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I don’t really like talking to strangers but sometimes there is funny stuff on this app

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@ikwihu @StupidAndLoud @xgigglypuff The context:
“Her employment is fake and her Harvard degree is useless” -person who is neither an employed engineer nor a Harvard graduate

She remains undefeated on this silly app because losers can’t cope with her existence. It’s always “college bad” or “women dumb” give it up.

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@pat_syd66 @SullyOps_Out @RiskyChrisky Stay out of trouble when you’re off duty, exceed the standard whenever you can, volunteer for every good opportunity that comes up. Be in the right place, at the right time, in right uniform, with the right attitude. Keep family included. Most of the time it really is that simple

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

Tomorrow’s hearing with Pete Hegseth is a HUGE deal. 

I believe every American should care deeply about the person who holds the lives of our men and women in uniform in their hands. 

Here’s 10 questions we need answers to – and yes, I'm going to be pretty damn blunt:

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@nicksortor @susancrabtree Is this the former DWP General Manager you’re referring to?

https://t.co/LF8VTmMtaq

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@Aella_Girl Timeless

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@ConnorEatsPants @elonmusk I bet the REAL Elon could name 3 women

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@xgigglypuff There has been SO much to unpack from Fortnite Friday. Goodness gracious

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@VivekGRamaswamy Hey I remember the last time Vivek said “I have a solution to a problem, trust me”

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@jasminericegirl It’s because you can’t be Homer Simpson anymore. Homer, an average-at-best high school graduate who has one average job 40hrs a week, has a house, car, three kids and a stay at home wife. The people who can’t see that the issue is with wages, not immigrants, are crabs in a bucket

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@RNateT @JackPosobiec

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@ChiefHodler @WurzelRoot Source: Trust me bro

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@ChiefHodler @WurzelRoot So Tesla is actually paying H1B fees on top of $250-300k TC for an Associate Analyst position? And it cannot be filled by local talent in Fremont, which is commuting distance to both Stanford AND UC Berkeley(among other good engineering schools in NorCal)?
Please show your work.

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@PolishPrevailor @Tammy8156 @Strandjunker Bezos is worth 242.3 Billion. With a capital B. 600M is 0.2% of his net worth. The average American spends 20x that on their wedding. He could have paid out that $ to his employees just for shits and giggles and not even noticed, odds are he makes another 600M by January anyway.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

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. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

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@KS1ngh @FundingGym @DavidSacks I’ll clarify I don’t agree with the person you’re replying to with their narrative of “invaders”, but I took the term “relatives” probably too literally. Work visas DO entitle you to bring dependents(I have friends and coworkers who did this in CA) but it’s not an unlimited pass

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@GTB52895442 @KS1ngh @FundingGym @DavidSacks To be clear I’m not against H1B, I just used to work at an engineering firm in the Bay Area that heavily recruits from the international program at Cal. I have friends who live here with their husbands/wives/kids now because they got hired with H1B visas after graduating.

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@GTB52895442 @KS1ngh @FundingGym @DavidSacks I’m aware, but the assertion was “there is no provision for a person on a work visa to bring their relatives to USA” which is just patently false. A visa does not enable you to bring unlimited family, but you CAN bring dependents.

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@suchnerve

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@JournoPig @wasguardfour @clevergalCA @JerryVande87752 @mattxiv I’ve been found out. Take me away boys