Alejandro De Oliveira

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

Critics of affirmative action have long pointed out that it discriminates against Asian and White students.

Sowell explains how the problem goes further: affirmative action also directly hurts the very minority groups it is intended to help.

While teaching at Cornell, Sowell saw that half the Black students were on academic probation. Yet these were talented students: the average Black student at Cornell scored at the 75th percentile on the SAT and likely would have excelled at most colleges.

The reason these Black students were struggling was that they were competing against the nation’s brightest students. The average liberal arts student at Cornell scored in the top 1% on the SAT.

Sowell argues that affirmative action, by mismatching these talented Black students with schools, artificially turned them into failures.

[Eduardo Menoni @eduardomenoni]

🇫🇷 La líder de la derecha en Francia Marine Le Pen: “La inmigración masiva ha sido un desastre para Francia. Haré deportaciones masivas de inmediato.”

¡Apoyó totalmente esto!

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you should feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.”

— Bertrand Russell, An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

These people vote...

Time to repeal the 19th?

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

It’s insane how Americans have had the opportunity to witness the ongoing collapse of Europe & are still allowing the Sound of Islamic Prayer bellow out over New York City

[Mars University @MarsUniversityX]

Elon Musk: "I was tricked into doing this. It wasn't explained to me that puberty blockers are actually just sterilization drugs. So, I lost my son, essentially

My son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke mind virus

So, I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that. And we're making some progress"

[RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa]

UK. Right-wing activists set up a gazebo to talk about the country's problems. The left arrives and destroys everything. If you are on the right, you are not allowed to speak.

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

I’m fatigued.

When will black people stop claiming anime is black?

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.

At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."

He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.

Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.

He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.

He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."

The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.

[Waken Minds 𓂀 @wakenminds]

Minimalism killed human creativity.

[Voices of Liberty @FreedomVoL]

“No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.”

— Walter Williams

[Javier Negre @javiernegre10]

Los musulmanes ya presumen de haber tomado barrios por completo en Lisboa donde apenas se puede ver a un solo portugués.

El multiculturalismo significaba remplazo.

Piden tolerancia hasta que son mayoría, entonces ya se termina la tolerancia y aplican la ley sharía.

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“The New York Times’s longstanding motto, ‘All the News That’s Fit to Print,’ should be changed to reflect today’s reality: ‘Manufacturing News to Fit an Ideology.’”

— Thomas Sowell

[The White Hats @realWhiteHats]

Ready to have your mind blown?

Senator John Kennedy on Elon Musk and DOGE exposing USAID, “I'll tell you what Mr. Musk discovered. I find it fascinating. He discovered:

- The American taxpayers are giving money to Afghanistan
- He found that we are giving money to Yemen
- He found that we are giving money to Syria
- He found that the USAID has 10,000 people employees, and every year they give away $40 billion
- He found that the USAID gave money to support electric vehicles in Vietnam. Our money, taxpayer money
- He found that the USAID gave money to a transgender clinic in India. “I didn't know that. I bet you the American people didn't know that”
- He found that USAID gave $1.5 million to a Serbian LGBTQ group, they got $1.5 million to QUOTE, “advanced diversity, equity, inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities”
- They found that USAID spent $164 million to support radical organizations around the world
- They gave $122 million of that to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations
- According to this report in Mr. Musk, the USAID has given millions of dollars to quote organizations in Gaza controlled by Hamas
- He found that we gave $2 million, USAID did, for sex changes in Guatemala
- He found that we gave $20 million to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
- He found that we gave $4.5 million of taxpayer money to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan
- He found that we gave $10 million, USAID did, of meals to an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group called the Nusra Front
- Mr. Musk found that we gave $7.9 million of taxpayer money to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid binary gendered language. (The USAID took 8 million bucks and gave it to a bunch of journalists in Sri Lanka to teach them how to avoid binary gendered language)
- USAID gave $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica
- They gave $1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem
- They gave $1.5 million for quote, art for inclusion of people with disabilities in Belarus
- Another $3.9 million for LGBT causes in Macedonia
- $8.3 million for equity and inclusion education in Nepal

“I could go all night and many of my colleagues are upset. They're really mad at Mr. Musk. Hell, I think we ought to give him a medal”

[Pato Bonato @patobonato]

Y después te hacen problemas por un shampoo de 150ml

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

This is the enemy within…
The barbarians are in the gates…
But as LONG AS Democrats DECEIVE themselves into thinking these ISLAMIC JIHADIS who self identify as Democrats, are actual Democrats, they will keep voting for them.

[Mars University @MarsUniversityX]

Elon Musk: “A good future is anyone can have whatever stuff they want, and incredible medical care that's better than any medical care that exists

Five years from now we'll have better medical care than anyone has today, and
Best education available for everybody“

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

Here's Hiroshima and Nagasaki a few decades after being nuked.

Africa has no excuse.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

If you don’t have kids, you cease to exist.