Message in #politics · Neon Genesis Phijkchu

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 23, 2025 9:24 PM politics

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

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 23, 2025 9:24 PM politics

I have not really met the people in my PhD group because we do not meet

legorhin Jan 23, 2025 9:24 PM politics

oh but that software engineering degree is world renowned so there must only be excellent students in that

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 23, 2025 9:24 PM politics

For the record, I do know good indian students (grad students)

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 23, 2025 9:25 PM politics

most of them are not doing grad school in applied math

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 23, 2025 9:25 PM politics

yeah, by the time you get into phd track stuff for real fields

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 23, 2025 9:25 PM politics

the rate drops a lot

Phijkchu_Pikachu Jan 23, 2025 9:26 PM politics

I think the rate balances out to the normal background rate

Gent Jan 23, 2025 9:27 PM politics

https://x.com/SamParkerSenate/status/1882517887107440725

Sam Parker 🇺🇲 (@SamParkerSenate) on X

MOMENTS AGO : someone edited the Wikipedia profile of the judge who stopped Trump's Birthright Citizenship order. 🤣 I can't confirm the ethnicity one way or the other.

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Gent Jan 23, 2025 9:28 PM politics

The article is fixed now

legorhin Jan 23, 2025 9:59 PM politics

when do we nuke mexico?

legorhin Jan 23, 2025 10:23 PM politics

https://x.com/reddit_lies/status/1882629970650108349

Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) on X

Reddit is collapsing

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Dolfin Jan 23, 2025 10:49 PM politics

https://fxtwitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1882574637701456195

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Spooky Phijkchu Jan 23, 2025 11:21 PM politics

I don't think I appreciated how based Tom Homan is (Trump's border guy)

legorhin Jan 23, 2025 11:36 PM politics

I'm waiting for one of those daily arrest reports to hit 4 digits

Dolfin Jan 23, 2025 11:58 PM politics

only 4?

legorhin Jan 23, 2025 11:59 PM politics

well once it hits that then we can hope for 5

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:01 AM politics

This targeted phase I predict will cap out at ~2k per-day

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:01 AM politics

just deport all of chicago

legorhin Jan 24, 2025 12:01 AM politics

the chicago citizens want ICE to come

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:02 AM politics

if/when they start moving to larger round-up operations, we'll see days in the 5-10k range

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:02 AM politics

I don't think it's feasible to get far beyond that without enlisting the military to support ICE operations

legorhin Jan 24, 2025 12:03 AM politics

state national guards could help

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:03 AM politics

I'm lumping that in with "military"

legorhin Jan 24, 2025 12:03 AM politics

yeah

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:05 AM politics

didnt he move the 87k irs agents to ICE

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:05 AM politics

will be interesting how much they scale in terms of field agents

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:06 AM politics

I'm really happy they're starting day 1, and not spending the first 2 years "scaling up" or some nonsense

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:06 AM politics

which is what I feel like every other politician would have done

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:06 AM politics

2nd term hits different

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:06 AM politics

spend a bunch of money building new field offices and hiring people

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:07 AM politics

especially with a majority in both chambers

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:07 AM politics

I said it yesterday, I think it has zero to do with being a "2nd term"

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:07 AM politics

we've got scorned Trump now

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:07 AM politics

he's not playing the game

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:07 AM politics

its got to be a bit of both though

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:07 AM politics

his approval rating is also highest ever

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:07 AM politics

53%

legorhin Jan 24, 2025 12:08 AM politics

its like +20% approval disparity

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:10 AM politics

I need to talk with some of my friends around DC and see what's up with their various jobs

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:11 AM politics

I imagine a fair number of them are sweating bullets about some of the impending confirmations

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:11 AM politics

well and them actually having to step in the building

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:12 AM politics

most people living in DC (this area) worked in-office

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:12 AM politics

the people working remote moved the fuck out of Virginia

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:12 AM politics

to somwhere cheaper

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:12 AM politics

its all part of his plan to make Virginia red

legorhin Jan 24, 2025 12:12 AM politics

https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1882435817630466096

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All NASA employees have received this agency wide email about DEI where the acting Administrator says "These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars and resulted in shameful discrimination." NASA is closing ALL agency DEI offices, efforts and contracts. They

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Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:13 AM politics

Virginia is red, the Northern parts are never going to like Trump though

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:13 AM politics

it's an entire region that's built upon "the way things always were"

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:13 AM politics

dating all the way back to the Civil War

legorhin Jan 24, 2025 12:13 AM politics

one thing trump hasn't proposed is moving the capital

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:14 AM politics

to where

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:14 AM politics

Kansas?

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:14 AM politics

Mars

legorhin Jan 24, 2025 12:14 AM politics

greenland

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:14 AM politics

Canada

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:14 AM politics

Panama

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:14 AM politics

northern tip of alaska

legorhin Jan 24, 2025 12:15 AM politics

place it in Iowa after the 250th celebration ends

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:15 AM politics

would there be a pushback to moving the capital?

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:15 AM politics

yes lol

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:15 AM politics

that would be retarded

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:15 AM politics

its just impossible to happen

Dolfin Jan 24, 2025 12:15 AM politics

it would have to be like post election move lol

legorhin Jan 24, 2025 12:16 AM politics

it didn't even happen when it was on the border of a hostile state

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:16 AM politics

they evacuated a few times

legorhin Jan 24, 2025 12:17 AM politics

you are more likely to know that part than me

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:18 AM politics

their sessions were in DC most of the time, it was only twice they had to move North I beleive

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:19 AM politics

Lee's intent was to fight a defensive war, back when that was the advantageous military tactic (pre-Franco-Prussian War)

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:21 AM politics

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

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:22 AM politics

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

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:26 AM politics

given historical knowledge now, I do think the North would win 7-8 times out of 10

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:26 AM politics

but we live for that other 25%

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:31 AM politics

I mentioned this in VC a couple months ago

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:31 AM politics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Crater

Battle of the Crater

The Battle of the Crater took place during the American Civil War, part of the Siege of Petersburg. It occurred on Saturday, July 30, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee, and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General George G. Meade (under the direct supervision of the gener...

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Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:31 AM politics

this is my favorite never-taught part of the civil war

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:31 AM politics

where DEI lost the North a major battle

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:32 AM politics

they had sappers tunnel under the Confederate army, and explode cache of tnt, creating a huge crater

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:33 AM politics

but then because they wanted the headlines to be about African Americans earning a major victory, the order of battle was to have the all-African regiments charge to the top of the crater and then shoot into it

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:34 AM politics

but instead they all rushed into the crater, fell into it, dragged more normal soldiers in with them

Spooky Phijkchu Jan 24, 2025 12:34 AM politics

and then were decimated by Lee's army

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