Shadow of Sundered Star

Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome

[Shadow of Sundered Star @the4foldroot]

Why is hiring on the basis of DEI so harmful to a company?

1. Suppose a company commits to hire more employees on the basis of DEI.
2. Over time, by sheer chance some of these DEI hires become low performers.
3. There arises a general reluctance to PIP or fire DEI hires since this runs counter to the company's DEI goals.
4. Competent and experienced employees of all backgrounds grow frustrated and leave, only to be backfilled with less competent or experienced hires.
5. The average competency and experience of the workforce decreases.

Noble aims have deleterious effects.

[AmericanGreatness @NONbiasedly]

Democrats could have let Spencer Pratt take 2nd, then easily defeated him in Nov:

"See, our elections aren't rigged. We let a MAGA friendly win".

Instead, they have fomented total unified visceral utter disgust. The Nation was glued to every single count, watched a 7%-point lead evaporate days after the physical voting ended.

The Establishment fucked up (John Thune, the most hated man in America). They treated this like a sleepy, localized primary that they could manage through standard, bureaucratic slow-rolling. Their ruthless public pursuit of power blinded them that entire country is hyper-sensitized to election integrity RN (thanks be to Trump).

By pushing Nithya Raman past Pratt by a razor-thin margin of 3,113 votes on a Sun. night, they lit a powder keg under the Nation, a 11.0 earthquake.

BS you say?
Read any comments, any local national MSM or any few daring to defend CA elections, on any SM platform. The vitriol of disgust hatred utter contempt for Democrats & RINOs corruption has unified a once deeply divided country.

They thought they were quietly securing a predictable Bass vs. Raman runoff for November. Instead, their smug pretentious Marie Antoinette-esque hatred brought together — the Left, the center, the Right — a shared outrage, turned a local mayoral primary into a national symbol of institutional corruption. They underestimated the public's boiling point, and now they have no idea how to contain the blowback. They so fucked themselves. Psychopathic doesn't even come close. They have healed a broken polarized country, once unimaginable.

Thank you Spencer for your unwavering courage. Thank you Trump for your fierce bellicosity. Thank you Dumocrats for destroying your own party. Thank you Thune, McConnell, Murkowski, Collins, Tillis... the most despised humans in Nation.

[Shadow of Sundered Star @the4foldroot]

@hecubian_devil Women when you tell them not to vote for the offputting Nazi that mistreats women just because he's a Democrat

[Shadow of Sundered Star @the4foldroot]

@PaigeSully88 @TheRealParad0x

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

Out of pure spite, Democrat politicians in Northern Virginia released this rapist back out into a country he wasn’t even permitted to be in simply because handing him over to ICE for deportation would have clashed with their oikophobic ideology.

This has happened over and over and OVER again to the point where the only sensible conclusion you can draw is that Democrat politicians actually want these people in our country.

[Shadow of Sundered Star @the4foldroot]

He's coming alright

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

November, here we come.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

November, here we come.

[Steve Guest @SteveGuest]

Vox with a BOMBSHELL admission in the wake of the demise of RCP8.5.

“Those numbers shaped a decade and a half of climate journalism, including a lot of my own when I covered climate change at Time magazine. I didn’t always know — and didn’t always communicate — that the scenario behind the most apocalyptic, attention-getting findings was largely an attempt to imagine how bad things could get, not a true forecast. But I wasn’t alone. RCP 8.5 was a frequent background presence in climate journalism.” https://t.co/hS5SCyG8W6

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@tunguz I know it’s wrong, but I keep reading the name of the drug as Retardatide and thinking ok you lose a few iq points, but at least you’re thin

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

It is not just Henry Nowak. There is a presumption in media that when a black person is killed by a white it is a national news hate crime indicating a terrifying systemic problem, while when a white person is killed by a black person, it is an ordinary local crime story.

That is why the killing of Iryna Zarutska was ignored in national media until the horrifying video of her death went viral. That is why you know the names Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, but you don’t know the names Tessa Majors or Cannon Hinant.

That is why there was limited national coverage of the 2023 incident in Tulsa when Isaiah James Gilford shot and killed two random white men at gas stations because he hated white people.

That is why you didn’t hear about the Fresno massacre in 2017 when Kori Ali Muhammad killed four people to get revenge for racism.

Or the Fon du Lac, Wisconsin killing of Phillip Thiessen, who some maniac intentionally side-swiped with a truck like a Grand Theft Auto character because he believed white men riding motorcycles were white supremacists.

There are dozens of stories like this. But they’re all unrelated incidents that are part of no larger picture and shouldn’t be a subject of national concern, while police killings or white-on-black incidents are all connected to America’s sordid history of white supremacy and the ongoing scourge of systemic racism.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

America is a right wing country. It would have been 60-40 Trump in 2024 if we had honest media. Notice it only took Elon buying Twitter for Trump to win the popular vote - first time for a Republican in decades. Left wing ideas are unpopular and require affirmative action.

[Shadow of Sundered Star @the4foldroot]

@jimbojimbo @CGasparino Hopelessly low information

[Shadow of Sundered Star @the4foldroot]

HOF mask slip moment

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

A white male New York ‘Times’ employee filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging the paper had discriminated against him by not giving him a promotion because he is a white male. On Tuesday, the EEOC, now controlled by a Trump appointee who has vowed to help wage the president’s war against DEI culture, filed a civil-rights lawsuit against the ‘Times’ arguing that the paper’s efforts to satisfy its diversity goals amounted to “unlawful employment practices.”

The paper itself was first to break the news of the suit but did not name the employee who made the complaint. Reporters at the paper have been scrambling to figure out the employee’s identity, driven in part by bafflement that one of their own colleagues would sell out the paper to the administration, which has used tools of the federal government to attack the press.

“This has been kind of a shitshow behind the scenes — people trying to figure out who the aggrieved person is,” said another ‘Times’ staffer. The release of the complaint on Tuesday narrowed the speculation to Bryant Rousseau, a senior editor and producer on the ‘Times’’s international desk who has been with the paper for more than a decade.

Read more details from the suit: https://t.co/RQ8c6YRRIN

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics! https://t.co/ufoTeQd8yA

[Shadow of Sundered Star @the4foldroot]

An all-timer 🤣

[KINZA @KinzaTracks]

Pulling the shirt down after a moonsault I love being a fat nigga

[Shadow of Sundered Star @the4foldroot]

The dumbest tweet I've ever seen 🤡

[Kirsten Grind @KirstenGrind]

NEW: Elon Musk took $500 million in loans out at SpaceX, a move that would have been illegal at a public company. It's just one example of the years of financial engineering at the helm of his companies. Latest investigation with @susannecraig https://t.co/w0RPNHS1WI

[Shadow of Sundered Star @the4foldroot]

@solidaritydept You're low information

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

LMFAO.

Imagine the psychology of this...

Your generals...those hollow-eyed fanatics who’ve spent decades jerking off to fantasies of asymmetric “victory” through proxies, human shields, and apocalyptic martyrdom...staring slack-jawed at the screen.

One minute they’re briefing on IRGC suicide swarms and hypersonic delusions; the next, they’re watching the leader of the free world casually promise obliteration while a pastel rabbit stands sentinel like it’s auditioning for the role of Grim Reaper’s cheerful cousin.

The cognitive dissonance must be exquisite. It’s not just the words; it’s the vibe.

Trump projects raw, unfiltered American dominance...the kind that doesn’t need theatrical rage or ritualistic chest-thumping.

Easter eggs on the lawn, kids hopping about, bunny ears bobbing...and behind it all, the quiet machinery of hellfire on standby.

Your average Iranian commander, conditioned by decades of propaganda painting the West as decadent and weak, suddenly confronts the abyss:

a superpower so confident, so lethally competent, that it can wage existential war while hosting a children’s festival.

It screams, “We will glass your power plants, choke your straits, and turn your ‘resistance axis’ into radioactive folklore...and we’ll do it with a smile and a hop.”

No panic in our voice. No desperation.

Just precision.

The kind that turns your toughest fighters into footnotes in an after-action report titled “How Not to Fuck with America.”

God, I love this President.

He understands the game at a level these medieval throwbacks never will. They crave the theater of martyrdom; he delivers the mathematics of overwhelming lethality.

While they chant death to the Great Satan, he’s reminding the world..:and them...that the Satan they fear isn’t some cartoon villain.

It’s a nation that resurrects its strength, celebrates its traditions, and still has the balls to stare down your apocalyptic wet dreams without breaking stride.

The Bunny next to him? That’s not absurdity. That’s the flex. It’s America saying:

We can afford to be this fucking joyful because we know exactly how this ends if you don’t open the goddamn strait and crawl back into your hole.

Keep watching that clip, you regime relics. Let it burrow into your skulls like the precision munitions already queued up.

Your “tough people” are about to learn what real toughness looks like when it’s backed by unmatched will, technology, and a cultural middle finger wrapped in pastel fur.

Happy Easter, motherfuckers. Try not to choke on the chocolate.

MAGA.

💀🤣

[Fren @WhereIsFren]

@AlexanderPayton

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks.

Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility.

The New York Times did not dismiss the possibility of powered flight at random. There was a very specific reason behind it. At the time, America’s most prominent scientific authority, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley, had been showered with large amounts of taxpayer funding to build an aircraft, the Langley Aerodrome. Despite all the money, institutional backing, and elite prestige, Langley and his team could not get it to fly, culminating in a series of very public failures, the last on December 8, 1903.

So when the New York Times declared that flight was millions of years away, what it was really saying was that if the most credentialed and well-funded “experts” cannot do it, then it cannot be done.

A mere nine days later, the elites’ proclamation of impossibility lay in ruins. Two totally unknown bicycle mechanics from Ohio achieved the first powered flight using improvised parts, a few hundred dollars of their own money, and sheer persistence.

The story of flight is, at its core, a story of the triumph of American individualism over elite credentialism. The fact that it was the New York Times that inadvertently delivered the proof is the most fitting conclusion imaginable.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Alcohol is a socially legalized self-poisoning ritual that culture still flatters because it is old, profitable, and woven into status, celebration, and relief.

Most people still treat alcohol like a harmless lifestyle accessory with a few edge-case downsides. That is fantasy. Alcohol degrades sleep, recovery, judgment, mood stability, training quality, metabolic control, and long horizon health. It also has the uniquely stupid feature of making people feel like the damage is connection, sophistication, or decompression.

The real pattern is simpler. More alcohol means more damage. Frequent alcohol means compounding damage. Nightly alcohol is one of the dumbest normalized habits in modern life because it feels mild while quietly wrecking recovery.

The deepest truth is that alcohol’s biggest advantage is that it is familiar. People forgive it because they grew up around it. If alcohol were discovered today and introduced as a new consumer chemical that mildly reduces inhibition, worsens sleep, raises accident risk, increases long run disease burden, and trains people to borrow mood from tomorrow, respectable society would call it a public health disaster.

The line about offsetting damage with sunlight, exercise, and nutrition is weak. Those things make a person healthier. They do not transform alcohol into a smart choice. They help absorb the blow better. That is different. Stronger baseline health does not make repeated self-sabotage magically coherent.

So the real answer is simple.

Zero is best.
Rare is far better than regular.
Nightly is stupid.
Bingeing is barbaric.

The cultural defense of alcohol is way stronger than the biological case for it.

Where to stand on it?

Treat alcohol like an expensive tax on clarity, recovery, and future health. If someone still wants to pay that tax occasionally, fine. But call it what it is. Stop dressing it up as wellness, balance, or harmless fun.