Engineer. Aspiring part time science fiction author. Indy and small publisher enthusiast.
California to Mississippi
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Russ🇺🇸 retweeted
This is a good insight into African mentality. When you're setting money aside in case of unforeseen needs, you're "hoarding" it and it needs to be pissed away immediately.
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Very cool news: my husband's book is on sale!! 🥳🍾🎉
Grab yourself this epic noir crime thriller (mixed with Magic the Gathering) - it's a great litRPG series! 💪
I love me a good deck builder!
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I just finished reading @DataRepublican's excellent book. It is a must-read both for the long history of the way our institutions of democracy have become institutions of autocracy and for its analysis of the basis of sovereignty.
If you ever wondered why the Guardians of “Our Democracy” have been trying so hard to shut you down, you want to read this book. amazon.com/Unelected-Jennica…
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🚨 BREAKING: President Trump is demanding the Senate confirm ALL 161 pending nominees right NOW while we have the majority!
Confirm the judges, secure Voter ID, and protect his executive orders before time runs out.
No vacations. No excuses. Work around the clock and GET IT DONE! 🇺🇸
Russ🇺🇸 retweeted
Americans, the young especially, need to understand in the core of their souls that there is nowhere to run to.
This is it.
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Beginning to understand how you get to a place where 25% of the population votes in a dictator who begins jailing everyone who agreed with the old regime.
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Important news to my friends who use GLP-1 medications. The unwanted side effect is rare, but the consequences are severe (permanent blindness in the eye):
nbcnews.com/health/health-ca…
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Impossible to overstate how stupid Elizabeth is
Let’s cap credit card rates at 10%. Take action on affordable housing. Protect rural hospitals. End price gouging.
Democrats have the bills ready.
@SenWarren says now it’s up to Trump to work with us and get things done.
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For those who don't know the Russell Brand case...
Imagine being sentenced to 10.5 YEARS in prison for alleged offenses dating back as far as 22 YEARS AGO, in a case where the police say there was zero CCTV footage, zero forensic evidence, and digital enquiries were limited because SOOOOO much time had passed, and prosecutors themselves acknowledge that the passage of time limited the available evidence, and yet STILL a jury convicts you in a case built primarily on testimony, and then you get to sentencing and the judge acknowledges the work you have done helping people overcome addiction, including paying for their treatment, acknowledges that your children will lose the presence of their father, and also accepts that there is no sound evidential basis to conclude you pose a future risk, and still sentences you to 10.5 YEARS in prison, again following convictions reached without CCTV or forensic evidence, and now you’re left asking how the testimony and supporting material established the disputed acts beyond reasonable doubt despite those gaps, and how the court justified a sentence that will take years out of your children’s childhoods for offenses from nearly two decades earlier, which is roughly where Russell Brand is tonight.
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Let me tell you about a case I personally worked on as a civil litigation paralegal in Denver.
A man injured in an accident claimed medical expenses and lost wages. Lost wages have to be proven, so we requested his tax returns and Social Security earnings records.
What did we discover?
The man was in the country illegally from Mexico and was using a Social Security number belonging to an 83-year-old woman living in a nursing home in Yakima, Washington.
When we informed his attorney of what we'd discovered, the lost wages claim was promptly dropped.
This wasn't something I read online. I personally worked on this case.
And this was just ONE case that happened to cross my desk during my 30 years in civil litigation.
It leaves me wondering how many other cases involving stolen Social Security numbers and fraudulent earnings claims have gone undetected.
If we uncovered this in one routine personal injury case, how many others have never been discovered? Stop telling me people like this deserve a pass and amnesty.
🤖 Made with AI
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When I started following social science stats in 1972, the rank order on most measures was:
1. Orientals
2. Caucasians
3. Chicanos
4. blacks
Now, it's totally different:
1. Asians
2. whites
3. Hispanics
4. Blacks
The Asian-white-Hispanic-black rank order for socially desirable outcomes (and the inverse rank order for socially undesirable outcomes) is the norm in the US, including for:
Examples of socially desirable outcomes in which this rank order prevails:
— IQ and standardized test performance
— Average college GPA
— Percentage degrees earned in the most cognitively-demanding STEM fields
— Law and medical school graduation rates
— Household income
— Household wealth
Below are socially undesirable outcomes in a rank order the reverse of above:
— Violent crime rates
— Most property crime rates
— School disciplinary rates
— Antisocial behavior percentage
— Divorce rates
— Out-of-wedlock birth rates
— Single-parent household rates
— Obesity rates
— Teenage pregnancy rates
— Average age of first sexual intercourse
Performance in the following areas contains an occasional or slight divergence from typical ranking-order, but never involves Hispanics or blacks rising to the top two spots or Asians and whites falling to the bottom two spots:
— Law and medical board professional licensing rates (Asians and whites switch places occasionally)
— Personal (not household) income (very slight lead of blacks over Hispanics explained by fact that 1/3 of Hispanics are foreign-born and about 1/5 have incomplete command of English language)
— Welfare recipients (Asian percentage is often higher than whites, tied to higher percentage of immigrants)
— Scientific innovation and achievement (Whites lead Asians, but gap may be closing)
— Mortgage foreclosure rates (blacks and Hispanics switch third and fourth position occasionally, but are always in the bottom two)
— Bachelor's degree percentage (blacks have higher percentage than Hispanics
Finally, these are major outcomes in which Hispanics or blacks outperform whites or Asians:
— Longevity (Hispanic lead over whites is called the “Hispanic Health Paradox”)
— Prominence and influence of musical artists (blacks outperform all other groups on a per capita basis, and Asians perform worst)
— Athletic achievement in the two most popular American sports (blacks outperform all other groups, and Asians perform worst)
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When I was in 3rd grade, my family disappeared on me. I ended up in an orphanage in middle TN. The new school had a library day; every Wednesday the whole class went to the library and had to pick out a book. That was weird for me b/c I'd been an avid reader in 1st & 2nd grade and never needed anyone to tell me to pick one.
I had never picked up a book of fiction; every book I got was on technology, bridges, trains, nuclear stuff, etc. I kind of sneered at fiction. The librarian noticed. One week she grabbed me & told me to follow her and showed me to the side of the library I'd never visited. She pointed out that every book in this section had a little V2 rocket embossed on the spine. She pulled out a Lester Del Ray book and suggested I give it a try.
I then read every LDR book on the shelf. Right next to him were the H's, and I picked up a book called "Have Space Suit, Will Travel." This was in 1978; I had never heard of the TV show the title was a spoof of. I just read it...then every Heinlein book on the shelf. (Today I consider myself to be a modest expert on Heinlein.) I spent the next two years working through just about every SF title in that library.
That librarian (Mrs. Harris) gave me the greatest gift of my entire life. I can never thank her enough and although I'm certain she's gone to her reward now I wish I could tell her in person.
Anyone who thinks boys don't want to read (and to be fair, some certainly don't) has never put in the slightest effort to connect boys with the kind of fiction that speaks to them. Heinlein led to L'Engle, which led to McCaffrey, which led to a lifetime love of literature. I had the privilege of an excellent public school education that put great books in front of me and demanded I pay attention. I re-read Cannery Row at least once a year. Hemingway is a treat. And I can put all of that on a woman who noticed a damaged little boy in a library who kept checking out science books and realized he needed a little attention. I doubt she knew I'd become a lifelong reader (and get a pretty good IT career) b/c of it but she did her job. She changed jobs as I got older and switched schools; she was my librarian at 3 different schools as I went from 4th to 12th grade. She saw me devour everything each library had to offer. I hope she took some pleasure from it. I'd like to think she did.
If you have a boy in your life - take the time to meet him where he is and give him something he'll like (whatever that child's taste may be) and if you connect you'll see him take off like wildfire. TradPub is going through a shitty phase right now, but there is great fiction for boys going back several generations and the market will correct. Smarter publishers will recognize the market and respond, eventually. Until then, the good stuff will always be good. (We're still reading Shakespeare ...right?)
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For the record as the guy who started it, it wasn’t about being male. It was about being Anything Other Than Left. They always claimed it was for the best, but if you weren’t a left winger you were hosed, regardless of the quality of your work. And my initial goal was to expose that.
I see in the comments people claiming the real reason they burned it down, changed the rules, and doubled down on being horrible assholes is we used “slate voting”. But that’s just their excuse. I did the same thing many liberal authors and publishing houses did before, suggesting works in the categories and mobilizing my fans.
And once we were successful they went absolutely freaking nuts and I still have to listen to them cry about it over a decade later. 😄(even after they full on sold out to the Chinese communist party, because these trash have zero shame)
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Indian caste system in action.
Airline workers, maids, plumbers, and all other service workers are treated like “Dalits”.
Western politicans think it stops when they get here.
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If President does not know it, his staff is allowing wind turbines, including offshore wind turbines, to be built. The BAAJA permitting bill will only increase pointlessly expensive, eyesore, wildlife-killing and Communist China-dependent wind turbine and solar projects. Possibly President Trump needs more information or new staff.
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Heh, this was my thinking circa 1977. Glad I stayed.
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The people who engineered the attack on our own troops at Abbey Gate are being PUT ON NOTICE.
SHADOW GOVERNMENT.
You will not escape.
Your impeachment stunt will fail.
🚨 BREAKING: HISTORY JUST HAPPENED
In an electrifying ceremony that will be remembered for generations, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stood face-to-face with American heroes… and personally pinned upgraded valor awards onto the chests of U.S. Marines who ran STRAIGHT INTO HELL at Abbey Gate.
These warriors held the line during the catastrophic 2021 suicide bombing — knowing death was coming — while the previous administration quietly DOWNGRADED their awards to bury the truth of that disastrous withdrawal.
They were thrown under the bus.
Their courage was diminished.
Their sacrifice was soft-pedaled.
Not anymore.
Today, on the exact fifth anniversary of the attack that took 13 American lives, Hegseth looked those Marines in the eye and gave them what they were always owed: full recognition of their valor.
No more hiding.
No more bureaucratic insults.
Just pure, hard-earned justice for the men who ran TOWARD the blast when everyone else ran away.
God bless these absolute legends.
America finally stood up for its warriors. 🇺🇸🔥
FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.