>>214321205
they got rid of all the white men that knew how to do it

things fall apart

>>509622873
You’re free to argue that it’s TECHNICALLY a slightly different meaning, but the subtext is clear. We used to be able to do this, but we scrapped the tech, and now it will take us a very long time to rebuild it, much longer than it ought to take to fit parts together, because nobody is left around here who fully understands how it works.

>>212035852
A lot of the techniques have been genuinely lost.