Ron A Smith

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

This deserves an Oscar

[Ron A Smith @smithron]

@settofaze If you know, you know.

[Ron A Smith @smithron]

@settofaze @theinnsarnia They just re-opened. Chill.

[alpha man @alphaman_111]

On day 1 of my high school history class, our professor got up and said

You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago people your age were married, planted crops, had children, and built a cabin by winter. You can do your homework. The bar set for you historically is embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies. You have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe, air-conditioned room. You have no excuses.

[Ron A Smith @smithron]

@Camp4 I'm in the good old days right now, and sometimes I think "this is all too much" and then I see posts like this and it realigns me to enjoy every minute, even when you're exhausted.

[Ron A Smith @smithron]

@ArashMadani England represent!!!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

This is the first and likely the last time I’ll retweet an ad, but I love it.

[Alex_TVzla @at_tvzla]

This is how Nicolás Maduro profited from Venezuelan hunger (note: video is two weeks old):

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

While back, this man gave a great summary explaining why a U.S. invasion of Venezuela wouldn’t actually be about oil.

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

Dear Europeans, it’s not international law that keeps you safe. It’s America.

[Ron A Smith @smithron]

@Tuckerrr333 @CANADALAND @JesseBrown What a brutal interview "let's get into bed with Chinese manufacturers, and I don't care if they monitor us, leave your phone at home." Terrible.

[Ron A Smith @smithron]

@justinfrank1984 @BlitzAlerts Lol. I was like, "Is he about to say that"

[Ron A Smith @smithron]

@mikafilm @jamescham I was thinking the same. And also that ridiculous fire fight at the end. They swam to the ship, and none of them were hit. Give me a break!

[Ron A Smith @smithron]

Thanks @Cmdr_Hadfield for supporting @SarniaRebound with a signed copy of your iconic Sarnia from space shot! It was a heated bidding process, and I'm now the proud new owner!

[Ron A Smith @smithron]

Quote: Winners define themselves by what they made happen, while losers define themselves by what happened to them.

[Ron A Smith @smithron]

This 100000%. As a parent of young girls, and as a first-generation immigrant, I back this talk 10000%. Time for grown-ups to govern.

[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. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[Ron A Smith @smithron]

@elonmusk I just tried. Totally correct.

[Ron A Smith @smithron]

@GrantRants @Sarnia_Ontario @bill_standard @NiagaraRegion @real_BillDennis lol.

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@BuckSexton You were great, gained a follower here!