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"Mass Casualty" Explosion at Bedford,Ohio Metal Plant

The funny thing is that folks will claim sabotage or enemy agents, etc.

But having just come back from a cross-country drive... here are some observations.

Hotels I stayed at... shit was broken. Stuff did not work. From the waffle makers to stuff in the rooms (one place had to get three different rooms because the heater/ac didn't work in the first 2. One the door thingie swipe card... didn't work.

EVERY gas station I went into had broken pumps. One, I had to move three times to find a working pump. One had the front broken open on it. At some places, it appeared 1/4 of the pumps did not work or had a 'cover' on them.

Getting through a Wendy's Drive Through takes 20 minutes... I can get get a steak in that time... with trimmings. Retards behind the counters.

So basically, our infrastructure... not the governement one, but the commercial one... is a fucking mess. Noone cares. Noone wants to work. Noone is handling MRO and MTBF is now... run to failure. Retards who have no business in their 'jobs' are there because they have tits or melanin or are fags. Not because they are the best at what they do.

What's causing trains to blow up and metal plants to explode and people to die of all kinds of nasty shit? Incompetence. Laziness. Lack of capability. Not spending money to fix stuff. Not knowing that you HAVE to spend money to fix stuff.

That gauge is in the red? Meh, not my job. Hey, isn't a needle in the red a style thing?

So expect more of this. But don't expect it to be a conspiracy when simple incompetence and lazyness will do.

Sirhr
 
The funny thing is that folks will claim sabotage or enemy agents, etc.

But having just come back from a cross-country drive... here are some observations.

Hotels I stayed at... shit was broken. Stuff did not work. From the waffle makers to stuff in the rooms (one place had to get three different rooms because the heater/ac didn't work in the first 2. One the door thingie swipe card... didn't work.

EVERY gas station I went into had broken pumps. One, I had to move three times to find a working pump. One had the front broken open on it. At some places, it appeared 1/4 of the pumps did not work or had a 'cover' on them.

Getting through a Wendy's Drive Through takes 20 minutes... I can get get a steak in that time... with trimmings. Retards behind the counters.

So basically, our infrastructure... not the governement one, but the commercial one... is a fucking mess. Noone cares. Noone wants to work. Noone is handling MRO and MTBF is now... run to failure. Retards who have no business in their 'jobs' are there because they have tits or melanin or are fags. Not because they are the best at what they do.

What's causing trains to blow up and metal plants to explode and people to die of all kinds of nasty shit? Incompetence. Laziness. Lack of capability. Not spending money to fix stuff. Not knowing that you HAVE to spend money to fix stuff.

That gauge is in the red? Meh, not my job. Hey, isn't a needle in the red a style thing?

So expect more of this. But don't expect it to be a conspiracy when simple incompetence and lazyness will do.

Sirhr

Simply punching the Like button on this post wasn't enough. Spot fucking on.
 
100 percent agree with above.. its a work ethic/lack of pride issue... and its getting worse by the day.. or by the hour...
It is also the people at the top, cutting, cutting, cutting. Not paying a reasonable wage, the execs keeping the money for themselves. Ex., the drain derailment, maintenance was cut back and cut back, until it was inadequate. Not the inspectors fault, nor the mechanics, just the greedy ones at the top.
 
The funny thing is that folks will claim sabotage or enemy agents, etc.

But having just come back from a cross-country drive... here are some observations.

Hotels I stayed at... shit was broken. Stuff did not work. From the waffle makers to stuff in the rooms (one place had to get three different rooms because the heater/ac didn't work in the first 2. One the door thingie swipe card... didn't work.

EVERY gas station I went into had broken pumps. One, I had to move three times to find a working pump. One had the front broken open on it. At some places, it appeared 1/4 of the pumps did not work or had a 'cover' on them.

Getting through a Wendy's Drive Through takes 20 minutes... I can get get a steak in that time... with trimmings. Retards behind the counters.

So basically, our infrastructure... not the governement one, but the commercial one... is a fucking mess. Noone cares. Noone wants to work. Noone is handling MRO and MTBF is now... run to failure. Retards who have no business in their 'jobs' are there because they have tits or melanin or are fags. Not because they are the best at what they do.

What's causing trains to blow up and metal plants to explode and people to die of all kinds of nasty shit? Incompetence. Laziness. Lack of capability. Not spending money to fix stuff. Not knowing that you HAVE to spend money to fix stuff.

That gauge is in the red? Meh, not my job. Hey, isn't a needle in the red a style thing?

So expect more of this. But don't expect it to be a conspiracy when simple incompetence and lazyness will do.

Sirhr
I will say Bedford is very strict and a well funded city. I grew up there and tried to start a shop right around the corner from this. The inspectors never let me open. Bedford is not a podunk town. The greater cleveland area is basically one big metropolis with most people living in the suburbs within 30 min of downtown. Not saying this place wasnt in disrepair as the city of bedford and its neighbor walton hills are known for their corruption and bribery.
 
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The funny thing is that folks will claim sabotage or enemy agents, etc.

But having just come back from a cross-country drive... here are some observations.

Hotels I stayed at... shit was broken. Stuff did not work. From the waffle makers to stuff in the rooms (one place had to get three different rooms because the heater/ac didn't work in the first 2. One the door thingie swipe card... didn't work.

EVERY gas station I went into had broken pumps. One, I had to move three times to find a working pump. One had the front broken open on it. At some places, it appeared 1/4 of the pumps did not work or had a 'cover' on them.

Getting through a Wendy's Drive Through takes 20 minutes... I can get get a steak in that time... with trimmings. Retards behind the counters.

So basically, our infrastructure... not the governement one, but the commercial one... is a fucking mess. Noone cares. Noone wants to work. Noone is handling MRO and MTBF is now... run to failure. Retards who have no business in their 'jobs' are there because they have tits or melanin or are fags. Not because they are the best at what they do.

What's causing trains to blow up and metal plants to explode and people to die of all kinds of nasty shit? Incompetence. Laziness. Lack of capability. Not spending money to fix stuff. Not knowing that you HAVE to spend money to fix stuff.

That gauge is in the red? Meh, not my job. Hey, isn't a needle in the red a style thing?

So expect more of this. But don't expect it to be a conspiracy when simple incompetence and lazyness will do.

Sirhr
Excellent observation. It gets blamed on covid or shortages, but its just a lack of giveashit.
 
The funny thing is that folks will claim sabotage or enemy agents, etc.

But having just come back from a cross-country drive... here are some observations.

Hotels I stayed at... shit was broken. Stuff did not work. From the waffle makers to stuff in the rooms (one place had to get three different rooms because the heater/ac didn't work in the first 2. One the door thingie swipe card... didn't work.

EVERY gas station I went into had broken pumps. One, I had to move three times to find a working pump. One had the front broken open on it. At some places, it appeared 1/4 of the pumps did not work or had a 'cover' on them.

Getting through a Wendy's Drive Through takes 20 minutes... I can get get a steak in that time... with trimmings. Retards behind the counters.

So basically, our infrastructure... not the governement one, but the commercial one... is a fucking mess. Noone cares. Noone wants to work. Noone is handling MRO and MTBF is now... run to failure. Retards who have no business in their 'jobs' are there because they have tits or melanin or are fags. Not because they are the best at what they do.

What's causing trains to blow up and metal plants to explode and people to die of all kinds of nasty shit? Incompetence. Laziness. Lack of capability. Not spending money to fix stuff. Not knowing that you HAVE to spend money to fix stuff.

That gauge is in the red? Meh, not my job. Hey, isn't a needle in the red a style thing?

So expect more of this. But don't expect it to be a conspiracy when simple incompetence and lazyness will do.

Sirhr
Welcome to IDIOCRACY
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Welcome to IDIOCRACY
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Wokocracy... Ayn Rand predicted this.

If folks don't want to read the 900 page book Atlas Shrugged... watch the three part movie series. It's not great production values. But it is right on.

Socialism destroys everything.

Sirhr
 
The funny thing is that folks will claim sabotage or enemy agents, etc.

But having just come back from a cross-country drive... here are some observations.

Hotels I stayed at... shit was broken. Stuff did not work. From the waffle makers to stuff in the rooms (one place had to get three different rooms because the heater/ac didn't work in the first 2. One the door thingie swipe card... didn't work.

EVERY gas station I went into had broken pumps. One, I had to move three times to find a working pump. One had the front broken open on it. At some places, it appeared 1/4 of the pumps did not work or had a 'cover' on them.

Getting through a Wendy's Drive Through takes 20 minutes... I can get get a steak in that time... with trimmings. Retards behind the counters.

So basically, our infrastructure... not the governement one, but the commercial one... is a fucking mess. Noone cares. Noone wants to work. Noone is handling MRO and MTBF is now... run to failure. Retards who have no business in their 'jobs' are there because they have tits or melanin or are fags. Not because they are the best at what they do.

What's causing trains to blow up and metal plants to explode and people to die of all kinds of nasty shit? Incompetence. Laziness. Lack of capability. Not spending money to fix stuff. Not knowing that you HAVE to spend money to fix stuff.

That gauge is in the red? Meh, not my job. Hey, isn't a needle in the red a style thing?

So expect more of this. But don't expect it to be a conspiracy when simple incompetence and lazyness will do.

Sirhr

Atlas Shrugged now playing everywhere...

Do any of y'all have this weird feeling, an organization, like SPECTRE, is real and fomenting chaos and mayhem in this world?

The answer you are looking for is the Global Elites.
 
The funny thing is that folks will claim sabotage or enemy agents, etc.

But having just come back from a cross-country drive... here are some observations.

Hotels I stayed at... shit was broken. Stuff did not work. From the waffle makers to stuff in the rooms (one place had to get three different rooms because the heater/ac didn't work in the first 2. One the door thingie swipe card... didn't work.

EVERY gas station I went into had broken pumps. One, I had to move three times to find a working pump. One had the front broken open on it. At some places, it appeared 1/4 of the pumps did not work or had a 'cover' on them.

Getting through a Wendy's Drive Through takes 20 minutes... I can get get a steak in that time... with trimmings. Retards behind the counters.

So basically, our infrastructure... not the governement one, but the commercial one... is a fucking mess. Noone cares. Noone wants to work. Noone is handling MRO and MTBF is now... run to failure. Retards who have no business in their 'jobs' are there because they have tits or melanin or are fags. Not because they are the best at what they do.

What's causing trains to blow up and metal plants to explode and people to die of all kinds of nasty shit? Incompetence. Laziness. Lack of capability. Not spending money to fix stuff. Not knowing that you HAVE to spend money to fix stuff.

That gauge is in the red? Meh, not my job. Hey, isn't a needle in the red a style thing?

So expect more of this. But don't expect it to be a conspiracy when simple incompetence and lazyness will do.

Sirhr
no no no It's trumps fault for deregulation, Obama had a lot of regulations that Trump took out.
 





Private, family owned scrap recycler.

Anytime there's a kaboom around a metals plant my first thought is something wasn't dry and hot metal was poured on it. Instant vaporization and boom.

Heck of a thing being burned,quick recoveries and condolences
 
The funny thing is that folks will claim sabotage or enemy agents, etc.

But having just come back from a cross-country drive... here are some observations.

Hotels I stayed at... shit was broken. Stuff did not work. From the waffle makers to stuff in the rooms (one place had to get three different rooms because the heater/ac didn't work in the first 2. One the door thingie swipe card... didn't work.

EVERY gas station I went into had broken pumps. One, I had to move three times to find a working pump. One had the front broken open on it. At some places, it appeared 1/4 of the pumps did not work or had a 'cover' on them.

Getting through a Wendy's Drive Through takes 20 minutes... I can get get a steak in that time... with trimmings. Retards behind the counters.

So basically, our infrastructure... not the governement one, but the commercial one... is a fucking mess. Noone cares. Noone wants to work. Noone is handling MRO and MTBF is now... run to failure. Retards who have no business in their 'jobs' are there because they have tits or melanin or are fags. Not because they are the best at what they do.

What's causing trains to blow up and metal plants to explode and people to die of all kinds of nasty shit? Incompetence. Laziness. Lack of capability. Not spending money to fix stuff. Not knowing that you HAVE to spend money to fix stuff.

That gauge is in the red? Meh, not my job. Hey, isn't a needle in the red a style thing?

So expect more of this. But don't expect it to be a conspiracy when simple incompetence and lazyness will do.

Sirhr

Similar experiences traveling through five states last week. Stopped at two Cracker Barrels in one day and neither got our orders correct. Made a pit stop in a rural area on I75. Restrooms at the only two businesses in sight of the exit were out of order. Hotels were "okay." At least clean. Had to hit three different floors to find a working ice machine at the Marriot in Chatanooga.
 
It is also the people at the top, cutting, cutting, cutting. Not paying a reasonable wage, the execs keeping the money for themselves. Ex., the drain derailment, maintenance was cut back and cut back, until it was inadequate. Not the inspectors fault, nor the mechanics, just the greedy ones at the top.
Most just agreed it was a top-down problem, but now, suddenly, it's just the 'top'?! Sounds like the union position.
 





Private, family owned scrap recycler.

Anytime there's a kaboom around a metals plant my first thought is something wasn't dry and hot metal was poured on it. Instant vaporization and boom.

Heck of a thing being burned,quick recoveries and condolences

Great… yellow metal is already through the roof price-wise.

This won’t help.

Sirhr
 
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Most just agreed it was a top-down problem, but now, suddenly, it's just the 'top'?! Sounds like the union position.
Sounds like top to bottom issues. Seemingly few people truly give a shit about doing their job right anymore. And that's just the ones that are actually showing up for work.
 
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It is also the people at the top, cutting, cutting, cutting. Not paying a reasonable wage, the execs keeping the money for themselves. Ex., the drain derailment, maintenance was cut back and cut back, until it was inadequate. Not the inspectors fault, nor the mechanics, just the greedy ones at the top.
This. The refusal to hire enough workers, or pay enough to get the intelligent ones onto the payroll.
 
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What's causing trains to blow up and metal plants to explode and people to die of all kinds of nasty shit? Incompetence. Laziness. Lack of capability. Not spending money to fix stuff. Not knowing that you HAVE to spend money to fix stuff.

Sirhr
This sums it up nicely. There is no conspiracy. It is obsolescence, lack of maintenance and completely apathetic and unskilled labor for the job at hand
 
Wokocracy... Ayn Rand predicted this.

If folks don't want to read the 900 page book Atlas Shrugged... watch the three part movie series. It's not great production values. But it is right on.

Socialism destroys everything.

Sirhr
Part way through Its a long read should be required reading somewhere along the educational schedule
 
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Laziness.

Just sayin'......laziness. lol.

Please don't kill me.

Branden
I was talking to the job rep from a chemical plant I'm currently working in the other day. He said they had been going over operations incidents from the last 20 years or so including explosions, fires, leaks/spills and other major uh oh's and the trend was interesting. 2000-2009 there were roughly 40 incidents within the company globally. 09-19 it was over 130, 18-current it was over 300.

I think incompetence is playing a major role. If people can't look it up on Google to tell them how to do it they are lost.

That trend has shifted their hiring more towards people already working in the plant facilities that are familiar with the plant rather than hiring kids out of college.
 
This. The refusal to hire enough workers, or pay enough to get the intelligent ones onto the payroll.
Again, Brandon just rewarded the unions with a $23 an hour raise. How much would these union boys need to get before they were willing to do a responsible job? Many aren't the least bit interested in anything buy the paycheck.
 
Wokocracy... Ayn Rand predicted this.

If folks don't want to read the 900 page book Atlas Shrugged... watch the three part movie series. It's not great production values. But it is right on.

Socialism destroys everything.

Sirhr
There is an abridged version on Audible as well.
 
The funny thing is that folks will claim sabotage or enemy agents, etc.

But having just come back from a cross-country drive... here are some observations.

Hotels I stayed at... shit was broken. Stuff did not work. From the waffle makers to stuff in the rooms (one place had to get three different rooms because the heater/ac didn't work in the first 2. One the door thingie swipe card... didn't work.

EVERY gas station I went into had broken pumps. One, I had to move three times to find a working pump. One had the front broken open on it. At some places, it appeared 1/4 of the pumps did not work or had a 'cover' on them.

Getting through a Wendy's Drive Through takes 20 minutes... I can get get a steak in that time... with trimmings. Retards behind the counters.

So basically, our infrastructure... not the governement one, but the commercial one... is a fucking mess. Noone cares. Noone wants to work. Noone is handling MRO and MTBF is now... run to failure. Retards who have no business in their 'jobs' are there because they have tits or melanin or are fags. Not because they are the best at what they do.

What's causing trains to blow up and metal plants to explode and people to die of all kinds of nasty shit? Incompetence. Laziness. Lack of capability. Not spending money to fix stuff. Not knowing that you HAVE to spend money to fix stuff.

That gauge is in the red? Meh, not my job. Hey, isn't a needle in the red a style thing?

So expect more of this. But don't expect it to be a conspiracy when simple incompetence and lazyness will do.

Sirhr
Wait till you see what happens with the airline pilots.
Tucker C briefly touched on the 777 that was 300 feet from smashing the ocean. 2.5 G to pullout of the dive.
 
It's the beginning of the breakdown of complex systems. I would argue it's less laziness and more likely incompetence. Our education system turns out mostly illiterate, un thinking, untrainable social justice warriors. The systems in place now won't be repairable when they break because those who once knew how are dead or gone. Google and YouTube will fill in the knowledge gap for awhile but its going to continue to get worse.
On the plus side, if you have a core of competent people and you want to start a business you can make money hand over fist. There is a huge market for people with expertise in several disciplines.
 
It is also the people at the top, cutting, cutting, cutting. Not paying a reasonable wage, the execs keeping the money for themselves. Ex., the drain derailment, maintenance was cut back and cut back, until it was inadequate. Not the inspectors fault, nor the mechanics, just the greedy ones at the top.

LOL do you want $35/hr for flipping burgers?
 





Private, family owned scrap recycler.

Anytime there's a kaboom around a metals plant my first thought is something wasn't dry and hot metal was poured on it. Instant vaporization and boom.

Heck of a thing being burned,quick recoveries and condolences


All I can hear is Marvin the Martian. Where's the kaboom?
 
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Again, Brandon just rewarded the unions with a $23 an hour raise. How much would these union boys need to get before they were willing to do a responsible job? Many aren't the least bit interested in anything buy the paycheck.

America spent the last 30-40 years killing the blue collar industry. Shipping jobs overseas, driving wages into the dirt, getting rid of ROP type programs at schools, companies have gotten rid of paid internships/training, no more retirements, schools cater to the lowest common denominator (35% grade reading level is the norm). It's gonna take generations to unfuck this if it's even possible.
 
what is becoming of the world explosive meat , pork shoulder high explosives , short rib ied's oh the humanity of it all and all before spring and bbq season like bbq needs a season no running 1 hour after consuming there meats or your explode . oh metal I thought it was an explosion at a meat packing plant in Ohio not sure I have anything to add about exploding metal beams and rivets that would just be strange .
 
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what is becoming of the world explosive meat , pork shoulder high explosives , short rib ied's oh the humanity of it all and all before spring and bbq season like bbq needs a season no running 1 hour after consuming there meats or your explode .
What?
 
The funny thing is that folks will claim sabotage or enemy agents, etc.

But having just come back from a cross-country drive... here are some observations.

Hotels I stayed at... shit was broken. Stuff did not work. From the waffle makers to stuff in the rooms (one place had to get three different rooms because the heater/ac didn't work in the first 2. One the door thingie swipe card... didn't work.

EVERY gas station I went into had broken pumps. One, I had to move three times to find a working pump. One had the front broken open on it. At some places, it appeared 1/4 of the pumps did not work or had a 'cover' on them.

Getting through a Wendy's Drive Through takes 20 minutes... I can get get a steak in that time... with trimmings. Retards behind the counters.

So basically, our infrastructure... not the governement one, but the commercial one... is a fucking mess. Noone cares. Noone wants to work. Noone is handling MRO and MTBF is now... run to failure. Retards who have no business in their 'jobs' are there because they have tits or melanin or are fags. Not because they are the best at what they do.

What's causing trains to blow up and metal plants to explode and people to die of all kinds of nasty shit? Incompetence. Laziness. Lack of capability. Not spending money to fix stuff. Not knowing that you HAVE to spend money to fix stuff.

That gauge is in the red? Meh, not my job. Hey, isn't a needle in the red a style thing?

So expect more of this. But don't expect it to be a conspiracy when simple incompetence and lazyness will do.

Sirhr

Och varlden brann
 
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Funny you bring that up...

First 11 years of my life we were involved in war. Then 3.5 years of relative peace... well, except in Angola and Africa. Oh and Cambodia... where the Vietnamese finally had to go to war to deal with Pol Pot. So there were those wars on TV. Then we had Afghanistan Soviet invasion which I remember watching happen 'live' on CBS. It was a week before Christmas IIRC... I was building a model kit! Of course then we also had the Iran Iraq War. Then Grenada and Beirut and the Falklands. Watched those, too. Then much of a decade in Central America... chasing commies who are now our Senators and running the DNC. Followed by Panama, Gulf, Mog, Balkans, and, technically, the beginnings of GWOT with Lockerbie, Dar Es Salaam and Nairobi and USS Cole and Kovar Towers. Then, of course, 911 and Iraq and now the Ukraine show... And do the Narco Wars along the Mex border count?

I am sure I am missing some. So by my calculations... a Lifetime of War indeed. How many here remember when there wasn't one?

IIRC that since that whole 'manger' thing 2023+ years ago... there have been about 66 years without conflict.

Guess it's human's natural state. Take that you fucking peaceniks. Para Bellum! It's how we roll.

Sirhr

PS. Para Bellum is Latin for Buy more Ammo. Did you know Army Jerry was Bilingual?