re: What industry “secret” do you know that most people don’t?

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External audits of financial statements of trillion and billion dollar companies are largely worked on by 23 year old kids fresh out of college

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Same goes for laws passed by Congress. They’re drafted by a bunch of mid-20’s kids, tweaked by senior staffers, and rarely read by members of Congress.

Tito's vodka is not handmade inside a copper pot in Austin,TX. It is made from the same shite that most every other American vodka is made from: mass-produced ethanol from Archer Daniels Midland. They take the ethanol & run through copper stills so they can still legally claim to make it in copper pots. It has literally zero effect on the liquid at all.

In the 2016 Presidential election runup, Homeland Security/FBI sent out a list of IP addresses in Russia, France, Israel, Iran that were popular addresses for script kiddies to probe websites with old malware shite. These locations are likely on every website on the internet and they were asking the Secretaries of State to look for them because according to FBI/HS these were indicators that the russians were trying to hack the election.

Now everyone in cyber security in the country knew this was not an indicator of anything other than DHS/HS were going to leak that every state was attacked by muh russians. When looked into website visitors from those IPs all they did was scroll through the websites. There was no hacking. That whole thing was a narrative to throw doubt on Trump's presidency and it was done by DHS/FBI because they knew everyone that would be exposed to that information was under a non disclosure agreement.

This later was proven when the next year the story came out about how 27 states were attacked by the Russians. That was completely fabricated.

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God I wish I could share some details about the project I have been working on. Just a complete shite show, baffling decisions by the military every step of the way and a gross misuse of taxpayer money.

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Only getting worse with DEI hires/promotions. No matter who wins in Nov, those folks will be ingrained. I also have worked for a civilian agency, senior execs when from Ivy League grads to folks from "think tanks," activists and community organizers, many with first names you can't pronounce and hyphenated last names.

The bigger the bank, the more haphazard their accounting is. A small community bank balances its books to the penny every night and if it doesn't balance, they don't go home until they figure out why. A large bank thinks nothing of being out millions or tens of millions at the close of business.

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Almost all vodka is distilled at an industrial level and simply bottled and marketed by the companies you’re familiar with.

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Right. Every single bougie gal that INSISTS on her Tito's...it's just ridiculous.

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A huge percentage of the bourbon consumed in the US comes from one supplier in Indiana and is bottled and distributed by the companies you’ve heard of.

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MGP, yes. Any time you see a fancy bottle of bourbon for $75+ in places like Wyoming and New Mexico, the first word you should look for somewhere on the label is "Indiana".

It's virtually all completely vapor and nonsense. And the absurd bias against Jim Beam is just that - absurd.

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Stuff you would never do on a civilian contract.

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Because commercial projects are beholden to a budget, a timeline and lack of results means lack of employment.

None of those are a0plicable to a government employee

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Most industrial places are really not as well maintained as they should be.

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Is this really a secret?

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All industries float on a sea of bullshite, but the liquor industry might be the bullshittiest of all. I watch all the threads on these boards waxing poetic (and supposedly knowledgeable) about all the differences drinkers ascertain from different bottles and varieties and laugh at all the certainty people think they have over detectable differences. In fact, the industry is MUCH closer to the Simpsons Duff production line: ...than to some highly refined and differentiated product offering

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There is a little truth to that.

But….

You can take the exact same distillate, age it for different lengths of time or in different types of barrels and bottle it at different proofs and come away with things that all taste different.