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@Emptier_America He struck gold with the army

Henderson knows yet loathes that much of his outsized success has come off the back of actual DEI—from his admission to Yale under the wing of a program for students from "nontraditional backgrounds" to his sinecure writing banal pop-sociology for the conservative establishment

Rob Henderson is such a high value male that he was able to attract a high status Malaysian gf. Maybe someday he'll even convince her to have children too!

@RealLifeFakeWiz The plot twist is that he IS God he's the second coming of Christ and he was right all along. Very based.

Context: > Homelander wants to indoctrinate the world that he's New-god. > Creates propaganda film: Jesus comes down, confesses to not being good enough, passes crown of thorns to HL. > Shows film to test group of "insert MAGA-Christians" to see if they've fallen for the propaganda. > This is satire, taking the piss out of Christians, MAGA, and Trump. Now, I'm no Hollywood writer, but I'm sure there was another plot line for Homelander they could have come up with for the final season that didn't include him trying to usurp God. Satire, too often today, is a tool of the cowards to diminish criticism.

@BraedenSorbo She'll grow up to be a woman who hates men and all that is good and pure

I mean yea she’s adorable but imagine how far up the corporate ladder her mom could be if she never had her

@nik0p0l5 Putin is an introvert legalist who had to play a macho persona for 1 election when it was incredibly easy to do so (just needed not to be obese or gay). He's boomercore and not an evil magnetic cossack.

The Jude Law height, or his appearance is not much actor can do about, but this is not mannerism of Putin, its mannerism of Putin imagined by westoid who never seen any of his boring ass speeches. Putin is soft toned, often sounding like career beurocrats but mixed with

@trad_west_ He should have used his money to crush the enemy of the Church, the democrats and their ilk

He sold his Bugatti to build a Church (and a university, and a small town.) Tom Monaghan founded Domino’s Pizza and became a billionaire. He bought yachts, private jets, and the Detroit Tigers. Then he read C.S. Lewis and had a massive reversion to his Catholic faith. He took a "millionaire's vow of poverty," sold the Tigers, sold his fleet of classic cars (including a $8M Bugatti), and gave away his fortune. He used the money to build a Catholic university (Ave Maria) and a massive Church in Florida. He proved that you can serve God or Money, but not both. But he also proved money is not evil, and as any tool can be used for good in the right hands.

@Anywann @alz_zyd_ There's no benefit to get an IMO. If you're really good you aim for X or ENS. This requires a totally different system.

I don't know why, but some people might think that's because one 5-hour exam isn't a good way to gauge math talent. Those people are certainly wrong. How do I know? Because *every* French Fields Medalist that received his education in France *except Grothendieck* did so at the École Normale Supérieure de la rue d'Ulm, which accepts only 50 new students every year. And how does one enter ENS Ulm? Basically, passing the 6-hour maths and physics exam and a 1-hour oral maths exam (Sorry if I forgot some extra exams). Conclusion: It is not that exams are not good at selecting future researchers. The true reason lies somewhere else. I believe that one factor is that the ENS exam focuses on skills and abilities that are more relevant to the mathematical areas that get Fields Medals.

France has more Fields medalists than any other country in Europe, but performs extremely poorly on the IMO. Countries like Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria do very well on the IMO, but don't have a single Fields medal. Why?

@JFPuget We don't have IMO training specifically. Smart maths students are funnelled into prépas, some elite track. It's all about rigorous proofs etc. Not tricks.

Because solving high school level problems very quickly is not the same as advancing math.

@bitcoin__intern Real men surround themselves with young, energetic bucks full of vim

“I feel threatened by young virile men”

@ThomBrady5 We should sue them into oblivion. Sadly this won't happen.

old white men like this betrayed young white men, and fed the younger versions of themselves to the Bolshevik crocodiles in order to save themselves. Now we're old enough, angry and successful enough to fight back to protect ourselves, and they don't like it.

@wilding_gyres Most of the time it's better risk-adjusted. Entrepreneurs were forced by the GFC in the West getting fired from GS and Lehman

“I've noticed that most people pick safe career paths” Most people everywhere want stability and predictability in their work. You can’t have an economy where everyone is an entrepreneur. You need a labor market. This is self-orientalizing idiocy.

@dhaaruni Much more productive at home since you don't have negative value of social friction

100% remote would have probably lasted longer if people didn’t publicize that they were doing laundry and meal-prepping and walking their dogs during their “work” day. Even accounting for in-office water cooler chat and lunch, most people are still less productive at home!

@hsu_steve 135 is quite low

SPIEGEL: Mr Carlsen, what is your IQ? Carlsen: I have no idea. I wouldn’t want to know it anyway. It might turn out to be a nasty surprise. SPIEGEL: Why? You are 19 years old and ranked the number one chess player in the world. You must be incredibly clever. Carlsen: And that’s precisely what would be terrible. Of course it is important for a chess player to be able to concentrate well, but being too intelligent can also be a burden. It can get in your way. I am convinced that the reason the Englishman John Nunn never became world champion is that he is too clever for that. SPIEGEL: How that? Carlsen: At the age of 15, Nunn started studying mathematics in Oxford; he was the youngest student in the last 500 years, and at 23 he did a PhD in algebraic topology. He has so incredibly much in his head. Simply too much. His enormous powers of understanding and his constant thirst for knowledge distracted him from chess. SPIEGEL: Things are different in your case? Carlsen: Right. I am a totally normal guy. My father is considerably more intelligent than I am. Der Spiegel carefully tested Kasparov's IQ at 135, as discussed here. See also The Laskers and the Go master infoproc.blogspot.com/2013/11/sven-m…

@RichardHanania Rana used to hang out with a group of co-workers, including Hajdini. They would joke by calling him and other South Asians, "brown boys." Rana liked one such message. > So there WAS racism. He "liked" so what?

Wall Street Journal profiles Chirayu Rana. -As a soccer player in college, he "could sometimes be aggressive during practice, getting into disagreements with other seniors on the team for excessive tackling or jostling with teammates for control of the ball" -At one job, "he yelled at co-workers after they tried to offer constructive criticism about his performance," and was let go for his demeanor on the job. -Rana used to hang out with a group of co-workers, including Hajdini. They would joke by calling him and other South Asians, "brown boys." Rana liked one such message. -Rana lied to JP Morgan about his dad dying so he could get time off. It turned out his dad is still alive. Now Rana's lawyer says that he was referring to a "dad-like figure." -Hajdini and other co-workers sent flowers when they thought his dad died -Hajdini sent Rana SoundCloud links and memes via text -Rana asked JP Morgan to settle the case for $22 million. They offered $1 million, and then he sued. So basically, this guy has been an aggressive hothead his entire life, and now wants us to believe he was "sexually abused" by his co-worker and he was unable to do anything about it, despite no one at his company believing that this happened. He probably targeted Hajdini because she made the foolish mistake of being nice to him. Perhaps she rejected him. No mention of the story about how he workshopped his story about harassment by referring to a case at Morgan Stanley, another former employer, in which case the alleged assailant was a man. What a scumbag. I look forward to him losing the case, and having to live the rest of his life as a laughingstock.

@fwmarqix It does happen but if you're a good boss you fake leaving at let's say 7 and you go back after. My boss used to do that.

A friend of mine worked in a Japanese office where nobody left before the manager. Classic situation. Problem was the manager stayed insanely late every night, so everybody stayed late every night. One evening my friend realized the manager wasn't even working anymore. The man was just sitting there quietly eating crackers and staring into space while twenty employees pretended to type nearby. Absolute hostage situation. Finally one younger employee stood up, bowed, and said, "My wife says she remembers my face vaguely." The entire office went silent, the manager stared at him for a long second, then unexpectedly started laughing. Like actual real laughter. After that he packed his things and told everybody to go home. Apparently that employee became a legend.

@Church_POP And what happened to the killer? Was he killed by the righteous? His head cut and brandished by the officiants?

On April 29, 1991, at 11:00 a.m., a sergeant from the Military Police entered the parish rectory in Salgueiro, Pernambuco, in Brazil, and shot the parish priest five times. Death was immediate. The priest was 63 years old. His name was Father José Maria Prada, and he died because he refused to officiate an invalid marriage. Born in 1928 in northeastern Portugal, Father José Maria joined the Redemptorists at a young age and was ordained a priest in 1953. Two years later, he left as a missionary to Angola, where he spent more than two decades serving the people through a demanding life of missionary work. He later came to Brazil, serving first in the interior of São Paulo before being sent to the backlands of Pernambuco in the 1980s. After ministering in several cities, he eventually arrived in Salgueiro, where he became pastor of Saint Anthony Parish. Those who knew him remember him as a simple priest—close to the people and unwavering in his convictions. The situation began like many others: a man approached the priest seeking to be married in the Church. Father José Maria did what any faithful priest would do—he investigated the situation. He soon discovered that the man was already sacramentally married to another woman. The Church’s teaching is clear: “Thus the marriage bond has been established by God himself in such a way that a marriage concluded and consummated between baptized persons can never be dissolved.” (CCC 1640). Given the circumstances, there was nothing to negotiate. The answer was no. The man persisted, returning several times. He tried pressure, offering money, and finally threats. But Father José Maria would not yield. He did not alter records, minimize the situation, or look for a “shortcut.” According to reports from the time, he even said he would rather die than celebrate that marriage. On April 29, the sergeant returned. He entered the rectory and opened fire. There ended the life of a priest who remained faithful to his beliefs until the very end. The funeral drew the bishop, priests from across the region, and a multitude of faithful Catholics. One detail deeply moved those present: the bloodstained shirt Father José Maria was wearing at the time of the murder was carried at the front of the funeral procession. Nothing needed to be explained. It said everything. His heart was later preserved in Saint Anthony Church beneath the inscription: “Martyr for the sanctity of marriage.” To this day, there is no formal beatification process underway in Rome. Yet the memory of Father José Maria remains alive in the community. It is not difficult to understand why. He did not die over a mere formality. He died defending something concrete: fidelity to marriage, the truth of the sacraments, and the unity between faith and life. His story recalls that of John the Baptist, who was also killed for refusing to legitimize an unlawful union. This is not merely a story from the past. It still matters because it touches something every person eventually faces: What do you do when telling the truth begins to cost you? churchpop.com/priest-died-re…

@Templarpilled He's a POS and he's rotting in hell not hard come on we remember Judas Iscariot from 2000 years we'll remember Francis in 1000

Imagine 31st century scholars trying to figure out Pope Francis. Many conflicting accounts. Contemporary writers bemoaning him as an avatar of Lenin. Their colleagues complaining he is reactionary. Perhaps there were several consecutive Popes named Francis? That would explain a lot.

@sm1_smwhere @TheLegalMindset It has at least some merit. No firm pays 2y salary for an empty file.

@TheLegalMindset I don't understand the barrage of hate against the guy. Whether is true or false will be determined in court. Nobody on the outside actually knows what's real or not. If he's faking it, he'll get his punishment with a countersuit on libel (lil iffy as suit material is protected).

The “witnesses” were anonymous friends of the accuser - who were likely in on the scam. Trying to add a Devil’s Triangle in a cigarette smoke filled room to the “Asian fish head wife” “cannons” story just makes it even more ridiculous, not credible

@nypost The lawyer work on success fee so he's fairly confident he can win

Ex-JPMorgan banker Chirayu Rana hired lawyer who repped Epstein accusers trib.al/qhfM7f8

@PJR626 @FICMBondTrader Yeag gs is like that

@FICMBondTrader Worst job ever, deal with retarded chimps with huge egos who want to stab you all day, not fun

There's corrections officers pulling 250k a year with a high school diploma But you went to ivy and getting 150k at GS 🫵😂

@BoringBiz_ So he has something. You don't settle for 1m for nothing. Firms usually don't settle with at-will employment and just tell you to gtfo.

This is absolutely nuts > Fabricate bunch of sex stories about your executive director > Ruin her reputation with clients, make her an outcast within the firm > Get exposed in public for fake claims, lose your current job > Still walk away with $1 million I know JPM prefers to just settle this and avoid more press headlines, but this would have been a case worth fighting to avoid future copycats