Tuesday, March 18, 2025

If At First You Don’t Succeed, Fail Again

Conspiracy gematria is as almost far away from innovative as you can get.  There’s nothing new and exciting on the horizon.  No new ciphers will ever produce some missing “Holy Grail” of decodes.  No recruitment tactics are used that haven’t been done a million times before.  As conspiracy theory light, it’s stuck at the bottom of the stochastic terrorism pyramid.


Under the disguise of pretending you can make money from predicting football games you are exposed to the attitudes and beliefs of antisocial activity.  Starting your own YouTube channel is actively encouraged.  Sure it may start off innocently enough with just sports gambling content, but just by math alone some number will graduate to bigger and worse things.  Even something like “you are a sovereign citizen that doesn’t have to pay taxes” is a more lucid argument than the Jesuits have nothing better to do than rig football games with tiny numbers.

The U.S. has rapidly burned through some of the remaining safeguards that have kept the government running.  Federal agencies are being gutted by employee dismissals and funding cuts.  Although the official narrative has been decades long preaching of limited government, more and more a completely unregulated capitalist environment is taking hold.  Profits are increased not by quality of product earning market share, but by image alone and cutting costs to the bone.  Why should you make your airplane safe when there’s no government agency to hold you accountable, and it’s much easier to use flat earth generated hype to get the gullible to distrust the government?

At one time there was this quaint period in history where a couple global conflicts called World Wars were fought.  Rapid industrialization created the ability to modernize weapons to not just dramatically increase our capability of killing from afar, but to rapidly turn a modest military into a large force capable of making a significant impact.  So I’m going to share an example of something you maybe didn’t know.  An example of a failure with no lessons learned and repeating the same mistakes.  Mistakes made more for national image and bragging rights than based on sound science and actual practical benefits.

Quick, name a hydrogen filled airship that caught fire and burned to a crisp?  The Hindenburg right?  Admit it, The Hindenburg was your first choice, not just because it’s the first choice, but the only choice.  Not true.  The United Kingdom had a program to build airships with two competing teams.  One by the military and one by private companies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R101

At the time the largest aircraft in the world.  Rushed through for its launch, complete with cutting corners and making some unwise decisions.  A large part of the accident can be attributed to the rush, born of a state of mind of national pride.  Not convinced that failing once was enough the R101 came after a French military airship accident and no lesson of “maybe this isn’t a great idea for civilian transport” was learned.  The USS Akron crash later proved that failing again and again is not enough.

Finally, the well known Hindenburg disaster sealed the fate of airship civilian transportation permanently.  The British had given up on it after R101.  But the national pride of Germany thought it was worth a go.  And ironically, a bit of information I wasn’t aware of until recently, scrap metal from the R101 was allegedly sold to Germany and used in the frame of the Hindenburg.  Talk about gluttons for punishment.

There has been a big stink in the U.S. about air travel safety with several notable plane crashes in early 2025.  These are a classic example of dubious attitudes towards safety standards that have not lead to increased scrutiny but a, “meh, it’s just bad luck.”  Instead of increased standards the response has been to lose staff of already overworked overseeing personnel.  The real test of government response to disaster will likely be the upcoming climate change supercharged hurricane seasons, where precious business GDP growth will be partially negated by cleaning up after the mess.  We’ve already failed on hurricane relief before.  Time to fail, fail again.

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