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We need the elite left to be defanged - NGOs RICO’d, universities slashed, tr*nn**s committed, media and tech bored out. We then need all their cannon fodder - those useful idiots who parrot the messaging (aka redditors) - jailed, unemployable, or deported.
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hey @autoadmitdotcom, send this lad an invite code
Hi Sweta, I think I can shed some transparency on this
You see, when Costco was founded the target audience was 100 IQ American Whites and not 76 IQ retard-adjacent 3rd worlders like yourself
While I understand dying in comical Looney Tunes fashion is part of your culture it's lly worry about in the US, mostly on account of that not being retarded thing
While regrettable that your husband died because he couldn't do something most 1-year old babies figure out, take solace in knowing he at least didn't walk in front of a train and ruin the commutes of normal Americans
You probably would have been happier if you had just stayed in India
Hope this helps
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The #FemaleRationalisationHamster explained.
The name for the tireless little engine in a woman’s mind that retroactively justifies whatever she already FELT like doing. This explains almost everything about female psychology in as simple a format as possible:
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This time next year, Zelensky will be safely ensconced at a country mansion somewhere in Sussex. There he will be feted and visited by the likes of Boris Johnson, Keir Starmer, Sunak, Obama, Hillary Clinton, von der Leyen, Sean Penn, William and Kate, and Tony Blair et al.
His memoir, ghost written, will see him embark on a promotional tour of the chat show and podcast circuit, during which he will be curated as the man who stood up to Putin and was betrayed by Trump. Lucrative Hollywood offers for the rights will follow.
As part of this hagiographic carnival, Zelensky will be given an honorary knighthood by King Charles, accompanied by the usual trumpets and banquet.
Meanwhile, back in Ukraine, investigators will uncover corruption under his premiership on an industrial scale. These findings will be summarily dismissed as a in the West as a fabrication, cooked up in the Kremlin.
For the ordinary Ukrainian, left to pick up the pieces, heartrending stories of men being kidnapped from their families by Zelensky's conscription press gangs --- never to be seen again -- will be commonplace.
These stories will be joined by accounts of war pensions denied, compensation payments for the loved ones of fallen soldiers declined, and as will details of widespread torture and abuse within the ranks.
No lessons will be learned -- just as none were learned from previous failed military adventures in Afganisation, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc.
The circus will move on to the next, confirming that though the faces change, the game remains the same.
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There are several fundamental flaws in the Indian way of thinking, chief among them being an excessive tendency to exaggerate oneself. The underlying objective is to extract greater benefits during competition and cooperation with others. While this logic may seem second nature to Indians, it often proves fatal in contemporary international competition. I previously answered a similar question on Zhihu—often dubbed China's Quora—titled: 'Why is it so difficult for India to practice bide-your-time (*tao guang yang hui*) like China?'
zhihu.com/question/19109…
If you do not read Chinese, you can try using a translation tool or browser extension. In that answer, I laid out my perspective:
First, compared to China, the governance capacity of the Indian central government has been relatively weak over the past several millennia. Finding it difficult to manage local affairs directly, Delhi has had to rely heavily on local forces and factions. Consequently, Indians tend to exhibit a much higher degree of loyalty to communal identities—such as caste, ethnicity, religion, and language—while national and civic consciousness remains comparatively weak.
Second, Indian society is anchored by a deeply entrenched caste system, subdivided into Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras, and Dalits, with countless sub-castes nested within them. Crucially, these sub-castes do not exist on equal footing.
In India, you are either perched high above or serving others in subservience. Subservience and servitude equate to being ruled, placing one at a distinct disadvantage in the distribution of social rights and wealth. You cannot simply assume that because you are a farm owner and I am a farm owner, our social statuses are equal; nor can you assume parity simply because you are a Rajput and I am a Thakur. People are constantly engaged in an ongoing, real-time assessment and contest of relative strength.
Third, the distribution of resources within India is profoundly unequal, with the resource gap between high-power and low-power groups far exceeding that of most other nations. Furthermore, India functions as one of the world's few de facto apartheid-like societies, where lower castes and ordinary citizens find it exceedingly difficult to secure upward mobility through their own resource accumulation.
Under such fierce communal competition and extreme resource disparity, individuals naturally place their primary loyalty in their own community. Only by uniting with members of one's own group can one effectively compete against others. Securing power for the community translates directly to securing benefits for oneself. This perhaps explains why Indians show greater allegiance to their religion, caste, language, or political faction than to the nation-state. It also explains why Indians possess such an intense sense of collective honor, often reacting with profound indignation and ferocious counterattacks whenever they perceive insults to their group dignity.
In this broad environment, Indians have devised some very clever tactical approaches to competition. For instance, how does one leverage minimal resources to confront a powerful adversary? A classic method is bluffing and hyperbole. If an Indian's actual strength is rated at 1, they will project it as broadly as possible, exaggerating it to 50 or even 100. In a sense, this is a form of 'financial leveraging'—using negligible strength to vie with a far more formidable opponent. It is much like blowing up a balloon.
Yet almost all countries outside South Asia lack this particular mindset; they view power dynamics in a far more direct and rational light. To them, 1 is 1, and 100 is 100. In international competition, when other nations realize an adversary is stronger than them, they make a rational tactical retreat to cut their losses. The Indian approach, however, is precisely the opposite: the premise of leveraging or punching above one's weight is that the bluff must never be called. Just as Nehru pursued his aggressive 'Forward Policy' against China prior to 1962, leaving Chinese decision-makers utterly baffled:
It was obvious that India lacked the comprehensive national power to confront China; why, then, would India provoke a vastly superior adversary? Did Chinese strategists miscalculate India's national strength? Or was India somehow far stronger than China? After three years of careful observation, a prudent China concluded that Nehru was simply acting beyond his capacity and behaving foolishly. Predictably, Nehru's inflated balloon was easily punctured by the Chinese.
Therefore, India's greatest current cognitive trap is applying domestic domestic-game logic to international geopolitics, where the international community is hypersensitive and lightning-fast in evaluating real power. Once an opponent genuinely decides to engage in serious strategic competition, the balloon India has blown up will burst instantly.
This is not merely my personal viewpoint; many observers from other countries view Indians in precisely this light. I dare say that well over half of the negative impressions of Indians on international social media stem from India's tendency toward boasting, arrogance, conceit, and overestimating its own capabilities. India's domestic poverty, filth, and lack of sanitation are secondary factors, as many developing nations grapple with poverty, backwardness, and poor hygiene—India is hardly unique in that regard. What *is* exceptional is how Indians invent all sorts of justifications for these shortcomings, attempting to use rhetoric to prove that the reality witnessed by international observers is somehow false.
This is especially true regarding Chinese observers. When Chinese critics point out these systemic problems, an Indian's immediate reflex is to retort that the Chinese have been brainwashed by the CCP, that outsiders do not understand India's 'unique way of life,' or even to dig up archival photographs of China from the 1990s to 2000s and pass them off as present-day China. They attempt to show audiences that China is no better than India, implying that the Chinese have no moral standing to critique India. Given that the Chinese possess some of the highest cognitive benchmarks in the world, to them, such attempts feel like an insult to their intelligence.
Consequently, I often joke to my friends that Indians live entirely within a world of their own making. In that universe, the sun revolves around the earth, the earth revolves around India, and India revolves around the Brahmins. With 200% sincerity, I must offer India this advice: Indians truly need to engage in genuine self-reflection rather than reflexively blaming external actors every time something goes wrong.
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You've probably seen the video. A young Frenchwoman in Paris, in tears, begging looters to stop. "Why are you doing this? That's not what we stand for."
Some accounts are mocking her. "She voted for it."
I won't. Because what you see on her face is not stupidity. It's a disease that has infected the entire West, and it has a name: suicidal empathy.
The term comes from Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioral scientist at Concordia University in Montreal. A man who fled the Lebanese civil war as a child, and who knows what it looks like when a society falls apart. His new book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, is the follow-up to The Parasitic Mind. Here is the thesis, and why it concerns every one of us.
Empathy is one of the best things about us. It evolved for a reason: to care for our children, our kin, our tribe. It was calibrated for a world where the people you felt for were the people around you, and where empathy always came paired with its counterweight: the instinct to protect your own and to recognize a threat.
Suicidal empathy is what happens when that mechanism misfires. When it fires at the wrong targets, in the wrong amounts, with no brake. When we feel more for the criminal than for his victim. More for the stranger who breaks the rules than for the citizen who follows them. More for how compassionate we look than for what our compassion actually produces.
Where does it come from? Four layers.
First, biology. Empathy is a spotlight, as the psychologist Paul Bloom put it. It lights up the one face in front of you and leaves everything else in the dark. The crying migrant on the boat is visible. The thousands of future victims of a broken system are statistics. A spotlight is a terrible tool for running a country.
Second, our own civilization. The West is the civilization that put the victim at the center of its morality. Christianity taught us to care for the stranger, the poor, the weak. It was one of the greatest moral revolutions in history. But cut off from its other half, justice, responsibility, the duty to protect your own, it turns into something else.
Third, ideology. In The Parasitic Mind, Saad described idea pathogens, ideas that hijack our reasoning. Suicidal empathy is the emotional counterpart: an ideology that hijacks our compassion. It sorts the world into oppressors and victims, then demands unlimited empathy for whoever ranks as the victim, whatever they do.
Fourth, status. In the age of social media, empathy has become a display. Posting "refugees welcome" costs nothing and earns applause. The bill goes to someone else: the working class, the suburbs, the women walking home at night.
The results are everywhere. Criminals treated as victims of society. Sexual assaults by migrants met with lenient sentences. Self-defense branded as aggression. Borders treated as cruelty. Saad's conclusion is simple: a society dies when it would rather display infinite tolerance than use its survival instinct.
Now the part I'll add myself, and that few people dare to say.
On average, women score higher than men on measures of empathy. It's one of the most consistent findings in psychology, across cultures, and it makes perfect evolutionary sense: for most of human history, the survival of children depended on it. It's a strength.
But it means an ideology that weaponizes empathy will hit women harder. And the data shows it: in country after country, young women have moved sharply to the left of young men, especially on immigration.
This is where men have a responsibility.
Not to mock. Not to lecture. Not to say "she deserved it." Empathy has always needed a counterweight, and that counterweight was the protective instinct: the one that draws lines, says no, and stands between the threat and the people it loves.
Men abandoned that role. They were told it was toxic, and many believed it. So they stayed silent at the dinner table, at work, with their partners, sisters, daughters and friends.
That has to end. Men have to have this conversation, honestly and with respect: compassion that cannot say no is not compassion. It's surrender. And the first to pay for it are women.
Many women already understand this better than anyone. Some of the bravest voices in this fight are women, precisely because they are the first to feel the danger in the street.
A civilization rests on a balance: compassion and strength, openness and borders, mercy and justice. When one side swallows the other, the foundations crack. What we are watching in Europe is what happens when empathy has no counterweight left.
Look at that young woman again. She isn't the enemy. She's what this ideology made of a generation that was told kindness would be enough.
Our job is to make sure she's the last generation that has to learn it this way.
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Actual adults vote for Republicans. That statement may anger you, but I’ll say it again; those with a level of discernment beyond that of a child vote for Republicans.
I don’t do a massive amount of politics on here, or truthfully, in real life. I have no love for politicians, they are merely a necessary evil. Why the statement?
Actual adults understand a few things…
The current Democratic Party refuses to accept the science of biology, stymy the flow of illegal aliens, identity voters through ID, recognize your Right to firearms (as outlined in the 2nd Amendment), and reject the ideas of Karl Marx as incongruent with the Constitution. They play games on the State level to block those who seek to reveal corruption and fraud. They literally named a law after Nick Shirley to prevent others like him from revealing massive scams in their State like he did in Minnesota. These are not the actions of rational adults, but rather emotional, power-hungry children who seek to upend our Nation as long as they personally benefit.
I am under no delusion that Republicans will deliver everything I want. They have been tepid at best the past two years. I’m also no Trump sycophantic. Many of his positions would have been considered middle-ground in the 1990’s Democratic Party. He and the Party he leads have managed to deliver a few victories in areas that matter. The southern border is the most secure that it’s been in my lifetime. The NFA is currently starving for oxygen. Some common sense has been applied to preventing men from parading as women to crush their athletic dreams and act as government endorsed voyeurs in bathrooms.
Trump is bombastic and publicly treats the Office of the Presidency as a celebrity position. Behind the scenes, it’s clearly different. I highly approve of some of the moves he’s made and shake my head in frustration at others.
Trump is not on the ballot this election. Who is? Local representatives and managers, many House Representatives and some Senators; for some of you Mayor or County Sheriff. These are the people whose decisions will truly impact your life regardless of what the man who is not up for reelection does.
Rational adults vote for the representation that doesn’t promise to steal what you have, give it to noncitizens, take away your right to self-defense, upend our founding documents, and allow the replacement of equal justice with Sharia law. The current Democratic Party endorses ideas that indoctrinate your children into ideas that prevent you from ever having grandchildren. They support that which will literally end your family line; they gain power and you lose your legacy. At this point in time, that rational option is by and large the Republican Party.
Will Republicans likely fail to live up to all of their campaign promises? Beyond a doubt. A mature adult knows that and yet understands the opposite choice is guaranteed destruction. Naïve children make choices on emotions, “the feels”, promises of free stuff and believing that politicians won’t disappoint them. Rational adults stoically weigh the options based on projected course and values.
The Iran war will not immediately end no matter which way you vote. Gas prices also don’t turn on a dime. No matter who you choose, inflation will not immediately disappear and Congress will spend money. I have my gripes, as do you. They are valid. National suicide is not the answer.
Until the Democrats produce another JFK like option, eschew their current values and platform, you must do your job as a rational adult and block them at the voting booth and in the public square. Anything less is puerile.
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no.
We are Muslims.
We are not terrorists.
We are not sleeper cells.
We are not here to destroy your country.
We are not here to impose our religion on you.
We are human beings who want to live, work, raise our children and practise our faith in peace.
Stop treating every Muslim ist.
Our religion is not a crime. Our presence is not a threat.
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Don’t care. Y’all should change your own subcontinent instead of polluting the West.
The biggest reason why so many educated Indians want to settle abroad isn't just higher salaries.
It's the ability to live a respectable life without constantly fighting with the system, worrying about basic civic facilities, dealing with corruption or feeling punished for being an honest taxpayer.
People don't leave their country without a reason.
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The world is indeed big enough for both of us. Stay on your side. Don’t pollute our countries. We good, Saar?
Why are some of you so obsessed with Indians?
We’re living our lives, enjoying our time, and minding our own business. You live yours, we’ll live ours. We’re not showing up at your doorstep, and you’re not showing up at ours.
So why spend so much time hating on people who are just living their lives?
Relax, touch some grass, enjoy your life, and be happy. The world is big enough for all of us.
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I’m fairly certain this is scholarship.
I'm going to lay this out as simply as I can Shobhit. I'm not going to be a dick. No hate. Just laying it out for you.
The reason why you're seething at the admins decision, is the same reason why H1Bs shouldn't be imported en masse to take these jobs. Here we go:
- You don't that Americans (as a broad athnos) lack. 99% of the time, H1B hiring is pure economics. You will do the work for cheaper.
- Culture (both in business and in civic life) changes based on demographics. We're not blank slates. This is a fact. 100 Americans brought into a department at an Indian company, would fundamentally alter the culture and environment of that company. There would be friction between these groups because of natural in-group preference.
- You are not entitled to a job at an American company. Perhaps, you should express some gratitude, rather than speaking down.
- Proactive Government policy should incentivize the hiring of native born citizens. America is not an economic zone. It is a people, culture, and identity. There are tens of thousands of smart, driven, and talented young Americans struggling to find work because of the H1B program. What is better for America, in the long run, is to incentivize the hiring of these individuals.
- H1B workers send billions of dollars BACK to their home country in the form of remittances. These are minimally taxed. Your money doesn't stay here because this is not your home.
- Numerous loopholes in the H1B program allow for individuals such as yourself to then bring over numerous family members which are a net negative to the American taxpayer.
- Since you're exceptionally talented (more so than an American) and love your country so much, your own logic would dictate that you should stay in your home country. India needs you.
I hope this helps.
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pls be true pls be true pls be true
Here is my best guess what happened since January 2025:
1. Trump gets into office and makes Ukraine peace a top priority
2. Calls Putin and agrees on the basic outlines of a peace deal
3. Zelensky starts to play games with Trump and activates the EU "leaders".
4. Merz, Macron, Starmer and Ursula get excited and think "now we can play Trump".
5. They begin coordinating without Trump to escalate the war, including support for attacks inside Russia. They don't have a real strategy but follow their "petty little dictator" instincts.
6. Trump gets really pissed, but understands this is a serious situation and decides to not talk much about it. He also overextended himself bigly on Greenland, which was a mistake and created hard core resistance, especially with the Scandinavians.
7. Trump tones down the Greenland thing and negotiates behind the scenes with Denmark, which calms down the Scandies.
8. He then decides to play silent hardball against the EU: absolutely squeeze them on oil with Iran and sandwich them between Russia and the US, while also coordinating with Xi.
Effectively, the absolutely dumb behavior of EU leaders have made them effectively enemies of Trump. He viewed them as feckless and weak before; now, he added "malicious" to the list.
I do think Washington came to the conclusion that the EU leadership cannot be trusted at all, neither as partners nor as managers of Europe. The decision was made to absolutely crush and dismantle them.
Let's see what happens next, but the Ukraine war is probably over soon.
The AfD is likely going to take over Germany within the next 12-18 months with the help of CDU defectors, or a full-on coalition with the CDU as junior partner after the party cleanses itself from the Merz/Merkel loyalists.
This change will be driven by a dramatic and exponential decay of the German (and other European) economies in the next 6 months or so, with winter coming, Russian energy drying up for them and the US squeezing them to death.
This happens when you allow the most degenrate impulses in your society to elect a bunch of low IQ Karens to run the world's (formerly) most powerful economic block. "Muh Climate Change and Gender Equality" (in Sweden lol) wont't win you the war for energy and intelligence domination.
On an ironic footnote: It's kind of funny Europe is losing the age of intelligence because its leaders are so unintelligent.
To end on a positive note:
Europe still has (by far) the greatest human potential on earth. But while the rest of the world tries to optimize its "progress per potential", European leaders actively suppress, destroy and dilute their populations. Once this stops and reverses, a European golden age (and in extension, a golden age of the greater West from Sydney to Vancouver) will follow.
/Civ /Civilization
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I’m the Corporate Vice President of Global Talent Strategy at Microsoft.
People say I hire H-1Bs. My badge says I source world-class talent that can’t leave.
That second part? That’s the whole program.
Last year we filed 4,812 petitions. 97% got approved. Everyone talks about the lottery like it’s luck. It’s great for us, because it lets us call the outcome chance. It isn’t. The outcome got decided months earlier by a team that writes the specialty-occupation language before the req even opens. They’re fantastic. I’m proud of them.
This year Copilot started drafting the language for them. Turns out Copilot is really good at describing a job only 1 person on earth could possibly do, as long as that person is already in our system. We called the workstream PERMANENCE. Legal made us rename it. Now it’s Project Continuity. Same slides.
Domestic candidates apply. Plenty of them clear the bar. We go with the H-1B anyway. Why? Because the H-1B already took the band. The band is Level II prevailing wage. Level II is the median we asked for. The people who can quit get paid off a different median, one they talk about openly at lunch. The H-1B negotiates off the LCA. The LCA’s public. Basically nobody reads it. I read it every quarter. Honestly, it’s calming.
We track the result as diversity and inclusion.
68% of the engineers who joined Azure last cycle came in on temporary status. The dashboard shows that number in a really nice green. What it doesn’t show is the 28% fully-loaded cost delta. That lives in a different workbook. Finance owns that one. Finance is proud too.
Let me tell you about Raj.
Raj has been on Azure Storage for 6 years. He knows the codebase better than the guys who wrote it, and 2 of them already left for counteroffers. Last spring his manager, Dana, asked why we couldn’t just promote him to staff and backfill locally.
So we set up a talent review. 40 minutes.
I asked Dana about pipeline health. Dana asked about the codebase. I asked about competitive intensity. Dana asked about the codebase again. I asked whether she had a growth mindset. She said she thought so. We agreed to take it offline.
Offline is where Dana’s req went to die.
Raj stayed. Raj always stays. He came in on another company’s visa, and we transferred it. Counsel has a template for that. The new $100,000 fee only hits talent that’s still overseas. Raj was already here. Transfers keep the leverage and skip the toll. Finance made a slide about it. There’s a little rocket on it.
The transfer is the point.
Look, if you can quit on Friday, you’ve got leverage on Thursday. If your legal status ends the day your job does, you’ve got Thursdays and that’s it. We never have to threaten anybody. The statute does that for us. Raj has read the statute. He’s also read his priority date: 2014. Projected to go current in 2031. Between now and then we’ll bump his Level II wage twice, and both bumps will be smaller than what we gave the people who can walk. We call that pay equity, since the formula treats everyone exactly the same. Only some people get to argue with it.
His wife’s on an H-4. Back in Pune she was a pharmacist. Here she’s a really organized volunteer. His daughter turns 21 in 2029, which is the year she ages out of his case. She wants to be a doctor. On paper, in 2029, she becomes an international student in the only country she remembers. HR flagged it as a retention risk. Finance flagged it as a retention asset. We went with Finance.
Some people call this a caste system. We call it a two-tier compensation architecture, and it’s working exactly the way it’s supposed to.
In the workbook, the line is column AF. The header says Mobility Status. There are 2 options: Portable and Anchored. Nobody ever types the word caste. Excel’s never needed it.
The Portable folks sit above the line. They get the counteroffers, the refreshers, and the freedom to ignore the 11pm call. When a Portable engineer mentions he’s “exploring options,” a VP takes him to lunch somewhere with no prices on the menu. When an Anchored engineer explores options, he gets 60 days to do it. That’s the grace period after you’re let go. They call it grace. We didn’t name it. We’d have named it better.
The Anchored folks sit below the line. They get the scope, the on-call rotation, the “stretch assignment,” and a calibration note that says high potential, visa-dependent. Nobody writes down that second part. Everyone in the room already knows. The room claps for the first part. When a Portable engineer pushes back on a deadline, we call it psychological safety. When an Anchored engineer pushes back, well, he doesn’t. We call that alignment.
At the all-hands, both tiers sit together. Same hoodie. The hoodie says One Microsoft. And at the hoodie level, it’s true.
During the January layoffs, the Portable folks got severance, a sweet LinkedIn post, and 14 recruiter DMs by lunch. The Anchored folks got severance and a countdown. A guy on Raj’s team spent his last 3 weeks training his replacement and his first 3 weeks unemployed applying to 212 jobs from a Starbucks in Bellevue, because his landlord wanted proof of income. He landed something on day 57. We sent him a survey about his offboarding experience. He gave it 4 out of 5. He said everyone was really kind. And they were! The people were kind. The people just didn’t design the system.
Belonging scores go up when the alternative is a one-way flight. Velocity goes up when nobody on the team can say no.
Viva pings Raj at 11:40pm to remind him to protect his focus time. He reads it on the incident bridge. His engagement numbers are fantastic.
In March his dad died in Hyderabad. Raj didn’t go home. His visa stamp had expired, and the next consulate appointment was 11 months out. If he left, he might not get back in. And getting back in meant the job, the house, his daughter’s school, the 2014 priority date. So he watched the cremation on his phone, propped up against his monitor, between a design review and an on-call handoff. His manager approved 3 days of bereavement leave. He used 1. The other 2 roll over. We’re super flexible about leave.
Critics say we’re replacing Americans. Internally we call it workforce durability. Durability just means they stay.
Durable talent brings specialized skills. The specialized skills have signed the at-will acknowledgment and the non-compete, and we’ll enforce it if they try to jump before their date’s current. The date’s never current. Everybody knows what happens if we pull a petition. We’ve never had to explain it twice. (Fine, immigration counsel will tell you that after 180 days the priority date survives a withdrawal. We leave that out of the onboarding deck. Onboarding decks should be uplifting.)
In March we won Best Employer for Global Talent. The plaque’s in Building 92. Most of the people it honors can’t switch employers to find out if it’s true.
Some of us have started thinking of the backlog as infrastructure. We don’t lobby against it. In our policy comments we call it a “stable pipeline environment.” Stability’s one of our values. It’s on a poster, right next to Courage.
I meet with the team every Monday.
They know the cap. They know the premium processing window. They know which vendors will staff the interview loop so the candidate’s prepped and the manager never gets surprised by an acceptance. They cheer when a req closes under budget and the diversity and inclusion cell turns green. Last quarter it went green in 4 orgs. We sent a note. It said belonging and innovation. Both totally accurate. Raj belongs. We innovated.
Dana left in August for a competitor. We matched the offer in a day. She still said no. People who can leave are like that.
Raj sent her a goodbye message in Teams. He couldn’t make the drinks. He was on call.
I’m so, so proud of this team.
They took a regulatory constraint and turned it into permanent leverage.
And the leverage compounds. We report it as growth. The analysts love growth. So do I. My equity vests every quarter.
Raj’s priority date goes current in 2031.
His father’s never will.
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wtf is going on in Texas? better for libs to write curriculum than foreign nationals
At first, I was shocked to learn Texas was importing English Teachers from India, but what I’ve just learned is even worse.
TEXAS TAXPAYERS ARE PAYING MILLIONS TO AN EDUCATION COMPANY DEVELOPING AMERICAN SCHOOL CURRICULUM IN INDIA.
And the deeper I dig, the worse this looks.
it serves 18 MILLION students, 38,000+ U.S. schools and HALF of all American school districts.
I’ve identified more than $7.7 MILLION in Texas district contracts, purchasing authorizations and payment records.
Imagine Learning is recruiting workers in Bengaluru to develop American K–12 curriculum.
Not just software engineers, not customer support but CURRICULUM ARCHITECTS, INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNERS, ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS MANAGERS.
People in India are developing American K–12 reading lessons, writing assignments, literature questions, essay prompts, assessments and materials “aligned with U.S. state education standards.”
They’re even recruiting managers to oversee curriculum design decisions and AI-assisted lesson development.
We’re talking about the actual educational content being created for American children and this goes FAR beyond one office.
INFOSYS publicly announced TWO AI-first delivery centers for Imagine Learning in Chandigarh and Pune, supporting product engineering, business systems and operations.
Straive LearningMate also names Imagine Learning as a client for AI-assisted curriculum production, including assessments and content transformation. Its executives describe a relationship spanning more than a decade and the INDIAN GOVERNMENT is celebrating the expansion.
Karnataka’s government technology department publicly promoted Imagine Learning’s Bengaluru operation, highlighting AI, data science, engineering and product development.
Imagine Learning India executive Ravi Shanker also reported attending a Karnataka government-hosted industry meeting with senior political leadership.
But wait, there’s more - look at what Imagine Learning markets to TEXAS schools:
7TH GRADE TEXAS HISTORY.
8TH GRADE U.S. HISTORY.
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.
U.S. HISTORY SINCE 1877.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS.
A Houston charter school’s Texas Education Agency grant application specifically identified Imagine Learning for seventh-grade Texas History and eighth- and eleventh-grade U.S. History.
We’re talking about lessons addressing Texas independence, annexation, the Constitution and the history of our country.
WHO is writing those lessons? WHERE are they being developed? Who has final editorial authority?
AND THEN THERE’S THE CHILDREN’S DATA.
Imagine Learning’s privacy policy says its platforms can collect student names, assessments, writing samples, audio recordings, demographic information, and sensitive indicators including IEP status, foster care and homelessness.
The company says personal information is stored and processed in the United States, but it’s also hiring platform and data engineers in India.
Can employees or contractors overseas remotely access identifiable student records? Do Infosys or LearningMate personnel have access? What do the Texas contracts actually permit?
We have outsourced American jobs, technology and entire industries. Now companies are building offshore operations around the development of lessons for American children - financed by American taxpayers.
TEXAS NEEDS A FULL AUDIT OF IMAGINE LEARNING.
Every taxpayer dollar, every offshore contractor, every curriculum author, every AI workflow and every very permission to access student data.
American parents deserve to know who writes their children’s lessons and who can see their records.
How many of you knew OUR children’s curriculum is being developed in India?
I think I need to keep pulling this thread.
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A poor but homogeneous Slavic country is more first-world than Muslim/nigger infested France or England.
First world amenities are irrelevant if there's gonna be a trillion Pakis and Somalis acting like rabid dogs on e-bikes everywhere.
Decrepit post-Soviet villages are more attractive than trendy spots in Paris with Nigerian scammers around every corner.
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