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9hr ago
Unless you are doing accounting a business degree is fairly worthless. You can just do business and learn as you go.
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21hr ago
Why does this article feel like a set-up to me for the left? No American is going to know this soccer league so they can just run articles saying Trump is going crazy deporting even Argentinian professional soccer players. And the casual reader would think it’s a real league and Trumps literally deporting Messi.
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1d ago
This guy seems to play in the National Independent Soccer Association and not MLS. I don’t know soccer for where this ranks.
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I tried looking up the “world class soccer player” and I couldn’t verify. My instincts say it’s a semi-pro league. Still very talented compared to Americans in soccer.
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A lot of group traits that differ I’ve concluded are mostly genetic and culture is second. But on different dating norms this actually seems like an area of culture and nurture. We have Latins of the same ethnicity as an American (say Italian American and Italian Brazilian or Argentinian) and their relationship games are different.
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1d ago
We should get rid of spousal visas. Perhaps this is the last thing we should fix but we should fix everything.
“ rights of your own citizens this is.”
- The problem with your analysis is a lot of us don’t believe the legal definition of American Citizen is the real definition of American Citizen. I don’t view Ilhan Omar as a citizen. And I would gladly restrict my own ability to get a spousal visa (actually have a white foreign gf) if it meant Ilhan Omar can’t get spousal visas.
The proposal of a 200K spousal Visa fee sounds expensive but it’s the price of civilization.
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A new case that’s popped up on my feed.
"Matías was not attempting to enter or leave the United States. He was simply traveling from one U.S. city to another," the statement read.” ….
“ The player has been living in the United States for seven years and, according to his team's statement, has a PENDING ASYLUM CASE, a Florida state ID, and no criminal record”
- This guy is Argentinian. Murder rate lower than the US. This is another article of “he did nothing wrong just travel” while acting like saying the magic word asylum is just a legal game smart people play instead of knowingly committing fraud against the US.
The most interesting thing with these articles which someone seems to be pushing right now is the articles are not lying to the reader but 100% telling the truth. But thru the tone of the writing make it sound that this is all normal and okay.
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Feels true to me. I’ve gone out a handful of times with Russian girls or even more broadly Eastern and the personality coldness at first I can’t figure out.
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And that’s not a realistic opinion. The average NYT reader would turn very much against immigration if their desired policies were actually done. Not enforcing tourists visas while also issuing more tourists visas would create a huge backlash quickly. It would essentially be the same thing as Abbott sending migrants to NYC. Except orders of magnitude more. This is essentially a luxury belief.
The funny thing about NYC is the actual voters vote against migration to NYC. Rent control and anti-development is essentially a policy that blocks immigration to NYC. The US could also stop immigration by banning home building and restricting most existing housing to heritage Americans.
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If you’re a man with a little bit of coin it’s probably a great place to find a wife right now. That’s probably the only reason I could see to go there now.
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That’s the bigger thing to me with the NYT article than just the culture war talk on appropriate levels of immigration and pathways. A nation does have to have procedures. And a tourist visa isn’t a residency visa. I’m not even in America right now but will be soon. I’ve come across many in S American who didn’t get a tourists visa. Why don’t they get them? Many do overstay.
We could give away tourist visas like chocolate on Halloween if everyone who got a tourist visa leaves. It hurts the next person applying for a visa when someone overstays.
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He’s almost certainly right that chain migration vastly trumps that now. It’s some Colombian family slow immigrating their entire family to the US versus an American bringing a girl home now. Sometimes they even just do it for money and the marriage is fake. There is an active market for that in Miami.
Trump importing a foreign eastern mail order bride is a very small part of the market.
We’ve already imported the 15% of non-Americans who can now bring in their local ties. It’s not foreign brides being brought in any more. It’s Ilhan Omar bringing in her brother.
In which case money isn’t even the right metric but it would filter out a lot.
You only feel this way because you don’t like a lot of the current immigration to this country and chain migration. If it was a Heritage American bringing back even the occasional slightly brown girl you wouldn’t feel this way. Which I agree with.
In practice your probably fine with the Family Guy immigration (system)[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/family-guy-skin-color-chart]
There is some talk that with increasing migration that country of origin easy visas won’t exists anymore and everyone will have to be screened.
We probably should get rid of spousal citizenship at this point. And its because it brings in people I don’t want and not some Southern Boy in the military bringing back a German wife.
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3d ago
Agree. And honestly many are probably not bad people who abuse the system so play the “empathy” card. The Twitter algo has been shoving down my throat a 30 year old white Argentinian girl with a bf. Yes as a MAGA person I don’t have a big problem with her staying.
But it’s the NYT labeling enforcing Tourist Visas as not permanent Visas that rubs me the wrong way. It’s mostly their tone we it’s assumed the reader knows this is “obviously a bad thing”.
We have procedures for doing things for a reason. And she only applied for a 6 month tourist Visa not residency. And we did a shorter review of her background for a Visa because it was a contract that she would come visit and leave. It wasn’t an offer of citizenship which if we are offering citizenship we should do a very long review process of her application.
Society does need to have processes that it follows for everything it does. This is just normal process following governance. And NYT tone is basically “Mr. Reader you should clearly understand that enforcing tourist visas to a short visit is clearly proof that Trump is literally Hitler”.
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The older I get the more I hate data and academic papers and just want to trust my instincts. Because it’s virtually impossible to read thru studies and figure it out; and more times than not it seems like my instincts end up being correct after someone does a thorough literature review.
I enjoy cooking. I can do it as a hobby. There are a lot of famous male chefs and my gut says more than females. Some reason evolution made me enjoy cooking and I feel like I know plenty of men who enjoy cooking.
There does seem to be something with meat especially that men enjoy doing. Men love barbecuing. And men doing the hunting, starting a fire, and making meat safer to eat is a story I can believe we did a lot of evolving around. Girls do seem to have a stronger desire to do things like baking. So perhaps your statistics are picking up activities like that.
Perhaps it’s a pre-civilization trait that was ditched in most agricultural societies but is still a significant gene in the male population.
Cooking doesn’t feel like work to me. It probably would feel like work if I did a 12 hour shift in a factory, but in white collar world where your not physically tired it seems like a hobby for a lot of men.
The NYT is currently running articles about ICE picking up people overstaying tourist Visas at airports. I read these articles and think yes that is common sense enforcement of our nations laws. And a lot of the people overstaying tourist’s Visas I personally like. Most went thru some vetting to get approved for a tourist’s visas. And they will fill broke our laws.
There is a very good reason to deport people who overstay tourist’s visas. The reason is you want to issue a lot of tourist Visas because you want people to see America and spend money here. And a lot of people want to visit America that get turned down for Visas. Every short term visa should not be permanent residency. The US turns down a large % of tourist Visas they view as high risks. I want to let those people in and I hope they leave after 3 weeks.
Also isn’t it illegal for a lawyer to advise a client on covering up a crime and helping clients break the way? Lawyers seem to be bragging about doing that in the article.
The alternative to not enforcing tourists Visa restrictions is either (1) not issuing tourist Visas or (2) open borders/end of nation state
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3d ago
Cooking isn’t gendered coded. Different places and different times had different genders cooking.
Professional chef if anything is male coded slightly. Grilling meat is heavily male coded.
Cleaning is feminine coded. Not cooking.
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3d ago
Once you have enough wealth and some discipline you don’t need an emergency fund. You can use a taxable brokerage and margin for same day payments. Fidelity even has a debit card that automates it. Or slower you can transfer to you bank account and it clears within 24 hours for payment.
If you have 300k in taxable brokerage you should have no problem getting 30k for an emergency and that’s without needing to do a taxable event immediately.
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3d ago
Duration looks a little off to me. A better definition would be the interest rate sensitivity for a given bond that would be equivalent to a 0 coupon bond maturity X years into the future. X is called the duration.
But for an average guy the definition used is good enough.
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My guess would be 50-70% of people really enjoy cooking. So it’s part leisure activity. It makes sense prepping food is enjoyable because it has evolutionary advantages.
But some people do not enjoy it. And a strict economic sense wages can be high enough to mostly outsource food prep today and justify it as money saving versus their wage level.
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3d ago
Is this true? Obama would seem to be the leading brand. And he definitely played the DEI game.
The counter force to DEI tarnishes my accomplishments is tribal loyalty feels like a human personality trait.
More than a few big donations to HBC despite probably having intelligence to realize HBC were essentially dead as institutions posts affirmative action.
“ Robert F. Smith has given over $134 million to HBCUs, famously paying off Morehouse College's entire 2019 graduating class debt and launching the Student Freedom Initiative to support STEM students at dozens of HBCUs.”. - pulling from google AI summary.
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Ya I wanted to avoid the main thread with a hbd posts. And keep it simple to just whether Elon crossed a line here.
Though if I want to defend “magic dirt theorists” which I think broadly falls under the Why Nations Fail authors Nobel……a few places have had temporarily cursed dirt that needed a witch doctors magic. Poland, China, Japan were all places that just needed a good magic spell within the last 150 years.
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Think Musks just crossed the line into actual racisms. But maybe I missed a more direct quote a while ago.
“There is no such thing as “magic ground” that makes some places prosperous and some not!
If you teleported the people of Japan to anywhere else, that place would become Japan.“
- Elon Musks Twitter
As far as I know historically Japan is bad dirt. Low in natural resources etc, but for a certain age the small island seems to have birthed empires (England/Japan).
Maybe it’s useful for showing interests. I don’t think there is a lot of actual learnings in most business programs.
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