Indiscam

Natasha Chart ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@heterodoxan) / X

Yep. Something like 90% of Indian resumes are completely fraudulent. Just total scam city. Or scam country, rather.

No idea why you’d need a CS grad for a network admin, though. Those are completely unrelated non-transferable skill sets and I’ve yet to meet a CS grad who knew even the tiniest bit about networking (many thought they did, but actually knew nothing).

T Crap

This paper is absolute horseshit.

I don’t have time to write about all its flaws, but it is complete garbage.

It’s all a cheap mathematically-engineered analogy, and certainly is not any kind of evidence that the vacuum is an acoustic-like medium or that quantum theory has been derived from classical dispersion. The damn thing starts from Schrรถdinger (Madelung), chooses constitutive laws that force a Coulomb operator, then calibrates with non-derived parameters to hydrogen. That is not in any way a meaningful physical derivation of quantization. It’s just like if I traced a photo of someone with a pencil and declared I had discovered what they look like from that. No I did not.

This is total crapola and never should’ve been published.

Flotsam

Natasha Chart ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@heterodoxan) / X

Perhaps even I believed the Ian Welshian agitprop too much, as I thought Iran would at least manage to get a hit on a destroyer or something. But they have been stunningly ineffective in battle.

And those “invincible” Chinese anti-ship missiles and “impossible to deceive” Russian and Chinese air defense radars work about as well as a sink made of cheesecloth against our tech.

Good Food

Jesus, you idiot fucksticks.

One way the military makes long, dangerous deployments tolerable is sometimes providing high-quality food when you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere. When I was in Egypt, once a week at the (excellent even in normal times) chow hall, we got some special meal: lobster, lamb, sometimes grilled fish. It made the deployment a whole lot more tolerable, knowing that we’d have good to great food. There was also high-quality ice cream and desserts available.

Some of the better food I’ve had was at that chow hall in Egypt, and I do not begrudge spending on quality sustenance for any of my brothers and sisters in arms. They deserve it and should have it.

PMC Away

That is common, and fucking bizarre. Like, really deranged.

Most of this emerged from PMC women attempting to keep undesirable men away from them, with a smattering of intrasexual competition too. That doesn’t make it less insane, but the etiology of the disease is clear when you examine it a bit.

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