This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
Agreed, but I think also that the "be the brains behind the frontman" theory that some of these people have tends to run aground on the fact that the "frontman" doesn't particularly want to just be a puppet, and when push comes to shove it turns out the person with the title of PM or President is the one with the actual power...
Freezing fog here in Burgundy. Rime forming on the trees. I can’t remember the last time I was in freezing fog in Britain. I’m sure it was a regular occurrence in my childhood and teens.
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
For Trump, that doesn't matter. One way or another, he's not got to fight another election.
Clearly, someone on Team Donald is going to get Traitored. Only questions are who and what they do in response?
If Trump lives to the end of his second term, he has the problem that there are a bunch of lawsuits and claims against him. He needs a MAGA successor to pardon him.
I’m pretty sure he’s going to make an effort to change constitutional term limits during the next 4 years. If not, then he’ll at least make certain the next election with his chosen successor is not competitive.
It’s only orientalism that makes us assume Trump won’t go that far or the state won’t allow him to. If a political leader with his personality were in power in a Central African or Middle Eastern republic we’d be in no doubt.
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
Agreed, but I think also that the "be the brains behind the frontman" theory that some of these people have tends to run aground on the fact that the "frontman" doesn't particularly want to just be a puppet, and when push comes to shove it turns out the person with the title of PM or President is the one with the actual power...
As all of those assuming Putin is just some puppet of the oligarchs don’t understand. 9 times out of 10 the dictator is the problem, not the “shadowy cabal” supposedly behind them.
1 It's the Telegrunt. 2 Do people add up better if you force them into offices? 3 The "as low as 5%" in the headline turns into an average of nearly 20% in the article. 4 We get Bufton Tufton MP saying the first half of (summarised) "This Labour Government have failed to do in 3 months ... what the previous Conservative Government failed to do in X years". 5 They manage to get in both that the offices are too small, and that they are empty. 6 But Immigration, hit on a Department, hit on the Civil Service, hit on a Trade Union, and hit on the Govt ... they are in clover.
I listen to (or try to) the Telegraph's podcast just to try and balance out my feeds. Listening to their columnists toe the line and rant about WFH while they're clearly dialling in to the show over zoom with a bad laptop microphone really grates my gears though.
I very highly recommend their military / foreign policy podcasts, but I don't know about their business ones, and the "what's on today" ones are a bit loopy *.
* The Daily T shares Camilla Tominey with GB News. But they do not have Mike Graham yet.
Do you have the name of those? The Telegraph one I found was, unironically, "Planet Normal".
I actually feel 10% chance of Liverpool not winning the league from here is me being pessimistic, let alone 25% chance of it not happening from here.
Who are the challengers who could win instead and what are the odds of it actually happening?
Man City - 14 points behind and we have a game in hand. Liverpool would need to drop 17 points more than City between now and end of season to just be on par with each other. City could win every game between now and end of season (spoiler: they won't) and it might not be enough now.
Chelsea - 7 behind and a game in hand. Would need 10 points dropping to be only on par. Possible, but odds of Chelsea getting 10+ more points than Liverpool for rest of season is pretty slim.
Forest, Newcastle, Bournemouth etc? Not happening.
Most plausible challenger is Arsenal and they're 9 behind, no game in hand on them. What's the probability they get 9+ more points than Liverpool from here? Possible but not especially likely. Certainly wouldn't say a 1/4 or 1/5 chance.
I wouldn't completely rule out Forest, and the like.
Liverpool would only need to lose three games on the spin for things to look very different, and there's still 21 games left in their league season.
I've not been paying enough attention to rate how likely that is. How reliant are they on the form of a handful of players who might pick up injuries?
Larger leads later in the season have been lost before.
Forest beat Liverpool at Anfield and ManU at Old Trafford - both for the first time in decades - but too many other points have been dropped to modest opponents. Still a fabulous season for the Mighty Reds but let's not get carried away.
Plus, we are coming to that stage of the season where injuries have a disproportionate effect on teams like Forest, who don't have quality in depth.
(Liverpool could have scored six at Leicester today but for the woodwork.)
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
For Trump, that doesn't matter. One way or another, he's not got to fight another election.
Clearly, someone on Team Donald is going to get Traitored. Only questions are who and what they do in response?
If Trump lives to the end of his second term, he has the problem that there are a bunch of lawsuits and claims against him. He needs a MAGA successor to pardon him.
I’m pretty sure he’s going to make an effort to change constitutional term limits during the next 4 years. If not, then he’ll at least make certain the next election with his chosen successor is not competitive.
It’s only orientalism that makes us assume Trump won’t go that far or the state won’t allow him to. If a political leader with his personality were in power in a Central African or Middle Eastern republic we’d be in no doubt.
Having re-watched Sir Henry At Rawlinson End recently, I'm now picturing Trump in blackface, unicycling besides a Fox News reporter who is breathlessly explaining why he should get a third term.
Nah, Musky baby said that such jet fighters were a scam, and we should just be building drone swarms instead...
It is a big deal. But whether it's something to be immediately worried about is another matter. The prototype F-35, the X-35, first flew in October 2000. The first F-35 flew in December 2006, and reached operational status in July 2015.
Six years from prototype to first flight; and another nine or so to get to initial operating capability.
Nowadays, having a plane fly is the easy bit. The hard bit is integrating all the systems on it to allow it to be a warfighter in the modern combat domains.
The US tested their NGAD prototype several years back.
The point isn’t that China is ‘winning’, rather, as you note, they see the need for such an aircraft. Musk is pretty clearly wrong on this. Though some time down the road, he may well be right.
I don't follow the 1st, 1st and a half-th, 2nd island chains interplay in detail.
However I note that the USA are spending loads on renovating old airfields a bit further away from China.
Freezing fog here in Burgundy. Rime forming on the trees. I can’t remember the last time I was in freezing fog in Britain. I’m sure it was a regular occurrence in my childhood and teens.
I recall going for a run in 1992 and frost building up in my hair.
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
I actually think the success of Andrew Tate is he combines jock and nerd in one person.
Jock and nerd are American terms with American cultural reference points.
At my school we had 3 groups of boys: the lads, the sads, and the hard core.
The sads were essentially all of those who liked dungeons and dragons, and heavy metal. That included some of the sporty ones. The hard core were those who did all the adult things earlier than the rest (smoking, drugs, sex etc) and were a bit scary. The lads were the normcore rest, who were on a spectrum from jock to swot.
(Andrew Tate would have been part of the hardcore. Most of them were twats).
I think Tate was a “sad” who realised that if you switch off your conscience and do what you like, few will stop you.
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
For Trump, that doesn't matter. One way or another, he's not got to fight another election.
Clearly, someone on Team Donald is going to get Traitored. Only questions are who and what they do in response?
If Trump lives to the end of his second term, he has the problem that there are a bunch of lawsuits and claims against him. He needs a MAGA successor to pardon him.
Maybe he'll spend the last two years of his term changing the constitution to allow Elon to become president. Assuming they haven't fallen out. I can somehow imagine the MAGA crowd lapping up a "Let good immigrants become president!" rallying cry.
Freezing fog here in Burgundy. Rime forming on the trees. I can’t remember the last time I was in freezing fog in Britain. I’m sure it was a regular occurrence in my childhood and teens.
Better hope the Gulf Stream never stops flowing, or we'll get rime from October to May....
Nah, Musky baby said that such jet fighters were a scam, and we should just be building drone swarms instead...
It is a big deal. But whether it's something to be immediately worried about is another matter. The prototype F-35, the X-35, first flew in October 2000. The first F-35 flew in December 2006, and reached operational status in July 2015.
Six years from prototype to first flight; and another nine or so to get to initial operating capability.
Nowadays, having a plane fly is the easy bit. The hard bit is integrating all the systems on it to allow it to be a warfighter in the modern combat domains.
The US tested their NGAD prototype several years back.
The point isn’t that China is ‘winning’, rather, as you note, they see the need for such an aircraft. Musk is pretty clearly wrong on this. Though some time down the road, he may well be right.
I don't follow the 1st, 1st and a half-th, 2nd island chains interplay in detail.
However I note that the USA are spending loads on renovating old airfields a bit further away from China.
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
For Trump, that doesn't matter. One way or another, he's not got to fight another election.
Clearly, someone on Team Donald is going to get Traitored. Only questions are who and what they do in response?
If Trump lives to the end of his second term, he has the problem that there are a bunch of lawsuits and claims against him. He needs a MAGA successor to pardon him.
Maybe he'll spend the last two years of his term changing the constitution to allow Elon to become president. Assuming they haven't fallen out.
You do know how difficult amending the constitution is, right?
Freezing fog here in Burgundy. Rime forming on the trees. I can’t remember the last time I was in freezing fog in Britain. I’m sure it was a regular occurrence in my childhood and teens.
Better hope the Gulf Stream never stops flowing, or we'll get rime from October to May....
The fog on the Tyne's all rime, all rime. The fog on the Tyne's all rime.
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
I actually think the success of Andrew Tate is he combines jock and nerd in one person.
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
I actually think the success of Andrew Tate is he combines jock and nerd in one person.
Jock and nerd are American terms with American cultural reference points.
At my school we had 3 groups of boys: the lads, the sads, and the hard core.
The sads were essentially all of those who liked dungeons and dragons, and heavy metal. That included some of the sporty ones. The hard core were those who did all the adult things earlier than the rest (smoking, drugs, sex etc) and were a bit scary. The lads were the normcore rest, who were on a spectrum from jock to swot.
(Andrew Tate would have been part of the hardcore. Most of them were twats).
I think Tate was a “sad” who realised that if you switch off your conscience and do what you like, few will stop you.
Indeed though its a truism of modern capitalism that it is very useful to switch off your conscience, you can make a lot more money that way.
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
For Trump, that doesn't matter. One way or another, he's not got to fight another election.
Clearly, someone on Team Donald is going to get Traitored. Only questions are who and what they do in response?
If Trump lives to the end of his second term, he has the problem that there are a bunch of lawsuits and claims against him. He needs a MAGA successor to pardon him.
I’m pretty sure he’s going to make an effort to change constitutional term limits during the next 4 years. If not, then he’ll at least make certain the next election with his chosen successor is not competitive.
It’s only orientalism that makes us assume Trump won’t go that far or the state won’t allow him to. If a political leader with his personality were in power in a Central African or Middle Eastern republic we’d be in no doubt.
Considering he’s likely to lose control of Congress in a couple of years time, that’s stretching it. Should that not happen, then it might get dicey, as you suggest.
It would require a further swing to the GOP to make some sort of constitutional shenanigans along those lines possible. Even then it’s a bit unlikely - not that he won’t try.
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
For Trump, that doesn't matter. One way or another, he's not got to fight another election.
Clearly, someone on Team Donald is going to get Traitored. Only questions are who and what they do in response?
If Trump lives to the end of his second term, he has the problem that there are a bunch of lawsuits and claims against him. He needs a MAGA successor to pardon him.
I’m pretty sure he’s going to make an effort to change constitutional term limits during the next 4 years. If not, then he’ll at least make certain the next election with his chosen successor is not competitive.
It’s only orientalism that makes us assume Trump won’t go that far or the state won’t allow him to. If a political leader with his personality were in power in a Central African or Middle Eastern republic we’d be in no doubt.
Considering he’s likely to lose control of Congress in a couple of years time, that’s stretching it. Should that not happen, then it might get dicey, as you suggest.
It would require a further swing to the GOP to make some sort of constitutional shenanigans along those lines possible. Even then it’s a bit unlikely - not that he won’t try.
It needs 38 states to agree. "a bit unlikely" is the understatement of the year/decade.
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
For Trump, that doesn't matter. One way or another, he's not got to fight another election.
Clearly, someone on Team Donald is going to get Traitored. Only questions are who and what they do in response?
If Trump lives to the end of his second term, he has the problem that there are a bunch of lawsuits and claims against him. He needs a MAGA successor to pardon him.
I’m pretty sure he’s going to make an effort to change constitutional term limits during the next 4 years. If not, then he’ll at least make certain the next election with his chosen successor is not competitive.
It’s only orientalism that makes us assume Trump won’t go that far or the state won’t allow him to. If a political leader with his personality were in power in a Central African or Middle Eastern republic we’d be in no doubt.
Which he can’t really do especially if the economy is poor by then and the Democrats have a better candidate than Harris
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
For Trump, that doesn't matter. One way or another, he's not got to fight another election.
Clearly, someone on Team Donald is going to get Traitored. Only questions are who and what they do in response?
If Trump lives to the end of his second term, he has the problem that there are a bunch of lawsuits and claims against him. He needs a MAGA successor to pardon him.
I’m pretty sure he’s going to make an effort to change constitutional term limits during the next 4 years. If not, then he’ll at least make certain the next election with his chosen successor is not competitive.
It’s only orientalism that makes us assume Trump won’t go that far or the state won’t allow him to. If a political leader with his personality were in power in a Central African or Middle Eastern republic we’d be in no doubt.
Considering he’s likely to lose control of Congress in a couple of years time, that’s stretching it. Should that not happen, then it might get dicey, as you suggest.
It would require a further swing to the GOP to make some sort of constitutional shenanigans along those lines possible. Even then it’s a bit unlikely - not that he won’t try.
It needs 38 states to agree. "a bit unlikely" is the understatement of the year/decade.
Not if the SC is onside with whatever shenanigans he might come up with. A popular Trump with greater control of Congress, and the economy doing well, might just get away with something even more outrageous than the immunity decision.
I’m not talking about the actual constitutionally prescribed route for constitutional change.
Farage isn’t a nerd but not really a true jock either, more a rebel who likes to hang around with the jock ie Trump and get some of his reflected glory
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
For Trump, that doesn't matter. One way or another, he's not got to fight another election.
Clearly, someone on Team Donald is going to get Traitored. Only questions are who and what they do in response?
If Trump lives to the end of his second term, he has the problem that there are a bunch of lawsuits and claims against him. He needs a MAGA successor to pardon him.
I’m pretty sure he’s going to make an effort to change constitutional term limits during the next 4 years. If not, then he’ll at least make certain the next election with his chosen successor is not competitive.
It’s only orientalism that makes us assume Trump won’t go that far or the state won’t allow him to. If a political leader with his personality were in power in a Central African or Middle Eastern republic we’d be in no doubt.
Considering he’s likely to lose control of Congress in a couple of years time, that’s stretching it. Should that not happen, then it might get dicey, as you suggest.
It would require a further swing to the GOP to make some sort of constitutional shenanigans along those lines possible. Even then it’s a bit unlikely - not that he won’t try.
It needs 38 states to agree. "a bit unlikely" is the understatement of the year/decade.
Not if the SC is onside with whatever shenanigans he might come up with. A popular Trump with greater control of Congress, and the economy doing well, might just get away with something even more outrageous than the immunity decision.
I’m not talking about the actual constitutionally prescribed route for constitutional change.
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
For Trump, that doesn't matter. One way or another, he's not got to fight another election.
Clearly, someone on Team Donald is going to get Traitored. Only questions are who and what they do in response?
If Trump lives to the end of his second term, he has the problem that there are a bunch of lawsuits and claims against him. He needs a MAGA successor to pardon him.
I’m pretty sure he’s going to make an effort to change constitutional term limits during the next 4 years. If not, then he’ll at least make certain the next election with his chosen successor is not competitive.
It’s only orientalism that makes us assume Trump won’t go that far or the state won’t allow him to. If a political leader with his personality were in power in a Central African or Middle Eastern republic we’d be in no doubt.
Considering he’s likely to lose control of Congress in a couple of years time, that’s stretching it. Should that not happen, then it might get dicey, as you suggest.
It would require a further swing to the GOP to make some sort of constitutional shenanigans along those lines possible. Even then it’s a bit unlikely - not that he won’t try.
It needs 38 states to agree. "a bit unlikely" is the understatement of the year/decade.
Not if the SC is onside with whatever shenanigans he might come up with. A popular Trump with greater control of Congress, and the economy doing well, might just get away with something even more outrageous than the immunity decision.
I’m not talking about the actual constitutionally prescribed route for constitutional change.
Pure paranoia.
No, I don’t think so. As I said, I don’t think it likely, but I regard it as naive to dismiss completely the possibility. The recent immunity decision would have been dismissed as a ridiculous notion only a decade ago.
Farage isn’t a nerd but not really a true jock either, more a rebel who likes to hang around with the jock ie Trump and get some of his reflected glory
"Reflected Glory" and "Splashback" probably share a space in the vector embeddings of ChatGPT. If only Leon was around.
“Government sources have told Euronews that the damaged aircraft was not allowed to land at any Russian airports despite the pilots’ requests for an emergency landing, and it was ordered to fly across the Caspian Sea towards Aktau in Kazakhstan.”
The Russians did not just shoot down a civilian aircraft in their airspace. But they also denied the pilots an emergency landing at one of the nearest airports, sending the damaged aircraft with passengers and crew on a long 400-450km flight over the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan. https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1872274276679589971
Hoping it would go down at sea, disappearing the evidence ?
“Government sources have told Euronews that the damaged aircraft was not allowed to land at any Russian airports despite the pilots’ requests for an emergency landing, and it was ordered to fly across the Caspian Sea towards Aktau in Kazakhstan.”
The Russians did not just shoot down a civilian aircraft in their airspace. But they also denied the pilots an emergency landing at one of the nearest airports, sending the damaged aircraft with passengers and crew on a long 400-450km flight over the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan. https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1872274276679589971
Hoping it would go down at sea, disappearing the evidence ?
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
For Trump, that doesn't matter. One way or another, he's not got to fight another election.
Clearly, someone on Team Donald is going to get Traitored. Only questions are who and what they do in response?
If Trump lives to the end of his second term, he has the problem that there are a bunch of lawsuits and claims against him. He needs a MAGA successor to pardon him.
Maybe he'll spend the last two years of his term changing the constitution to allow Elon to become president. Assuming they haven't fallen out.
You do know how difficult amending the constitution is, right?
Yes. But I also know it's 'quite tricky' to get elected president for a 2nd time after a four year gap. I'm not sure if we're in 'steady as she goes' political times.
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
I actually think the success of Andrew Tate is he combines jock and nerd in one person.
Jock and nerd are American terms with American cultural reference points.
At my school we had 3 groups of boys: the lads, the sads, and the hard core.
The sads were essentially all of those who liked dungeons and dragons, and heavy metal. That included some of the sporty ones. The hard core were those who did all the adult things earlier than the rest (smoking, drugs, sex etc) and were a bit scary. The lads were the normcore rest, who were on a spectrum from jock to swot.
(Andrew Tate would have been part of the hardcore. Most of them were twats).
I think Tate was a “sad” who realised that if you switch off your conscience and do what you like, few will stop you.
Indeed though its a truism of modern capitalism that it is very useful to switch off your conscience, you can make a lot more money that way.
{Hugo Chavez has entered the chat, along with Beria, Qaddafi and Brezhnev}
“Government sources have told Euronews that the damaged aircraft was not allowed to land at any Russian airports despite the pilots’ requests for an emergency landing, and it was ordered to fly across the Caspian Sea towards Aktau in Kazakhstan.”
The Russians did not just shoot down a civilian aircraft in their airspace. But they also denied the pilots an emergency landing at one of the nearest airports, sending the damaged aircraft with passengers and crew on a long 400-450km flight over the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan. https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1872274276679589971
Hoping it would go down at sea, disappearing the evidence ?
An heroic effort by the pilots to keep flying that plane for nearly an hour and a half with very limited control. They saved 29 lives, but at the cost of their own.
Oddly enough, I read Ramaswamy’s tweet and thought it could be the basis for a redefinition of modern conservatism based on parental responsibility, self responsibility, self discipline and aspiration.
If Badenoch had said all this, I reckon she’d have been widely applauded.
The “problem”, if you see it in those terms, is the prevailing “liberal” tenet emphasises freedom of choice inasmuch as parents are free to bring up their children as they see fit and every time conservatives or socialists try to tell people how they should live, there’s a huge backlash.
That taps into questions around morals or ethics - should political parties define how you live morally and ethically? Is it or should it be the place of religion?
Some might argue that war was lost long ago with Mammon the winner.
This isnt going down well from Vivek. "get rid of that grubby indian" announces MAGA in reply.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 4:02 PM · Dec 26, 2024 · 8.5M Views
The problem for Vivek is he Musk and to an extent Vance are all nerds while Trump is a jock. Much like here Boris was the jock but Cummings and Rishi the nerds.
The problem for the nerds is that while their thinking may be more in depth than the jock, the jock had more charisma and ability to win elections. Discard the jock and they lose much of his voting base
I actually think the success of Andrew Tate is he combines jock and nerd in one person.
Jock and nerd are American terms with American cultural reference points.
At my school we had 3 groups of boys: the lads, the sads, and the hard core.
The sads were essentially all of those who liked dungeons and dragons, and heavy metal. That included some of the sporty ones. The hard core were those who did all the adult things earlier than the rest (smoking, drugs, sex etc) and were a bit scary. The lads were the normcore rest, who were on a spectrum from jock to swot.
(Andrew Tate would have been part of the hardcore. Most of them were twats).
I think Tate was a “sad” who realised that if you switch off your conscience and do what you like, few will stop you.
Indeed though its a truism of modern capitalism that it is very useful to switch off your conscience, you can make a lot more money that way.
{Hugo Chavez has entered the chat, along with Beria, Qaddafi and Brezhnev}
In which socio-political system is that not true?
There is a point though about the online economy rewarding outrageousness and open grifting - if you've noticed there's a bit of a shift whereby a generation who grew up with social media see the grift and outrageousness as something to be proud of and part of the game.
Obviously that doesn't mean are all Tate fans - most people have a sense of right and wrong. But they have little problem with their favourite YouTubers taking the mick with quite obvious rip offs as it's seen as part of the appeal.
Tate, who basically made his fortune as an online pimp then monetised that persona, is an extreme version of that 'bag' get rich however you can and wealth is its own moral indicator culture.
Whitehall ‘braced for private schools collapse’ due to fee rises
The Independent Schools Council says the threat of closures after the imposition of VAT on fees is ‘very rea
Contingency plans are being drawn up in Whitehall for an influx in demand for state school places amid fears private schools will go bankrupt and close because of fee increases.
Officials are braced for the prospect that some independent schools may collapse when VAT on school fees comes into force in the new year.
Schools that are smaller, with lower fees and in areas with higher levels of competition are most at risk, government sources told The Times.
They are being monitored to see how they fare under the change, combined with publicly available information about their finances from Companies House.
Campaigners against the change warn some parents will be unable to pay a fee rise of 20 per cent, given some private schools are preparing to pass on the itIt in full.
The VAT imposition will come into effect on January 1, with Treasury estimates suggesting it will lead to 37,000 fewer private school pupils in the long term — equal to about 6 per cent of children at private schools.
However, there is expected to be a smaller, more immediate impact. About 3,000 children will be taken out of private schools and will need a state place before the end of the academic year, the government believes.
Smaller private schools will be hit in particular reducing parental choice.
Yet do we expect any better from this awful socialist government having already hit pensioners, business owners and farmers?
This government doesn't strike me as particularly 'socialist'.
It is the most socialist class war ridden government of my lifetime, even more than Brown's. Farmers, pensioners, small business owners, private school payments, the remaining hereditary peers, even foxhunters on scent trails are within the sights of Starmer and Reeves
If only that were true.
If it were they would already be directing Kent and Warwickshire to replace their Grammar schools with comprehensives. You are lucky I'm not Phillipson, from next September Grammar schools would all be phased out. Year one intake would be universal. Call me Mrs Thatcher if you like.
We should be holding ballots to open new grammar schools not just to close the remaining ones, absolutely not.
More pupils were in grammar schools at the end of the Thatcher and Major years than in 1979
Life changing academic assessment at aged 11 is immoral. And in those areas with Grammar schools the parents of Tim, nice but dims are paying for cramming lessons not available to Jim, clever but poor.
Clever pupils with high IQs will get in regardless of parents income or tutoring and be on a path to top universities and a profession.
All your attitude does is favour children with money who can choose private schools or state schools in wealthy catchment areas. That is why proper conservatives must fight such attitudes and push for more grammar schools
That really isn't true.
If you want a real meritocracy stick everyone in universal schools that stream in all the key subjects and see who gets the O and A levels.
No nod and a wink entry to Oxford and Cambridge because one went to Malvern College or Rodean.
Sounds good to me.
How do you get a universal school in Stoke or Grimsby or Knowsley to anywhere near the level of a universal school in Surrey or Kensington or Oxfordshire without some form of selection?
If you read what I wrote I suggested streaming by subject (a timetabling nightmare). That could be by written exam or any form of assessment you choose.
You basic tenet is always one of clever children float to the top naturally. This post suggests you don't believe that. You clearly disapprove of intellectual merit. You would prefer Master Thickbut Rich have Daddy pay for his entitlement. Same goes with Grammar schools. Wealthy, pushy parents pay for cramming privilege at the expense of poor smarter kids.
The Rogers Commission into the Space Shuttle disaster is best remembered for American celebrity physicist Richard Feynman demonstrating the O-rings' loss of elasticity when cold (and notice he uses degrees Fahrenheit!):- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raMmRKGkGD4
I think describing Feynman as a 'celebrity physicist' in the manner of, for example, Bill Nye (Engineer) or David Attenborough (TV Controller) is rather understating his achievements. He is, after all, a Nobel Prize winner and worked all of his life at the cutting edge of theoretical physics. In much the same way as Carl Sagan or Stephen Jay Gould he was a scientist first who used his presentational skills to promote science to the masses. Something I think should be lauded.
"Dozens of MPs in Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party agree prime minister should resign Core of the Liberals have abandoned Canada’s prime minister after last week’s resignation of his deputy"
NEW: Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary, a Canadian, says he likes the idea of combining the US and Canadian economies, says he is heading to Mar-a-Lago to start the talks.
O'Leary said half of Canadians are interested in Trump's proposal.
"[Canadians] want to hear more... what this could be is the beginning of an economic union."
"Think about the power of combining the two economies, erasing the border between Canada and the United States..."
"Give a common currency, figure out taxes across the board, get everything trading both ways. Create a new almost EU-like passport."
"I like this idea, and at least half of Canadians are interested."
"I'm gonna go to Mar-a-Lago, I'll start the narrative. The 41 million Canadians, I think most of them would trust me on this deal."
The Rogers Commission into the Space Shuttle disaster is best remembered for American celebrity physicist Richard Feynman demonstrating the O-rings' loss of elasticity when cold (and notice he uses degrees Fahrenheit!):- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raMmRKGkGD4
I think describing Feynman as a 'celebrity physicist' in the manner of, for example, Bill Nye (Engineer) or David Attenborough (TV Controller) is rather understating his achievements. He is, after all, a Nobel Prize winner and worked all of his life at the cutting edge of theoretical physics. In much the same way as Carl Sagan or Stephen Jay Gould he was a scientist first who used his presentational skills to promote science to the masses. Something I think should be lauded.
Sally Ride gave the info on the O Rings to General Kutyna who, in turn, passed it to Feynman.
There was a NASA report/data table that was gundecked. It listed measured elasticity against temperature.
NEW: Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary, a Canadian, says he likes the idea of combining the US and Canadian economies, says he is heading to Mar-a-Lago to start the talks.
O'Leary said half of Canadians are interested in Trump's proposal.
"[Canadians] want to hear more... what this could be is the beginning of an economic union."
"Think about the power of combining the two economies, erasing the border between Canada and the United States..."
"Give a common currency, figure out taxes across the board, get everything trading both ways. Create a new almost EU-like passport."
"I like this idea, and at least half of Canadians are interested."
"I'm gonna go to Mar-a-Lago, I'll start the narrative. The 41 million Canadians, I think most of them would trust me on this deal."
Cross-border nationalism. People aggregating by common ideas instead of common location. The death of the state and the resurrection of the tribe. I really don't like the 2020s...
Oddly enough, I read Ramaswamy’s tweet and thought it could be the basis for a redefinition of modern conservatism based on parental responsibility, self responsibility, self discipline and aspiration.
If Badenoch had said all this, I reckon she’d have been widely applauded.
The “problem”, if you see it in those terms, is the prevailing “liberal” tenet emphasises freedom of choice inasmuch as parents are free to bring up their children as they see fit and every time conservatives or socialists try to tell people how they should live, there’s a huge backlash.
That taps into questions around morals or ethics - should political parties define how you live morally and ethically? Is it or should it be the place of religion?
Some might argue that war was lost long ago with Mammon the winner.
There's that, though I think it's more that people just don't like the implicit criticism of their own patenting.
And in this case, I think it's also just the fact that he's Indian. A very large number of the Tweets arguing with his are flat out racist.
NEW: Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary, a Canadian, says he likes the idea of combining the US and Canadian economies, says he is heading to Mar-a-Lago to start the talks.
O'Leary said half of Canadians are interested in Trump's proposal.
"[Canadians] want to hear more... what this could be is the beginning of an economic union."
"Think about the power of combining the two economies, erasing the border between Canada and the United States..."
"Give a common currency, figure out taxes across the board, get everything trading both ways. Create a new almost EU-like passport."
"I like this idea, and at least half of Canadians are interested."
"I'm gonna go to Mar-a-Lago, I'll start the narrative. The 41 million Canadians, I think most of them would trust me on this deal."
Cross-border nationalism. People aggregating by common ideas instead of common location. The death of the state and the resurrection of the tribe. I really don't like the 2020s...
...The 41 million Canadians, I think most of them would trust me on this deal.".. Arrogant pill, isn't he ?
Seems to be the current fashion among the very rich to believe that they alone should be running the show.
The Rogers Commission into the Space Shuttle disaster is best remembered for American celebrity physicist Richard Feynman demonstrating the O-rings' loss of elasticity when cold (and notice he uses degrees Fahrenheit!):- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raMmRKGkGD4
I think describing Feynman as a 'celebrity physicist' in the manner of, for example, Bill Nye (Engineer) or David Attenborough (TV Controller) is rather understating his achievements. He is, after all, a Nobel Prize winner and worked all of his life at the cutting edge of theoretical physics. In much the same way as Carl Sagan or Stephen Jay Gould he was a scientist first who used his presentational skills to promote science to the masses. Something I think should be lauded.
Oddly enough, I read Ramaswamy’s tweet and thought it could be the basis for a redefinition of modern conservatism based on parental responsibility, self responsibility, self discipline and aspiration.
If Badenoch had said all this, I reckon she’d have been widely applauded.
The “problem”, if you see it in those terms, is the prevailing “liberal” tenet emphasises freedom of choice inasmuch as parents are free to bring up their children as they see fit and every time conservatives or socialists try to tell people how they should live, there’s a huge backlash.
That taps into questions around morals or ethics - should political parties define how you live morally and ethically? Is it or should it be the place of religion?
Some might argue that war was lost long ago with Mammon the winner.
There's that, though I think it's more that people just don't like the implicit criticism of their own patenting.
And in this case, I think it's also just the fact that he's Indian. A very large number of the Tweets arguing with his are flat out racist.
Perhaps and I’ve not seen the comments. Nonetheless, it’s the sort of stance on parenting and family values with which I would have thought a Conservative Party would have liked to have been associated.
The battle with Reform isn’t just on immigration - there are other frontlines.
Are the Tories going to release their latest membership numbers, or keep them semi-secret like they have in the past?
Badenoch has walked into an elephant trap by attacking Reform over their membership counter.
I don't think she had much option. I also don't think Farage has thought this out either. Do those Reform councillors who are elected in May go into coalition with Conservatives to form administrations etc etc. Perhaps they will take control of one, two councils Reform only, doubtful. Coalition with Conservatives perhaps a dozen etc etc. Farage is burning a bridge that would be better left unburnt. He could be giving the Conservatives the right to say, LOOK, we tried to work with them, they are not interested in working to undo the harm of this disastrous government, Don't vote Reform vote Conservative etc etc.
If I was in a Conservative council group say three off a working majority after May, form a coaltion, form minority administration ? What do Reform do ? Go into coalition with the whores of the ages, the Lib Dems ? I'm sorry if Farage is still talking this shit after May he and his councillors can just fuck right off
And where is viewcode today, boys and girls? In an exotic location? In space, fighting vermicious aliens? In the depths of the ocean, battling intemperate squid? Why, no! Viewcode is on a train! Contain your surprise!
NEW: Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary, a Canadian, says he likes the idea of combining the US and Canadian economies, says he is heading to Mar-a-Lago to start the talks.
O'Leary said half of Canadians are interested in Trump's proposal.
"[Canadians] want to hear more... what this could be is the beginning of an economic union."
"Think about the power of combining the two economies, erasing the border between Canada and the United States..."
"Give a common currency, figure out taxes across the board, get everything trading both ways. Create a new almost EU-like passport."
"I like this idea, and at least half of Canadians are interested."
"I'm gonna go to Mar-a-Lago, I'll start the narrative. The 41 million Canadians, I think most of them would trust me on this deal."
Cross-border nationalism. People aggregating by common ideas instead of common location. The death of the state and the resurrection of the tribe. I really don't like the 2020s...
...The 41 million Canadians, I think most of them would trust me on this deal.".. Arrogant pill, isn't he ?
Seems to be the current fashion among the very rich to believe that they alone should be running the show.
They think they are clever because they are successful. And so they can make the "right" decisions because they are clever. But politics isn't deterministic and "right" and "wrong" are opinions, not facts, and can change from moment to moment. So technocracy and plutocracy stop working over time.
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It’s only orientalism that makes us assume Trump won’t go that far or the state won’t allow him to. If a political leader with his personality were in power in a Central African or Middle Eastern republic we’d be in no doubt.
Plus, we are coming to that stage of the season where injuries have a disproportionate effect on teams like Forest, who don't have quality in depth.
(Liverpool could have scored six at Leicester today but for the woodwork.)
They still have those ugly greenhouses over them? How tasteless.
The fog on the Tyne's all rime.
Should that not happen, then it might get dicey, as you suggest.
It would require a further swing to the GOP to make some sort of constitutional shenanigans along those lines possible. Even then it’s a bit unlikely - not that he won’t try.
A popular Trump with greater control of Congress, and the economy doing well, might just get away with something even more outrageous than the immunity decision.
I’m not talking about the actual constitutionally prescribed route for constitutional change.
Nikki Haley rips Ramaswamy: ‘Nothing wrong’ with American culture
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5057033-nikki-haley-rips-ramaswamy-nothing-wrong-with-american-culture/
Finland investigates Russia 'shadow fleet' ship after cable damage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr56l7prj2mo
As I said, I don’t think it likely, but I regard it as naive to dismiss completely the possibility.
The recent immunity decision would have been dismissed as a ridiculous notion only a decade ago.
The Russians did not just shoot down a civilian aircraft in their airspace. But they also denied the pilots an emergency landing at one of the nearest airports, sending the damaged aircraft with passengers and crew on a long 400-450km flight over the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan.
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1872274276679589971
Hoping it would go down at sea, disappearing the evidence ?
In which socio-political system is that not true?
If Badenoch had said all this, I reckon she’d have been widely applauded.
The “problem”, if you see it in those terms, is the prevailing “liberal” tenet emphasises freedom of choice inasmuch as parents are free to bring up their children as they see fit and every time conservatives or socialists try to tell people how they should live, there’s a huge backlash.
That taps into questions around morals or ethics - should political parties define how you live morally and ethically? Is it or should it be the place of religion?
Some might argue that war was lost long ago with Mammon the winner.
Obviously that doesn't mean are all Tate fans - most people have a sense of right and wrong. But they have little problem with their favourite YouTubers taking the mick with quite obvious rip offs as it's seen as part of the appeal.
Tate, who basically made his fortune as an online pimp then monetised that persona, is an extreme version of that 'bag' get rich however you can and wealth is its own moral indicator culture.
You basic tenet is always one of clever children float to the top naturally. This post suggests you don't believe that. You clearly disapprove of intellectual merit. You would prefer Master Thickbut Rich have Daddy pay for his entitlement. Same goes with Grammar schools. Wealthy, pushy parents pay for cramming privilege at the expense of poor smarter kids.
Core of the Liberals have abandoned Canada’s prime minister after last week’s resignation of his deputy"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/23/justin-trudeau-mps-resign
NEW: Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary, a Canadian, says he likes the idea of combining the US and Canadian economies, says he is heading to Mar-a-Lago to start the talks.
O'Leary said half of Canadians are interested in Trump's proposal.
"[Canadians] want to hear more... what this could be is the beginning of an economic union."
"Think about the power of combining the two economies, erasing the border between Canada and the United States..."
"Give a common currency, figure out taxes across the board, get everything trading both ways. Create a new almost EU-like passport."
"I like this idea, and at least half of Canadians are interested."
"I'm gonna go to Mar-a-Lago, I'll start the narrative. The 41 million Canadians, I think most of them would trust me on this deal."
There was a NASA report/data table that was gundecked. It listed measured elasticity against temperature.
https://www.reformparty.uk/counter
And in this case, I think it's also just the fact that he's Indian. A very large number of the Tweets arguing with his are flat out racist.
Arrogant pill, isn't he ?
Seems to be the current fashion among the very rich to believe that they alone should be running the show.
The battle with Reform isn’t just on immigration - there are other frontlines.
If I was in a Conservative council group say three off a working majority after May, form a coaltion, form minority administration ? What do Reform do ? Go into coalition with the whores of the ages, the Lib Dems ? I'm sorry if Farage is still talking this shit after May he and his councillors can just fuck right off
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