Schools are by and large a commune for entitled professors and administrators.
This is one of my favorite @ComicDaveSmith clips in a long time, and it's something we should absolutely be talking about more:
Academia is a Ponzi scheme and a gov't welfare program that primarily serves to start kids' adult lives off in debt.
"If Thomas Sowell's or FA Hayek's economics were followed, all of academia is put out of business. So, shocking that academia hasn't valued them as being really intelligent thinkers. It's directly against their incentives."
"Academia is entirely a government program. It's completely artificial. There's no market demand for it...Student loans is a government program....Pick an 18 year-old and walk into a bank and say, 'I want a $200,000 loan,' but for a business, for a house...you'll get laughed out of the bank."
"It's unbelievable there's not one college professor who feels a moral obligation on day one to go, 'Hey, I'm teaching you environmental studies, and they're charging you 200 grand for this degree; you should really think about whether this is worth it.'"
"College is a multi-trillion dollar program. Where did we take that from? Who did we take that from? What else might we have had if we hadn't done this?"
"You've got your kids all going into debt on essentially a welfare program, but who gets the welfare? Not even the kids. The kids just get the debt."
On a personal note, I spent six years in higher education. I got a Masters in Computer Science (CS) from one of the best CS schools in the country. It did not take long once I got out into the real world to see how much more impressive programmers are just in the games industry than in academia. All of CS is just chasing private industry and trying to teach their students what those people accomplished.
• Unix and C++ were invented at Bell Labs
• Java was invented at Sun Microsystems
• The GUI was developed at Xerox and put into mass production by Apple
• Every single tier 1 ISP that laid the cables to make the internet as you know it possible are private sector businesses
I was even studying AI in grad school, and of course the AI breakthrough came out of the private sector when academia was busy fiddling around with dead-end tech demos that would never pass the Turing Test.
College is an outdated model from time when that was where you went to find all the books. Government student loan programs need to be ended NOW, and if you're someone who takes part in the hiring process at your company, do what I did and encourage your company to remove college degrees as a prerequisite for applying. This madness must stop. It's turning all of our kids into socialists because they blame the failures of this system on capitalism because that's what their Marxist college professors who've never worked in the real world told them to blame it on.
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If they go back strip their visa so they can't come back.
Americans Should Be Furious After Hearing This
Senator Marco Rubio says Americans “They've worked here their entire lives. They retire. They get $800, $900, a $1,000 a month from Social Security. — Somebody who just got here from Cuba 3 months ago — is given $1,500 a month”
“So imagine if you've been working here for 40 years and your Social Security check is smaller than the benefits going to a 28 year old, Able body person who just got here.
That's real. That happens. That's happening every day. That makes no sense.”
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You're like the guy that lights my house on fire, then blames me for not having it fixed by the weekend for you to enjoy.
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We need more leaders that think like this, not just presidents and members of the Congress. But local mayors and governors.
Le preguntaron a Bukele en Argentina cómo sacaron a los jóvenes del modelo del narco: la casa grande, el coche caro el smartphone… cuando trabajar honesto tarda años. Su respuesta duele porque es verdad
"El gobierno llega tarde si espera reinsertar al que ya violó, ya mató y ya cortó cabezas. A un niño de 6 u 8 años sí se le puede cambiar la vida. Al que ya eligió el mal... el joven que vende tomates en el mercado, suda, carga, gana $5… y en la esquina el pandillero se los quita. ¿Qué incentivo gana? ¿Vender tomates o ser el que cobra? Por eso nunca se gana la guerra de incentivos si el criminal sigue en la calle.
Porque el Estado no puede pagarle triple salario mínimo para que deje el crimen. Eso no es gobierno, sino ingenuidad cara. Un organismo me dijo: «no puedes acabar el crimen de un golpe, son 70 mil empleos, esa plata llega a los hogares y se gasta legal». Lo que ellos insinuaban era que dejara vivir al cáncer para no lastimar la economía. Bukele les respondió con otra analogía: si tengo cáncer con metástasis y me ofrecen cirugía, quimio y quedar débil… pero vivo, me opero. No me quedo así nomás esperando que el tumor sea educado."
Le dijeron que el PIB podía caer hasta 10% por sacar esa economía sucia. No cayó. Subió. Porque el miedo también es un impuesto. Y ese sí lo pagábamos todos los días. Sacaron al pandillero de la ecuación y no sólo para castigarlo, sino para que el muchacho que todavía no entra en ese mundo vea otro menú. Ya no es: «me hago pandillero y gano». Ahora es: «me hago pandillero y pierdo mi libertad». Eso no es odio, es orden. Es proteger a la familia que sí trabaja, a la que manda la remesa, a la que nunca tuvo casa grande porque no cobraba renta de sangre. 30 años de discursos. 7 años de resultados. El resto es teoría para intelectuales.
Tal vez necesitamos un Bukele en España. Y en el mundo.
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Folks fixing out country is going to take more than just 4 years. Vote like you country depends on it, cause it does.
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Sometimes the best people to help addicts are former addicts.
Danny Ellerd was so ill that jail refused to take him. He weighed just 92 pounds, and an infected hand was threatening his life.
In 2021, after years of addiction and homelessness, two bounty hunters found him on outstanding warrants.
He says his hand was so swollen from injecting drugs that they couldn’t handcuff him.
At the jail, a nurse insisted he needed a hospital instead.
Doctors saved his hand, and his life.
After treatment, Ellerd entered recovery through Hope Is Alive.
He later enrolled at Oklahoma State University, studying Computer Information Systems while working and managing a recovery home.
He graduated with a perfect 4.0 GPA.
By October 2026, he reported five years of sobriety, two college degrees and a job helping people move out of homelessness.
He also wrote a book called Recovery Is Possible.
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The person living at the lowest place on Earth is aging slower than the one living at the highest.
Dead Sea (440 m below sea level) vs La Rinconada, Peru (5,100 m up).
Same birthday. Same calendar age.
Different proper time.
Height difference: ~5,540 m.
Clock rate difference: ~19 microseconds per year.
After 80 years the high-altitude twin has aged about 1.5 milliseconds more.
Real. Measured. Completely unnoticeable.
Gravity cares. Your body mostly doesn’t.
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If your judges are letting criminals back out on the street... they may not like you as much as the "useful" criminal.
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Did you know that Pluto was actually our 8th planet for about 20 years February 7, 1979 – February 11, 1999 years).
During this period, near its perihelion (closest point to the Sun, on September 5, 1989), Pluto was closer to the Sun than Neptune. This happens because Pluto’s orbit is highly eccentric (stretched).
What a rebel.
Gene Sharp’s From Dictatorship to Democracy lists 198 methods of nonviolent action: protest, non-cooperation, and civil intervention. Documented use in Serbia 2000 (Otpor), Georgia 2003, and Ukraine 2004 combined youth networks, election flashpoints, sustained street presence, and pressure on police, military, and civil service to defect or withhold cooperation. The playbook is public.
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Recurring operational pattern across these campaigns: pre-positioned student and activist networks, crisis or contested election as trigger, media amplification of a single narrative, occupation of key public spaces, and targeted pressure on institutional “pillars of support.” Outcomes depended on whether those pillars held or shifted.
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Proof that skill at game doesn't equal intellect. Guys playing for the team that represents the birthplace of the United States and flexes his disdain for the country. I don't care that it's "Lebron James" NBA should respect their fans and not allow this.
LeBron decided to practice his golf swing during the national anthem last night. I can’t wait until he retires, he’s been toxic for the entire NBA.
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This is a good listen for any defender of the US Constitution.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin wants young people to think twice before working for the Trump administration: “I want that deterrence message sent.”
@BarbaraMBoyd on the coup plan @DataRepublican is exposing, and why the midterms must be too big to rig 👇
I love the stupid grin on the lefty who doesn't know history.
Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”
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