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I feel a great disturbance in the force

@veggie_eric Oh no, my steak is too juicy, my lobster is too buttery

I asked for a cream cheese bagel not a half the tub of cream cheese bagel ffs how do these bagel shops even make money when they’re dishing out literal ice cream sandwiches

@Hitchslap1 True!

@jrysana You’re supposed to make those types of points in the replies. Community notes weren’t designed to make minor points and my post was accurate.

I’ve been unfairly community noted on this post. If any community notes reviewers could honestly review it I would appreciate it. The NART is strongly correlated with general intelligence (g) at ~0.85 so it’s reasonable to describe it as an IQ test. “The National Adult Reading Test (NART) shows a strong correlation with general intelligence (g), typically in the range of r ≈ 0.70–0.85 depending on the study and sample.” homepages.abdn.ac.uk

@Nick_Davidov Why not? Can is a different matter than want to.

Iranians, Belorussians, Ukrainians can’t really go back..

The biggest bullshit move by DHS in its history. So everyone on a O1 or H1B visa would have to stop working legally in the US, go back to their country and wait for years of backlog? This includes top scientists in our universities, founders of billion dollar companies (at least 3 just in our portfolio would be affected by the way). And if we look at individual countries it becomes even more bs. Indians would have to wait decades. Russians don’t have anywhere to go (there is no US embassy in Russia, hello?). This is the worst imaginable way to disrupt important work for the country and pretend you’re fighting some loophole.

@Hitchslap1 In particular the 131+ range is actually quite common in many ethnicities so that cutoff is really quite significant.

@Hitchslap1 With all due respect I think that note is actually quite helpful to any uninformed passers by... it makes a few good points that some might miss.

@empyrealrum Right but how many are comfortable in one or two nice homes?

@jrysana "Regular" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. There are hundreds of millions living 3rd world lives. Those owning half a dozen luxurious apartments are very upper class.

I'm intrigued by the people who claim China's population is actually overreported by ~4x, which would take their supposed GDP PPP from $30k to the US's $90k all the way up to $120k - in some ways, this makes sense? Americans are clearly much wealthier than Europeans still ofc.

@Winterrose I love guy (inclusive) as a term

GWAP guy (inclusive) with actual potential

@tszzl what happened

@stefanjacobs @samgrootpiel Ja, ek bedoel beslis nie nou nie. Ek dink oor millennia sal daar eendag plekke wees om verder as ons son te gaan, en ons mense is die beste ontdekkingsreisigers.

Wat ons mense uniek maak, is ons wortels in suiderlike Afrika. As ons assimileer elders, hou ons op om te bestaan. Ons agter-agterkleinkinders mag dalk terugdink aan hulle based voorouers, maar selfs dit sal vergete word met tyd. Ons het al te veel kere by die dood omgedraai om nou, met ons mees patetiese vyand ooit, die handdoek in te gooi.

15k Afrikaners leaving South Africa for the US each year is equivalent to ~5x the population of Orania.

@raulizahi @bubbleboi It's not crap if you never ever lose

@bubbleboi I want to play there! Just got approved to double the riskiest portfolio. No margin crap, don’t worry.

Ek stem saam, om die nasie te verlaat is verraad. Ons is almal ons voorouers 'n skuld verskuldig. Maar ek dink darem dat ons vanuit ons europese wortels as Afrikaners geassimileer het, en dat dit dalk eendag in die verre toekoms beter sal wees om weer in iets nuuts te assimileer. Ek is meer lief vir ons mense as vir ons land.

Ek dink dis goed dat sommige mense gaan, maar ek vertrou hulle sal terugkom as dit noodsaaklik raak. Daar’s nie veel punt daarin om nou in SA te sit en sanik en belasting te betaal aan ‘n bose owerheid nie. As jy geld verdien in ‘n sterker geldeenheid, kan jy bekostig om meer geld te skenk aan mense wat die vreedsame geveg in SA voortsit - AfriForum, Sakeliga, Solidariteit, ens. Maar daar’s beslis ‘n getalle spel ook - as ons te min raak in SA, dan verloor ons die geveg sommer vansself. Geld is ook ‘n vorm van mag, en om geld oorsee te maak en dit dan terug te bring om jou mense mee te help, is goed. Maar ek voel as jy heeltemal alle bande breek en hoog en laag sweer om nooit terug te keer nie, verraai jy jou eie mense. Hoe minder ons raak in SA, hoe groter raak die risiko vir dies wat bly. Sonder suiderlike Afrika bestaan ons nie. Ons het nog nooit in ons geskiedenis so ‘n patetiese vyand gehad nie, en ek’s seker ons voorouers sal in hulle grafte omdraai as dié idiote daarin slaag om ons uit te wis. Nooit!

@musingsbyp I’m not gonna miss all the inflation

@Investor_NICK_ 🤣🤣🤣

This stupid Rigatonni $RGTI pump by Trump fkked up my short position that was actually working for once. I’m 100% attending the next No Kings rally.

@bbalkus @pmarca @washingtonpost I agree. But that doesn’t make them not German, because German ethno-national identity is compatible with American assimilation like English or Roman Catholic identity, and UNLIKE for example Pakistani or Congolese identity.

@jrysana @pmarca @washingtonpost Yes, and the Germans from Operation Paperclip became American citizens, lived in the country for decades post WWII, and deliberately and enthusiastically assimilated into American culture so they could become “real Americans” in Von Braun’s words.

Rare pro-Nazi stance by the @washingtonpost. Brave.

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@bbalkus @pmarca @washingtonpost Ethnicity =/= Nationality =/= Citizenship If you pick up a Pakistani gang rapist from London at 3pm and give him an express American citizenship at 4pm, that doesn't make him "American". You need to actually assimilate into American nationality to BE American.

@jrysana @pmarca @washingtonpost I am part German by ethnicity and my wife has 100% German ancestry. I am not anti-German and I am not diminishing German contributions. I am putting them in their appropriate historical context. American is not an ethnicity. Arnold Schwarzenegger is American as anyone.

@bbalkus @pmarca @washingtonpost You're dodging my questions. Are you anti-immigration or anti-German or anti-Germanic? What is the motive for your diminishing of German contributions to America? By the way, America is a nation not just a state. Being an American citizen does not make you American, it's deeper.

@jrysana @pmarca @washingtonpost American citizen = American