glenn kwarcinski

Eddie would go!

[glenn kwarcinski @haolekid]

@cb_916 @Sam_beck23 Dinggggggger. Yaaaaaaaaaaaa Budddddddy

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

The major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) operate on free licenses of public spectrum in exchange for requirements to serve the public interest. They no longer do, and this is an obsolete model anyway. The spectrum should be auctioned off, with the proceeds used to pay down the national debt. Of course, the networks can bid on the spectrum, and they will win if broadcast networks are still the most highly valued use. What’s more likely to happen is that valuable spectrum will be reapportioned to the next generation of wireless applications, unleashing many more interesting options for consumers and businesses. The networks can continue to operate on cable, like hundreds of other redundant channels.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink terminals will now work automatically without need for payment in the areas affected by Hurricane Helene

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

We are making a system update to allow all Starlinks in the affected areas to work, regardless of payment.

Software update hopefully completed tonight. Tomorrow at the latest.

[eye zen hour 🥶 @eyezenhour]

California is collapsing.

If it were a country, it'd be the 5th largest economy in the world.

But it lost 500,000 residents in 2 years – and people are still fleeing.

Here's how politics & greed ruined the best place on Earth:

[Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard]

I was a Democrat for over 20 years. Today, I endorsed Donald Trump for President. WATCH to hear why:

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The Biden/@KamalaHarris administration charging station plan delivered seven out of 500k promised stations and cost $7.5 billion.

In 2021, Biden/Harris set aside $65 billion for rural internet access (unclear how much if any progress we have made to date) when Starlink could do a better job with minimal taxpayer funding.

Now, @KamalaHarris promises to build 3 million housing units in four years.

How is that going to work?

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

I began this post with the intention of thanking the many supporters of mikeroweWORKS for their incredible generosity but got distracted by a few statistics in the attached article. Perhaps they will distract you, as well, along with the rest of the country.

• Two-thirds (66%) of Americans who lost their full-time job during the pandemic say they are only somewhat active or not very active at all in searching for a new job.
• About half (49%) are not willing to take jobs that do not offer the opportunity for remote work.
• More than a quarter (26%) say it will never again be essential for them to return to work.
• Almost a quarter (24%) say government aid packages during the pandemic have incentivized them to not actively look for work.

On top of these recent revelations, is another statistic that's been with us for nearly a decade, and can no longer be ignored. For every five baby boomers who leave the workforce, two come in. That’s a 5:2 ratio, and it’s even worse in the trades. Today, the average age of a skilled tradesperson in America is 55. There’s not a single construction company that isn’t desperate to hire skilled workers, or train those who are willing to learn.

The jobs are clearly there – over 8 million of them, waiting to be filled. But who is willing? How can we inspire the next generation to roll up their sleeves and learn a skill that’s in demand? How can we make a more persuasive case for a career in the trades?

These were the questions that led me to start mikeroweWORKS 16 years ago, and my answer today is no different than it was then – better PR. The trades are, inexplicably, surrounded by stigmas, stereotypes, myths, and misperceptions that have kept millions of kids from giving them an honest look. And to be clear, these myths and misperceptions were not fostered by our kids. Gen Z wasn’t born with the belief that the skilled trades are beneath them, or that they can't make six figures working with their hands. They had to be taught that nonsense, just as they had to be taught that an expensive four-year degree was the only way to live a prosperous life. The result? $1.6 trillion in student loans, millions open positions that don’t require a university credential, and a workforce that’s becoming smaller and less skilled with every passing year.

I know I’m a broken record on all this, but I only mention it now because this article reminded me that Dirty Jobs was, first and foremost, a love letter to American work ethic. I visited every state half a dozen times on that show, worked as an apprentice on hundreds of jobs, and listened to lots of small business owners talk about “the war on work,” and the widening skills gap, and the increasing difficulty of finding workers with an enthusiasm for the trades, or a willingness to work.

Back in 2005, a farmer in Indiana said, “Something is broken, Mike. Our country is encouraging all the wrong things. We’re making work the enemy.”

In Ohio, a 50-year-old foreman on a construction site pointed to his crew and said, “These guys are the best. Too bad they’re all older than me.” That was in 2006.
In 2007, I met a septic tank cleaner who was nearly 60, and worth several million dollars. When I asked him why he still worked six days a week, ten hours a day, he said, “Because I love to work, Mike. I just love it. Ain’t no other reason.”

Those comments, and hundreds of others like them, inspired me to launch a non-profit foundation whose purpose was to reinvigorate the skilled trades and elevate the American work ethic. That was the goal of mikeroweWORKS in 2008, and that’s our goal today. And so, before I thank our generous supporters for allowing me to award over $12 million in work ethic scholarships to over 2,000 recipients, I want to remind everyone, (myself included), that our scholarship program – now the largest of its kind - is not the main purpose of this foundation. Because the truth is, no matter how many people we assist, scholarships alone will not reinvigorate the trades on a national level.

Moving forward, mikeroweWORKS will continue to award work ethic scholarships to qualified applicants and help as many people as we can get the training we need. But now, I’m recommitting myself and this foundation to the business of sharing those stories with the largest audience possible. True stories of regular Americans who have prospered by foregoing a mountain of college debt, mastering a skill that’s in demand, and applying those skills with a work ethic that we simply must encourage and reward at every turn. That's how we reinvigorate the trades, and that's why mikeroweWORKS exists.

Ain't no other reason.

Having said all that, please join me in thanking this year's key donors.

@Ferguson
@DEWALTtough
Tom and Marilyn Moyer Foundation
J&K Trash Removal
@ckochfoundation
@StandTogether
@WilliamsUpdates
@americangiant
@moen
@SenoxCorp
Ron Kall and @GDBAProtects

I also want to thank the @DAVHQ American Veterans for helping us promote our scholarship program to veteran communities, and everyone on this page, who has supported us since 2008 in so many different ways. Including all those who purchased, (and enjoyed!) a bottle of Knobel Spirits Tennessee whiskey online. On behalf of everyone at mikeroweWORKS, and all the scholarship recipients, thanks very much.
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[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

Washington DC, which has a sky high murder rate and where the putrid stench of weed permeates the air, is subpoenaing....*Zyn*. This caused a total shutdown of Zyn online sales

The war on drugs has switched to a war on nicotine. The drug that is actually useful to society

[glenn kwarcinski @haolekid]

@CAL_FIRE @CALFIRETCU Aloha.

Mahalo for all your hard work. It is appreciated.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

The SF political elite is in shambles right now. Ron Conway’s calls to discourage people from attending the event didn’t work. We were completely sold out. Efforts to gin up protestors by SF newspapers backfired. Hundreds of pro-Trump demonstrators turned out.

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

"Is it my imagination, or have you and your podcast become more political? I enjoyed the interview with @Riley_Gaines_ but was really surprised to see you “go there,” and speak so candidly about such a politically charged topic." Carol Marks

Hi Carol.
It’s your imagination.

Your question reminds of a common refrain I hear nowadays from friends of mine on both sides of the aisle. “I didn’t leave my party, my party left me!” I can sympathize. In this case, I would tell you that I haven’t become any more political than I’ve ever been – but everything around me certainly has. Or maybe, everything has just become more controversial, and therefore everything feels more political?

Either way, the facts surrounding Riley’s ordeal are not in dispute. She and her teammates were told by the NCAA to either compete with a man or quit the sport they loved. They were told to either share a locker room with a man or seek professional psychiatric help. They were also told that failing to accept the swimmer formerly known as Will Thomas as a woman, might result in his suicide, and that his blood would be on their hands.

For daring to question the fairness of these decisions, Riley Gaines was branded a bigot and a transphobe. She was attacked by protestors at San Francisco State and held against her will for several hours. Her captors were not punished. In fact, they were congratulated by the administrators at the college.

It's also important to know that Riley Gaines never suggested to me that adults be denied the right to identify as a member of the opposite sex or take whatever steps they wish to take in order to facilitate a physical transition. We both support that right, even if we don’t support the idea that taxpayers should pay for it, or that minors should be allowed to proceed with irreversible surgeries without their parent’sconsent. But mostly, we both believe that it’s fundamentally unfair to allow men to compete against women, and deeply troubling that so many otherwise sensible Americans stood by and said nothing, as the NCAA made a mockery of Title IX, and ran roughshod over decades of hard-fought women’s rights.

As I said to her on the podcast, Riley Gaines reminds me of the kid in The Emperor’s New Clothes - the only one in the crowd to point out the obvious fact that the man parading before them was stark naked, while the townspeople pretended, he wasn’t. Just like the townspeople in America who pretended that Lea Thomas was a woman, simply because he changed his name and claimed to be one. Even when he leapt from a ranking of #462 as "Will," to #1 as "Lea," the townspeople just couldn't see the difference between him, and the women he so completely and totally dominated. Even when the townspeople saw with their own eyes, a telltale bulge in the women’s bathing suit he wore on the podium, they still applauded the emperor's new clothes, and congratulated him for his great triumph.

Those townspeople will not be remembered for their politics, Carol. They'll be remembered for their cowardice. Just as Riley Gaines will be remembered for her courage.

Our whole conversation is here, https://t.co/b73KGUw7sn or on @Apple, and @Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.

Her book, Swimming Against the Current, is terrific, and worth your time. https://t.co/8Ni9lcVNmb

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Amazing and infuriating:

To prosecute Hunter Biden, FBI has to say -- and has testified -- that his laptop and every document on it is authentic and unaltered.

Not one media outlet who spread the CIA's bullshit "Russian disinformation" lie has retracted it or apologized:

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

My mom is an absolute legend.

Born and raised in Bangalore, India. Secretly applied to college in the U.S. and got a scholarship. Arrived in 1980 with no money to her name. Got her undergrad in two years and her masters in another two.

Met an American guy and fell in love. They're happily married 42 years later and never go long without a kiss and an "I love you" whispered between them.

Started and built a small business, raised two children, and now the proud grandmother to two grandsons. Still has the same energetic, party-loving, mischievous spirit of her youth.

What a damn life. What a damn legacy.

Happy Birthday, Mama! Here's to you.

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

For a guy who runs a foundation that sends young people to trade schools all over America – trade schools where I’m pleased to report, no one is calling for the extermination of Jews – today’s headlines are once again offering another excellent reason to consider redirecting whatever financial support you might earmark for the Ivy League, to the mikeroweWORKS Foundation. Why? Because the Ivy League has truly lost its mind.
Consider the latest madness at Columbia University, where the president, Minochuhe Shafik, has announced a new round of remote learning - effective immediately - in response to a noisy rabble of thugs and bullies calling for the eradication of Israel.
If I had a kid at Columbia, I’d be livid. It’s simply mind-boggling that the president of this university would rather consign her students to another crucible of remote learning, than permanently expel the protesters. I mean, seriously, what does it take to get expelled from Columbia? These creeps are on camera, literally screaming into the faces of Jewish students.
“They yelled at us to go back to Poland, said we have no culture, and chanted, ‘Strike, strike Tel Aviv,” said one terrified student. Followed by, “Burn Tel Aviv to the ground,” “Go Hamas, we love you, we support your rockets, too.”
In a now-infamous image, one demonstrator appeared before a group of counter-protesters holding Israeli and American flags with a sign pointing in their direction that read, “Al-Qasam’s next targets.”
That’s what you get for $68,000 a year at Columbia – an administration who cowers in the face of thugs and bullies, and a university president who would rather make your kids try to learn off campus, than take a truly hard line with those students calling for the murder of Jews. For the love of God, expel them. Calling for murder is not protected speech.
In the meantime, mikeroweWORKS is accepting applications for our next round of work ethic scholarships. Deadline is the end of the month. It’s worth noting that the careers we’re training people for cannot be taught, or preformed, remotely. It’s also worth mentioning that we accept donations year-round and spend the money we take in with great discretion. You can apply for a scholarship, or donate, at https://t.co/ju76O0XWgC.

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[Keoni Puʻuhonua o Waimānalo @Keoni_DiFranco]

Lāhainā Strong has put out the kāhea for a Rally for Dignified Housing at Kāʻanapali beach next Saturday 🐚

If you were waiting for the call to come stand & support, this is the moment.

We must continue to apply pressure to ensure short term rental convert to long term.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Using plastic chopping boards at home can produce more than 70 million microplastics a year, which end up in your digestive system and can make you sick.

Ditch them and use wooden ones instead.

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

UPDATE 🚜

Countrie that have now joined the farmers protest:

Netherlands 🇳🇱
Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
France 🇫🇷
Germany 🇩🇪
Poland 🇵🇱
Lithuania 🇱🇹
Romania 🇷🇴
Belgium 🇧🇪
Greece 🇬🇷
Spain 🇪🇸
Italy 🇮🇹
Portugal 🇵🇹
Ireland 🇮🇪
Bulgaria 🇧🇬
Britain 🇬🇧
Wales 🚜
Moldova 🇲🇩

Say NO to Net Zero.

[Dr. Drew @drdrew]

Had the honor of showing up in person for ⁦The Rubin Report this week. https://t.co/9Ce8kDtMck

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

The cult is collapsing.

Next: dismantle the woke mob.