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California high-speed rail cost now up to $231 billion. That means the average worker in the state will pay out over $12,000 to fund a single project that almost no one will ride. CA rail will be studied for generations, a truly once-in-a-lifetime level of government failure.

FDR’s 1936 acceptance speech is truly masterful. He denounced economic royalists, linked the preservation of democracy to economic justice, and summoned people to a rendezvous with destiny. Why can’t Democrats speak like this today?

“Crime is not down. Crime *reporting* is down.” Marc Andreessen & Joe Rogan on how the official crime rate doesn’t measure crime. It only measures the state’s willingness to record a crime. So it gets squeezed from both ends: 1) Victims stop calling to report a crime when they know nothing follows. 2) Police reclassify what does get reported into lesser charges that never reach the official crime stats. Residents are not fooled, read the “lived city experience” correctly and are forced to adjust their entire lives accordingly: where they go, when they leave, what they wear, what they lock, what they avoid, how much risk they absorb, etc. In DC the police just got caught blatantly cooking the books. More than a dozen officials are being fired after felonies were buried in lesser charges and kept out of the public count. Which raises the question: how many other cities is this happening in?

Indian 🇮🇳 🕉 Software Engineers defacing Cathedral Rock in Sedona 🏜 Arizona. 🗽🇺🇲

And here is the part the internet meritocrats keep avoiding: Black students make up roughly 10% of Yale’s medical student body while Black Americans are about 13–14% of the U.S. population. Asian students make up roughly 25–30% of Yale’s medical student body while Asians are about 6–7% of the U.S. population. And I don't like the term Asian because it can mean anyone from a large continent - but here we are. So the fantasy that Yale is some anti-Asian machine collapsing under “Black favoritism” is simply not supported by the actual demographics. What Yale — and essentially every medical school in America — actually does is this: highly qualified applicants clear an academic threshold through GPA and MCAT, then admissions committees evaluate the rest of the human being. Interviews. Letters of recommendation. Research. Leadership. Communication. Service. Maturity. Judgment. Resilience. In other words: exactly what every serious profession in America does when hiring people for consequential jobs. The strange cult online is not medicine. It is the belief that a standardized test score alone should settle the full question of human potential. Which isn't what is done for any other job in the US. If you have a new graduate who was at the top of the class and you were an investment banker, or a law firm you would interview that person. Sometimes they do great, and sometimes you realize that person will not fit into the culture of your business. So, no, I didn't use anecdotes. YUnless you call decades of training surgeons, evaluating residents, serving on admissions committees, watching physicians succeed or fail under pressure, and seeing who patients actually trust and follow probably does create some bias. It is called experience. The amusing part is that the people mocking clinical experience are simultaneously insisting that a few additional questions correct on a standardized exam reveal the full architecture of human competence.

If you want immigration to go down you need to increase fertility rates. In order to increase fertility rates you need to provide accessible childcare. That is why I support free childcare for everyone. Some 'right wing' problems have 'left wing' solutions.

The NFL has had “black lives matter” painted on all the fields for years. “End racism” on all the helmets. They added the “Black National Anthem” to pregame. They encouraged players to kneel during the National Anthem. But if you even show a sliver of support for Trump, or Conservative values of any kind, the Left, and their lapdog media, will lose their ever loving minds and claim that we are bringing politics into sports. They truly believe that their beliefs are the only acceptable ones, and that anyone who veers from their Left-wing ideology should be shamed, vilified, and cancelled. They intentionally created an environment where you are rewarded for showing support for the Left, but crucified for showing support for the Right. It’s not that they don’t want politics in sports, they just don’t want anyone else’s politics in sports. The pendulum has swung back, and they don’t like it now. Too late.

Romney’s loss was probably more significant than you’d think. Not because Romney was special, no one liked him, but he was a completely milquetoast candidate and he still had the dirtiest accusations hurled at him of sexism, Nazism etc Voters finally noticed

The rightwing bubble is one of the most statistically illiterate districts in the discourse when it comes to immigration. Here are a few of the things they don't seem to know: (1) Indian H-1Bs are only a tiny percentage of the total legal immigrant population in the US (about 1 to 2%). (2) Just because a group might suck in Europe (e.g., Pakistanis, Lebanese, Turks), doesn't mean they suck here in the US. (All of those groups I named outperform whites on income and education here in the US). (3) Legal immigrants (including from many nations in the developing world) drive innovation and tech company creation here in the US at a higher rate than do native-born Americans. (4) While Indian immigrants display more in-group hiring bias than native-born whites, the amount of this bias is only average among immigrant groups.

the american govt would rather try to criminalize delivering aid to a country we’ve starved, than punish the epstein class.

This used to be a charming place to post silly jokes.

🇯🇵 Japanese manga artist Kei Urana has deactivated her X account after months of harassment by leftists. She even apologized to them beforehand. As I've said millions of times, it's pointless to apologize to these people. Never bow to the woke crowd.

“would you consider a white person chinese if they were born and raised in china” literally yes. what is this argument