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Elon had a 1400 on the SAT. That's about the bar where we should let people in. There are probably other tests (Google interview would be an example) that would make sense, so long as Google isn't using it to suppress wages. Transparency would go a long way.

That would be the incel mentioned above. To be more explicit evil exists and takes whatever form of the society around it religious or not. Today it's columbine style school shooters before 1990s it was serial killers. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/what-explains-the-decline-of-serial-killers

Yes. That pool is much smaller depending on where the line is drawn. Melania vs a couple of thousand home coming queens.

Tested against whatever your favorite benchmark: Google interview panel, IQ Test, SAT, all of them you don't think he would score high enough to warrant admission? It's reported he got a 1420 on the SAT which puts him in the top 5%. I'm fine bringing whoever over if they can raise/bring money to start a business or if say the cap is $200K a year on salaries. I don't think we should bring retail managers or basic development jobs over.

Choose the form of your destructor. In an Islamic society you get suicide vest bombers. In our society you get disaffected young men shooting up schools. Numerous myths cover the phenomenon.

I think it's more helpful to classify which oligarchs form a symbiosis with the movements. Tea Party was solidly from the Koch era. GW Bush was an era by oil and gas, defense. Team blue had finance, tech, academia and media through most of the 2000s. The new tech side grew in power in this time and the old guard wanted to bring them to heel. You see things like Zuckerberg being brought before Congress and beat into submission. What you see today is a new class, the new tech, not getting their due and in some cases revolting the pressure put on them by the old guard. A subset revolted (Thiel, Elon, Andresson) and has now remade the Republican party. The party in 2024 is not the same as 2010 or 2001.

If the only solution can be the elimination of guns then why does it matter how they happen and other alternatives to stopping them?

Do you expect Elon, who has created trillions in value for the US, including I assume hundreds of thousands/millions for you, wouldn't meet the standard? Do you also assume Melania would not meat the standard of being a rich guy's wife? Are these cases different than bringing cashiers making $45k over or an Indian developer working on an accounting database for $120k a year?

I still consider myself an independent. I was anti neocon/establishment when it was a left leaning movement focused on anti corporate and anti war. I stayed and the left went corporate medicine, corporate media, and corporate everything. I say that as a corporate whore myself. I just don't want my employer who already has absolute power to enter my home and state life.

I've always thought it was a great miss of that data set that the type of incident is not recorded, only demographic data. An incel that walks into a school and shoots children or shoots up a movie theater is different than a gang shooting or workplace violence. The solution to stopping them may be totally different for different types of shootings.

Elon replied to this thread: https://x.com/RobertMSterling/status/1873175206073626660 The summary: there are about 10x the H1Bs as is supposed to be. 800kish vs 80k. Mostly weighted in tech with second highest being accounting. The average pay is relatively low for tech at $120k. 75% of which are less than 150k. Reading through subreddits with a high concentration of new graduates they seem completely unable to find employment, even students from top schools with a 4.0. In my circle most of the employees that were newer or without a solid background (good school with some experience) have been unable to find work after layoffs. I do not believe we should be importing nearly a million people at below market rates into an environment which is challenging for our own graduates. Elon replied to the above and added he was talking more about the higher skilled and stated the H1B needs actual standards and was aware of its abuse.

Over the years I've had jobs that allowed for periodic work from home. Nothing that was on a fixed schedule but if you had a repair man coming to your house, or wanted to go to a boogie across the country they would usually allow it. I went remote in March of 2020, at the time I held a director level position at a fortune 10. Managing people remotely was slightly less challenging than I expected, but knowing what was going on outside the org was impossible. I've switched jobs twice since. The first was trying on remote and known for being cutthroat. While there they forced me to move back to the West Coast and I declined so I found a new job. Onboarding to a new company is impossible remote. If the company is good at it it's still difficult getting to know people if you aren't there. As a remote worker there is no chance you run into someone randomly and discover a place they can help you or you them. Even putting faces to names is difficult. Remote work life ranges from completely normal, to complete slacking to dystopian hell. Certain employees that have task queues and monitoring and forced cameras on all day can't enjoy living like that. I definitely couldn't work like that. If you have reasonable demands, accountability and are left your own devices then it is amazing being able to see your kids and wife at lunch. Given Elon's stance, what he did at Twitter, and what he likely is going to do at the federal government I will be surprised if a.remote job is possible in 4 years. The trend is certainly away from it. People have less tolerance for seeing a $180k a year project manager or HR girl flaunting working from a pool on TikTok. The demands are going to be higher from now on.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/prison-and-crime-much-more-than-you TL;DR As a deterrent no. As incapacitation, some times. Hiring more police is more effective use of tax payer money.

Yeah, but how many doctors in those other countries have a 600 bottle wine collection or a Bentley?

Think of the climate change!

MLK supported a unifying vision of humanity and was not down with identity politics as they are today in 2024 (or 2022 I should say). MLK addressed economic and racial issues, his work didn't explicitly incorporate concepts like intersectionality or modern discussions around gender and LGBTQ+ rights. He explicitly called out "content of your character". Whereas the woke crowd says you can't judge people that come from disadvantaged backgrounds. From a practical standpoint when you allow intersectionality and stack ranking oppressed groups (black, gay, trans) vs (latino, cis) for example it dilutes the whole conversation around legitimate racial inequalities and grievances.

MLK is not woke, neither are many of the others. Intersectionality and "content of your character" being subjective to culture are hallmarks of woke. MLK did not say, "content of your character unless you came from a disadvantaged family"

Project 2025 puts anyone caught watching television news in a forced labor camp racking servers in a data center.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/11/04/fact-sheet-biden-administration-announces-details-of-two-major-vaccination-policies/ When remote, pretty wild.

There was a time not long ago when the dumbest people in the world were polacks. Do you see any dumb polacks around today? What happened? "Awareness?" Do you think we all just learned "poles are just like us?" You think it was... education? Pole empowerment? Tolerance? The question is not how did we learn to get over that prejudice, but rather what purpose did it serve in the first place, why was it the preferred expression of hate of that time?

If they are androgen insensitive they phenotypically would look female, but be unable to reproduce and testes would be where ovaries are supposed to be. Gray area.

I volunteer to load it to thespeakerscorner.ai and promise not to make a "SPEAKWITHBILLVON.com" LLM bot. I will also volunteer to make an AI agent out of the useful skydiving posts, curated by someone. We can call it femur bot. You can ask it questions like, "I just got my A license, what size Leia should I buy to impress the ladies?"

@billvon Is anyone getting a data dump of the posts?