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@ramez A tool is a tool, and it must remain under the control of the elected leadership of the people.
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Unable to stop wasting time here.
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@HeLiuLeo I enjoy your threads and posts. I am learning more from the comments than you, though. The mindless Maoist indoctrination in the replies is breath taking, far worse than I thought possible.
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I’m so tired of ignorant foreigners worshipping China’s railways and bridges.
China’s infrastructure looks great, until you realize almost every single province is bankrupted like pre-2010 Greece, or worse. It’s called ‘local debt’. Think about it: the entirety of China’s savings by ordinary people and firms over decades of economic boom got dumped into these rubbish assets through the government-controlled banking system. Roads and bridges are classic vanity political projects: look good but make no money. To build these on debt is financial suicide. And when local debts become insurmountable, the central government poured even more savings into these irresponsible, default-worthy debts.
Every city on earth can build new bridges, roads and highways if they’re willing to empty their bank accounts and borrow as China did (and able to bulldoze over houses at the government’s will.) Yet, behind every new bridge in China are a bunch of effectively bankrupted families whose bank savings have been completely decimated. They just don’t know it, because - guess what - the government controls information too.
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@KathrynPaisner @zalberico The purpose of DEI policies is to use past grievances to wrest power from anyone who is not the right shade of brown or black.
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@zalberico If they cannot deliver a campus where elementary school children of every race, culture, and creed can walk safely, without needing their own security detail, I honestly have no idea what purpose they even serve.
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UC Berkeley has 𝟰𝟬𝟬 𝗗𝗘𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗳𝗳 and a $𝟮𝟱 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘁, and my kid’s school still had to bring security guards on a field trip to Zellerbach Hall.
If 400 DEI staff can’t make campus inclusive enough for little kids in kippahs, why are we paying them?
Boom 💥@LoveCodeTrade
California paid a single DEI bureaucrat $𝟰𝟵𝟰𝗞 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗬𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯. That's more than most doctors earn. And UC has one at every campus. UC Berkeley alone employed 𝟰𝟬𝟬 𝗗𝗘𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗳𝗳 on a $𝟮𝟱 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘁, 6.1 diversity employees for every 100 tenured faculty. When the feds started investigating, UC renamed its DEI offices to things like "Office of Culture and Inclusive Excellence." The staff stayed. The budget stayed. The name got longer. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 $𝟯𝟬𝟬𝗞 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 - $𝟰𝟵𝟰𝗞 - VC for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, UC Santa Barbara - $𝟰𝟱𝟮𝗞 - Chief Diversity Officer, Sacramento Municipal Utility District - $𝟰𝟬𝟱𝗞 - "Diversity Equity Inclusion Specialist," city of Palmdale - $𝟯𝟵𝟲𝗞 - Executive Director of Racial Equity, LA County - $𝟯𝟱𝟵𝗞 - Chief DEI Officer, Metropolitan Water District of SoCal 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗼 - $𝟮𝟵𝟬𝗞 - Chief Equity Officer, San Mateo County - $𝟮𝟴𝟭𝗞 - Equity Officer, Sonoma County - $𝟮𝟳𝟵𝗞 - Chief Equity & Inclusion Officer, Santa Clara County - $𝟮𝟲𝟴𝗞 - "Inclusion Diversity Equity & Anti-Racism Officer," Butte-Glenn Community College District California voters banned racial preferences in 1996 with Prop 209. Thirty years later, the state paid thousands of people to sort applicants by skin color and call it progress. What should we do to put an end to this insanity?
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The future looks bright.🌞😎
Jesse Watters@JesseBWatters
Spring Break goes WILD☀️ 🍺🤪 and the students have NO IDEA what’s going on🤣 “The BIGGEST issue in America is what BIKINI I’m wearing tomorrow”👙 “We’re going to war with IRAQ that’s been crazy”🤔 “I’ve NEVER heard the word Ayatollah in my life”🫢 “Is Venezuela in SPAIN?”😬😬😬
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What are some of the best books on raising virtuous, pious young men? Ideally written for Catholic parents, but not necessarily!
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@policywishes @DanFriedman81 We need to get back to keeping up with the Joneses. This keeping up with the Musks and Zucks is melting peoples brains.
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@DanFriedman81 Oh brother. This couple earns roughly 3-4 times Manhattan's median. That's not frugal. It's upper-class living with luxury choices dressed as sacrifice.
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The story is two high-earning people who have a relatively modest lifestyle and live in a one-bedroom apartment. Their main luxury is saving for the future, and they forsake other luxuries to do that.
They spend $1500 per month on food for two people, which includes a $500 monthly budget for meals out and delivery, plus what the baby eats, and they spent $9000 in the last year on consumer purchases, including diapers.
Living in NYC, they pay high taxes, high rent and high prices for child care. And their lifestyle is not much grander than that of other New Yorkers who earn very little, pay no taxes and receive lavish public transfers in the form of housing subsidies, free childcare, free healthcare, etc.
Musa al-Gharbi@Musa_alGharbi
If there is a genre I truly hate in the @nytimes it's the frequent pieces featuring folks with multi-millions in assets and multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars in yearly household income describing themselves as middle class, and being credulously understood that way, while professionals with healthy six figure incomes engage in poverty larping because, of course, if these other people are "middle class" then they must themselves be "poor" or "working class" or "just getting by." More here: musaalgharbi.com/2025/01/01/how…
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Both are liars so good luck to the market.
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter
BREAKING: Iran's Foreign Ministry denies President Trump's statement on peace talks, and says Iran has had "no direct or indirect contact with the US."
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@dantypo We need to give people cash benefits with a lifetime cap. Cut out the non profits and bureaucracy. Help those in need for a defined time period and then it's sink or swim.
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Excluding Social Security, the U.S. spends over $12,000 per capita annually on social programs.
About 30% of the population takes federal money from at least one social program excluding social security.
That means annually, anywhere from $12,000 to $36,000 goes to 30% of the population.
This is absurd.
What’s even more absurd is that the people who argue for more of these programs act as if there’s not enough being given out.
At some point, the question has to be asked, “how much do you think people should get before we ask them to give?”
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@Romy_Holland My youngest is 21 and I had hoped this for him as well. Watching the Google/Waymo vehicles tool around our town made me sure that future was closer than it was. Soon!
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i hope that by the time my son is 16 nobody’s driving anymore. ubiquitous self-driving cars are going to save so many lives and i hope my son will come of age in a far safer world than the current one.
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
In 2010, I made a bet with Ryan Avent, then at the Economist, about the future of self-driving. He thought his then-infant daughter would never need a driver's license because AVs would be ready by 2026. I thought that was too optimistic. It's now 2026, and I won the bet.
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@CarolWalshReal1 Since Feta is theirs, it has to be the Greeks.
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Which culture gets the first credit for putting watermelon and feta cheese together?
Because this s*** is delicious. I like to drizzle on a little balsamic.
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@bethanyjbabcock That's how mechanical engineers are ... they are born.
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My son is very interested in mechanical engineering.
Who do I know locally that works in that field that might be interested in talking to him about careers and what it looks like beyond college?
He’s 12 but very bright and ambitious and has his life planned out already 😅
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I need this for my article tomorrow but I know basically nothing about sports, so ladies, which professional athletes do you consider the most attractive? lol
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@latterdaylaura I am not sure teaching children your world revolves around them is helpful. While there is nothing any of us would not do for our children, modeling a healthy adult life balanced between your needs and theirs may help children be less self absorbed.
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My super strong parenting opinion is that while the kids are awake, you come last.
No spending all of Saturday golfing. That’s family time. 6 am tee time only, maybe.
Wanna go to the gym? Go after the kids go to bed, or wake up at 5.
In a few short years, they’ll be out of the house and you’ll have all the time in the world for your own stuff. It’s okay to come last for a while.
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@shellykittleson Journalism is not a profession. It has been in its death throes for decades now. I feel more compassion for the Russian aristocrats driving taxis in Paris after the Bolshevik Revolution than I feel for journalists.
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Former Reuters bureau chief who lost his job and is now struggling to survive as a taxi driver:
"In my previous jobs, I interviewed prime ministers and CEOs (...) We are all improvising, all one broken transmission or missed paycheck away from something even worse
(...) in the United States, more than 10,000 journalists lost their jobs between 2022 and 2024 (...) Google, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok have gobbled up the advertising dollars, and campy 30-second videos by influencers now deliver what passes for news on social media (...) my family (...) flew to Italy, where they could live rent-free in a family member’s home (...) After I said goodbye to them, I wept uncontrollably in the airport parking lot, not knowing when I would see them again (...) I trust an app to buy me another day"
Steve Scherer@SchererSteve
From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver @thenation published my essay with a few additions in its latest issue with the valued support of the @econhardship. Thanks to both. thenation.com/article/societ…
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@LocasaleLab Amazing how we are aping the Soviets. That system worked out so well for them scientifically.
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The NSF graduate fellowship was one of my first exposures to how scientific institutions can deprioritize merit.
There is a “broader impacts” section in the application that explicitly is used to select candidates independent of merit. In practice, it meant virtue signaling and political narrative carried as much or more weight than the underlying scientific qualifications of the student.
The funding system needs a serious reset.
Stephen Turner 🦋 @stephenturner.us@strnr
‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry science.org/content/articl…
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@mrs_alyse I wonder how many vets who are not receiving disability and should be are medically injured versus how many are receiving payouts for psychiatric injuries like depression and anxiety?
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My husband never got a rating. They denied his claims despite having everything to prove his injuries were service related.
All we wanted was for the VA to cover treatment for those injuries. That's it.
But, nah, they didn't want to do that.
Billings Raiders@BillingsRaiders
There's far more disabled vets who should be rated but aren't than vets committing fraud. The solution needs to focus on inclusion & efficiency rather than exclusion. Maybe more professional advocates who can help also prevent fraud as part of that. Outreach.
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@LauraPowellEsq Pretty sure the most important financial literacy lesson here is Newsom has a friend selling the State some class taxpayers will be footing the bill for.
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As a women, it is insulting to suggest that I need extra help with “financial education,” especially coming from someone who says he can't read and couldn't pass statistics and who has flushed countless of billions of dollars down the toilet.
Governor Gavin Newsom@CAgovernor
This week, I issued an executive order launching a new effort to expand women's access to financial education in California. We're working to break through historic barriers and ensure more women across the Golden State have the tools to fully participate in our economy.
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@policywishes There is no winning with these disaffected people. Smart kids from poverty become engineers, it's no good. They should have stayed put and run the grain elevator. Businesses need engineers and hire H1Bs; no good again. Hire Americans only, just not the poor smart kids.
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Seeing this and the replies, many people think we should work the fields of rural America. Be miserable like the rest and not fulfill our full potential. Stay in that hometown. Show loyalty. Don't make it big but stay local to make opportunities of your own. Sounds communist.
VB Knives@Empty_America
Had a conversation today with a woman whose parents grew up in dirt floor poverty in deep rural PA. But Dad spent his career in the Los Alamos lab. Releatives still back in the old home town are ultra provincial and low functioning. They mined that IQ right out of there.
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@policywishes Christopher Lasch saw it all coming in the 1990s, see The Revolt of the Elites. Some of us, myself included, were dolts and deceived!
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This is subjective nostalgia. Liberalism and the Obama years were a prelude to what we see today, identity politics, BLM, surveillance state, horrible hands off foreign policy issues, etc. The rhetoric was all fake and led to disillusionment & ultimately led to progressivism.
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