just that, and I have similar plans if I start a business.
Supah_Schmendrick
13m ago
It's never been entirely clear to me how much of that was actual "feminist interpretive dancer-turned-defense contractor exec" and how much was "well we'll put General So-and-So's son's wife down as the President of the LLC for compliance purposes, but everyone knows the General still calls the shots"
Supah_Schmendrick
20m ago
Does that mean woke activism is just a far right extension of Nazi legal theory adapted to modern times?
Clearly not an extension in the sense of merely being an appendage of. However, it would be fair to say that there is some degree of cross-pollination (though the influence can certainly be overstated; significantly less than Freud and the psychoanalysts, for example).
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
33m ago
"small industrial producer trying to make many metric shit-tons of TNT without grizzled old guys missing fingers to pass on the important lessons, goes about how you expect."
Well, it was a Certified Women-Owned Small Business gaming the system for government contracts. Personally saw that shit all the time on contracts we were bidding for.
phailyoor
53m ago
But what shocks me is that the right wing news organizations aren't looking into it!
Hating russia isn't right coded. What's the angle here?
TeknOShEeP
54m ago
According to news sources, the plant manufacturered TNT, among other things.
TNT has several relevant attributes here: compared to most high explosives, it is considerably cheaper, which means it can be produced in comparatively large quantities. Compared to most high explosives, it is also very unstable and dangerous (C4 famously can be burned without detonation, other military-grade HEXs are similar). TNT is also very dirty to manufacture, and has been mostly been banned from production in the US, with defense concerns only recently restarting production (AES appears to be one of those concerns). As a result, there is limited current experience in the US with best practices for safety measures.
While I am not a certified demolitions and ordnance engineer, I've dealt with them in the past, and this whole thing reeks of: "small industrial producer trying to make many metric shit-tons of TNT without grizzled old guys missing fingers to pass on the important lessons, goes about how you expect." Like the amount of safety precautions we had to take for explosives in the double-digit grams was both immense and sadly very necessary (an improperly sodered inflator squib blew up in an inspectors face killing him, shit is hazardous).
So I guess my point here is this seems like the logic of hoofbeats and zebras- malicious intervention from a foreign power is a possibility, certainly, but it seems vastly more probable this was an industrial accident.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
57m ago
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1hr ago
but I don't see what anyone else gains.
I'm at a loss myself, but I think the status thing might be a big part of the equation. Some people built their entire philosophy around "Uncle Roy is wrong".
Shrike
1hr ago
The only explanations I can come to are that it was the Russians, and that's why it isn't being speculated in the news that it was the Russians.
I think this is plausibly correct. It might not even be about the Tomahawks: we're running sabotage teams on Russian soil, they're running sabotage teams on ours, we're both pretending that we aren't. Maybe something else happened in the specific case in Tennessee but my guess is that there's been an entire series of Recent Incidents that may later be revealed, if the .gov/Kremlin opens the books in 50 years, to have been done by Russian sabotage teams.
For states, violence is a form of negotiation. It makes governments look bad to admit that foreign sabotage teams are operating in their soil (both internationally, as it may constitute an act of war with the implications that entails and domestically, as it signals impotence or incompetence) but if you don't want to come off looking weaker in the negotiation you need to respond.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
1hr ago
"Yes I have depression, anxiety, PTSD, EDS, mast cell blah blah and 5 allergies as well as a non-typical gender presentation." That person is a borderline who refuses diagnosis or is not diagnosed.
Idk man, I am one of these, and I'm a man. Perhaps I'm extremely rare. But the article matches my personal experience extremely well.
Again, what is the point of labeling it "borderline?" How does that solve anything? You're still agreeing that this is a real phenomena just putting it into a different box.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
1hr ago
Indeed! As I told @The_Nybbler, I think pretty much everyone here is basically shaman-typed. We are heavily selected if we post on niche internet forums, you know.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
1hr ago
My advice, find yourself a lady who likes shamans and makes a lot of money. Assuming you're a man.
To this day you find leftists who insist that progressive liberals aren't actually leftists. Nobody in the American system cares much but they'll passionately insist that America doesn't really have a left because they're all liberals.
The obscuring factor here is that progressive liberals seem to see leftists as closer to them politically than right liberals. But leftists will generally attack them even more for being more susceptible to their attacks than right libs.
Of course, when they're attacked from the outside they have no problem hiding behind the ambiguity.
But your uncle is straightforwardly right about DEI, and your denials are just inadvertant gaslighting
The uncle/"simple as" stuff really does feed my belief that it just comes down to these terms being low status.
I don't know that any of the supposedly technical or more accurate terms - like Mounk's "identity synthesis" - are actually superior in intuitiveness to "cultural Marxism" or, even worse, "gay race communism". Those other terms are just used by icky dumb people like right libs.
I see why this ideology, which is notoriously against being named at all (even if the name was originally chosen by their own people) would behave this way but I don't see what anyone else gains.
reo
1hr ago
It seems to be some kind of low-grade tear in either one of the tendons or supporting ligaments.
Rest hasn't helped a lot apparently.
You can incorporate two things:
A). Low intensity high reps schedule. Of the same movement. Eccentrics.
- Low Intensity = 1kg or 2 kg weights. You can even use 500ml coke can or bottle. Fill it full to half or somewhere in between.
- High Reps = 10-20 sets of 10 reps (total 100-150-200 reps). You can do it over a day, whenever you have time.
- Eccentrics = in this case, you have to do the same Hammer Curls. Use your other hand to support WHILE flexing the elbow (normal curl motion) and then let it extend (reverse of curl motion) on own with the other hand removed. This means that the elbow flexors are working to slow down their primary motion (= eccentric; concentric motion for elbow flexors is elbow flexion). Keep the wrist in neutral motion as in Hammer Curl.
B). Look at your food. You need good (balanced) protein to let the soft tissue heal properly.
Do this for 3-4 weeks. You can progressively increase your reps from initial 100 a day to 200 a day over that time.
C). Of course, don't do hammer curl like motion with heavy weights (which may tear the new healed tissue) in rest of the time.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
1hr ago
I suspect that this was a state actor, maybe Russia, maybe China. No one took credit, which makes it pretty difficult for the talking heads to make hay on it.
For what it's worth (nothing at all), someone I follow on X says he's done tours of the facility and their safety standards were top-notch. I saw other people on X pointing and laughing that it's a woman-run business and this is just what you get when you let women make explosives.
I don't know if the American public will ever know what caused this, but hopefully there is someone in Homeland Security or the Military who is figuring it out and how to prevent it from happening again.
Why aren't the tinfoil hats all over this? Maybe they're too stupid to make the obvious inferences. Or maybe they are being suppressed to prevent a panic. I think there is just too little information. No cameras, no suspicious messages to decipher. Just an explosion at the explosion factory.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1hr ago
What really used to get me were the diminutives, which are not intuitive to an English speaker. Ilya doesn't naturally turn Ilushka in my mind.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1hr ago
I don't think you're being crazy here: there have been a number of announced foiled plots to attack EU arms manufacturers.
But it's not inconceivable that it was a garden-variety industrial accident, which do happen from time to time. PEPCON in 1988 in Nevada has some loose ends, but I haven't seen foreign sabotage seriously suggested even though the company was supplying solid rocket fuel for both the Space Shuttle and ICBMs. The USCSB series of videos on chemical plant accidents is sobering, if nothing else.
On the gripping hand, telling the public even if there were evidence of malfeasance inherently would raise the stakes towards calls for open warfare, and I can see an argument for responding in a subtle, yet clear-to-the-counterparty way under the table.
JarJarJedi
1hr ago
I addressed this in another comment - because when the system had been initially created, IRS wasn't supposed to have most of the information - at least not routinely, they could get a court order or such if they have reasonable suspicion you're cheating, but otherwise they wouldn't have the full picture. Since then, a lot changed, and now pretty much everything is reported to the IRS. But the system is still arranged as if IRS doesn't have the full picture, even though it does, and since now there are massive companies built essentially on tracking what IRS has and re-implementing it in a user-friendly way - and the IRS itself does not implement any user-facing interface to it - we have barriers to change. IRS would have to budget some investment (not large on the scale of federal government, but not insignificant in absolute numbers, probably tens of millions of dollars at least, maybe more) to implement a user-facing system that could be efficiently used by taxpayers, and the incumbents would lobby very hard against it, claiming this already exists as a private solution (which is true) and the feds squeezing out private business is unacceptable (which is usually true in general, but in this particular case is not, but they can make it look true).
No, the point of doing that is because people who say they have it are usually using it as an excuse to be destructive, and the cost of making a Type I error here is nothing compared to what you'll spend if you make a Type II error here instead and give a bunch of wicked people carte blanche to just make up self-serving nonsense at everyone else's expense (otherwise known as "sufferers of Cluster B disorders").
Naturally, this has a huge selection bias, where people who are just making shit up are overwhelmingly more likely to talk about it, especially if society is currently biased towards making Type II errors in their direction. The word "religious sacrifice" was generally used to refer to this when society contextualized its desires using that lens, which is why people with an inkling of this tend to class atheism and woke as religions (because of the way they justify the benefits of intentionally making those particular Type II errors).
And even then, there are people who can use this 'condition' productively, and there are those who can not. Again, in conditions of societal oversupply [which people without the condition are relatively adept at noticing, at least on a group level] it can be a reasonable strategy to over-reject people on the grounds that they're destructive with that power, or that they don't have enough of the power to actually be worth fully utilizing them.
Much like with words related to gender identity and sexuality, and potentially for the exact same reason, the terms the wise (or more precisely, those who have this condition, or at least those who are fully capable of understanding what it is and how it works) use to talk to each other are dangerous to everyone else when they inevitably fall into the wrong hands.
A big part of having this condition is knowing when, when not, and how to talk about advanced topics to co-sufferers.
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