Throwback Thursday?
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Musk should stop fucking with Teslaâs engineering and switch over 100% to marketing where total borderline criminal bullshit occasionally succeeds by accident.
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I made an objectively generous donation back in November⌠yet I keep getting requests for $. I wish theyâd stop that.
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That depends on professionalsâ specific job duties and their salary levels. I have no idea who/what set the exact rules and cutoffs regarding that during my time at Rocketdyne, or if in some way that was tied into some of their government-supported programsâcost-plus contract or not. Still a mystery to me.
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Science and Engineering Labor Force | NSF - National Science Foundation
Possibly not only about importing âengineers willing to put up with 12-hour work-daysâ. Below from 2017. I havenât checked, but I suspect the quoted percentages have not lowered since then. While right-wing CEO oligarchs and wannabes donated to and supported those who demonized POC and those not US-born, tech CEOs have known of the hole in S&E for decades. Right-wing dullards and racists may not sense the irony here because they wouldnât bother to ponder on the realities. Just one personal example: I had the great fortune to work with Dr. Ivett Leyva at AFRL. She now heads Texas A&Mâs aerospace engineering department. She is considered to be one of the USâs leading experts in Hypersonics. She is a Mexican-American. She was born in Mexico. I do not know the particular conditions under which she entered the US, but that may not matter to Trumpists.
(excerpt) Foreign-born workers employed in S&E occupations tend to have higher levels of education than those born in the United States. Among individuals employed in S&E occupations, 17% of foreign-born workers have a doctorate, compared to 9% of U.S. native-born individuals in these occupations. In most S&E occupations, the higher the degree level, the greater the proportion of the workforce who are foreign born [Figure 3-24]. In 2017, foreign-born S&E doctorate holders comprised nearly a third of the U.S.-trained academic doctoral workforce (30%) [Table S3-21]. In terms of demographic groups, Asians were a greater percentage (60%) of foreign-born workers in S&E occupations relative to 3% of U.S. native-born workers in S&E occupations. The opposite was true for whites who were a lower percentage (24%) of foreign-born workers in S&E occupations relative to 82% of native-born workers in these occupations [Table S3-22].
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My first thought was âhe canât spell libtard?â
But then, had he spoonerized it:
âMy tolerance for libtards is sumitedâ makes equally zero sense.
Hardly surprising the prick gave up chess.
Words are really hard.
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Nikki jumped on board.
When I was governor in SC our unemployment went from 11% to 4%. How? Not by hiring foreign workers. We recruited foreign companies to invest in SC but not their workers. We retrained South Carolinians in our tech schools for these new jobs.
The companies started apprentice programs for high school and college students. You know who paid for them? The companies, not govt. Today South Carolinians are building planes, automobiles, tires, etc. And building them well.
What is lazy is for the tech industry to automatically go to foreign workers for their needs. If the tech industry needs workers, invest in our education system. Invest in our American workforce. We must invest in Americans first before looking elsewhere. Donât ever underestimate the talent of Americans or the American spirit.
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You mean the ramifications of dumbing down the education system are finally filtering through? Probably not, but some of them are soooo close.
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Me hoping that the GOPâs matter and anti-matter come together.
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Way to take credit for Obamaâs recovery from the Great Recession, Haley. Unemployment dropped everywhere in the U.S. during her tenure as governor.
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I think the only way it makes sense is if youâre fluent in brodude, or maybe even the specific techbrodude dialect.
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It doesnât seem the least bit subtle to me. Sub- is a Latin prefix that means below, the opposite of super- and equivalent of German unter-. Musk is a disgusting eugenicist who regularly refers to others as âNPCsâ or the like to imply they donât really count as human. He means people who are less than even the mentally handicapped, who Iâm sure he regards as subhuman in the first place. Heâs trying to phrase it in a hip edgy way but itâs just the same reheated bigotry.
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In a way, itâs reassuring. I read it that the fundraising group isnât using [1] donor transaction data. It suggests theyâre taking privacy seriously.
[1] Doesnât have access to? Hopefully.
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I wonder if thereâs any way to talk Elon into trying to reach the Titanic with his submarineâŚ
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When you put it that way, it does seem obvious in hindsight. My mind didnât immediately go there, and itâs not a place I want it to be now, but the more these assholes force their beliefs on the world the more weâll be forced to get into their headspace, I suppose, even as disgusted observers.
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From my limited sample, the same holds true in Australia. Graduate degrees donât tend to hold the same weight here unless youâre aiming for a very specific field. I work in energy, at the âbachelorâs degree is sufficientâ end of the pool. Iâve worked with about a dozen people with a graduate degree of some sort, and only one was born in Australia with skin lighter than a hamburger bun.
Anecdote: A Pakistani colleague asked if Iâd write a recommendation letter for him for a Masterâs program. âSure, but do you need that?â
âYou do when youâre brown.â
âHuh. I had no idea. Iâll take some time and write a good one then.â
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I think if a few people posing as fanbois suggested it to him, he would probably do a poll on Xitter asking if he should/shouldnât. Then itâs just up to the bots?
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That precise course of events would be the perfect coda to the story of Elon.
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