Proverbs 21:9
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hikikimori retweeted
WSJ: A Princeton PhD in chemical engineering applied to 2,300 jobs, ranging from postdoctoral fellowships to corporate science jobs and software engineering positions. He still hasn’t found a job. 34% of Americans surveyed by Gallup in August said it was a good time to find a quality job.
Meanwhile, Congress is fixated on finding a way to pass a bill that staples green cards to any international student who earns a PhD in the United States.
We should start by asking why our own graduates can’t find jobs before importing more workers.
hikikimori retweeted
I work at a mid-sized tech company based in the US. In 2023, they fired half our development team and replaced them with Indians in India. While hiring, they had candidates who were paying other people to do interviews for them, in one case one was hired and a completely different Indian woman from the one who was interviewed showed up. Fast forward a couple of years, the quality of the product is falling off a cliff. The Indians are completely incapable of even the most basic code implementations.
My team literally gives them the front-end code, and recently I discovered that instead of taking our front-end code, they've been taking screenshots of our UI and pasting them into Claude Code and having the AI recreate the UI from scratch. The problem is, we already wrote the code for the UI, all they had to do was copy it.
Now, they are essentially vibecoding the entire product and creating technical debt that will already take 6+ months to resolve. I had to train a "Senior Application Developer" how to resize a browser window, some of my Indian coworkers will seemingly take my messages in Teams, put them into Claude, and copy and paste the response back to me. Senior leadership is seemingly totally unaware of the state of what's happening, and continues to "laud" the "move to an offshore model" as a great success.
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My 16-year-old daughter works at an ice cream parlor after school.
Last Tuesday at 9:45 PM, she texted me two words: "Red light."
Her 24-year-old shift manager had just informed her that the adult closer called out sick, so she was expected to stay until 1:00 AM on a school night to clean the grease traps and lock up the store alone.
She told him she had an exam at 8 AM. He scoffed and told her: "If you aren't a team player, don't expect hours on next week's schedule."
She froze. Teenagers are conditioned to obey authority figures, even when those figures are taking complete advantage of them.
I walked through the glass front doors at 9:55 PM.
I didn't yell. I walked straight up to the counter, looked the manager in the eye, and said:
"Under state labor law, 16-year-olds cannot work past 10:00 PM on a school night. My daughter is clocking out at ten. If you have an issue with scheduling, give me the franchise owner’s direct number right now."
He stammered, turned red, and told her she could go.
We spend years teaching our kids to be polite, obedient, and respectful to adults.
If you don't teach them where the line is and show them that you will physically show up to hold that line predatory bosses and bad situations will walk all over them before they even finish high school.
hikikimori retweeted
Universities Are Training Students to Offshore & Outsource American Jobs
I know because I lived it. My Master's in IT included entire modules on outsourcing and offshoring. Not framed as a danger to America, but as the "smart" way forward. No other country trains its brightest to hollow out its own workforce. China doesn't. India doesn't. The EU doesn't. But America does.
Taxpayer-funded education is literally teaching graduates how to ship American jobs overseas.
Examples:
Florida Atlantic University (FAU) MSITM: Required ISM 6509 - IT Sourcing Management. Special Topics (ISM 6930) covers "Historical and economic perspectives on outsourcing and offshoring. Trade-offs among global sourcing models including Domestic Outsourcing and Offshore Outsourcing." (FAU syllabus/course descriptions)
University of Texas at Austin McCombs: IB 368 - Global Value Chains. Students learn how firms "organize international production, trade, and investments through outsourcing and offshoring." (McCombs catalog/sample syllabus)
Rutgers Business School: International Business Policy. Core topics include "Outsourcing, offshoring, inshoring, and global supply chain strategy." (Rutgers syllabus)
Columbia College: CISS 390 - Global Information Systems Management. Learning outcome: "Conduct a cost-benefit analysis of decisions involving outsourcing or offshoring." (Columbia syllabus)
Duke University Masters of Management: Capstone readings treat "the global offshoring phenomenon" as foundational. (Duke program notes)
Texas A&M Commerce: AEC 560 - International Trade & Policy. Modules cover "outsourcing, offshoring, and fear of globalization." (TAMU-Commerce syllabus)
This isn't fringe. It's across multiple universities, states, and programs. If grad students leave trained and expected to offshore/outsource, the result is inevitable: drain of American jobs, industries, and resources.
Governors and State Education Boards must act. Audit curricula. Stop teaching outsourcing/offshoring as a "skill." No taxpayer should finance their own economic displacement.
Tag your Governor - demand they check state college curriculums and remove these job-killing modules.
@GovRonDeSantis
@USCIS
@POTUS
hikikimori retweeted
Good morning, go to your local gas station, check if they’re reselling great value (Walmart exclusive) food products.
If they are, report them for fraud.
9 times out of ten they’re using food stamps to stock the shelves.
They get 100% profit and you get to pay twice.
hikikimori retweeted
🚨 Three months of FREE RENT. A security deposit. Monthly gift cards until food stamps kick in.
That’s the offer to Afghan families relocating to St. Louis through the International Institute of St. Louis.
The organization’s broader plan? Reshape the city’s demographic future through more immigrant resettlement—to “reverse decades of population decline.”
This nonprofit reported $33.3 MILLION in government grants in 2024.
Its strategic blueprint also calls for funding changes to “insulate the agency from political and economic circumstances”—while “shaping the public discourse around immigration.”
hikikimori retweeted
Texas was a such a beautiful and affordable state before the leftist, Indians, and Muslims that were fleeing the failures they created mass migrated here over the last 10 years.
And, corporations started building massive concrete compounds in the middle of the Texas countryside.
hikikimori retweeted
Everyone believes in supply and demand until it’s time to pay American workers for their labor
Then any increase in demand requires an artificial injection of foreign supply
hikikimori retweeted
Steak and Shake: "The root of the rot is index funds."
Most people aren't ready for this conversation, but investing in index funds means handing absurd amounts of influence to the executives of BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street. The "Big Three" have ingeniously harnessed the power of YOUR MONEY, steering corporate policy by voting on your behalf at shareholder meetings.
To pick companies at random, the Big Three manage 22% of Moderna shares, 19% of Coca-Cola shares, and 25% of Target shares (as of last year).
This gives them the muscle to push their ESG program: environment, social, governance. Thus you get people like Larry Fink saying ominous things like “At BlackRock we are forcing behaviors … You have to force behaviors."
He can say that only because we turn our money over to him.
America’s corporate governance system is broken, and it’s killing public companies. Look no further than Cracker Barrel: Decades of brutal mismanagement have seen one incompetent CEO after another walk away with a massive paycheck while customers and actual shareholders take a beating.
Why does this keep happening? Because proxy advisory firms like ISS are corrupt. They blindly rubber-stamp failing boards year after year, protecting the corporate elite while burning shareholder value to the ground.
The root of the rot is index funds. There's no question that indexing one's money is a smart financial move for most people. But just because you passively index your investments doesn't mean your corporate votes should be handed over to the managers of your fund so they can play politics. Right now, passive funds hold massive, unchecked voting blocks while having zero skin in the game themselves.
It is time for a simple rewrite of the rules: We need to index the votes of index fund investors.
Passive index funds should be forced to automatically split their votes to proportionately mirror those of retail and active institutional shareholders — the people actually doing the research, risking their capital, and fighting for performance in the companies they hold shares in. No more rubber-stamping. A change like this will immediately strip corrupt gatekeepers like ISS of their toxic influence.
True accountability happens when lazy, overpaid boards actually answer to the stakeholders they represent, rather than screwing them over.
Actual, logic-driven governance when your money is passive happens when your vote passively follows the voting decisions of the actual market.
We need to stop letting passive capital protect active incompetence. By stripping index funds of their arbitrary voting power and empowering engaged investors, we will finally torch corporate cronyism and usher American capital markets into a golden age of capitalism.
hikikimori retweeted
MASSIVE PROPERTY TAX FRAUD EXPOSED:
Texas property owners say Denton County inflated their property values, ignored required appraisal standards and collected excessive taxes.
But no court ever examined whether those allegations were true.
Instead, the case was dismissed because Texas law requires owners to use the Appraisal Review Board. The problem? That board can adjust individual assessments but allegedly cannot stop an unlawful countywide appraisal system.
In plain English: Texas directed taxpayers to a door that cannot provide the remedy they need, while closing the courthouse door that could.
That is the heart of the case now before the U.S. Supreme Court:
Can government declare an administrative process the “only remedy” when that process cannot stop the alleged wrongdoing?
Vexler v. Spencer
Texas Supreme Court No. 25-0615
U.S. Supreme Court No. 26-179
Case docket below⬇️
hikikimori retweeted
This type of immigration is a weapon of war. We need to know who is wielding it.
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Dear President H. W. Bush and Senator Ted Kennedy,
I am writing as a recent STEM graduate who finished at the top of my class in 2026.
I did everything that was asked of me. High grades. Strong projects. Internships when I could get them. It was the path promised to those who could complete the coursework. I believed the degree would open doors.
It has not.
I have gone through interview after interview with no offer. At the same time, many of the foreign students I studied alongside already had jobs waiting for them before they graduated. Some received offers during their junior year. I am still sending out applications and receiving short, impersonal rejections or silence.
You both helped create the H-1B program in 1990 with the promise that it would fill temporary skill gaps and bring the best talent to America. That is not what I am seeing.
What I am seeing is a system that often prefers workers who arrive with sponsorship already arranged while American graduates who trained here are left competing for fewer and fewer open seats. The shortage never seemed to close. The opportunities for people like me only got tighter.
You will never sit in the position I am in, watching classmates from other countries move into roles while I keep hearing that the market is competitive.
Was this the plan from the start, or were you too ignorant to understand the long-term result?
The harm is quiet and personal. It lands on students who did the work and still cannot find a place in the profession they prepared for.
That is the part of the promise that did not come true.
Sincerely,
A top graduate still looking for work in my field
hikikimori retweeted
A heartfelt Fuck You to @Adobe
>I dowloaded a free trial
>Cancelled before trial was over
>Still got billed for a monthly subscription
>Cant cancel my subscription or I get hit with a $99 cancellation fee.
This is the scummiest fucking shit.
I never WANTED this subscription
hikikimori retweeted
I'm not letting anyone off the hook but are Western governments being forced to take in immigrants from 3rd world countries?
Are they being threatened with attacks if they don't?
Something really strange is happening
Why would they do that to their own countries
They're either being threatened or they're being paid large amounts of money to do it
None of it makes any sense and they're not telling us the truth
We need the truth
hikikimori retweeted
More Americans to be removed from the middle class and dropped down in the Indian caste system….
INDIANS NOW CONTROL EVERY DAMN BUSINESS IN AMERICA!!!
But this is our “Golden Age” and this is the so-called “Jobs for Americans”…. when all it is, is the golden age & jobs for Indians!
But, go ahead and enrage Americans even further….until it explodes into violence!!!! Americans do not intend to stand for this continuing!!!
@USLaborIG @USCISJoe @StephenM @WhiteHouse @RapidResponse47 @POTUS
hikikimori retweeted
Employers Using J1 Student Visas for Seasonal Work Pay NO Social Security Taxes theconservativetreehouse.com…
hikikimori retweeted
OpenAI just got caught doing it.
Apple already paid for it.
Same exact scheme: bury the job so no American sees it, require mailed paper applications, then sponsor a visa worker for the role instead.
Apple’s tab was $25 million, a record under the anti-discrimination law.
This isn’t a rogue recruiter.
It’s a template, and the biggest names in tech keep running it.
