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Really puts into perspective our relationship with Israel. We only give them $1,800 per Israeli citizen per year 😔. Very antisemitic. We must increase aid to Israel

I wonder why this study got buried

I am the VP of Workforce Economics at Oracle. We are worth $420 billion. On Tuesday, we sent 30,000 employees a termination email at 6 AM. Not 9. Not business hours. Six in the morning. They woke up to the word "eliminated." The email came from "Oracle Leadership." Not a manager. Not a name. Oracle Leadership. It said: "We are grateful for your dedication, hard work, and the impact you have made." By the time they read the word "grateful," their access to email, files, and Slack had already been revoked. The gratitude was the last Oracle communication they received. We did not eliminate the roles. We eliminated the salaries. In the same fiscal year, we filed 3,126 H-1B petitions to hire foreign workers. 436 this year alone. The roles are identical. The pay is not. An H-1B software engineer earns $87,000. The domestic median for the same work is $106,000. Eighty-three percent of H-1B workers are classified at entry-level wages for senior positions. The industry calls this a skills gap. It is a pay cut that requires a passport. The visa is tied to the employer. If the worker leaves, they lose their legal right to remain in the country. If they negotiate, they risk the same. If they organize, the sponsor declines to renew. That is retention. Our revenue this quarter is $17.2 billion. Up 22%. Net income up 95%. We have $553 billion in committed future contracts. Up 325%. These are not the numbers of a company that needs to lay anyone off. We took a $2.1 billion restructuring charge. That is the cost of the gratitude. It frees up $8 to $10 billion in annual cash flow. That cash services $156 billion in AI data centers we are building. Starting 2028, OpenAI pays us $82 million per day. Larry Ellison is worth $189 billion. He pledged $51 billion in Oracle shares as collateral for the Stargate AI venture. Announced at the White House. The stock rose 4% on Tuesday. The day of the 6 AM emails. Wall Street did not see 30,000 people. They saw the margin. Amazon laid off 30,000 since October. Filed thousands of H-1B petitions in the same window. This is not one company. This is the operating model. Fire the salary. Keep the role. Fill it with someone whose legal right to remain in the country depends on your continued sponsorship. Pay them less. They will not complain. They cannot. One employee's father worked at Oracle for 20 years. No phone call. No meeting. An email at 6 AM and a locked laptop. The role is still open. The people we fired are free. The people we hired are not.

Juries don't work because you changed the people Flying doesn't work because you changed the people Stores, schools, hospitals--they don't work because you changed the people You can't change the people and keep the system, the system was made for the people

@digenova_h @matthew_sede @CarriePrejean1 Rome didn’t legalize Christianity until 300 years after Jesus’ death. And Jesus is completely unconcerned with Romans, and with Roman politics in the New Testament. He says nothing of Caesar other than instructing followers to pay Roman taxes as citizens of Rome

@digenova_h @matthew_sede @CarriePrejean1 Most of the first Christians were Jewish. All 12 apostles were Jewish. Paul was Jewish. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells his disciples specifically to not go to the Gentiles first, but rather the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Bishop Sanborn: Pilate seemed to take no issue with Christ calling Himself the King of the Jews. Pilate seemed to have no problem with Our Lord saying his Kingdom is not of this world.

“They’re called Medicaid and Medicare and the government spends over $2 trillion on them every year!” “Surely with numbers like that every American citizen will have exquisite health care?” “No, mainly it goes to pay foreign scammers who set up fake hospices in California .”

Former New Jersey councilman Shakir Khan (now in CA) just pleaded no contest to election fraud. Investigators found 41 completed mail-in ballots at his single house, plus 71 voter registrations tied to his address All this while Democrats tell us there isn't any fraud

@RabbiShmuley Did you miss the part where the Jews spent the entirety of the New Testament trying to have Jesus k1lled and then finally succeeded in having the Romans do it for them because the Romans didn’t want to deal with the possibility of the Pharisees causing them problems

Passover is when Jesus, a Jew, was murdered by Antisemitic Rome to silence him. We Jews, who are his people, must fight

@vrexec Also, if you want to make any upgrades or alterations to the house, you need permission, and you don’t retain the value of those upgrades

@vrexec Landlord can increase your rent every single year. It can also be a pain dealing with landlords who won’t maintain or fix anything. Landlord can also sell your house any time, leaving you having to move prematurely if your lease is up and the new owner wants you out

I'm doing some back of the envelope math on buying vs renting. Say you buy a $1M house with 20% down at about 6% mortgage rate and plan to stay there for five years. Your principal paydown in the first five years is about $57,000, but you've paid about $230,000 in interest. You've also paid roughly $100,000 in property taxes, insurance, and maintenance. Say the house appreciated 2.5% every year — so when you sell it's worth about $1.13 million. Your all-in costs to sell are about 7.5% — brokerage commissions, transfer taxes, attorney fees, title insurance, and the inevitable post-inspection negotiation. On a $1.13M sale that's about $85K in fees. So you net about $1.046M. You still owe $743K on the mortgage. You walk away with about $303K in cash — your $200K down payment back, your $57K in principal, and about $46K in net profit from appreciation. Your non-recoverable costs — interest, property tax, insurance, maintenance — were about $330K over five years, or about $5,500/month. That's your effective rent. But you "made" $46K selling, or about $770/month — so your effective rent was about $4,700/month. Not bad, but you tied up $200K for five years to get there. And if appreciation was 1.5% instead of 2.5%, that net gain basically disappears and you're paying $5,400+/month in effective rent. And this assumes there's appreciation at all — and that something doesn't go wrong with your house that needs a major remodel or repair. On a five-year horizon at 6% rates, you need everything to go right on appreciation just to make ownership competitive with renting. The transaction costs eat most of your upside. What am I missing? Anything?

@BuckeyeGrad1999 @UziCryptoo This would also solve the issue of govt insisting on importing tens of millions of third world peasants to ever-expand the tax base to desperately try to fund social security.

@BuckeyeGrad1999 @UziCryptoo What I’m saying is, functionally collecting the money the same way it does now. X% of social security comes out of each check. But instead of going into a govt slush fund, it would go to individualized accounts - unable to be touched by govt

The max one can pay into social security per year is $10,453.20. If you did that every year from age 18 until retirement, the max you’ll get from SS is $4,873 /month. If you put it into an S&P index fund instead, you would receive $32,583 per month. Social Security is a scam.

@BuckeyeGrad1999 @UziCryptoo So why not privatize it in terms of having contributions go into sequestered individual accounts, which get put into some kind of index fund? Instead we all get ripped off. Millennials have paid into it their whole lives and the system might be bankrupt before we use it

@UziCryptoo It’s not a 401k or brokerage account, it’s a social safety net system. Hope that helps!

Tommorow is 'Trans Day of Visibility', which should not be confused with 'Trans Day of Remembrance', which is part of 'Transgender Awareness Week' nor with the 'Trans March of Visibility', which is part of 'Trans Pride' which is in June, if you are in the USA, or July if you are England, except if you are from Manchester, in which case there is a separate event in August. None of these should not be confused with Non-Binary People’s Day (July 14th) or 'International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia' which is in May, or 'Trans Pride Walk', which is in August. All of which are separate from 'LGBT History Month' in October or February, depending where you live. So please do spend tommorow paying attention to Trans folx, because they get almost no publicity.

These guys, especially the dude with the darker hair, have high IQ Germanic/Northern European physiognomy

Par for the course that the DOGE guys are getting grilled and hung out to dry, while every yiddish fraudster gets the red carpet rolled out for them and a pardon

This is a real local election campaign video from England