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Make Standard time year-round. No more DST. Standard time is the way to go.

You may be wondering why immigrants hate us so much. After all, they were allowed to come to America, and prosper greatly by doing so, and a large portion of the population bent over backwards to welcome them and make them feel at home. If you don't understand realpsych, you would expect them to be grateful. But that's not how people actually work. Human beings are grateful for gifts and favors only up to the point where they feel they can no longer repay them. Once that point is passed, once a person can no longer repay his debts, then he has a choice between two narratives for understanding the rest of his life. "I am a charity recipient, not a self-sustaining human being." "I was entitled to what I took from those people, because they are bad, or weak, or horrible, or something." In other words, if you give someone too much, more than they deserve, more than they can possibly earn, they become ungrateful little swine, precisely in order to preserve their own psychological well being. And they will surround themselves with others who participate with them in that collaborative lie. Sometimes people can make entire careers out of pandering to the over-privileged and under-deserving. Careers like "publicist". Or "immigration lawyer". And they will invent an entire mythos to preserve their self-worth. They will convince themselves that thriving off undeserved gifts makes them the elite of humanity, while those whose inheritance was taken from them are some mental stereotype of drunken "Biff", who partied his way through a second rate IT school. There's just one small problem that they must handwave away or ignore if they can. Biff's great-grandparents build America into the greatest nation on Earth. Biff's grandparents won WW2. Biff's parents invented the internet, and flew astronauts to the moon. Biff's entire tribe was thriving. Otherwise there would have been nothing to give to immigrants, and no reason for them to come here. Meanwhile, all of the places that the immigrants are coming from have existed a lot longer than America, and been filled with the ancestors of those immigrants, and lots of other people who are like them in every way. They had centuries, sometimes millennia, to get their shit together and build something where they were. They didn't. They had to go live in someone else's country, for "opportunities". Of course they have to pretend that they "deserve" those "opportunities" more than the very people whose ancestors created the "opportunities" in the first place. Because otherwise they would have to admit the one thing their self-esteem could never endure.... Leaving their own nations, and their tribes, was an admission of abject failure.

@mnolangray I don't want to attract the best and brightest. I want a homeland for my people.

@mnolangray Nah, we flew to the moon without 3rd world immigrants. These numbers are the result of displacement by DEI, these immigrants have been given unfair precedence over Americans in both hiring and funding decisions

@art_pleb @mnolangray The H1B in its current form is a weak form of indentured servitude; to be fired or quit risks deportation. That is a form of "discipline" unavailable to most other employers or employees. The master's whip is intoxicating and hard to be cured of

@mnolangray There’s a motte and Bailey where you point to unicorn founders, while the workforce experiences it as thousands of mediocre Cognizant indentured servants with dubious credentials. There’s obviously a policy compromise but big tech doesn’t want it.

"an immigrant started xyz" therefore xyz or something like it wouldn't exist but for that immigrant? the conclusion does not follow from the premises. Since the lion's share of the benefit of wage arbitrage shows up in executive compensation and, occasionally, dividends even a small increase in wages resulting from un-sandbagging the labor force is a big gain for the many workers in that labor force.

periodic reminder that high-altitude lightning aka transient luminous events were seen for decades by pilots who kept quiet for fear of being labelled a nut, predicted by physicists for decades too, accidentally recorded only in 1989 when cameras were finally good enough.

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

@pushpendrakum The caste system is incompatible with other countries. Once in charge they alienate host companies/countries by only hiring Indians. Plus the degree fraud is well known. Many people who had no idea of the diploma mill fraud a year ago do today. No assimilation to the countries.

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

Thanks to the @oasishealthapp I’ve switched from poisonous FairLife Protein Milk to Bourbon and I can’t even begin to explain how much healthier I feel.

In 1868, a bankrupt Louisiana banker with a ruined plantation and no income took some pepper seeds of unknown origin, mixed the mash with salt mined from underneath his own property, aged it in barrels, and bottled it in cologne bottles because manufacturing specialty glass after the Civil War was impossible. That bottle shape has not changed in 156 years... Edmund McIlhenny had lost almost everything in the Civil War. His banking career was gone. The Avery Island plantation he had married into was destroyed. When his family returned in 1865 they found the fields in ruin and allegedly a few volunteer chile plants still surviving in the wreckage. Nobody knows exactly how McIlhenny obtained the Capsicum frutescens pepper seeds that became the foundation of his sauce. What is documented is that he crushed the ripened peppers into a mash with rock salt mined from the natural salt dome underneath Avery Island, aged the mash in barrels, blended it with French white wine vinegar, strained it through cloth and bottled it in small cologne-type bottles with sprinkler fitments, sealed in green wax. Workers on the plantation used small red sticks called le petit bâton rouge to identify peppers at exactly the right stage of ripeness. In 1869 he sent exactly 658 bottles to grocers along the Gulf Coast at one dollar apiece. He secured a patent in 1870, and the sauce sold out immediately. Manufacturing specialised glass was essentially impossible in the post-Civil War South so McIlhenny used what was available. The sprinkler fitment on a cologne bottle turned out to be the perfect delivery mechanism for a concentrated pepper sauce best applied in dashes rather than poured. That practical wartime improvisation became one of the most recognisable pieces of packaging in the world. The original recipe, Tabasco peppers, Avery Island salt and vinegar, has not changed in 156 years. The salt still comes from underneath the same island. Every pepper seed used in production worldwide still originates from Avery Island. A bankrupt banker's post-Civil War improvisation, bottled in repurposed cologne bottles, became one of the most globally distributed food products in history. © Eats History

U.S. Forest Service law enforcement is now asking for the public’s help identifying a group of Indian nationals seen defacing Cathedral Rock in Sedona, Arizona, a sacred Native American site, with furious Americans demanding their immediate deportation.

@Karl_Pharks @DrewPavlou the 1st home buyers scheme should be means tested and not available if you own a property anywhere on the planet. if its subsequently found you used the scheme whilst owning another property, you get fined 3 times what you borrowed, inflation adjusted, no time limit.

@Auspatriot33 @DrewPavlou Because they are setting up landbanks here so if their corrupt government turns on them they have a civilised nation to flee too. Its the same reason they want to maintain their homeland ties. If Australia finally starts expecting more of them they want to be able to bail.

@DrewPavlou What many don’t realise is the Indians and Chinese coming here are the wealthy. Why exactly are they here? They could be bank in India with a fleet of servants. They should not be scamming food banks etc.

In this Guardian article, a new migrant to Australia complains she is not entitled to welfare. In the same article she says she doesn’t want to give up foreign citizenship to obtain Australian citizenship: “We have ancestral property, houses, land. We’d have to give that up.” Can someone explain how that’s Australia’s problem? If you have “ancestral property, houses and land” in your home country, why should Australian taxpayers be expected to support you? Maybe somebody can explain this to me.

@VoicesUnheard It's cool and neat decoration. Sometimes I buy stuff like that. A lot of the time I turn the tags over -- "Made in China". As they say in birthday gift-giving "it is the thought that counts".

Hard to celebrate “freedom” when the government is actively turning America into a surveillance state. This entire “America 250” display at Dollar General looked exactly the same as it did days ago. I asked the employee about it and he said: “People just aren’t buying it this year.” I asked: “Literally or metaphorically?” He smiled: “Both.” I wonder why people aren't feeling particularly patriotic right now? 🤔

Drowning in Martha's Vineyard. Easy to find stuff. Only hidden (by accident?) because it is shocking. Early press statements were that neither Obama (Mr. or Mrs.) was in-residence when the drowing occurred. Later statements acknowledged that at least one of them was on the island (out shopping?) when the death occured. Later on, convincing reports emerged that the man who died was planning to retire soon, amd write a memoir. It is possible that such a memoir, if released, would be unwanted by either Mr. or Mrs. Obama. After the fact reports of the Secret Service's and local policy's investigation into the drowning have revealed excessive deference to the Obamas, instead of a standard investigation.

@wesyang To be fair to M. Obama, it is an undergraduate thesis. To be fair to Hitchens, it isn't very good. To be fair to humanity: if you have to go back more than 2 weeks to find The Bad Thing, it suggests they've been pretty good since then.

You can see in this passage from 2008, in which Christopher Hitchens heaps scorn on Michelle Obama's undergraduate thesis, ("To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be “read” at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language") the reason why the Great Awokening was soon to be launched. After a decade of Giuliani-ism and Clintonite triangulation (welfare reform, "superpredators", the Crime Bill), cynical white guys, even those nominally "on the Left" (Hitchens had departed it by 2008, but his prior credentials as a figure on the Left were part of what gave him permission to say these things in mainstream publications) felt free to do things they would soon not feel free to do, like belittle and ridicule and denigrate the intelligence of the first black First Lady.