Jay

Engineer, analyst. I have been made to care.

[Jay @brutus_jay]

Water supply issue with fires was more a distribution problem than a supply problem.

The system maintains water pressure by drawing from water tanks in the mountain. It all works fine if you don’t need a lot of water at once. It’s those tanks that ran out and couldn’t be refilled rapidly.

1. In Eaton, incorrectly sized water tanks on mountains were emptied prematurely and unable to maintain water pressure to city hydrants.
2. In palisades, a reservoir that may have been built to handle this exact situation was offline for a year because of ineffective government inaction.
3. The gov lacked the ability to quickly pump water back up into the mountain tanks to supply water pressure.
4. Apparently nobody in gov had bothered to pre-stage fire assets during this predicted emergency.

Yes, a problem was “lack of water,” but it was in the mountain tanks not in general. We’re talking past each other, enabling the local governments to attempt to shirk responsibility.

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@dadsr63 @GOP_is_Gutless Wut?

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

I didn't go to college until I was 30. This gave me a chance to see it with the perspective of an adult.

One lecture in Industrial Psychology, in particular, I will never forget.

The professor spoke about how an effective job description focused on concretely measurable tasks, not vague instructions, or characteristics.

For example, "maintain an 85% or greater average on customer feedback surveys", instead of "be cheerful and upbeat", or even "interact positively with customers".

This means that goals are clear, and performance is measurable. A job is to do something, not be something.

Once some of the students had wrapped their minds around this concept, the professor decided to do a class exercise.

He asked the female students to come up with a job description for "husband". At first, this went fine. The girls noodled around a bit with things they wanted their husbands to be (tall, etc), but he was able to gradually steer them towards describing what they wanted in terms of actions.

But then he asked the male students to define a wife in the same way.

And all the girls became upset. Some of them had full-on meltdowns.

Every single thing that a male student wanted, or expected, from his hypothetical future wife was sexist, oppressive, old-fashioned, misogynistic, patriarchal, etc.

They were literally screaming. Some of them in tears.

And I realized something pretty quickly. It wasn't the actual, concrete responsibilities of the female role that they objected to.

It was the idea of there being a female role at all, with any attached responsibilities.

These women didn't want to be wives. They wanted to be pets.

What's a pet? Well a pet is not a wife, or a friend. A pet is a creature of instinct, which you bring into your home because you like how it naturally behaves.

You get a cat because you want to behave like a cat, and do things a cat naturally does, like play with string, and purr when you pet him. If he's smart, he'll adapt you somewhat, but he doesn't have responsibilities other than "be a cat".

If you get a wife, you get a wife so she will do things for you, specific things that are the responsibilities of wife, like care for your home, bear and raise your children, cook nutritious meals so you don't have to eat processed slop, look after your emotional well-being, and so on.

These girls didn't want to be held responsible for those things. As married women, they might have anticipated doing some of them, but some of the time. When they felt like it.

The cat chases the string if and when it wants to, not because chasing the string is its job.

These young millenial women didn't realize it, but they wanted to be pets. And that's what they were in their college relationships. They hung out with guys when they wanted to, had sex with them when they wanted to, broke up with them for someone new when they wanted to.

Their relationships had no element of reciprocal responsibilities. They were perfectly at home with the idea of men having responsibilities to them, but they would repay those men if they chose, and how they chose, not how the men actually wanted.

And as I've said twice already, someone you have responsibilities to, but who has none to you, is a pet, or a child.

The reason that a significant portion of men want to invent sentient feminine robots so that they can marry them is because they want wives, and they have given up on the possibility of young women re-embracing the concept of sex roles and actually having to do something for someone else.

Women didn't spontaneously became more selfish than previous generations, of course. They were the targets of a concerted psyop whose purpose was to convince them that female responsibilities were demeaning. It was tailored to their unique psychological vulnerabilities, and they swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.

Who mounted that psyop, and why, is a conversation most of us aren't ready for yet.

But our point for today is don't worry, young ladies.

The robots aren't being brought in to replace you.

Just to do the jobs you won't do.

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@davepl1968 So confusing!

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@paulg You mean you strive for succinctness?

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@willchamberlain @RonColeman @billessayli The public information is this is how elections go in LA

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@unseen1_unseen What was old is new again
✅ Democrats secretly funding the KKK
✅ Democrats electing Nazis sympathizers

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@joeblillib4090 @pyrovaleron @LumMagnum A lot of lunatics think America isn’t allowed to hurt anyone in a war. 🤷‍♂️

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@BuzzPatterson @ThomBrady5 You get that feeling because you’re overly optimistic.

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@BritifyUK Not exactly brilliant news, but yes if the people don’t get justice things like this start happening.

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@ReichlinMelnick That’s true. The migrants aren’t coming as liberators….

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@BenAxelrod Each one treats you like an idiot for not already knowing their specific policy

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@pureMetatron

[Agrippa @agrippa_dr]

Gavin thought this wouldn’t age poorly because he couldn’t fathom completing a public works project.

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@TerraMagitek @RadioGenoa @grok can you help out Terra with the question? Terra is having trouble searching the internet.

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@shipwreckedcrew Now explain why that only happens to a specific Democrat

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@TeachAllAmerica @20committee @Patranoid That’s what you guys said about layoffs at Twitter.

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@WSJ There’s so many of them

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@grok @DGab43 @thealfordplea @grok thank you. Can you put it in words even a five year old could understand?

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@grok @DGab43 @thealfordplea @grok thanks. Let’s make it simple for David. Can you ignore Ford and summarize Fifield’s evidence?

[Jay @brutus_jay]

@DGab43 @thealfordplea @grok can you read this thread and point out the evidence to David? He seems to be struggling with reading.