Never Complain. Never Explain.

Never Complain; Never Explain. This article popped up just after I received a particularly frustrating request at work. No need to explain because your friends don’t need an explanation, and your enemies won’t believe you anyway (and will twist the info and use it against you). Explaining gives power away. No matter how good your argument is, you show weakness just by explaining it. Explaining is just an attempt to gain someone’s approval.

Part of my job is to work to make the part inventory showing in our new computer system matches what’s actually at our outside processors. We have about a dozen processors manufacturing 300+ active parts, with raw material shipping in every day, then consumed to make parts every day, that then are shipped to other processors for painting and plating every day, with the finished parts shipping to the customer every day as needed. Management expects all these movements to be updated in our system with the same staffing level we had managing our old computer system, when only a fraction of all this updating had previously been required. Sure sales are down in this economy, but it takes just as much work to move 50 pieces of each part as it does one hundred (here I go explaining myself).

A recent review of 60 active parts at one processor showed over 1.1 million pounds of inventory in stock. What showed in our computer was only 6000 pounds off – a difference of only half of one percent. That’s pretty damn good.

Man has been working to modify the weather for decades.

War in the Middle East. The US pummeled by hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters - right when we approach a pivotal election. The “comet of the century” is passing Earth this weekend. A “second moon” is now orbiting our planet. Astronomers are witnessing an “interesting alignment of constellations and stars” – does this relate to events written about in the Book of Revelation? Are all these things happening at the same time just a coincidence?

If man-made pollution is the cause of “climate change”, wouldn’t countries like China (where pollution is far worse than in the US), be experiencing far more severe hurricanes, wildfires, and heatwaves? The United States already takes far more steps to fight pollution than any other industrialized country in the world. At some point other countries like China and Russia are going to have to join the movement. Volcanic eruptions blast far more pollutants into the atmosphere than man made factories (and private jets), but you never hear activists talking about that.