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@AngieRamos2030 @HasanabiProd Accidentally clicked "like" because I thought you meant "He's been embarrassed so badly this time, let's leave him by himself so maybe he'll do something self-destructive."

@HasanabiProd Ohhh please leave Elon Musk alone already this is turned in a big mediatic circus what a shame my God 😱

Hasan reads out Elon Musk's texts sent to Ashley St. Claire right before the 2024 election. "Tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix..this is not something on the chess board so they will be quite surprised "lasers from space"... I have over 10,000 lasers in space right now"

@PunishedJ4n1X @TouhouEnjoyer_ Maybe I'm from a different time but my employers were actually scared their workers would work during lunch, because that's fucking illegal and could get the employers in trouble.

@TouhouEnjoyer_ Have you never ever worked through your lunchtime before?

"No" isn't even an option

@KeitaroTR Genshin Impact does feel like a successor to Kingdom Hearts. Wielding sword and magic and exploring a world using fancy movement techniques. Kingdom Hearts 3 wasn't a bad game, but it was the first one that failed to impress.

🚨 POLÉMICA EN SQUARE ENIX Y MENCIONAN A GENSHIN IMPACT 🚨 Jacob Navok, exdirector de negocio de Square Enix, ha soltado unas declaraciones muy duras: • Dice que la compañía está fracasando en atraer a las nuevas generaciones. • Afirma que su mayor error fue dejar que otra empresa creara el fenómeno Genshin Impact. • Propone hacer juegos free-to-play modernos, con colaboraciones arriesgadas (hasta sugiere mezclar Final Fantasy con K-Pop). • Culpa a la burocracia interna por ser demasiado lentos. ¿Creéis que tiene razón y Square Enix necesita un cambio urgente?

@jeremybernier You’re in Korea and you thought the couple who spoke English to you was more respectful? Why haven’t you learned Chinese for your Chinese coworkers then?

At Meta, 90% of my coworkers were Chinese, and non-Chinese were routinely excluded, disadvantaged, and targeted for layoffs. 6 out of the 7 layoffs I observed targeted non-Chinese despite non-Chinese being the vast minority. Certain orgs like ads and MRS are notorious for being Chinese dominated. I think Americans would be outraged if they knew that their own citizens were getting marginalized and laid off at their own companies, while Chinese promote themselves up, conquer entire orgs, and reap millions. Imagine if Huawei in Shenzhen had entire orgs and leadership chains completely dominated by Japanese people who brazenly spoke Japanese at work without a care in the world that their Chinese coworkers don't understand, imposed their own work culture without respecting Chinese culture, excluded the Chinese, and laid off Chinese people while promoting their own. I imagine Chinese citizens would be outraged, and never allow that to happen in the first place. The most blatant and obvious way that non-Chinese are excluded is that Chinese primarily speak Mandarin at work. I'm not talking about one-off conversations, I'm talking about every single conversation. Loudly and brazenly with no respect for others. 10+ teammates and leaders having a group conversation in Mandarin while the 2 non-Chinese don't understand and feel excluded from the team. Although everyone at least has the decency to speak English during formal meetings with a non-speaker present, it was common that right after the meeting ended everyone would immediately switch to Mandarin. Funny I'm in Korea right now and was just on a double date with 3 other Koreans, and I was shocked that when the conversation would split into two, the other couple would speak to each other in English in my presence just out of respect. A Korean couple on a double-date had the courtesy to speak to each other in English in front of me even though I'd never expect that from them, but my Chinese coworkers did not. Lunch was another place where non-Chinese were blatantly excluded. Recall that the team I joined was an all Chinese team with only one other non-Chinese person. The Chinese would always get lunch together and never invite us (except for one of them who occasionally would, though at some point stopped). Me and the non-Chinese person would invite them, they'd always refuse, and then shortly after they'd disappear and get lunch together. As a result, it was usually just the two of us getting lunch. (caveat, some of the newer Chinese who joined afterwards also experienced similar treatment. So it's moreso a clique thing than a Chinese vs. non-Chinese thing, though 100% of the clique was Chinese) On Wednesdays and Fridays I'd often be the only non-Chinese person on my team in the office, and they'd all get lunch together without inviting me. It was depressing, and made me not want to come into the office on those days. One team dinner we went to a Korean BBQ. I arrived with a non-Chinese coworker and the first table was full, so we sat at one end of the next empty table. Shortly after one of the Tech Leads walked in, and sat at the complete opposite end of our table, alone and not in talking distance to anyone. We invited her over, and she declined. Later another Tech Lead came in and sat across from her. Non-Chinese and Chinese at opposite ends of a long table at a team dinner, and they refused to sit with us. Eventually more people came and the TLs joined our side because I guess maybe it was too obviously anti-social, and they spent the entire dinner speaking speaking Chinese to each other. These were our tech leads. I could not understand how Meta could have "Tech Leads" that so blatantly excluded teammates. I thought Tech Leads were supposed to uplift the team, and that Meta would hold tech leads to a higher standard. Now someone might say that it's just lunch or a one-off team dinner, who cares? To that I vehemently disagree. Lunch is extremely important for team bonding, and so much information is transferred through informal socializing. I'm not saying that everyone needs to get lunch together everyday, but if a minority of people are excluded from getting lunch with the rest of the team, and especially the most tenured and senior employees, then naturally that minority is going to feel alienated, disadvantaged, and excluded from opportunities. And the very fact that they're excluded from lunch is reflective of being excluded in general. When 90% of an org and the entire leadership chain is dominated by one ethnicity, naturally their work culture is going to spill through. Chinese culture is completely different from American work culture, and learning to navigate that was a huge obstacle for me. For example I'm the type that tends to question everything and isn't afraid to challenge a "superior", but I quickly realized that my TL seemed to take offense to that, and would punish/retaliate me for it. I want to make it clear - I have nothing against Chinese people. Most of them are very kind (strong correlation between kindness and not engaging in the kind of exclusionary behavior I mentioned above), and I have many good friends who are Chinese. I get that some barely speak English (though I question how they got hired). I do genuinely believe that most are good people, and not deliberately trying to exclude others. But regardless of intent, the result is that non-Chinese get excluded. The fact that 6 of the 7 layoffs I observed were not Chinese in a 80-90% Chinese dominated org is testament to this. The fact that 90% Chinese dominated orgs even exist in the first place is testament to this. I might not even be posting about this given the sensitivity of the topic if not for the fact that I've seen and/or heard stories of some very toxic people who I do not believe would otherwise survive if not for their ability to exclude others, throwing others under the bus for the next layoff. The same people do this over and over again, and get away with it because they're part of the "clique" that essentially has immunity. I think the company needs to take this more seriously. Some ideas would be enforcing English at the office (I've heard of other teams that do this), raising leaders to a higher bar when it comes to team inclusivity (eg. under the "People" axis), investigating potential discrimination cases (eg. layoffs and/or mistreatment disproportionally affecting certain groups) and having a zero tolerance policy around that, having a zero tolerance policy around injustice in general (eg. lying or deliberately throwing somebody under the bus), ensuring more diverse teams, etc. But to be honest, I don't have faith that much would change so long as the entire leadership chain up to the VP level is dominated by the same ethnicity, language, and culture. Nor does it seem that leadership even remotely cares given that this has been happening in the HQ for probably at least the last decade, and is obvious to anyone who's stepped foot in the office.

@Polymarket "Thousands" is a miniscule number in Taiwan, which has a population of 23 million. Even if we count "thousands" as 9999, that's 0.04%. This headline reads more like basically every one in Taiwan is against higher spending.

JUST IN: Thousands rally in Taiwan to demand higher defense spending as tensions with China rise.

@JeffreymGourley @clashreport So... your argument is... When the country is at its richest and most powerful, let's instead listen to the stupid people who could not find success despite living in the #1 country in the world?

Fukuyama sees Trump as the disease. I see Fukuyama as the petri dish. When credentialed America spent decades telling blue-collar workers to sit in the corner and let the smart people decide — Trump was inevitable. You don't get to be surprised by the earthquake when you've been ignoring the fault line. Every decision credentialed America makes impacts everybody — positive and negative. When you marginalize enough people long enough, Trump isn't a surprise. He's a receipt. In 2015/2016 Trump did something simple that credentialed America had stopped doing — he listened to the disenfranchised. And they supported him for it. We saw the collision coming for decades. We just didn't have the right letters after our names for anyone to care. Maybe it's time for credentialed America to try something radical — shut up and listen to the people they've been talking over for 50 years.

Francis Fukuyama on the U.S. as a declining power: American decline is a direct product of Trump's rise since 2016. It is as if Trump had decided to do everything in his power to weaken the United States vis-à-vis China. He has polarized an already polarized country, cut funding for basic scientific research, and attacked American universities which are the best in the world. He and his colleagues have openly stated that their domestic opponents — the Democrats — are a far greater threat to the future of the United States than either China or Russia. There is agreement among America's friends and rivals that the United States has become something of a rogue state that is contributing to global instability and disorder — as well as something of a laughingstock.

@Freeda1776 @AIandDesign You want the government to forcibly rein in capitalism? What are you a commie?

@AIandDesign They are welcome but not at the expense of American workers who are being replaced in record numbers by H1-B visa holders. We are seeing extreme abuses of this. Sorry not sorry.

@AwokenSentience @mnolangray It sounds like you want the government to intervene with capitalism. Are you a pinkie?

@mnolangray There is no sympathy left.

It's even crueler than described. Say you marry your college sweetheart on a student visa, or girlfriend on a work visa. Maybe pregnant? Doesn't matter. You're forced to live apart or abroad for two years. If she is from 75 countries on Trump's arbitrary ban list, indefinitely.

@TripleThinkLabs @beffjezos What do you think happens to jobs when there are no longer enough people going to restaurants, shopping at stores, and buying TVs? You’re still not gonna get your entry level job, in fact the whole business is not going to exist.

@beffjezos We do not care. The abuse of the visa system is so rampant and not one of us have met one of these ‘highly gifted geniuses’. And definitely not enough to justify millions of visa holders taking jobs that are entry level.

So basically all elite founders of multi-billion dollar companies contributing to AI and defense have to stop their work in order to convert to GC? Make it make sense.

@Seven7Alexandra @DHSgov @facefuklibtards They literally don’t drain our taxes because there are requirements for how many years you must have worked to fully benefit. If anything they’re just bringing money from their home countries to spend here. Fucking idiot. Learn the laws.

@Maximus0314 @DHSgov You voted for this.

@DHSgov I just got my fiance, now wife, here on a fiance visa after 2 years!! We are HAPPILY MARRIED and followed every single rule!! She is no burden to any American tax payer and never will be!! I voted for Trump 3 times now! DONT RUIN LIVES OF LAW ABIDING CITIZENS!!!

An alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply. This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes. The era of abusing our nation’s immigration system is over.

@bellevuehusky @Patrickwebb He won’t do shit because he’s owned by Silicon Valley’s tech bros and they all depend on green card holders.

@Patrickwebb Now get rid of all current green card people. If they’ve lived here for more than a year and have not started the natural immigration process kick their asses back

BREAKING: The Trump admin announces that all green card applicants must leave the country indefinitely, regardless of whether they are in the U.S. legally or have spouses or children who are citizens, per NY Post.

@phlegmatitron @VeryBadLlama Yes and Africans consider mosquito steak a delicacy. We should respect such 3rd world customs.

@VeryBadLlama Lots of people don't consider lunch a major meal. It's the snack you have between a decent breakfast and a large supper.

people from the wealthiest country on the planet are out here bragging that they subsist on diets that you would not be allowed to feed to inmates in a Scandinavian prison

@DanFriedman81 @Is_Not_Brian Nobody is complaining about celebrating Hannukah. It's completely normal to have a parade for Chinese New Year. But to have a parade for China the country? Yearly? Celebrating a foreign country routinely is weird as fuck.

@Is_Not_Brian Because over a million Jews live in NYC. You understand that there is an Irish parade and a Polish parade and an Italian parade and a Puerto Rican Day and West Indian Day (where people get shot every year), right?

Why the fuck does NYC have an Israel Day Parade lol

@SensibleFascist Did you seriously just suggest being against Epstein is a left-wing thing? That's weird since I could swear a bunch of MAGA influencers did an event one time where they proudly held up the binders and claimed they were gonna release the names.

In The Boys finale, there is a completely inconsequential scene where the worlds richest man randomly walks into the White House wearing a Dark Homelander hat, says he loves space, has 15 kids, and is concerned about white birth rates. Homelander then flies him away off screen. While The Boys has always had political messaging, the first few seasons had it as a background narrative, never superseding the actual story. This is also when the show was at its best. Conveniently, it also began to dip in quality once the political messaging took precedent over the story, and season 5 was unfortunately the final form of this. The writers were so blinded by their TDS that they completely reworked the show to be a left wing satire of current political events rather than an original story loosely incorporating political messaging. This season felt so rushed because it almost certainly was. They, like the rest of Hollywood, most likely thought Kamala was going to win, so they had written the show in anticipation of this. When Trump won, he threw a bomb on their entire script and made it irrelevant, forcing them to rework it last minute to “satirize” the Trump admin, and constantly revising it through filming to include parallels to at the time current events. All it was missing was an Epstein reference, and you just know they’re kicking themselves for not getting to include one. TDS ruined The Boys.

@DominionCipher @RedPillMediaX This shit doesn't work when everything Massie did is in line with the Constitution of the United States of America.

@RedPillMediaX Another communist massie supporter? You sound like Mao Zedong. “Lets kill the elderly!” You are a danger to society.

Without the boomers, Massie would’ve won. I hate boomers so much. They need to be put into camps.

@excellentprospe @RedPillMediaX It's not broadbrush when your gen voted for the wrong guy by over 60%. It's interesting that instead of siding with the people who voted for the same guy as you did, you'd rather side with the people who are... your age?

@RedPillMediaX I m a boomer, and I supported Massie. Stop with the broadbrush bs, and stop looking for excuses outside the individual. boomers aren't all bad, and if it wasn't for us, you would have your damn internet, phones, or smart device lives.

@Acyn It’s so fucking obvious he’s a big data plant, he even had to name drop Robinhood.

Reporter: How can you argue to Americans that you're cleaning up corruption, when the president seems to be talking up stocks that he owns, selling them and enriching himself? Vance: Come on, man, have a little bit of objectivity in the way that you ask these questions. The president doesn't sit at the oval office on his computer, on his robinhood account, buying and selling stocks. That's absurd. He's not making the stock trades himself.

@tsplnly @EthanLevins2 He also read Mark Twain and it’s no surprise at all he’s against modern day robber barons.

@EthanLevins2 Xi read Keynes 😂

REPORT: Xi Jinping REFUSED to meet with any billionaire CEO’s Trump brought along to China. Xi cannot be played with.

@CptTaiHai6969 @rowanfornow Just like how NYC and California carry the US while the MAGA shitholes drag down the average.

@rowanfornow depends on which part of China, the coastal area? yes it is rich, but the more inland u go the poorer it gets, and that drags down the average

how many decades until we accept that China is rich now. like come on they're at least Russia tier.