Eric Fosterius

@VBierschwale @JohnCornyn @KenPaxtonTX @TheDemocrats @TexasGOP @POTUS I believe that. That’s your thing. Respect. The question that matters is would it have been the same better or worse under Kamala? To me it obviously would have been worse. I saw daily buses come in under Biden. Stopped now. I know h1bs now who are leaving or freaking out.

@ericfosterius @JohnCornyn @KenPaxtonTX @TheDemocrats @TexasGOP @POTUS you obviously do not understand the job numbers like I do.

Made up my mind I will not vote for @JohnCornyn or @KenPaxtonTX I will not vote for @TheDemocrats either The @TexasGOP lied to us when they said they would end the H-1B scam So did @POTUS

they don't make sensitive young men like they used to

@jamoses92 Not unless Texas bans non-competes. If they don’t it will not. I’m rooting for Texas but they need to do a 180 on this issue.

It’s strange to learn old English like it’s simply new vocabulary. Familiar and foreign. Walewelp is a hunting dog. Dale is a valley. Wold is a forest. Musical stuff really.

STOP saying “forest.” That’s from French. The native English word is “wold,” from Old English wald.

Jim discovered how to milk enormous resources out of people with no money, skills, or work ethic. Why is this never brought up? Nobody wondered how you could become a rich cult leader by recruiting the poor?

Hello great people of Texas. If you want to capitalize on what’s happening you need to ban non-competes. Right now your state is a happy enforcer of non-competes. This is the opposite of what you want. If you don’t ban non-competes you will not create a sustainable innovation hub.

@Alexfeinberg This is a good series.

Too bad the government takes your taxes before you even receive your paycheck Why? Because what the fuck are you going to do about it Taxation 101

I want to make GMO Przewalski horses to renew America’s desserts. Seedlings have 200%-300% germination rates when they go through the gut of the horse and the horses generate 700-800 pounds per a square inch natural micro bunds that reactivate puddles and seeds laying dormant in the soils. Junggar basin must be studied and replicated.

@datarade Got to be some wildlife ranch in rocksprings tx willing to do that. So many oryx.

@ThinkAppraiser Your problem is CA. $3-4 where I am. The plan is to crush China by proxy even if it hurts us and our allies. They threatened entire rare earth mineral supplies affecting everything. That can no longer be a possibility. The price to pay for that is high but cheaper than the alt.

Gas is almost 6 dollars per gallon at the cheapest goddamn place by my house What the hell are we doing guys? Figure out this Middle Eastern/Iran bullshit get this f*cking figured out everybody’s tired of getting raped at the pump On what planet should we be starting a freaking war in the Middle East with zero plan about anything? Very frustrating to keep getting killed with high prices everywhere with no plan or no light at the end of the tunnel

@LokiJulianus Iran didn’t know it needed Roberts to vote for the tariffs.

A tariff by other means.

"Almost 69% of US mushroom production occurs in the borough of Kennett Square, PA. It is a small town of about 6000 people, but mushroom-growing facilities around town produce almost 451 million pounds of mushrooms annually" sftw.substack.com/p/the-case-of-…

Kennett Square is about 15 minutes from where I live. One of the small nice things about living in Eastern Pennsylvania is that fresh mushrooms - not the nasty canned kind, fresh - are accordingly abundant and cheap. They're naturalized into the local cuisine, even street food like sandwiches. This is a good thing.

Walking through South Highlands in Shreveport and you can't help but stop and stare at this absolute legend on Slattery Street. Planted back in 1938 by two neighbors who decided a tree would make a better "fence" than wood ever could it's now an 88-year-old live oak with the wildest, lowest-twisting branches you've ever seen. Gnarled, graceful, and full of character. Kids climb it, families snap portraits in front of it, and locals admire it on every walk, wondering about its story. Shreveport's quiet treasures like this just hit different. Nature doing what it does best growing beautifully over time. #SlatteryTree #Shreveport #SouthHighlands

I’ve always been a huge supporter of legal immigration. That’s because I imagined the numbers of those entering America were very low. I thought we were bringing in a few thousand families a year who were already set up with jobs and were self-sustaining. I thought: why wouldn’t we want hardworking folks to come in and chase the American dream? But is that an accurate picture of what’s happening? A friend of mine created a website using verified legal immigration stats to show exactly how much it’s costing taxpayers to bring in not only H-1B visa holders but refugees from across the world. Take a look. In North Carolina alone, American taxpayers spent $5.4 billion to sustain legal immigrants. And we’re not talking about a handful of families. Ten percent of North Carolina’s population is now foreign-born. I had no clue. I’m out here fighting for my culture every single day. I’m begging people to assimilate. I’m teaching people NC’s history and schooling them on our language, traditions, and way of life. Meanwhile, my government is doing everything it can to ensure those who have zero ties to this piece of land outnumber those who do. Veterans suffer with inadequate care, the elderly have to work until the day they die, the homeless roam our streets—and we’re spending billions on legal immigrants?

Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans. Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable. Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale. Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné. Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut. À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol. Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée. Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit. Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie. Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags. Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle. Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère. Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision : "La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne) "La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek "Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.

He won the Civil War, broke the Klan, went bankrupt at 62, got terminal throat cancer, and wrote one of the greatest books in American literature in the final year of his life. He finished it 5 days before he died. Ulysses S. Grant was born 204 years ago today. His name wasn't even Ulysses S. Grant. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822. The congressman who nominated him to West Point wrote down the wrong name. Grant kept it. The "S." stands for nothing. He hated his father's tannery and loved horses. Graduated 21st of 39 at West Point. Fought in the Mexican-American War, then came home convinced it was an unjust war designed to expand slavery. He later said he believed the Civil War was divine punishment for it. He married Julia Dent in 1848, into a slave-owning Missouri family. His abolitionist father refused to attend the wedding. In 1859, broke and desperate, Grant freed the one enslaved man he'd briefly owned instead of selling him. He could have gotten a year's wages. In the Civil War he became what no other Union general was: relentless. Vicksburg (July 4, 1863) split the Confederacy in half. Lincoln then gave him every Union army. His Appomattox surrender terms: officers kept sidearms, men kept horses for spring planting, no one prosecuted. As president (1869 to 1877) he did something no president would do again until LBJ: used federal troops to crush the Ku Klux Klan. He suspended habeas corpus in 9 South Carolina counties, prosecuted Klansmen before predominantly Black juries, and broke the first Klan. His presidency was also rocked by scandal: Black Friday 1869. Crédit Mobilier. The Whiskey Ring. Belknap. Grant himself never took a dime. He was just disastrously loyal to corrupt friends. The pattern damaged his reputation for a century. After the White House, he toured the world for 2 years. Dined with Queen Victoria. Met the emperor of Japan. Then in 1884, a Wall Street partner named Ferdinand Ward ran what we'd now call a Ponzi scheme. Grant was wiped out. 62 years old. Penniless. Weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Mark Twain offered to publish his memoirs. Grant wrote in agony, sometimes 50 pages a day, racing the disease to leave Julia an inheritance. He finished the manuscript July 18, 1885. He died July 23. The book made Julia $450,000, about $14M today. It's now considered one of the finest memoirs in the English language. For decades historians ranked Grant a failure. Since 2000 he's jumped 13 spots in the C-SPAN survey, the biggest rise of any president. Happy birthday, General 🇺🇸