Half of our contractors flew in from Mexico for my current project. Its like 70/30 with them for good/bad. Which is better than basically any installers I’ve worked with previously.

China in my experience is slavery painted over with the word automation. Any work I’ve done over there has an insane amount of obscurity to hide the slavery.

Wtf are you talking about. We do use ML for basic maintenance predictions. In general it’s useless though.

I’m awake during a fuckin maintenance window right now. You know literally nothing about automation based on how you talk about it.

You are so wrong I dont have simple words to describe it.

I’m a controls engineer who literally installs automation systems. AI is mostly useless in our industry, Claude barely scratches the surface of what we do. The coding is somewhat simple. The problem is how difficult the physical interaction is.

Having worked with Chinese controls people, they arent any better than the US engineers often they are significantly worse. No idea why. The guys from Mexico are way better from my experience.

My education is mechE so I’m kind of cheating when it comes to guessing.

Concrete is a lot stronger than asphalt. The road deck is probably a thin concrete layer, with asphalt on top. The supports are probably solid concrete and a lot of rebar. Solid concrete will shrug off large explosives, but the road deck can be damaged with small explosives.

Im just guessing though.

Oregon aggressively adopted the whole word identification thing instead of phonics. Our kid was behind because of it. The district only noticed when they went back to phonics. The state wont be behind for long, but holy shit it fucked over so many kid’s futures.

Why? It raises the octane, so you can run more boost easily. It just requires more fuel delivery because it has lower energy density. Are you near injector or fuel pump flow limits?

We are all arguing different hypotheticals. My problem is my personal experiences.

One of them was a rapist. The other was a high level tech salesman child abuser. So I’m 2 for 2 and my opinions are skewed forever.

Different life situations for everyone, I think.

I don’t mean strictly professional honesty, but my experiences leak into how I view something like this. The biggest liar I know is still in jail for raping children, so I have a skewed view of honesty.

My industry and group are weird when it comes to credentials. We don’t have a strict, you need this degree situation.

I value honesty more than most people I’m realizing. If a hire is open about their credentials I would not care.

I’ve witnessed what happens when people are ok with liars. It’s gross, and no one should normalize it.

Honesty is my problem with it. If they were open about it I wouldn’t care. But if they hid it and were hired because of the degree I’d fire them almost regardless of their work.

It’s something I value because dishonest people are usually quite horrible in my life experience.

I dont know how I feel about this.

On one hand, degrees are somewhat good for education in lots of industries.

On the other hand, I would fire someone instantly if they had cheated their degree like this.

Degrees are also very expensive.

I guess if it was a useless degree then it wouldn’t matter in the first place.

Or yah know a representation of the most important right we have in the US.

I understand your level of stupid, I used to be a registered republican.

From $3.50/gallon to $5.99/gallon on the west coast in the US. We absolutely are feeling the effects of these stupid actions.

$100 for a tank is relatively normal though. Our tow vehicle has a 36 gallon tank so even $3/gallon gets expensive.

SpaceX is going through the same problem tesla currently has. All the talent that created its good products is either burnt out or already left the company. Their outputs will continue to decline while being in stark contrast to their promises imo.

Their hiring process is also atrocious and scares off any good engineers, and with Elon’s cocksucking arch, those disillusioned enough to tough out working there are very few these days.

$1500usd/mth for 1 kid here. Thats considered low in the US. I know people paying more than $3k.

We canceled prime. If we really need something from Amazon it’s $35 for free shipping anyways. We partially canceled because it’s all no name cheap garbage. At least some other retailers vet and back their products.

It used to be about safety, and training. Then columbine happened and they made a conscious decision to only protect gun msnufacturers.

This is more “he agrees with the last person he talked to” thing he always does. Peter Theil still wants his shithole utopia on Greenland, so he will likely flip back when he talks with him again.

So stupid all of this.

It’s unclear if they might. I personally have no idea.

I have heard from some people at oregon protests that our police are tired of ICE. Doesn’t mean all of them, but this legal backstop we have sort of annoys them enough to hate ICE.