politics
Thursday, January 23, 2025
I think the ratio is ~1:4
for every 1 normal foreign student, 4 are a waste
grad programs skew better, maybe 1:1 or 2:3
At Canadian schools (real ones, not ranting about degree mills), they exist just to fund the administration since international tuition is like 50k a term versus the <5k I pay
in your program, what was the ratio would you wager?
I have a hard time answering that. Grad school is different, and my undergrad was one of the tryhard degrees that you typically do not go into unless you are somewhat competent
I think the skew is worse for engineering or things that low quality (indian) parents tell their kids to do
All the international people in my research group for my masters seemed competent
overall student body in my experience (excluding freshman dropouts) I feel like was 20:1 (5% shouldn't have been there)
and I knew good foreign students, (none from India mind you) but it was different for sure, and 80% of them we could have done without
I have not really met the people in my PhD group because we do not meet
For the record, I do know good indian students (grad students)
most of them are not doing grad school in applied math
yeah, by the time you get into phd track stuff for real fields
the rate drops a lot
I think the rate balances out to the normal background rate
I don't think I appreciated how based Tom Homan is (Trump's border guy)
Friday, January 24, 2025
This targeted phase I predict will cap out at ~2k per-day
if/when they start moving to larger round-up operations, we'll see days in the 5-10k range
I don't think it's feasible to get far beyond that without enlisting the military to support ICE operations
I'm lumping that in with "military"
will be interesting how much they scale in terms of field agents
I'm really happy they're starting day 1, and not spending the first 2 years "scaling up" or some nonsense
which is what I feel like every other politician would have done
spend a bunch of money building new field offices and hiring people
I said it yesterday, I think it has zero to do with being a "2nd term"
we've got scorned Trump now
he's not playing the game
I need to talk with some of my friends around DC and see what's up with their various jobs
I imagine a fair number of them are sweating bullets about some of the impending confirmations
most people living in DC (this area) worked in-office
the people working remote moved the fuck out of Virginia
to somwhere cheaper
Virginia is red, the Northern parts are never going to like Trump though
it's an entire region that's built upon "the way things always were"
dating all the way back to the Civil War
Mars
yes lol
that would be retarded
they evacuated a few times
their sessions were in DC most of the time, it was only twice they had to move North I beleive
Lee's intent was to fight a defensive war, back when that was the advantageous military tactic (pre-Franco-Prussian War)
a lot of his success was due more to the North's failures than his own grand strategies, the majority of great US generals stayed loyal
Once the economic plays didn't come to pass, and US exports were stymied, defeat was likely inevitable, even had the war entered a stalemate phase