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  1. Real answers and I don’t disagree with the premise. The best overall solution, as with most things, is money. With enough money (assuming that we don’t end up a pariah like North Korea or 2022 Russia), immigration and livelihood questions melt away. A good current target? Accessible assets worth more than 1 million per kid can get an investor visa to a country worth living in and a start to making a livelihood. More is of course much better. Second to money is a skill that is portable to make money and that can build connections. Tech, business, elective medicine, and believe it or not— academia— are ideas to consider. Academia will be less well paid but there are pathways to jobs and networks. Seeking employment after graduation at large multinationals and looking for international work within them is a good pathway. For tech, you need to do something really meaningful and specialized at a high level for it to work. Look and see what paths are only available at North American or Western European schools and choose those. Learning to code throws you in with subcontinental people who want to come here for poverty wages. Learning foreign languages and study abroad is good to begin building networks and getting comfortable in international settings, it’s the fundamentals and not what will get you there. Being able to write and speak excellently and clearly in English will be far more valuable internationally than almost any foreign language they can realistically learn.
  2. I had looked up the composition of the federal circuit that will hear the admin appeal, not the panel that already decided.
  3. Do you know how much it hurts him that he had to write this himself instead of quoting a Truth social post himself? He will really need to work out some feels at his no-rules street fighting class.
  4. . . . so you see, by taking money away from the useless hippies studying transgender basket making and instead investing in trade schools, the federal government will in fact be increasing the overall pool of trades workers competing against you in the market place which will drive your wages . . . You know what, never mind. Trump is gonna own the college libs.
  5. Just looked up the composition of the federal circuit and remarkably of 12 justices— not a single DJT nominee.
  6. Iron rule: nothing that is meaningful to exclusively men can ever be good or cool.
  7. Yeah, this guy can go fuck himself. Sorry a blog post doesn’t offset being a true piece of shit. The ones who went from Bernie to Trump are the ones who will never get to leave the camps.
  8. Why? What has he done lately to demonstrate that his engagement will be helpful in any way?
  9. I am a bit doubtful on that front. The “Muslim Ban” (which was really nationality targeted) was far more broadly prohibitive of travel so I don’t see a challenge to the President deciding that PRC citizens can’t be issued or maintain student visas. SCOTUS ruled that a nationality visa ban was within POTUS’ authority under INA. The poor writing is more likely just deliberate wriggle room and to encourage self-removal in advance.
  10. The admin has completely paused issuances of new student visas while they roll out what is being billed as enhanced social media vetting. Per the reporting, even after the new system is rolled out, embassies will be encouraged to “consider” the impact of the new workload before opening new visa slots. Between the lines: don’t try to issue too many. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna209305 Also today. This is poorly written. Is this inclusive of all Chinese students? Just the ones with CCP connections and critical fields? The latter is long overdue but this rollout is going to be needlessly stupid and mean.
  11. A corn starch slurry is absolutely in the rotation to tighten a pan sauce. The thing to remember on pan sauce reductions is that recipes lie. It’s like how they tell you to caramelize onions for 5-7 minutes. No. You can burn onions in 5-7 minutes but to get caramelized onions you need pretty low heat and maybe 30 minutes. Pan sauces will not reduce in the time your recipe says by simmering. Double the time, maybe. Restaurants will use pre-prepped demiglace or red-wine reductions to get your meal out. At home you just have to find a way to keep your protein warm and take your time.
  12. Nearly got run down by one at SPI while I was SUP-surfing. I think one of the big issues with them is that everyone who gets on one wants to make sure they are close enough to shore or other people to show off that they are riding a jet ski. I am one-hundred percent a hipster asshole about this at the beach. If you are doing anything motorized in the surf zone you are a colossal dipshit who is doing the beach wrong.
  13. Hot take: debate is an inferior, pre-literate way to synthesize information and decide between alternatives that has been filtered through 19th century entertainment culture. Winning a debate is not the same thing as presenting the best position. Jordan Peterson is fascinating to me. His whole schtick was telling boys how to pull their shit together and learn to function and then he very publicly crashed out in a spectacular way. I thought that would be the end of him.
  14. I was coming here to post just this. The essence of the article is that TripleSecDef’s personal lawyer told the White House that a (very illegal, very unconstitutional) NSA tap of Hegseth’s aides outed them as the source of leaks surrounding Signalgate. When pressed by the White House, the lawyer walked it back and said he never made any such claim and that he was just passing messages. The reality is that Hegseth’s executive team is fighting and backbiting and throwing each other under the bus. The level of amateurism in this administration is on par with Balkan countries. Just an inability to get shit together and be normal even for a minute.
  15. I’ve lived overseas a long time and listened to people moan about their governments. Most of the time— with rare exceptions, like when a regime is imposed from the outside— people have the government they deserve. That’s where we are in America. It’s a country I still love. Up thread someone mentioned that it’s by sheer luck we were born here. I disagree, gently. My parents were from Texas. Their parents were from Texas. Their parents were from Texas and back to Virginia. Where else could I have been born? That’s simply to say that this is my country and I don’t have another one. I love it like I love my family, of which I also don’t have another one. I’m not going to labor under the delusion that it is better or more special than any other family, but it is mine and so I love it for how it is. And I want it to be better, and kinder, and braver. Which is what I wish my country could be. There’s never been a place in history where it’s easier to be kind and brave. We are richer and safer beyond measure than anyone in the world. I’m ready for us to choose to be so.
  16. I can’t even pretend to be outraged. Its what the country voted for. Enjoy it everyone!
  17. You can buy a oil/fat separator if you want to do a reduction right away. You can drain off all but a little of the fat but be careful to leave the fond. Straining the liquid will also help get it glossy and less chunky if that’s what you want. Another cheat, that requires some patience and planning is to let the dish sit overnight in the fridge. The fat will congeal at the top and its easy enough to strip away and get at the good stuff underneath. You also get more flavor as the good stuff sits and mixes together.
  18. They get close enough to fool the elderly, which we all will be. In any case the constant barrage of foreigners trying to scam us is for sure part of the enshitiffcation of American life. We used to be able to just answer phones. Living in Central Europe drove it home, no one else speaks the languages so no scam bullshit. Slaps you in the face back home.
  19. Lots of noise in the info space, now making its way to right wing space that Ukraine tried to down Putin’s helicopter on its visit to Kursk. Clearly a play to isolate Kyiv further from Washington.
  20. I get these texts a couple times a week. Just one more thing that could be easily stopped but isn’t because it’s more profitable to let people get scammed. An unappreciated part of the scam industry: how extensive outsourcing of customer service and IT primed the pump. It conditioned Americans to be unfazed when the customer service reps of major American companies were located outside of America and speaking barely comprehensible English. And it taught huge swathes of South Asians exactly how to pose as a legit CSR.
  21. We all have to admit our limits. Just like in the other scenario where I am the best hope for the plane: I hope I can nod at another unassuming yet secretly deadly dad across the aisle before we move as one to effortlessly eliminate the hijackers using a plastic coffee stirrer and a laptop I grabbed from a sexy brunette in a business suit and messy bun as brilliantly improvised weapons. But I’ll do it on my own if I need to meet the occasion.
  22. That’s a lot of text that boils down to “opening fire at Jewish museums in America is ok if you’re righteously angry at Israel.” It took you a while to get there but you did.
  23. One thing unites all men. Deep down we are all certain that if we are on an airliner and the pilots are passed out or dead, we are the best choice to stay calm and collected and land that sucker with a little help from the tower. The really hard part is going to be keeping the pretty stewardess calm.
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