Not a wrestling fan, but I think that Techno Fog just body slammed Vivek Ramaswamy with some kind of wordsmith like words!?!

H-1B and Cheap Foreign Labor – ‘Wars on the American middle class.’ – Techno Fog

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Credit, I guess, to Vivek Ramaswamy for setting off the dispute about American talent and the real “reason” top tech companies hire foreign engineers. Perhaps you’ve seen his tweet, and if you haven’t it’s worth a hate read. It’s supposedly about culture: that we celebrate mediocrity, that we need less sleepovers and more math tutoring, more extracurriculars and less “hanging out at the mall.”
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And is this the way to build well-rounded adults or to ensure STEM dominance? To deny them bonds with their friends (sleepovers) and the freedom of leisure (“hanging out at the mall”) and what they learn through high school sports (discipline and teamwork), and to instead replace it with forced science camp and Saturday mornings doing long subtraction and a regiment to make them the most capable of increasing shareholder value in the future? What a miserable existence.

We dare think of what Vivek might of other activities that are undisputedly worthwhile for the development of the young, whether they be hiking or fishing or simply exploring the outside world. You have your whole life to be a corporate drone – let them enjoy their youth while they can. It can make a better person in the long run.

Not that America doesn’t have its educational or cultural problems, and the lowering of standards has certainly undercut the development of our brightest, but we still produce the best STEM talent out there.

Long post, but Techno Fog starts the repetitious body slamming of Vivek Ramaswamy from around where quote ended.

• “Steve Jobs was a mischievous kid”

• “Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Jobs, was an electronics prodigy who was self-taught.”

• “Jack Kilby” … “failed the MIT entrance exam and enrolled at the University of Illinois to Electrical Engineering … had average grades … He went on to invent the integrated circuit (microchip) … would receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000.”

Yeah, the H-1B issue is a long way from being settled, but Trump, Musk, and Ramaswamy need to take another look at that issue thru the eyes of a ‘MAGA anti-H-1B visaists‘ before Techno Fog decides to start body slamming all three of them at once… 😉

If you fake a lot of things in order to make China seem far more impressive and powerful than it really is, their total population figure and claim to be the world’s largest population would seem to be a very likely thing to lie about, to fake.

Here is an interesting article, discussing the idea that China’s population is far less–perhaps only 600 to 800 million people–than the 1.4 billion which is usually claimed.*

* See https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=62161

* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNmPO211WGQ

Snow on Pine, I have to admit I would be very impressed if someone were to manage to invent a type of heavy-duty building material made from tofu that would actually hold up.

Karmi’s point about the flags being at half-staff on Jan. 20 is a bit of an interesting point. Of course, the 30-day period is statutory and I assume has been for a good while. We can’t really fault Carter for leaving this world when he did.

It has always been a problem to keep such a large and varied country as China together–under unitary rule–and banditry and warlordism have always been major problems, with each region trying to pull away from the central power, and going it’s own way.

With all of the turmoil, the apparently growing number of both man-made (Tofu-dreg construction),and natural disasters, imminent population decline and imbalance, millions of never to be married, “leftover women, the “going flat” movement among the young–giving up on having a career, working, marrying, buying a car and house, and having children–and the extremely bad state of many spheres of Chinese life today, I’m wondering if the Dynastic Cycle is actually still at work, if Xi has lost the Mandate, and if a new “Dynasty” is in the process of coming into being.

Apparently local governments–which used to get much of their revenue from sales of land and property taxes–are struggling to find such revenue, now that the highly inflated housing market is collapsing/has collapsed.

According to the reporting below, to get that missing revenue they are now resorting to, in effect, kidnapping wealthy businessmen and holding them for ransom, as they arrest and hold wealthy businessmen, some owning businesses located far away from the local governments doing the arresting.*

* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-VHNjIUAUM

So they’re hiring their own lawyers, wondering if they should flee the DOJ, trying to find ways to protect their assets, so they woun’t go bakrupt from legal fees the way they tried to bankrupt Trump.*

If I were Trump, I’d d set up a seperate organization, outside of DOJ, to track these guys down and to prosecute them, not for personal revenge, but to make sure that something like this political persecution by DOJ never happens again.

This couldn’t happen to a nicer crew, and I hope each one of them gets everything they deserve.

* See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/federal-prosecutors-involved-trump-witch-hunts-january-6/

How are the MAGA anti-H-1B visaists? GOP is starting to look like the House GOP when they are the majority.

Bannon might say the GOP reminds him of rowdy ‘Toddlers’ in a kindergarten class, but there he is fully participating in the rowdiness by name-calling.

MAGA far-left activists (hey, they remind me of the DEMs far-left, but more rowdy) are whining that Don Jr.’s ‘new flame isn’t ‘MAGA enough’’!?!

Ditto on the MAGA far-left activists are whining – someone please get them a ‘Crying Towel’ before they ruin my monitor! 😉 MAGA far-left activists are furious that ‘Flags will be half mast on Inauguration Day’!?!

According to the United States Department of Veteran Affairs, flags should be flown at half mast at ‘all federal buildings, grounds, and naval vessels’ for the 30 days following the death of a president or former president, signifying a period of mourning for the country.

Anyone think Obama, DEMs, and MSM would’ve allowed Flags being at half mast on Obama’s Inauguration Day? That entire Inauguration Day setup reminded me of scenes outta Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Speaking of Obama ‘n whining – Joe Biden is throwing everyone withing reach under the bus, whilst proclaiming he could’ve beaten Trump a second time.

Did a fairly lengthy research on the comparison of how American students do against foreign Nation’s students—in math and science. American students did better than I had expected – according to the PISA & TIMSS reports I saw. That got me into STEM where China and India were dominate in producing the most STEM graduates, but America was at #3. Amazing, when considering the left-wing education that America’s Educational System has been radically pushing for decades.

That research allowed me to see both sides of the H-1B issue a little better.

Conclusion:

I still side with Musk and Ramaswamy on the H-1B issue, but the MAGA anti-H-1B visaists have a point—tho they seem to be unable to make the good one tho, IMHO.
Vivek Ramaswamy seems to make the best point of all in this X post:

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. *** Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers. ***
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it.

Can the GOP hold it together long enough to ‘awaken from slumber’ and solve all the issues before us—including the H-1B issue? Not if the House GOP and MAGA anti-H-1B visaists are an example of whats to come…