Scott Ott has been forced to re-immigrate to these United States, after falling out of favor with the entire citizenry of at least one sub-equatorial nation. As he tries vainly to re-assimilate with Stephen Green and Bill Whittle…you might wish to avert your eyes.
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Scott, In the early 70’s I walked in on a very large man tutoring a girl in statistics while another large man stood by. The girl was a friend of my roommate. The two men were Archie, tutoring, and Ray Griffin. They told us to leave and we did.
Have the virtue signaling Hollywood elites ever heard of turning off the water while soaping up? They could use less water AND smell better. Well, maybe use less water anyway.
There it is Bill. 24 minutes before you start to actually work!
My Marine uncle told me on the Pacific islands the natives were so grateful that the Japanese were gone that if you gave them a blanket, they would build you a house!
Welcome back Steve!! Glad you’re safe and sound. God Bless
Steve it doesnt put less mass it puts double the mass of the saturn 5, it can lift 1000 tons of mass, cargo
First off, I cannot express my extreme relief that Scott is back in America again. Those places, in my personal experience, are dangerous. I like Scott a lot, he’s the soul of this team and since he left for his “unknown location” every day he’s been in my thoughts and prayers with the hope that this trip would end positively.
Secondly, regarding the “unknown location” I have a pretty good idea where he went because the guys do name an actual location without seeming concern, but that was not Scott’s final destination. From the information in just this video I could draw an arc and say with reasonable confidence that his destination was somewhere on that arc. (Actually it’s not quite that simple but I’m not going to go into any more detail than that.) So I don’t think they’re not telling us because they don’t want us to know, they’re not telling us because they don’t want someone else to know. That’s all I’ll say about methodology.
I need to point out that they’re already giving away too much information because I’m not the only person in the world who can figure this much out. So I’m not giving anything away by posting this that someone else who might use the information for other purposes could not and will not do themselves.
Nor am I saying that there was some sort of Cloak and Dagger stuff going on, if that were the case then all of these guys would know how much is too much information. Scott did what he said he was doing and for the reasons he gave.
… and I’m very pleased to see him home again. Welcome back, Scott.
Welcome back Scott! I wonder what percentage of those female college students are represented in the STEM disciplines? We already have enough degree holders in underwater basket weaving. It’s interesting how many “credentialed” people end up working in government. Could it be their “skills” are not valued by profit oriented businesses?
one thing for sure. if newsom holds on kalifornia will turn into the gulag archipelago in a nanosecond.
And I’ll start a service smuggling people out to freedom, as in the book “CalExit”.
Along the lines of Scott not being allowed to declare he graduated from PSU
My S-I-L needed an accounting class to finish her degree (back in the early 80s). She had not achieved the grade needed on the final to do so. So she went to talk to the professor and explained her situation and that she already had a job lined up.
He asks -Does your job have anything to do with accounting?
S-I-L: Heavens no!
He says: If you promise to NEVER get a job in accounting, EVER, you will pass this class.
S-I-L: I swear.
C in class, done, piece of paper. Job at a brokerage house.
I think I have told this anecdote here before, but lots of new members since then. Prior to the world shutting down, the house across the street was up for sale. I was working in my front yard when an agent, whom I knew, showed up with a couple my age and their son. I assumed they were looking at the house. Since I knew the agent we chatted and the couple came over. Turned out the son was 20, had started with the local power company right out of HS. Stayed living at home for 2 years banking the 50+k per year he was making even as an apprentice and was looking for a home for himself rather than blowing it on a fancy car or other toy. His folks were just helping him with the search and lending their advice.
So at 20-21 he had 80K in the bank and a good paying job and could afford to buy a house versus his contemporaries who were going into debt (even local State U is 25 per year plus living expenses) and were now 100k in the hole and had no idea what job they might get in another year or two.
Seems like many are doing the math and finding the university path wanting.
We can only hope that ray of sunshine will become a blazing orb.
Regarding the ever-growing female population versus the ever-shrinking male population in post secondary institutions: if modern feminism is the coal mine canary, then humanity is screwed as the people with the requisite education for all types of leadership (both technical and non-technical) will eventually be predominantly female. As the father of three daughters, I am fully aware of the “catty” and often-irrational nature of the fair sex.
The old McDonald’s advertising question, “Where’s the beef?” will inevitably take on a whole new meaning, and the answer will be “He was consumed by soy.”
I was thinking the same thing when I wrote my reply to Ron’s comment.
soy, ritalin, title 1X, womens’ studies, revisonist history. the five headed godzilla destroying our constitutional republic faster than we can shore up the last redoubts.
Don’t stop him, he’s on a roll.
Find Herbie! Got to find that bottleneck!
Scott went searching for Butch and Sundance – Cool.
Hope your coffee made it with you.
Well, McClane Stevenson was a radio talk show host in “Hello, Larry”.
do a street video asking college students questions about anything. laugh a minute. their pat answer is: “that’s not my strong subject”.
i think i read that 63% of college students are now female but 72%+ of student loan debt is held by females.
We need to build an orbital space port. A huge storage and construction facility. Stuff is routinely launched up into storage. Eventually, the interplanetary ship is loaded up w/ a bunch of the stuff and heads of to Mars from orbit.
You’ll need an equatorial launch site to make that economically viable in order to use less fuel to get to a more stable orbit. The ISS orbit is so inclined that you use a lot more fuel getting to it from Russia than from the US. Plus you have to transition into an equatorial orbit before departing for the moon or Mars. Brazil is a good place for Spacex to build a launch facility. Otherwise, I think your idea is a good one.
Actroids is so stupid.
-Yosemite Sam
Im gonna go take another shower now.
Every kid in America is tracked into college from Jr. High, if not earlier. Every teacher, admin and counselor tells the kind they have to goto college, every day, 8hrs a day.
Yeah. They are called Guidance Counselors and they try getting you started towards a career in grade 7. I almost went to Penn State with the NROTC which was the only way I could afford to but was quoted out. Instead, I learned a skilled trade.
These days, where I live, it’s swung back to emphasize vocational (which it was in the 70s, then veered away over several decades), but kids have to pick a “track” their freshman year in high school that locks them in to college or vocational (not sure if there’s a middle choice) and effectively they have to declare a major at age 14 or 15.
The good news is that a lot of kids are going the vocational route, and a lot of kids who go the college route get quite a few college credits in high school (kids on both “tracks” can go to the local junior college for both vocational and liberal arts credits as well as college or vocational school credits at the high school), which means that they enter college with fewer credits needed, so less debt.
I think this is generally a good trend. I still think that there is value in a genuine liberal arts degree, but not $200K (or $500K, or whatever it is) of value. The old-fashioned liberal arts degree (real history or English literature or even philosophy) was a Good Thing when it was providing the common knowledge and understanding of the foundations of our culture and society by teaching the Great Works of Western Civilization. But how many liberal arts degrees provide that anymore, when at ivy league schools they’re removing Shakespeare from their currricula? And when Western Civ is now considered inherently and definitionally (insert your favorite “-ist” word here)?
Sigh, rant mode off.
I got me one of those useful theatre degrees.
Mine’s in music. I actually use it every day, but I’ve never made a dime with it (excluding honoraria for the occasional singing for a wedding or funeral).
I love that scene from “Mother”
“It tastes like an orange foot!”
And hour. That’s what I like to see.
Yay! Scott’s back!
welcome back Scott… awesome adventures indeed… and an amazing lesson of gratitude and humility… which would certainly improve the perspective of our young people… I tip my hat to you and to her for taking on this service… so far out of her comfort zone… and I can relate to your amazement at your daughter’s new found skills…
I took my then 17 year old from Israel to New York to attend an award ceremony and she and the similarly aged daughter of our CEO (Save a Child’s Heart) found their way to every site they wanted in the 2 or 3 days they had using their feet and public transportation… they amazed me!! I was just grateful for Uber…