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Monday, 23 August 2010 11:27 amI don't particularly care for maths (if I don't understand how to do them, at least), but I kind of want to become an engineer. Just so that I can work on government projects like this,so that when the conspiracy theorists I know inevitably bitch about how whatever project I'm working on is part of the government's plot to create and domesticate metroids that they can use to assassinate dissenting American citizens without any kind of trace, or something equally ridiculous, I can tell them exactly how wrong they are. (Because metroids can't be domesticated; or at least the Space Pirates never figured out how to do it.)
I mean, seriously, big bro, the US did not cause the earthquake in Haiti. The US did not move clouds around in order to flood Pakistan. The US does not have the ability to create natural disasters whenever it likes wherever in the world it wants. (And I'm pretty damn sure the ionosphere doesn't work that way.) It's not like the American government is run by Nikola Tesla, who - if the stories are true - was in fact working on a device to induce earthquakes before he died, only for basically all the information about it to be lost with his death, because all the schematics were in his head. And it isn't like the American government is run by the Shinra Electric Power Company, who rebuilt an entire mountain town after it was burned to the ground by one of their own people, and hired actors to fill the roles of all the townspeople who died in the fire (all of them), and were successful enough to make the one person who actually survived the fire start thinking he was crazy (or more crazy than he already was). The American government is just not that capable.
Of course, have you ever noticed that the same people who buy into all these conspiracies about the American government are the same people who complain the most about how the American government is incompetent and useless and never did anything for them? It's like, guys, make up your minds. Either our government is scarily competent and could kill all of us if they had an excuse to do so, or they're about as competent as Jessie and James and can't do a damn thing. You can't have it both ways.
I mean, seriously, big bro, the US did not cause the earthquake in Haiti. The US did not move clouds around in order to flood Pakistan. The US does not have the ability to create natural disasters whenever it likes wherever in the world it wants. (And I'm pretty damn sure the ionosphere doesn't work that way.) It's not like the American government is run by Nikola Tesla, who - if the stories are true - was in fact working on a device to induce earthquakes before he died, only for basically all the information about it to be lost with his death, because all the schematics were in his head. And it isn't like the American government is run by the Shinra Electric Power Company, who rebuilt an entire mountain town after it was burned to the ground by one of their own people, and hired actors to fill the roles of all the townspeople who died in the fire (all of them), and were successful enough to make the one person who actually survived the fire start thinking he was crazy (or more crazy than he already was). The American government is just not that capable.
Of course, have you ever noticed that the same people who buy into all these conspiracies about the American government are the same people who complain the most about how the American government is incompetent and useless and never did anything for them? It's like, guys, make up your minds. Either our government is scarily competent and could kill all of us if they had an excuse to do so, or they're about as competent as Jessie and James and can't do a damn thing. You can't have it both ways.